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  • GUN SHY
    Merde is auspicious and troublesome, nourishing and destructive, from merde we spring and to merde we return in cycles of deep familiarity and profound alienation. Kathryn Jamieson, Melbourne’s force-de-faux-fur takes a sexy and, at once, deeply existential plunge into all these qualities of life in the contemporary and the individualistic society that surrounds us. This very…
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  • HO LIFE OR NO LIFE
    Not your average stand-up comedy show, Ho Life or No Life is a frank, honest and hilarious examination of the realities of sex work. Standing on stage in her 7-inch pleaser heels and skimpy lycra outfit (basically your go-to stripper uniform), the unapologetically sexy Chase Paradise oozes confidence and feminine power. With numerous costume changes,…
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  • REPLICA
      Two figures emerge from the darkness and enter a heart-pounding, visceral world of split-second timing and melting fluidity. They are intricately tangled. This, is Replica a dynamic new dance work by Stephanie Lake Company which brings together a creative team of  both leading Australian and international artists. With whip-smart unison alongside wild, animalistic choreography,…
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  • CLIO
    Beautiful harmonies and captivating strings are held together by a voice like honey in Clio Fenner’s new track, “Something Left to Leave Behind.” This raw and emotional song caught our attention, but each track she’s released in her short career is consistently heartfelt, mature and delightful to listen to.  From her beginnings in Jazz school,…
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  • SOUND OF SILENCE
    In Personal, performer Jodee Mundy opens up about her experience as the only hearing person in a Deaf family, through a captivating blend of performance, storytelling, multimedia and animation. Mundy delves into the contradictions of inhabiting two worlds: living in a Deaf family, where using sign language is natural; and living in a society that…
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26/03/2018
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TRUE RAD GIRL

Free, fierce and gloriously unapologetic, Silent Arrow is the edgy lingerie brand we’ve been pining for. Their bold designs and stylish cuts may look too sexy to be comfortable. However, the brand boasts snug underwear with soft, flexible fabrics. Silent Arrow uses fashion as a platform to promote diversity and body confidence; plus-size women with…
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20/03/2018
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GLOBAL INDIGENOUS SHOWCASE

The Global Indigenous Runway 2018 presented high end fashion by Indigenous designers from the outback of Australia to the shores of New Zealand and Pacific, and even from the Rocky Mountains of Canada. Presented at Melbourne Museum as part of VAMFF 2018, guests were treated to bubbles and canapes upon arrival, then were mesmerised by…
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20/03/2018
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ALONE

  Every few years Melbourne witnesses coming up through the ranks, a hand full of incredible and virile dance makers, who continue to reinvent not just their own practice, but the way in which we as audience interact and respond to dance. And though it is true that everything in art has been done before, there…
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20/03/2018
355

LOVE LIVE MUSIC

Music Victoria provides advocacy on behalf of the music sector, actively supports the development of the Victorian music community, and celebrates and promotes Victorian music. An important and independent player in our local music scene, Music Victoria have  achieved some pretty great things over the last 12 months including having run 26 professional development workshops…
SOUND
19/03/2018
139

QUEERAMA

“Your son’s not one of those, is he Hilda?”- Queerama is a cornucopia of film footage from the B.F.I archives.This British doco is an educational cinema experience that mashes up the surprisingly varied scenes of  British cinema history from the last 100 years. These excerpts are sifted into the mix with report footage on the state of Homosexuality in Britain’s 50s and 60s, the hidden worlds edited…
SEEN
18/03/2018
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ANASTASIA LA FEY

For a long time, I admired this woman and her work from a distance. Then somehow, serendipitously, an opportunity came my way about half a year ago, I was invited to her fashion show. And I leapt into it, like I leap towards the pleasure of little death with each stage performance, each song and…
STRUT
17/03/2018
148

SATURDAY CHURCH

“Let’s do some Princess Diary shit, now purse your lips….” orders Dijon (Indya Moore)to Ulysses (Luka Kain), a 14 year old Black kid searching for a place that is better than his home in Saturday Church. Dijon is applying the lipstick on Ulysses, the sex questioning young man whose father has died in an American conflict, his remains…
SEEN
15/03/2018
329

UNKNOWN NEIGHBOURS

Like a bizarre but, effective example of social anthropology or some deconstructed dessert ordered in a fancy restaurant, this is Unknown Neighbours, a joyously experimental work that pulls the audience out of the theatre and places them in the homes of strangers, where the real and the imagined  narratives of those which inhabit these places…
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