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Tik Tok Dance Competition

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To celebrate our online Tik Tok Dance school holiday activity, we’re giving you the chance to win 1 of 3 $40 EB Games gift vouchers!

To be in the draw to win, simply learn a new dance routine of about 30 seconds and film yourself performing the dance before sending it into us! You can send your video via email or Facebook message.

Together with your entry tell us your

  • Name
  • Age
  • Suburb
  • Contact email

Any type of dance routine is welcome including routines popular on Tik Tok, routines found on other platforms or even one you make up yourself!

Open to residents of the City of Melton only. One entry per household. All ages and group routines welcome.

Entries close 5pm Tuesday 12 October. Winner will be announced on our Facebook page on Wednesday 13 October and directly contacted by our team.

Watch our ‘Fluid Art’ video for your chance to win!

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To celebrate our brand new YouTube video as part of our September 2021 school holiday activities, we’re giving you the chance to win one of 20 fluid art packs to make your very own fluid art painting! Prize packs contain a canvas, 4 pouring paints, stirrers and mixing cups, everything you will need to create your colourful masterpiece.

To enter, watch our fluid art tutorial video on our YouTube channel and answer these 3 simple questions:

  1. What substance/s can you use to thin your paint out for fluid art?
  2. What is the name of the fluid art technique Carly uses in the video?
  3. Name ONE other fluid art technique (hint: Carly mentions a number of them towards the end of the video)

Send your answers to us by sending us a message via our Facebook page or via email:

Along with your answers, include the below information in your entry:

  • Name
  • Age
  • Address
  • Email Address

Entries with correct answers to all 3 questions will go into the draw. Entries close at 5pm on Sunday 26 September. Winners will be notified and prize packs delivered on Monday 27 September.

Entries open to City of Melton residents only. Any age welcome. One entry per household.

Good luck and happy watching!

2021 Global Learning Festival

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The Global Learning Festival is returning in 2021!

The Global Learning Festival seeks to provide unity and connection to communities all over the world. By participating in learning events on a wide variety of topics, across time zones and languages, you can experience first-hand the benefits that lifelong learning can bring to you.

Subscribe to our mailing list to be kept up to date via the festival website.

Like the Global Learning Festival Facebook page.

Online School Holiday Activities start 17 September!

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Council’s community facilities are excited to be bringing to you a program of free and low cost online activities for children and families starting 17 September!

Whilst we would love to be meeting in person to deliver these interactive, fun and engaging programs, we’re ecstatic to still be able to deliver many of our planned activities to you virtually.

Programs are available both live via Zoom and pre-recorded via our YouTube channel. Some activities require bookings, secure your child’s place quickly to avoid disappointment!

 

FRIDAY 17 SEPTEMBER

How to Create Fluid Art: Pre-recorded YouTube Video

 

MONDAY 20 SEPTEMBER

Hip Hop for Juniors: Pre-recorded YouTube Video

 

TUESDAY 21 SEPTEMBER

Makeup Tutorial for Teens with Skye Drake MUA: Pre-recorded YouTube Video

Zumba Kids: Live Zoom Ongoing Program

  • 4pm – 4.45pm
  • FREE
  • BOOK

 

WEDNESDAY 22 SEPTEMBER

Hip Hop for Tiny Tots: Pre-recorded YouTube Video

 

THURSDAY 23 SEPTEMBER

Plate Painting Workshop: Live Zoom Workshop – SOLD OUT!

  • 1pm – 1.45pm
  • $5 (includes art kit delivered to participant’s home).
  • BOOK

 

FRIDAY 24 SEPTEMBER

Tim Credible Magic Show: Live Zoom Show – EXTRA SPACES JUST ADDED!

  • 10.30am – 11.15am
  • Free
  • BOOK

 

MONDAY 27 SEPTEMBER

How to make Slow Cooker Playdough: Pre-recorded YouTube Video

 

TUESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER

Creative Kids Activity: Live Zoom Workshop – BOOKED OUT!

  • 10am – 12pm
  • Free
  • BOOK

Tik Tok Dance Workshop: Live Zoom Workshop – BOOKED OUT!

  • 10.30am – 12pm
  • Free
  • BOOK

 

WEDNESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER

Live Cooking Class: Cheesy Veggie Muffins: Live Zoom Workshop – SOLD OUT!

  • 10am – 11.30am
  • $5 (includes ingredient pack and recipe delivered to participant’s home).
  • BOOK

 

THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER

Mug Painting Workshop: Live Zoom Workshop – SOLD OUT!

  • 1pm – 1.45pm
  • $5 (includes art kit delivered to participant’s home).
  • BOOK

 

FRIDAY 1 OCTOBER

Homemade Lemonade Scones: Pre-recorded YouTube Video

Father’s Day Drawing Competition!

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To celebrate Father’s Day we’re giving your household a chance to win 1 of 20 gift packs!

To enter, draw picture of someone special in your life on an A4 piece of paper and send a photo of it to us by sending us a message via our Facebook page or via email.

Make sure you include these details with your entry:

  • Name
  • Address
  • Age
  • Contact Phone Number

Your drawing can include you and your special person or your whole family, it is entirely up to you! You could win 1 of 20 gift packs including an A4 frame to put your picture in, a pack of coloured pencils and a blank card and envelope for you to decorate and write in to gift to your Dad or special person this Father’s Day.

Entries close 12pm Thursday 2 September. Winners will be notified by phone the same afternoon. Packs will be delivered to winners’ households by a member of council’s staff on Friday 3 September.

Strictly one entry per household. Open to City of Melton residents only, aged up to 18 years.

Good luck and happy drawing!

We’re celebrating Wear It Purple Day!

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Wear it Purple Day is an annual LGBTIQA+ awareness day especially for young people, based in Australia. Supporters wear purple to celebrate diversity and young people from the LGBTIQA+ community.

The theme of this year’s celebration is ‘Start the Conversation. Keep It Going!’ It focusses on the important conversations we have around sexual orientation and gender identity, and that it should not only be discussed today, but every day.

“Our rainbow youth exist in the world every day, and therefore require our support each and every day.” – Wear it Purple

City of Melton Young Communities is proud to co-facilitate ‘The Space’, a LGBTIQA+ youth social support group with Djerriwarrh Health Services. The group has put together conversation tips from their personal experiences, to support you for when you might have a rainbow conversation.

For more information on The Space and to download the LGBTIQA+ Conversation Tips in PDF, visit: www.melton.vic.gov.au/TheSpace

Free African drumming classes coming to Melton Central!

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We are excited to let you know that our Council was one of five Victorian winners of the Heart Foundation’s Active Australia Innovation Challenge, attracting a $10,000 grant to run African drum classes for seniors! Melton residents will soon be moving to the beat of Africa thanks to this new program.

The African drums classes will be held at Melton Central Community Centre, where participants will learn djembe drum techniques and rhythm. The free program aims to promote fitness, co-ordination and fun, improve mental wellbeing and bring people together. The program is targeted at residents aged 45-70 years.

We look forward to seeing the positive impact these musical sessions will have on our community

The classes will begin in October and run until next August.

Lifelong Learning Festival postponed

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Lifelong Learning Festival postponed

 

Melton City Council are excited to be bringing the City of Melton Lifelong Learning Festival back to the community in 2021, however, in light of the current Covid situation and with the safety of our community as our main priority, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the celebration at this stage.

 

One of the main objectives in delivering the festival is to welcome you, our community, into our community centres and libraries to engage in quality and engaging free lifelong learning opportunities that in turn result in meaningful connections made with others in your local area. With the uncertainty surrounding current lockdowns in metropolitan Melbourne, we feel it is in the best interest of the community to postpone the festival to ensure we are able to maintain the quality of these face-to-face and online events.

 

A rescheduled date will be announced in the coming months, we look forward to bringing you this news when we can. Join our mailing list via the festival page on this website now to be kept up top date with all festival news!

 

In the meantime, the Melton Learning Directory team will continue to provide free online content to you over on our YouTube channel and through our community centres via platforms like Zoom. You can stay up to date with all of our online content via our Facebook page, this website and YouTube channel.

 

Stay safe Melton.

Term 3 2021 Programs

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Our community centres are ecstatic to be welcoming residents back in term 3 for another wide range of programs and events for all ages, abilities and interests. These free and low cost lifelong learning opportunities provide ways for you to discover a new skill, improve your health and fitness, connect with others in your area, spend time learning with your family, provide pathways to employment and much more, right in your own community!

Our term 3 newsletters are now available. Find your closest centre’s newsletter below and click the link to make booking to join us.

 

ARNOLDS CREEK CHILDREN’S & COMMUNITY CENTRE

Harkness, 3337

VIEW NEWSLETTER

MAKE A BOOKING

 

BANCHORY COMMUNITY CENTRE

Hillside, 3037

VIEW NEWSLETTER

MAKE A BOOKING

 

BOTANICA SPRINGS CHILDREN’S & COMMUNITY CENTRE

Brookfield, 3338

VIEW NEWSLETTER

MAKE A BOOKING

 

BRIDGE ROAD CHILDREN’S & COMMUNITY CENTRE

Strathtulloh, 3338

VIEW NEWSLETTER

MAKE A BOOKING

 

EYNESBURY DISCOVERY CENTRE

Eynesbury, 3338

VIEW NEWSLETTER

MAKE A BOOKING

 

FRASER RISE CHILDREN’S & COMMUNITY CENTRE

Fraser Rise, 3336

VIEW NEWSLETTER

MAKE A BOOKING

 

HILLSIDE COMMUNITY CENTRE

Hillside, 3037

VIEW NEWSLETTER

MAKE A BOOKING

 

KURUNJANG COMMUNITY HUB

Kurunjang, 3337

VIEW NEWSLETTER

MAKE A BOOKING

 

MELTON CENTRAL COMMUNITY CENTRE

Melton, 3337

VIEW NEWSLETTER

MAKE A BOOKING

 

SPRINGSIDE CHILDREN’S & COMMUNITY CENTRE

Caroline Springs, 3023

VIEW NEWSLETTER

MAKE A BOOKING

 

STEVENSON HOUSE

Caroline Springs, 3023

VIEW NEWSLETTER

MAKE A BOOKING

 

TAYLORS HILL YOUTH & COMMUNITY CENTRE

Taylors Hill, 3037

VIEW NEWSLETTER

MAKE A BOOKING

 

TIMBERTOP CHILDREN’S & COMMUNITY CENTRE

Aintree, 3336

VIEW NEWSLETTER

MAKE A BOOKING

Winter 2021 School Holiday Activities for Kids!

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Looking for something free or low cost for your kids these school holidays?

Join us at a number of our community centres across the municipality for a wide range of activities including dance, cooking art, games, magic and more!

BOOK NOW

 

NO RISK BOOKINGS

We are following the coronavirus situation in metropolitan Melbourne closely. Rest assured that you can make a no risk booking into our school holiday programs. Should any lasting restrictions result in the cancellation of any programs, refunds for those sessions will be issued to all paying participants.

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