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A group shot of artists with Cr Kim Ross and Mayor Cr Stefan Koomen at the new creative hub.
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Creative hub for and co-designed by emerging artists now open

A new creative hub has welcomed its inaugural cohort, having previously engaged them in the process of designing their dream…

An ANAM performance in a large room. The audience sit facing a pianist and violinists.
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6000 voices urge the Victorian Government to save South Melbourne Town Hall

A letter signed by 6000 people calls for the Allan Labor Government to step in and restore the Victorian-era building.

Entrance to an outdoor festival at night with fire on both sides of a large signage with the words ‘FIRELIGHT’.
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What’s in the City of Melbourne’s draft Budget 2025-26 for the arts?

Firelight Festival and Now or Never will both return this year, plus investments in Melbourne Fashion Week and Melbourne International…

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Bundoora Homestead Art Centre

Remembering to Forget

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Exhibitions

Bundoora Homestead Art Centre

Taking Back Language

How do artists subvert and reclaim language? Find out in this new exhibition of works that utlilise text in both…

'The Door in Question' is part of Sleepless Footscray Festival. A moody and atmospheric photograph of a person wearing a white VR headset; they are framed by a window, making us feel almost voyeuristic as we look at them. Behind the seated figure are sheets of paper stuck on the wall, including old pages and photographs from a book.
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Immersive review: The Door in Question, 47 Paisley St, Footscray

A heady mix of VR, interactive AI and immersive theatre take over a series of empty rooms and suburban streets…

Woman in white dress crouching on floor in shadow, black and white.
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Introspective and spiritual, Buxton Contemporary's new exhibition, The Veil

Runs from 27 June to 1 November 2025.

A dinner table set on a small theatre stage with six First Nations women plus one host sitting down and having conversations.
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Event review: Table for 6, Yirramboi Festival

Six trailblazing First Nations women shared casual conversations over dinner – they didn't need scripts to deliver a powerful show.

A quarter of saxophonists in black near a singer with one arm in the air. She is in red.
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Music review: Hollywood Songbook, Melbourne Recital Centre

A quartet of woodwinds and a cabaret singer with opera training in a harmonious partnership.

In the centre of the crowd of people is a woman with short pink hair and earrings wearing an aqua leather jacket.

Q-Lit is Victoria’s new festival of queer writers and storytellers

Over 60 LGBTQIA+ writers and artists will be in attendance at Q-Lit's first festival.

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