When you start the night with a cocktail featuring a brandy aged for 15+ years, you know you’re in good hands. This is how the RASV welcomed distillers and spirit enthusiasts to their ‘ultimate cocktail hour.’ (Lucky for us, the…
Have you ever fantasised about hanging out for a day with Virginia Woolf? Walking the streets of London beside her as she thrashes around new ideas — with some funny jokes tossed in? With Sentient Theatre’s novel show ‘A Room Of…
Heartstring proudly presents one of Shakespeare’s final tragedies, ‘Coriolanus‘ – a bloody tale of pride and power amongst men, performed by an all-female cast. Famine has struck the city of Rome. Plebians angrily march in protest against the aristocracy who…
Activists unite! The 2016 The Human Rights Arts and Film Festival (HRAFF) is coming to Melbourne on the 5th of May and running through to the 19th. It showcases an incredible selection of documentaries, narrative films, animated features, and shorts. I spoke…
Clothing line Gorman has teamed up with contemporary Melbourne artist, Fred Fowler, to create a 43-piece winter collection entitled Fred Fowler X Gorman. This is the second nature-inspired collaboration event for Lisa Gorman and the Melbourne Museum. My plus ones and I were…
We came from all walks of life to queue up at the Wheeler Centre at 9am on a Saturday morning for ‘Paul Kelly Does Shakespeare’. On a pilgrimage of sorts, we stood much as they would have outside The Globe…
Melbourne continues its prominence as the cultural capitol of Australia, and it’s not hard to see why. Some of our favourites of the year are on this month, from beer to jazz festivals to Eurovision. We’re hard-pressed with what we’re looking…
Melbourne never fails to disappoint. April was filled with fashion, food, festivals and more. Read on to see what we got up to! Let’s Meet At launch Bursting onto the Melbourne social scene is new social networking site Let’s Meet…
A film festival can be seen as the artistic expression of a culture, a way of celebrating achievements or articulating difficult past events. Running from 30 April to 12 May, the Jewish International Film Festival’s Holocaust Film Series presents 30…
Wow. Just, wow. This is the only word you need for a visit to The Dressmaker costume exhibition at Rippon Lea Estate. I heard this word gasped many times at the preview show on the evening of April 21. A walk…