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Tuesday 28 October 2014
MPNEWS (1300 676 397) or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au Visual artists: Rhannon Spiteri, William Bishopp and Madison Naughton with their tiles. Picture: Yanni
Self focus A collaboration between Rosebud Secondary College and the Festival for Healthy Living over the past three years is about to reach its conclusion. The Eye Belong health promotion, based at the Royal Children’s Hospital, aims to build the capacity of schools, families and communities, and to strengthen the mental health of young children, through the visual arts. Coordinated by year 7 assistant principal, Geoff Seletto, and art teacher, Megan Seymour, the visual arts and personal development staff has been working alongside the Festival for Healthy Living team to devise and implement a mosaic mural. It will consist of student self-portraits that express the key themes of the festival’s mental health focus: Identity, Diversity and Community. The mural will be installed in the year 7 area, and expanded every year with each new intake of students. The Eye Belong project was a focus in term 3, when students worked with wellbeing professionals from Headspace, looking at self, health awareness and their connection to the school community. Alongside personal development classes, students completed self-portrait mosaics in art class alongside artists-in-residence Samantha Menzies and Alison Griffiths. While learning about mosaic techniques, they also focused on mindfulness: a strategy for relaxation.
Church evicts men’s shed Stephen Taylor steve@mpnews.com.au THE Safety Beach-Dromana Men’s Shed is in a pickle: it has to find a new home by the end of December. Based at the Don Bosco Camp at Safety Beach for the past two years, the men’s shed has provided an outlet for retired men, some of whom might otherwise have felt depressed and socially isolated.
Its 30-man membership meets at least three times a week to engage in community activities as well as socialise over coffee and trades work. The shed’s members have been involved with community events, as well as providing wood craft activities for the Dromana Australia Day Community Breakfast, woodworking instruction to local school children, furniture restoration and cultivating a community vegetable garden.
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But a “lack of compatibility” with the camp management’s aims of providing a safe and enjoyable experience for children has led to the shed being given its marching orders by the Roman Catholic insitute, Salesians of Don Bosco, based in Ascot Vale. Business manager Damien Giddens said the men’s shed had been invited to set up at the camp by a former manager no longer employed there. “We recently decided a review of our
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respective positions was required and have decided to go in a new direction,” he said. “We found that the camp’s use by our main clients - primary and secondary schools - is incompatible with a men’s shed. We are now hearing that some of our long-standing clients are looking elsewhere and the camp’s viability is being affected.” Camp managers met with men’s shed representatives on Friday 26 Sep-
tember to tell them the bad news. “They were disappointed; we were, too,” Mr Giddens said. When we started we did not envisage that problem arising. Also, the location is a problem – they need direct road access, yet they are right in the middle of the camp. “There is no other way we can site them. We have said we will scout around for them and that they can use the camp as a mail box.” Continued page 5
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