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Melbourne Festival: The Wrap featuring Taylor Mac

Feeling tired Melbourne? We are not surprised. You have just finished a mammoth three weeks laughing, crying, exploring mirror mazes, eating and drinking, and having your cultural boundaries pushed in the most interesting ways. That’s right – Melbourne Festival has…

Tree of Codes at Melbourne Festival

Presented by Melbourne Festival, Tree of Codes is choreographed by Wayne McGregor, featuring dancers from both his UK based company and the Paris Opera. It’s about more than just the dancing. The music has been created by Jamie XX, where he…

Hot Chocolate Festival

Hot Chocolate Festival at the Great Ocean Road Chocolaterie

The Great Ocean Road Chocolaterie is staging their first Hot Chocolate Festival. This event has become very popular at the Yarra Valley branch of the chocolaterie but this is the first year it is being held at the Great Ocean…

italian food and wine

Melbourne Italian Wine and Food Festival

The Italian Wine and Food Festival was held at the Royal Exhibition Buildings in Carlton Gardens. Gathered were Italians known for their various culinary fields, whether it be wine from the many regions of Italy, pasta, ciabatta bread, truffles, salami,…

Hophaus Sauagefest Melbourne

Hophaus’ Hot Diggity Dog

There is no better way of celebrating the Queen’s Birthday than with her not too distant relatives, the Germans. Hophaus’ 1st Annual SausageFest serves up just that. I could start this article with a complete and utter array of childish, immature, vulgar, grotesque…

Melbourne Cabaret Festival

The Melbourne Cabaret Festival – guide to the best events

The Melbourne Cabaret Festival is returning this June for its eighth iteration (20 June-2 July 2017). After a stellar event last year, it has truly become one of the city’s major winter art events and a TPO favourite. It’s two…

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…

The Melbourne Tea Festival

Now in it’s second year, the Melbourne Tea Festival is a congregation of 53 stalls and specialty tea vendors who are out to challenge coffee’s supremacy in a town otherwise besotted by the brown bean. For a day, the Melbourne…