City of Stonnington activities and information for seniors
If you haven’t already looked at the Stonnington engage newsletter, it provides lots of information and activities at no charge to help keep you active and connected.
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COLOURS AND COLLAGE 2025 SEMESTER 1
SIGNIFICANCE OF COLOUR IN OUR LIVES PLANNED TO BE REPEATED IN 2026 Sessions included: Sessions involved interacting and sharing reflections on colour ideas from participants. U3A COLLAGE PLANNED TO BE REPEATED IN 2026 Japanese artists began to stick paper onto silk as early as the 1100’s. Paper collage was first recorded in Europe in 1400’s. Victorian […]
Saving a life using a Defibrillator
Saving a life using a Defibrillator Stonnington council has installed an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) in the U3A Stonnington building because it can greatly improve outcomes if used quickly following cardiac arrest. Simple and safe to use, the following short videos may help you save someones life. In emergencies requiring a defibrillator also call Triple-Zero emergency services. The “Performing […]
Poetry
An enthusiastic poetry appreciation group has been running at Stonington for more than seven years. Poetry Pilgrims was introduced by Anthony Ash, and in the early days Jennifer Strauss, a poet, helped us to become established. We had some time with no particular leader but are now privileged to have had the continuing leadership of […]
Cooperative Painting Group
We meet every Thursday in Valetta St at noon for 2 hours. Our class is not instructive, but basic advice can be sought from the coordinator of the group. We always paint onsite, and enjoy trying our hands at a great variety of subjects. The main medium is watercolour but all mediums encouraged.
Activities for Everyone
We have many popular activities to engage members including art, bridge, chess, discussion groups (books, current affairs, films), exercise, health, history, language, literature mah jong, music, poetry, travel, historic area walks, etc. A few images from these groups.
Art – “Discovery” and “Enhance” Classes
Painting, drawing, and shadow cuts. Spring 2022.
Photo Gallery
A new gallery of photographs from our membership is available under About Us > Photo Galleries in the navigation menu. Currently it includes includes some of the work from one of our art groups (“Enhance and Grow the Artist in You” 2021), but if you have other things that you would like to be added from other activities please, let us know.
The U3A Stonnington Book Club
During Covid-19 the book club has mostly been meeting via zoom. Although that has been wonderful, we are very happy to have the chance to meet face to face again soon. It has been a good year of reading and discussion.