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Cost $40, $32 Concession
Date Tuesday 17-Oct-2023
2 weeks
Time 10:00am (2 hr)
Venue Glyde-In Front room
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Learn about Facebook and how it works. If you wish, create a Facebook account for your private use, and be wise about security and privacy. Add or change your photo and cover, send and accept friend requests, remove friends, upload or tag photos and create a post. You will need an existing email address to create your profile. If you already have a Facebook profile, have its email and password ready.

Membership is required

Cost $45, $36 Concession
Date Tuesday 17-Oct-2023
3 weeks
Time 1:00pm (1 hr, 30 min)
Venue Glyde-In Garden Room
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Mosaics is one of the oldest and most mesmerizing creative arts in the world. Over three weeks Leisa will guide you through the steps involved: the safe cutting of ceramic tiles and other tessarae, creating your design, adhering your tiles and grouting, and pulling your masterpiece together. You''ll leave with lots of new skills and your mosaic plaque or stepping stone project. Suitable for both beginners and those with experience.

Cost $60, $55 for Members, $50 Concession
Date Wednesday 18-Oct-2023
Single session
Time 8:45am (7 hr)
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Bus trip. Learn about Kaarakins black cockatoo rehabilitation program from rescue to return to the wild. Come inside the interactive aviary to get up close to some black cockatoos; these resident birds are curious, gentle and friendly. You can hand feed them gumnuts. Be ready to be sat on. Youll also get to visit the kangaroos, see the dingoes, emus and other free roaming birds. The tour runs for 75 minutes as a gentle walk with several stops it does involve slopes, uneven terrain and loose material. Wear sun protection and good shoes and leave jewellery at home. (Although efforts are made to provide a safe environment Kaarakin cannot be held liable for loss or injury suffered while on site or participating in an experience.) After the tour, we will head to the Lakers Tavern in Thornlie for lunch and refreshments (at own cost, average around $25). If time, we can stop at The Spud shed in Jandakot on the way home for those that wish to top up their pantry with some fresh vegetables. Meet at Prinsep Road, Melville at 8.45am for 9am departure. Book by 13 October

Cost $18, $14 for Members, $11 Concession
Date Tuesday 24-Oct-2023
Single session
Time 9:00am (1 hr)
Venue Glyde-In Garden Room
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The Burrup Peninsula, west of Karratha in the Pilbara, is home to more than a million petroglyphs (art inscribed into the rock surface). It is the worlds most significant and largest gallery of rock art, a continuous record of humankinds activities on Earth. Its archaic faces are the earliest images of the human face. This gallery has been nominated for World Heritage listing, yet is under threat from industrial development on its doorstep. Susan Swain is Co-Convenor of Friends of Australian Rock Art.

Membership is required

Cost $80, $64 Concession
Date Wednesday 25-Oct-2023
8 weeks
Time 2:00pm (1 hr)
Venue Glyde-In Front room
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Buongiorno! Let's start to learn the basics of colourful Italian. Suitable for all beginners.

Cost $18, $14 for Members, $11 Concession
Date Tuesday 31-Oct-2023
Single session
Time 9:00am (1 hr)
Venue Glyde-In Garden Room
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Over five months Wendy walked New Zealand''s Te Araroa Trail, the 3,000 kilometre length of New Zealand. While injury forced her husband Jerome to stop after they walked the north island, Wendy went on to hike the South Island alone, finishing in February. The journey took her past volcanoes, mountains, rivers, lakes and valleys. Hear about the highs and the lows, the challenges and the rewards of such a walk. Wendy is an East Fremantle local, a retired physiotherapist, coordinator of the Friends of the East Fremantle Foreshore and volunteer with East Freos Climate Action Reference Group.

Cost $18, $14 for Members, $11 Concession
Date Sunday 12-Nov-2023
Single session
Time 2:30pm (1 hr)
Venue Glyde-in back room
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Dr Chen will explain why the island state has featured so prominently in the geopolitical and ideological rivalry between China and the United States, with major implications for all countries in the Indo-Pacific. Indeed, the international community has seen Taiwan as a testing ground to gauge if the new Cold War may escalate into a hot war. As warned by The Economist in May 2021, Taiwan has become the most dangerous place on earth. Much depends on what will come out of the presidential elections in early 2024 - or does it?

Cost $41, $36 for Members, $33 Concession
Date Friday 17-Nov-2023
Single session
Time 10:15am (4 hr, 30 min)
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Bus trip. Join Eileen for a perfect day out in the Swan Valley - a spring trip to Woodbridge House. Explore the historical residence, relax in the tranquil setting and enjoy some great food. Woodbridge is a fine example of 19th-century architecture built by entrepreneur and parliamentarian, Charles Harper, for his wife and ten children. With its connections to the colonys founder, Governor James Stirling, the house played a central role in the social life of the colonys elite. On our tour well learn some of its history and peek into the past through displays of the Harpers original furniture and personal belongings. Well wander the grounds and admire the towering jarrahs, the beautiful cottage garden and views of the Swan River. Afternoon tea or lunch (your choice, at own cost) will be on the bank of the river, under the covered verandah of Riverside at Woodbridge. Surrounded by lawns and gardens, well have lovely views of the water and Swan Valley grape vines beyond. Meet at Prinsep Road, Melville @ 10:15 am for 10:30 am departure Book by 3 November

Membership is required

Cost $90, $72 Concession
Date Friday 24-Nov-2023
Single session
Time 9:30am (3 hr)
Venue Glyde-In Front room
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Do you aspire to write a memoir but dont know how to start? Through teaching and exercises youll learn what makes a good memoir and how to start writing your own. The course will cover themes, how to get the words down in a first draft and avoiding writers block. Well also touch on redrafting, editing and publication options.

Cost $28, $23 for Members, $23 Concession
Date Sunday 26-Nov-2023
Single session
Time 2:00pm (2 hr)
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A comic satire about celebrity feminists, with a plot loosely inspired by a real-life incident in 2000, when author Germaine Greer was held at gunpoint in her own home by a disturbed student. Written by Johanna Murray-Smith and directed by Brendan Ellis.