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HOT Chat: Georgia Beattie from Lupe
Melbourne Music Week starts today until 26 November – a fun-filled week of music (natch), films, workshops, parties, eating and drinking. One of my discoveries for Melbourne Music Week is actually not directly about music. If you visit any of the bars at Melbourne Music Week you’ll find Lupe, an innnovative single serve filled wine glass [...]
Giveaway: Environmental Film Festival Melbourne 2011
The Environmental Film Festival Melbourne is back again this year with more environmental themed films screening from 11-16 October at Kino Cinemas, 45 Collins St, Melbourne. The aim of the festival is to increase awareness of key environmental issues by bringing together film-makers, experts, policy makers, politicians and the wider community in an open conversation about [...]
HOT: Fringe Furniture, Melbourne Fringe Festival, Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford
Melbourne Fringe Festival is on now until 9 October 2011 and one of the regular parts of the eclectic program is the free Fringe Furniture exhibition. The theme for this year’s exhibition is ‘Dancing in the Dark: Small Solutions to Big Problems’. Basically, this translates to design that’s smart, green, sustainable and beautiful by designers, architects, [...]
HOT: Plumm Wine Glass Experience, Taste of Melbourne 2012, Royal Exhibition Building, 9 Nicholson St, Carlton
Did you visit Taste of Melbourne this weekend? The exhibition can be pretty overwhelming, what with the huge crowds of people and the number of exhibitors and restaurants participating. So this year I restricted myself to a quick whip around the stalls that I was interested in (such as Yarra Valley Dairy, Gundowring, Enni) and [...]
HOT: Roll-Up
No, we’re not talking about those nasty fruit rubbers! Roll-Up is a new bicycle valet parking service which is launching at State of Design. Instead of locking your bike up to the nearest lamp post, cyclists can get their bike valet parked for free by the fun-fair themed Roll-Up crew. It’s a great initiative as [...]
HOT: Twestival Melbourne 2011, STREAT, Donkey Wheel House, 673 Bourke St, Melbourne
Gosh, remember way back in August 2009 when I joined ‘Twitters’? Well, since then I’ve met so many interesting and diverse people, both online and offline, and these relationships have been so valuable for my social and professional life. So when I heard about Twestival Melbourne, part of a global initiative gathering together tweeps to [...]
HOT Chat: Bhakti Talreja of Twestival Melbourne 2011
Tweeps of Melbourne, it’s time to get together to support a great cause. Twestival Melbourne 2011 is coming up next week Thursday 24 March with food, drink and entertainment for a mere $25 and this year’s charity is STREAT, a Melbourne-based social enterprise providing homeless youth with the opportunity for a long term career in the hospitality [...]
HOT: Studio Ink, Hogan Gallery, 310 Smith St, Collingwood
My last event of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival for this year was to support a friend’s winery, Pyren Vineyard. Pyren Vineyard is a small scale producer of cool climate wines in the Pyrenees. For their newest wine, a Shiraz/Cabernet blend, they invited twelve artists to produce an original piece of art under the theme ”Combinations of [...]
HOT: Funerals & Food: Inspired by Tradition, Nelson Bros Funeral Services, 81 Kororoit Creek Rd, Williamstown
http://www.melhotornot.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=9872&message=10 Funerals & Food: Inspired by Tradition is definitely the winner of Most Intriguing Event during the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival (though technically it’s not part of the festival’s official program). Nelson Bros is Australia’s oldest family owned funeral company and at their historic Williamstown funeral home they hosted an afternoon of panelists exploring [...]
HOT: Forgotten Fruits High Tea, Southpaw Bar, 189 Gertrude St, Fitzroy
Another one-off (and sold out) event as part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, this time the Forgotten Fruits High Tea at Southpaw Bar. It caught my fancy because it sounded like something from Alice in Wonderland! This wasn’t just any high tea, but a high tea full of cakes and pastries made from [...]
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