03 5237 8590 coordinator@mwnh.org
Covid Gigs at Home

Covid Gigs at Home

Apollo Bay Covid Gigs Online – watch now and enjoy

It’s no secret. The emergence of COVID -19 was a major blow for the world of the creative arts. Not to be outdone, a plan was hatched.

Marrar Woorn Neighbourhood House, in association with Matty Orchard Music, Jackson Hayat Films and Show, Don’t Tell present a covid friendly gig to bring some music to your soul. All Apollo Bay home-grown talent and recorded live at the newly refurbished Apollo Bay Seniors Hall. The gig will be freely available online and through local radio 3ABR in the weeks to come – it’s a gift from us to you, to help soothe the covid blues.

Featuring local Apollo Bay singer songwriters: Ella Summers, Outtatime, Jack Fillmore, Katie Maxwell, Georgia Howell, Seamus Fillmore and Oscar Lalor.

Release Date: Friday 11th September, 6.30pm

All our performers developed their craft at the Apollo Bay P-12 College’s House Of Rock and all but one had returned home to ride out Victoria’s Stage 3 lockdown with their families in August, 2020.

Having them back in town represented an opportunity to showcase their awesome talents in a COVID friendly manner and to help reconnect our community through music and stories.

Like so many people around the world during these unusual times, we miss music as well as each other. For now, stay safe and plan to enjoy these seriously talented people doing what they do best.

This project functions under a covid safe plan, in-line with the Victorian Chief Health Officer Directions as at 10/08/2020, with the approval of local Vic Pol, local DHHS, Colac Otway Shire and Great Ocean Road Health.

Join us for the launch

Friday 11th September, 6.30 pm

www.mwnh.org or FB@MarrarWoorn

Meanwhile, check out the promo clip from Jackson Hayat Films

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Release Date: Friday 11th September, 6.30pm

Fire Ready Apollo Bay Project

Fire Ready Apollo Bay Project

Fire Ready Apollo Bay Project
Community report 6/01/2020

The Fire Ready Apollo Bay Project was developed in late 2019 and is a partnership between Apollo Bay CFA, Marrar Woorn Neighbourhood House and Otway Health*. This project was developed after consultation with community to establish what type of local response our community needs in response to a ‘fire event’. 

The project aims to:

  • Work with Apollo Bay Emergency Services to further develop an Operational Plan for the event of a fire. Emergency services include: Apollo Bay CFA, DELWP, Victoria Police, Ambulance Victoria, Colac Otway Shire and Victoria Emergency Victoria.
  • Develop an area wide Community Response Plan for the event of a fire including individual fire plans, business and accommodation planning and linking our community facilities.

Fire Ready Apollo Bay is a big project. It encourages everyone in our community to take a positive approach to fire planning and it gives further support to our local CFA branch. Over the coming months we will have specialist support for our CFA and emergency services to model and review the issues we have in Apollo Bay and surrounds. We will also be working with local businesses and community organisations to help people understand their responsibilities, as well as what they could expect in the event of fire.

There will be a lot of questions, and a lot of learnings. This project aims to give our community more tools so we can work better together and have a better understanding of how to plan and look after each other.

Fire Ready Apollo Bay has been funded by the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation with support from Otway Health* and delivered through Marrar Woorn Neighbourhood House.

What has happened to date:

  • In late 2019, 3 community meetings were held and were well attended by the community. The meetings resulted in a draft “Apollo Bay and Surrounds Community Response to Fire”. This plan focus was on on what the community can do themselves in the initial hours after a fire occurs, before any other outside support arrives
  • Emergency management teams (Apollo Bay CFA, DELWP, Victoria Police, Ambulance Victoria, Colac Otway Shire) are drafting their “Emergency Services Operational Plan”. This plan outlines how emergency services will respond in the event of a fire
  • Marrar Woorn Neighbourhood House received funding for the Fire Ready Apollo Bay Project
  • Otway Health employed a Community Partnerships Officer to assist in the project.

Next steps:

  • Saturday January 18th Community Bushfire Planning Workshop – 10am-1pm at Apollo Bay CFA, 28 Pascoe St Apollo Bay
  • Securing specialist consultant to assist with Emergency Services Operational Plan
  • Securing consultant to develop Community Response Plan
  • Establishing a skills register for those keen to be involved in the project
  • Ongoing communication in the Apollo Bay Newssheet and Otway Community News on facebook and Marrar Woorn website, www.mwnh.org .

We would like to thank the community for their contribution to date, many hands make ‘lighter work’. For more information please contact Marrar Woorn Neighbourhood House on 03 5237 8590 or email coordinator@mwnh.org.

*Otway Health is the Apollo Bay campus of Great Ocean Road Health

Funding for the Apollo Bay Seniors Hall

Funding for the Apollo Bay Seniors Hall

Many thanks to the Colac Otway Shire for their support through the 2019/20 Grants Program. Funds from this program will enable us to purchase a multi-media lecturn system for the improvements we are makning to the Apollo Bay Seniors Hall. This support further aids developments at the Apollo Bay Senior Centre that will see Apollo Bay will have its own film society, support its thriving arts and festival scene, be a venue for events, hold large meetings and training and be a place for people to stay safe, cool and occupied on days of high fire danger. Overall project includes: a professional cinema setup, retractable cinema screen, audio system, digital projector, sound control, wifi, air-conditioning, new seating, tables and storage facilities that was funded by the Pick My Project program from the Victorian State Government earlier in the year.

 

 

Funding for the Apollo Bay Seniors Hall

Pick My Project Success

We are incredibly excited to have been successful in the Pick My Project voting rounds and as a result will be able to turn our community cinema dreams in to a reality. More about the project:
Community Cinema – $200,000
At the Apollo Bay Senior Centre. Apollo Bay will have its own film society, support its thriving arts and festival scene, be a venue for events, hold large meetings and training and be a place for people to stay safe, cool and occupied on days of high fire danger. Project includes: a professional cinema setup, retractable cinema screen, audio system, digital projector, sound control, wifi, air-conditioning, new seating, tables and storage facilities. Increased bush fires and high fire danger days means that we need a location for relief for those living out of town. Apollo Bay had an extremely high voter turn-out for Pick My Project.  As a result, Apollo Bay has 3 of the 5 projects successful, for a total of $568,460 to be invested in the town. Thank you to all those who voted, your support in this voting process has meant that Apollo Bay received 21% of the funding allocated to the Barwon Region.
Winter Woodwork – watch the video

Winter Woodwork – watch the video

This is what happens when learning, art and community combine to create something very special.

Winter Woodwork 2018 was an adult education program in woodwork and sculpture developed by Marrar Woorn Neighbourhood House, supported by Learn Local and the Colac Otway Shire and performed at the WinterWild festival in Apollo Bay.

Beautiful video work by local Apollo Bay talent, Jackson Hyat.