This Week in St Kilda #298
Welcome back edition
St Kilda: “Business as unusual”
Festival plans announced
This Week in St Kilda #298TWiSK welcomes you back to another year of arts, music and community events & news.
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St Kilda Festival now over nine days
Saturday 5 February – Sunday 13 February
After being cancelled last year, the St Kilda Festival returns in 2022 in a revised format across nine days (presumably with less emphasis on the final mega Sunday – a change that many locals will welcome).
The full program including 50 acts will be announced tomorrow – Monday 10 January – it will include events on these dates at these locations:
Saturday 5 February
O’Donnell Gardens
Wednesday 9 – Saturday 12 February
Evening events at South Beach Reserve
Saturday 12 February
Yaluk-ut Weelam Ngargee Festival
Sunday 13 February
Catani Gardens family day with music, markets and more
Plus …
Pop up programs and offers feature across the festival at local venues and with local traders.
More details available from Monday 10 January
stkildafestival.com.au
Shakespeare Aliens @ Theatre Works (Acland)
Tuesday 11 January – Saturday 15 January, 7.30 pm
You’ve seen Shakespeare done in a myriad of ways, now you can see Aliens told as if from the pen of William Shakespeare. With people and puppets!
Here ye and come forth for an intergalactic story of Queens, battles, sleep & dreams!
For Shakespeare never wrote a story with more guns,
Than this tale of Ripley and the Aliens.
55 mins. $32 / $27
Tix and info
[Multilingual] Nature Play for Ages 3 – 10 @ EcoCentre
Tuesday 11 January, 10 am and 11.30 am
Supported by the Multicultural Bay Ambassadors, interpretations are available in Chinese Mandarin, Polish, Sinhalese, Spanish and Japanese. Places are limited!
Sensory Garden Adventure: 10 am
Bookings required
Treasures of the beach & land: 11.30 am
Bookings required
More info
Whitenoise: 12 Ghosts @ Theatre Works (Explosives Factory)
Friday 13 January – Saturday 16 January, 7 pm
Who remembers where they were …?
Lindy Chamberlain: Been there, done that.
Mamdouh Habib: Been there, done that.
First Gulf War: Seen it all before.
We think we are savvy but we are drowning in a sea of 24-hour news, a tsunami of fake news and an avalanche of information on media platforms. This one-woman play excavates the violence of overwhelming power through three iconic events and drags it into the bloody today. $33 / $28
Tix and info
No wheelchair access
Tex Perkins & Matt Walker duo @ Memo
Thursday 13 January, 8.45 pm
Tex reunites with Matt Walker for duo shows.
Their powerful live show features songs spanning Tex’s vast catalogue, as well as brand new material they have written together for their Fat Rubber band album.
Tix and info
Sunset Circus @ Gasworks
Friday 14 January, 7 pm – 8.3 0pm
Saturday 15 January, 4 pm – 5.30 pm & 7 pm – 8.30 pm
Monday 17 January, 7 pm – 8.30 pm
A spectacular sun-soaked circus cabaret show for the whole family with some of Australia’s finest, award winning circus performers hosted by the irrepressibly funny, Mason West.
A full hour of beachy circus entertainment in a socially distanced ‘covidsafe’ open-air theatre.
$45 / $30, Family (4+) $30 Locals Discount: $30 (Port Phillip local discount for residents, valid only for opening night)
Tix
Seven Wonders – The Music of Fleetwood Mac Orchestrated @ Palais
Friday 14 January, 8 pm
Seven Wonders is an orchestral tribute to Fleetwood Mac with their greatest hits performed by a 24 piece symphony orchestra conducted by George Ellis. Special guest vocalists are Tania Doko (Bachelor Girl), Jess & Matt, Kate DeAraugo (Young Divas) and Mark Williams. $49
Tix
Great Gig In The Sky – A Pink Floyd Celebration @ Memo
Friday 14 January and Saturday 15 January, 7.30 pm
This homage concert features numerous gems from the Floyd with great guest singers and a top backing band of seasoned musos. $45/$40/$30
Tix
Ramble Tamble with two nights of Creedence Clearwater Revival @ George Lane
Friday 14 January and Saturday 15 January. doors 6.30 pm
World class four piece band Ramble Tamble give credence to reviving CCR.
Tix
Eamon Mcnelis & Alma Zygier @ Ruby Carter Jazz Lounge
Sunday 16 January, 3.30 pm
Led by award-winning trumpeter and singer Eamon McNelis, and featuring Alma Zygier, The Skellingtons play evocative, swinging tunes from the 1930s and 1940s.
Repertoire from the catalogues of Billie Holiday, Una Mae Carlisle, Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, Hoagy Carmicheal and more. $40/$30
Tix
Renee Geyer @ Memo
Sunday 16 January, 3.30 pm
Sassy, local and possessed with an international voice, Renee will the supported by singer/songwriter Taylor Sheridan. $45/$35
Tix
Steve Hoy & The Subliminals @ George Lane
Sunday 16 January, 4 pm – 8 pm
Steve Hoy who emerged in 1985 with the Joe Camilleri produced ‘Anticipation’ makes sublime original music. With a powerhouse lineup of members. Mark Ferrie (Models) is on guitar with Scotty Martin on drums, Garrett Costigan (Don Walker & Band – pedal steel) and Bruce Haymes (Paul Kelly’s band) on keys rounds out the Subliminals.
Tix
Mirka extended until 30 January @ JewMu
Monday to Friday, 10 am – 5 pm; Sunday 10 am – 5 pm
JewMu have extended the MIRKA exhibition until 30 January. A story of survival and migration, interspersed with a generous dose of family, art, food and love, Mirka Mora’s history is a profoundly affecting post-Holocaust Australian Jewish tale which, until now, has not been presented with such depth and scope. $20 / $15 Under 16 free
Bookings required
Soon
Progression @ Gasworks
From Monday 17 January
An exhibition of quotes from the LGBTQIA+ community and their allies about their experiences during the COVID pandemic. The exhibition presents phrases and short paragraphs expressing their personal perspectives around living through a global pandemic.
Info
Champagne Cabaret @ Gasworks parklands
Tuesday 18 January – Friday 21 January
An outrageous adults-only cabaret show featuring a hand-picked cast of some of Australia’s top circus and cabaret performers and hosted by the always effervescent Valerie Hex, of YUMMY fame. $45 / $30 / Family (4+) $30
Locals Discount: $30 (Port Phillip local discount for residents, valid only for opening night)
Tix
Elwood characters – decade by decade @ Guided walk
Saturday 29 January, 6 pm to 8 pm
Join Meyer Eidelson to relive Elwood’s milestones through the lives of extraordinary people, decade by decade between 1830 and 2022. Free – book now because these book out!
Bookings essential
Mayor gives up his ‘day job’
Mayor gives up his ‘day job’
Port Phillip Mayor Marcus Pearl has stepped down from his position in the insurance industry presumably to devote more attention to the role of Mayor.
Based on a state-wide pay scale, the mayor is remunerated up to $100,434 pa, with councillors up to $31,444.
(Source)
26 January Port Phillip style
Council will host a traditional Citizenship Ceremony at the St Kilda Town Hall on Wednesday 26 January with one hundred conferees from 31 countries expected to attend.
While yet to be confirmed, a dawn ‘morning of mourning’ ceremony is also set to be organised by the local Boon Wurrung elders – details to follow.
Meet Steph Hodgins-May
Greens candidate for Macnamara
Meet Steph Hodgins-May We continue our series of ‘meet the candidate’ Q&A from people seeking to be your representative in Canberra.
Other candidates will feature in future editions.
Here are Steph Hodgins-May’s responses to our basic questions in 30 words each.
Who am I?
I’m a local mum trained in environmental law and live with my partner and son in Elwood. I love getting out into nature: camping, swimming and enjoying our beautiful environment.
Why am I standing?
We have a chance to phase out fossil fuels and protect our climate and future – but we need to act now. The old parties only seem to listen to their big donors: we need a Greens MP who is a local champion.
Why me?
I’m a local, a trained lawyer, a young mum and an advocate for our environment. I live my principles: I will stand up for residents of Macnamara no matter what. I share your values, because they are my values too.
Why here?
This is my home. I love where we live, and I’ve got a plan to invigorate our neighbourhoods, music venues and local services, and to create more open spaces where our kids can play and nature can thrive.
Contact details
Steph Hodgins-May
0438 847 525
steph.hodgins-may@vic.greens.org.au
Greg Day
Happy to chat anytime 0418 345 829
Content suggestions and community questions are always welcome.
gday@archives.gdaystkilda.com.au
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