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As every year, we are hosting a series of workshops during the summer period.
Bakery Workshops
During the First World War, people at home in Australia often sent parcels to the Anzac troops to show their support. Many care packages included biscuits made from rolled oats, golden syrup and flour, which had a high nutritional value and kept well while being transported overseas. Now known as Anzac biscuits, they’re still popular in Australia today.
The Sir John Monash Centre invites you to a workshop to learn how to make your own Anzac biscuits and Lamington cakes, another Australian delicacy.
- Sunday, 3 August 2025 at 3:30 PM: Bakery Workshop – Lamington cakes
Open to adults and accompanied children aged 7 years and older.
Admission free
Limited spots, bookings required.
Creative Workshops
Scrapbooking – Creating a Remembrance Card
Receiving letters and parcels was an incredible morale booster for troops on the Western Front, and a critical lifeline to the world they left behind.
In this creative workshop, you’ll have the opportunity to design your own remembrance card in tribute to a soldier, and decorate it with dried flowers from the Villers-Bretonneux Military Cemetery, and other decorative items!
- Saturday 23 August 2025 at 3:30 PM
Open to adults and accompanied children aged 7 years and older.
Admission free. Limited spots, bookings required.
Remembrance decoration Workshop
In Australia and other Commonwealth countries, the red poppy is recognised as the flower of remembrance while in France it is the cornflower, which, like the poppy, continued to grow on land devastated by heavy shelling.
With local artist “La fée Lulu”, create your own decorations inspired by Australian remembrance traditions.
- Wednesday, 13 August 2025 at 2:30 PM
Open to adults and accompanied children aged 7 years and older.
Admission free. Limited spots, bookings required.
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