talks and tours

HOT: Melt Chocolate Festival preview, Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders St, Melbourne

May 16, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment

If you want to learn about, eat and share chocolate then make sure you don’t miss Melt: Chocolate Festival on next Sunday 26 May 11am – 4pm at the Immigration Museum. At Melt: Chocolate Festival, you will get to meet members of Victoria’s chocolate-loving Portuguese-speaking, Belgian, and Mexican communities to explore the role of chocolate in cuisine, [...]

Melbourne Museum – Smartbar Giveaway

April 23, 2013 ⋅ 18 comments

Melbourne Museum is opening up next Thursday night for its popular adults-only Smartbar, with a theme for this event being Retro Futurism. Along with the museum’s experts you can explore vintage machines, including CSIRAC the only intact first-generation computer surviving in the world, retro technologies, the future of 3D printing technology and the origins of electronic music. Food [...]

Problogger Special Event: Food and Wine

July 9, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

Darren Rowse, aka ProBlogger, is a huge internet/blogging celebrity in Melbourne (and in fact, the world!) so I was thrilled to be asked to participate in a special ProBlogger event with a special focus on food and wine bloggers. For one night only, you get to hear from Darren Rowse, chef Shane Delia of Maha Bar and Grill and [...]

HOT: Spud Heaven – Amazing Tasmanian Potatoes, LG Kitchen Cooking School, South Melbourne Market, Shop 90 Cecil St, South Melbourne

July 2, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

Who knew that there could be more to the humble spud than a white potato? I love potatoes but I’m not knowledgeable about them – I just know that there are some potatoes which are better for roasting and some are better for mashing. So I was excited to receive an invitation from Georgie’s Harvest, a South [...]

HOT: Long Weekend in Bendigo (Part 1) – What to do

June 11, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

Hope you all had a fun and restful long weekend! Did you go anywhere interesting? I was drawn by the rare opportunity to visit the Grace Kelly: Style Icon Exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery so we headed to Bendigo for a short break. I’ve only been to Bendigo once before (in fact, for last year’s [...]

Art Melbourne 2012 Giveaway!

May 18, 2012 ⋅ 64 comments

Every year I visit Art Melbourne, Melbourne’s affordable art fair, and this year you could visit too…for free! Art Melbourne is held in the grandiose Royal Exhibition Building and it is a hive of original, affordable, interesting art to suit every taste. As well as the 4 day exhibition there are talks, demonstrations, music, food [...]

Next Wave Festival 2012 – Day Pass Giveaway!

May 11, 2012 ⋅ 18 comments

I’ve been a fan of Next Wave Festival since I volunteered to man a Docklands shipping container/arts space for the festival years ago. Well, Next Wave Festival 2012 opens next Saturday (19-27 May) and this year they’re running a bit of an experiment to help you discover a new way of experiencing an arts festival. With a [...]

HOT: The Wonders of Ancient Mesopotamia, Melbourne Museum, Nicholson Street, Carlton

May 3, 2012 ⋅ 32 comments

I lived in London for years and although I liked to visit the British Museum regularly I think I saw about 1/1000th of their vast collection. So I was quite excited to hear that a slice of the museum’s Middle East artefact collection was coming to Melbourne for the Melbourne Museum‘s winter exhibition for 2012, [...]

HOT: Rumi’s 40 Days of Lent with Joseph Abboud, The Essential Ingredient, Prahran Market, Elizabeth St, South Yarra

April 8, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

Happy Easter! If you were observing Lent you are probably celebrating the end of the 40 days with some feasting today. While I’m not religious I am interested in the rituals and traditions of Lent, so I recently attended a demonstration class at The Essential Ingredient with Joseph Abboud, the chef/owner of contemporary Middle Eastern restaurant, Rumi, [...]

Melbourne Museum SmartBar giveaway

February 20, 2012 ⋅ 73 comments

If you think Melbourne Museum is a destination only for the pram-pushing set, think again. For one night only on Thursday 1 March, Melbourne Museum is hosting SmartBar a summer pop-up bar that presents drinks and DJ tunes along with a dose of science and history, taxidermy and a dissection. Dazzle your friends with your wealth of knowledge, [...]

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