Newsletter | #076 | What's On this Week Newsletter | #076 | What's On this Week

Welcome to this week's Melbourne events, exhibitions, sports and community guide for June 16 - June 22, 2008.

This week, the Gertrude Digital Media Festival sees a week of arts in Fitzroy, Melbourne International Animation Festival returns to ACMI, and on Friday the Dockland's winter festival Ignite begins. The Emerge Festival continues with a free forum, and the Melborn Short Play Festival still has more readings to offer from its top 30 manuscripts. There's also the ongoing display at Fed Square's Light in Winter.

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
Gertrude Digital Media Festival begins this week with the launch party held at Dante's in Fitzroy this Friday. Running until June 27th, the festival is a week of projected media that will span along Gertrude Street, turning one of Fitzroy's main strips into an outdoor gallery. With many of the street's venues participating in the festival, there will be special events held during the festival featuring projection, music and more.


Melbourne International Animation Festival, now in its 8th year, begins this week with a program that features the latest and best animation from around the world. Running from Monday to Sunday, the festival held at ACMI will be showcasing hundreds of films that highlight recent productions and favourites from the past along with films ranging from those that are beautifully hand drawn to digital animation.


Ignite, held at Docklands, is a celebration that draws together international musicians, performance artists and lighting experts to create a blazing wonderland to beat back the winter chill. Highlights include the Fire Garden with projections dancing embers and flames set to soundtrack, and the spectacular Pyrophone, a fire fuelled organ that will erupt twice nightly during the festivities which begin Friday.


Emerge Festival continues this week with a free public forum on Tuesday at BMW Edge. Presented by Multicultural Arts Victoria, the dynamic arts festival celebrates Victoria's many diverse refugee and emerging cultures in a series of exciting events, exhibitions and concerts around Melbourne that will run until July 20th. With events from the traditional to the contemporary, the festival has something for all.


Melborn, the Short Play Festival organised by the Melbourne Writers' Theatre, will be held in September as part of Melbourne Fringe. If you missed last week's taste of what's to come, you can still catch readings of more of the top 30 manuscripts that were submitted for the festival with the last run of readings held at the Australian Centre of Performing Arts in North Melbourne this Tuesday.


The Light in Winter, the lighting display currently held at Federation Square, will be featuring the special event this Saturday, The Gift of Light, celebrating light and enlightenment with nine of Melbourne's diverse communities taking part in the celebration. Including members of the Indigenous, Japanese, African and Indian community, each group will install a piece of light inspired art as a their gift to Melbourne.



Exhibitions - Art | Festival | Show
Tjukurrpa Arts are holding an exhibition of extraordinary new paintings from artists of the Central Desert communities Utopia and Watiyawanu in Central Australia. Held for one day only on Saturday, it takes place at Elwood Community Centre.


People Like Us | Love and Loss - Off the kerb gallery in Collingwood are hosting two series of work by Adam Brozinski and Elizabeth Nigol. The combined works capture a moment of the subject's lives, exploring the human condition in parallel representations.


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 exhibition of weird and wonderful photos from southern Sudan. Presented by the Tomorrow Foundation, which helps Sudanese refugees in resettling in Australia, the photos will be on display at APTE Cafe in Alphington.


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!


Expos & Open Days
Melbourne Career Expo is one of Melbourne's premier Education and Employment events, offering a valuable platform to enhance and build the career prospects of all Victorians. Beginning Friday at Melbourne Exhibition Centre, the Career Expo will reach out to those in their final years of secondary school, providing a wide range of information for further educational preferences and career choices.


Melbourne Bride Wedding Expo, the equivalent of fashion week for Brides, takes place this weekend at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre. Featuring daily catwalk parades of the latest in bridal gowns, the expo offers all you need to plan your wedding.


Designbuild Australasia, running at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre until Wednesday, features over 400 exhibitors displaying the very latest in building and design ideas and products for both professionals and anyone interested in home improvement.



Arts & Theatre
Melbourne Playback Theatre is a performance group who re-tell the audience's stories through improvisation. With the show supported by live music on violin, piano and percussion, they will be performing this weekend at North Carlton's Dancehouse.


From Phantom to Figaro is a gala performance featuring Pot-Pourri, held at Melbourne Town Hall this Friday. Held to aid and raise awareness in ovarian cancer research, the concert will see the performers presenting highlights from opera and popular musicals.


The Underwood is a play that tells of eight friends who, after falling victim to binge drinking, awaken in the dense Australian bush with no idea how they got there or how to get home. Presented by Doorslam Productions, it runs at Theatreworks in St Kilda.


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


VCA Dance are celebrating their 30th Anniversary with special performances that will run at VCA's Space 28. Featuring students both past and present, the performances explore and also honour the significant influence that VCA has had in the past three decades.


Boeing-Boeing, starring Shaun Micallef, is one of the most enjoyable and mischievously funny shows to hit Melbourne in years. Offering a seriously sexy and funny twist on classic comedy, performances begin Saturday at the Comedy Theatre and run until June 22.


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