Tag: Melbourne

St. Kilda Summer Jazz Festival: a weekend of hot jazz by the sea

If you haven’t made plans this weekend you’re in luck because there’s an amazing jazz festival on, the inaugural St. Kilda Jazz Festival. Many of Melbourne’s most talented jazz musicians are performing south of the river and bringing the most sensational jazz…

Festival Of Live Art: Town Hall Pass

The Festival of Live Art is Melbourne’s biennial ode to all things live art (we went two years ago!). It is taking place from 1-13 March 2016 across the North Melbourne Town Hall, St. Kilda’s Theatre Works, and the Footscray…

Boozy Brunch – St. Hotel

Boozy Brunch is a decadent Sunday session inspired by similar ventures in London and New York. It’s designed to bring together three key elements: fashion, food and entertainment — not to mention lots of premium liquor! Each Boozy Brunch is…

A Recorder Revolution with the Australian Brandenburg Orchestra

Recorders (a.k.a internal duct flutes) might give you the chills. Or it might bring back nightmarish primary school music class memories. I hear you. But if you’re after a revolutionary classical music experience, look no further. The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra,…

Scribble Creative’s Creative Women Dinner

Women are wonderful. Especially the exceptionally creative ladies I spent a brilliant evening with at the Pozible headquarters in Collingwood as part of Scribble Creative’s Creative Women Dinner. Let me say firstly that the Pozible staff have a beautiful office –…

March 2016: What To Do and Where To Go

As Autumn descends upon us, we look for awesome events to distract ourselves with from the impending, inevitable cold winds and rain to come. Here are our top picks of how to stay warm, while also staying cool: Festival of Live Art (1…

Empathy in Australia – Symposium by The School of Life

The popularity of The School of Life’s Symposium on Empathy in Australia, held at Melbourne Town Hall on Wednesday 24th of February, revealed how current the theme of ’empathy’ is to a generation that are often accused of narcissism. The 2,000-plus…

Nieuw Amsterdam’s new autumn menu launch

The leaves are starting to turn; Daylight Savings will soon be over. There are very few things that make up for the end of summer. One of them is the new autumnal menu at Nieuw Amsterdam. If summertime is all…

Albert Camus’ ‘The Outsider’ at La Mama Theatre

  Have you ever wondered about the absurdity of it all? Have you ever had an entirely inappropriate emotional reaction to a real life tragedy? If you have, then Stork Theatre’s production of Albert Camus’ The Outsider is an excellent…

Pretty Mama brings Caribbean flavour to Melbourne

Pretty Mama is the latest eatery launching in Melbourne’s West End. The west side of Melbourne’s CBD is going through a culinary uprising of late with many of Melbourne’s famous chefs testing the waters in uncharted territory. The home of…