THE annual Wakkakiri Story-Dance performance festival comes to Frankston Arts Centre next week. Wakkakirri is a long-running program featuring performances from school children. The performances align with the theme “great stories inspire change”. Performances will be held at the Frankston Arts Centre on 23, 24, and 25 August. To buy tickets and see which school is performing on each night visit artscentre.frankston.vic.gov.au/Whats-On/Events-directory/Wakakirri-2022 First published in the Frankston Times – 16 August 2022
Author: Bayside News
WITH time ticking away until the state election, the Liberals have still not announced a candidate for Frankston. The state election will be held on 26 November. The Liberals have been announcing candidates for state seats throughout the year, but have yet to declare candidates in the key seats of Frankston or Carrum. The two bayside seats were retained by Labor at the 2018 state election, with big swings towards the incumbents. The Liberals’ last Frankston candidate, police officer Michael Lamb, was preselected 15 months before the 2018 election. He was soundly defeated after a trainwreck Sky News interview derailed…
AN artist has been commissioned to create a new sculpture to replace the Love Flower. The Love Flower currently sits by the Cranbourne Road exit ramp of the Peninsula Link freeway. The site is the former home of Reflective Lullaby, the ginormous chrome gnome. Natasha Johns-Messenger, an installation artist, has been handed a $300,000 commission for a “dynamic sculpture” project. The new artwork, titled Compass 23, will feature 12-metre high powder coated and stainless steel geometric structures. It will be installed in October next year. Johns-Messenger said that her work “responds to site – its scale, topography, light and spatial…
A NEW centre has opened in Frankston to help Mornington Peninsula residents recover from mental health and drug and alcohol-related problems. The $1.5 million Tarnbuk Centre in Nepean Highway brings together two of Peninsula Health’s existing services – the mental health service and the alcohol and other drugs service. The partnership is designed to improve continuity of care and provide a collaborative working environment for staff. The Tarnbuk Centre includes a wellness clinic, dietetics, exercise physiology and music therapy. Frankston MP Paul Edbrooke said the centre would “ensure that more people living in Frankston and on the peninsula can access…
A GOLF coach working to achieve gender equality in the sport has been recognised with an award. Garth Cusick is the founder and head coach of The International Golf Academy. He plays golf at the course in Bangholme. Last month, Cusick won Golf Australia’s Visionary of the Year July award for his work helping Chinese-Australian women get involved with golf. “It all happened quite organically,” Cusick said. “A Chinese couple, who were interested in learning golf, realised I spoke Mandarin. They made me aware that there was a large population of Chinese-Australians in Melbourne who were somewhat unable to participate…