COMMUNITY CALENDAR: Western suburbs

Limber up, seniors

Join our free exercise class for residents who are 50 and over each Tuesday morning from 9.30-10.30am at Westvale Community Centre. The classes include basic exercise, Pilates and yoga.

9356 9085 

Open day

West Lakes Grammar School, corner Lake Street and Caroline Springs Boulevard, Caroline Springs, invites families to an open day on Saturday, September 13, from 11am to 4pm. Meet the principal, take a tour, and/or enrol for 2015. There will be a sausage sizzle and outdoor fun. West Lakes Grammar, a non-denominational school, opens next February for years 7 and 8.

■ 0443 087 564 or email gmonumente@westlakesgrammar.com.au

Sunshine Lantern Festival

Hampshire Road will bustle with roving street performers, entertainment, children’s rides, jumping castles, market stalls, street food, face-painting, lantern-making and buskers as part of Sunshine’s Lantern Festival on Saturday, September 6, from 10am to 8pm.

■ 0455 045 545 or traceyca@bigpond.com

Brookside Twilight Market

Stallholders are needed for a market at Brookside College, Federation Way,
Caroline Springs, on Friday, October 24, 5-9pm.

brooksidecollegepfc@gmail.com

Social seniors

Semi-retired and senior residents in Hillside, Sydenham and Keilor seeking social interaction and club activities are invited to Taylors Lakes Probus Club’s monthly meetings, Taylors Lakes Hotel, 10am to noon on last calendar Monday.

www/probussouthpacific.org/taylorslakes or 8307 2038

Sip ’n’ stitch

Join this social group for crafty people who meet and chat over a cuppa, first Thursday of each month at Sydenham library, Taylors Lakes, from 11.30am.

■ 9249 4680

Sunshine Short Film Festival

Entries are open for Sunshine’s Short Film Festival. Budding filmmakers can submit films of under five minutes and with the themes ‘Sunshine’ and ‘Halloween’. $5000 prizemoney and the chance to have your film screened at Village Sunshine Megaplex are on offer. Entries close September 30.