Newsletter | #073 | What's On this Week Newsletter | #073 | What's On this Week

Welcome to this week's Melbourne events, exhibitions, sports and community guide for May 26 - June 1, 2008.

This week, there's a celebration of chamber music with the Autumn Music Festival, the premier screening of 15/15 Film Festival finalists, and the Kind 2 Mind Community Mental Health Expo. Foodies can also rejoice with the Melbourne Good Food & Wine Show and then burn off those calories with the MS Walk & Fun Run on Sunday. The Melbourne Italian Festival and the Next Wave Festival also continue this week.

There are sport details, special dining offers and info on upcoming events and highlights in beautiful Melbourne, so read on and enjoy!

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Major Events Guide
The Melbourne Good Food & Wine Show is back, with 2008 bringing new features and highlights including hands-on cooking and coffee classes. Running from Friday to Sunday at the Melbourne Convention Centre, the food event includes a regional producers market, exquisite wines to taste and celebrity chefs offering cooking demonstrations, wine seminars and beverage workshops and much more.


The 15/15 Film Festival will be launched this year with the international premiere screenings held at the RMIT Capitol Theatre this Saturday, featuring finalists from the festival competition that was held earlier this year. Following the screenings there is the Gala Night opening that includes the awards ceremony, food and beverages and an opportunity to chat with the winners and network with other filmmakers.


Past Echoes Autumn Music Festival showcases Australia's finest musicians performing a program of chamber music that spans the centuries.

Running from Friday till Sunday, the festival features performances that range from solo recitals to orchestras, celebrating chamber music in all its forms at numerous venues throughout Melbourne.


MS Walk & Fun Run - This Sunday at Albert Park Lake you can take part in MS Awareness Week and support people living with Multiple Sclerosis by getting involved in the annual MS Walk and Fun Run. A perfect way to help a good cause and get together with friends and family, there will also be entertainment and food provided on the day. All funds raised go towards providing care for people living with Multiple Sclerosis.


The Melbourne Italian Festival, continuing this week, is an event that embraces all aspects of the performing arts to highlight the vibrant Italian culture throughout Melbourne. Running until June 8, this year's festival will see a wide range of activities and attractions taking place throughout Melbourne, including everything from music and films to poetry, arts and theatre, celebrating Italian culture and the arts.


Next Wave Festival, this year carrying the theme 'Closer Together,' presents a wide variety of genre-busting new works across Melbourne, featuring work from over 400 young and emerging artists from around Australia. With many events free to the public, the festival sees art and performance projects appearing throughout Melbourne's galleries, theatres and bars, and even footpaths, billboards, and more.



Upcoming Events
EastLink Road Show | Open Day on June 15
ConnectEast has revealed plans to host a community open day, named EastLink Road Show, on Sunday 15 June to give you a once-in-a-lifetime chance to walk, run or cycle on EastLink before it opens to traffic. With a festival featuring a vintage vehicle parade, there will also be running and cycling events, one of which will help raise funds for Cancer Council Victoria.
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Exhibitions - Art | Festival | Show
Darwin with Tears celebrates Lyndal Jones' successful career at the forefront of Australian video and performance art. Showing at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, it includes work that represented Australia at the 2001 Venice Biennale.


A Mosquito Net Once Told Me... is an evening of weird and wonderful tales and photos from southern Sudan. Held at Richmond Town Hall proceeds from the event will help establish a community education centre and a community health centre in southern Sudan.


Graeme Altmann is currently exhibiting a collection of recent paintings and sculptures at Axia Modern Art in Armadale. Dark and mysterious, his work borders on the surreal with isolated figures that often seem to be caught up in a struggle against the elements.


Around Australia in a 4x4 is an exhibition of work by John Waldron Taylor, raising money for Chances for Children to help socially disadvantaged youths in the Mallee region. On display at Stefano's Gallery in Mildura, Taylor's work can also be viewed online.


Black in Fashion: Mourning to Night, an exhibition running at both NGV International and NGV Australia, explores the impact and influences that black has had within many facets of clothing, tracing the changing significance of black in Western fashion.


The Melbourne Story lets you explore Melbourne's history, learning about the unique evolvement in this latest exhibition at Melbourne Museum. With evocative stories, icons and personalities that have shaped Melbourne, the exhibition features over 1200 objects.


Top Designs, on display at Melbourne Museum, is an exhibition that showcases some of last year's outstanding VCE student designs including an electric rockabilly guitar, decadent denim inspired by Marie Antoinette, and even a remote-controlled helicopter!


The Fitzgibbons Dynasty is an exhibition that honours the Fitzgibbons, one of Australia's most prominent families in entertainment. On show at the Victorian Jazz Archive, the exhibition features three generations including late jazz icon, Graham "Smacka"Fitzgibbon.


Expos
Kind 2 Mind Community Mental Health Expo
Presented by MC and facilitator, Dr Sally 'Feelgood' Cockburn, Kind 2 Mind promotes awareness and wellbeing through workshops, art, theatre and creative activities. Featuring panel discussions about community mental health issues, the expo includes a children's village, street performers, and an information market. It takes place Saturday in Moorabbin.


The Snow Travel Expo, held Sunday at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, is a free event featuring displays about the latest equipment, the world's best resorts and ski operators. Entertainment includes a film screening, fashion parades and climbing walls for kids.



Arts & Theatre
The Chaser's Age of Terror Variety Hour sees the infamous comedy troupe take to the stage with a diverse range of sketches, songs, presentations and interactive audience segments. Performances will be held Thursday and Friday at Geelong's Costa Hall.


Urgent, presented by the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative at La Mama's Carlton Courthouse, is a powerful story of loss and rediscovery when three young women discover that they're sisters, exploring the many questions about the Stolen Generations.


Frost/Nixon, playing at The Arts Centre, tells of one of the most curious events in media history when Richard Nixon left the political stage and it fell to TV personality David Frost, who was no journalist, to ask the many lingering questions about Watergate.


Richard III - Unhinged will see the Australian Shakespeare Company performing indoors for the first time with the bard's well-known play about the abuse of power when one of Shakespeare's most infamous characters schemes his way to the throne.


Hedda Gabler, currently running at Chapel Off Chapel, is a play that sees newlyweds Hedda and Jorgen return from their honeymoon only to find their happiness threatened by financial pressures and the fact that Hedda isn't the blushing bride she seems.


The Australia Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra will be performing this Monday as part of this year's concert series, The Range of Light. Celebrating 18th century musical ideals, the concert will be performed at BMW Edge in Federation Square.


The Picture of Dorian Gray is a performance of Oscar Wilde's much loved tale of debauchery and moral corruption. Monash University's latest production, the gothic masterpiece features talented emerging artists at the Clayton Campus' Student Theatre.


How To Disappear Completely And Never Be Found
Hoy Polloy's latest performance is the award-winning story of a young executive, stripped of all that defined him. The darkly funny play is performed at Brunswick's Mechanics Institute Performing Arts Centre.


Guys And Dolls, playing at Princess Theatre, features a sensational cast that includes Lisa McCune, Garry McDonald, Shane Jacobson and Magda Szubanski. Set during 1940's New York, the must-see musical is one of Broadway's greatest shows!



Entertainment & Nightlife
Magnolia Square is a boutique fair that showcases women's and children's attire, homewares, jewellery and more. Running this Thursday and Friday at Malvern Town Hall, Magnolia Square reveals the work of some of Melbourne's most talented designers.


Swap My Style, held Wednesday at the Long Room within the Georges building, is a unique way for women to live up their wardrobe and trade clothing with others using tokens provided that denote price-range. It starts at 6pm and registration is required.



Melbourne Market Guide
1st Weekend (Last Saturday & 1st Sunday) of Month
Make the most of the sunny days and head to one of Melbourne's many excellent markets, fetes and fairs for a bargain! An increasing number of food and produce markets including wine are always popping up around the suburbs. And don't forget garage sales!
Fetes Fairs & Shows
Art & Craft Markets
Food & Produce Markets
Swap Meets
Garage Sales
- Bendigo YMCA - Sunday, 9am
- Victoria University, Footscray - Sunday, 9am
- Malvern Town Hall - Sunday 9am
- Belles Warehouse, Geelong - Sunday, 9am
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