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Centre Talk
17 November 2024
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Friday 29 November - Last Day of Term
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13, 16, 20, 23 & 30 Jan - Summer in the Centre
Tue 4 Feb to Mon 10 Feb - Online Enrolments
Tue 4 Feb to Fri 7 Feb - In-person Enrolments
Monday 17 February - Classes begin
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Well, I am about to state the obvious to anyone who has taken on a job that 'looked easy enough' from the outside but, once immersed, has nuances, issues and requires some different skills than I anticipated. Diplomacy is one. Not my forte and I do restrain myself from using this blurb to let fly with my strong opinions on global matters 😂.
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There has also been the opportunity to meet more of the individuals that keep the KCLC running smoothly so we can all enjoy the benefits, and I have a much greater appreciation of the way all the volunteer groups add to the rich tapestry of the KCLC success story.
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FYI: The last Centre-Talk for the year will be 1st December, 2024.
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Editor-in-training, Marilyn.
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From the Executive...
General Meeting
On Friday 1st November 2024, a well-attended General Meeting was held at the Centre.
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The meeting was opened at 12:05pm by Lindsay Goodwin in the Chair, requesting everyone to sign in.
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Three (3) apologies were recorded.
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The draft minutes of the General Meeting can be read by clicking here.
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- General Meetings: 18 March 2025 & 9 September 2025
- AGM: 6 June 2025
Meeting closed by the Chair at 1.15pm.
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Your Coordinators Annie, Anne-Marie and Lindsay
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Summer in the Centre...
Summer in the Centre is back this January!
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Join us for Summer in the Centre running from 9.30am to 12pm on Monday 13, Thursday 16, Monday 20, Thursday 23 and Thursday 30 January.
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You can bring in your knitting, sewing, craftwork, painting, games, reading or laptop etc., or even just yourself to enjoy the company. We will have air conditioned rooms available for members to use.
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Tea and coffee will be provided and the cost is just $5 per person for each session. Booking is not required (please just bring in the exact money in cash as we will have limited change available).
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Unfortunately, no crèche facilities will be available for these sessions.
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
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During Summer in the Centre, join tutor Mavis Paskulich for a series of five structured sessions based on Betty Edwards' renowned book, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Each session will focus on hands-on exercises designed to enhance your artistic skills and deepen your understanding of visual perception.
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To make the most of your experience, please come prepared with your own copy of the book and complete specified pre-readings before each session as our time will be spent working on timed exercises. You can access a free copy for download by clicking here.
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Session Breakdown:
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Sessions 1 & 2: Introduction, Pre-Instruction Drawings, and The Perception of Edges
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Session 3: The Perception of Spaces
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Session 4 & 5: The Perception of Relationships (Perspective)
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Session 6: The Perception of Light and Shadows, and The Perception of the Gestalt
Dive into the world of creativity and discover the artist within you!
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Each session will be the cost of attending Summer in the Centre ($5 per person). If you are interested in attending this special course, please email office_manager@kclc.org.au with your expression of interest before Friday 29 November.
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Crèche 2025...
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A very difficult decision has been made to no longer operate the crèche with paid staff.
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A diligent member, Katherine Horne (see below) has kindly offered to arrange a voluntarily run crèche, which the Executive Committee fully supports.
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Back to the seventies volunteer creche model for 2025
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With the decision to no longer fund paid workers for the creche we must sadly say goodbye and an enormous “Thank you” to Debra, Nina and Sally.
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We are trying out a “volunteers only” model to keep the creche running in 2025, so that this year’s users who wish to continue are not left stranded.
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Happily, a number of current creche volunteers have put up their hands to assist. However, we do need a few more people to enable us to cover a full semester. The Centre does refund the cost of obtaining the Working With Children Check ($11). For more information on the Working With Children Check please click here.
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Please let me know if you are interested in finding out more information about becoming a creche volunteer. I would welcome any queries addressed to kclc@kclc.org.au with my name in the subject heading.
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Katherine, Creche Liaison
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2025 Enrolments...
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The Programme for Semester One, 2025 is now available to be viewed online.
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Please click here to view the Semester One 2025 Timetable.
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Please click here to view the Semester One 2025 Programme.
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You can also use the search functions on the Centre's homepage to find the courses that will be on offer in Semester One 2025.
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Correction from the last issue of Centre Talk:
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Please remember that course details are subject to change right up until enrolment day.
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Important Enrolment Dates
Online enrolments will open at 9.30am on Tuesday 4 February until 5pm on Monday 10 February.
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For those needing assistance with the enrolment process, in-person enrolments will open Tuesday 4 February to Friday 7 February from 9.30am to 2.00pm at the Kalamunda Community Centre.
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Classes start on Monday 17 February 2025.
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Testing and Tagging…
All appliances that are plugged in (including laptops and sewing machines for example) at the Centre must be tested and tagged by an electrician.
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During the Semester One enrolment week, an electrician will be offering this service at $5 per item. The electrician will be available on Wednesday 5 February and Thursday 6 February, 9.30am to 12.00pm.
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The cost for appliances that are used by tutors to present their courses will be paid by the Learning Centre.
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Class News...
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Philosophy class
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A snippet from our Thursday morning philosophy class from last term... Recovering from our discussion sessions exploring all sorts of philosophical subjects, we usually take a break during the holidays and get together over morning tea at a coffee shop in Kalamunda (see below) continuing our in depth discussions, or even talking about mundane subjects such as the weather or the price of eggs at the supermarket.
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Ukulele for Absolute Beginners
In this class Annamaria, the ukulele, and a sense of humour, is the glue that binds this disparate group together. Our ukulele playing, and singing, has the ladies at the information desk shutting the door 😂. Humour & talking is often loud, and Annamaria has the capacity to make us feel like a class of recalcitrant school children, but we come back for this every semester.
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Morning tea is another event. Several of the class were gluten-free consumers, so we adapted recipes and ate fabulous food, exchanging recipes with a cook book is on the horizon.
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Back to the ukulele: After morning tea we choose a favourite, from our extensive song-book, but the same favourite songs are chosen often, and we can now play those with some proficiency. This class brings joy.
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✍ Please feel free to let us know anything interesting that you are up to in your classes, even though we don't have any official class news reporters this semester. A short snippet with a photo is perfect. Submissions can be emailed to centre_talk@kclc.org.au or written notes handed in to KCLC office.
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Fibre Art 🤔
I find the display cabinet fascinating and learnt more about the various expressions of our artistic brain when exploring this genre. This included researching exactly what was fibre art.
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Fibre art origins, the term and process, was taken up after WW2 and referred to the output of craftsman.
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In the 1950s the media included clay woven into fibre. Then 1960s & 70s process types expanded; knotting, plaiting, lashing… you get the drift. Limited only by imagination.
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Experimentation increased in 1980s material/techniques that reflected the socio-political happenings of these times.
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Registrar's Rambles...
In this regular segment, I hope to address some enrolment FAQs and offer enrolment advice...
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Question: Why aren’t in-person assisted enrolments given priority over online enrolments?
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We are very happy to offer in-person assisted enrolments during enrolment week as we recognise that some members are not able to enrol themselves but, it must be acknowledged, these require a large team of volunteers to support them.
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We have other members though, who would not be able to come in to enrol due to family circumstances or being away from home during enrolment week, and they need equal access to enrolments.
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It would be unfair to prioritise one group over the other.
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It is anticipated that if we were to open in-person enrolments before online enrolments, far more members would come in to enrol resulting in longer queues, longer wait times and more work for our enrolment volunteers.
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In the days before enrolments became available online, we would often have wait times of over two hours during the first flush and that was when we had 200-300 members. We now have almost 800 members.
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