Bluebird Foundation Inc.

🧵✨ Calling all young makers, designers and creative thinkers!

Join Sew & Style: Fashion Accessories with Simone Amethyst and bring your ideas to life through sewing, fashion, and creative making. Over 8 weeks, participants will design and create projects that reflect their own interests, style, and imagination.

From stuffed toys and doll clothes to skirts, shorts, heat packs, hair accessories, jewellery, upcycled fashion, and more—the possibilities are endless. Have your own project idea? Simone will help you explore what's possible!

Participants will learn design planning, fabric selection, hand-sewing techniques, and sewing machine skills while building confidence and creativity in a supportive studio environment.

Sew & Style: Fashion Accessories
Commences Monday 20 July
4:00pm–5:30pm
Ages 9+ years
8-week term program
$285 incl. GST and all materials

Enrol: www.bluebirdfoundationinc.org.au/workshops/t3sewstyle

A wonderful opportunity for young creatives to develop practical skills, express their individuality, and make something uniquely their own.

💙 Every voice deserves to be heard.

Through our Seen and Heard programs, Bluebird Foundation creates opportunities for people from marginalised communities to share their stories, build creative skills, and connect with others through the arts.

Programs include Djilang Film Collective, The Garden of Goodly Voices, and MusicSpace provide welcoming spaces where participants are not only included, but valued and celebrated. Through film, music, storytelling, and creative expression, participants gain confidence while helping our wider community hear perspectives that might otherwise go unheard.

One parent shared:

"After a day at MusicSpace, our son comes home happy and relaxed which is so beautiful to see. I also think that his support workers get just as much out of it as well. They are smiling and happy when they bring him home."

This End of Financial Year, you can help strengthen community connections through creativity.

✨ Thanks to our matched giving campaign, every donation will be doubled, meaning your support will have twice the impact.

Together, we can create spaces where people feel seen, heard, and connected.

Donate today and help us continue this important work.
www.bluebirdfoundationinc.org.au/donate-26

We’re thrilled to see arTIKulate featured in this week’s Geelong Independent!

arTikulate is a series of workshops using theatre and performance to investigate young people's experiences of the online world. Over four sessions, young people aged 11-14 years are invited to participate in games, activities, improv and performances fuelled by their own ideas and experiences of how online culture affects them.

The first workshop kicks off tomorrow, and there are still a handful of places available. If you’ve been thinking about joining, now is the time to book!

Thank you to the for helping us share the story of this exciting program and the incredible opportunities it offers young people in our community.

Places are limited and registrations close soon. Secure your spot before tomorrow’s first session!

https://events.humanitix.com/artikulate

Supported by a City of Greater Geelong Community Grant

Here's the latest from little bluebirds...

www.littlebluebirds.org.au

Bring drawings to life these school holidays!

Join illustrator Mjune.art for Hand-Drawn Magic: Animation Cel, a creative workshop inspired by the techniques used in traditional animation studios. Young artists will design their own background, create a character on acetate layers, and discover how animators use composition, layering, and storytelling to create the illusion of movement.

Participants will leave with a beautifully framed animation cel artwork and the skills to continue developing their characters and stories at home.

Hand-Drawn Magic: Animation Cel
📅 Thursday 2 July
10am–1pm
Ages 7–12 years
$80 (all materials included)

Pack your lunch, wear clothes to get messy, and step into the magical world of animation!

Enrol here: https://www.bluebirdfoundationinc.org.au/workshops/animationcelt3

𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗩𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿.

This EOFY, your donation can help improve mental health through artistic exploration.

Across Victoria, young people are facing increasing challenges with their mental health. At Bluebird Foundation, our Hearts and Minds programs create safe, welcoming spaces where people can connect through creativity, build confidence, develop new skills, and form meaningful friendships.

By removing barriers to participation—whether financial, physical, or social—we make it possible for more people to access the benefits of creative connection and community.

Programs such as arTIKulate, Building Volunteer Capacity and Connections, Guardians of the Garden, and Propeller support participants to explore their creativity while developing a sense of purpose, belonging, and wellbeing.

As one participant shared:

"Bluebird gives me an opportunity to learn new skills, connect with people and make meaningful friendships. I learn about different art forms and have learnt a lot about art, music and creativity. Bluebird gives me a great sense of purpose, of joy, connection and community."

As the end of the financial year approaches, we invite you to support programs that make a real difference in people's lives.

Every donation helps create opportunities for connection, creativity, confidence, and community.

Please consider making a tax-deductible donation and helping us continue this important work.
Donate here: www.bluebirdfoundationinc.org.au/donate-26

Call for Sewing & Fabric Donations
If you are planning a clean out over the long weekend, we are currently seeking donations of quality sewing and creative materials to support our workshops.

We would love:

Beginner-friendly fabrics (cotton jersey, fleece, denim, flannelette etc.)
Interesting fabric offcuts (faux fur, velvet, felt, glittery fabrics, faux leather)
Sewing notions (buttons, zips, velcro, beads, sequins, interfacing)
Strong sewing thread
Sewing tools & supplies including machine needles, specialty presser feet (Janome/Brother), tracing paper, masking tape and fabric glue.

Thank you for helping us keep creativity accessible and sustainable within our community.
Feel free to direct message us on socials for pick up location or drop off at Bluebird House 150 Swanston Street, Geelong after the long weekend, Monday 9-5:30pm & Wednesday 9-3pm.

Where all the hard work happens... Thanks to the generous support of City of Greater Geelong Youth Services, Ensemble NORTH have this amazing new rehearsal venue at The Nest Youth Hub in Geelong's CBD. Choristers get to relax and socialise before rehearsal; a crucial factor in creating a champion team (rather than a team of champions).

Oh my, tiny creations are just so much fun to make!

From miniature animals and sweet treats to quirky characters and imaginative treasures, Polymer Clay Minis is all about bringing big ideas to life in tiny form.

Polymer Clay Minis
With Sarah Moore
6–12yrs | Monday 29 June | 10–12noon
$45 incl. materials

Young makers will sculpt, shape, and design their own miniature polymer clay creations in this playful, hands-on school holiday workshop. Along the way they'll explore colour, creativity, and simple sculpting techniques while creating something uniquely their own.

A perfect workshop for creative kids who love making, imagining, and working with their hands.

Bookings now open: www.bluebirdfoundationinc.org.au/workshops/polymerminis