Veg Out Community Gardens St Kilda in St Kilda, Victoria | Community organisation

Veg Out Community Gardens St Kilda

Locality: St Kilda, Victoria

Address: Cnr Shakespeare Gr & Chaucer St 3182 St Kilda, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.vegout.org.au

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25.01.2022 The opening of our sculpture show was a blast, thanks to all of our volunteers for a huge effort, the show runs all through November and the bar is open Saturday and Sunday afternoons for the next 3 weekends

25.01.2022 Awesome working bee today, well done everybody.

24.01.2022 The chooks are out of isolation and are having a short vacation in their winter palace.

24.01.2022 EDIT: Unfortunately due to the snap 5 day stage 4 lockdown the gardens will no longer be open this weekend. We hope to be able to re-open again soon. Open to the public every Sunday morning in Feb from 9.30am to 1pm. COVID safe hygiene behaviours apply, visitor numbers limited and we will be taking details at the gate for contact tracing. Come and visit!

23.01.2022 Our Mexican Devils Hand Tree is flowering for the first time

22.01.2022 "Kids Table" - streaming live from Veg Out...

22.01.2022 The cement has been pumped in for our new toilets. That’s about as exciting as things have been around here lately, stay safe everybody.

19.01.2022 IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM VEG OUT As you all know, we are currently in the grip of a virus epidemic. The Victorian and Commonwealth Governments have imposed severe restrictions aimed at preventing further spreading of the virus. These new restrictions involve significant challenges for all of us. Veg Out seeks your additional help to keep our community safe. ...Continue reading

17.01.2022 BIG Sculpture @ Veg Out open day awards 2 Nov. - 1 Dec images by Kerrie Pacholli Co-curators' Rob Taylor OAM, Mariella del Conte and sculptor / master printmake...r Adrian Spurr enjoyed the fruits of their hard labours on open day. Veg Out's People's Prize of $1,000 was awarded to Nicole Allen for Bums On Seats 2018. The Gardener's Prize of $500 was awarded Geoffrey Ricardo for The Articulations 2018. The day delivered perfect weather. Veg Out delivered delicious homemade pizza and a well stocked bar to quench any thirst and the crowds kept on coming throughout the entire day. Those magnificent sculptures are still on display for your viewing along with 16 other monumental competition works of art.

14.01.2022 Who the hell are these masked people stealing our seedlings?

14.01.2022 BIG Sculpture @ Veg Out is now open every day until 6pm. The Veg Out Open Day is on Sunday 24th November, 11 - 5pm. There will be music, food and drinks - and the announcement of BIG Sculpture People’s Choice Award and Gardener’s Prize.

13.01.2022 Seedlings available for plot holders, Saturday and Sunday, 10 am to 11 am

12.01.2022 Fairy Garden Flowers are coming on nicely.

11.01.2022 The gates will be open this Sunday - come and visit us! The usual COVID safe hygiene behaviours apply, visitor numbers are limited and we will be taking details at the gate for contact tracing.

11.01.2022 Give it two weeks

10.01.2022 Although the gates are closed to all but plotholders caring for their gardens, Veg Out still looks wonderful for Spring...

10.01.2022 A visit to Veg Out - by Rein Peeters

10.01.2022 You lookin at me?

10.01.2022 He’s at it again

10.01.2022 Carrots by Candlelight... photos by Serge Thomann and @Saraid Banahan (can't tag) via Stephen RG

09.01.2022 We are again opening to the public again - this weekend Sat 23rd and Sun 24th Jan, and also next weekend 30th and 31st, between 9.30am and 1pm. COVID safe hygiene behaviours apply, visitor numbers will be limited and we will be taking details at the gate for contact tracing.

08.01.2022 Something to listen to while isolating at home... wonder where they'll be streaming from? Acland Street Village St Kilda

06.01.2022 Veg Out Open Day TODAY Sunday 24th November, from 12pm until 5. Bring friends and family along and have a lovely Sunday. We will have the pizza oven firing and BBQs on. A DJ playing mellow tunes and bar open. The art studio will be open for kids activities.... And come and vote for your favourite sculpture if you haven't already. We'll be announcing the People's Choice winner today. Veg Out Community Gardens, cnr Shakespeare Grove & Chaucer St, St Kilda (right behind Luna Park & Acland Street) https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=782492552212982

04.01.2022 BIG Sculpture @ Veg Out opening 2nd November 2 December by Open Media... There was a whole lot a BIG smiles and BIG love flowing at the official opening of the inaugural BIG Sculpture @ Veg Out competition on the 10 November 2019. Co-curators’ Adrian Spurr, Mariella Del Conte and Rob Taylor and their team of volunteers have worked for the last eight months scrupulously tending to every detail and polishing every leaf at the magnificent Veg Out gardens in the lead up to this most presitigious art happening. There were 40 entrants bidding for a position with 19 of Melbourne’s finest sculptors’ works selected, currently on display and available for purchase. Local dignitaries in the Honorable Martin Foley Minister for Creative Industries, Judith Jackson (Aunty Jacko), Port Phillip Mayor Dick Gross, Counsellor Andrew Bond along with the three Judges in Max Delany Artistic director and CEO of Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Cameron Macindoe from Fundere Fine Art Foundry and the Espy’s Matt Mullins joined forces to select, announce and present the prize pool to the winners. The Grand ‘BIG Sculpture @ Veg Out’ prize of $5,000 was awarded to Mark Stoner for his 2019 stone piece ‘Geolife-1’ The Fundere Fine Art Foundry award of $2,500 went to Salvatori Lolicato for his 2019 ceramic piece ‘Metamorphosis’. The Espy prize of $2,000 was awarded to Craig MacDonald for his 2017 piece ‘She Spins’.

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