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Mayor Cr Bernadene Voss (centre) with CEO Tracey Slatter (left) and Cr Amanda Stevens with some of the Port Phillip Pride Squad at the 2016 march.

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Next gen skaters soar in St Kilda The 2016 Bowl Riot Under 16 skating competition saw girls and boys from around the country and the world compete for thrills and a prize pool worth $10,000.

Zac Callahan, a familiar face from the St Kilda bowl, qualified first in the Under 16s, eventually taking out second place and a $2,000 prize.

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We love hearing from our community and have started a challenging year by asking ‘How do we keep our City great?’

With a new cap on rates, we expect a $1.4 million funding gap if we deliver similar services and project investment as last year. This is because most of our costs are not part of what determines the general inflation rate. Through consultations, face-to-face and online, we have been receiving ideas and input to guide our priorities for the 2016/17 Budget. We look forward to sharing the results with you.

Our Council launched a huge summer campaign to complement the massive clean-up effort we always do when thousands of visitors flock to our parks and beaches, particularly on public holidays. It was disappointing that despite our very active campaign, including extra bins and cleans and

a social media blitz, some thoughtless revellers still left a mess. We’d love to hear your ideas on how we can further educate people to ‘enjoy, not destroy’. For inspiration, please go online and check out the face of our campaign, Phil the Penguin, who has become YouTube star.

Summer has been crammed with wonderful events, including the 21st Pride March. As well as a financial contribution, a Council contingent was among nearly 5,000 marchers supporting this year’s theme of marriage equality.

As we move into autumn, there are many things to do locally. Check out the classes listed in the liftout, the many local activities and opportunities to contribute to our community. What new activity will you try in 2016?

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www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/ contact_us.htm Phone: 03 9209 6777 Facsimile: 03 9536 2722 SMS: 0432 005 405 email: assist@portphillip.vic.gov.au

Fit, strong and moving on

For more information please visit: www.relayservice.gov.au

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Festival of Live Arts

St Kilda Mums earns the Premier’s praise

Exploring blindness, illness and ageing, with a few geniuses thrown in

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Please contact ASSIST on 03 9209 6777 if you require a large print version.

Audio recordings of Divercity are available on the City of Port Phillip website and on CD at Port Phillip libraries.

Divercity 83 - March / April 2016 Editor: Greg Day - gday@edunity.com.au Story suggestions are welcome: next deadline 18 March 2016 for May / June.

Divercity feedback: engagement@portphillip.vic.gov.au Information included in this magazine is accurate at the time of publishing but may be subject to change.

Local yum chums

Books on wheels

Local highlights of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival

Food for the brain delivered by library volunteers

The City of Port Phillip respectfully acknowledges the Yalukit Willam Clan of the Boon Wurrung. We pay our respect to their Elders, both past and present.

We acknowledge and uphold their continuing relationship to this land.

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Award winners Sustainability Award for St Kilda Mums.

St Kilda Mums, Geelong Mums and Eureka Mums have won the Community Award and the Premier’s Recognition Award in the 2015 Premier’s Sustainability Awards.

Their Recycle, Reuse, Rehome project involves over 900 volunteers working in three regions to collect, recycle and rehome babies’ and children’s gear. In the process, they create a sustainable supply chain.

Volunteers clean and repair all donated goods and ensure that items meet national safety requirements. These items are then donated to families in need by social workers from 250 social welfare agencies.

Donate or volunteer stkildamums.org

St Kilda Mums CEO Jessica Macpherson (holding the Sustainability Award trophies) with volunteers Kate Jackson, Bridget Tomkins and Leslie Karantonis.

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Eight year old Katrina is an expert in giving life advice. Ask her a question when Genius arrives at the St Kilda Town Hall.

Help name the new family centre The Clarendon Family Centre is getting a new Indigenous name and Council would like you to help choose from a shortlist developed with the Traditional Owners: Koolin-buluk Balit = strong people Koolin-ik = my families Koolin-ngal = our families The new centre offers maternal and child health services and a toy library. A community room, located at 400 Clarendon Street, South Melbourne, is also available for hire.

Email your preferred name clarendonfc@

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Don’t go cold on litter Got an idea about how to get cigarette butts, glass and other rubbish out of our parks, off our streets and away from our marine life?

Share your idea www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/

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Outside the margins Theatre Works is the local hub of the second Festival of Live Art (FOLA) to be held in March. Other hubs are the Footscray Community Arts Centre, and Arts House in North Melbourne. FOLA puts marginalised groups - in this instance, the neurodiverse and female playwrights - in the spotlight and features the topics of blindness, illness and ageing.

Highlights include Playing Shop, in which children aged 6-10 are invited to be part of the performance; Portraits In Motion, an Edinburgh Fringe award-winning work by German flip book creator Volker Gerling; Blind, a solo work

from internationally renowned dancer-puppeteer Duda Paiva; and Earshot, based on conversations overheard in St Kilda locations in February.

Premiering at St Kilda Town Hall will be the Theatre Works-St Martin’s co-production Genius, which invites you into the minds of eight neurodiverse young people and their topics of expertise, which range from Gough Whitlam to royal families of the world.

Buy tickets and see the full program theatreworks.org.au

Many reasons to be excited about local theatre With ticket prices in the affordable $20 - $50 range, a night of live theatre can become more of a regular pleasure than an annual event. Red Stitch, Gasworks, Theatre Works and the National Theatre Drama School all punch above their weight in the quality and diversity of their productions. All of these

Your voice in Port Phillip Register now - www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/haveyoursay

theatre companies have new programs for the 2016 season.

Make 2016 your live art year gasworks.org.au theatreworks.org.au redstitch.net drama.nationaltheatre.org.au

Artist’s impression of a transformed Acland Street.

Work will start mid-year.

St Kilda Triangle update The masterplan for the St Kilda Triangle will be considered for adoption by Council in March / April. Thank you to everyone whose feedback helped refine the draft masterplan.

Stay in the loop stkildatriangle.com

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A place for all in Acland Street Acland Street will soon be transformed with a refreshed streetscape, new pedestrian space near Barkly Street and a level access tram terminus.

Extending the footpaths will provide more pedestrian space and enable all people to board the Route 96 trams at footpath level. Under the Commonwealth Government’s Disability Discrimination Act 1992,

Safer speed limits for local streets Council plans to reduce the speed limit to 40 km/h on some local streets. Lower limits are proposed for parts of Port Melbourne, South Melbourne, St Kilda Road precinct and St Kilda East. About half of all local streets in Port Phillip already have 40 km/h limits.

The reduced limits will apply from mid-2016, subject to community feedback and VicRoads approval.

Life begins at 40 portphillip.vic.gov.au/

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providing level access to trams is a requirement for Public Transport Victoria.

Construction of the Acland Street streetscape and tram stop is expected to begin in mid-2016.

Follow the upgrade portphillip.vic.gov.au/

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Design for South Melbourne lifesavers Have your say on the draft design for the new South Melbourne Life Saving Club. The new building, to be constructed in the same location as the current building, is due to open in summer 2018.

The sustainable design includes new accessible toilets and other modern facilities.

Review the draft design Saturday 2 April, 10 am - 12 noon South Melbourne Lifesaving Club Beaconsfield Parade (opposite Withers Street), Albert Park. portphillip.vic.gov.au/haveyoursay

Thanks to some crafty workshops being conducted until April with the Port Phillip Men’s Shed, free mini book swaps are popping up across our city.

For the final months of ARTcontained at Station Pier, community groups have taken over four shipping containers to run woodwork classes and exhibit artworks.

The Men’s Shed is using one of the containers to make oversized wooden letterboxes that will be used as book swapping hubs.

Waterfront Welcomers will invite cruise ship passengers to get swapping at Station Pier.

Other community groups are getting involved in book swaps in different locations across Port Phillip.

ARTcontained explained portphillip.vic.gov.au/

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Making new friends Yellow Ladybugs is a parent-run friendship group for young girls with autism (high functioning Aspergers) who attend mainstream schools. The group aims to help girls connect, make friends and socialise to create a network of friends outside of school.

Get connected yellowladybugs.com.au info@yellowladybugs.com.au

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Currently a vacant site, a new school is due to open at 129 Ferrars Street, South Melbourne in 2018.

Ferrars Street site for vertical school Council is working with the Victorian Government to open an education and community precinct that houses a vertical primary school and community facilities.

rising over six levels. Council will also deliver integrated facilities for preschool, maternal and child health, and community activities at the school.

Open space on Buckhurst Street, opposite the school, purchased by Council and the Victorian Government will provide welcome open space to the precinct.

Council is also designing an attractive streetscape that will seamlessly integrate with an upgraded City Road tram stop to provide safe travel for families as they go to and from school.

Located in Ferrars Street, South Melbourne, on a relatively small block adjacent to the City Road tram stop, the new integrated facility will contain a primary school for over 500 students

Find out more about the precinct portphillip.vic.gov.au/

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Please place your leaves in bags (not cardboard boxes; they get soggy) and book a green waste collection. Also, the 2016 street cleaning schedule is now available on the Council’s website.

Book a green waste collection ASSIST 9209 6777 portphillip.vic.gov.au/

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Formula 1 information Thursday 17 - Sunday 20 March Albert Park Reserve Local residents and businesses will receive their temporary access and parking permits for the 2016 Formula 1® Australian Grand Prix in the weeks leading up to the event.

ASSIST 9209 6777

Council funding and subsidy opportunities Applications for the Port Phillip annual community and arts grants and subsidies are now open.

Don’t miss the opportunity to apply for funding for your next project. Grants are available for activities that promote social justice, inclusion, creativity, equity, health and wellbeing, recreation and arts, and cultural heritage within the municipality.

Applications close 24 March 2016 portphillip.vic.gov.au/

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Thursday 3 - Saturday 12 March Gasworks Theatre 21 Graham Street, Albert Park Rent tells the story of a group of impoverished friends struggling to survive in New York City. gasworks.org.au 9699 3253

Can we talk about Poland?

Cyanotype workshop at Linden Sunday 6 March, 2 pm - 4 pm Linden New Art 26 Acland Street, St Kilda Bring along small objects from your garden and learn how to compose them on light sensitive paper. Create three cyanotype prints to take home. Facilitated by artist Eleanor Louise Butt. $40 trybooking.com/JZMF

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Tuesday 15 March - Saturday 16 April Red Stitch Actors Theatre, Rear 2 Chapel Street, East St Kilda Tuesday 8 March - Saturday 19 March Theatre Works, 14 Acland Street St Kilda Brazilian artist Duda Paiva blends dance and puppetry in a solo work about his childhood and a mysterious illness that rendered him temporarily blind. theatreworks.org.au 9534 3388

Jazz by the seaside

Thursday 3 March - Sunday 6 March Various St Kilda venues

Photograph by Arnold Zable.

Opens Sunday 6 March Jewish Museum of Australia 26 Alma Road, St Kilda Shedding light on Jewish life in postwar Poland through the photographs of award winning storyteller Arnold Zable and emerging photographer Lindsay Goldberg. jewishmuseum.com.au

Memo Hall, Claypots and the Bowlo will swing to sultry summer sounds as part of St Kilda Summer Jazz. Artists include jazz legends Vince Jones, Peter Guadion and Bob Sedergreen.

Bright World

Writers Andrea James and Elise Hearst explore the ways in which they are marked by the struggles and achievements of their ancestors.

Linden Art Prize

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Friday 4 March - Sunday 1 May Linden New Art 26 Acland Street, St Kilda

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Wednesday 13 - Saturday 30 April Theatre Works 14 Acland Street, St Kilda

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The 2016 finalists of this Contemporary Art Award are Emma Coulter, Simon Crosbie, Jenny Peterson, Julie Shiels, Elizabeth Wallace and Deborah White.

In an opulent drawing room, Kathryn, a photographer, waits to take a portrait.

Splendour is a striking tale of power and secrets. Written

by Abi Morgan, directed by Jenny Kemp.

Construction #4, 2015, painted timber, by Emma Coulter.

Image courtesy of Emma Coulter and Anna Pappas Gallery.

food & wine

HEAT’s Homeless Lunch

Friday 4 March Luna Park 18 Lower Esplanade, St Kilda

HEAT (Hospitality Education and Training) students will prepare a three-course fine dining lunch at the mouth of Luna Park for over 200 people experiencing homelessness. $55 donation provides a classy meal for a person experiencing homelessness hwllunch.com.au

Efendy’s Anatolia

Friday 4 March, 6.30 pm Lezzet Restaurant 81 Brighton Road, Elwood

Somer Sivrioglu of Balmain’s Efendy Restaurant joins Lezzet Restaurant’s Kem Barut to celebrate his new book Anatolia and all things Turkish. $65, includes several courses from Sivrioglu’s books (drinks extra) melbournefoodandwine.com.au

Wasting away

Saturday 5 March, 4 pm Capi 2 - 4 Buckhurst Street, South Melbourne Find out how Melbourne is making headway in the war against food waste. Panel discussion facilitated by Triple R’s Cam Smith. Speakers include chef Guy Grossi, Adam Bandt MP and Katy Barfield, founder of the Yume App. Free; bookings required melbournefoodandwine.com.au

Port Phillip Mussel Festival Saturday 12 - Sunday 13 March from 12 noon South Melbourne Market Cecil Street, South Melbourne Enjoy a mussel cook up from top Melbourne chefs, plus street peddlers, music and local wines.

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Notable and notorious women

Wednesday 9 March, 6.30 pm Jewish Museum of Australia 26 Alma Road, St Kilda

Sunday 3 April, 2 pm St Kilda Cemetery main gates Dandenong Road, St Kilda East

Enjoy traditional Polish Jewish cuisine in the museum’s gallery space, surrounded by contemporary Polish photography. $110 trybooking.com/173594

A Roman feast with Karen Martini Thursday 10 March, 6 pm Mr Wolf 9 - 15 Inkerman Street, St Kilda Feast as an emperor would have at this Roman banquet presented by Karen Martini - pastas, whole birds and suckling pigs in a communal setting, accompanied by wines from Rome and surrounds. mrwolf.com.au 9534 0255 $180

Join this intriguing tour to hear about the lives of some fabulous women buried at St Kilda Cemetery, including racing car driver Joan Richmond.

ANZAC Day tour Monday 25 April, 2 pm Visit graves of World War 1 veterans and others who fought in Australian campaigns. $10 for non-members, members free 9531 6832 info@foskc.org

Honour, service and strife

Saturday 16 April, 10 am - 12 noon Emerald Hill Library and Heritage Centre 195 Bank Street, South Melbourne

Hear the untold stories of local nurses who served in World War I. Discover the secrets behind the World War I honour board at South Melbourne Town Hall - the misspellings, the missing and the still living.

Free; bookings required bit.ly/serviceandstrife

Secret letters revealed

Tuesday 26 April, 6.15 pm Emerald Hill Library and Heritage Centre 195 Bank Street, South Melbourne Come along to a talk by Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society and hear the story of a secret compartment in the Nott Street School World War I honour board and the handwritten messages from families hidden there.

Free; bookings required bit.ly/notthonour 9209 6416

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what’s happening in your city Your guide to what’s on, in and around your city - www.portphillip.vic.gov.au/events Port Melbourne

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Kids’ holiday program at Gasworks Thursday 31 March - Thursday 7 April Gasworks Arts Park 21 Graham Street, Albert Park

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Women in sport

Thursday 10 March, 6.30 pm - 8.30 pm South Melbourne Town Hall A special International Women’s Day event hosted by Council.

Canal clean up

Loose Ends is the story of a man who thinks he can organise all his life in boxes and has a knack for getting into mischief. For ages 5 to 12 and their families.

Join the circus Thursday 31 March Learn object balance, hula hooping and acrobalance.

Shadow puppets Thursday 31 March Design, make and perform with shadow puppets.

Dance like Michael Jackson Friday 1 April Learn a step by step dance routine from the Thriller or Smooth Criminal film clips.

Art workshops Wednesday 6 April Painting and drawing.

Coppersmithing Thursday 7 April Make your own singing bowl with resident sculptor Benjamin Storch.

Music for little feet Tuesday - Friday, various times Children aged six months to five years can take part in Little Feet music classes at Gasworks. Teachers play guitar, sing, use puppets and colourful props. littlefeetmusic.com.au gasworks.org.au 10

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Free, bookings essential civicevents@portphillip.vic.gov.au 9209 6762

Loose Ends Tuesday 5 April, 11 am and 1.30 pm

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Sundays 13 March, 17 April at 10 am Elwood Canal beside the Glen Huntly Road bridge.

Help keep Elwood beautiful and protect the waterways for wildlife. Bring sturdy gloves and bags. All welcome.

Port Melbourne Community Carnival Saturday 19 March, 12 noon - 4 pm Liardet Street, between Lalor and Nott streets Port Melbourne Neighbourhood Centre is looking for volunteers to help organise the carnival. You can help with promotion, set up, food preparation, art workshops and pack up.

Rachel Edward 9645 1476 marketing@pmnc.org.au

Join the 15th Albert Park Relay for Life

Starting your business right workshop Thursday 17 March, 5 pm - 8.30 pm St Kilda Town Hall 99a Carlisle Street, St Kilda Learn how to conduct a market analysis, determine the best structure for your new business and develop a concise business plan. $30 portphillipbusiness.com.au

The clean streets of 3184

Saturday 19 March, 9.30 am - 10.30 am Tennyson shops, cnr Tennyson and Scott streets Saturday 16 April, 9.30 am - 10.30 am Elwood Village, cnr Beach Avenue and Ormond Road

Join a group of Elwood locals to collect litter in the 3184 ‘hood. facebook.com/LoveOurStreet3184

Saturday 16 April, 10.30 am Sunday 17 April, 10.30 am Palms Lawn, Albert Park Lake Join or form a team to participate in a 24 hour relay-style walk. Teams raise funds for the Cancer Council.

Emily Cusworth 1300 65 65 85 albertpark@relayforlife.org.au

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Piers Festival

Sunday 3 April Princes Pier

The Piers Festival, held at the historical Port Melbourne piers precinct, celebrates our Indigenous and shared migration stories with a range of diverse music, dance, food, forums and exhibitions. multiculturalarts.com.au

Business planning essentials workshop Thursday 14 April, 5 pm - 7 pm St Kilda Town Hall 99a Carlisle Street, St Kilda Take your business to the next level with a clear business plan. Learn the important elements of finance, leasing a premise, staff recruitment and more. $20 portphillipbusiness.com.au

Melbourne Knowledge Week Monday 2 - Sunday 8 May The newly established website for small makers will feature in this year’s Melbourne Knowledge Week. Port Phillip is getting involved by engaging with creative businesses through a networking event and mini expo. Kids can become mini-makers in a technology workshop at St Kilda Library on Saturday 7 May. makers.melbourne melbourne.vic.gov.au/knowledgeweek

Tour places of worship

Sunday 19 June, 2 pm - 6 pm St Nicholas Russian Catholic Church, East St Kilda St Kilda Synagogue, St Kilda Hare Krishna Temple, Albert Park

Share a bus trip around Port Phillip’s places of worship. Refreshments of each culture provided.

Seats are limited, so booking is essential.

Retro Ride2School

Friday 4 March

Go retro, go with the 1970s theme of this year’s Ride2School Day. Participating schools are eligible for a $200 event rebate and a bicycle with helmet. schooltravel@

portphillip.vic.gov.au enviroehub.com.au/ride2school

SheSpoke

Sunday 6 March, 10 am - 6 pm, lunch 12 noon - 2 pm Venue to be confirmed. Please check website for details.

Take a punt with BUG

Sunday 13 March, 9.30 am

The Port Phillip Bicycle Users Group (BUG) is hosting a ride from Port Melbourne to Altona and back through Williamstown via the punt. trybooking.com/KDCH

Sunday 10 April, 9.30 am Start your bike ride at Belgrave Railway Station.

Riders can arrange to meet and catch the train to Belgrave, meander around the Belgrave Market, and then ride back to Melbourne via bike paths. trybooking.com/KDBI

Melbourne Swim Classic

SheSpoke is a series of events that celebrates women on bikes. Host or join a group ride to the SheSpoke Hub and join a champagne lunch to discuss the challenges of riding in Melbourne.

Try bike yoga, cargo bikes and slow races.

enviro@portphillip.vic.gov.au

enviroehub.com.au/shespoke

Active April

Take up the Active April challenge to do at least 30 minutes of physical activity a day. Look out for Council’s activity program, which lists classes run by local community groups, including yoga, kayaking, interval training and Zumba.

ASSIST 9209 6777

Sunday 13 March, 12 noon - 4 pm Elwood Beach Get the goggles on for an accessible open water swimming event for all ages.

Distances range from the free 200 m swim to the 1200 m Swim Classic, to the 5 km circuit. Challenge yourself to raise $100 for your favourite charity. melbourneswimclassic.com.au

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Port Phillip voters will elect a total of nine councillors across three new wards at council elections in October.

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The increased number of councillors but fewer wards was recommended by the Victorian Electoral Commission (VEC) and approved by the Minister for Local Government last year. After the October poll the current seven single-councillor wards will be replaced by three wards, each represented by three councillors.

The new wards, illustrated in the map, are:

The VEC recommended the increase to nine councillors because the population of Port Phillip had grown and was continuing to grow. The VEC also found that multi-councillor wards were the best way to fairly represent predicted population growth.

• C anal Ward: Elwood, East St Kilda, Balaclava, Ripponlea and parts of St Kilda.

• G ateway Ward: Port Melbourne, South Melbourne, and parts of St Kilda Road and Queens Road • L ake Ward: Albert Park, Middle Park, St Kilda West, plus parts of St Kilda and St Kilda Road

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Candidate nominations for council elections open on 15 September.

Get the details vec.vic.gov.au

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Share the path to win

ANAM discounts for locals The Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) is offering Port Phillip residents free ANAMates memberships for 2016. Valued at $75, ANAMates enjoy benefits such as free entry to recitals, master classes and its series of hour long concerts, Soundbites, as well as a 10 per cent discount on full priced ticketed ANAM season performances.

Get your free membership bit.ly/anammates

New Alma Park Pavilion opening The new Alma Park Pavilion will open in early April, in time for the winter sporting season. The new pavilion provides player change rooms, a kitchen and kiosk, storage and an officials’ room, as well as toilets accessible to the public.

Keep track of the project portphillip.vic.gov.au/

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Filmmakers spotlight gender violence Photo: FacesByRaphael.com

Be on your best behaviour on all of Port Phillip’s shared paths until April for your chance to win a $200 South Melbourne Market voucher, tickets to the opening night of the St Kilda Film Festival or new bike lights. Council is handing out raffle tickets to bike riders who slow down and ring their bell before passing, and to walkers who stay left on shared paths and look before crossing.

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Daughter is a locally produced and shot short film that explores gender violence and victim blaming. It tells the story of three women who venture out in St Kilda on a Friday night. Judged by strangers and their peers, their lives become entwined through an act of violence.

Writer and director Sarah Jayne was inspired to write Daughter by the media portrayals of the violent deaths of Jill Meagher in Brunswick and St Kilda’s Tracy Connelly. Jill’s case was highly publicised, while Tracy remained a stranger to most people. Only her occupation as a sex worker in St Kilda was highlighted.

The film’s producers plan to tour the film through local venues and schools to spark a wider discussion about issues raised in the film.

Attend the premiere Thursday 10 March, 8 pm St Kilda Town Hall 99a Carlisle Street, St Kilda Tickets $20 via daughterstkilda.com All proceeds to St Kilda Gatehouse.

Evening includes film screening and Q&A with guest panel, cast and crew.

John Gilcrist: a good neighbour John Gilcrist died unexpectedly late last year. An active Elwood resident, John made an enormous contribution to the community. He was especially concerned for the wellbeing of his neighbours, particularly those who were socially isolated or less fortunate than him.

John was a founding member of the Linking Neighbours and Seniors Register, and helped establish the partnership between the Bendigo Bank and Linking Neighbours, enabling activities to be subsidised and inclusive. He was also a Linking Neighbours Heatwave Volunteer.

John was one of the founding board members of the Elwood Community Bank, which he helped establish. He made a great contribution as vice-president to the Elwood Croquet Club and as treasurer to the Port Phillip EcoCentre.

In 2008 John was awarded the Port Phillip Seniors Award for services to the community.

John is survived by his wife Noel, their three children and three grandchildren.

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Call out for top volunteers

Yvonne Lynch has volunteered for over 35 years.

The Port Phillip Volunteering Expo and awards are coming up in May. Get involved by nominating a volunteer from your organisation who has made an outstanding contribution to their community.

Award winners will be profiled and acknowledged at the expo.

Information on volunteer programs from 30 local groups will be available. facebook.com/

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Books on wheels Yvonne is a Home Library Service (HLS) volunteer who’s been delivering books for 35 years. She fondly recalls a resident who adored her regular delivery of new Mills and Boons, and another whose dog had to be well patted before Yvonne was permitted to cross the threshold.

Yvonne loves volunteering. ‘Taking HLS deliveries to people is a very pleasant way

of meeting delightful people; they are so appreciative’. Yvonne is one of many volunteers who help homebound people get their next great read.

Interested in volunteering?

Port Phillip Library Service HLS

9209 6652

Group dynamic builds community Port Phillip Community Group was founded over 40 years ago to give more people opportunities to enjoy being part of their community. Here are just two of the many ways to get involved.

fabulous weekly program gets dogs, dog owners (especially those who have difficulty walking their dogs) and dog lovers together for a walk and a frolic. There is also coffee for the humans.

Five dollars is all you need to go on one of the PPCG’s regular bushwalks.

Get out of the big smoke, make new friends and enjoy nature. Lunch, snacks and transport are included in the price.

The walks are open to any Port Phillip resident on a low income.

There’s heaps more happening and there are many ways to help out by volunteering some time or donating fresh garden produce for others to share.

If dogs are your best friends, the Walking Woof Club is for you. This

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Get some more community ppcg.org.au 8598 6600

Boys in Years 4 - 6 are gaining life skills such as confidence, leadership, responsibility and team work in a bike maintenance program run by South Port Uniting Care. Volunteers are needed to help the boys with learning the parts of a bike, doing repairs and bike maintenance. The sessions are conducted at local schools during lunchtimes.

You can also volunteer to mentor young people at the Friday Night Lounge drop in space or help at the South Port Uniting Care Op Shop.

Volunteer your time and skills 9690 1188 info@southportuniting.org.au

Bring your business ideas to life with grant and funding opportunities, expert industry training and networking events. portphillipbusiness.com.au

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Mayor Sandridge

Women are invited to be part of the next Stance program starting soon in South Melbourne.

Fit, strong and moving on

Empowering female survivors of domestic abuse and assisting them on the road to recovery are the aims of a new pilot project in South Melbourne. The Stance is a free 12 session program that uses martial arts training to build personal and physical confidence, and gives women the opportunity to speak with other domestic violence survivors.

Men’s shed expands

The new second shed at the Port Phillip Men’s Shed Association means lots more space to accommodate new members.

The Men’s Shed offers woodwork and metalwork to men of all ages.

Veterans are especially welcome.

Start your own project, help other community groups or just be part of the activities.

Make something 319 Dorcas Street South Melbourne ppmensshed.org Steve 0432 390 018

The Stance, part of a national campaign

by Safe Australia, aims to unite the 3,000 martial arts and combat sports clubs in Australia in a publicly active stance against violence and abuse.

Get involved Rohan Parrant 0468 800 772

contant@safeaustralia.org

Activities on Acland

The Christ Church Mission Community Centre, next to the beautiful sandstone church on Acland Street, has activities and classes that are fun and affordable.

Classes include patchwork and quilting, yoga, simple cooking and an introduction to iPads. There’s also a community garden and garden nomads who volunteer to help with gardening for frail and aged locals.

mayor@portphillip.vic.gov.au Mobile 0413 246 704

Cr Serge Thomann

Deputy Mayor Catani

sthomann@portphillip.vic.gov.au Mobile 0432 299 372

Cr Andrew Bond

Junction

abond@portphillip.vic.gov.au Mobile 0481 034 028

Cr Anita Horvath

Emerald Hill

ahorvath@portphillip.vic.gov.au Mobile 0438 906 161

Cr Vanessa Huxley

Carlisle

vhuxley@portphillip.vic.gov.au Mobile 0406 890 739

Cr Amanda Stevens

Albert Park

astevens@portphillip.vic.gov.au Mobile 0481 034 029

Cr Jane Touzeau

Point Ormond

jtouzeau@portphillip.vic.gov.au Mobile 0432 287 634

Find out more or volunteer 9534 9250 communitycentre@

christchurchstkilda.org.au

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