Arts & Culture
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Some galleries in the CBD are planning great events, such as viewings at the Sofitel Hotel, to celebrate reopening.
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Street art crisis
COVID has been bad for Melbourne, it has made a struggling city fall to its knees.
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Melbourne Music Week returns
There is plenty of musical action happening with the return of Melbourne Music Week (MMW) to the City of Melbourne from December 3 to 12. Venues in the CBD will be brimming with exceptional musical talent.
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“Youth and Beauty meet at River Festival”
So ran the headline in The Herald newspaper, reporting on a day when the Yarra River was “aglow with colour and life”.
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Soul kinda feelin’
Renee Geyer, soul singing “gigastar”, sensed that one of her backup singers had something extra. A woman’s intuition.
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Singing their songs at the Central Telegraph Office, Elizabeth St, early 1920s
You see before you a group of telegraph dispatch operators at the Central Telegraph Office at Elizabeth St, taken in the early 1920s before its removal to Post Office Place.
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Surrounded by thousands and thousands of people in stadiums around the world, and with just an acoustic guitar and voice, musician Ed Sheeran can hold an audience captive. That’s an incredible talent.
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A sad, old ghost town
On Victoria St near the market is a cool little lounge/gallery called One Star that has a foot in both the CBD and West Melbourne.
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Creative isolation
As we keep the city locked down Melbourne is slowly dying.
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Taking a walk through Melbourne streets with Pierre Robin
Melbourne-based French wool buyer Pierre Robin was a keen amateur photographer. From the late 1950s into the 1960s he spent hours roaming the streets of the CBD, camera in hand.
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“Make Room” homelessness housing project nears completion
A full financial history of the QVM invesment
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