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Especially curated to provide entertainment, keep you connected and promote your health and wellbeing while in the home, Civic@Home on-demand videos present a range of classes that will help you learn new skills and stay active and inspired.
With cook-along recipes, fitness workouts and videos to help you learn new skills at home, scroll down the page and simply click to watch.
Got an idea for content? Do you want to be a video presenter? Share your skills with us, we’d love to feature you. Just drop us an email and we’ll get back to you.
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WATCH NOW: 30 MINUTE AT-HOME WORKOUT
Tom Vujevic, fitness instructor at Civic and co-owner of Clarity Health and Wellbeing is here to keep you fit and healthy in the comfort of your own home.
This simple, 30-minute workout takes you from warm up to warm down, with no equipment other than your water bottle required. Tom includes gentle stretches and strength training exercises to bring you the perfect workout to keep your body moving and active.
What you’ll need: Towel, water bottle, mat
Duration: 27 minutes
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WATCH NOW: SEATED WORKOUT
Tom Vujevic, fitness instructor at Civic and co-owner of Clarity Health and Wellbeing is here to keep you fit and healthy in the comfort of your own home.
This seated workout includes exercises designed to strengthen the muscles of the core and abs and provide a thorough strength and cardio work out for those with limited mobility, seated or in a wheelchair.
What you’ll need: Towel, water bottle
Duration: 38 minutes
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WATCH NOW: HOW TO MAKE A GARDEN BED
Join Sonny, Practice Leader at Civic and Gardening Guru, as he shows you how to build a simple garden bed.
Take your first steps towards a more sustainable lifestyle and build your own garden bed. This short video talks you through everything you will need, and takes you through the steps to create a garden bed that will give your plants the best chance of success.
What you will need: Compost, Soil, Manure, Mat, Garden Bed (e.g. timber), Rock Minerals
Duration: 5.34 minutes
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WATCH NOW: HOW TO MAKE A SIMPLE BOUQUET
Join Michelle Newman, florist and friend of Civic, as she shows you how to make a beautiful bouquet.
Using flowers from your garden, Michelle will take you, step by step, through this short, 15 minute video,helping you select and prepare stems, cut to length, and gather into a beautiful bunch of flowers. Michelle will also show you how to wrap the flowers, so you can gift them to a loved one.
What you’ll need: Flowers and foliage of your choice, ribbon, scissors, secateurs, paper to wrap.
Duration: 15 minutes
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WATCH NOW: LEARN TO COOK BOLOGNESE
Cook along with Civic’s Food Experience Manager, Joel Grove, in this step-by-step video that will take you from chopping onions to a delicious plate of spaghetti bolognese, perfect to share with your housemates and family.
Don’t forget to refer to the recipe card and easy-english guide in your Bolognese Food Box to help you complete this dish!
What You’ll Need: Bolognese Food Box from Civic Kitchen and Catering. Salt, pepper, mixed herbs, vegetable oil, wooden spoon, measuring spoons, chopping board, cooking knife, saucepans.
Duration: 30 minutes
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WATCH NOW: BREATHING EXERCISE
Join Dom as she guides you along a gentle, “yogic” breathing exercise. 2020 has been a crazy year for all. Mindfulness is a wonderful, free, tool we can all use to help get us through challenging times.
Don’t forget to share this video with a friend or family member, who needs to switch off and meditate!
What You’ll Need: Find a seated position on a supportive chair or floor cushion, in a quiet space.
Duration: 11 minutes
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WATCH NOW: GUIDED MEDITATION
In this second mindfulness breathing exercise with Dom, you will feel calm and focused as she prompts you through a series of steps to breathe. You will be guided to “inhale” and “exhale”.
Don’t forget to share this video with a friend or family member, who needs to switch off and meditate!
What You’ll Need: Find a seated position, on a supportive chair or floor cushion, in a quiet space.
Duration: 11 minutes
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WATCH NOW: CALMING YOUR EMOTIONS
In this third mindfulness breathing exercise, join Dom as she guides you through some simple and effective steps to help calm your emotions. 2020 has been a crazy year for all. Mindfulness is a wonderful, free, tool we can all use to help get us through challenging times.
Don’t forget to share this video with a friend or family member, who needs to switch off and meditate!
What You’ll Need: Find a seated position, on a supportive chair or floor cushion, in a quiet space.
Duration: 11 minutes
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WATCH NOW: SALT DOUGH WITH HANNE
Hanne shows you how to create your very own masterpiece, using nothing but flour, water and salt!
Supplied by our partners at Casula Power House, this video shows you how to make Salt Dough, which can be baked in the oven and works likes an air dry clay. Made of salt, bread and water, this video is heaps of fun and is sure to make a lot of mess! You can use food colour to dye your dough, or paint it when it’s dry.
What You’ll Need: Plain flour, cooking salt, water, food colouring / paint dye (optional), measuring cups (1/2 cup, 1 cup), bowl for mixing.
Duration: 13 minutes.
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WATCH NOW: INTRODUCTION TO MANGA
Florence, an educator from Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre shows you how to create a Manga character.
If you’re a fan of Manga – a Japanese form of storytelling through art – then you’ll love this short tutorial. Follow Florence’s instructions to draw your very own Manga character.
What you’ll need: Pen or pencil, plain paper
Duration: 13 minutes.
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WATCH NOW: STOP MOTION WITH FLORENCE
You can create a movie in the comfort of your own home, with this introduction to stop motion movie animation with Florence.
You’ve seen it in Wallace and Gromit, Coraline and Nightmare Before Christmas – but have you ever wondered how these movies are made? Supplied by our partners at Casula Power House, Flo shows how to set up a camera to record your very own movie using simple objects.
What You’ll Need: Smart Phone to download Stop Motion App, objects to record, e.g play dough shapes, LEGO, paper cut outs.
Duration: 11 minutes
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WATCH NOW: CLAYMATION ART TUTORIAL
Continue your journey into stop motion by turning clay into your very own animation.
In this tutorial, learn how to turn a piece of clay into an animated blob! You can use plasticine, play dough or clay to create your object.
What You’ll Need: Smart Phone to download Stop Motion App, play dough, plasticine or clay to mould into a shape.
Duration: 6 minutes
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WATCH NOW: HOW TO MAKE A LAVA LAMP
Explore polarity and density with this creative experiment from our partners at Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre .
Turn a simple glass jar into a beautiful and eye-catching Lava Lamp in this simple tutorial.
What You’ll Need: Water, oil (e.g vegetable), food colouring, glas jar or container, biodegradable glitter, AlkaSeltzer
Duration: 5 minutes
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ACTIVITY: MAKE BIRD SCULPTURES
Make fun, colourful bird sculptures out of playdoh with our partners at Hazelhurst Arts Centre.
Once you have finished making your birds, share your artworks together as a group.
What You’ll Need: Playdoh or plasticine, pre-cut cardboard beaks, feathers, coloured matchsticks or pipe cleaners, coloured cardboard or paper, and leaves.
Artist: Judith Van Heeren
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ACTIVITY: VASE OF FLOWERS
Inspired by artist, Remy Lorken ‘Royal Botanic Gardens’ oil on canvas – make a vase of flowers with our partners at Hazelhurst Arts Centre.
Finish your artwork by drawing in extra details such as flower stems, a table/table cloth and adding colour to the background.
What You’ll Need: Vase template (see attached), flower template (see attached), scissors, glue sticks, textas, coloured pencils or watercolours for decorating, A4 watercolour (or plain paper if not available).
Artist: Remy Lorken
