When we connect we feel better!
YPRL is celebrating World Postcard Day on Wednesday 1 October at Diamond Valley Library.
A carefully handwritten message on the back of a colourful image is a small delight in the mailbox.
You are invited to our workshop to write, decorate, swap, and view postcards and learn about various opportunities to share them.
You can bring along your own blank postcards and we will also have some great cards available for your use featuring the artwork of local artist Jodi Wiley .
We will be writing cards to residents of a local aged care home and front line defenders of Ukraine through the Postcards to the Front Project. You will also be welcome to write cards for family and friends.
Beyond Blue is supporting our event through their partnership with Australia Post to make mental health and wellbeing a part of everyday conversations and to build stronger, more connected communities.
The Connection Postcard campaign, now in its fifth year encourages people to get back to basics by putting pen to paper and reach out to friends and family to foster connection and support mental wellbeing across the country.
In June, the campaign introduced an exciting innovation to encourage people to connect and talk about mental health. ‘Talking Post Boxes’ were launched in Canberra, Sydney, and Traralgon. These installations, equipped with smart sensors, engaged passersby with light-hearted prompts designed to slow the pace of daily life and inspire moments of connection.
Five million Connection Postcards were also distributed across Australia, targeting homes in rural and regional Australia and were available at participating Post Offices.
Historical Postcard: Main Street, Whittlesea, 1905
Fay Thomas Collection, YPRL
Local and Family Historians appreciate the value of postcards which were once exchanged in large numbers and saved in albums. Introduced in 1869, Traditional postcards have a photograph or a local scene or artwork with the back reserved for the message and address and postage stamp.
Production boomed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Postcards were sent for Valentine’s Day, Birthday, Easter and Christmas greetings and of course on holidays when the favourite phrase “wish you were here” was probably born.
Join us for this activity where we will also share tips on what to write on your cards and who to write to.
Book now as places are limited.
YPRL also acknowledges the Shire of Nillumbik in its support of this program.
Be inspired by these collection items with postcard and letter writing themes.