JUSTIN MCMANUS
LOCAL SCENE
WHAT’S ON GOING BATTY
ORGAN DELIGHTS
LOVELY LANDSCAPES
CLEAN UP YOUR ACT
We’ve all seen colonies of flying foxes travelling over Landcox Park, but have you ever noticed the tiny microbats that keep our local ecosystems in check? Melbourne University, the Bayside Environment Friends Network and Friends of Native Wildlife invite you to become bat detectors. Help conduct surveys, search for and learn about microbats. Saturday, March 2, 6pm at Cheltenham Park Scouts Hall, Cheltenham. Details: call 0408 032 963.
Hans Hielscher, the resident organist at Wiesbaden Marktkirche, a Lutheran Cathedral in Hessen, Germany will perform his own arrangement of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, on the magnificent four-manual organ at St Andrew’s Church. Hear Noel Rawsthorne’s arrangement of Londonderry Air and music by Josef Rheinberger. Sunday, March 3, 2pm at St Andrew’s Anglican Church, corner New and Church streets, Brighton. Details: call 9592 1240.
Work from some of Australia’s most prolific landscape artists comes together in Two Hemispheres: Landscapes from the Alec Cato Collection. See pieces by Arthur Streeton, Frederick McCubbin, Tom Roberts, Theodore Penleigh Boyd and Arthur Boyd. March 9–May 12, Wednesday 11am-5pm, Saturday and Sunday 1pm-5pm at Bayside Arts & Cultural Centre, corner Carpenter and Wilson streets, Brighton. Details: call 9592 0291.
Join more than half a million Australians nationwide and clean up your own backyard as part of Clean Up Australia Day. The event started in 1989 and is a simple way you can help conserve the Australian environment. Join official Clean Up sites at Brighton Beach, Brighton Primary School, Cheltenham Park, the Sandringham Rotunda, Graham Road Highett, Ricketts Point and more. Sunday, March 3. Details: visit cleanupaustraliaday.org.au.
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FEBRUARY 27, 2013