TWiSK #333
Two sold out Midnight Oil concerts @ Palais
Beach keepers Elwood Tea Tree Project
Back pedalling on bike lanes
Deja vu for Triangle
Politics paused for HRH QEII
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This is the Way I Draw exhibition @ Bau Architects and Urbanists
Until Friday 30 September, 11 am – 4 pm
Miriam Bereson loves to draw and the crew at Bau Architects lover her work. So, they invited her to be the first exhibition in an ongoing series in their offices.
More drawings
117 Fitzroy St 
Midnight Oil @ Palais
Monday 12 September and Wednesday 14 September
Sold out in minutes – and TWiSK missed out!
Women in Wine @ Little Prince Wine
Thursday 15 September, 6.30 pm
The Prince brings together the leading ladies of the wine industry in an evening hosted by Kara Monssen, Herald Sun Food and Wine writer.
Kara will take the panel through a series of topics with audience questions.
The panel includes: Jeni Kolkka from Curly Flat; Lucy + Alysha from Allevare Wines; and Jean Taylor – Genie Wines. $59 pp
Bookings 
Tax Evaders + Uncle Umma @ Espy
Thursday 15 September, 7 pm
Espy gigs
Design Fringe Launch @ Carlisle Street Art Space
Friday 16 September, 6 pm – 8 pm
Design Fringe Exhibition opening @ Linden
Saturday 17 September, 2 pm – 4 pm
Exhibition opening and the announcements of the Design Fringe Award winners.
Design Fringe 2022 asks participating designers to ‘Design the Future: Don’t Waste Time’. Linked to the major global challenge of sustainability, the exhibition encourages both designers and visitors to rethink our relationship with objects, as well as raising awareness to help us to make better choices about what we buy in order to reduce the amount of waste we produce.
Exhibition runs until 27 November.
Info
Scott Darlow @ Espy
Friday 16 September, 8.30 pm
Scott Darlow is playing the first three Fridays of September. A Yorta Yorta descendent, Scott is a versatile singer-songwriter, guitarist, and didgeridoo player. Free
Espy gigs
Motown to Memphis @ Memo
Friday 16 September, 7 pm
“Platinum selling Young Diva Kate Dearaugo, Internationally acclaimed ARIA chart sensation Greg Gould and Melbourne’s very own powerhouse diva Sarah C in a celebration of some of the greatest songs of all time.” $45 / $25
Tix
Candlelight: A Tribute to Adele @ National
Friday 16 September – 6.30pm and 8.30pm
Discover the music of Adele under the gentle glow of candlelight. $66
Tix
Kim Volkman & The Whiskey Priests @ George Lane
Friday 16 September, 6:30 pm – 11:30 pm
Rock’n’roll legend Kim Volkman alongside his band of Whiskey Priests (Helen Cattanach – Moler) and Carl Manuell (The Peptides) are back.
Tix 
Omid Djalili @ Palais
Friday 16 September, 8.30 pm
Born in Kensington London, Omid Djalili is a British-Iranian multi-award-winning stand-up comedian, actor, writer and producer. $79
Tix 
Beach keepers of the Tea Tree @ Elwood Foreshore Reserve
Saturday 17 September, 10:00am – 12:00pm
Join monthly family friendly volunteer fun along the Elwood Foreshore reserve.
Learn how to identify local native plants and participate in a variety of conservation activities.
Your efforts will help protect and enhance the biodiversity of the Elwood tea tree foreshore and encourage habitat for small birds such as the Superb Blue Fairy-wren. Free
Register now
Has the change of government ended the climate wars? @ U3APP Saturday Zoom
Saturday 17 September, 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm
Tony Wood, Energy Program Director, Grattan Institute asks Are we there yet?
www.u3app.org.au – scroll down and click on “public events”.
Mi-Sex – Space Race Reeboot @ Memo
Saturday 17 September, 7 pm
Mi-Sex returns with a live show featuring all their greatest hits. $45 / $38
Tix
Waz e James Band (Feat. Andrew Pendlebury) @ George Lane
Saturday 17 September, 6:30 pm – 11:30 pm
Original Country Rock band Waz e James featuring Andrew Pendlebury (The Sports, Slaughtermen) are back
Tix
Candlelight Orchestra: Best of Joe Hisaishi @ National
Saturday 17 September – 6.30pm and 8.30pm
Discover the music of Joe Hisaishi under the gentle glow of candlelight.$70
Tix
Elwood Market @ Elwood Park
Sunday 18 September, 9.30am – 4pm
Bourne local Elwood market is an event for all the family to enjoy with music, friendly stalls and great gourmet foods in our picnic area.
Info 
Michael Biehn live before The Terminator @ Astor
Sunday 18 September, 2 pm before 5 pm film
Sci-Fi & Action Icon Michael Biehn will be getting up close & personal The Astor Theatre!
This special session will see the star discussing his career in a LIVE career retrospective that includes an audience Q&A, then followed by a special screening of sci-fi classic The Terminator.
Tix 
Hank Williams tribute – Celebrating 99 Years @ George Lane
Sunday 18 September, 4 pm – 8 pm
Celebrating Hank’s extensive catalogue of tunes led by Hank Ferguson (vocals), Peter Baylor (guitar) Ben Franz (steel guitar) – The Waifs, Cat Moser (fiddle) and Jono Brown (double bass).
Tix
Burn in Hell @ St Kilda Sports Club
Sunday 18 September, 5.30 pm – 7.30 pm
Free
Sunday Blues | The Tonalists @ Espy
Sunday 18 September, 6 pm
The Tonalists are a 3-piece outfit from Melbourne, playing a soul blues inspired repertoire, inventively morphed to fit their line up of Hammond organ, pianos, guitar, lap steel, vocals and drums. Free.
Espy gigs
Skunkhour @ Espy
Sunday 18 September, 6:30 pm
Legendary 90’s alt-funk, soul-rock pioneers Skunkhour return for a national tour. $55
Espy gigs
Senser @ Theatre Works
Until Saturday 17 September
The world premiere of Brittanie Shipway’s latest work, Senser. A graduate of NIDA, Shipway is a proud Gumbaynggirr and Turkish woman, her latest work asks; “Would you risk every-thing to hear a song one last time?”
Senser aims to transport audiences into a dark and enchanting world of drag kings, cabaret queens, and outlawed dance halls.. Spooky.
www.theatreworks.org.au
Rehearsal pics with Luisa Scrofani and Adam Noviello
Soon
Kids Holiday Program @ Gasworks
Monday 19 September – Sunday 2 October
Gasworks’ kids holiday programs offer creative and entertaining experiences for children aged 4 to 14 during the school holidays. Bringing together a range of energetic artists and performers who specialise in working with kids.
Program
Home and Belonging Book Launch @ Space2b
Thursday 22 September, 6 pm – 8 pm
Space2b is hosting a special evening of literature, food and drink, aptly named Home and Belonging. Our guests, Pirooz Jafari, author of Forty Nights and Janine Mikosza, author of Homesickness will discuss their books and basically have a ‘heart yarn about home and belonging’. $20
Register 
Wog Boys Forever with Nick Giannopoulos @ Palais
Thursday 22 September – Sunday 25 September
Starting on Thursday with the VIP Red Carpet World Premiere of the new comedy Wog Boys Forever with Nick Giannopoulos performing Live on Stage before the film.
Then nightly until Sunday with exclusive screenings of the film on the big Palais screen. $50
Tix
Jewish men and women remembered @ St Kilda Cemetery
Sunday 25 September, 2.00pm
Hear the fascinating stories of the lives of Jewish men and women on a tour led by Claire Barton.
$15 includes refreshments afterwards
Meet at the Dandenong Road Gates at 2.00pm
Bookings required
Ring Gabriel on 0451 831 102 or
email gabrielhermes@live.com
No Waste Kitchen Workshop @ Elwood Neighbourhood House
Tuesday 27 September, 6 PM – 9 PM
Farmers’ Market tour guide Isabel Gardener will show you how to dramatically reduce the waste from your kitchen, no matter what your circumstances. Meet other locals and share ideas – maximum of 15 people. $15 / $5
Book your place by calling 9531 1954
More info
Big Fringe @ Theatre Works
Tuesday 4 October – Saturday 22 October
Theatre Works is celebrating Melbourne Fringe’s 40th Year with 13 shows across their two venues, Theatre Works Acland Street and the Explosives Factory in Inkerman Street.
A jam-packed program of local, national and international works offers “full scale musicals with brand new scores to interactive clown shows and gut-wrenching dramas.”
See the full program 
The queer heart of Fringe @ Pride Centre
Friday 7 October – Sunday 23 October
The Pride Centre will host 26 shows over 10 days in the Fringe, including stand-up comedy, theatre, cabaret, live music, an interactive music show for kids, and panel discussions about inclusive design.
Highlights include: ‘Cheers, Queers!’ (20-23 Oct) with LGTBIQ+ comedians (pictured), ‘The Big D’ (14-16 Oct) – a new show from drag performer Abril LaTrene, and ‘Shapeshifting’ (15 Oct) – a storytelling and music event for Trans communities with Key Change choir.
There’s also two free Design Fringe events: the ‘Design Fringe Keynote Talk & Industry Networking Night’ (7 October) and ‘Strange Bedfellows: First Nations Fashion vs Inclusive Architecture’ (23 October).
melbournefringe.com.au 
Murder, mystery and memory @ Sisters in Crime
Friday 7 October, 8 pm. Dinner from 6.30 pm
Authors Megan Goldin, Tania Chandler, and Nell Pierce explore tricky issues about memory, mayhem and much more – with award-winning short story writer, Ruth Wykes.. $22/$10 dinner extra.
Book
Men or ‘brothers-in-law’ welcome. Rising Sun, 2 Raglan Street, South Melbourne.
Pay now, FOGO later?
Pay now, FOGO later?Questions were asked at Council about the new $88 FOGO charge that has appeared on some rate notices in advance of the service starting.
Council staff said they expected the service to start for about 18,000 households in the New Year – and that current rates notices must include all the year’s charges.
Rate Payers of Port Phillip (RoPP) President Campbell Spence told TWiSK it was reassuring the kerbside FOGO bins and collection services were on track to commence in January 2023.
“But if it costs $88 for 6 months when this is similar to what other councils charge for a full year. Does this mean that the FOGO charge will double for the first full FOGO bin service year, 2023-24?”
Music venue back in the frame as triangle argument gets circular
After more than two decades of talking about St Kilda’s best located but most ugly carpark, Council has resolved to spend an estimated at $378,000 (excluding internal resources required to support the project) to investigate the financial viability of attracting a music venue to the site.
Public submissions to Wednesday’s Council meeting from music venue supporters argued that there was a need for a Southside standing audience music venue with a 2000+ patrons capacity – reminiscent of the former Palace venue on the site.
However, former Deputy Mayor Serge Thomann, talking on behalf of unChain, expressed concerned that a music venue focus was too narrow, suggesting that it would cost $100m and there were already 20+ venues of that kind in Melbourne.
Test the market for music venue
After the decision was previously postponed pending more options, Cr Andrew Bond successfully moved a motion to crack on with the feasibility study to genuinely assess if a music venue was viable.
Cr Baxter, Copsey and Consulo spoke in support of an option that included more technical analysis and a broader scope.
Effectively, they wanted to wait for the “big fish to land.”
Tone of déjà vu
The absence of a breakthrough idea or bold vision for the site gave the Council discussion a flat, unenthusiastic tone.
Yes, there was a consensus that a car park was a poor use of the space, but there was also an evident lack of passion.
Palace and Palais de Danse: Same site, same fate
(Pictured above) While many will remember the Palace burning down in 2007, fewer can recall the Palais de Danse on the exact same site burning down in 1968. Visit Wikipedia for the history lesson
But the Triangle doesn’t need a history lesson, it needs big ideas that can command both community support and investment.
Back pedalling on bike paths
Question time at last week’s MTF Transport Forum was dominated by public comments on the recent bike infrastructure installed by the Department of Transport. The following day, Council voted to accept a extensive list of adjustments suggested by DoT in response to concerns. Read the motion in full
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