Arts & Culture

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Experience a “flair of unpredictability” this Melbourne International Comedy Festival

March 22nd, 2023 - Kaylah Joelle Baker

Melbourne International Comedy Festival is returning from March 29 to April 23, promising once again to have the city laughing more than the year before.

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Is street art dead?

March 22nd, 2023 - Adrian Doyle

People always tell me that there isn’t anything new in art and that painting is dead.

A jewel of a theatre: the Bijou in Bourke St

March 22nd, 2023 - Dr Cheryl Griffin

The Victorian Academy of Music, feted by the press as a “jewel of the theatre”, was a much anticipated “palace raised to the Muses” and its foundation stone was laid with great fanfare by the Governor of Victoria on May 23, 1876.

3MBS and ALPHA60 present Music, She Wrote

March 15th, 2023 - CBD News

3MBS Melbourne 103.5FM presents its third chamber music festival celebrating women in music.

Everything we know about painting

March 6th, 2023 - Rhonda Dredge

A Collins Street gallery has opened up its doors to unsigned female artists so they can make their CBD debut.

Reduce waste this Melbourne Fashion Festival with Rntr.

February 24th, 2023 - Kaylah Joelle Baker

Melbourne Central is partnering with online rental platform Rntr. to motivate PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival attendees to be more circular in their attire.

Women at work – Sands and McDougall staff, 1897

February 22nd, 2023 - Dr Cheryl Griffin

What better way to celebrate Women’s History Month in March than taking a peek into the working lives of female office workers in the 1890s?

Fed Square shimmers in Free Candlelight Concerts

February 22nd, 2023 - CBD News

Free Candlelight Concert series has returned to Fed Square for the second consecutive year.

& Juliet: The greatest young love tale gets its second chance

February 22nd, 2023 - Kaylah Joelle Baker

Shakespeare’s greatest tragic love story is back centre stage thanks to award-winning anthemic pop musical & Juliet, and Australian beloved theatre legend Rob Mills has confirmed it is the “best thing [he’s] been in since Wicked”.