Whitehorse Heritage Week 2026 Whitehorse Heritage Week takes place from 13 to 20 September. This year's theme is On The Street Where You Live. Visit the Creative Whitehorse website to find out more about Heritage Week and explore the 2026 program. The Whitehorse community is celebrating changing landscape and land...
Dementia Awareness Seminar Tuesday 15 September 2026, 1pm to 3pm Manningham Uniting Church & Community Centre, 109 Wood Street, Templestowe
The City of Boroondara is holding a celebration on Saturday 19 September to celebrate 100 years since the Maranoa Botanic Gardens opened to the public. We’ll be marking the occasion with a big birthday party. You’re invited to come and see what makes this place so special and help us blow...
Platypus spotting on the Yarra Saturday 19 September, 4.30pm to 6.30pm Wombat Bend, Templestowe The Eastern Rosellas community group of the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) is once again hosting a platypus spotting event on Saturday the 19 September from 4:30 to 6:30pm at Wombat Bend in Templestowe Lower. Everyone is...
Box Hill Historical Society: Heritage Week Book Sale Sunday, 20 September 2026. From 10 am to 3 pm, Lower Town Hall, 1022 Whitehorse Road Box Hill. Come along to our annual Heritage Week Book Sale where there will be hundreds of reasonably priced second-hand books, and ephemera. As part of...
Outer Eastern Treaty Education and Solidarity Forum Tuesday September 22 from 7pm to 9pm. Central Ringwood Community Centre. Bedford Park, 2 Rosewarne Lane (via Bedford Road), Ringwood. Learn about Australia’s first Treaty and how we got here. Last year the State of Victoria signed the first Treaty with her First...
Here Comes the Bride Maling Heritage Centre. 190A Canterbury Road, Canterbury Monday 28 September to Friday 9 October (Monday to Friday 2pm to 5pm. Sunday, 11am to 5pm) Over the last few months, the Canterbury History Group and the Surrey Hills Historical Society have been researching the social history of...
Holy Trinity Surrey Hills - Blessing of the Pets Service Sunday, October 4 from 11am to 12pm Holy Trinity Anglican Church, cnr Union Road and Montrose Street, Surrey Hills. We’d love you to join us at our Blessing of the Pets Service which features special songs and The Prayer of...
Come and Try Croquet Croquet is a game of skill for all ages. It does not require speed or strength but does help develop hand-eye co-ordination and strategic thinking. It is as much a mental game as a physical one. Kew Croquet Club is always keen to attract new members....
Koonung Heights Uniting Church Open Day Koonung Heights Uniting Church Sunday 11 October from 10am to 12noon There has been a church building of some kind on the corner of Belmore and Winfield Roads since 1952. Back then it was a small, prefabricated Methodist church on an undeveloped block....
Thursday Girls Group Thursday Girls Group is a small not-for-profit which has been delivering free, weekly, professionally-led group counselling to women with this diagnosis for nearly 30 years across all of Melbourne, but predominantly in the eastern suburbs. Each year, we run one major fundraiser to help boost our funding,...
Kew Historical Society. 2026 Dickinson Lecture Wednesday, 14 October at 8pm Just Theatre, Kew Court House, 188 High Street Kew Vanessa Kowalski, the Head of Conservation at Grimwade Conservation Services will present and discuss Recent Projects for Materials Conservation.
How Hawthorn Changed from Village to City Tuesday 20 October, 12pm to 12.45pm Library Lounge, Town Gallery, 360 Burwood Road, Hawthorn. Historian Liz Yewers traces Hawthorn’s transformation from a riverside settlement into a thriving municipality and explores some of the developments that shaped the community we know today. Presented by...
Scottish Country Dance: Casual Try Out Intro Box Hill and District Scottish Society has a big year in 2026 with its 70th Anniversary and a move to North Balwyn. To celebrate we have a double welcome deal- two fun events on back to back Tuesdays. Come to one or both! No...
Discover the Story of Your House. Wednesday 21 October, 11am to 11.45am Library Lounge, Town Gallery, 360 Burwood Road, Hawthorn. Discover how maps, rate books, newspapers, photographs and other records can help uncover the history of a Hawthorn home. The session includes the Society’s How to Research Your Homeguide. Presented...
Women of Influence Thursday 22 October, 12pm to 12.45pm Library Lounge, Town Gallery, 360 Burwood Road, Hawthorn. Discover the lives of Kate Campbell, Doris Blackburn and Nancy Weir, and the contribution women have made to Hawthorn through medicine, reform, education, civic life and the arts. Presented by Hawthorn Historical Society...
Lighter Footprints Candidates Forum - Kew If you care about the natural environment and climate change and want to know the policies of your elected representatives before you vote, then these forthcoming events organised by community group Lighter Footprints are for you. State Election Vote Climate Campaign Kick Off: Sunday...
Rehome's Spring Community Market Saturday 24 October 10am to 2pm 340 Camberwell Road, Camberwell BHRR is a free, community-run group, making sustainability part of everyday life. How do we do it? Simple! Through BHRR's Facebook group, we connect people who have surplus "stuff" with others who want to reuse or...
Box Hill and District Scottish Society: Scottish Country Dance - Dance Night Box Hill and District Scottish Society has a big year in 2026 with its 70th Anniversary and a move to North Balwyn. To celebrate we have a double welcome deal- two fun events on back to back Tuesdays. Come...
The Rotary Club of Box Hill Burwood will be proud to present the annual Whitehorse Art Show 2026 in the magnificent Box Hill Town Hall, 1022 Whitehorse Road, Box Hill from 29th October to 1st November 2026. This will be the 60th Annual Art Show held within the City of...
Halloween at Greythorn 2026 It’s going to be a spooky affair at Greythorn Central on Halloween Eve, Thursday 29 October when all the fun of the Halloween fair comes to Greythorn from 4pm-8pm. Join the spooks at the Greythorn Halloween Festival on Thursday 29 October Halloween at Greythorn Central, on...
Lighter Footprints Candidates Forum - Hawthorn If you care about the natural environment and climate change and want to know the policies of your elected representatives before you vote, then these forthcoming events organised by community group Lighter Footprints are for you. State Election Vote Climate Campaign Kick Off: Sunday...
