Category: What’s On
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Art In Dereel: What Inspires You?
Local artists and crafters interested in building an active arts community in Dereel, agreed to meet on the third Saturday of the month at the Community Centre. In the first of these gatherings we’ll discuss inspiration. What inspires you? How do you use this inspiration in your work? The discussion starts at 1:30pm on Saturday…
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Trailblazer Walks: Schedule
The Trailblazer Walks are on again in 2017 and Jacinta has sent Dereel Spokes the schedule from March to June. The walk will be in Dereel on Thursday 6th April, commencing at the Dereel Hall at 10:00am. The full program, including contact details, is printed in this brochure: Trailblazer-Walks-March-July-2017.
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Seeding Dereel
Are you interested in growing and sharing food? Whether you are inexperienced or have a seasoned green-thumb, we invite you to take part in a project to grow and share food from seed to plate. Each season, seeds that are ready to sow will be made freely available through the Food is Free stall. We…
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Growing, Cooking, Eating and Sharing Food
This article was sent to Dereel Spokes by the Golden Plains Shire Are you interested in growing, cooking, eating or sharing food? Come along to a meeting for all community members interested in food. It is a great opportunity to meet like-minded people, share ideas and experiences and to find out about and become involved…
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Food is Free Dereel
Have you heard of the Food is Free global project? Perhaps you have seen the stalls at Food is Free Laneway in Ballarat, or Food is Free Smythesdale. Well, it’s coming to town. Food is Free Dereel will be launching on Saturday 11th March around 2pm. The stall will be set up on a bench…
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Open House: The Dereel Men’s Shed
The Dereel Men’s Shed is holding an open house on 25th March 2017 from 11am-3pm at 14 Swamp Road, Dereel We invite you to see what we’ve got; see what we do and see what tool mysteries we can unravel for you. If you don’t know how to change a spark plug, put new blades…
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Youth Services in March
As we get further into the first school term of 2017, students are learning new topics and trying to understand new concepts. If you are, or know, a student who could use some help achieve their best, then come along to Free Community Tutoring at the Dereel Community Centre each Tuesday during term from 5pm…
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Western Bulldogs Youth Leadership Program
This article was sent to Dereel Spokes by the Golden Plains Shire. The Western Bulldogs Youth Leadership Program is coming to Golden Plains. The Golden Plains Shire Council will partner with the Western Bulldogs in 2017 to bring the club’s award winning youth leadership program to the Shire. Established by the club in 2013, the…
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Real Food Festival: Real Coffee Workshop
Dereel is participating in the Real Food Festival by extending the Hub Cafe on Saturdays into a series of Real Coffee Workshops. Each workshop will be structured so you can taste your way through through ten different brewing methods, using the same single origin coffee beans. Also, find out about aroma and flavour profiles, along with the…
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Art in Dereel – How?
Calling Artists, Crafters, and Creatives of all descriptions! How do we develop an arts community in Dereel? Chat over coffee about art and what you want to be able to do here in Dereel: 2pm, Saturday 25th February, Dereel Community Centre What is important to you in your creative practice? Would you like the…
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Community Garden Working Bee and Free BBQ
This Weekend: 11am to 1pm, Saturday 25 February, Dereel Community Garden The Dereel Community Gardening Group met on Saturday 18th February, the first time since the working bee in November. Over the festive season, some of the weeds had grown back. A decision was taken to have a ‘tidy up’ working bee to keep the garden…
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Community Garden Photo Gallery
Next Meeting The next Community Garden meeting will be at 2pm on Saturday 18th February in the Dereel Community Centre. Everyone welcome. Working Bee Photos Thank you to everyone who helped with the first Dereel Community Garden Working Bee in November 2016. Approximately 20 people helped out on 26th November, 2016 to do a huge…
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Learning Games
Games to help develop number sense and aid basic computation Tuesday 21st February 5.15pm. By Erin Gallagher Would you like to help your child to have success in mathematics? Would you like to help your child be confident in basic computations at school? Research suggests that parent/carer attitude towards mathematics can be critical in the…
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Real Food Festival
Dereel will be participating in the Real Food Festival, held in March. If you would like to share your ideas or just help out, please come to the planning meeting: Dereel Real Food Festival Planning Meeting 7:30pm Monday 20th February, Kitchen, Dereel Community Centre Among the ideas to be considered are a local Food Is Free program;…
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iVan Youth Cruiser fortnightly Tuesdays 4-5 pm
Get along to the Dereel Community Centre on Tuesday 14th February straight after school for some fun with the iVan Youth Cruiser. The Golden Plains Shire youth team will be bringing the iVan to the Dereel Community Centre for you to chill out with TV, movies or video games. The iVan will be here every second Tuesday during…
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Free Community Tutoring
The school year is starting up again, so it’s time for the community to pull together to help Dereel students achieve their best in 2017. Every Tuesday from 5-6 pm there will be Free Community Tutoring sessions running in the Dereel Community Centre. Students at all levels are supported; primary school, high school and even some…
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Meditation: Tonight
Clio Ellis-Perez is running a new meditation group on Wednesday nights from 7pm to 8pm at the Dereel Community Centre, 14 Swamp Road Dereel. If you would like to participate, the cost is a donation of a gold coin to cover the costs of the room hire. Everyone is welcome.
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Maps, Signage and Publications Project
The kick-off discussion for the Maps, Signage and Publications project will be on Saturday 28th January at 1:30 pm in the Community Centre Meeting Room. This will begin the process of determining the allocation of $1000 SEED funding to specific community projects. If you have a view and would like to be part of the…
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Updated Dereel Community Health & Wellbeing Program
Lucy has sent us an updated newsletter to promote the Dereel Community Health and Wellbeing Program. This now includes a free session run by the Ballarat Hospice on Tuesday Feb 28th 9:30 am in the Dereel Community Centre Kitchen. Also, don’t forget the Dereel Community BBQ, scheduled for 5pm on Friday 3rd February at the Dereel…
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Rokewood RSL Market on Australia Day
Come to the Australia Day RSL Market in Rokewood. Australia Day, Thursday 26th January from 10am to 2pm at the RSL, Ferrars Street, Rokewood. Stallholders welcome. For more information, please contact Gwen Mills on 5346 1450 or Ruth Uren on 5346 1012.
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Monday: Knowledge Sharing Project
Continuing the series of Community Planning project discussions, the Knowledge Sharing project will be the focus of discussion on Monday night. SEED funding of $1000 has been allocated to this project as part of the Community Planning process. Some knowledge sharing initiatives have already been trialed in Dereel, such as the Homework Hub on Tuesdays…
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Today: Pop-Up-Shops Discussion and Hub Cafe
Pop-Up Shops Discussion: Community Centre Meeting Room at 1:30pm Are you interested in exploring how we can have Pop-Up Shops in Dereel? As part of the Community Planning process, $1000 of the SEED funding has been allocated to this exploration. Today we begin the discussion about how to proceed with this project. Meeting begins at…
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Hub Cafe Today
In the Kitchen If you want to reconnect with local people after the festive season, come to the Hub Cafe today. We’ve set the kitchen as a general chat area with our delicious coffee, hot chocolate or chai. In the Meeting Room We also have a separate discussion about the community planning project for the Dereel Swamp/Lagoon…
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BDNH Calendar for January and February 2017
Lucy Osmond, Dereel’s Community Wellbeing Officer, has forwarded the latest BDNH newsletter to Dereel Spokes. Click on this link to open the newsletter in PDF form. dereel-newsletter-janfeb-2017
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Tai Chi Dates for 2017
If you’re looking to include some physical activity in your week in 2017, why not consider Tai Chi classes in Dereel? Suitable for all levels of fitness and beginners are welcome! Tai Chi classes coincide with school terms. In 2017 terms 1, 2 and 4 are scheduled on Thursday’s from 7:00pm to 8:00pm. Please note:…
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Hub Cafe is BACK Today!
It’s shaping up for a hot day for our first Hub Cafe of 2017, but we will have the air conditioning on and some delicious coffee, hot chocolate and chai for you. Hub Cafe operates from the Dereel Community Centre kitchen from 2pm to 4pm every Saturday. It’s a good opportunity to meet up with…
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Merry Christmas from DCHI
Merry Christmas to everyone from all of us involved with the Dereel Community Hub Inc. Wishing you all a happy and safe festive season. See you in 2017 The Hub Cafe is taking a break over the Christmas and New Year period. We start up again on Saturday 7th January from 2pm to 4pm at…
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Reminder: Dereel Christmas Picnic on Saturday
Invitation to the Dereel Community Dereel Community Hub Inc. invite you to our picnic to celebrate Christmas. This is an opportunity to relax with your friends and neighbours, and there may even be a visit from a man in a red suit—so make sure you bring the kids along too. We want to keep this…
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Dereel Walking and Chat Group
By Lorraine Ellis It was great to see some new faces at breakfast on Cup Day – there was even a visitor from interstate. It was a fun morning and thanks to the couple of girls who came wearing Melbourne Cup hats – they looked very glamorous ! The Sweep was a bit of fun…
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November/December Wellbeing Program
Activities for November and December are listed below. A link to the November/December program is here: Walk & Cuppa Tuesday from 8:30am, Dereel Kitchen Come and join the walking group on a Tuesday morning. Enjoy having a chat in the kitchen or going for a short or long walk in the local area followed by…
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