Newsletter | #077 | What's On this Week |
Welcome to this week's Melbourne events, exhibitions, sports and community guide for June 23 - June 29, 2008.
This week, the School Holidays begin with a bang as Warrnambool's Fun4Kids Festival starts on Sunday. The Gertrude Digital Media Festival ends with a closing party in Fitzroy, and the Dockland's winter festival Ignite continues. The Emerge Festival also continues with a free concert at ABC's Southbank Centre, and 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
Helbourne is an exhibition of text and image that tells a narrative of five people who are thrust together by unseen currents of coincidence over one winter evening. Set within select bars, cafes and retail stores of Melbourne, the exhibition begins Wednesday.
Melbourne-SCAPES, an exhibition currently running at Obscura Gallery in St Kilda, combines the work of five photographers and their unique visions of Melbourne. Photos included feature iconic lane-ways, the Docklands precinct and other aspects of Melbourne.
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
Model Expo celebrates its 25th anniversary this weekend, showcasing everything that encompasses scale plastic modelling. With displays that are perfect for the young and young at heart, the event will be held at Sandown Entertainment Centre.
Arts & Theatre
Wicked, based on Gregory Maguire's novel, is the hit musical that tells the untold story of the legendary witches from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Beginning Saturday at the Regent Theatre, the show reveals the surprising past of the supposedly Wicked Witch.
Waiting for Godot, performed by Cracked Actors, is Samuel Beckett's infamously ambiguous play, long considered a true classic of theatre. Performed in Melbourne for the first time in years, it runs at South Yarra's Cromwell Road Theatre until Sunday.
The Children's Bach, based on Helen Garner's renowned novel, finds its home on the stage in a new opera about family, sex and housework. Set on the banks of Merri Creek, ChamberMade's production runs at Southbank's CUB Malthouse until July 5.
The Water Sellers, presented by Type Faster theatre company, tells the story of three crazed expats making money in a world of dehydrated clubbers. With romantic complications, water strikes and shades of Barry McKenzie, it begins Tuesday at Dantes in Fitzroy.
Some Girl(s) is the Australian premiere of Neil LaBute's comedy in which one man makes a cross-country trip to make amends for wronging four former girlfriends. Offering a humorous look at sexual politics, it runs until July 6 at Chapel Off Chapel in Prahran.
The Australia Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra will be holding a performance this 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.
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 have been extended at the Comedy Theatre, running until July 6.
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