by Lena Tomkinson | Mar 8, 2016 | News
To celebrate International Women’s Day, 8 March 2016, Women’s Housing Limited invited Anne Sgro, President, from the Union of Australian Women to discuss the history of the organisation and what to expect going forward. It was amazing to hear how The Union of...
by Lena Tomkinson | Jan 5, 2016 | Tenant Activity
Many of you may have been following the wonderful progress of our art project at the Mt Martha Rooming House. It started from a grant provided by the Mornington Peninsula Shire and has grown to a long term productive tenant run art space called Tangerine Artscape. The...
by Lena Tomkinson | Dec 5, 2015 | Tenant Activity
“Tangerine ArtScape was born out of the desire to silence the noise inside our heads, and to utilise Art Therapy to express our inner creativity” The tenants at the Mount Martha Rooming House have created an art space were they feel comfortable expressing themselves...
by Lena Tomkinson | Nov 30, 2015 | Tenant Activity
I visited the Mt Martha Rooming House and was delighted to see a queue of tenants waiting to have their haircut by two volunteer hairdressers –Rose and Elizabeth. Women’s Housing Limited would like to thank Rose and Elizabeth for donating their time and...
by Lena Tomkinson | Nov 19, 2015 | Tenant Activity
Residents of the Mount Martha Rooming House were involved in a project using art to link images of the community with their own stories. Over a ten week period artist Amanda Forster attended the Rooming House and assisted tenants to turn their ideas into two mosaic...
