This Week in St Kilda #303
Some Happy Day film for Sacred Heart
Dirty Dancing Valentine’s Day movie in Gardens
Weekend Latin Fest on South Beach
Botanic inspiration for art with EcoCentre
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Barefoot outdoor cinema @ St Kilda Botanic Gardens
Until Wednesday 26 February
Enjoy Barefoot Cinema in the St Kilda Botanic Gardens (Herbert/Dickens Corner) $21/$17
Monday: Dirty Dancing
Tuesday: The Matrix: Resurrections
Wednesday: King Richard
Thursday: House of Gucci
Friday: Encanto
Saturday: No Time To Die
Sunday: Scream 5
Tix and info
Valentine blooms @ Luna Moss Flowers
After 7 years on St Kilda Road, this Valentine’s Day will be Luna Moss Flowers’s last hurrah before moving to 111 Barkly Street St Kilda.
They are open both Sunday and Monday for your valentines!
lunamossflowers.com.au/
380 St Kilda Road St Kilda
Aisling Quigley’s Meditate in The Gardens @ St Kilda Botanical Gardens
Tuesdays 6 pm – 7.30 pm
Facilitator Aisling says practicing in a group setting helps people learn from one another’s experience, feel safe to ask questions, and keep accountable, making the habit far more likely to stick. $20
Tix
The Rise and Fall of the Megatoothed Sharks @ EcoCentre online
Wednesday 16 February, 6.30 pm – 7.00 pm
Join the EcoCentre’s palaeontologist Ben Francischelli on a journey to uncover the largest sharks that ever existed.
The Megalodon was a bone-crunching apex predator that fed on the flesh of whales.
In this online talk, Ben will be examining the evolution, rise, and ultimate downfall of this monstrous shark and some of the new fossil evidence he’s finding. Free
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AC/DShe Australia @ Memo
Friday 18 February, 7.30pm
AC/DShe, Australia’s first female-fronted AC/DC tribute show, will commemorate 42 years since Bon Scott passed away by performing AC/DC hits whilst transmitting, energy and heart of Bon Scott through the voice of a woman. $35 / $20
Tix | YouTube
Goldminds @ George Lane
Friday18 February, 6.30 pm – 11.30 pm
“Goldminds have been kicking up the dirt from floors in living rooms, dive bars and iconic music venues across the city since 2019.”
This will rock in George Lane.
Tix | YouTube
St Kilda Latin Festival @ South Beach
Friday 18- Sunday 20 February, various times
The St Kilda Latin Festival will be a Carnival full of life, Samba, Tango, Salsa, Reggaeton, Capoeira, Cumbia and Bachata.
Free plus $$ VIP packages. Family friendly noon – 6 pm
stkildalatinfestival.com.au/
Celebrating our Coastal Soil @ St Kilda West Beach
Saturday 19 February, 10 am – 12 pm
Join the EcoCentre’s Multicultural Bay Ambassador Nethmi Nagahaulla to walk the land, feel the sand and connect to our coastline.
Learn about our fascinating coastal soil, indigenous plants and the sandy ecosystem. Free
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Science & Art: wild plants under the microscope @ EcoCentre (St Kilda West Beach)
Saturday 19 February, 1 pm – 3 pm
Come along to take a close up of look at the native plants of Port Phillip Bay.
Hosted by Multicultural Bay Ambassador, Cata (Catalina), a plant-biotech expert and lover of botanical drawing.
Explore the native plants of St Kilda West Beach, draw them, and share your findings and inspirations.
Language support is available in Spanish and Japanese.
Places are limited.
Register
Slow travel: walking our timeless land @ U3APP Saturday Seminar Zoom
Saturday 19 February, 2.30 – 3.30
Camels, deserts tracks and the footprints of ancient meteorites as experienced by Heather Wheat with facilitator Libby Smith. Free
Get link from 2.20 pm 
Baby et Lulu ‘album launch’ @ Memo
Saturday 19 February, 7.30 pm
Faux-French sensations Abby Dobson and Lara Goodridge, and their talented band, launch their much anticipated third album, ‘Album Trois’.
$55 / $35
Tix | YouTube
Pat Powell & His Band with ‘Funky Soul Sounds’ @ The Ruby Carter Jazz Lounge
Sunday 20 February, 3:30pm
A funky soul Sunday $40 / $35
Tix
Some Happy Day fundraiser for Sacred Heart @ Classic Elsternwick
Fundraiser Sunday 20 February, 6.30 pm
Special screenings: Monday 21 February and Wednesday 23 February, 6.30pm (74 mins)
‘Some Happy Day’ is a new film set in St Kilda, tackling the interweaving lives of a homeless woman and her troubled social worker. The film will have its Melbourne premiere on World Day of Social Justice (Sunday 20 February) with a fundraiser for Sacred Heart Mission.
Some Happy Day follows Tina, a homeless woman in desperate search of a better life, who meets Frances, a social worker with troubles of her own. Over a single day their lives interweave, revealing unsettling connections that lead to change and redemption. $30 fundraiser
Tix | Trailer
Has COVID given the St Kilda Festival back to the locals?
TWiSK opinion
Sunny afternoons, modest crowds, good security, management of alcohol and professional staging of quality acts.
TWiSK attended two afternoon / evening sessions (Thursday and Saturday) and enjoyed the very relaxed atmosphere.
Families, boomers with their chairs, all ages enjoyed the sea breeze, the music and the freedom to roam around.
It looked and felt like an authentic local festival but with heritage of good organisation.
Bravo.
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Please email your question suggestions to TWSK before COB Wednesday 16 February.
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gday@archives.gdaystkilda.com.au
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We pay our respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging. We acknowledge and uphold their continuing relationship to this land.