Arts & Culture
“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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The art to rolling up your sleeve
A Melbourne-based photographer says he’s honoured after his work featured in a public art display showing the vulnerable getting a COVID vaccine in the heart of the city.
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Museum of Chinese Australian History celebrates $15K grant for new podcast
Melbourne’s famous Museum of Chinese Australian History is celebrating after being awarded $15,000 to help launch a podcast about Chinese-Australian family stories.
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Island Wave moves to Kensington
One of Melbourne’s most well-recognised pieces of public art is moving from the Queen Victoria Market (QVM) precinct to Newmarket Reserve in Kensington.
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Council backs a CBD safe injecting room
No new funds for CBD revival, injecting room in latest state budget
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