This Week in St Kilda #307
St Kilda Blues Festival Friday – Sunday
Free gigs across 7 venues over 3 days
New Orleans style parade from Acland Plaza
(Sat 6 pm & Sun 3 pm)
New shows @ Red Stitch and Theatre Works
Federal candidates on childcare
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Heroes of the Fourth Turning @ Red Stitch
Previews Tuesday 15 March – Friday18 March, Season 19 March – 10 April
A Pulitzer finalist, Will Arbery’s Heroes of the Fourth Turning is a nuanced, intelligent and uncomfortable investigation of modern American conservatism.
Australian Premiere directed by Emily O’Brien-Brown; with performers
Charlie Cousins, Darcy Kent, Margaret Mills, Mollie Mooney, and Annie Shapero.
Tix and info
Ultimate Sport Trivia @ Prince
Wednesday 16 March, 6.30pm
Free one-off sports trivia for the opening round of the AFL season.
Free trivia with bar tab prizes and steaks at steak night prices.
Then the Dees Vs Doggies on the big screens.
Info
The Pleasures with Catherine Britt & Lachlan Bryan @ George Lane
Wednesday 16 March, 6.30 pm – 11.30 pm
Catherine Britt and Lachlan Bryan have combined to form The Pleasures! Americana twang meets dirty rock n roll with its themes of mischief and recklessness.
Tix
Courtney Marie Andrews With Erin Rae @ Espy
Wednesday 16 March, 7.30 pm
A rare chance to see not one but two of the very best young American singer-songwriters together on the one bill. $38
Tix
The Darkening Sky @ Theatre Works
Thursday 17 March – Saturday 26 March, 7.30 pm
A contemporary neo-noir thriller spanning seven decades and set in the inner suburbs of Melbourne, The Darkening Sky is the latest premiere work from playwright Richard Murphet.
Tix
Friends of Suai Trivia Night @ Middle Park Bowls Club
Thursday 17 March, 7 pm – 10 pm
Come as a team of 10, join a hosted team or come on your own and join a new team. All funds raised will support community development programs in the rural district of Covalima in Timor-Leste. $35
fosctrivia2022.eventbrite.com.au
Emily Barker @ George Lane
Thursday 17 March, 6.30 pm – 11.30 pm
Emily Barker is an award-winning singer-songwriter, best known as the writer and performer of the theme to BBC crime drama Wallander.
Tix
St Kilda Blues Festival @ St Kilda venues
Free gigs, seven venues
New Orleans Second Line Street Parade
Hoodoo Mayhem
Departing Acland Street Plaza:
Saturday 19 March @ 6 pm
Sunday 20 March @ 3 pm
Friday 18 March
St Kilda Sports Club (The Bowlo)
Kim Volkman & The Whiskey Priests 6.30 pm (pictured)
Heavy Medicine 9 pm
George Lane
Jules Boult & The Redeemers 8 pm
J.J Rome Blues Band 10 pm
Bunny
Shake 7.30 pm
The Cross
Waz e James Band 7.30 pm
The Vineyard
Stevie Boyds Rum Reverie 6 pm
Saturday 19 March
St Kilda Sports Club (The Bowlo)
Rod Paine & The Full Time Lovers 5 pm
Heartbrokers 8.30 pm
Louis King & The Liars Klub 10 pm
George Lane
Waz e James Band 4 pm
Paullie Bignall & Thornbury Two 6 pm
The Werewolves 8 pm
Fiona Boyes 10 pm (pictured)
Freddie Wimpoles
Kim Volkman & The Whiskey Priests 3 pm
Stevie Boyd’s Rum Reverie 5.30 pm
Bunny
The Tonalists 2 pm
Phil Para Band 4 pm
Fifth Province
Davie Smith Duo 2.30 pm
Wilson & White 4 pm
The Cross
Crossbones Boogie 3.30 pm
Heavy Medicine 6 pm
The Vineyard
Phil Para 1 pm
Ezra Lee Revue 3.30 pm
Blue Sunday 6 pm
Sunday 20 March
St Kilda Sports Club (The Bowlo)
Fools 2 pm
Zevon Blues Trio 4.30 pm
The Hornets 6.30 pm
The Afterparty
Featuring St Kilda All Stars Blues Band 9 pm
George Lane
Shake 3.30 pm
Sammy Owen Blues Band 5.30 pm
Doc Halibut 7.30 pm
Freddie Wimpoles
Phil Para Band 1.30 pm (pictured)
Bunny
Louis King & The Liars Klub 3.30 pm
Fifth Province
Bram 2.30 pm
The Cross
Stevie Boyds Rum Reverie 3.30 pm
The Vineyard
Paullie Bignall & Thornbury Two 2 pm
Mission Brown 5 pm
St Kilda Blues Festival
Online program
Vanessa Amorosi @ Memo
Friday 18 March, 7.30 pm
Following overseas opportunities, Vanessa permanently re-located to Los Angeles in 2010 to work in Gospel music and song-writing, It’s this experience that has led Vanessa to the next chapter in her career as a Soul/Gospel artist. $65 / $45
Tix
Maram Barererungar “Wearing Country” @ Vivien Anderson Gallery
Saturday, 19 March, 12 noon – 1 pm
A unique jewellery collaboration by Maree Clarke & Blanche Tilden, followed by the opening of the annual exhibition: The Women’s Show.
Info | RSVP 
APC School of the Year @ U3APP Saturday Zoom Seminar
Saturday 19 March, 2.30 – 3.30 pm
What does it take to be chosen as the Australian School of the Year?
Hear Albert Park College Principal Steven Cook explain how the school come to be recognised as 2021 School of the Year. Free
www.u3app.org.au
David Bridie Presents ‘The Wisdom Line’ @ Memo
Saturday 19 March, 7.30 pm
It’s been a year since David Bridie’s show headlined the Castlemaine State Festival and he is very much looking forward to performing “The Wisdom Line” with a full band including Not Drowning, Waving guitarist John Phillips and long-time collaborator Phil Wales.$55 / $30
Tix
Laneway Celebrations @ Space2b
Sunday 20 March, 11.30 am – 2.30 pm
The laneway be jumping with music, food, dance and art.
Soundscape Duo
11.30 am – 12.15 pm
Take a fantastic voyage with Melbourne based multi-instrumentalists and vocalists Aurora Darby and Keshav Yoganathan of global-jazz-electronica quartet Mopoke.
Indian Bharathanatyam Dance
12.20 – 12.50 pm
With over 30 years’ experience in traditional and contemporary dance forms, the amazing Deepa Mani and her accomplished team will be bringing the very best of Classical Bharathanatyam to the Laneway Festival.
Afro-Colombian Dance Lesson
1.00 – 1.30 pm
Step it up with the brilliant Karen Bravo and her Afro Colombian dance lesson.
Register
More information
Laneway behind Space2b
144 Chapel St, St Kilda
Ironman 70.3 Melbourne @ St Kilda
Sunday 20 March, 5.45 am – 5 pm
Starts at the Sea Baths with a 1.9-km one-lap swim in the Bay, then a 90-km two-lap fully closed bike course along Beach Road, finishing with a 21.1-km run.
Details
Elwood Canal Festivity @ Elwood
Sunday 20 March, 12 midday to 5 pm
Sold out event
Vale Dolores San Miguel, Crystal Ballroom promoter and author
Celebrated band booker and venue promoter Dolores San Miguel has died in Spain.
Back in the day, Dolores helped the Crystal Ballroom become a pivotal part of the punk scene.
Known more recently for her 2011 tell-all memoir The Ballroom and as a supporter of the fascinating “I got drunk at The Crystal Ballroom” Facebook page, she leaves behind daughters Charlotte and Hayley.
Local musician and Ballroom alumni Rob Wellington told TWiSK the family was travelling to Spain to make arrangements.
Dolores had been living in Spain after moving there to follow her heritage.
TWiSK will watch for details of any local wake or memorial.
FYI
Rob Wellington as published some rough history about Dolores on the St Kilda Music Walking Tours website
The Ballroom book is available for loan from the Port Phillip Library
or by purchase from Booktopia.
Design award finalists @ Port Phillip
The finalists in the Port Phillip Design and Development Awards 2022 have been published in a catalogue.
Across many categories, the awards acknowledge excellence in the built form.
Both the Pride Centre and the Parks Victoria’s Albert Park office are finalists in multiple categories.
See the catalogue 
Artistic Director gig @ Rawcus
Applications close COB 8 April
Rawcus are looking for an Artistic Director to help develop the company’s artistic vision, rationale and practice, curation and undertake artistic supervision of the company’s programming.
The Artistic Director shares whole of organisational operational leadership with the General Manager.
Position description
For more info
Jacque Robinson Rawcus, General Manager info@rawcus.org.au
Community Fund Committees – Positions Vacant @ Palais
Applications close 18 March
Established in 2017, the Palais Theatre Community Fund supports community projects, programs and developments within the City of Port Phillip. A number of community vacancies exist on the committee and advisory committee.
More info
Candidate comments on childcare
Candidate comments on childcareLast week we offered the candidates for Macnamara 150 words each to put their views on the local childcare situation.
Here are their responses in-full, presented in the order that they were received. 
“Council should immediately halt their plans to sell off our community-run centres.”
Josh Burns
Federal Labor Member for Macnamara
“Labor will make childcare more affordable and help parents work the hours they want while also helping families with cost of living.
Four in five families will be better off under an Albanese Labor Government’s childcare policy than they are under Scott Morrison.
Childcare shouldn’t be a barrier to work, especially for Australian women who disproportionally carry the burden of caring for children.
Labor will support families and invest in quality, local childcare and early education.
In regards to the three local early childhood centres at risk of sale in the City of Port Phillip, the Council should immediately halt their plans to sell off our community-run centres.
The Victorian Government has made it clear funding is available and Council needs to engage the State and Federal Governments in good faith.
Childcare and kindergarten services shouldn’t be sold and that is what I’ll keep working to achieve.”
“The Greens are the only party to have made a specific, costed commitment of $5 million in federal funding to save the 3 centres”
Steph Hodgins-May
Federal Greens candidate for Macnamara
“I’m running for the Greens because our platform is about all parents having access to early education that best suits their needs. Which means supporting community-run centres like the three slated for closure. As a mum, I have talked to many parents who are concerned at the loss of the connection, high quality education and care they provide.
“The Greens are the only party to have made a specific, costed commitment of $5 million in federal funding to save the 3 centres. I am calling on the other parties to match that commitment – I am hoping we can run on a joint ticket to save them.
“While Council are now having a bigger conversation about childcare in our area, it is my firm belief that a federal funding commitment is what is required to secure the long term future of these 3 centres, and it is what I will deliver if elected.”
“This year, the Federal Government will spend $11B nationally on childcare”
Christopher Ride
Liberal Candidate for Macnamara
“As a parent of three children, I recognise the importance of government supported childcare, particularly for working parents. The pressure on parents with young children can be enormous. The Federal Government currently provides means-tested childcare support for 8,680 children in 94 childcare facilities in Macnamara. In Victoria, 304,830 children are receiving federal childcare subsidies.
“This year, the Federal Government will spend $11b nationally on childcare, which is almost double the total childcare support provided by Labor in 2013. These are unprecedented levels of childcare support. The Morrison Government’s continued objective is to provide equitable, safe and effective local childcare for all Australian parents, when they need it. The Liberal Party supports Australian parents.”
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