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‘Let’s Go Up Here’ at the Festival of Live Art

If you haven’t familiarised yourself with what ‘live art’ is, now is the time. The Festival of Live Art (FOLA) is yet again showcasing a body of bold, ambitious and provocative work and Let’s Go Up Here is the embodiment of…

Sweating at the ‘Worktable’ at The Festival of Live Art

The Festival of Live Art (FOLA) has been rocking and rolling Melbourne’s experimental arts scene for the third year with its provocative, whimsical and unpredictable program. Encapsulating all those three elements, Worktable is a quintessentially FOLA show that takes you out…

Melbourne Women In Film Festival

The Plus Ones’ Guide to the 2018 Melbourne Woman In Film Festival

The Melbourne Women in Film Festival (MWFF) kicks off in the last week of February with a well-crafted program including contemporary and classic feature films, short movie screenings, and eye-opening panels and discussions. Supporting the work of women screen practitioners across…

Nocturnal Melbourne Museum

Nocturnal: Melbourne Museum’s evening adults-only party

If your memories of museums date back to school years, Melbourne Museum will lure you in to pay a long-due visit with its Nocturnal series – adults-only after-hours events, boasting live music performances, DJs, pop-up bars, curator talks, and admission…

Cory Henry & The Funk Apostles at the Melbourne International Jazz Festival

Grammy Award-winning Cory Henry brought his groovy band The Funk Apostles to Melbourne for a must-see Melbourne International Jazz Festival exclusive, as the first stop of their world tour. An absolute all-rounder, the multi-instrumentalist and producer Cory Henry worked with everyone from Aretha…

Seductive Parisian nights at ‘Bijou’ at The Butterfly Club

A Parisian café. Year 1933. Against the backdrop of a Depression-era Europe. Mesdames et Messieurs, let me introduce you to Bijou. Once a shining star of the Paris nighttime scene, merciless years have taken a toll on her beauty. Her…

Melbourne Fringe: ‘Sediment’

The month of September marks plenty of celebrations for Melbourne: the arrival of spring and the start of the festival season, to name a few. The Melbourne Fringe Festival is back in town with an exhilarating program, and that can…