Asia TOPA is The Arts Centre Melbourne’s triennial multi-disciplinary arts extravaganza which explores the Asia-Pacific region’s best productions. In its second iteration, this year’s three month long cultural feast traverses the connection between contemporary Australia and its growing diaspora. Saigon, directed…
Melbourne’s beloved Queer Film Festival (MQFF) is celebrating it’s dirty thirties in 2020 and you are all invited! As Australia’s largest and longest running celebration of queer cinema, the hand-picked program has something for all tastes: yes, even your straight…
À Ố Làng Phố is bringing a slice Vietnamese culture and circus to the Arts Centre stage for three nights only. Running as part of the Asia TOPA Performing Arts festival, the show is billed as ‘bamboo circus.’ (If you’re…
Every boy has the right to learn to pirouette. Everyone has the right to dream. Billy Elliot. You know the name, the iconic poses of a small boy in red track pants tapping against a backdrop of rioting minors. Perhaps…
The magic of live theatre artistry abounds in War Horse, a heartfelt wartime tale that will astound you with its Tony award winning lifelike animal puppetry. With an anti-war message, and narrative of one boy’s love for his foundling, Great…
It’s little surprise that Daylesford has a reputation as one of the best weekend getaways you can have from Melbourne. The famous Spa Country region is rich in history, has an excellent arts scene, delicious food and wine and boasts…
Melbourne is a lucky town in the run up to the silly season and, like champagne frothing over the edge of a glass celebrating a court win through chicanery, the excitement flows all the way over into 2020. You need…
Having spent my second year of university reading all of Shakespeare’s plays and as an avid fan of the movie ’10 Things I Hate About You’, I jumped at the chance to see the Melbourne Shakespeare Company’s summer production of…
Cabaret sensation Meow Meow returns to Malthouse Theatre just in time for the silly season. And you had better believe the seasoned performer knows how to make a memorable entrance. In the case of Apocalypse Meow, she staggers through the…
The Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) is one of Melbourne’s true gems. A free, manicured, palace of serenity just a stone’s throw away from the hustle and bustle of CBD proper. Over the last two years I travelled across 50 countries…