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'Flashover' multimedia artwork provides unique insights into bushfires

A University of Melbourne project harnesses new effects technology to explore one of the Australian environment's most alarming ever growing…

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YIRRAMBOI expands globally, welcoming Northern Turtle Island, Canada as its 2025 Focus Nation

The Naarm/Melbourne-based First Nations festival is taking a step towards global cultural unity and collaboration. 

A crowd sitting on chairs under the night sky in federation square, an open-air area with a large screen.
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Federation Square 'Open Air at the Square' experiences are back this summer

The program features silent cinema and blockbuster films on the big screen, as well as musical performances.

Portrait of elderly man with white shirt and yellow tie. Tom Lowenstein
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Vale Tom Lowenstein OAM – a man who looked after artists

The sector mourns the loss of one of Australia’s most respected arts tax accountants, Tom Lowenstein.

The ensemble of 'Follies", dressed in colourful period costume.
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Musical review: Follies, Palais Theatre

Australia’s first ever fully staged production of 'Follies' deserves an extended run.

Jessi Ryan, seated and wearing a golden glittery dress and holding onto a mirror ball.
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Performance Review: QRAVE, Abbotsford Convent, midsumma festival

A combined performance and exhibition presenting queer histories.

Natalie Bassingthwaighte in 'Shirley Valetine.' She has frizzy blonde hairstyle and is wearing a pink jumper. She is opening a champagne bottle next to a fridge.
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Performance review: Shirley Valentine, Athenaeum Theatre

Willy Russell’s classic play of an oppressed woman’s mid-life self-discovery is as relevant today as it was in 1986.

An opera diva in a big blue dress has her arms up in the air and a small orchestra behind her. Opera For All. Dimity Shepherd.
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Providing a pathway to the ultimate art form – Opera for All

The Opera for All concerts are being seen all over the globe. This week it was Melbourne's turn.

37. A group of men in AFL strips stand on stage and hold one of their group high above them. He has his arm upstretched holding an Australian Rules Football ball.
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Theatre review: 37, Southbank Theatre, The Sumner

Race, community and identity in AFL.

A whale seconds before eating a shoal of fish.
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Exhibition review: Ocean Photographer of the Year Exhibition, Seaworks Williamstown

Some of the world’s best marine photography comes to Melbourne. 

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