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HOT: Q&A, BMW Edge, Federation Square, Melbourne
My first Melbourne Writers Festival event was the live broadcast of ABC1′s Q&A (you can watch the full espisode here). The panel included: Tony Abbott, the Shadow Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs. An uber-conservative politician from the religious right who had some ardent supporters in the crowd. He’s also the author [...]
HOT ALERT: Week of 24 August 2009
Get ready readers! This week’s the beginning of the Melbourne Writers Festival and I will be attending three sold out events: live broadcast of ABC1′s Q&A on 27 August; filming of the ABC’s popular First Tuesdays Book Club on 28 August; and Chris Tsiolkas, author of The Slap in conversation on 30 August. What else [...]
HOT: Pick and Eat Winter BBQ, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 7 Templestowe Rd, Bulleen
One of the joys of not working is that on a balmy winter’s day, I can go for a bike ride through bucolic scenery and bask in the sun after a picnic lunch, while everyone else is cooped up, grey-faced in a temperature-controlled office cubicle. So I was most excited when I woke up this [...]
HOT: Characters & Spaces Walking Tour, Melbourne
State of Design has been over for a couple of weeks now, but because of scheduling difficulties I haven’t had a chance until now to do the Characters & Spaces free self-guided walk by Letterbox with my trusty photographer, RM. Character is a program run by the Communication Design Program at RMIT which ‘seeks to [...]
HOT: Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Gertrude St, Fitzroy
Like High Street Northcote, Gertrude Street is a creative hub which runs an arts festival in partnership with residents of the street. The annual Gertrude St Projection Festival exhibits projection art onto shops, restaurants and pubs and this year artists had to interpret the theme of ‘dream’. On a wintery Thursday night some of my [...]
HOT: Stephanie Alexander, NGV Australia, Federation Square, Melb
I come from a family where food is what binds us together. We reminisce about food we’ve eaten, anticipate the food we’re going to eat, compare cooking methods, discuss Masterchef and take family outings to farmers markets. I think I’m very fortunate that my upbringing has taught me how food gets to my table, the [...]
HOT: Creative Australia and the Ballets Russes, The Arts Centre, 100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
As part of Australian Ballet’s 2009 Ballet Russes season, the Arts Centre is holding a free exhibition called Creative Australia and the Ballet Russes which explores the influence of the Ballet Russes on the art and design scene in Australia, the legacy of the ballet company in Australian dance and its inspiration for three visual [...]
HOT: Collection Tour, NGV International, 180 St Kilda Rd, Southbank
I had originally planned to attend a Henry Purcell lecture at NGV International, but when it was cancelled at the last minute I decided to take a collection tour instead. I’ve never actually explored the permanent exhibition spaces of the NGV and the free tours are a good way to get a taste of what’s [...]
HOT: How to Become a Human Lightning Calculator, Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson St, Carlton
It’s Sunday morning. I lumber bleary-eyed out of bed, grab the papers in my slippers, maybe flip some pancakes and don’t leave the house until the afternoon. Nope. It’s Sunday morning and I’m off to the learn how to be a human lightning calculator. Melbourne Museum, in conjunction with the Mathematical Association of Victoria, are [...]
NOT: Soft Sculpture, Clemenger BBDO Auditorium, NGV International, 180 St Kilda Road, Southbank
The Duldig lecture on sculpture is an annual talk jointly held by the NGV and Duldig Studio – the Glen Iris residence, sculpture garden and studio of the renowned sculptor Karl Duldig. This year’s lecture was given by Elliott H King, an American art historian specialising in Dalí and Surrealism, and entitled Soft Sculptures. I [...]
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