talks and tours

HOT: Tony Wheeler, The Hive, Collins Quarter, 86A Collins St, Melbourne

November 24, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

The Hive closed off 2009 with a bang as Tony Wheeler addressed over 200 eager listeners with the story of his journey and his passions as one of the founders of Lonely Planet. In fact, interest was so huge that the event had to be moved to bigger premises at Collins Quarter. Tony was a [...]

HOT Alert: Week of 23 November 2009

November 22, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

This coming week is filled with travel, rock, films, shopping, food and parties! Tony Wheeler, the co-founder of Lonely Planet, is speaking at The Hive at The Order of Melbourne on Tuesday 24 November. Read my review of a previous The Hive event here; The Rockwiz Christmas special is coming to The Palais, St Kilda, on [...]

HOT Alert: Week of 16 November 2009

November 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

HOT being the operative word. Lordy me, I’m definitely not a hot-weather person, hopefully this week gives us all some respite. Anyway, a bit of sweatiness isn’t going to stop this week’s social calendar: Free reader event to launch MoVida Rustica at Books for Cooks, 233 Gertrude St Fitzroy. We’ll be meeting author Richard Cornish [...]

HOT Alert: Week of 9 November 2009

November 8, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Jetsetting Joyce’s diary for this week. Mon – blank Tuesday – blank Wednesday – blank Thursday – blank Friday – blank Of course not! This week I’m searching for Beethoven, time travelling with Eric Bana, discussing acoustic folk pop with Anita George, going on a blind date with my new blog crush Miss Kish, listening [...]

HOT: Point & Shoot Camera Basics, Centre for Adult Education, 21 Degraves St, Melbourne

November 2, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

My trash TV confession – sitting through 12 cycles of America’s Next Top Model. But now it appears that all those hours have been time well spent! I’ve absorbed quite a bit of knowledge on photography and light while watching ‘fierce’ Tyra Banks and a bevy of model wannabes. That’s not to say I didn’t [...]

HOT Chat: Jessica Rae of Melbourne Op Shop Tours

November 2, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

This week’s HOT Chat is with Jessica Rae from Melbourne Op Shop Tours. I seem to be on a ‘green’ bent lately (check out previous HOT Chats with Eco Fashionista and 321 Water) and Melbourne Op Shop Tours is another Melbourne-based business which takes the approach that being green doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice style [...]

HOT: Shop and Cook Tour, William Angliss Institute, 555 Latrobe St, Melbourne

October 10, 2009 ⋅ 8 comments

When it comes to Christmas and birthdays, I’m a pretty easy person to buy for. Anything food related, travel related, art related or music related is a sure bet. So big hugs and thank you to my high school girlfriends, who gifted me the perfect Jetsetting Joyce experience – a foodie shopping and cooking day. [...]

HOT Alert: Week of 5 October

October 5, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

This week’s it’s all about Fringe, Fringe, Fringe: Melbourne Fringe Festival #5 – Opening night of the drama She’s My Baby, billed as “Two Monologues, One Couple, Sixteen Years Apart” and showing at the Trades Hall on Tuesday 6 October; Melbourne Fringe Festival #6 Comedy show 21 – ‘Cause you’ll only turn it once (probably a [...]

HOT: Adioso.com, The Hive, Order of Melbourne, 401 Swanston St, Melbourne

September 8, 2009 ⋅ One comment

One of the many fruitful chats I had the Social Media Club was with Luke Grange of Knowledge Solutions, who told me about a monthly meeting called The Hive. It’s an informal meeting of entrepreneurs held on the second Tuesday of every month featuring a different business guest speaker every time, from Monique Conheady, the co-founder [...]

HOT: Chris Tsiolkas, BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne

August 30, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

My last event at the Melbourne Writers Festival was the sold out session with Chris Tsiolkas, the author of The Slap. The book was discussed in my book club earlier in the year with lots of debate, so I was very interested to hear about the work from the author’s perspective. Tsiolkas was extremely personable [...]