Pop-Up Borrowing at Koomail Tardy Community Centre
Come and visit the Pop-Up Library Van at Koomail Tardy Community Centre on Wednesday 22 January.
Having opened its doors to the public in February 2022 the Koomail Tardy Community Centre is your place to connect with your local community and access the services you need.
The Bunurong Land Council Aboriginal Corporation, the recognised Traditional Owners, worked with Council to establish the centre’s name:
- Koomail – grass used for weaving
- Tardy - sister
The name ‘Koomail Tardy Community Centre’ was gazetted by the Victorian State Government on 10 March 2022.
Koomail Tardy Community Centre provides a suite of programs and activities for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities. This community centre also features modern facilities and services to support children and young families in our growing city.
As the community centre establishes itself over the coming weeks and months, it will offer a broad range of services and opportunities including (but not limited to):
- Early education and care services
- Kindergarten, playgroups, and parent groups
- Maternal and child health services
- Specialist support services for children
- A range of community, health and educational services, programs, and activities for people of all ages, backgrounds and abilities
- Off street car parking
The community centre is managed by Council’s partners – Early Childhood Management Services (ECMS).
Koomail Tardy Community Centre was delivered as part of Wyndham City’s $24 million Truganina South East Community Precinct Masterplan. Construction has commenced on the adjoining Active Open Space reserve area of the community precinct which, when complete, will include:
- Three soccer fields and an overlaid cricket field
- Six tennis courts
- BBQ and picnic areas
- Playgrounds and landscaping
- Sports pavilion
- Off street car parking
Koomail Tardy Community Centre:
- Phone: 03 9989 5179
- Address: 117 Alcock Road, Truganina
- koomailtardycc@ecms.org.au
Further Information:
- Kindergarten enrolments koomailtardykindergarten@ecms.org.au
Project funding partners – Victorian State Government
- Building Blocks
- Growing Suburbs Funds
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Public Art
Wadawurrung artist Madi Mercer was commissioned to produce two artworks for the central curved wall and lightwell play area in Koomail Tardy Community Centre. The hand painted mural Healing Water and woven sculpture Emerging, collecting, returning consider the essence and origin of life through significant elements in First Nations knowledge systems.
Madi Mercer (otherwise known as Ghostgum) is a proud Wadawurrung person living and creating on Boonwurrung Country, in Naarm. She grew up on Boonwurrung, Wurundjeri, Wiradjuri, Gadigal and Wadawurrung Countries with her family, but has been based back in Naarm for university.
Madi's artistic practice stems from cultural identity, connection to Country, and art as a personal exploration. She creates to facilitate healing, reconnecting to self, and as a form of intuited therapy. Madi's works aim to highlight the importance of acknowledging and respecting the beauty, history, and Cultural significance of all levels of Blak Country, expressed within the multi-disciplinary outputs and materials she explores.
Artist Statement:
Healing Water
Water is the source of all healing - it is the element that holds us in the womb, it cleanses us, it nurtures and strengthens us, and it teaches us. It holds the information and knowledge of all things, from the beginning of time as it cycles through different stages constantly, always finding a new way to interact and be immersed with all things. We share in this change - ebb and flow - as we are also water, and when we sit within ourselves, we find our tides shifting from within us.
Waterways are the bloodlines for the land - feeding all. They are the roads for our past people, Country borders, our food source, our Culture. It is important that we look after our water sources, as they are the life force of all living things. An extremely important water source that feeds this landscape is the River Werribee. It snakes through the land holding knowledge, giving life, and nurturing our whole being. The Werribee River needs your help to stay healthy, so please look after it the way it looks after you and all other living things on this Country.
Emerging, collecting, returning
This artwork was created to represent the importance of acknowledging where we all come from. It signifies one of the greatest common lived experiences that we all share - birth. This experience of being dreamt into the world, created, nurtured within our Mother, and then brought into the world is something we all as past, present and future living beings share. The woven rings resemble an eel trap – which has been used to feed our people since the beginning of time and bring our community together. Weaving is traditionally women’s business, but there is a role for all people involved in the birthing of the eel trap, and the continued relationship we all share with it during its lifetime. This work represents the community spirit that is so integral to the wellbeing of all people, and the importance of caring for and looking after our Mothers.