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Creating a new Australian musical through a personal story filled with love and joy

Keir Nuttall and Kate Miller-Heidke’s 'Bananaland' promises musical fun and side-splitting hilarity with some underlying serious themes.

Pier and city scape on a cold winter evening. Light installations on top of poles in the water, with a blue light beam in the background.
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Event review: Now or Never Art Trail, Victoria Harbour Promenade Docklands

Crowd-pleasers set the tone at Melbourne’s inaugural Now or Never festival.

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Getting the balance right in a festival of Asian Australian cultures

OzAsia Festival returns in 2023 to centre Australian Asian diasporic experiences and connect with forefront contemporary projects abroad.

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Event review: MIFF XR, Melbourne

Is the physical body at stake in VR?

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Twenty-year strong sculpture festival builds connections for intergenerational audiences

Co-Founder and Artistic Director Natasha Edwards shares insights from seeing SWELL Sculpture Festival grow and evolve over the last two…

Sally Beamish's Carnival Samba: Floreant. Opening Applause, AFCM Photo: Andrew Rankin
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What composers contribute to a music festival

Sally Beamish and Stephen Johnson were invited to the Australian Festival of Chamber Music as much for their musical insights…

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Does Melbourne need another festival?

Now or Never is the new kid in Melbourne’s festival landscape – we ask Lord Mayor Sally Capp and Artistic…

SIPC Winner Jeonghwan Kim Photo: Jaimi Joy
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What does it take to be a virtuosic pianist?

Jeonghwan Kim recently won the prestigious 2023 Sydney International Piano Competition and is now on a recital tour around Australia.

Performance video projected onto a red brick wall at the side of the street with shops. A performer in an otherworldly silver and fluid costume moving and interacting around a highly and vividly decorated rotating clothes line, filled with vibrant fabrics in a suburban Australian home, with a green garden and wooden fence at the dusk of sunset.
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Event review: Gertrude Street Projection Festival, Melbourne

Bringing contemporary projection works to fresh eyes.

Four performers dance between mirror plinths in a gloomy space
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Dance review: Shifting Perspectives, Queen’s Theatre

Shifting Perspectives was a beautiful mind-bending experience that expanded and stretched our reality. 

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