St Kilda Beach main drain:
How does it compare to the
old Brookes Jetty?

This Week in St Kilda #284

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Peace Day candle lighting ceremony @ Planetary Healing Artists’ Association
Tuesday 21 September, 6.30-7 pm
Planetary Healing Artists’ Association invites the community to an online Peace Day candle lighting ceremony with messages or prayers for World Peace
This years’ theme is Healing the Youth, supporting the 2021 UN Peace Day theme: Recovering better for an equitable and sustainable world.
Get involved
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info@planetaryhealingartists.org

How to make Bhajia @ Space2b Kitchen2Kitchen
Friday 24 September, 6 pm
Sadhna Wilson (@thetropicalindian) will be sharing one of her recipes live via Zoom as part of Space2b’s Kitchen2Kitchen series. 
Her book the “Tropical Vegetarian” was awarded Best In The World at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.
She will demonstrate how to make Bhajia – a delicious Indian snack and member of the wider Pakora family – while sharing stories of her Fijian Indian family, expert tips and answering questions along the way.
Tickets for this special event are limited


Feels Like Home Virtual Gallery @ Space2b
Online 
Brighten your world with colour! This online exhibition brings together works from two previous collections: exhibitions Face2Face and Circles of Intricacy.

Entries open for Postcard Show @ Linden
Entries close Wednesday 13 October 2021
Limited to strictly one thousand 8 x 10 inch postcards.
The Linden Postcard Show invites individual you to submit up to three entries.
Please read the Terms and Conditions of entry before submitting
The exhibition will open to the public on Saturday 4 December 2021 and run until the 27 February 2022

School holiday activities @ Library online
Spring is here and so are school holidays.
The Port Phillip Libraries have a program of online activities and sources for kids.
There are competitions, STEM kits, manic and movies.
See the program now

Volunteers still needed this lockdown @ PPCG
With the extension of lockdown, PPCG has ramped up their Share the Food program to help deliver food and basic essentials to people isolating or experiencing severe financial hardship.
They are now urgently reaching out to the local community for more volunteer support, including:
Warehouse duties: packing food parcels, sorting stock, record keeping and more.
Transport & logistics: unpacking vans, stocking freezers, transporting food and more.
Administration support: emails, spreadsheets, records and more.
Get involved

Grants, event bookings and film fest

Small grants for local projects @ PP Love My Place Grants
Applications close 11.59 pm Sunday 10 October
Council’s Love My Place grants support new community creative activities in the public realm. As well as financial support of up to $15,000, successful applicants can receive with marketing, road closures, parking controls, permit approvals, permission to use spaces and more.
Click here for more information and a list of past grants 


Events in the great outdoors 22/23 @ Council
EOIs close 5 pm Thursday 30 September
Event organisers are invited to express interest in holding outdoor events in St Kilda (and Port Phillip) between 1 July 2022 and 30 June 2023.
This Council EOI covers a range of events or markets, including but not limited to:
• Major events
• Events requiring closures of major roads
• Long stay events
• Ticketed events attracting over 1,000 participants
• Ongoing markets with more than four proposed dates.
Complete the application form 


Enter your film in St Kilda’s own festival @ St Kilda Film Festival
Entries close on 31 January 2022
Planning for the next St Kilda Film Festival (26 May – 5 June 2022) has started and entries from filmmakers are now open.
The Festival screens the top 100 short film entries received each year alongside a program of special events and a free filmmaker development program.
For information about how to submit entries

Soon


MND benefit with Joe Camilleri and Wilbur Wilde @ Memo (Online)
Thursday 30 September, two sessions
Backed by the solid, rocking ‘TroubleMakers’ expect good-time R&B, hit after hit from The Falcons, Black Sorrows, DC, OL55 and maybe even a bit of Van the Man.
Proceeds from both great shows go to MND Victoria via MND Ambassador Pete ‘Chambo’ Chambers.
Online $15/$20
Tix 

Drain first, Jetty later?

The pandemic hasn’t halted progress on Melbourne Water’s Shakespeare Grove main drain outlet renewal project. Each day new elements are being added to rebuild the main drain with a circular viewing platform prosaically called the Circle of Reflection.
The new drain (pictured below) is set to be finished in the new year.
The completion of the temporary construction dam has provided the first clear indication of the scale of the works and how it compares to the Brookes Jetty that it replaces.
To make comparison more literal, we’ve added a scale footprint of the Brookes Jetty to the MW project graphic.While the main drain features a viewing platform, the 70 metre shorter extension into the bay effectively rules out a number of popular activities that were possible on Brookes Jetty, including:
X Fishing: the water depth at the furthest point is too shallow
X Swimming platform: there are no facilities (and the water would be too shallow at most times)
X Exploring under the jetty: the opportunities offered by the old wooden pylons are gone
= Views to St Kilda and beach: some offshore perspective, but not dramatic.
Jetty later?
Melbourne Water have designed the Circle of Reflection so a new jetty could be extended in the future.
TWiSK is interested in comments from readers: we’ll publish your responses in future editions
WikiWisdom: Here’s the definition of a jetty from Wikipedia
A jetty is a structure that projects from land out into water. It may also refer more specifically to a walkway accessing the centre of an enclosed waterbody. The term derives from the French word jetée, “thrown”, signifying something thrown out.
Google map prior to demolition of Brookes Jetty
Click to enlarge
Link to Melbourne Water information
Shakespeare Grove main drain project

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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.