This Week in St Kilda #301
St Kilda Festival begins
Pride March, beach polo and gigs galore
including plenty of blues to make you smile
Childcare parents protest with a picnic
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Flavours of Syria opening @ Space2b
Tuesday 1 February, 2 pm – 8 pm
The café at Space2b now has a Syrian flavour. Rock up on Tuesday, show this page, and get a free treat (only on Tuesday).
Space2b | Flavours of Syria
Tuesday – Saturday, 8 am – 2 pm
Laneway behind Space2b, 144 Chapel Street, St Kilda
Rainbow Flag Raising @ St Kilda Town Hall
Tuesday 1 February, 4 pm
Ahead of the 27th Midsumma Pride March, you’re invited to celebrate pride and inclusion Port Phillip style.
This is an outdoor and physically distanced event.
RSVP essential
Sowing Seeds @ Gasworks
Wednesday 2 February – Saturday 12 February, 7 pm
Written by JoJo Zhou & directed by Miranda Middleton, Sowing Seeds is a new piece of verbatim theatre, born out of the diverse stories, characters, and cultures found within a Melbourne community garden. $32 / $28
Tix and info
Picnic Rally for childhood centres @ St Kilda Town Hall lawns
Wednesday 2 February, 5 pm – 6.30 pm
Picnic and protest with parents and children to stop the sale of three council childcare centres.
The rally coincides with Council’s first meeting of the year.
A COVID-safe outdoor event
BYO picnic blanket
Barefoot outdoor cinema @ St Kilda Botanic Gardens
Wednesday 2 February – Wednesday 26 February
Enjoy Barefoot Cinema in the St Kilda Botanic Gardens (Herbert/Dickens Corner) $21/$17
This week featuring:
Wednesday: Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Thursday: The French Dispatch
Friday: Licorice Pizza
Saturday: Sing 2
Sunday: No Time To Die
Barefoot Cinema 
The Paper Kites @ Palais
Thursday 3 February, 8 pm
Indie folk on tour.
Tix
John Waters – The John Lennon Song Book @ Memo
Thursday 3 February and Friday 4 February, 7.30 pm
The producers of “Lennon Through a Glass Onion” present John Waters and Stewart D’arrietta with The Liverpool Band, performing The John Lennon Song Book. $65/$45
Tix
Ellis Moseley > The Work is not the Work @ Linden
Online opening: Thursday 3 February, 6 pm
The Work is not the Work is an experimental exhibition featuring six exquisitely formed ceramic vessels. In a conceptual twist, the vessels themselves are not considered by the artist to be the work at all.
Find out more at this online event, which will feature an artist talk.
RSVP for online event
Hot Glue @ Espy
Thursday 3 February, 7.30 pm
Hot Glue creates tracks with a fuzzed-out beauty. Pulsing with a high energy guitar sound, punchy beats and catchy vocals, the band speaks of frustrations and reinventions that will double the size of your heart. $16
Espy gigs
FabJab Pop-Up Clinic @ Pride Centre
Friday 4 February to Sunday 6 February
FabJab returns for another pop-up clinic in the Pride Centre’s Theatrette, facilitated by StarHealth.
Walk-ins available, or book online or call 1800 675 398.
12 noon to 8 pm – Friday 4 February
10 am to 6 pm – Saturday 5 February
10 am to 6 pm – Sunday 6 February
Collard Greens & Gravy @ George Lane
Friday 4 February, door 6.30 pm
“[their] local brand of swampy countrified electric blues has earned them a reputation as the best blues band in the land.” Classy.
George Lane gigs
Harvest Live – 50th Anniversary @ Palais
Friday 4 February, 7.30 pm
With ARC – Kram (Spiderbait) / Darren Middleton (Powderfinger), Mark Wilson (Jet) / Davey Lane (You Am I) $86 +
Tix
Twilight Beach Polo @ West Beach
Saturday 5 February, 2 pm – 7 pm
Twilight Beach Polo is the only polo event of this summer.
Enjoy thrills and excitement with fabulous food, wine and a vibrant social scene. $79 +
Tix and info
We Are Women – See Us Roar @ Stanger Gallery
Saturday 5 February – Sunday 13 February during the St Kilda Festival
Opening Sunday 6 February, 2 pm
Meet the artist Sunday 13 February 2 pm
Focusing on the diversity of women in the Australian live music scene. Anna Madden’s work celebrates the role of women in live music.
Info
Shane Nicholson @ Memo
Saturday 5 February, 7.30 pm
Three-time ARIA award winner Shane Nicholson with special guest Camille Trial $49/30
Tix and info
St Kilda Festival now over nine days
Saturday 5 February – Sunday 13 February
After being cancelled last year, the St Kilda Festival returns in 2022 in a revised format across nine days (with less emphasis on the final Sunday.
Day #1: O’Donnell Stage
Saturday 5 February
O’Donnell Gardens and Acland Street, from 2 pm – 9 pm
Babyccino, Barkaa, Good Morning, KYE, Monnie, Queen-P, The Lazy Eyes and WILSN plus DJ Sets from PET$ and Shaad
Set times
Full program – or scroll down to “Next Week”
Pride March @ Fitzroy Street
Sunday 6 February, 11 am
Local color.
Info
Rooftop Party @ Pride Centre
Sunday 6 February, from 10 am
Enjoy an afternoon of community connection and celebration on the Pride Centre’s glorious rooftop terrace.
This free, open-air event is unticketed, however there is a capacity limit on the roof to ensure a safe social environment, in addition to a double-dose vaccination requirement and outdoors mask recommendation.
Info
Poof Doof Pride after party @ St Kilda Bowls
Sunday 6 February, 1 pm – 9.30 pm
Poof Doof’s Annual Pride March After Party – A Gay On The Lawn – is back serving up a free afternoon of lawn bowls, gourmet BBQ and tunes to wrap up Midsumma! Free.
More info and fabulous line up
Pride March After Party @ Espy
Sunday 6 February, 12 noon
An epic post-march Pride party from 12pm. Keeping the festivities going with DJs and entertainment.
Info
Blues Guitar Roadshow @ Memo
Sunday 6 February, 3.30 pm
Great Blues performers including Phill Manning (Chain), Geoff Achison, Joe Creighton (John Farnham Band), The McNamara Project (Andrea Marr/John McNamara), Anna Scionti, Jimi Hocking, Ric Formosa (Ex LRB), Riding Northbound & much more… $55 / $45
Tix
The Hornets (25th Anniversary Album Launch) @ George Lane
Sunday 6 February, 4 pm – 8 pm
‘The Hornets are steeped in the blues, they rise out of the Yarra Valley delta meeting at the mythical crossroads where Chicago grit has blown in.’
Info
St Kilda Historical Society Book Launch @ Royal Melbourne Yacht Squadron
Sunday 6 February, 4.30 pm – 5.30 pm
In 2020, the St Kilda Historical Society turned 50 with little fanfare due to the pandemic.
Like all good historians, the lockdown time was used to create a book!
Borne on Favouring Breezes will be launched by former mayor of St Kilda (1985-86, 1991-92), John Callanan, with presentation by past president (2001-2009), Meyer Eidelson.
This is a free member only event – presumably you can join at the event :-).
Bookings are essential 
A Tribute to the Stones Sticky Fingers @ Palais
Sunday 6 February, 7.30 pm
Dirty, raunchy, and very very playable, Sticky Fingers was released in April 1971 (with the Andy Warhol cover).
This tribute features Adalita, Phil Jamieson, Tex Perkins & Tim Rogers – Wild horses won’t keep you away! $99 +
Tix
Next week
St Kilda Festival continues
Evenings at South Beach Reserve from 5 pm
Wednesday 9 February
The nu-pop sounds of Shannen James, the infectious and playful bops of Jordan Dennis, Mo’Ju’s articulate storytelling, and the raw funk energy of local favourites The Bamboos
Thursday 10 February
Daryl Braithwaite, Emma Donovan & the Putbacks, Gordi and Romero
Friday 11 February
Ashwarya, Baker Boy, Franko Gonzo, Jalmar, Pricie and TSEBA
Yaluk-ut Weelam Ngargee Festival
Saturday 12 February
South Beach Reserve From 2 pm
Archie Roach, Benny Walker, Chasing Ghosts, IZY, Kee’ahn and The Merindas
Festival Sunday in the Catani Gardens
Sunday 13 February
Catani Gardens, 1.40 pm – 9 pm
Family day with music, markets and more.
With Approachable Members of Your Local Community, Ausecuma Beats, BIRDZ, Cong Josie, Jawbreakers, June Jones, JXCKY, Rya Park and Vetta Borne.
Plus …
Pop up programs and offers feature across the festival at local venues.
More details
stkildafestival.com.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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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.