This year Melbourne United Sports and Social Club (MUSSC) Australia Inc. is hosting Festival Of Lights.
Come and enjoy the Festival of Lights and celebrate this great historic event with us. Entry is free and all are welcome to attend.
The night will include music and dancing and lots of Indian street food.
Bring your dandiyas for a fun filled night.
Our community centre features a bright hall for big parties or large group instruction (yoga, dance or martial arts).
Hosting a birthday party? Our facilities cater for children aged 12 years or under and adults aged 22 years and above.
Take a virtual tour of the Lower Templestowe Community Centre.
We have a pricing structure to suit your needs. Bookings during the week are for a minimum of 2 hours, and 4 hours during the weekend.
If you book more than 10 times during a year, you are eligible for the regular hirer rate.
| Community | Commercial | |
|---|---|---|
| Main Hall - Casual Hirer | $69 per hour | $112 per hour |
| Main Hall - Regular Hirer | $31 per hour | $35 per hour |
A set bond will be required two (2) weeks prior to your event date. The amount varies per venue and further information will be provided upon booking. All bond refunds will be processed ten (10) business hays post event.
Make sure that you and your attendees are covered by public liability insurance. We can assist to organise this for you.
All bookings must be finished by 10.00pm including cleaning time.
Take our virtual tour of the Lower Templestowe Community Centre, or contact our friendly staff with your questions on 9840 9458 or venues@manningham.vic.gov.au.
We have several clubs in Manningham for older adults. The centres and clubs provide social and recreational opportunities for older people.
Looking for events for older adults? View the older adults page for details.
| Australian Coptic Senior Citizens Club | Doncaster East Hall Corner Blackburn Road and Andersons Creek Road 0413 076 344 | Board games, backgammon, walks. |
| Australian Oriental Martial Arts Tai Chi Incorp (AOMA) | Doncaster Secondary College David Perry Hall 0467 597 080 | Exercise, martial arts, Tai Chi. |
| Chinese Senior Citizens Club of Manningham | Ajani Centre 284 Thompsons Road, Lower Templestowe 3107 0427 040 894 | Guest speakers on relevant topics, dancing, board games, calligraphy. |
| Combined Pensioners Association of Bulleen and Templestowe | Lower Templestowe Community Centre Corner Manningham Road and Balmoral Avenue Lower Templestowe 3107 9850 5909 / 0400 858 954 | Board games, bingo, lunches and coffee, exercises, day trips, celebrations of significant cultural days. |
| Doncaster Chinese Senior's Association | Doncaster East Public Hall Corner Blackburn Road and Andersons Creek Road 0499 708 886 | Dancing, Chinese Opera. |
| Donvale Central Probus Club | East Doncaster Baptist Church 47-53 Tunstall Rd, Doncaster East 3109 Third Tuesday each month at 9.15am Noelene 0468 491 891 | Guest speakers on relevant topics, events, outings and social gatherings. |
| Doncaster Garden Club | Doncaster RSL Corner Leeds Street and Doncaster Road, Doncaster East 3109 0409 063 060 / 0402 478 302 | Guest speakers on relevant topics, discussions. |
| Greek Senior Citizens Club of Manningham | Ajani Centre 284 Thompsons Road, Lower Templestowe 3107 9850 4464 | Card games, bingo, guest speakers on relevant topics, celebrations of significant cultural days. |
| Iranian Senior Citizens Club of Manningham | Centenary House 901 Doncaster Road, Doncaster East 3109 8370 7083 | Carpet bowls, backgammon, cards, guest speaks on relevant topics. |
| Italian Senior Citizens Club of Manningham | Ajani Centre 284 Thompsons Road Lower Templestowe 3107 0413 040 027 | Card games, bingo, lunches on significant cultural days. |
| Macedonian Senior Citizens Club of Manningham | Ajani Centre 284 Thompsons Road Lower Templestowe 3107 0412 815 818 | Card games, social chat, lunches on significant cultural days. |
| Manningham U3A | The Pines Learning and Activity Centre 2/520 Blackburn Road, Doncaster East 3108 9894 5955 | Language classes, fitness classes, art classes, games, hobbies. |
| Rostrum Doncaster Club (Eastside Rostrum Club 61) | Senior Citizen's Club Lounge 895 Doncaster Rd cnr Doncaster Rd and Dehnert St Doncaster Opposite Jackson Court Shopping Centre Debbie 0414 632 866 or Andrew 0421 693 645 | Skill building, including public speaking. |
| Seniors Happy Life Club | Heimat Centre 125 George Street, Doncaster East 0402 985 812 | Folk dancing, Line dancing, African drumming, Ballroom dancing. |
| St Haralambous Church-Greek Senior Citizens | Parish of Saint Haralambos 190 to 200 Porter Street 0408 306 989 | Bingo, luncheons, day trips. |
| Warrandyte Senior Citizens Club | Warrandyte Community Hall 8 Taroona Avenue Warrandyte 3113 0417 546 604 | Bowling, billiards, social chat. |
| Women’s Friendship Group Inc | Lower Templestowe Community Centre Corner Manningham Road and Balmoral Avenue, Lower Templestowe 3107 9850 5252 / 0409 035 045 | Craft, exercise classes, monthly meetings. |
Contact the clubs directly if you are interested in joining.
You can also contact us or call 9840 9230.
Beyond the Table: The Dinner Party Reimagined is a reimagining of a traditional dinner party, with a nod to 1970s nostalgia and celebrating one of the key gathering spaces in our homes, the humble dining table.
The installation is on display at Manningham Art Gallery as part of Melbourne Design Week, Australia's premier design festival featuring events across Melbourne and regional Victoria.
Emerging Manningham artist Isobel Goodman responds to and selects works from Manningham Council’s ‘Potters Cottage Collection,’ a grouping of vessels created by the Potters Cottage co-operative. The co-operative was founded in Warrandyte in 1958 to advocate for and sell handmade functional Australian pottery.
Goodman hand builds her signature papier mâché and plaster sculptures – organic and abstracted forms to reference a dinner party table setting – vases, cutlery, plates, and candlesticks that play off and create a contemporary juxtaposition against the Potters Cottage vessels from the 1970s.
Surrounding the central dining table presentation is a display of paintings from local Manningham artist Jade Piltz. These works depict bright, layered and abstract domestic objects that encapsulate the exhibition’s celebration of communal gathering and ritual.
During Melbourne Design Week (15-25 May) visitors can take home a flower to celebrate this exhibition.
Artist Bios:
Isobel Goodman was recently awarded a Bachelor of Fine Art from the University of Melbourne. Her practice focuses on sculptural exploration and the body’s navigation of space and environment through the perspective of APD (Auditory Processing Disorder). She invites audiences to examine their relationship between the physical self and how we navigate the world around us.
Jade Piltz is a Warrandyte painter and ceramist. She is fascinated by our innate search for belonging, our desire for meaning and relationships to change and transition. Using mark making, she explores the ways our interactions with surrounding spaces and objects, narrate and inform our lives.
This Exhibition was supported by Gabriela Mello, owner and director of Warrandyte Pottery, through artist mentorship and technical and conceptual support and curated by Lucy Beattie Hughes, Manningham Council’s Creative Industries Officer.
Jade Piltz, Alone, Together (detail), 2024, acrylic on canvas, 168 x 122cm. Image courtesy of the artist. Photo by: Emily Brookfield.
Melbourne Design Week is Australia’s largest and leading annual design festival and takes place from 15 to 25 May 2025.
The 2025 program spans 11 days of 350+ events, exhibitions, talks, and installations throughout metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria.
Melbourne Design Week is a vital platform for emerging and established creative practitioners, offering the Australian design community and audiences the opportunity to engage with a diverse program of talks, tours, exhibitions, installations, and workshops. Melbourne Design Week is an initiative of the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria and is curated and delivered by the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV).
Visit designweek.melbourne to view the full program.
Join this local community festival for a fun family day out with activities, food and entertainment, concerts, waterslides and whacky races.
Other events include a billy cart derby, kids' market, battle of the bands, a film feast, Rotary Art Show and so much more.
For more information, go to the Warrandyte Festival website.
Note: this year's festival will not run on Sunday.
Welcome to the small Eastern European country of Moldova. Despite being one of the smallest (and poorest) former Soviet states, this proud nation has defied the Global Financial Crisis, the iron fist of its former sovereign country and indeed all common sense by staging this year's Eurovision Song Contest.
This evening's show is hosted by the glamorous but fearsome former KGB agent turned lifestyle presenter Katya Kokov and the frothy pop star Nikolae Nikovsky (winner of Moldova's Got Talent three year's running). Together they steer you through the political and musical minefield that is this year's competition which features your favourite European nations such as the United Kingdom, Sweden and Ireland as well as unexpected finalists Morocco and the eagerly anticipated first ever entry from the Vatican City.
Watch and wonder as ten nations fight it out for the ultimate prize and marvel at the entertainment spectacular that the host nation has created for your entertainment. Who wins? Well, you decide as with every performance it is the votes of the live audience that determines who walks away showered in glitter and glory."
This show contains adult themes and sexual references and is not suitable for all audiences.
The Disney Channel's smash hit movie musical comes to life on stage in Disney’s High School Musical JR. Troy, Gabriella and the students of East High must deal with issues of love, friends and family while balancing their classes and extra-curricular activities.
It’s the first day after winter break at East High. The Jocks, Brainiacs, Thespians and Skater Dudes all find their cliques. Basketball team captain and resident jock, Troy, discovers that the brainy Gabriella, a girl he met singing karaoke on his ski trip, has just enrolled at East High. The couple causes an upheaval when they decide to audition for the high school musical. Although many students resent the threat posed to the "status quo," Troy and Gabriella’s alliance might just open the door for others to shine as well.
The show’s infectious and danceable songs are sure to engage performers and audiences alike. This production promotes engagement and encourages the audience clap along and even sing along to the songs they know; it will be a fun filled performance for all to enjoy!
Book by: David Simpatico
Based on a Disney Channel Original movie written by: Peter Barsocchini
Music adapted, arranged and produced by: Bryan Louiselle
Presented by: Wendy Samantha Productions
The Kevin Heinze Grow Spring Fair is back!
Come along for a huge variety of heirloom tomato seedlings, vegetable seedlings, plants, cake stall, coffee, light snacks, live music, arts and crafts and much more!
Join us in supporting a local charity and disability service and celebrate spring gardening.
The game is a foot at Doncaster Playhouse as you are taken to the 1950’s McCarthyism, blackmail and murder!
Playhouse Players invite you to their performance of Clue on Stage.
Clue, set in New England USA, where six strangers are invited to dine at a mysterious manor. But when their blackmailing host turns up dead, Miss Scarlet, Mrs. White, Mrs. Peacock, Professor Plum, Colonel Mustard and Mr. Green all join with Wadsworth the butler and Yvette, the maid to figure out who did it!
Pack a picnic rug and enjoy an afternoon of jazz with friends at Stiggants Reserve in Warrandyte.
Featuring performances from Shirazz, Bob Sedergreen and friends, Pippa Wilson, Stuart Cardell, Jazz Notes, Simple Syncopation (Donvale Christian College) and, opening the show, the DR Big Band. This free community event will come alive with bands, performers, delicious food, coffee and more.
Presented by Community Music and Performances Inc, this event is supported by Manningham Council's Community Grant Program.
Bring your friends, family and party vibes.
We are showcasing our incredible local Manningham artists with our local businesses throughout Summer.
Anthony Vartuli soothes the soul with the dulcet sounds of Flamenco and Latin guitar tunes. Be carried away by the tranquil and relaxed style of Anthony's artistry. Perfect for relaxing while enjoying local food, shops and drinks.
Local artists. Local businesses. Live performances. All summer long across Manningham.
Due to the Total Fire Ban the Pottery Expo will not be running on Saturday or Sunday.
Celebrating 25 years, The Pottery Expo features work from more than 90 potters.
The Expo is held the last weekend in February on the banks of the Yarra River in Warrandyte and will include:
The event is supported by Manningham Council, Warrandyte Community Bank, Northcote Pottery Supplies and Warrandyte Lions Club.
We’re celebrating 10 years of MC Square (Manningham City Square) with an anniversary event in December.
There’ll be fun for the whole family, including:
This is a free event, and no registration is required.
Join us to acknowledge Sorry Day and learn more about First Nations People and cultures.
This event will feature:
Catering will be provided by Mabu Mabu. Please advise if you have any dietary requirements by Monday 23 May by contacting spcs@manningham.vic.gov.au.
Help celebrate the opening of the Doncaster Hill Community Garden’s new shed, art mural and food cubes.
The day will include an official opening of the shed by special guests Jane Edmanton (ABC Gardening Australia) and Mayor Cr Deidre Diamante at 11.00am. This will be followed by free children's gardening activities with Tiffany from Chooktopia.
For more information about getting involved in the Community Garden, contact Garden Coordinator Nigel Philpot at environment@manningham.vic.gov.au or call 9840 9333.
Join us for a fun evening of one act play performances at the Doncaster Playhouse.
Finalists include:
Judges Awards and People's Awards will be presented.
Supper included.
Wonga's Artist Celebration (WAC) is fun evening out for the whole family.
The Wonga Park Community Cottage will open its doors to our youth community to host a special evening showcasing local artistic talent, including music performances, art exhibitions, stand-up comedy and more.
There will also be a selection of food trucks providing an assortment of tasty snacks and dinner options.
We invite all youth aged between 13 and 24 and their families to join in the fun.
This is a drug and alcohol-free event.
Visit our website and Facebook for more information and updates.
An asteroid the size of a large island is heading directly for earth and there appears to be no way to stop it colliding.
What should we do?
Sit at home and pray while twiddling thumbs, drink, wail and gnash our teeth or head down to the local pub for one last trivia night with friends and convivial drink?
Warrandyte Theatre Co. presents The Last Quiz Night on Earth (written by Alison Carr and directed by Bob Bramble) a comedy-drama. Audience and actors engage in a pub trivia night.
Gather friends for a group table booking of eight.
Summer Celebration is coming to D'Oro restaurant at Templestowe Village throughout February.
Bring your friends, family and party vibes.
We are showcasing our incredible local Manningham artists with our local businesses throughout Summer.
Talented local artists Alex and Bek from Cleo Black always bring great energy as they croon, dance and groove their way through your favourites with a contemporary jazz flavour.
Local artists. Local businesses. Live performances. All summer long across Manningham.
Summer Celebration is coming to Warrandyte Bridge throughout February at SaHa Beans and Beats.
Bring your friends, family and party vibes.
We are showcasing our incredible local Manningham artists with our local businesses throughout Summer.
Talented local artists Alex and Bek from Cleo Black always bring great energy as they croon, dance and groove their way through your favourites with a contemporary jazz flavour.
Local artists. Local businesses. Live performances. All summer long across Manningham.