Healesville Sanctuary’s annual Wine & Wildlife event is back for 2024. Over the weekend of 24-25 August you can enjoy beverages from 20 local wineries, breweries and distilleries as you wander around the Sanctuary and check out native wildlife. There will be huge teepees around the Sanctuary and open fires to warm up by, as well as live acoustic music all weekend. A huge range of winter food will also be available for purchase from vendors including Babaji’s Kitchen, The Greatest Doughman, Lady Paella, Little Yarra Crêperie and Healesville Sanctuary’s three cafes. The Wine & Wildlife weekend is a fundraiser…
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Twenty-four sculptures by influential German-French artist Hans Arp (1886-1966), including twenty-one plasters and three bronzes are now on display at NGV International. This inaugural display celebrates the generous gift of works to the NGV by the artist’s estate, Stiftung Arp e.V., in 2023. From the 1930s, Hans Arp became a pioneer of ‘biomorphic’ abstraction, a revolutionary artistic style which moved away from the human figure and echoed the organic and fluid forms occurring in nature. Arp’s sculptures can be rotated in various positions and viewed from different angles, creating multiple unique images and perspectives from a single sculptural form. Arp’s…
The first announcement of artists who’ll be appearing at the 2025 Port Fairy Music Festival has been dropped today, with a huge range of renowned folk musicians from around the world ready to descend upon the stunning seaside destination of Port Fairy over the March long weekend. The artists confirmed so far for the 48th Port Fairy Folk Festival are: Port Fairy Folk Festival Program Director Justin Rudge said this first line-up for the 2025 event covers many genres and styles but is drawn from the festival’s roots. ‘Our audience is the inspiration behind this first artist line-up for 2025.…
Victorian barista, Nat Thaipun, has been named the winner of MasterChef Australia 2024, taking home $250,000 and a residency at Crown Melbourne’s ALUMNI restaurant. According to the Herald Sun, Nat has promised the food during her residency will be influenced by Thai flavours from her childhood. “I’ve created the whole menu, including the signature cocktail, which is a fun take on Sour Patch Kids. My brothers and I love sour lollies, so I recreated the flavour using offcuts of finger lime,” she told the newspaper. “The scotch egg (seen in the finale) will make an appearance, but instead of pork mince I’ll use…
Two decades on from ruining Jonny’s Bar Mitzvah, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes are heading Down Under to wreak havoc at another important milestone, the Quinceañera. The Band of the Long Weekend Tour comes in support of the punk rock cover band’s 12th album, Blow it…at Madison’s Quinceañera!. Ushering new songs and old favourites on the road, you don’t have to be in on the joke to enjoy their album or their live shows. Rapscallion crooner and front man, Spike Slawson said: “I would like this to be considered indicative of what a live show by the Gimme Gimmes can be.”…
Arts Centre Melbourne and Arts Access Victoria have announced the 2024 program for Melbourne’s ground-breaking Disability-led arts initiative Alter State, taking place across the city from 2 – 13 October. The initiative is a major arts and disability event engaging artists and audiences across Australia and New Zealand. Alter State features more than 100 Deaf and Disabled artists performing and participating in performances, events and talks in-person and online across ten venues over 12 days. Alter State 2024 Creative Lead Jodee Mundy OAM, a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults) and disabled artist, said this year’s theme Disabled Futures: a glimpse of what’s to come provided exciting opportunities to interrogate what it means to be a Disabled or…
Join three-time #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, Mark Manson for an evening of no-BS life advice at Hamer Hall on 6 November 2024. Mark Manson is known for his no-nonsense approach to self-help. He cuts through the noise of typical personal development advice with his refreshingly blunt philosophy and gives life advice that is science-based, pragmatic and non-bullshitty. Having sold 20 million book copies, Mark’s approach has resonated with people around the world who are committed to a more practical, realistic form of personal growth. Mark will be taking to the stage to…
Get ready to Romp-Bomp-A-Stomp with everyone’s favourite Dinosaur – Dorothy – as her new show hits venues across Victoria in September and October. The Dorothy the Dinosaur Spectacular Show is promised to be extravaganza of show stopping songs, including all The Wiggles greatest hits like Rock-A-Bye Your Bear, Hot Potato and Do the Propeller. Joined on stage by all her Wiggly friends you’ll be Shaking your Hips’with Wags the Dog, Move your Armslike Henry the Octopus and singing Quack, Quack with Captain Feathersword! Tickets for Dorothy the Dinosaur Spectacular Show go on sale at 11am on Wednesday 17 July for…
Visitors to Werribee Park Mansion can enjoy a trip to the historic site for free as part of Open House Melbourne later this month. Parks Victoria will throw open the doors of the mansion on 28 July, with a range of fun things to do for all ages. The 60-room mansion is one of the most opulent historic homes in Australia, and this is a chance to explore and have fun, with free entry from 10am-4pm. Surprise musical performances and games will create a lively atmosphere inside the mansion and refreshments will be on offer from the café. Kids can sample life…
The lineup has been revealed for the 2024 Phillip Island Festival of Stories to be held in Cowes on 2-4 August. The annual literary festival elebrates story-telling in all its forms. Designed to be inspiring, uplifting, entertaining, challenging and thought-provoking, no topic is off limits as the Festival of Stories empowers a diverse group of people to tell their tales in their favourite form. This year’s line-up includes a Walkley Award winning journalist, a former Australian of the Year and several acclaimed authors and broadcasters. They include: The 2024 Phillip Island Festival of Stories will be held at Berninneit, 91-97 Thompson…
I subscribe to all the things so you don’t have to. This is a curated list of what’s been announced over the past week so you can save the date, or swoop on tickets, and also a list of what’s coming up soon if you’re looking to make last-minute plans What’s new? Jet to play a one-off concert with MSO Internationally acclaimed Aussie rockers Jet are set to join forces with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and conductor Nicholas Buc to rock the Sidney Myer Music Bowl for a one-off concert, exclusive to Melbourne on 8 November. Beloved singers Kate Ceberano and…
RuPaul’s Drag Race icon Bianca Del Rio has officially announced her new stand-up world comedy tour titled Dead Inside, which will bring her Australia and New Zealand in January and February 2025. The tour, which will bring her to Melbourne’s Comedy Theatre on 31 January 2025, will cover politics, pop culture, political correctness, current events, cancel culture and everyday life through the eyes of someone who’s “dead inside,” finding humour in everything. In announcing the tour, Bianca said: “I’m coming out of my crypt and hitting the road again to remind everyone that I’m still DEAD INSIDE!” “If you enjoy irreverent…