Open Garden
An invitation to view ‘Villa Zarlenga,’ a garden which has been lovingly designed and created in an Italianate style, reusing found objects or those given to complement the garden. Teresa’s garden features 31 fruit trees, a 50m grapevine, a prolific kitchen garden, a water feature known as The Lagoons, and three friendly laying hens. Open Saturday 18 and Sunday 19 November 10am-4pm, 50 Investigator Street, Red Hill. Entry donation: $10. All proceeds to The Canberra Blind Society.
GIVIT donation of the week: Pyjamas
GIVIT is working with a non-profit organisation in the ACT that offers support and services for disadvantaged children, adolescents and their families. They are currently supporting a family with a teenage daughter who requires cancer surgery interstate. This 16-year-old girl will be in the hospital for at least two weeks following surgery and needs pyjamas and toiletries. The family is experiencing financial hardship and could use all the help they can get. Donations will mean a lot to this family and help them through this difficult period. Generous Canberrans can fund the purchase of new pyjamas with 100% of money received by GIVIT used to purchase pyjamas. Please visit: givit.org.au/whats-needed, search category: ‘pyjamas – women’; Location: ‘ACT’. GIVIT supports more than 400 charities and community groups across the Capital Region by matching your items with people who need them most.
Kippax Marketplace and Scone-Off
Kippax Uniting Church will hold its last 2023 monthly Marketplace on Saturday 18 November 9am-1pm, with individual stallholders, a cake stall, barbecue, lots of pre-loved items including Christmas things. There will be a scone baking competition involving some well-known Canberra identities, and Devonshire Teas and scones for sale (search Canberra Scone-Off).
Overeaters Anonymous (OA)
Do you eat when you’re not hungry? Do you go on eating binges for no apparent reason? Is your weight affecting the way you live your life? OA meeting on Fridays 6.30pm, Downer Community Centre. More info: 6231 4171.
Red Dove preloved
Red Dove preloved clothing last for the year and an auditorium full of bargains. Thursday 23 to Saturday 25 November 9am-1pm at Tuggeranong Uniting, Church Comrie Street Wanniassa. Easy parking, new summer stock for women, men and kids, linen, books and bric-a-brac. Great coffee and cake and on the Saturday partnering with See Change for a clothes and toy swap (bring along five items of each and swap for another five). More info: Jenny 0409 306 031.
Indigenous Art Exhibition
St Paul’s Ginninderra Anglican Church, Curley Street, Spence, is hosting an Indigenous Art Exhibition, Art From Australia, on Saturday 25 November 10am-5pm featuring artworks by well-known artists Merle Gorey, Nyrulla Possum Nampintjimpa, and Naomi Yunupingu, and many others. There is a talk, ‘Art of First Australians’ at 1pm. Refreshments will be available.
Southfest Chisholm Community Day
Join Good Shepherd Community Church, cnr Hambidge and Proctor Street, Chisholm on Saturday 25 November 8am-12pm for a fun community morning including a garage sale, local stall holders, cake stall, Devonshire tea, sausage sizzle and more.
VIEW Club
Gungahlin Day: Our next meeting is on Wednesday 22 November 11.45am at Gungahlin Lakes Golf Club, Nicholls, our last for the year. Cost: $35 for two-course lunch. Singing duo Kaz and Shaz will entertain us. RSVP: Suzanne on 0413 550 894 by 9pm Sunday 19 November. Guests and visitors welcome.
Canberra Community Chorale
Canberra Community Chorale will perform Requiem by Gabriel Fauré at Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest on Saturday 2 December 5pm.The concert, In Paradisum, will also include Last Verses, settings for choir and string ensemble of the final poems of D.H. Lawrence, Robert Herrick, Elinor Wylie, Ralph Waldo Emerson and Thomas Hardy by the Chorale’s musical director Dan Walker. Tickets: $40, $35 concession, $20 student, under 15 years free, available from Trybooking. Light refreshments included. The chorale is a non-auditioned choir which rehearses at lunchtime on Fridays. New members welcome. More info: email [email protected]
HYH submissions
Submissions to our free Have You Heard community noticeboard are reserved for charity, not-for-profit and community organisations. Deadline for submissions is 10 days prior to the Thursday edition date. Email your submission with essential details – who, what, where, when, cost, contact details – to [email protected] with ‘HYH’ in the subject heading. Flyers and attachments not accepted. Due to space restrictions, please keep it brief. Please note: publication in print is not guaranteed.
