Arts & Culture

Robbie Burns in St Kilda Rd

November 23rd, 2022 - Dr Cheryl Griffin

As you link arms and sing Auld Lang Syne this New Year’s Eve, you probably won’t bring to mind the legendary poet Robert Burns who died 226 years ago in distant Scotland never having visited Australia, which at the time of his death had been settled barely a decade.

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Melbourne CBD’s best art laneways

November 23rd, 2022 - Adrian Doyle

As the year ends it’s a good time to reflect on the creative urban art scene in Melbourne. It has been an interesting year.

Flinders Lane Gallery fundraises for Foodbank with fun and unique aprons

November 23rd, 2022 - Kaylah Joelle Baker

Flinders Lane Gallery’s (FLG) artists have been hard at work creating unique works of art on high-quality Worktones aprons in an effort to raise funds for Foodbank Australia.

Who is the general public?

November 23rd, 2022 - Rhonda Dredge

The spirit of Marcel Duchamp is being honoured in a show at 99% gallery in the Nicholas Building called The General Public.

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Much-loved festive staple spreads Christmas joy flawlessly

November 23rd, 2022 - Kaylah Joelle Baker

The official opening night of award-winning A Christmas Carol kicked off on Friday, November 18 at the Comedy Theatre, leaving audience members positively buzzing and filled with Christmas cheer.

More vintage Melbourne

November 23rd, 2022 - Rhonda Dredge

A sequel to Old Vintage Melbourne has been released, this time a compilation of photographs taken between 1960 and 1990.

Federation Square is city’s Christmas HQ

November 23rd, 2022 - Kaylah Joelle Baker

Federation Square is transforming itself into Melbourne’s Christmas headquarters this year, and with a program full of lively, uplifting performances and events, it is sure to have even the Grinch smiling.

In the words of Carole King: “City streets, the stories that they tell”

October 26th, 2022 - Dr Cheryl Griffin

When the Hoddle Grid was superimposed on the early Melbourne landscape in 1837 it did not take into account the spiritual and cultural connections to this land of its traditional custodians, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung Peoples of the Eastern Kulin.