Last week I ascended the stair for the first time. stair to the Sky Park off Collins St The instagramable Denton Corker Marshall designed stair leads to the Sky Park. I'd been keen, very keen, to see the new Park which opened earlier this year. It is just the first part of a 2,000 sq m open …
parks
POPS
A story of urban change
Port Melbourne Baseball Club Premiers 1961 Port Melbourne Historical and Preservation Society This photograph tells a big story. In the foreground, the Port Melbourne baseball team of 1961 on Lagoon Reserve (and doesn't the woman with her face obscured invite curiousity?) In the background, the …
Stewardship
It rained. At last. It had seemed fruitless to invite people to the annual community planting day at Lagoon Reserve, even though the mulch had been spread in readiness and the date arranged. But it's about keeping the faith, says Alice, who has coordinated the annual planting day at Lagoon …
Remembrance Garden
It was the day after Hassan Khalif Shire Ali killed Sisto Malaspina and injured two other people in Bourke St and the eve of Remembrance Day. Sadness was close to the surface when people gathered to open a Remembrance Garden in Port Melbourne. The Garden is a community initiated, Council …
From Nature 2018
The heart and soul of this year’s From Nature exhibition at Gasworks Arts Park is Albert Park Pre-School’s exhibit The Butterfly Effect. It's in the foyer. The children have created an exhibit both disarmingly simple and deeply wise. In language of enviable simplicity, their project …
Catalyst
Wednesday 8.45 am. Children and parents, many hand in hand, make their way from every direction to enter the wide open doors of the South Melbourne Primary School which opened in January this year. The bell rings, and parents gather outside for a while, before dispersing. The school precinct …