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    Victoria Is Getting a New Coastal After-Dark Winter Arts Festival

    Headed for Apollo Bay in the Otways, WinterWild is made up of four Saturdays of music, film and storytelling themed around the elements.

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    Placebo Are Coming to Australia for a National 20th Anniversary Tour

    And yes, they'll play old songs like 'Pure Morning’ and 'Nancy Boy’.

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    Five Films from Cannes 2017 We Can't Wait to See in Australia

    Now showing in French Riviera cinemas between May 17 and 28, and hopefully coming soon to a screen near you.

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    This Short Film Competition Gives Filmmakers the Chance to Work With Dominic West

    Write a killer seven-page script and The Wire's Jimmy McNulty could star in it.

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    Netflix Is Finally Making an Original Australian Series

    Tidelands' ten episodes, each running for 50 minutes, will be shot in Queensland in 2018.

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    A National Geographic Animal Photography Exhibition Is Coming to Melbourne Zoo

    It will be the first time Photo Ark has visited the southern hemisphere.

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    Brisbane's GOMA Is Getting a Major New James Turrell Light Installation

    It will be Australia's third permanent Turrell piece, with the others at Hobart's Mona and the NGA in Canberra.

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    The Lord of the Rings Design Workshop Is Bringing an Insane Insect Exhibition to Australia

    Get up close and personal with large-scale creepy crawlies at this immersive showcase.

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    The Creators of Wallace & Gromit Are Coming to Australia

    Peter Lord and David Sproxton will help launch ACMI's massive Aardman Animations exhibition with a series of talks and masterclasses.

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    The New York Times Officially Launches Australian Coverage

    With the launch of a Sydney newsroom, the publication will extend their coverage to Australian news and issues.

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    Brisbane Loses Another Cinema Icon with The Schonell Ending Its Regular Film Sessions

    The St Lucia site will cease its cinema operations and become a venue for hire.

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    A Look Inside the NGV's Blockbuster Van Gogh Exhibition

    Take a walk through the NGV's huge winter exhibition, featuring over 60 works from the Dutch post-impressionist master.

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    Australia's Getting a Bingo Rave

    The UK's wildly popular and highly unexpected cult event is launching in Sydney and Melbourne. Just yell "bingo" and wait for the drop.

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    'Wet Hot American Summer' Is Being Turned Into a Role-Playing Game

    Make your dream of stepping into the 2001 cult hit a reality with this crowdfunded tabletop game.

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    How Modern Filmmakers Are Tackling the Complex Topic of Psychological Manipulation

    With the release of Cate Shortland's Berlin Syndrome, we look at how victims and perpetrators of psychological abuse are portrayed in modern film.

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    Five Must-See Films at the 2017 Spanish Film Festival

    Our picks from the 39 features on the bill, from Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's latest Trip to a sumptuous period piece and a classic cat-and-mouse thriller.

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    Blues, Roots and Langos: A Journey Through Bluesfest's 2017 Food Lineup

    From Yemeni bread to vegan pasta and those organic doughnuts — here's what we ate at Bluesfest this year.

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    Five Films Worth Making the Drive to the Gold Coast Film Festival to See

    Road trip to see Australia's answer to 24, Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson, and a black-and-white boxing flick that's also a love story.

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    American Essentials Film Festival Reveals Indie-Focused 2017 Program

    Two Greta Gerwig films, Australia's own Bond and Ewan McGregor jumping behind the camera rank among the second-year festival's 31 titles.

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    This Immersive London Exhibition Will Put You Inside an Episode of 'Black Mirror'

    Relive the anthology series' "Fifty Million Merits" episode as part of the Barbican's three-month science-fiction showcase.

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    NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art Has Installed a Surreal Rooftop Dinner Party

    Characters and objects from the Met's collection have been digitally scanned, cast as sculptures and spread underneath the Manhattan skyline.

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    Brisbane Has a New Live Music Venue, The Flamin' Galah

    Alf Stewart would approve of this Upper Roma Street newcomer.

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    The Best Things to Do Around Brisbane This Long Weekend

    From Easter egg hunts around bars to 18-hour pinball tournaments and long lazy Easter brunches.

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    A Huge Akira Kurosawa Retrospective Is Coming to Australia

    The legendary Japanese director's work will screen in Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra.

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    The Museum of Everything Is Coming to Australia

    The world's first dedicated showcase of ordinary art is heading to MONA for its first Australian visit.

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    Dark Mofo Has Announced Its Spectacular Full 2017 Lineup

    Large-scale lasers, an orchestra mixed with around 500 litres of blood, and a 200-kilometre pilgrimage to six different churches are all on the bill.

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    A Handy Guide to This Year's Splendour Sideshows

    Not heading to Splendour? Just bring the festival to you.

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    Australia's Human Rights Film Festival Announces 2017 Program

    Tired of the same old blockbuster formula? See a film that cuts through the noise.

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    Academy Award-Winning Director Oliver Stone Is Coming to Australia

    The influential, polarising American filmmaker joins both the Vivid Ideas and Semi Permanent lineups in Sydney.

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    Ten Brisbane Art Exhibitions to Brighten Up Your April

    Frolic through a candy-coloured land and slide from the top floor of GOMA to the bottom before this exhibition leaves.

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    We're Hosting An Advanced Screening of 'Berlin Syndrome' in Brisbane

    The latest from Australian director Cate Shortland is a provocative thriller receiving rave reviews.

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    The World's Biggest TV Festival Is Coming to Melbourne

    Series Mania will bring screenings, panels, workshops and more to ACMI for five days of TV-focused fun.

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    Melbourne Is Getting a Shit Garden Exhibition

    An entire exhibition celebrating the world's outstandingly disastrous landscaping choices.

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    The Team Behind Serial and This American Life Just Dropped a Brand New True Crime Podcast

    S-Town investigates a true story set in rural Alabama — and all seven episodes are here.

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    Splendour in the Grass Announces Dream-Fulfilling 2017 Lineup

    After six years, LCD Soundsystem are coming back to Australia.

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    We're Hosting an Advanced Screening of 'Get Out' in Brisbane

    Register your details and go into the draw to come and see a truly terrifying movie with us.

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    Shia LaBeouf's Anti-Trump Project Has Been Shut Down Again

    The fourth time wasn't the charm for the actor turned activist's artistic protest piece.

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    The Guggenheim Has Just Unveiled Its Stunning Synthetic Desert Installation

    Visitors step into a sea of sound-suppressing foam pyramids in an artwork designed to "heighten our understanding of perceptual experience."

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    Spanish Film Festival Announces Stacked 2017 Program

    With 38 features on the bill, from Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon's latest Trip to bank robber thrillers and Goya-winning revenge flicks.

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    Ten Films from SXSW 2017 Required in Australian Cinemas Immediately

    They're making waves in Austin, let's hope the tide brings them to our shores.

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