Hobsons Bay Libraries

🍃 Join us for this special Art Club session to celebrate World Environment Day.

Led by a CERES Environment Park environmental educator, kids will dive into nature journaling and create and decorate their own habitat seedball to take home.

For primary school ages 5-12. Bookings are required for this session of Art Club.

📆 Monday 1 June
⌚ 3.45pm to 4.30pm
📍 Newport Community Hub
🔗 To book: https://bit.ly/4fewm7z

⏸ Press pause this winter with Warm Winter Read! 📖

Free to join, this is a multi-state campaign designed to encourage adult readers to develop long-lasting reading habits by tracking the days they read during Winter - there are also prizes to be won!

1. Join up either online or grab a paper form in-branch
2. Read or listen
3. Track your reading or review a title
4. Complete optional challenges!

Remember, you can read for either five minutes or five hours!

📆 1 June to 31 August
🔗 For more info or to join: https://bit.ly/4dB7xS7

Public Libraries Victoria

⚽ ONE day to go until the whole of Australia read the same book at (almost) the same time.

🦘Listen to 'Luna Roo: The Kangaroo Baller' then practice some soccer moves at Paine Reserve.

📆 Wednesday 27 May
⌚ 11.45am to 12.45pm
📍Newport Community Hub
🔗 For more info or to book: https://bit.ly/4f7TqVo

Australian Library and Information Association

Join us for a special movie screening to acknowledge National Reconcilliation Week.

'In my blood it runs' is a heartfelt documentary following a bright 10-year-old Arrernte/Garrwa boy, Dujuan, as he navigates the chasm between his traditional upbringing and the challenges of the Australian state education system in Alice Springs.

National Reconciliation Week runs from 27 May to 3 June every year. These dates commemorate two significant milestones in the reconciliation journey – the successful 1967 referendum, and the High Court Mabo decision respectively.

📆 Wednesday 27 May
⌚ 10am to 12.30pm
📍 Altona Library
🔗 For more info or to book: https://bit.ly/4v2fc1p

🎉 Join us for National Simultaneous Storytime at the library!

Bring the kids along as we read Luna Roo the Kangaroo Baller at the same time as thousands of others across Australia.
It’s a fun, shared reading experience that builds a love of stories, imagination and learning. ❤️

Continue the fun with some soccer drills outside Newport Library in Paine Reserve!

📅Wednesday 27 May
🕙 11.45am to 12.45pm
🎈 Newport Community Hub
👶 Perfect for preschoolers and early readers

This is a free event. Bookings required. Link in bio.

🃏 Be inspired by Pokémon, Magic or Yu-Gi-Oh and learn how to design your own trading cards!

Bring your own photos and art via USB or let your imagination run wild.

Please note that a parent or caregiver is required to stay in the library and supervise any children under the age of 12.

This activity is open to all ages.

📆 Wednesday 24 June
⌚ 6pm to 7.30pm
📍 Altona North Library
🔗 For more info or to book: https://bit.ly/4tRVrJ8

🏳️‍🌈 How can the Hobsons Bay LGBTIQA+ community feel more supported?

Join us for a community-led panel, where local LGBTIQA+ community members and experts will share and discuss practical ideas for strengthening wellbeing and social connection in Hobsons Bay. There is an option for you to submit your own questions on the registration form.

Joining us on the panel are:
- Chris Cheers (he/him), a psychologist, author and educator.
- Jeremy Oliver (he/they) is the Victoria Police LGBTIQA+ Community Portfolio Manager.
- Brodie McCormack (they/them) is an allied health professional and educator working in public health in the West.
- Jacqueline Roy (she/her), a dedicated osteopath with a strong foundation in movement and coaching.

📆 Wednesday 20 May
⌚ 6.30pm to 8pm
📍 Newport Community Hub
🔗 For more info or to book: https://bit.ly/4fftVS4

🖌 Donate unused rolls of fabric, knitting needles, or other craft supplies to the library and help support creativity in our community! ✂

Donated supplies will be used for programming at the Altona Meadows Makerspace and at Louis Joel Arts & Community. This initiative is being run to celebrate World Environment Day and aims to promote sustainable reuse and recycling of craft materials.

Here's what we're looking for:

- Rolls of cotton fabric (between 1-5m)
- Rolls of canvas (between 1-5m)
- Knitting needles (no singular needles, only pairs)
- Crochet needles
- Sewing thread (must be more than half remaining on spool)
- Yarn (unused)
- Buttons
- Velcro tape (unused)
- Zippers (unused)
- Iron-on patches
- Paint brushes (unused)
- Craft wire
- Mosaic tiles (new)
- Ceramics tools (unused)
- Coloured pencils, markers and/or crayons (neatly bundled or unopened)
- Cardstock and craft paper (unused)

Craft donations can be dropped off at any Hobsons Bay library branches during opening hours until Sunday 7 June.

For more details: https://bit.ly/4ffr6jW

Louis Joel Arts & Community

✍ Are you, or do you know, a young person who loves to write?

Join our supportive space every Wednesday for some dedicated focused writing time. Gentle guidance and support will also be available to help guide the session.

For high school ages 12-17. Bookings not required.

📆 Every Wednesday during school term
⌚ 5.30pm to 7pm
📍Altona Library
🔗 For more info: https://bit.ly/4uMHbSW