Arts & Culture
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The Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation is a historic city-shaping project in many ways.
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Meet VCA student Ellie Carroll
Get to know a student’s experience studying at The University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. Ellie Carroll is studying a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre) at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA).
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Melbourne Theatre Company reveals highly anticipated 2024 season
Following an unforgettable, 70-year anniversary season in 2023, Melbourne Theatre Company (MTC) has announced a stellar line-up of performances for 2024.
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“Long term friends and collaborators” announce official partnership
Arts Centre Melbourne has announced an official partnership with the University of Melbourne (UoM) in a move that is set to “foster cultural development within the Melbourne Arts Precinct”.
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The beauty in a career change
For Kim Dumayne, living life to the fullest means trying new things regardless of age or stage in life.
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NGV: 2024 Winter Masterpieces revealed
More than 500 breathtaking ancient Egyptian artefacts will come to Melbourne from the British Museum when the “world-exclusive” Pharaoh exhibition arrives at the NGV next winter.
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Meet Melbourne Conservatorium of Music student, Jessica Leigh
Get to know a student’s experience studying at The University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Fine Arts and Music. Jessica Leigh is studying a Bachelor of Music (Honours) at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music.
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A behind-the-scenes look at major upgrades to Arts Centre Melbourne
Since it first opened in 1984, Arts Centre Melbourne’s Theatres Building (under the Spire) is undergoing its most significant refurbishment as part of the Victorian Government’s Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation project.
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Malthouse Theatre unveils season 2024
Malthouse Theatre has announced its highly anticipated 2024 season, with eight compelling performances “celebrating how theatrical theatre can be”.
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Open Glossary to fill ACCA
When James Nguyen migrated to Melbourne from Vietnam at eight years old, his family lived in secret in the annexe above their textile factory.
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Unity, Culture, Hope: Songs for Freedom play for change
Marking the 40th anniversary year of 16-year-old Yinjibarndi boy John Pat’s death, Songs for Freedom is a moving assembly of soul, blues and country music by the Freedom Collective, advocating for change in the alarmingly disproportionate incarceration rates of Aboriginal children in Australian prisons.
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A powerful debut
Wrestling Before the Gateway is a bold and beautiful show of abstract paintings in the manner of Hilma af Klint whose spiritual approach to work was kept under wraps for 70 years.
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Talking skating, toxic masculinity and the Tao with Tom Craft
Hailing from Wagga Wagga in rural New South Wales, Tom Craft, 20, describes coming of age in a deeply conservative and religious environment.
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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s movie concert series returns
The last tickets are on sale for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s (MSO) eighth and final performance of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back this October.
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Evening News at the NGV
Since relaunching as Evening News, the Melbourne based instrumental dance group formerly known as Beatnik Collective graduated from house-orientated grooves to a jazz and drum-and-base informed fusion of dark synth realms and psychedelic pop.
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Antartica comes to Chunky Move for Now or Never
The City of Melbourne’s Now or Never festival makes its debut in August with an exciting array of digital art and thought-provoking events breaking out right across the city, with two “sonic trips” to the Antarctic taking place at Southbank’s Chunky Move.
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Violin virtuoso and piano prodigy join forces at Melbourne Recital Centre
Feted for his effortless renditions of the otherwise impossible – from Paganini and Locatelli to Brett Dean – Ilya Gringolts’ performances and recordings have established him as one of the quintessential violin virtuosi of our time.
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Tubular Bells to ring out again
Tubular Bells for Two is returning for a final Melbourne performance, with the live arrangement of Mike Oldfield’s seminal 1973 masterpiece to be staged at Arts Centre Melbourne’s Playhouse on September 8 and 9.
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How a love for travel led to a career of “capturing moments in time”
When it comes to travelling there is nothing Ellina den Toom loves more, although capturing her adventures on camera is a close second.
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“Hello, Possums!” once more
Following the death of Barry Humphries in April this year, the world mourned not only for the giant of Australian character comedy, but also his darling creation: Dame Edna Everage.
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