Emerge
Footscray artists will be part of the action when an all-day block party takes over Fitzroy Town Hall on Sunday, June 15. Napier Street will close for the Emerge Main Event, featuring three stages of non-stop world music and a vibrant cultural marketplace. Footscray resident Fipe Keanu will present a Polynesian dance workshop, while Footscray locals will provide gospel and hip-hop sounds through young Burundian and Congolese musicians as part of the Genesis Project (pictured).
www.multiculturalarts.com.au/events2014/emerge.shtml
Benefit gig
A fund-raiser gig will be held at Footscray’s Reverence Hotel on the Sunday afternoon of June 8 for the children of Fiona Warzywoda, who was killed in April as she was leaving her lawyer’s office in Sunshine. Oi ENUF! will feature Joelistics, Ezekial Ox, Muscle Mary, Ruby Soho and many more.
■ Doors open at 3pm, tickets cost $15.
Cult classics
Maribyrnong council’s Cult Classics in the Church series starts at 7.30pm on Friday, June 6, with The Blues Brothers. Four weeks of free screenings will be at the Bluestone Church Arts Space,
Hyde Street, Footscray. Arrive early to secure a spot. Limited food and
beverages available. Prizes for best dressed patrons.
Meet the makers
Meet the film-makers behind The Man From Coxs River, an award-winning Australian documentary by Russell Kilbey and Amy Scully. The film screening will be followed by a filmmaker Q&A.
■ Yarraville’s Sun Theatre from 6.45pm
Inspired art
An exhibition titled I did not choose to be a refugee will be launched from 7pm on Friday, June 13, at Altona’s Joel Gallery. The works by award-winning Eritrean artist Michael Adonai were spurred by the sinking of an asylum-seeker boat off the coast of Italy. The exhibition runs until June 27.
■ Call 9398 2511
Picture framing
Picture yourself taking part in Maribyrnong Community Centre’s Picture Framing workshop. Learn to make your own frame 10am-4pm Saturday, June 14.
■ Phone 9032 4305 or email maricomm@maribyrnong.vic.gov.au.
Sewing circle
Bring your knitting, crochet, embroidery, hand sewing or just sit and chat at Altona’s Sit ’n’ Sew group. Tuesdays from 12.30-3pm at the Louis Joel Arts and Community Centre, 5 Sargood Street, Altona.
■ 9398 2511
Link in
Hobsons Bay residents are being invited to connect online through a new LinkedIn group for businesses. Visit www.LinkedIn.com and search for Hobsons Bay Works – Business Networking Group.
■ 9932 1000 or customerservice@hobsonsbay.vic.gov.au
Get the blues
Blues/roots guitariest Justin Bernasconi and friends, supported by Holly’s Gone West, will perform from 7.30pm on June 20 at Newport Bowls Club, 4 Mason Street, Newport. Full bar available. Entry $12 or $8 Newport Fiddle and Folk Club members.
■ 0419 887 483
