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WHAT’S ON: Northern events

Supportive art

Supported by Northern Support Services – a Northcote-based, not-for-profit community organisation that provides services for people with intellectual disabilities and autism – the annual Our Studio exhibition showcases work by the studio’s artists. Open until Sunday at Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, 7-27 Snake Gully Drive, Bundoora. Free.

Details: bundoorahomestead.com/

Know your issues

Experience the SlowTV free internet TV channel forum, delivering interviews, debates, conversations and lectures about Australia’s key political, social and cultural issues. On Wednesday, November 6, at 4pm, at Mill Park library, 394 Plenty Road, Mill Park. Free.

Details: Call 9437 8189

Fiesta frenzy

This year’s Broadmeadows Fiesta celebrates the many cultures in the community and features free activities including African drumming, Bollywood dance, a billy cart derby, workshops and a jumping castle. And there’ll be market stalls and food stalls. On Sunday, November 10, noon-5pm, at Civic Plaza on Pascoe Vale Road, Broadmeadows.

Details: hume.vic.gov.au

Listen for the ribbit

Join Waterwatch for a night of frog discovery in the Laurimar estate, where you will learn to recognise the area’s aquatic animal life, see some of its inhabitants, identify different frog calls and help collect important data for the frog census. Families welcome. On Friday, November 8, from 7pm-8.30pm. Meet at the Laurimar Community Activity Centre, 110 Hazel Glen Drive, Doreen. Free.

Details: Call 9380 8199

It’s Mac time

If you want to know how to use an Apple Mac computer, the applications and other programs on a Mac, then this session is for you. On Monday, November 4, from 2pm-4pm, at Hume Global Learning Centre, 1093 Pascoe Vale Road, Broadmeadows.

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