This Week in St Kilda #299
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Bernadette Novembre @ Espy
Thursday 20 January, 7.30 pm
With Special Guests Joshua Moriarty (Miami Horror) & Zen Monkee
Bernadette and her band are previewing her debut Album with all new original tunes.
This will be the first time Bernadette and her band are performing at the Gershwin Room. $22
Tix
Dune, Dirty Dancing and Spiderman @ Elwood Park Foreshore
Thursday 20 January – Saturday 22 January
Open air cinema one film per evening. $22
Tix and program info
More outdoor cinema soon
Watch for Barefoot Cinema in the St Kilda Botanic Gardens (Herbert/Dickens Corner) from Wednesday 2 February – Wednesday 26 February.
Barefoot Cinema
Floodlights @ Espy
Friday 21 January, 8 pm
Special guests Mug and Ecosystem
Floodlights make raw, honest, catchy rock music that melds ‘80s alternative rock with ‘90s New Zealand jangle-pop.
Tix
The Detonators + Mission Brown @ George Lane
Friday 21 January, 6.30 pm
Good times with original rock’n’roll, blues and r&b band
Tix 
Geoff Achison and The Souldiggers @ Ziggy Pops (Newmarket Hotel)
Saturday 22 January, doors 7 pm
Red hot, original blues & soul from one of Melbourne’s most respected guitarists.
$35 with dinner and show options.
Tix
Freya Josephine Hollick + Yolanda Ingley II Band @ George Lane
Saturday 22 January
Freya Josephine Hollick comes to St. Kilda to play a rare intimate show.
Freya is a TWiSK favorite.
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Broderick Smith (The Dingoes) And Shannon Bourne @ George Lane
Sunday 23 January, 4 pm
Multi-instrumentalist and singer song-writer Broderick Smith (The Dingoes) alongside critically acclaimed blues and roots founded guitarist, Shannon Bourne.
Tix
Ross Wilson Eagle Rock – 50th Anniversary Tour @ Memo
Tuesday 25 January, 7.30 pm
Daddy Who? Daddy Cool. A tour by the daddy himself Ross Wilson to mark the 50th anniversary of Eagle Rock.
Do the Eagle Rock baby! $60 / $45
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We-Akon Dilinja- a mourning reflection event @ Alfred Square
Wednesday 26 January, 6 am – 7 am
For the third year, 26 January will dawn in Port Phillip with an Indigenous ceremony featuring the culture and history of the Boonwurrung Traditional Owners conveyed through readings, music and a smoking ceremony.
A multi-faith component adds to the inclusive spirit of the event. Free
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Livestream
Local business notes
Fine food, new hours, 22% discount @ Prince Dining Room
Discount available Wednesday – Sunday, 4 pm – 8 pm
Enjoy great food at a discount at the Prince Dining Room ‘Holiday Hours’.
Get 22% off your dining bill including flavour-packed plates like garlic scallops, burrata, kingfish crudo and flatbreads.
Discount applies to maximum of 10 guests.
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Tennis Happy Hours @ Prince Bar
Monday – Friday 4 pm – 6 pm.
Tennis fans can enjoy all the AUS Open action live and loud across the bar’s big screens.
Everything kicks off on Monday 17 January until finished.
Hopefully it will be Love All 🙂
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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
Kids holiday program @ Gasworks
Monday 17 January – Friday 21 January
Check out the range of affordable kids programs at Gasworks, including circus skills, fencing, clay animals and manga.
Tix
Later
Mrs Prime Minister @ Memo
Friday 28 January and Saturday 29 January, 7.30 pm
Sunday 30 January, 1.30 pm
An evening of songs and stories about seven women: Tamie Fraser, Bettina Gorton, Hazel Hawke, Zara Holt, Annita Keating, Sonia McMahon and Margaret Whitlam, wives of the Prime Minister and residents of The Lodge, Canberra 1966-96.
Iconic Melbourne singing actors Sally Bourne, Jane Clifton and Fiona Thorn, accompanied by the Adelaide Avenue Trio featuring Ana Mitsikas, perform jazz inflected songs by John Thorn (Spontaneous Broadway) and Terence O’Connell (Minefields And Miniskirts: Australian Women And The Vietnam War).
Tix
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 Sunday – a change that many locals will welcome).
The full program with 50 acts includes events on these dates at these locations:
Saturday 5 February
From 2 pm
O’Donnell Gardens
Pride March
Sunday 6 February, 11 am
Wednesday 9 February
Thursday 10 February
Friday 11 February
From 5 pm
Evenings at South Beach Reserve
Saturday 12 February
Yaluk-ut Weelam Ngargee Festival
From 2 pm
South Beach Reserve
Sunday 13 February
1.40 pm – 9 pm
Catani Gardens family day with music, markets and more
Plus …
Pop up programs and offers feature across the festival at local venues.
More details
stkildafestival.com.au
Greg Day
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This Week in St Kilda respectfully acknowledges the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung.
We pay our respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging. We acknowledge and uphold their continuing relationship to this land.