Seniors Festival 2025
Seniors Festival 2025
The Port Phillip Seniors Festival runs from 3 to 17 October and celebrates the valuable contribution people aged 55+ have made and continue to make to our community. Across our library service we have four fabulous and free programs for you to enjoy!
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You can use this link to explore the entire Seniors Festival Program. You can also reserve tickets from inside this booklet by clicking on the booking link.
Senior’s Festival session of Family History Club!
We invite you all to join us for a special Senior’s Festival session of Family History Club. On the first Thursday of each month, we come together to discuss family history projects, local history interests, questions, conundrums and much more.
To celebrate Senior’s Festival, we will be hosting a show and tell of personal items. Please bring along an item that is significant to your family history or to our local City of Port Phillip history.
We will discuss all your treasured items over tea and biscuits. See you there!
Thursday 2 October
1 pm to 2 pm
Emerald Hill Library
Line Dancing for Beginners
Line dancing is a fun way of improving your balance, memory, and general wellbeing. It is physical, mental, music, social and laughter therapy all rolled into a 45-minute beginner class. The beginner’s class will be followed by an hour of easy social line dancing for those who want to go the extra mile. No experience necessary. Tea and coffee included. Denim, hats, and boots encouraged!
For further information contact Matt on 0409 250 907.
Monday 6 October
1 pm to 3 pm
Port Melbourne Library
Building Better Connections & Making New Friends Workshop
Discover practical ways to boost social confidence, navigate life’s changes, and build new friendships. This 2-hour interactive workshop is designed to help you build meaningful connections, and covers the impact of loneliness, setting healthy boundaries, using technology safely, and improving communication.
Wednesday 8 October
1:30 to 3:30 pm
St Kilda Library Community Room
Silver Sleuths Author Panel
Is it ever too late to turn to a life of crime (writing)? Agatha Christie was still plotting murders in her eighties, and today, plenty of authors are proving age is no alibi. At this year's Port Phillip Seniors’ Festival, four Sisters in Crime will explore the challenges and joys experienced by older authors.
After thirty-five years as a teacher-librarian, Laraine Stephens swapped sensible shoes for 1920s Melbourne gangsters in her Reggie da Costa Mysteries. Janice Simpson biked to Istanbul and pedalled straight into crime writing with her latest, Double Fault. Katrina Watson, once a doctor, now prescribes deadly mysteries like The Bones and award-winning short stories. And host Amanda Hampson found bestseller success at 50 with The Tea Ladies and its murderous sequels.
Together, they’ll prove that crime pays—especially for late bloomers.
Join us at 5.30pm for a 6.00pm start.
Thursday 9 October
6 pm to 7 pm
Albert Park Library
Ageing (Dis)gracefully Short Films Screening
Join us at Emerald Hill for a screening of Ageing (Dis)gracefully, a selection of short films screened at the 2024 St Kilda Film Festival – plus some new additions!
Tuesday 14 October
5 pm to 7 pm
Emerald Hill Library