This Week in St Kilda #311
Shock location for long awaited Fitzroy St public toilet
Good Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the ‘hood
Classic movies & music
Kids fun @ Espy
Roald Dahl delights for 6+ @ Alex
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The Veronicas @ Palais
Monday 11 April, 7 pm
Their first national tour in six years. $91
Tix
Whale Evolution @ EcoCentre Zoom
Tuesday 12 April, 6.30 pm
Join the EcoCentre’s palaeontologist, Ben Francischelli, for a one-time-only, online talk sharing world-first exclusives of fossil whales he’s finding in Australia.
Registration 
Roald Dahl and The Imagination Seekers @ Alex Theatre
Tuesday 12 April – Sunday 24 April, 11 am
Explore Roald Dahl’s extraordinary stories in this interactive performance, featuring games and play specifically made for kids age 6+. Family $95
Tix
Seniors Crossword Club @ Library
Wednesdays, 1.30 pm – 2.30 pm.
St Kilda Library have teamed with Port Phillip Community Group to host an informal drop-in session for crossword enthusiasts every Wednesday. It’s a relaxed chance for local seniors to do crosswords together and learn to use digital devices at the same time.
For further information, phone PPCG Pat 0416 182 612
BIG Sculpture @ South Melbourne Market
Wednesday 13 April – Wednesday 4 May (Market days only)
BIG Sculpture presents sculptures by four Melbourne artists in various locations around the South Melbourne Market. The works include wood carving and assemblages plus a new work that uses information technology.
Pictured: Yellow Tail Black Cockatoo by Mark Schaller.
Free.
School Holiday Program @ Espy
Thursday 14 April, Wednesday 20 April and Thursday 21 April, mornings
The Espy School Holiday Program is back.
All bookings include: 3 x 30 minute activities (craft class, magic show, kids disco); Kids meal and fairy floss and 1 x beer/wine/soft drink for parent/guardian.
Session duration: Approximately 2 hrs + lunch
Recommended ages: 4-10 (children must be accompanied by a parent/guardian at all times)
Tix and info
Brolga ‘Always’ Launch @ Espy
Thursday 14 April, 7.30 pm
Brolga’s unique music blends Rock, Blues, Funk and Indigenous sounds and rhythms. $15
Tix
Young Henrys @ Espy
Thursday 14 April, 8.30 pm
Weekly free gig in the Basement: Badgers + Tim Wheatley
Espy gigs
ARC Harvest Live – 50th Anniversary @ Palais
Thursday 14 April, 7.30 pm
Australian Rock Collective (ARC) presenting Neil Young’s masterpiece, “Harvest,” live in concert in celebration of it’s 50th anniversary. $76+
Tix
Comedy Pub Crawl @ Ellora St Kilda
Friday 15 April – Sunday 17 April, 2 pm
4 Bars, 5 Comedians. $40
Tix
The Blues Brothers @ Astor
Friday 15 April, 7.30 pm
Enjoy a very Good Friday with a mission from God with both types of music: Country and Western.
Tix
Aaron Chen @ Palais
Saturday 16 April, 7 pm
If Weren’t Filmed, Nobody Would Believe $39 +
Tix
2001: A Space Odyssey @ Astor
Saturday 16 April, 7.30 pm
Open the cinema doors HAL
Tix
The Quincy Jones Experience @ Memo
Saturday 16 April, 7.30 pm
A tribute to pioneering writer-producer-arranger-composer Quincy Jones starring Greg Gould, Emily Williams, Cassie McIvor and Adrian Hood. $49/$39
Tix
Casablanca – 80th anniversary @ Astor
Sunday 17 April, 3 pm
Round up the usual suspects.
Tix
Sunday Blues @ Espy
Sunday 17 April, 6 pm
Blues in the Basement: The Bluebottles for three sets of twangin’ instrumental hits. Free
Espy gigs
Applications Open @ Shakespeare Grove Artist Studios
Online applications close at midnight on Sunday 17 April
Artists can apply online for the seven studios that will be available in 2022 at Shakespeare Grove Artist Studios.
More info
Soon
All Morgan: Not Today @ Theatre Works
Tuesday 19 April extended to Saturday 30 April
Life as a twenty-something in a world on fire – Ally Morgan’s celebrated one-woman cabaret comes to the Melbourne Comedy Festival.
Previews $27.50, Concession $34.50, Adult $42.50 +bf
Bookings
Lucille Martin > Right Fire @ Linden
From Thursday 21 April – 22 May
Right Fire is large format photographic works by contemporary artist Lucille Martin. In 2018-21, she spent several days with Elders and Indigenous fire practitioners photographing cultural burn practice to emphasise the significance of learning about Indigenous fire knowledge.
Info
The Linden Projects Space is not wheelchair accessible.
Having the Crime of Their Lives @ Sisters in Crime’s 30th Birthday Party!
Saturday 23 April, 6 pm
Bring out the pearls for a fabulous night of felonious talk and food hosted by Sue Turnbull. Hear from Carmel Shute, Angela Savage, Vikki Petraitis, Sulari Gentill, and Emma Viskic. Singing with Jane Clifton. $40.
Bookings essential
Victorian Pride Centre Theatrette, 79-81 Fitzroy Street
When Women Speak of War @ National Theatre
Thursday 28 April, 8 pm
Coinciding with the close of this year’s Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day), Festival of Jewish Arts and Music (FOJAM) brings together a world premiere of musicians, writers, performers and storytellers to share new work and reignite songs and stories of the past. $35
Tix
Final weeks for Ferris Wheel @ Catani Garden
Season ends Monday 25 April
Daily Noon – 9.30 pm; weekends 10 am – 9.30 pm
Port Phillip residents can still save up to 30%, simply show proof of address
Eg. drivers license or utility bill at the ticket box to receive the discount.
Plus Easter gift
Between 11 – 18 April get a free gift by producing a receipt from any local business in 3182 (while supplies last).
Info
Q&A with Port Phillip Mayor
Watch now
Mayor Cr Pearl discusses a range of St Kilda topics
Childcare: collaboration with centres & Council
Palais forecourt project commences @ 6 min
St Kilda Film Festival format @ 6.50 min
Vineyard redevelopment @ 8 min
St Kilda Library upgrade @ 9.30 min
Cowderoy traffic @ 10.40 min
Childcare: Now nine options being considered
Mayor Cr Pearl has said that there are now nine options being considered for the childcare centres that were previously being targeted for sale. But in an interesting and tricky twist, he said that the Victorian School Building Authority (the body that overseas education construction) had mandated that the discussions about funding must be confidential.
This effectively continues the ‘lock-out’ of parents from the detail of the negotiations about the future of their centres.
Pictured: Local MPs including Josh Burns and James Newbury joined councillors to receive childcare petition at the town hall last week.
Palais forecourt upgrade contract awarded and will be finished this year
Council approved the contract for a $4.5M upgrade to the Palais forecourt with works about to start and finish before Christmas.
More details
“Not progressing” with upgrade to The Vineyard
Plans to upgrade The Vineyard are “not progressing” according to Mayor Pearl.
The project was first mooted in 2019 with community consultation on the design.
The project included an upgrade from the disgusting Exeloo public toilets located next door.
Original information
Library upgrade “needs to be rescheduled”
The Mayor also indicated that the planned major upgrade of the St Kilda library needs to be ‘rescheduled’ and that council officers are drawing up options.
Lovers of the Library will be watching this space.
Shithouse location for Fitzroy Street public toilet?
After a decade or more of procrastination and indecision, last Friday signage went up on the proposed site of a new public toilet on Fitzroy Street.
The signage says the works are scheduled for April – July this year.
And the location …. the park side of Fitzroy Street not far from St Kilda Park Primary and the St Kilda Bowls Club.
What do you think about this location?
Next week we’ll look at how and why this location was chosen. 
Our $12M view. Cost of storm water drain upgrade revealed.
The State Government has revealed that the new 60-metre-long viewing platform and upgrade to the Shakespeare Grove Main Drain cost $12M.
Source
Meanwhile locals are busy suggesting nicknames for their pier with million $ views, latest ideas include: Yo-Yo, Draino Jetty, The Lolipop and of course the punfully cheeky, Shakes Pier.
Previous suggestions include:
Shorty, The Stub, Stuby, Stubsy, the very naughty The Amputee, The Helipad, The Fry Pan, The Tadpole, The Thermometer, the Coulda Shoulda Pier Thingy and The Banjo or even The Bard’s Banjo,
Keep ’em flowing
Candidates debate climate change and energy @ St Kilda Town Hall
Tuesday 26 April, 7 pm
Local enviro lobby PECAN has invited local candidates Josh Burns, Steph Hodgins-May and Collen Harkin to discuss Climate Change and Energy issues in front of a live audience.
Moderated by April Seymore from the Port Phillip EcoCentre, the event will also hear from Prof Kathryn Bowen, University Melbourne, a contributor to The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Book your free ticket
The event will be livestreamed
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Local socials campaign watch
Burns backs anti-hoon action
“Seven out of nine Port Phillip Councillors voted for measures that will reduce dangerous hooning on our streets.
“The Council took a step towards introducing a hooning by-law and also the purchase of a mobile CCTV trailer to deter dangerous driving.
“This is a huge step in the right direction.
“Despite the two Greens Councillors not voting for these sensible measures to protect locals from dangerous hooning, I will continue to work constructively with all Councillors to develop these safety measures,” he wrote on Instagram
Hodgins-May backs EVs
“Australia wants and needs a pro-electric car policy and plan. It’s possible, it’s cheaper, it creates a huge amount of green jobs and it will drive down pollution.
“That’s why the Greens will invest to:
Help you buy your first EV
Help build the Australian EV manufacturing industry
Legislate tough vehicle pollution standards to drive down emissions
Build a $2 billion publicly owned EV fast charging network – including fast charging stations in Macnamara
Electrify the Commonwealth fleet.
“If you support electric vehicle transit, vote Green this election,” she wrote on Instagram.
Harkin says small business will be better off
“Small businesses in Macnamara have done it tough through the pandemic.
“That’s why our Liberal Government is backing small businesses with asset write-offs to reduce financial pressure as they recover post-pandemic,” said Collen Harkin on Facebook.
Macnamara in the media
Greens narrow local hopes to Macnamara: The Age
The Age’s David Crow has reported that Green aspirations have narrowed but still include Macnamara. Last week he reported that:
“Bandt and the Greens used to name nine target seats in the lower house in the inflated hope they could mess with both major parties and seize the balance of power or even form a minority government with Labor.
“Interviewed for this publication on Wednesday, Bandt said the focus was on three Labor seats – Griffith, Macnamara and Richmond – and two Liberal seats, Ryan and Brisbane.”
Source The Age 8 April
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