CARNIVAL

In recent times, the LGBTIQ community has achieved things that, for a long time, felt like they never could and would never come. It’s time to celebrate – cue Midsumma Festival! Last Sunday, the festival kicked off a 22 day long of celebration. Carnival once again taking over Alexandra Gardens on the banks of…

MUSIC PERFORMANCE

02/01/2018

TRIENNIAL

Exploring some of the most critical issues of our time through practices that are embracing of cutting edge technologies, from 3D printing to robotics, as well as performance, film, painting, drawing, installation and fashion design, tapestry and sculpture. The inaugural NGV Triennial offers an opportunity to engage with some of the most vital and significant…

FILM

14/12/2017

PLEASURE GARDEN 2017

A delight for the senses, and a treat for the soul, a place where imagination and magic coalesce into sensory wonder. The Pleasure Garden kicked off the summer festival season last weekend, turning Cantani Garden’s on the St Kilda Foreshore into a glittering and immersive space where arts and music could collide. Headliners Fat Freddy’s Drop, and Canadian…

MUSIC

09/12/2017

NETTI SINGS THE BLUES

With an ability to bend words to her will, and armed with a voice and musical style that transports us back to the mid nineties, an era that some quite rightly argue as being the golden age of Hip Hop, local Melbourne powerhouse Netti, is fast on the rise to greatness. As part of the…

MUSIC

09/12/2017

PROJECT 823

After receiving remarkable applause in Sydney, Perth and Tokyo for his multi-collaborative project ‘823’- Ta-ku (Reggie Matthews) now brings this cross-continental residency program to Melbourne, and the iconic Lindberg Gallery in Collingwood. Inspired by his film photography, ‘823’ shares Ta-ku’s fascination into the analogue processes of film that documents world travels and collaborations with creatives from different mediums.…

FILM

27/11/2017

THE AGE MUSIC VICTORIA AWARDS

Now in its in 12th year, The Age Music Victoria Awards co-presented by Triple R 102.7FM and PBS 106.7FM was held at 170 Russell. For our local music industries, this is the night of nights held in celebration of the great music produced here in Victoria. Not only was the evening for recognising our local musicians, a whole swag of performances…

MUSIC

06/11/2017

TETSUYA UMEDA

Japan’s master artist of sonic visual sensations, Tetsuya Umeda creates dynamic environments with architectural structures, sound and light. His mesmerising and surprising performances produce intricate soundscapes and musical compositions through live experiments with everyday tools and scraps, re-purposed machines and electronics. Umeda’s site-specific installation employs found domestic objects, transformed from their daily familiarity into a transcendent spectacle of…

MUSIC

31/10/2017

BETTER & LESSER

Better & Lesser are a group of 6 emerging designers: Solange Ting, Emily Licen, Steph Schafer, Lucinda Houghton, Gautam Kapoor and Lucy Dickinson. This collective was formed as a way to present their graduate collections on their own terms, as well as address some of their critiques on the fast fashion industry. It took place…

FASHION