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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.

Wellbeing

TREE GLEE FOREST THERAPY COMES TO THE WEST

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

LOCAL GRAFFITI BATTLE

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

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

Contributor -
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.
Literature

A NERVOUS WAIT FOR AN EMERGING WRITER OF THE WEST!

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

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

Contributor -
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.
Entertainment

SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE

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

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

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

WINTER READING RECOMMENDATIONS

The Sun Bookshop -
Winter reading recommendations from the Sun Bookshop
Gardening

BE LIKE A TREE

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

GARDENING IS THE SOCIAL GLUE NEEDED FOR HAPPY HEALTHY COMMUNITIES

DIGGIN' IT -
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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