17 September 2011

Held on the grounds of the North Richmond Housing Estate, the traditional Moon Lantern Festival is a time for the community to come together, feast and tell stories as they celebrate the harvest moon.

Delight in the wonderful Moon Lantern Parade, lantern making workshops, contemporary and traditional music and dance, food, and the firework finale.

Kylie Blackley from the Nicholas Building Print Workshop will run a special class on hand stitching artist books.

Each participant will leave this workshop with their own traditional bickram clothed hardcover, hand stitched, hammered spine artist book and a recipe for archival glue.

By learning this stitching technique and discussing traditional processes and materials, participants will leave with the ability to hand bind their own archival artist books.

Every Wednesday and Thursday night from 6:00-8:0pm; starting on the 13th and 14th of July, Yarra reporter will be running training workshops on Civic Journalism and photogphay. 

Next week Tuesday (14th of June) and on the Tuesday the week after that (21th of June) Infoxchange is offering a free 2 Hour Basic computer training workshop. 

This workshop is for people who have had little experience with computers but want to learn.  These workshops will go through the all the basics of how to use a computer, and also some commonly used software. 

The workshops start at the very basics so no matter how little experience with computers you have had, don’t be afraid to come down.