Arts & Culture
Providing pathways for emerging local designers to thrive
Melbourne Fashion Week may be over but the importance of celebrating local talented designers remains a high priority for 2022 Melbourne Award finalist Melbourne Fashion Hub.
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Spring Fling at the Wheeler Centre
The Wheeler Centre is celebrating the final month of the season with a Spring Fling event that will see an impressive line-up of leading creatives share in sparking imagination through big ideas.
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How cultural cringe spelled the end of Marvellous Melbourne buildings, and how locals eventually fought back
Documentary The Lost City of Melbourne tells a fascinating tale of a 1950s and ‘60s demolition spree in the name of progress, and how the city finally found its heritage voice. Director Gus Berger spoke with CBD News about his passion project.
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Melbourne Now on its way back
Visual art has become a centrepiece of the next election with 200 Victorian artists set to benefit from a second Melbourne Now exhibition, announced on October 18 by the state government.
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Feeling a bit introspective
An exhibition at the Koorie Heritage Trust at Fed Square is providing insight into the mindset of the Blak queer artist.
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Victorian Community History Awards celebrates its winners
The Victorian Community History Awards have announced its winning publications and projects, with Professor Janet McCalman’s Vandemonians: The Repressed History of Colonial Victoria book taking top prize.
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Unique building providing a “sanctuary” to seafarers misses out on heritage protection
Volunteers of a charity that supports seafarers have expressed disappointment over a decision to exclude their 50-year-old CBD building from heritage protection, with one likening the process to a “heavy handed approach”.
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“Remarkable, rambunctious, sloppy, weirdo-filled”: A tribute to the Fringe, 40 years on
Those involved in the early days of Melbourne’s Fringe Festival look back with fond memories of exciting and perhaps crazier times.
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QVM set to ban the sale of inauthentic Indigenous products
Stallholders at the iconic Queen Victoria Market (QVM) will be banned from selling inauthentic Indigenous souvenir products ahead of new laws set to come into effect next year.
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Key council reports to be made public far earlier
Locals could be given an extra week to consider important council reports after the City of Melbourne pledged to amend their governance rules.
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Lord Mayor says more office workers needed to give CBD businesses the confidence they need to keep trading
Housing in Melbourne is cooked and the Victorian Government just made it worse
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