Musical Potter parody @ Theatre Works

This Week in St Kilda #257
Celebrate Mirka’s Birthday in style @ Tolarno
Amazing Laneway Market Festival @ Space2b
Painters & Dockers – Back To St Kilda (album launch) @ Memo
Carmel Shute – A Life in Crime @ U3A Talk
Renee Geyer @ Memo
Community Wellbeing Day @ Elwood Croquet Club
Phil Para @ George Lane

This week is the anniversary of the first COVID closures
Just 12 months ago, St Kilda was rocked by the rash of event cancelations and closures as the first COVID restrictions hit.
The Blues Festival cancelled, along with almost every arts, music and community event.
This Week in St Kilda tells a different story….
St Kilda is back with a different type of outbreak!
An outbreak of arts, music and community.
Bravo St Kilda

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Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts @ Theatre Works
Until 10 April, various times
From the co-creators of ‘Thrones! The Musical Parody’ comes their latest parody. After two successful back-to-back seasons at The Edinburgh Fringe and The King’s Head in London.
Warning (15+): Coarse Language, Sexual References, Simulated Death
Tix are selling fast – sold as booths in the TW glasshouse style 
🙁 no accessible seating


Meet the Artist > Nicholas Folland @ Linden YouTube and Facebook
Tuesday 16 March, 6 pm – 7 pm
To find out what this provocative exhibition is all about, gather your friends and join Curator Juliette Hanson and Nicholas Folland as they explore the themes, ideas and inspiration for this new exhibition.
Made up of 10,000 bottle caps, antique furniture and tree branches, this playful work interacts with Linden’s fascinating architectural features. Free
Bookings 


Kevin Bloody Wilson In The F.U.P.C Tour @ Memo
Tuesday 16 March, 7 pm
Go time travelling with Kev on his DILLIGAF tour. $60
Tix


Bike Confidence Course @ Peanut Park
Wednesday 17 March,12 noon – 3 pm
Thursday 18 March, 12 noon – 3 pm
Good Cycles present a three-hour workshop including basic bike maintenance, practical riding skills and an instructed on-road group ride to give you a confidence boost. Free
Bookings essential – plenty of spaces left The Women’s Show 15th Anniversary Exhibition @ Vivien Anderson Gallery
Wednesday 17 March – Saturday 10 April
The exhibition features leading and emerging Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander women artists in celebration of their contribution to Australian & international visual arts & culture.
Catalogue event & Talk
Wednesday 31 March 6 pm – 8 pm
A special evening in conversation with feature artists Maree Clarke and Lorraine Connelly-Northey
Please RSVP info@vivienandersongallery.com
Ground Floor, 284 – 290 St Kilda Road
Tuesday – Friday 11 am – 5 pm, Saturday 12 pm – 4 pm


Celebrate Mirka’s Birthday @ Tolarno
Thursday 18 March, 12.30 pm – 2.30 pm, 7.30 pm – 9.30 pm
The Jewish Museum is thrilled to offer two distinct events in celebration of Mirka’s life and legacy with French-inspired food by chef Ellie Bouhadana of @Ellies.Table.
Three-course meal paired with wines from Six Parallels South, Australia’s only multi-regional kosher winery, plus tea, coffee and entertainment. $140
Hurry only 60 places per sitting


Ash Grunwald @ Espy
Thursday 18 March, 7.30 pm
Blues and roots from a man with a big sound on a big journey. $49.50
Tix

Exhibition: Female Empowerment @ Space2b
Opening night Friday 19 March, 6pm – 8pm
Until 6 April, Tues – Fri 10am – 5pm, Sat 10am – 2pm
Face2Face is a series of collaborative works, painted by two artists from different cultural backgrounds teaming up to explore and share their chosen theme. F2F March delves into the theme of ‘Female Empowerment’ featuring Humaira Fayazi and Vicki Soar (pictured).
More info


Painters & Dockers – Back To St Kilda (album launch) @ Memo
Friday 19 March, 7.30 pm
The Dockers finally launch their latest live vinyl album, ‘You Know You Want To’, accompanied by their legendary three-piece brass section, The Brassholes, plus special guests Jenny Pineapple and Dali Batz. $55/$45
Tix


Indiana Jones trilogy @ Astor
Saturday 20 March, 11 am
Dr Jones I presume – all 314 minutes
Tix


Carmel Shute – A Life in Crime @ U3A Talk via Zoom
Saturday 20 March, 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm Free
For thirty years come September, Sisters in Crime Australia has been celebrating women’s crime writing. Co-founder Carmel Shute will tell tall tales and true under a grilling from a fellow convenor, Tara Mitchell.
Open to non-U3A members but you need to register


The Detonators @ George Lane
Saturday 20 March, 6 pm – 11 pm
Original rock’n’roll, blues and r&b band fronted by the larger than life “Rockbottom” James Moloney.
Tix


Two films about drinking @ Astor
Saturday 20 March, 7.30 pm
Beer stained programming here. Modern Euro meets classic 40-year-old crack another tinnie classic.
As George Thorogood would say, gimme a double shot of that stuff.
www.astortheatre.net.au


Live! on MxRS – Casting Call @ Enza Benincasa Gallery
Saturday 20 March, 8 pm
Would you like to learn more about MxRS? How about a chance to play a part of the series?
Come to the Enza Benincasa Gallery to meet writer/director/producer Morgan Ræ and showcase your skills.
The best in show will have the opportunity to be in episode 005 found on Anchor.fm/MxRS
75A Fitzroy St
Image Credit: Anthony Luejes of @three.a.design


Renee Geyer @ Memo
Saturday 20 March, 7.30 pm
Class. Renee is the real deal and Memo is an ideal stage for her. $55/$45
Tix


Community Wellbeing Day @ Elwood Croquet Club
Sunday 21 March, 10am to 3pm
The Elwood Croquet Club is throwing its doors open for a very special community wellbeing day. You’ll get a chance to try croquet or stretch yourself in a yoga session.
StarHealth will be there with a range of health professionals and teams present information on general health and wellbeing. Refreshments will be provided. Free
More information 
corner St Kilda Street and Head Street, Elwood


The High Life and Wild Times of Bessie Smith @ Ruby Carter Lounge
Sunday 21 March, 4 pm – 6 pm
John McAll and Molly Georgia present a musical narrative that invokes the boldness and raunchiness of Bessie Smith’s life – a  portal into a once dangerous, yet liberating world, of wild rootsy jazz music and speakeasy indulgences. $40
Tix
Ruby Carter Lounge is above Memo


Phil Para @ George Lane
Sunday 21 March, 4 pm – 8 pm
“Turning rock and roll into romanticism will be the order of the day.”
Tix


Laneway Market Festival @ Space2b
Sunday 21 March, 10 am – 3 pm
Over 15 stalls of new migrant designers and artists as well as Australian local makers.
Food from various cultures including Lebanese, Ethiopian, Brazilian, Nepalese and more.
Kids activities and entertainment throughout the day for you and your little princes and princesses to enjoy.
Entertainment includes:
Persian/Azari Music – Toranj Musics – 10:15 am
Rhythm of Life drumming – 11 am
Live Dance – ForrOz – 12 noon
Brazilian Parade – Bloco 3K – 12.45 pm in front of St Kilda Town Hall
Los Parceros – 2 pm
Info and program
In the laneway behind Space2b
144 Chapel St, Balaclava

Suzanne Frankham Book Launch @ Rising Sun
Monday 22 March, 6 pm – 7 pm
Yikes. Not in St Kilda, but interesting for Crime Sisters.
Lucy Sussex will be in conversation with Suzanne Frankham to celebrate the launch of Suzanne’s debut novel, Shadow Over Edmund Street,
Free but please book 
2 Raglan Street, South Melbourne.
For dinner afterwards, downstairs, ring (03) 9696 2411.

Eugene Hamilton & The Money @ Lost
Monday 22 March, 7.30 pm – 9.30 pm
Eugene is back on Monday nights in St Kilda. Show starts 7:30pm sharp.
Tix $15 online/$20 on the door 
211 Barkly Street

Soon


Gareeal: Yaluk-Ut Weelam Ngargee Opening Night Concert @ Memo
Thursday 25 March, 6.30 pm
A celebration of the Boonwurrung seasons, Gareeal – meaning ‘summer rains’, the current season – will open the Yaluk-ut Weelam Ngargee First People Arts and Cultural Festival with a night of song, ceremony, dance, soundscapes and immersive art.
Co-curated by Allara, with performances by Alice Skye, Bumpy and Monica Jasmine Karo, accompanied with string arrangements by Aaron Wyatt and performed by Ensemble Dutala & Friends, and ceremony led by Culture Evolves. $25/$15
Tix
Soon at Memo
Kate Ceberano – Friday 26 March
Aussie DC – 31st anniversary celebration – Saturday 27 March

Red Stitch’s Playlist @ Alma Park
Friday – Sunday 26 – 28 March, 6 pm
A celebration. A gathering. A live performance event. Red Theatre’s choose-your-own-adventure is now an outdoor music and theatre festival over 3 heady nights in late March, featuring an extraordinary line-up of Melbourne’s actors, creatives and musicians. $61
Tix


Elwood Sunday Marqt – Easter Edition @ St Columba’s Primary
Sunday 28 March, 10 am – 1 pm Free
Bring the youngsters for a free Easter egg hunt, browse the stalls, chow down on ice cream, sausages and Dutch pancakes, enjoy the buskers.
Info
St Columba’s Primary, 24 Glen Huntly Rd, Elwood

Ongoing

Watch out penguins, the humans are back @ St Kilda Pier Breakwater
Three sessions nightly until April from 8.30 pm
Bookings are essential.

Mirka @ JewMu
Until December
Mirka transforms the Jewish Museum into an immersive ‘Mirka-world’ that reflects the artist’s trademark mischievousness and bohemian spirit. $20/$15
Mirka info


Three shows @ Linden
Until 16 May,
Moving on from the Postcard Show, Linden has works from three impressive artists:
Ash Keating > Duality; Troy Emery > Sonder; and Nicholas Folland > Burn Down The House
Linden New Art
Linden hours Tuesday – Sunday
Session 1 > 11.15am – 1pm
Session 2 > 2pm – 3.45pm

Port Phillip celebrates inspiring women
Council is marking Woman’s History Month (8 to 31 March 2021), by featuring local women on posters around the ‘hood.
The women, who were selected by local groups, span politics, community and social services, education, entertainment and the arts in yesteryear.
Contemporary artist Rubii Red (pictured) was commissioned to design the background of the posters, which feature traditional First People’s women’s circles in purple, the colour of International Women’s Day.
Watch for the posters or see them now 

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