Arts & Culture

Observing the universe: the Great Melbourne Telescope, 1875

Observing the universe: the Great Melbourne Telescope, 1875

September 20th, 2023 - Dr Cheryl Griffin

The open-air reflector telescope at the back of the Great Melbourne Telescope Building faces up to the skies, its seemingly delicately filigreed barrel looking like something from a circus act. 

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Pakana woman Lola Greeno takes out Macfarlane Prize

September 20th, 2023 - Edmund Coleman

Lola Greeno, a Pakana woman, has been awarded the $50,000 2023 Don Macfarlane Prize at Craft in the CBD.

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A little less conversation, a little more musical

September 20th, 2023 - Edmund Coleman

When producer David Venn began floating the idea of an “Elvis Musical”, his mother was ecstatic.

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China’s National Symphony Orchestra to tour Melbourne

September 20th, 2023 - CBD News

The China National Symphony Orchestra (CNSO) will return to Australia this year following a six-year absence and will play at Southbank’s Hamer Hall on December 2.

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Melbourne Fringe takes centre stage

September 20th, 2023 - Edmund Coleman

“PLAY UP!” is the rallying cheer for this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival.

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No comfort in strange creatures

September 20th, 2023 - Rhonda Dredge

The gossip in the industry is that Patricia Piccinini wasn’t allowed to show her anthropomorphic drawings in Sydney because they don’t “suit dentists’ surgeries”.

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Who painted the lane?

August 23rd, 2023 - Adrian Doyle

Hosier Lane is a well-known and culturally significant laneway located in the heart of the CBD. If you don’t know where it is, then you’re probably not from around here.

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An afternoon concert in Little Bourke St in the 1880s

August 23rd, 2023 - Dr Cheryl Griffin

Seven bandsmen, dressed in flat caps and uniforms, perform outside a substantial bluestone building, believed to be the premises of R Goldsbrough & Co, wool and grain agents, a company that had large grain and produce stores around the city.

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Becoming Eliza, being Anna O’Byrne

August 23rd, 2023 - Edmund Coleman

Melbourne-raised, Anna O’Byrne’s elevation from the Australian Girls’ Choir to becoming an internationally renowned star soprano has been an incredible journey and an atmospheric ascendency.

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Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s movie concert series returns

August 23rd, 2023 - Georgie Atkins

The last tickets are on sale for the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s (MSO) eighth and final performance of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back this October.

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