Cult favourite gelato makers Messina have created gelato filled eggs that have delighted customers for the past few years. This year they’re taking it big! A whopping 1kg dessert made to share between 6 people. The 2024 offering is a handprinted chocolate shell filled with layers of gelato in a range of flavours – milo mousse, oreo crumble, hazelnut praline, malted vanilla chantilly, milo gelato with oreo cookie chunks and a hazelnut caramel centre. Messina’s 2024 Easter eggs can only be ordered online from Monday 11 March for collection over the Easter period from Thursday 28 March to Sunday 31 March, All…
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Great news for all the dinosaur lovers – Melbourne Museum is thrilled to introduce Victoria, one of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex fossils in the world – and the first real T. rex to ever be shown in Victoria, 66 million years after first roaming Earth. Coming on 28 June, exclusively to Melbourne Museum, Victoria the T. rex is a world-class, interactive exhibition that will vividly transport visitors to the age of the Cretaceous. The exhibition combines state-of-the-art technologies with the most recent palaeontological findings to grant visitors access to the latest discoveries about the species, and reveals how Victoria lived and died.…
Jet have today announced an extended run of dates across Australia this May and June celebrating the 20-year anniversary of their seminal debut album, Get Born. Due to popular demand, the band are extending their highly successful anniversary tour from September last year to visit a fresh list of towns and cities across the country. The ‘Extended Edition’ begins in Torquay on Friday May 10 before heading interstate. Jet will play Get Born in full, re-visiting the incredible track list that won them fans right across the world – including timeless tracks such as Are You Gonna Be My Girl, Look…
Hot Dub Time Machine is turning up the energy for his next run of headline shows across Australia – get ready for 100% BANGERS! It’s coming to Festival Hall in Melbourne on 29 June 2024. Having consistently delivered some of the best party rocking shows around Australia and the world over the past decade, Hot Dub Time Machine is back with a brand-new show, celebrating the best in dance music from 1962-2024. Expect nothing but 100% bangers, in what will be an epic show you will not want to miss. Since first launching his time-travelling, ‘dance-through-the-decades’ audio-visual party concept in…
Grab a hot slice of pizza at The Pizza Sessions in Federation Square on 23-24 March – part of this year’s Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. Pizza oven pioneers Gozney will be creating hot pizza and fun times in partnership with the festival. You can watch as guests Joel Bennetts (Fish Shop and Burger Park, Sydney), Ellie Bouhadana (Hope St Radio), Casey Wall (Capitano, Bar Liberty) and Lucy Whitlow (Figlia) all design pizzas you’re going to love. There’s also an opportunity to get hands-on with dough or top your own pizzas. Entry is free. There are other opportunities of purchase…
Australia’s queen of comedy, Celeste Barber, has announced a 2024 tour of her new show Backup Dancer – coming to Geelong and Melbourne in August. Backup Dancer promises to tackle a range of big political topics from freeing nipples and inappropriately texting therapists, to what it would really be like to be Taylor Swift’s backup dancer. A night of jokes, hilarious storytelling and a lot of high kicks. Thrilled to be touring her new show, Celeste said, “I’m excited to tell some jokes, relive some awkward memories and high kick my way across the stage with my new show Backup Dancer.” Since humble…
A symposium on Sunday 17 March 2024 will debate the hard questions about artificial intelligence (AI) and the impact of the emergence of a constructed image that does not need a camera or a lens. It’s being hosted by Australia’ s only specialist educational institution in photography and digital image, Photography Studies College, during PHOTO 2024 – the International Festival of Photography held in Melbourne throughout March. In 1840, when French painter Paul Delaroche saw his first photograph, he declared: “From today, painting is dead!”And now in 2024, AI and images generated from text prompts raise similar cries of “Photography…
Africa Fashion – the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of fashion from the African continent ever mounted in Australia – presents a dynamic survey of historical and contemporary designs from some of the most influential fashion designers in the region. Coming to Melbourne from the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) in London and on display from 31 May 2024, the Australian premiere of Africa Fashion features nearly 200 works, including couture, bespoke and ready-to-wear fashions, and body adornments, from over 50 designers from more than 20 countries and regions on the African continent. With works drawn from the collection of the V&A, NGV…
Converge on the Goulburn is a two-day celebration featuring many cultural festivities, delicious food, colours, music and flavours that’s being held at Victoria Park Lake, Shepparton on 12 to 13 April. Partnering with the Shepparton Festival to bring together an outstanding stage, Converge on the Goulburn will feature an extended event program with more experiences, stories, and activities for everyone to enjoy. Leading up to an amazing weekend, Friday morning will see the Children’s Food Bowl Festival at Victoria Park Lake – a free event celebrating the nourishing produce found in the Goulburn Valley. This family-centered festival will be showcasing…
Celebrating 60 years of The Rolling Stones, four of Australia’s most electrifying rockstars are taking their Rolling Stones Revue back on the road to pay homage to the greatest rock ‘n roll band of all time. Fronted by Adalita (Magic Dirt), Phil Jamieson (Grinspoon), Tex Perkins (The Cruel Sea, Tex Don & Charlie) and self-professed Stones’ tragic, Tim Rogers (You Am I), The Rolling Stones Revue will bring a full-blown, rock ‘n roll spectacle to the stage starting with the seminal Sticky Fingers album. Kicking off with Brown Sugar and Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’, they’ll take you on a ride…
Looking for something to do over the Labor Day long weekend? There’s plenty to choose from across Melbourne and Victoria: here are 40 events or experiences to consider. 1. Catch Wicked at the Regent Theatre The Broadway blockbuster musical Wicked has just flown into Melbourne’s Emerald City at the Regent Theatre following a successful run in Sydney. 2. Go see a one act play at the Butterfly Club The Butterfly Club’s One Act Play Festival is a celebration of exceptional works in a single act, featuring six original titles to captivate and inspire and runs until 23 March. 3. Attend a unicorn festival…
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? New interactive exhibition headed to ACMI in May Endless play abounds at ACMI this winter, as world premiere exhibition Beings comes alive from 22 May to 29 September 2024. Comprised of 13 artworks drawn from the 20-year career of international art and design collective Universal Everything – including the premiere of four brand new artworks – Beings features…