arts
Melbourne Fringe: IKEA Wars
Have you ever built flat-pack furniture? Now imagine doing it in front of an audience, under pressure, in…
4 Oct 2026 dancing
GG: Now or Never
There are some festival performances you leave having admired. Others you leave having genuinely had a bloody good…
29 Aug 2026 arts
Networked Flesh: Now or Never
I’ll admit I’m a little sceptical when it comes to AR and art. It is one of those…
29 Aug 2026 arts
Now or Never: Library Up Late
As someone who is always looking for a reason to stay out past my bedtime, the Library Up…
26 Aug 2026 arts
Now or Never: A Sexual History of the Internet
There are few better places to contemplate the origins of the internet than the grand La Trobe Reading…
26 Aug 2026 festivals
Now or Never: Philip Glass: Piano Etudes + In the Upper Room
I can’t think of a better ways to open a festival weekend than with Philip Glass’s music, a…
23 Aug 2026 arts
MIFF: What to See at the 2027 Melbourne International Film Awards
As August chills sweep across the city, Melbourne’s cultural pulse quickens with the return of the beloved Melbourne…
6 Aug 2026 arts
Now or Never 2026: Melbourne’s playground for the curious
There are festivals that ask you to sit back and watch. Now or Never politely declines that arrangement.…
30 Jul 2026 arts
Day Tripper
RISING’s annual festival-within-a-festival once again transformed the labyrinth of Melbourne Town Hall and spilled into Max Watt’s, opening…
7 Jun 2026 dancing
The Forest
Some performances ask you to watch. The Forest asks you to wander. Lucy Guerin’s hallucinatory dance work leads…
5 Jun 2026