PUPILS are standing up for the rights of refugees via a children’s art exhibition at Shirley Burke Theatre, Parkdale. The event will be opened by artist and peace activist William Kelly, 7:30pm, Saturday 10 December. Mr Kelly, OAM, is a former dean of the Victorian College of Arts and a guest lecturer at Yale, Oxford and Cambridge universities, as well as other institutions in Europe, South Africa, US, Eastern Europe and Australia. He is the only visual artist to be given the prestigious Courage of Conscience Award (Boston, US). Other recipients include Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr, Muhammad Ali…
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BUDDING photographers are grabbing their cameras and heading for the beach for a chance to win a share of over $7000 prize money in the Kingston Council’s annual Lens Mist photography competition. Now in its seventh year, Lens Mist helps celebrate Port Phillip Bay’s beaches and foreshore environment. “The innovative competition challenges artists to capture an image that evokes Port Phillip Bay while responding to the theme: ‘Our changing environment’, the mayor Cr David Eden said. “Kingston is proud to support local artists and the annual Lens Mist event is a fantastic opportunity for photographers to share their talent.” Photographs…
AWARD-WINNING author George Ivanoff will cap off another year of Author for All Seasons sessions at Mentone Public Library this weekend. The Cheltenham resident will talk about his Royal Flying Doctor Service books, “a high-octane adventure series for children”, written in partnership with the high-flying medical service. Each book is a standalone story and the series does not need to be read in any particular order. Ivanoff, who has had several books aimed at a Young Adult audience published, recently won an Honours Award at the KOALAs, the New South Wales annual children’s choice awards for his You Choose: Alien…
A RIBBON-cutting ceremony for new playground equipment at Monterey Secondary College last week turned sour for motorbike-riding Frankston MP Paul Edbrooke when his bike was stolen from the staff car park. Frankston police said CCTV showed two offenders checking out the $20,000 red and white Yamaha R1 bike and then using another bike to tow it away, 1.50pm, Wednesday 30 November. It is not known if they are students. The Labor MP declined to comment on the theft but confirmed the motorbike theft. Frankston detectives are investigating the theft of the bike. No one from the school would comment.
WITH two weeks to go to retirement, Frankston resident Bill Ryan was enjoying a morning cup of tea in bed when he got up to get dressed but knew something wasn’t right. “I walked into the wardrobe to retrieve some clothing,” he said. “Initially I couldn’t see what I was looking for and then when I found it, I couldn’t hold onto it.” Mr Ryan’s wife, who was in the room, quickly called an ambulance. “The ambos turned up and they asked me to repeat the phrase to them, ‘You can’t teach an old dog new tricks’. It was like…