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Performance video projected onto a red brick wall at the side of the street with shops. A performer in an otherworldly silver and fluid costume moving and interacting around a highly and vividly decorated rotating clothes line, filled with vibrant fabrics in a suburban Australian home, with a green garden and wooden fence at the dusk of sunset.
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Event review: Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Melbourne

Bringing contemporary projection works to fresh eyes.

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Concert review: FLIGHT: The Next Generation of Artists, Fitzroy Town Hall

A mini music festival’s dreamy takeover of Fitzroy Town Hall with intriguing contrasts of performance ambience and audience-artist connections.

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What happens when a tram line throws a party?

The Eighty-Six is a new festival celebrating the concentrated cluster of live music venues in Melbourne’s inner north.

a soccer ball on a soccer pitch against the night sky and stadium lights
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Writers telling underside stories of the beautiful game

It’s the news no football fan wants to hear – that there are some shady back room dealings in world…

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Theatre review: Garage Girls, La Mama Courthouse

A show for lovers of feel-good movies, Australian stories and women beating the odds.

A clock face that is warping and dissolving on the right into its dark background.
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Radical access: the future of access in the arts

Stellar thinkers and doers gather to consider radical access and the future of an inclusive arts industry.

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Musical review: Bloom, Arts Centre Melbourne

A musical set in an aged care facility? Sounds like a difficult task, but Bloom comes up roses.

A white man dressed in black sits in a bare room playing the cello. A fluffy white and brown cat stands in front of him, staring inquisitively at the camera.
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Symphony Orchestra’s new season of storytelling

The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s (MSO) 2024 program highlights storytelling, reimagining and turning the ordinary into extraordinary.

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Theatre review: Animal Farm, Northcote Town Hall Arts Centre

Orwell's classic work given a Australian political spin.

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Music review: Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, Hamer Hall

A program packed with excitement, but light on choral spectacle.

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