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Community Development and Events — August 30th, 2020

Events coming soon to Dunedin

Free activity book and activity kits for distribution

The latest edition of the "Rec Book" is now available.

Otago Mental Health Support Trust has been publishing a listings book of low cost activities in Dunedin for well over a decade. The latest edition tackles a covid word by focusing on activities that can be done at home as well as out and about without other people and with other people.

It is called Ōtepoti Dunedin - Things to do, Free and under $5

It doesn't matter what level we are at, it has activities you can do right now, for free.

The activities come from groups including Artsenta, Caversham 9012, North East Valley Project, DCC Libraries and Dunedin Wildlife Hospital.

The book is free, A5 format and full colour.

There is also free activity packs.

For more information and to see what is in the activity pack please see the attachment at the end of this section.

Living with Heart Failure? You are not alone

The Heart Foundation and Southern District Health Board are hosting free heart support seminars to discuss living with heart failure.

Date: Thursday 3 September

Time: 9am - 12pm

Venue: Heart Foundation Office, 206 Hanover Street

For more information and to register, please see the attachment at the end of this section.

Dunedin City Council Planting day

Signal Hill

Date: Saturday 5 September

Time: 10am - 12pm

Venue: Signal Hill Plateau

Bring:

Family, friends, a smile and a spade!

Check: Coastal Otago Volunteers Facebook page and DCC Facebook page for cancellations.

ABLE - Women's DIY Skills

A 10 week programme developing and extending skills in

Transportation, incl buses, bikes and cars
Home maintenance
The Outdoors
Woodwork

Date: 10 Weekly course starting Monday 7 September

Time: 10am - 12pm

Venue: Able's Activity Centre, 2 Calder Street

For more information and to register please see the attachment at the end of this section.

The Great Dunedin Brainstorm – collaborating to crack the crisis

People keen to assist with solving local social and economic problems highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic are invited to enter the Great Dunedin Brainstorm, an idea-generating event which will assist the city in responding to challenges created by COVID-19.

The Great Dunedin Brainstorm on 11-12 September, is open to all sections of the Dunedin community. There are 60 places available and those wanting to take part are invited to submit an expression of interest (EOI) outlining ideas, by 4 September.

The event is being co-ordinated by the Dunedin City Council’s Enterprise Dunedin economic development team, on behalf of the Grow Dunedin Partners, a group comprised of city stakeholders including the University of Otago, Ngai Tahu, Otago Chamber of Commerce, Otago Southland Employers Association, Enterprise Dunedin and the wider Dunedin City Council.

This event encourages people from across the Dunedin community to tackle the challenges created or enhanced by COVID-19, in workable, positive and impactful ways. Concepts and ideas will be formed, workshopped with mentors and then presented to a judging panel.

The best ideas will be presented to Grow Dunedin Partners and Dunedin City Councillors and may be selected for further support from the Dunedin City Council’s Covid19 fund, which has $500,000 earmarked for initiatives to assist the community.

The three themes that ideas should fall under, include:

Jobs in a post-COVID world
Raising hope and social connectedness
Supporting a resilient economy

Proceedings will kick off with an evening pōwhiri and team selection on 11 September, followed by a full day workshop event on the 12 September, led by entrepreneur and co-owner of Innov8HQ Steve Renata and with the assistance of the Dunedin Co.Starters team.

The event will follow Alert Level 2 guidelines including contact tracing, social distancing and hygiene procedures, but is subject to postponement should there be a change in current Alert Levels.

Entry is by Expression of Interest via www.dunedinnz.com/brainstorm

Composting Made Easy workshop

Regular composting, bokashi and worm farms.

Hands on workshop with Michelle Cox of Organics Unearthed

Date: Saturday 26 September

Time: 1pm - 5pm

Venue: Carlton Hill

Registration necessary.

For more information please see the flyer at the end of this section.

Charity Art Auction

Featuring works from artists recognised locally, nationally and internationally.

Date: Thursday 8 October

Time: 6pm

Venue: Dunedin Community Gallery

For more information please see the flyer at the end of this section.

Dunedin Drop-in Heart Support

A regular meeting for those who have been affected by heart disease.

Date: Last Wednesday of each month

Time: 10.30am 12pm

Venue: Heart Foundation Office, 206 Hanover Street

For more information please see the attachment at the end of this section.

Koru Play group

The Dunedin Multi-Ethnic Council's Koru Playgroup is back! All 0-5 year olds and whānau welcome.

Date: Fortnightly on Wednesday

Time: 10.30am - 11.30am

Venue: South City Hall, 118 King Edward Street

For more information please see the attachment at the end of this section or head to their facebook page.

Unique Ōtepoti The Reboot

Unique Ōtepoti is an opportunity for young Dunedin creative performers to express their cultural identities across multi-platform media – radio, podcast and video.

OAR FM was all set to launch this exciting project earlier this year, and then . . . COVID-19!

OAR FM Dunedin is now ‘rebooting’ Unique Ōtepoti, seeking registrations of interest from more groups and individuals aged 12-18 years who can share original or traditional music, waiata, kapa haka, instrumental or spoken word poetry performances.

If you registered before lockdown and are still up for it, great! Just let OAR FM know. But there are MORE PLACES AVAILABLE.

The deadline for registration of interest is 31 August 2020.

For more information and to register you interest please see the attachment at the end of this sections.

Trees for Families

A forest of memories is growing on the edge of the Otago Harbour and it’s set to get bigger.

This Father’s Day, the 17th annual Trees for Families event will take place, seeing dozens of native trees planted by individuals and families to celebrate milestones and important occasions.

Keep Dunedin Beautiful Coordinator, Allison Wallace says, “We hold this planting event every year as an opportunity to mark an occasion while contributing to native revegetation. People do it for all sorts of life events, like the birth of a child, remembrance of the passing of a special person, a graduation or just to leave their mark on the city. It’s a way of creating a living reminder. Some people plant a tree year after year.”

Dunedin grandmother, Noeline Burden, will plant her eighth tree this year.

“It’s a wonderful idea. I’ve planted a tree for each grandchild. It’s great to be able to visit the site to check on the trees and to know that in a small way we are helping with the beautification of the West Harbour Cycleway.”

This year, she is planting a tree for the newest addition to her family, two month old Frankie. Because she lives in Northland, Frankie and her parents won’t be at the planting but each time she visits, there will no doubt be a photo shoot with ‘her’ tree.

Trees for Families is supported by the DCC, Keep Dunedin Beautiful and the Rotary Club of Dunedin.

There have been close to 1000 trees planted as part of this event since it started.

People are asked to pre-register for their trees, which cost $20. The planting event is on Sunday, 6 September. The event will still go ahead if Dunedin is in Alert Level 1 or 2.

For more information contact:

Allison Wallace

Keep Dunedin Beautiful Coordinator

Phone: 021 571 921

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