Ron S Peno rocks again @ Memo

This Week in St Kilda #256
Rawcus Portal Pop Up @ O’Donnell Gardens
Play Streets St Kilda @ Dickens Street
New works by Mick Turner @ Brightspace
Hounds are back @ George Lane
$100K for April Blues Festival @ St Kilda

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It’s about time @ Catani Memorial Clock Tower
Chimes on the hour 8 am – 10 pm
80 years after the Catani Memorial Clock Tower landed on the Upper Esplanade, digital chimes will now ring out on the hour from 8 am – 10 pm (from 9 am weekends).
The idea to install chimes was raised by local resident Isaac Hermann and championed by former councillor David Brand.
Hear the digital chimes for 4 o’clock nowArtist Speakeasy > Censorship @ Linden Zoom event
Wednesday 10 March, 6 pm – 7 pm
Practicing visual artists and emerging arts industry followers are invited to join a lively discussion on the topic of censorship. Speakers include Alana Kushnir (art lawyer and curator) and Owen Craven (Director of New Business and Senior Curator at UAP Company and the Deputy Chair of Linden New Art). Free
RSVP please 
IMAGE > Karla Dickens, My Mother’s Keeper [installation views], 2020. Image courtesy of the artist and Andrew Baker Art Dealer. Photograph: Theresa Harrison Photography.


Highlights from Suai Friends AGM @ Friends of Suai/Covalima
Thursday 11 March, 6 pm – 7.30 pm
Zoom into the Friends of Suai/Covalima AGM to hear about their year plus two interesting speakers:
> Alberto de Jesus Barros, Director of the Covalima Community Centre in Suai; and
> Andrew Mahar AM, CEO of the xpand Foundation and co-founder of With One Seed, who will speak about their community forestry program in Timor-Leste.
Please click here to register your interest


New works by Mick Turner @ Brightspace
Opening Thursday 11 March, 6-9pm
Exhibition Until 31 March
“Neither There nor Here” is a series of seductive new works by Mick Turner, painted mostly over the last 12 months.
Free, but please book 


The Heinous Hounds Blues Band @ George Lane
Friday 12 March, 6 pm – 11 pm
The Hounds are back in town.
Stu Thomas will be providing support.
Tix


Trainspotting and T2 Trainspotting @ Astor
Friday 12 March, 7.30
A wild ride double feature with Renton and his buddies: Sean Connery wannabe Sick Boy, dimbulb Spud, psycho Begbie, girlfriend Diane, and clean-cut athlete Tommy, who’s never touched drugs but can’t help being curious about them…
Tix

Zen Monkee @ Espy
Friday 12 March, 7.30 pm
These Melbourne blues-rockers write music from another era. “Excavating the fuzzed out sensibilities that ’60s blues-rock titans Cream and Canned Heat first championed.” $16.55
Tix

Book Sale @ Christ Church St Kilda
Saturday 13 March, 10 am to 4 pm
Hundreds of books, pre-loved and as new, going cheap.
14 Acland Street

Portal Pop Up @ O’Donnell Gardens
Saturday 13 March, 11 am – 3 pm
Rawcus invites you to a free, accessible and family friendly installation art work created by local artists. It’s an artistic expression of the sensory needs and objects in our everyday lives that help soothe and comfort us.
rawcus.org.au
Cnr Acland and Carlisle Streets
Auslan interpreted


Play Streets St Kilda @ Dickens Street
Saturday 13 March, 11 am – 5 pm
Play Streets is an inclusive all ages program that features games, live music, sports and sausage sizzles.
Learn more about Play Streets  
Dickens St, between Chapel St and Brighton Rd (adjacent to St Kilda Primary school)


Melbourne Fashion Festival: Marie Antoinette @ Astor
Saturday 13 March, 7.30 pm
The screening will also include a pre-film introduction discussing the style and fashion of the film.
But will there be cake?
Tix


DZ Deathrays @ Espy
Saturday 13 March 8 pm
After almost 12 months without playing a single riff, the Deathrays are back to tear up the Espy with some huge new anthems, thrashy classics & everything in between. $43
Tix


Ron S. Peno & The Superstitions @ Memo X 2
Saturday 13 March, two shows
Ron S. Peno and The Superstitions are back and playing their first shows in over twelve months.
Due to Covid audience capacity restrictions there will be two shows; an early show at 7.30pm and a late show at 9.45pm. $55/$45
Tix

St Kilda Repair Café @ EcoCentre
Sunday, 14 March, 2pm to 5pm
Bring your broken items to the Repair Cafe! You’ll reduce waste and learn new skills, all while having a cup of tea!
Visit the St Kilda Repair Cafe facebook 
55A Blessington St, St Kilda VIC 3182

Ongoing

Highlights from Culture & Nature Festival @ EcoCentre YouTube
Don’t worry if you missed the virtual Culture & Nature Festival, you can replay the whole festival for a short amount of time via the EcoCentre TV: YouTube channel. 
Highlights include:
First Nations Connection to Nature
Connect to the traditional lands of the Kulin and learn the lore of Bunjil to look after Country
Our Nature Connections
Old and new nature traditions, featuring MC Bhakthi Puvanenthiran (ABC Everyday), Dean Stewart (Aboriginal cultural educator), Neil Blake OAM, Jonathan Law and Sharron Hunter
Garden like your grandparents
The old ways we like to pass on and new traditions we create in the garden
Zero waste tips from around the world
Zero waste tricks and traditions from around the world

Watch out penguins, the humans are back @ St Kilda Pier Breakwater
Three sessions nightly until April from 8.30 pm
Bookings are essential.

Mirka @ JewMu
Until December
Mirka transforms the Jewish Museum into an immersive ‘Mirka-world’ that reflects the artist’s trademark mischievousness and bohemian spirit. $20/$15
Mirka info


Michele Lee’s Single Ladies @ Red Stitch
Until 14 March
Red Stitch is back with reduced capacity, so please hurry to book for Michele Lee’s comedy.
Tix and info


Three shows @ Linden
Until 16 May,
Moving on from the Postcard Show, Linden has works from three impressive artists:
Ash Keating > Duality; Troy Emery > Sonder; and Nicholas Folland > Burn Down The House
Linden New Art
Linden hours Tuesday – Sunday
Session 1 > 11.15am – 1pm
Session 2 > 2pm – 3.45pm

Soon

Meet the Artist > Nicholas Folland @ Linden YouTube and Facebook
Tuesday 16 March, 6 pm – 7 pm
To find out what this provocative exhibition title is all about, gather your friends and join Curator Juliette Hanson and Nicholas Folland as they explore the themes, ideas and inspiration for this new exhibition.
Made up of 10,000 bottle caps, antique furniture and tree branches, this playful work interacts with Linden’s fascinating architectural features through the reworking of domestic objects and natural elements. Free
Bookings

Bike Confidence Course @ Peanut Park
Wednesday 17 March,12 noon – 3 pm
Thursday 18 March, 12 noon – 3 pm
Good Cycles present a three- hour workshop including basic bike maintenance, practical riding skills and an instructed on-road group ride to give you a confidence boost. Free
Bookings essential 


Live! on MxRS – Casting Call @ Enza Benincasa Gallery
Saturday 20 March, 8 pm
Would you like to learn more about MxRS? How about a chance to play a part of the series?
Come to the Enza Benincasa Gallery to meet writer/director/producer Morgan Ræ and showcase your skills.
The best in show will have the opportunity to be in episode 005 found on Anchor.fm/MxRS
75A Fitzroy St
Image Credit: Anthony Luejes of @three.a.design

Community Wellbeing Day @ Elwood Croquet Club
Sunday 21 March, 10am to 3pm
The Elwood Croquet Club is throwing its doors open for a very special community wellbeing day. You’ll get a chance to try croquet or stretch yourself in a yoga session.
StarHealth will be there with a range of health professionals and teams present information on general health and wellbeing. Refreshments will be provided. Free
More information 
corner St Kilda Street and Head Street, Elwood


Friends of Suai/Covalima Trivia Night @ Middle Park Bowling Club
Thursday 8 April, 7 pm
Tickets to the Friends of Suai Covalima Trivia Night 2021 are now on sale. Proceeds support scholarships for young people from Covalima for senior secondary, vocational or tertiary education in Timor Leste. $35
Tix and tables

$100K for Free Blues Festival @ St Kilda
A free blues festival, including a New Orleans-style parade, will return the heart of St Kilda after being cancelled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Council has provided $90,000 towards the 2021 St Kilda Blues Festival – on top of a $10,000 grant originally destined for last year’s event.
The brainchild of former The Dogs Bar owners Sonya and Gavan Breen, the ‘small local venue’ Festival will present around 35 acts across more than 24 St Kilda venues from April 9-11.
The Festival zone covers Acland and Fitzroy streets, Jacka Boulevard and The Esplanade.
Venues and acts will be announced soon
Of course, TWiSK will bring you the details too.


Garden Nomads @ Christ Church Community St Kilda
Volunteer ‘garden nomads’ are wanted to help transform gardens and address loneliness one green thumb at a time. The volunteers assist frail elderly and disabled residents to maintain their gardens, helping them to continue to live independently in the community.
www.ccm.org.au
communitycentre@ccm.org.au or call 9534 9250

Outdoor dining parklets extended to 30 June @ Council
Council’s outdoor dining program is being extended to 30 June
to help traders recover from the financial fallout from COVID-19.
64 business parklets have been set up on roads across the Port Phillip.

Renewal is in fashion @ Fitzroy Street
Four pop-up shopfronts 63 Fitzroy Street
Mayor Louise Crawford and Traders President David Blakeley were more than singing from the same song sheet at the launch of the first four pop-up shops last week.
Both their organisations have chipped in $75K to organise for vacancies on the street to be filled with enterprise.
Check the new traders
Farm Goat SUDS Soap
Mike Stretch Finds (Australian streetwear)
ARTWORKS St Kilda Artists Collective: Flo & Co. (florist), Mr Macramé (fibre arts, wall hangings, plant hangers and more), Rus Kitchin – Visual Artist and Cartographer of Chaos (visual artist) and Tom Cerdan – Autodidact Artist (visual artist); and
Calistags Plants (living art pieces).

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gday@archives.gdaystkilda.com.au

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