Craft Groups Melbourne

Create your own vision board! $10 everyone welcome

This month we'll be making vision boards together. The idea is to take a bit of time to think about what you'd like to focus on for the rest of the year, whether that's goals, hobbies, travel, relationships, work, or just things that inspire you. Since it's Virgo season, it felt like a good time for a bit of a reset. This isn't a class, and there's no right or wrong way to do it. You're welcome to come on your own or with a friend. You can chat with people, or just sit and work on your board quietly. I'll have magazines, paper, glue, scissors, and other collage materials available to use. If you'd rather make your vision board digitally, feel free to bring your iPad or tablet. You're also welcome to bring your own photos, magazines, printed images, stickers, or anything else you'd like to include. Secure ticket here: [https://events.humanitix.com/creative-coven-or-vision-boards](Clickhere!)

Collage and Cookies Night

**Want to make art and eat cookies? Come along to make a collage, a vision board or a scrapbook page.** \*\*Paid event. Tickets at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cookie-and-collage-night-tickets-1997955107510?aff=oddtdtcreator&utm_source=email&utm_medium=sparkpost&utm_campaign=postpublish Join us for a fun night of creation and leave with a beautiful collage. Come solo or with friends! Materials and cookies provided, but you are welcome to bring your own too. The venue SoulPod is a short walk from Richmond train station or Swan St trams. Limited two-hour parking is also available nearby. The Making Club is a social events club for people who love making art and memories and want to meet other people who love making things. Follow us on Instagram @the.making.club 18+ Event Email us with any questions!

Brunswick Puppy Pub Crawl

🐾 Puppy Pub Crawl – Brunswick Edition 🍻🐶 Take your doggies out for a Sunday adventure around Brunswick’s best dog-friendly venues! Socialise with fellow dog lovers while your pups enjoy treats, doggie cocktails, and day out. We’ll be visiting a mix of venues including a brewery, a dog-friendly café & licensed bar, and one of Brunswick’s iconic live music pubs. Total walking distance is approximately 1.4km, making it an easy and enjoyable stroll for both humans and pups. TICKETED EVENT ONLY, book your tickets at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/559894739237?aff=oddtdtcreator 📍 Meeting Point: Inside Augie’s Place ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐾 1st Stop – Augie’s Place Café & Licensed Bar 🍷 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Kick off the Puppy Pub Crawl at the beautiful Augie’s Place — perfectly located right in front of the park for the ultimate dog-friendly afternoon. What’s waiting for you: 🍷 Human Special $10 mulled wine to keep the humans warm and happy 🎁 Complimentary Doggie Bag Every pup receives a special take-home bag filled with an assortment of Augie’s treats 🍴 Food & Drinks both available for purchase throughout the event. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐾 2nd Stop – Co-Conspirators Brewing Co 🍺 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Next, we head to Co-Conspirators Brewing Co for a wide selection of craft beers on tap, alongside wine and cider available at discounted prices for our group. The brewery team will also give a short introduction about who they are and what they do. 🐾 Every pup will receive complimentary Spent Grain Dog Treats made by the brewery! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🐾 3rd Stop – The Retreat Hotel 🎶 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ We’ll finish the crawl at The Retreat Hotel — a Brunswick institution and home to some of the area’s best live music. With its cocktail bar, main bar, and huge beer garden courtyard, it’s the perfect final stop for humans and pups alike. 🐶 Dogs will enjoy exclusive Doggie Beef Martinis (non-alcoholic, of course!) 🥔 Our group will also be served wedges and vegetarian nachos to share. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Spend the afternoon meeting fellow dog lovers while your pups enjoy treats, social time, and plenty of attention as we explore some of Brunswick’s favourite local haunts. 📌 Important Info • All dogs must remain on-lead while visiting venues • Please ensure your dog is social and comfortable around other dogs and people • Bring a blanket or mat for your dog to sit on if possible 🚕 Need a dog-friendly ride? Use Uber or Uber Pets, and notify your driver before pick-up. Stay updated on future Puppy Pub Crawl events: 👉 Facebook: Crawl Puppy Pub 👉 Instagram: @crawlpuppypub We can’t wait to crawl Brunswick with you and your furry best friends! 🐾✨

To the Knitter End

Batmania Pub Crawl Melbourne

**Join your local guides on the best pub crawl in Melbourne!** Meet at WAX Music Lounge on 250 Flinders St, and explore the best, most well-known venues with people from all over the world. With **4 free 'welcome shots'** upon entry to each bar followed by exclusive drink deals at each, you'll see just why Melbourne is known as the nightlife capital of Australia! Experience a range of Melbourne's most famous bars & pubs throughout the night, with **free entry** for all, and reduced entry/recommendations at the end of the event to keep your night going strong! Play games, **win prizes** and mingle with locals, travelers & everything in between on the most sought-after event in Melbourne! * **4 FREE SHOTS** * **4 BARS ALL WITH FREE SKIP-THE-LINE ENTRY** * **PLENTY OF GAMES AND PRIZES TO BE WON** * **UNLIMITED MEMORIES & CHANCES TO MAKE FRIENDS IN THE CULTURAL CAPITAL OF AUSTRALIA!** Starting at 5:30PM at WAX Music Lounge on 250 Flinders St, you will receive your skip-the-line wristband, free welcome shot and mingle with other attendees before we introduce our games and prizes to be won throughout the evening. We then mix it up weekly, visiting some of Melbourne's most iconic and well-known bars with your pub crawl crew who have lived and breathed the city for most of their lives. **Make sure to lock in your spot ASAP as tickets often sell out!**

Don’t ewe forget about me

Cloud Native Melbourne x Grafana & Friends: August Meetup

Two Melbourne communities, one room. Cloud Native Melbourne and Grafana & Friends Melbourne are teaming up for our August meetup, and the lineup is set. Three talks on building and running telemetry in production, and what happens when you hand the debugging to an AI agent. THE LINEUP 6:25pm — Beyond the Happy Path: Operating Telemetry Pipelines in Production Benny Lo, Senior Software Engineer at SEEK Telemetry pipelines look simple on an architecture diagram: collect, process, export. Operating them in production is where things get interesting. Benny shares the practical lessons and trade-offs from running telemetry pipelines across organisations of different sizes, from simple agent-to-backend setups to distributed agents and standalone aggregators. What worked, what did not, and when owning more of your pipeline is actually worth the operational complexity. 6:55pm — To Make An SLO, First You Must Invent The Universe: OpenTelemetry Collection From Scratch Cail Young, Senior SRE at Octopus Deploy In 2025 a team at Octopus Deploy was asked to build a multi-region, highly available, autoscaling OpenTelemetry-based telemetry processing platform. They had never built anything like it and there were few documented examples to work from. This case study makes public the moving parts required to deliver a brand new telemetry pipeline on OpenTelemetry Collector and Kubernetes, along with the many trade-offs and misadventures along the way. 7:30pm — We Gave an AI Agent kubectl and It Found the Thing Waking Us Up Song Jin, Principal Developer at Propel Ventures, ex-Xero Lead DevOps Engineer The cluster was throttling CPU, PagerDuty was firing overnight, and the latency SLA was under threat. They pointed an AI agent with scoped kubectl access at it, and it found the root cause in time to fix it. This is the specific story, not the pitch deck version: the investigation loop the agent actually ran, the access model that made read-only genuinely read-only, and an honest account of where it produced confident nonsense and needed a human to reframe the question. RUNNING ORDER 6:00pm — Doors, food and drinks 6:25pm — Benny Lo 6:55pm — Cail Young 7:25pm — Short break 7:30pm — Song Jin 8:00pm — Networking 8:30pm — Close WHERE Mantel, Level 2, 452 Flinders Street, Melbourne VIC 3000. Two minutes from Southern Cross Station and a short walk from Flinders Street. Head to Level 2 and someone will meet you at the lifts from 6:00pm. FOOD Provided, with vegetarian and vegan options. Tell us about allergies when you register and we will sort it. CODE OF CONDUCT This is a welcoming, vendor-neutral space. Speakers talk about problems, not products. We follow the CNCF Code of Conduct. THANK YOU To Mantel for hosting us, and to Grafana Labs for supporting the Grafana & Friends community. See you there.

Artsy Hangout ✏️📚✨

☃️ Location changed to Brunswick Library for the winter ❄️ Hello everyone 👩‍🎨 Bring any non messy art supplies you like, we will be working on our own drawings/paintings/craft projects in the Library. Please remember to be on your best behaviour since this is a Library, talking is fine but no shouting 🤫 If you aren’t sure what to create the club has a weekly theme, just ask me what the prompt is ✨ ✏️ We welcome all artists of any skill level or medium, Whether you’re a beginner or pro, traditional or digital, absolutely anyone can join. ⚠️IMPORTANT⚠️ Please do not attend if you are sick. I have multiple chronic illnesses so my immune system is extremely weak. Keep everyone safe by staying home if you are unwell. —————————————————— Check out our instagram @shypeoplesdrawingclub to see more about our awesome group. We also have a Discord group for online events if you would like to join and chat with more artists. ✨

Turkish Lamp Workshop in Melbourne

\*\*\*\*\**This is a pre-booking event. Please visit* [Art Masterclass Melbourne Mosaic Shop](https://www.artmasterclass.com.au/collections/book-a-mosaic-workshop/products/turkish-lamp-workshop-melbourne) *choose your ceramic and make a reservation.* \*\*\* **🌟 Are You Ready for a New Experience in Sydney? 🌟** We invite you to an extraordinary workshop that will take you on an unforgettable journey into the vibrant and dazzling world of handmade Turkish lamps. Whether you're just starting out or already an artist, our expert instructors will help you enhance your skills and discover new ones that might spark your interest.

Artsy Hangout 👩‍🎨🌲✨

Grab your art supplies and a picnic blanket or camp chair and let’s get together for an artsy hangout on the grass outside Balam Balam Place 👩‍🎨 all kinds of artists and skill levels are welcome to join! If you aren’t sure what to create the club has a weekly theme, just ask me what the prompt is! ☕️ The Home Economics cafe is at the entrance to the main building if you want to grab a drink or sit inside the cafe area ☔️ If there is rain this event will either be moved to Brunswick Library or cancelled ⚠️IMPORTANT⚠️ Please do not attend if you are sick. Keep everyone safe by staying home if you are unwell 😷 —————————————————— If you RSVP and don’t show up to this event your name will be put onto a list of members to kick from the group if it happens multiple times! 📝

Knitting and Crocheting with Conversation and Coffee at Kindred Studios

**Description**: Join me to knit or crochet in the warm, friendly environment of Kindred Studios where we can share our skills and ideas. Knitters, crocheters and crafters of all abilities are welcome. The conversation is relaxed as we work on our projects together and it's a great way to make new friends. The Bass Note Cafe is within the studios and will bring great coffee and delicious snacks to our table. **Agenda**: I'll meet you at 10.00am inside Kindred Studios at the large table near the tiered seating. We have the space available until 12.00pm. **Location**: Kindred Studios 3 Harris St Yarraville Street parking is available nearby in Harris, Cowper, Hyde and Whitehall Streets. There are large red signs on the footpath to guide you to Kindred Studios. If you are coming by train take the Williamstown/Werribee line to Seddon Station. It's then about 10 minutes to walk to the Studios. When you RSVP please click attend on the Event Page and I will be in touch via direct message. I will also be available on the Events Comments page on the day. .

22 Aug: Figurine Painting and Friends-Social

**✨Are you tired of making ‘how are you’ friends? This event is for you!✨** 🎨What better way to build and deepen connections than through a fun activity like **Figurine painting**! There are many social events but it isn’t easy to feel connected to someone in a large group setting. I am super extroverted yet found myself walking home after a great social feeling more lonely, because of all the superficial connections made. I started Hue&Crew to help people build their next close-friend circle based on age, personality and interest! 🎨**What to Expect** This isn’t a big mixer event, every event has a limit of 6 people per table and a fishbowl full of conversation starters to help people get started! We move around Melbourne's many beautiful cafes weekly to keep things fresh! Expect: * A fresh, comfy venue * A hosted structure so you’re never left awkwardly quiet * A fishbowl of conversation starters for the introverts * A relaxed atmosphere where you can genuinely be yourself * Hand-painted figurines you made yourself to bring home Each group is curated to feel natural, matched by age, interest and personality 🎨**Notice before you sign up:** As the events are really small and it might take some time to form a group with similar interests, we will inform you when there is a suitable group for you! **RSVP now:** [https://forms.gle/4MN6oygujee9qmej9](https://forms.gle/4MN6oygujee9qmej9) **Take a look at our instagram page to see past public events**👇 [https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXY8PXADXsm/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXY8PXADXsm/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==) **Bring a friend for a 10% Discount for the both of you!**