Love My Place Grants Program

Feather boas, wild handmade costumes, outrageous wigs and a stage presence like no other, the colourful, hand painted image will consist of Renee Scott on stage in full drag, surrounded by images of her love for animals.

The Blackout Experience Summer Edition is a powerful and vibrant display of live music that will contribute to reactivating Catani Gardens. It will also encourage Victorian people who identify as Black, Indigenous and People of Colour (BIPOC) and their allies to come together to celebrate in meaningful ways what it means to be a proud Victorian.

A series of local community roller skating and blading event to be held four times over a six-month period between November 2021 and May 2022. These events will be created in collaboration with not-for-profit skating group Recreational Rollers, as well as Malt Shop Rollers.

A mural depicting the natural environment including native plants and birds in a simple but creative way will feature on the facade of Lilian Cannam Kindergarten. The mural will also acknowledge our First Nation, 100 years of committed service delivery to Port Phillip families, and the importance of preserving this heritage into the future.

Gasworks Arts Park will host fortnightly Friday night events across Summer, Music in the Glade. These events will feature live entertainment complemented by local food truck operators.

Lakeside Carols takes to the streets for a busking carols night. Wander the streets, picking up tasty treats from local cafes and restaurants and start your Christmas shopping while listening to amazing performers throughout the streets performing seasonal Christmas classics.

Six unique performances written by Theatre Works resident and guest writers take audiences on a roving journey through Acland Street Village to share fantasy-filled futures. Performed in unexpected nooks, crannies and iconic public spaces, 'Alternative Futures' provides a radical and hopeful outlook for one of St Kilda’s most treasured community hubs.

Held in March along the grassy banks of Elwood Canal between Foam Street and Wave Street, a community picnic event will feature live music, fun and games, including a rubber duck race to raise money to support indigenous habitat restoration along Elwood Canal.

Recipient: Sophie deLightful
Dates: 6 and 9 December 2020
Locations: Across the Municipality

It's contactless! It's distanced! It's sanitised! It's circus... for a COVID-world!

Curbside Carnies will roll a custom-built roving stage around the City of Port Phillip. Audiences will be delighted by a variety of circus acts from neighbourhood performers – including hula hooping, juggling, acrobatics, unicycle and fire performance. Suitable for kids of all ages!

Recipient: Planetary Healing Artists Association of Australia
Dates: 20 December 2020
Location: O'Donnell Gardens

This free community festival aims to support and showcase our local artists, musicians, and performers that have been devastated by COVID-19 in 2020. With a theme on creating peace through the arts, it is never timelier than now for such a healing event.

Recipient: Red Stitch Actors' Theatre
Dates: 25 to 28 March 2021
Location: Alma Park

PLAYlist is a festival of short plays, each inspired by a different song and the physical environment in which it is set. Join the Red Stitch ensemble and our extraordinary line-up of guest artists for this unique celebration at the beautiful Alma Park.

Recipient: Alex Read Theatre Performance Inc
Dates: March to 18 June 2021
Locations: Across the Municipality

Whilst exploring the beautiful bayside city of Port Phillip, you may be lucky enough to catch one of the live alleyway concerts, that are being filmed over the Summer, yet you will not know where until the first note is played.

Recipient: Memo Music Hall
Dates: 2 May 2021
Location: Albert St, St Kilda

Memo Music will deliver an inclusive, COVID-safe indoor/outdoor festival showcasing locally made short films and the best of established and emerging performers, incorporating a diversity of talent and genres from the City of Port Phillip.

Recipient: Carolyn Menzies
Dates: 26 to 28 March 2021
Location: Albert Park

Albert Park will be holding its inaugural Contemporary Art Walk, showcasing art installations from some of Melbourne’s wonderful contemporary artists.

Recipient: ILANEL™ Design Studio
Dates:April 2021 – Ongoing
Location: St Kilda Road

'Helios' is an interactive street-art mural expanding upon the existing artwork, 'Atlas'. Located in the under-utilised atelier precinct of St Kilda Rd, Helios is proposed to radiate light in a darkening world.

Recipient: Rawcus Theatre Inc.
Dates: 13 March 2021
Location: Elwood and South Melbourne

Portal Pop Up is an interactive installation made by disabled and non-disabled artists. Portal Pop Up invites the audience to step away from the bustling urban environment into a soothing, enchanting space.

Recipient: National Theatre
Dates: 20 March 2021
Location: J. Talbot Reserve

A free, COVID-safe, family fun day out, where you can enjoy the talents of The National Theatre Melbourne Drama and Dance students while seizing the opportunity for children from 3-12 years to take part in free performing arts activities.

Recipient: Rouse Street Community
Dates: November 2020 to 31 March 2021
Location: Rouse Street, Port Melbourne

Rouse Street will bloom to life with planter boxes lined along the nature strips, filled with beautiful Australian indigenous plantings.