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The Early Years Advisory Committee (EYAC) are seeking expressions of interest to join the committee for 2022–24.
The EYAC plays a pivotal role in advising Council on emerging issues affecting families and young children and is the opportunity for community members interested in making a difference in Early Years at Knox, to be heard.
Being part of the committee, you will:
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Make recommendations on the implementation of the Knox Community & Council Plan from 2022-24
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Identify key research, policy and legislative issues
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Advise Council at the highest-level
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Exposure to information and advice through additional Council channels
We’re looking for:
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Professionals and industry members - including people working in the early childhood industry, students or emerging educators
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Knox community members - including parents and carers
If this is you or someone you know, we’d love to hear from you. Register your interest via our webpage by Monday 6 June 2022.
For any questions, please contact our Early Years team on earlyyearsadvisorycommittee@knox.vic.gov.au or 9298 8000.
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Events, activities and festivals
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- A Very Aussie Christmas
- Biodiversity Blitz 2022
- Brass Monkeys – School Holiday Feature Show
- Celtic Reflections Australia
- Come N Try Carers Exercise Class
- Crucial COVID conversations for businesses
- Help create an important piece of art
- Holding a community event
- Introduction to Mindfulness for Carers
- Jewellery making
- Jugg Life School Holiday Feature Show
- Knox Environment Society Indigenous Nursery Tours
- Money information for women - superannuation and insurance
- Money information for women – avoiding scams
- Money information for women – budgets and bills
- Money information for women – managing debt
- Money information for women – planning your future
- Movie day – Senior Movement
- Online Event: "Always a Work in Progress"
- POSTPONED - Junior BMX Track Opening Event
- Pavarotti — King of the High Cs Featuring David Rogers Smith
- Protecting your rights as you get older (online)
- Reducing your household waste workshop
- Reducing your household waste workshop
- Swinging on a Star – The Songs of Frank Sinatra and the ‘Golden Rat Pack’ Era
- Tai chi
- The Amazing Travelling Comedy Tour
- The Beatles Show Presented by Rubber Soul
- The Songs of Judy Garland
- Tusk – The Storybook Tribute to Fleetwood Mac
- Wattle Day tree planting
- Have Your Say
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News
- Allergen training for food businesses
- Art installations at Stamford Park (and win a picnic!)
- Biodiversity Blitz 2022
- Biodiversity Month 2022
- Biodiversity Month Working Bees
- City Nature Challenge 2022
- Cr Susan Laukens elected Knox Mayor
- Fire Danger Period begins Monday 10 January
- Help us tackle graffiti
- Knox Festival Twilight Program
- Knox Festival returns for 2022
- Knox tree trails
- Last chance to nominate an everyday hero
- Last chance to take part in Biodiversity Month 2022
- Learn about composting
- Lower your carbon footprint and reduce energy bills
- New home for outdoor dining pod
- Only 4 weeks left to nominate a local hero
- Protecting our green areas and significant spaces
- Public Holiday Opening Hours
- Recycling right for National Recycling Week
- Revitalising Boronia
- Summary of Biodiversity Month 2022
- Volunteer Biodiversity Group Anniversaries
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Arts in Knox
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Immerse
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Artists and Installations
- Carla O'Brien – I AM HERE
- Carolyn Menzies – Carbon Cocoonery
- Clara Chan – Posthuman Convergence
- Fausto Gallego – Moving Forward
- Giordano Biondi – The Folds
- Gretel Taylor – Restless
- Hayden Dewar – Shelter
- Hsin Lin – Blossoms of Life
- Jack Tar & Co. – Atmosphere Absolute
- LUCIANO – Spinning Yarns
- Lynn Berry – Winter Garden
- Marc Savoia – Nothing Between Us
- Marc Savoia – Wunderkammer
- Marshall Arts Club - Glitch Garden
- Mikaela Stafford – SmokeScreen
- Molly Stephenson – Spaces of reflection between parts
- Natalie Wijeyeratne – Flagship I and Flagship II
- Nicholas Barker and Jessica Tanto – Please Take One
- Rebecca George – R > 1 Covid 19
- Rebecca Westlund – Acts of Hope
- Sara Catena – Shrine of the Sacred Self
- Simone Melville – Eden
- Simone Thomson – Wala Yapaneyeput, Water Together
- Sonia Zymantas – Involuntary Memories
- Soyoun Kim – ID Photo Poster
- Susannah Langley and Farnaz Dadfar with Warren Armstrong – VOID-ATRIUM
- Toshi Handa – Monument of Respect
- Wendy Yu – Acts of Holding Dance
- Wesley Dowling – Network
- Immerse 2021 highlights
- Knox art collection
- Public Art in Knox
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Major projects and initiatives
- Building a better Boronia
- Capital Works Projects at Sports Facilities
- Fairpark Reserve
- Kings Park pavilion
- Lewis Park Masterplan
- Marie Wallace Park Upgrade
- New Knox Library including The Youth Hive
- Regional Netball Centre Expansion
- Stamford Park Redevelopment
- VARMS relocation
- Wantirna Reserve redevelopment
- Community groups and volunteering
- Explore Knox
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Event Calendar
- A Very Musical Christmas Presented by SLAMS Music Theatre
- Advanced Care Planning – Upper Ferntree Gully
- Allergen training for food businesses webinar
- Armchair travel stories – Tasmania
- Asian Australian mental health in action
- Backyard wildlife habitat box webinar
- Bayswater Christmas Makers Market
- Bayswater Makers Market
- Bayswater Makers Market
- Bright Ideas Network meeting
- Building Aboriginal cultural competency workshop
- Bunkasaurus By Bunk Puppets (School Holiday Feature Show)
- CHORES (School Holiday Feature Show)
- Child Safe: Overview of the National Principles
- Cilla - You're My World (The Cilla Black Story featuring Danielle O'Malley)
- Committee Succession Planning: Attracting the Right Volunteers
- Community Events: Make It Happen!
- Community champions iNaturalist webinar
- Dealing with feelings: for parents and caregivers of teenagers
- Disability Awareness and Engagement: Making your group or club more accessible
- Diva featuring Queenie van de Zandt
- Elvis Forever featuring Damian Mullin
- Emerging and revisioning with a plan (workshop)
- Enchanted Forest Presented by Inventi Ensemble
- Escape from Trash Mountain
- Fever -The Songs of Peggy Lee
- Frankie Davis Junior and the Cat Pack
- Free group fitness classes
- Friends of the Gully Working Bee
- Gambling harm and young people panel discussion
- Grant writing workshop
- Green cleaning workshop
- Guided bird watching
- Guided frog watching
- Guided fungi walk
- Gully Gardeners: Keeping Chickens with Ella from Chooktopia
- Habitat boxes for suburban wildlife workshop
- Healthy Lunchboxes - A workshop for kids and parents
- Healthy Lunchboxes - A workshop for kids and parents
- Healthy Lunchboxes - A workshop for kids and parents
- Insect discovery walk
- Introduction to Mindfulness - short course
- It's Time - The Australian Michael Bublé Show
- Keeping Chickens Workshop
- Kids Pottery - Hand Building Creations
- Kids Pottery - Hand Building Creations
- Kids Pottery - Hand Building Creations
- Kids Pottery - Hand Building Creations
- Kids Pottery - Hand Building Creations
- Knox Art Show
- Knox Carols by Candlelight
- Knox Festival
- Life Hacks - Creating a Home That Enables You to Remain Independent
- Life Hacks - Tips From an Occupational Therapist
- Love your clothes workshop
- Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow 2023
- Mental health awareness session
- Mindfulness and compassion
- Mindfulness and the body
- Mindfulness and the senses
- National Sorry Day ceremony
- Nutrition workshop for parents and carers
- Oh Carole! The Songs of Carole King & Neil Sedaka
- Pension information session
- Pot-Pourri Presents Christmas on Broadway
- Preparing your garden for a bumper Spring harvest
- Proximity Dance Workshops with 3d Arts
- Queen Rocks
- Reducing food waste workshop
- Reducing your household waste workshop
- Reducing your household waste workshop
- Sionnach Rua's Great Irish Song Book
- Songs and stories by Kutcha Edwards
- Soup and Singing
- Stringybark Festival
- Stringybark at Stud Park
- Sustainable scrumptious snacks
- Sustainable scrumptious snacks
- Sustainable scrumptious snacks
- The Alphabet of Awesome Science (School Holiday Feature Show)
- The Piano Men featuring Craig Schneider
- The Songs of Burt Bacharach featuring Michael Cormick
- The Songs of Eva Cassidy featuring Silvie Paladino
- Those Were the Days (The Ladies of the British Invasion)
- Tie Dye Workshop (school holiday workshop)
- Too Peas in a Podcast - Carers Event
- Wellness festival for mothers and daughters
- You Are a Doughnut (School Holiday Feature Show)
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