Last week I had an epiphany (or a nightmare) - I woke up in the middle of the night and decided I wanted to learn watercolour painting. (I should point out that I have the artistic talent of an old boot). I let the thought sit there for a few days -reminding myself I failed painting by numbers - before addressing it once again. Yes I am still keen.
Next step was to finds somewhere to take lesons. I, of course, first turned to 'expanding your horizons' a six monthly guide to what's on at the local neighbourhood houses, put out by the City of Boroondara.
As I was reading through the course offerings I came across one, at the Canterbury Neighbourhood Centre:
"Calling all bookworms.
A friendly group that meets the first Tuesday of the month, 2 pm - 3.30 pm. Books supplied by the local library when possible. No cost." (Emphasis is mine).
Now I suspect I work at their 'local library' and I know nothing about them. If indeed they do get their books from us (informally obviously) then it seems to me that there's a community partnership waiting to happen.
A simple phone call from us -along the lines of - we've heard about the book group, how can we help?
I'm not envisaging or intending that we take over the group or anything like that. I'm thinking more along the lines of helping suggest books that we have multiple copies of, or maybe even go so far as to set up a 'bookclub in a bag program' with them.
I think this is a great community opportunity and (sticking my neck out here) I'd be prepared to take it on.
What do others think?
P.S. I've narrowed the watercolour classes down to either Balwyn Community Centre or Camberwell Community Centre.
3 comments:
I think you should do it. What happened to the Book club in a bag you were doing?
I'm still keen to do it. I'll contact Canterbury and have a chat - maybe they'd like to be my guinea pigs.
Lucky the watercolour class didn't say, "models provided by the local library, at no cost"
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