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    The Westsider: July, 2023

    The Westsider is a not-for-profit, monthly community newspaper, written by volunteers and delivered to hundreds of pick-up points across the inner west each month.

    TREE GLEE FOREST THERAPY COMES TO THE WEST

    Forest Therapy is a public health practice of guided immersion in forests.

    LOCAL GRAFFITI BATTLE

    Avery will be exhibiting some of his art at the Community Bank Seddon until Friday 14th July 2023.

    THE WILD WEST OF MELBOURNE’S THEATRE NEEDS PURPOSE-BUILT VENUES

    There are plans for a new theatre precinct in Footscray but we need community and government support to make this vision more than a plan and become a reality.

    A NERVOUS WAIT FOR AN EMERGING WRITER OF THE WEST!

    Congratulations on being shortlisted for the 2023 Young Adas Short Story Prize for your story, ‘The Precipice’. 

    THREE FIRST NATIONS ART EXHIBITIONS OFFERING POWERFUL (AND HUMOROUS) TRUTH TELLING

    The exhibitions are also a curatorial success because as unique and as individual as each artist’s voice is, together they ring clear as a bell.

    SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE

    The highly anticipated sequel to 2018’s ‘Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse’ is here and it is BIG.

    BLEACHED: A LOCAL PRODUCTION EXPLORING OUR MIXED RESPONSES TO THE CLIMATE CRISIS

    Bleached offers a chance to explore how many younger people view our future.

    WINTER READING RECOMMENDATIONS

    Winter reading recommendations from the Sun Bookshop

    BE LIKE A TREE

    By doing as nature does, we can emulate what happens on the forest floor.

    GARDENING IS THE SOCIAL GLUE NEEDED FOR HAPPY HEALTHY COMMUNITIES

    Ostensibly a gardening club, in reality a chance to go to the Yarraville Bowlo for a few beers every now and then.

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