Newsletter | #035 | What's On this Week Newsletter | #035 | What's On this Week

Welcome to this week's OnlyMelbourne newsletter guide to Melbourne events, exhibitions, sports and community - September 3 - September 9, 2007.

This Week.. Celebrate Melbourne Day, The Melbourne Writers' Festival wraps up, Experimenta Playground continues, Melba Spiegeltent's La Soireea and who could forget Father's Day?

We also have AFL and Rugby match details and much more info on many upcoming events and highlights in beautiful Melbourne, so read on and enjoy!

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Major Events Guide
Once Upon A Story Festival takes place at Gasworks Arts park this Sunday, offering a huge day of activities for kids aged from three to ten, and free entry!

Now in its third year, this special day includes author readings, craft sessions, theatre shows and storytelling to capture the minds of little aspiring writers and bookworms!


Darebin Music Feast is back again this year with over 150 events! Beginning September 8 and running until September 23, this year's festival features hundreds of musicians performing at over one hundred events in over 25 venues throughout Darebin, one of Melbourne's most musically prolific areas. With over 20 venues around town, the festival offers funk, folk, rock, jazz, hip-hop, and more!


Motorola Melbourne Spring Fashion Week begins this week, running from September 3 to 9. This is the week to get an inside look into the latest trends and styles from the hottest designers of the season at Australia's leading public fashion event. With more than 120 retail events in the city day and night, Fashion Week will inspire your love of fashion from gorgeous runway shows, workshops, exhibitions and business seminars.


Experimenta Playground is an interactive exhibition that mixes art and creative technology.

Featuring innovative displays and playful artworks by Australian and international artists, these exhibitions demystify often complex technology. Experimenta Playground will run until 23 September at BlackBox, the Arts Centre.


The Melba Spiegeltent presents La Soiree - a live event with a gypsy soul and a hungry heart! A spiegeltent is a hand-hewn pavilion used as travelling dance hall and wine tasting marquee since the early 20th century. A theatre, a salon, a portal to another time and more, La Soiree is a must-see attraction, running for a limited season until November 18 at Northcote Town Hall Civic Square.


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Also on this Week..Mechelec Cabaret Festival - Melbourne's rising stars of Cabaret!
More Details in ARTS & THEATRE...

Human Rights Forum - Civil Rights in today's world..
More Details in COMMUNITY...

Exhibitions - Art | Festival | Show
History Begins at Home is the current exhibition on show at the Royal Historic Society of Victoria. Illustrating the history of the area around the Society's building in A'Beckett Street, the exhibition is drawn from the Society's rich collection of maps, photos and drawings.


Taboo Society is a jewellery exhibition by Exotique Earth. Featuring jewellery with a 1930's flare by Sharon Dixon, Matt Woods and Anthony Clibborn, this special exhibition on Friday includes fashion by Samantha Chaffey from Hills in Hollywood.


Dollypop & Seduce opens August 24 at Monash Gallery of Art. Dollypop is Renato Grome's series of large photographs of Barbie and Ken dolls in various playfully ironic poses. Seduced, also the work of Grome, features boldly captured exotic flora.


Collective Memory is the new solo exhibition of Jennyfer Stratman. Opening August 15 at Über Gallery, Stratman's sculptures investigate the landscapes of the psyche and how these resonate with the landscapes of the natural environment.


Artefact is an exhibition in which thirteen contemporary artists have woven small-scale works through historical artefacts, putting a new twist on the traditional forms of display at City Museum's Making Melbourne Galleries.



Arts & Theatre
Grandiva - Men in Tutus is the ultimate send up of both classical and contemporary ballet. Hailed by critics as 'The greatest exponents of all male comedy ballet in the world today', international company Grandiva are performing Friday at Her Majesty's Theatre.


Mechelec Cabaret Festival runs from Thursday September 6th until Saturday September 8th for a limited season only at the Williamstown Mechanics Institute. The Mechelic Festival features some of Melbourne's up and coming cabaret performers.


Theatre @ Risk presents the Festival of New Writing, a 10-day festival of new works, ideas and discussions with rehearsed readings and performances of local, national and international writing. It begins Friday at the Old Council Chambers, Trades Hall.


Dogs Barking, created by the acclaimed writer of British drama, This Life, is a modern love story that brutally yet comically examines jealousy, passion and emotional violence. Directed by award winning emerging director Sam Strong, it opens August 30.


Mudfest 10, the largest student arts festival in Australia, begins August 20. Based on the theme of the indigenous concept of 6 seasons this year, the festival brings student art and theatre to the community with a wide and varied program.



Dining & Drink
Ready Steady Cook will be hitting Westfield Southland this week with your favourite chefs and some brand new faces making mouth watering meals in minutes! From Thursday to Sunday there will be 4 shows daily with time saving secrets, hot recipes and tips!


Saganaki Greek Cuisine & Grill offer sensational cuisine, and a perfect atmosphere set amidst quality design with floor to ceiling windows displaying the Docklands' water views. The Modern Greek cuisine is prepared using only the very best local produce.

Special Dining OfferSaganaki's Super Tuesday Menu
Book Through Menulog and receive 50% off your food bill at Saganaki Greek Cuisine & Grill!
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Melbourne offers a splendid range of food styles to enjoy. Here are just a few classic food styles to choose from..
Modern Australian Cuisine
Chinese Restaurants
Italian Restaurants
Seafood Restaurants
French RestaurantsFor more restaurants...
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Dining In
Silvers Grand Magic Circus proudly present an ever-changing program that features artists from all parts of the world.
Silvers will be performing until September 5th to 16th in Greensborough, on Diamond creek Road, located next to Churinga.

Performances are held Wednesday to Sunday.

What's On for September



Community
Human Rights Forum - The City of Darebin is proud to pioneer the first in a series of Human Rights Forums on September 4, chaired by Barrister Kurt Esser, Chairman of 'The Justice Project', Melbourne's non-partisan human rights campaign organisation.


You Can Help
There are many social causes that are relevant to people from all walks of life, many of which rely on public support to better the community or assist those who are less fortunate. This week we ask you to consider the following..

The Heart Foundation will be holding their annual Doorknock Appeal throughout September to help fight Australia's leading cause of death - cardiovascular disease. With your support, they aim to continue funding groundbreaking work into the future, providing Australians with the very best heart health information and funds for cutting edge research.
To Register as a Volunteer Visit Here


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Puzzles
Anagram-orama!
We've rearranged the letters of three of the attractions featured in this week's newsletter.. See if you can figure them out!Pelt Thine Wheat
So Coy It Be Tao
If Snub Cites A DreamAnswers in Next Week's Newsletter...

Spot The Difference
There are 5 Differences between these two pictures of St Kilda Sea Baths... See if you can spot them!

Answers in Next Week's Newsletter

Last Week's Answers
Anagram-orama!Parted Snort - Transported
It Said Trust Cruel Forks - Artists for Kids Culture
Kings Do Brag - Dogs Barking
Spot The Difference
Here are the 5 Differences in last week's picture of Melbourne Exhibition Centre...

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Melbourne Trivia
The Joy from Oz..
Melbourne had the first gay and lesbian radio station in the world. Starting with a 90 day test licence in 1993, Joy Radio was one of only four community stations to receive a full licence in 2001.

The station now has a wide gay and non-gay listenership in Melbourne.

Joy Radio's Website | Read Melbourne Trivia... 
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