Arts & Culture
Gifts to support local artisans this holiday season
Craft Victoria offers a range of jewellery, serving ware, drinkware and textiles by Australian artists and makers, which will add a handcrafted touch to your gift-giving this year.
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Tumble through Melbourne’s civic history at The Museum of Falling
The City of Melbourne presents its latest exhibition at the City Gallery, The Museum of Falling, running until February 2025.
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From sly grog to flat whites: the hidden histories of Melbourne’s lanes
Melbourne’s lanes are celebrated worldwide for their street art, cafes and character-filled charm but rewind a hundred years, and these bluestone lanes had a much darker past.
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Fed Square the place to be for Christmas
This festive season, Fed Square is lighting up with vibrant free events and activities including carolling choirs, live performances, nostalgic Christmas films, free gift wrapping and more.
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Hosier Lane is ugly, dangerous and depraved
Imagine being a primary school teacher with a group of Grade Four students, exploring Australia’s number one Instagram spot, Hosier Lane, the best free tourist attraction in Australia as voted by Lonely Planet.
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Social enterprise Scarf to host two pop-up dinners at Liminal
Melbourne-based not-for-profit Scarf has been transforming lives through hospitality since 2010, empowering young people from asylum seeker, refugee and migrant backgrounds with practical training, mentoring, and paid work experience in Melbourne restaurants.
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“The Old Tin Shed”: hated by many, missed by few
Taken in the early 1960s, this image displays a humble wood and galvanised iron shed on the corner of Little Bourke and Elizabeth streets.
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Is The Drunken Poet Melbourne’s best Irish pub?
A pub without pokies has become somewhat of an oxymoron in today’s day and age, but just outside the Queen Victoria Market stands an anomaly – The Drunken Poet.
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“Mammoth” program for Melbourne Recital Centre in 2025
Melbourne Recital Centre (MRC) has released a mammoth program of musical events for 2025.
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Eureka 89: a culinary journey above Melbourne
Situated on the 89th floor of the iconic Eureka Tower, Eureka 89 offers magnificent fine dining complemented by breathtaking perspectives across Melbourne, spanning from the Yarra River to the Dandenong Ranges.
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Renting trumps retail
The problem is bureaucracy
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