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New chapter for State Library Victoria
State Library Victoria has appointed internationally recognised library leader Vicki McDonald AM FALIA as its new chief executive officer following an extensive global search.
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NGV celebrates NAIDOC Week with day of First Nations art, music and family events
The National Gallery of Victoria will mark NAIDOC Week with a full day of free programs celebrating First Nations art, culture, music, storytelling and community at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square, on Saturday, July 11.
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Melbourne “in character” as San Francisco for US film
Local residents and business owners were alerted late in May to the upcoming filming of “an exciting new international drama feature” in Melbourne’s CBD.
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City overwhelms in MIFF premiere Mad Rush
A feature premiering at MIFF in August showcases Melbourne’s CBD as the dystopian backdrop to a young woman’s mental decline as she confronts economic insecurity and is pursued by scammers and self-doubt over a 24-hour period.
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New queens take the throne as SIX returns to Melbourne
The global musical phenomenon SIX will return to Melbourne this July, bringing a new Australian cast of queens to the Comedy Theatre.
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Now or Never returns with sleep concerts, river lights and Philip Glass tribute
Melbourne’s winter festival Now or Never will return this August with a city-wide program spanning art, ideas, sound and technology, headlined by a rare overnight concert inside the Royal Exhibition Building and a series of large-scale light installations along the Yarra River.
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The Torch and QVWC come together for NAIDOC Week exhibition
A new exhibition at the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre will bring together powerful paintings and intricate weavings by First Peoples women with lived experience of incarceration.
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A pioneering experiment at the Menzies Hotel
Taken around the 1870s, this image shows the Menzies Hotel at the corner of William and Bourke streets.
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Dami Im returns to her jazz roots for intimate Birds Basement shows
Eurovision has helped Dami Im reconnect with a style of music and performance she loves, and next month she will share that rediscovered sound with Melbourne audiences at Birds Basement.
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More than four decades of story and culture: Ray Thomas exhibition opens at Fed Square
A major new exhibition opening on May 30 at the Koorie Heritage Trust will celebrate the life, art and cultural legacy of acclaimed Gunai artist Ray Thomas, bringing together more than 40 years of paintings, sculptures, drawings and personal objects.
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Schizy Inc.’s Mojo Festival of the Arts rejects stereotypes of complex mental health
No comfort in strange creatures
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