COVID comes to St Kilda

The “St Kilda cluster” has grown and authorities have called for anyone who lives or works in Port Phillip, Glen Eira and Bayside to get tested regardless of symptoms.
The message is clear:
please get tested
please get vaccinated
please stay at home
and only go out for one of the five reasons.

Pop-up testing centre at Palais carpark
Walk in and drive through 9 am – 5 pm

Pop-up vaccination at Peanut Farm
ONLY UNTIL 5 PM SUNDAY 29 AUGUST 
Walk in 9 am – 5 pm
Both Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines are available.
You’ll need your Medicare Card and photo ID

Handy COVID info links 
Latest exposure sites
Where you can get tested
Where you can get vaccinated
Check the latest changes to local services and programs.

Cash lifeline for local music
Council has launched a cash assistance scheme to provide support to artists and crew who had been booked or rescheduled from now until 31 December.
The scheme also launches a Locals Playing Local database of local musicians.
Council will pay the artist fees for eligible venues engaging musicians from the database until 31 December.
A standard rate of $250 per musician is available for each performance.
Port Phillip artists are encouraged to register for the database.
Register now 

This Week in St Kilda #280

Kitchen2Kitchen recipes @ Space2b
Marine megafauna of our past @ EcoCentre zoom
The Art of Friendship Film @ Free online
TWiSK says the light will stay on .. with your help

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TWiSK is always free, proudly independent and totally self-fundedKitchen2kitchen @ Space2b & The Raw Garden
The team at Space2b will be sharing their share favourite recipes with you via a new Facebook site.
In the first recipe, Space2b board member and festival organiser Anu and her daughter share their home Tandoori Chicken recipe.
Kitchen2Kitchen Recipe 1: Tandoori Chicken
Please feel free to comment and post/share any photos of your cooking achievements.
Space2b Connect Facebook

Marine Megafauna of Melbourne’s Past @ EcoCentre Zoom
Thursday 26 August, 6.30 pm – 7 pm
Join the EcoCentre’s palaeontologist, Ben Francischelli, for the first of a two-part series.
Ben will be diving into the past to uncover the radical marine megafauna that once swam along Melbourne’s prehistoric coastline.
From bone-crushing sharks the size of a Humpback whale, to the deepest diving mammals ever known; this is a journey more than 30 million years in the making! Free
Book Now

Questioning: Adena Jacobs & Theo Boltman @ JewMu Zoom
Thursday 26 August, 6.30 – 7.30 pm
Last in the series of talks pairing prominent figures with young and emerging voices for a bold and rigorous discussion on Jewish identity.
Join award-winning theatre director Adena Jacobs and performer and podcast host Theo Boltman in conversation on art, activism and the intersections of queer and Jewish identity. $30/$25
Bookings 

Tiny Wood @ St Columba’s Primary School in Elwood
Anytime during your exercise
Tiny Wood has arrived at the tiny garden in front of St Columba’s school.
The school fairy invites you to make a tiny creature or paint a pebble to join to TinyWood.
You can even write a message to the school fairy, who magically responds on the school social media.
But there’s a friendly note from the fairy:
As a green school we prefer natural or recycled material.
24 Glen Huntly Rd, Elwood.
@stcolumbaselwood


The Art of Friendship Film @ Free online
Available free until midnight Friday 27 August
Directed by Jen Hughes, a Port Phillip local, records the friendship between two very different but now connected seaside communities.
www.filmfreeway.com/theartoffriendship
Password: AOFview21


BIG Sculpture call out @ Veg Out
Artist applications close on 27 August
Applications from artists for the second biennale outdoor sculpture exhibition and competition at Veg Out Community Gardens are now open.
Curated by Mariella Del Conte, Adrian Spurr and Rob Taylor, the exhibition has an impressive prize pool of $9500, with all awards being non-acquisitive.
Guidelines and Application forms 
Exhibition from 6 November until 12 December


For your entertainment
 “St Kilda Skies” @ Ashton Davy & the Complaints Department
A celebration of good times with music at Surabaya Johnny’s with photography by Jacqueline Walker set to a hand held recording of Ashton Davy and the Complaints Department. Rough but classy.
YouTube via St Kilda LIve Music

Secrets of St Kilda crossword @ Isabel Robinson & Stephen Sholl
New TWiSK readers may have missed the delightful crossword created by Isabel and Stephen last year.
Talk the clues with you for a walk of discovery
Test your local knowledge here

Mayor’s Facebook: A message for tough times
Lockdowns, curfews, mystery cases, COVID has really come to town. Mayor Louise Crawford hit Facebook last week to share three important messages.
Watch on Facebook

TWiSK says the light will stay on

TWiSK opinion
Lockdown 6.0 has been different.
Harder. More emotional. And now very much closer.
Just a stones throw from TWiSK is the Palais testing site and now a large vaccination centre in Peanut Farm.
Everyone is feeling the pressure in their own way –  It’s hard, and even harder for many.
Even in the grip of angst, deep down do you agree that we are better together?
Are you ready to focus on unity to prepare for the best recovery we can have?
TWiSK wants to keep the light on
And we want to do it with you.
Please keep sharing your news and events with TWiSK,
and we’ll publish them every Sunday.Greg Day
Happy to chat anytime 0418 345 829
Content suggestions and community questions are always welcome.
gday@archives.gdaystkilda.com.au

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This Week in St Kilda respectfully acknowledges the Yaluk-ut Weelam Clan of the Boon Wurrung.
We pay our respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging. We acknowledge and uphold their continuing relationship to this land.