TWiSK #328
Breakfast with Andrew Bassat @ JewMu online
Mending woollens @ Space2b
More MIFF @ Astor
Permaculture writer @ Readings
Cr Copsey joins race for State Parliament
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Maoko: Visible Mending Woollen Knits @ Space2b
Thursday 11 August, 10.30am – 1pm
Enjoy a fun workshop and learn how to give your old knits a new lease of life.
Learn the history of visible mending and practise repair techniques with talented Japanese sewer, Maoko Carroll. $30
Info
144 Chapel St, St Kilda 3182
Daddy Issues + Imperial Twenty @ Espy
Thursday 11 August, 7 pm
Daddy Issues is a four piece all-girl punk band. Supported by Imperial Twenty, a four-piece heavy rock outfit. Free
Imperial Twenty 7.30pm; Daddy Issues 8.30pm
Espy gigs 
Funny Bunny Comedy Night @ Bunny
Thursday 11 August, 8 pm – 9.30 pm
Comedy show every Thursday. Free
Tix
109 Fitzroy St 
Breakfast with Andrew Bassat @ JewMu Online
Friday 12 August, 8 am – 9 am
Andrew Bassat, Co-Founder, Executive Chairman & CEO of Seek investments and St Kilda Football Club President, will chat with Dashiel Lawrence, Executive Director of Plus61J. This will include a Q&A with the audience after the interview. Free online
Tix 
Dalicados @ George Lane
Friday 12 August, 6:30 pm – 11:30 pm
Dalicados are a six piece with songsmith James Lomas as lead vocalist and guitarist; rhythm section of Cal McAlpine on drums and Mark Carson on double bass; backing vocals, dance moves and percussion provided by Tracey McAlpine and Fiona Lee Maynard.
Special guest support is Bawden Green – Megan Bawden (The Peptides) and Cathy Green (X).
Tix 
Comedy In The Cellar @ St Kilda Cellars
Friday 12 August, 8 pm – 10:30 pm
Regular Friday night free laughs
45 Fitzroy St
Tix
More MIFF @ Astor
Continues until 21 August
MIFF programming at the glorious Astor continues, highlights include
Call Jane with Elizabeth Banks, Sigourney Weaver, Chris Messina. A timely drama about seeking an abortion in America.
Saturday 13 August, 12:15pm
Nick Cave double Feature: One More Time with Feeling & This Much I Know to Be True
Tuesday, 16 August at 6:30pm
MIFF program @ Astor 
Meet The Artist > Jane Burton @ Linden
Saturday 13 August, 2 pm – 3 pm
Join Jane Burton in conversation with Linden Projects Space curator Karl Halliday as they discuss the stories behind the artist’s new body of work Kingdom of Pleasure. Free
Info and tix
Linden Projects Space is not wheelchair accessible.
Benny & The Flybyniters @ George Lane
Saturday 13 August 13, 6:30 pm 11:30 pm
Benny & the Flybyniters have been a stalwart of the Melbourne roots music scene since 1999.
Tix 
Into The Mystic – The Music of Van Morrison @ Memo
Saturday 13 August, 7:30 pm
Belfast born Joe Creighton & his 7-piece band will take you Into The Mystic.
TWiSK has seen this show – Joe is the real deal and does Van proud. $50/$35
Tix
The Peptides @ Bowlo
Sunday 14 August, 5.30 pm
Local heroes 
St Kilda Repair Café @ EcoCentre
Sunday 14 August, 2 pm – 5 pm
Bring your small household items for repair, mending or in the case of computers, rehoming to refugees and asylum seekers – working equipment only, bring power cables/chargers.
55A Blessington St
info
Rosemary Morrow Talks Permaculture @ Readings
Sunday 14 August, 2 pm – 3 pm
Rosemary Morrow OAM is a global leader in eco thought. With 40 years of designing living systems and teaching around the world, she understands the methods and mindsets needed to restore the health and sustainability of our Earth.
Bookings
112 Acland Street
Sine Winther (Piano) & Olivier Marger (Cello) @ All Saints
Sunday 14 August, 3 pm – 4 pm
One of Australia’s finest emerging pianists, Sine Winther has recently established a diverse career in Germany as a soloist, chamber musician, student and tutor. She will be joined by cellist Olivier Marger who is a rising young cellist from Germany.
Tix
2 Chapel Street, East St Kilda
Steve Boyd’s Rum Reverie @ George Lane
Sunday 14 August, 4 pm – 8 pm
With New Orleans swagger, a large cup of soul, a spoonful of blues, and a dash of jazz noir, Steve Boyd’s Rum Reverie hoots and hollers.
Tix 
Sunday Blues | Kid James Trio @ Espy
Sunday 14 August, 6pm-9pm
‘Kid’ James (James Schembri) is the new kid on the block in the Melbourne Rockabilly scene. A nineteen-year-old singer/songwriter and guitarist that is performing authentic Rockabilly music just like it was performed by teenagers in the 50’s. Free
Espy gigs 
Returning the Gaze: Helmut through a contemporary lens @ JewMu
Sunday 14 August, 4 pm – 6 pm
Jewish Museum Senior Curator, Eleni Papavasileiou, journalist Rachelle Unreich, contemporary curator Jade Niklai, in a conversation moderated by Jewish Museum Director & CEO Jessica Bram. Enjoy drinks alongside this dazzling conversation followed by a viewing of Helmut Newton: In Focus. $30
Tix
Indian Film Festival of Melbourne Awards Night @ Palais
Sunday 14 August, doors 4.30 pm
Bollywood comes to St Kilda with Indian film stars like Abhishek Bachchan, Kapil Dev, Kabir Khan, Shefali Shah, Tamannaah, Vaani Kapoor and more. $36
Tix
Soon
Alana Wilkinson @ George Lane
Wednesday 17 August, 6:30 pm – 11 pm
Folk-pop-punk-poet Alana Wilkinson continues to emerge as one of the most loved new artists on the local scene.
Tix 
Scientific thrills and spills @ Sisters in Crime in the Library
Thursday 18 August, 6.15 pm
A Science Week event.
Authors Kimberley Starr and Sue Williams have both written books where science plays a pivotal role and will be exploring why it provides such fertile raw material for crime and mystery novels with aspiring author and trained forensic scientist, Maggie Baron.
Free but please book
150 Carlisle Street.
Hugo Race Fatalists (Album Launch) @ George Lane
Friday 19 August, 6.30 pm 11.30 pm
Hugo Race launches his new album Once Upon A Time In Italy with guests Michelangelo Russo and Georgia Knight.
YouTube | Tix 
22nd Davitt Awards @ Sisters in Crime
Saturday 27 August. 6.00 for 6.30pm
Frock (or suit up) for a gala dinner and presentation of the 22nd Davitt Awards Ceremony for best crime and mystery books.
To set the mood, award-winning ABC journalist and true-crime author Louise Milligan will discuss her life in crime with Sisters in Crime’s Jacqui Horwood.
Please book by Wednesday 24 August
Rising Sun, 2 Raglan St., South Melbourne
Iphis @ Theatre Works
Friday 26 August – Saturday 3 September, 7.30 pm
Saturday 27 August, 2.30 pm (Matinee)
Elena Kats-Chernin’s (pictured) first opera is a 70-minute chamber work written for 6 singers and 9-piece chamber orchestra.
Musically the work is a rich pastiche drawing on the cabaret traditions of Les Six and Kurt Weill, with echoes of Mozart and Stravinsky.
Lyric opera company was the winner of the 2019 Green Room Award for Contribution to the Development of Opera in Victoria.
Tix and info
State election transport forum @ St Kilda Town Hall
Tuesday 6 September, 6.30 pm – 8 pm
Hear what the major parties have to say about local transport issues and ask questions.
The panel includes three candidates seeking re-election:
David Davis, MLC: Senior Liberal and former transport spokesperson
Nina Taylor, MLC: Current MP seeking to transfer to Albert Park district
Sam Hibbins, MLA Prahran: Greens transport spokesperson
Town hall event with live stream option. Free
Tix and info
Copsey makes a bid for parliament (again)
Copsey makes a bid for parliament (again)Port Phillip Greens Councillor Katherine Copsey will stand for the State upper house in the Southern Metropolitan region.
Before 2018’s disastrous result for the Greens, former Greens MLC Sue Pennicuik represented Southern Metro from 2006 – 2018.
With effort, the Greens have a fighting chance to regain this and other Upper House positions.
In 2018, Copsey stood unsuccessfully for the lower house district of Brighton.
Meanwhile in the lower house
With long term and high profile MP Martin Foley stepping down, sections of the media have highlighted the seat of Albert Park as a possible loss for Labor and a win for the Greens.
But with only months to go, both the Greens and Liberals are yet to choose candidates.
Watch this space.
For Pete’s sake, real feedback from readers
A number of the usual suspects were too shy to share their thoughts on departing Council CEO Peter Smith’s achievements.
Even the Council’s media and website were silent on the news.
Seems they were following the sage advice of my late mother Margaret:
“If you cant say anything good, don’t say anything.”
But our In Box was not empty, and here’s what readers said:
“Bureaucratic structure, high staff turnover, sidelining of councillors eg on the Boyd painting affair and some dumb purchasing decisions. The last is epitomised by the new IT system which could have been cheaper and better.
That’s just for a start. But realistically you have to ask, what on earth were councillors doing to let this all happen?”
Noel Turnbull
“He was a strong advocate of the “Renew Fitzroy St” project which has been a success.”
Phil Le Blanc
“Pursued agendas that were not in line with resident and ratepayer expectations. He leaves a legacy of ferris wheels trashing our heritage, unwanted bike lane infrastructure, traffic congestion, road safety issues, endless events, night clubs in residential areas, helipads and private beaches – none of which were wanted by the local community and all of which reduce local amenity.
There is now an opportunity for CoPP councillors to reset by making available to residents and ratepayers for comment, the job description for the CEO role, prior to commencing the recruitment process. And while they are at it, extending the search for his replacement beyond the local government gene pool described in last week’s TWISK article.
Now’s the time to get off the merry go round of choosing from the usual suspects and make a fresh start with a council led by someone who will represent the aspirations of the people of the City of Port Phillip.”
Charmaine Catani
PP CEO factory now includes Cardinia and Brimbank
Last week we reported on the Port Phillip Alumni who had gone on to lead in other councils. Eagle eyed readers have pointed out we missed at least two notables, namely Carol Jeffs, CEO Cardinia Shire and Fiona Blair, Brimbank.
Greg Day
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