Month: June 2025

Dragon Boat Festival in pictures

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The Dragon Boat Festival was the first Chinese holiday to be included in UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This festival occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month in the lunar calendar – 31 May in 2025. The festival is celebrated by holding dragon boat races and eating sticky rice dumplings called zongzi. Our U3A joined in the festivities.

In preparation for this festival, Class Leader Lan Tiet offered a demonstration of making sticky rice dumplings with different fillings such as chicken, pork or seafood with mushrooms and other vegetables, all inside a sticky rice coating and wrapped in bamboo leaves. Great fun was had as many class members attempted to wrap their dumplings in the stiff leaves – with varying levels of success.

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President’s Report

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Bernadette Cincotta, Café Coordinator, serving our President, Gary Walker, with a coffee.

With winter well and truly here, those coffee vouchers are a great way to enjoy a comforting hot drink. But hurry—they’ll expire soon!

Also, with our Annual General Meeting coming up in August, now’s the perfect time to think about putting your hand up for the Committee of Management.

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From the Course Admin team

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Didn’t the trees look beautiful in Autumn? We’ve captured the brilliant colours of the trees behind the Hub in late May (above). The gardens are also looking good, thanks to the gardeners who attend every fortnight rain, hail or shine.

As this term winds down, we have quite a few new courses for Terms 3 and 4 – see the list in this article and the separate item on computer courses.

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Terms 3 & 4 computer classes are here

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The second half of the year brings back some of our most popular computer classes, plus a few brand-new and topical ones to explore! These short courses range from one-off sessions to six-week programs, so there’s something to suit everyone’s schedule.

Spots fill up fast, so don’t forget to pop a reminder in your calendar when you enrol. Keep the times free, and be sure to join us for that all-important first session!

Click on the link on the course codes below to see the full description on the Courses page of the website or download the booklet.

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Dragon Boat Festival comes to U3A

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Class Leader Lan Tiet shows off her beautifully made five-pointed dumpling

The Dragon Boat Festival was the first Chinese holiday to be included in UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This festival occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month in the lunar calendar – 31 May in 2025. The festival is celebrated by holding dragon boat races and eating sticky rice dumplings called zongzi. Our U3A joined in the festivities.

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Snippets

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It may be chilly outside, but June Snippets is bursting with things to do to keep you warm! You can enjoy a pizza lunch at U3A; be inspired at a local art show; attend a free movie; learn about support for carers at a workshop; connect with the Whitehorse Positive Ageing Connect and Support team for help; and for the little people in your life, you can choose something fun from the Whitehorse School Holiday program. Plus, we highlight our very own Calligraphy and Marvellous Melbourne 3 classes.

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