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The Six Best Ways to Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival in Melbourne
Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival (Moon Festival) in Melbourne by hitting up cultural performances, noshing on mooncakes, and gathering together a big group mates for a yum cha feed.
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SXSW Sydney's Latest Round of 2024 Speakers Includes Lucy Lawless, Grace Tame and Tim Minchin
Sports stars Nick Kyrgios and Noémie Fox, playwright Suzie Miller and former Bangarra Dance Theatre Artistic Director Stephen Page have also joined the festival's lineup.
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Save the Date: Vivid Sydney Will Return for Winter 2025 with a Program of Events Inspired by Dreams
The next time that this festival dazzles the Harbour City, marking its 15th year, it'll take its cues from nighttime slumbers.
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SXSW Sydney's Festival Hub Is Returning to Tumbalong Park for 2024 with 60-Plus Hours of Free Entertainment
This year's lineup includes Silverchair's Ben Gillies, a 60th-anniversary screening of 'The Endless Summer', a day-long showcase of Indian creativity and more.
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Ace News If You Like Live Tunes and Parties: SXSW Sydney's 2024 Program Has Expanded Again
An extra 40-plus artists have joined the lineup, including Jorja Smith — and new talks will dive into international music tours and the streaming landscape.
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Nine of the Best Things to See at Now or Never 2024
This ambitious ten-day winter festival is celebrating the intersection of art, ideas, sound and technology at sites all over Melbourne.
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Nine 2024 Emmy-Winning TV Shows That You Should Watch Immediately
Your new must-watch list of Emmy-winners includes 'Baby Reindeer' and its has-to-be-seen-to-be-believed tale, the history-making 'Shōgun' and, yes, 'The Bear'.
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The Six Best Ways to Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival in Melbourne
Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival (Moon Festival) in Melbourne by hitting up cultural performances, noshing on mooncakes, and gathering together a big group mates for a yum cha feed.
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Nine New Movies You Can Watch Right Now That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with Austin Butler's latest brooding role, serial-killer chiller 'Longlegs' and the animated antics of 'Inside Out 2'.
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Twelve Films and TV Shows You Need to Stream This Month
Spend your couch time watching Rashida Jones navigate a sci-fi mystery in Japan, Nicolas Cage face a post-apocalyptic future and a gripping Australian romance-scam thriller.
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The 15 Best Straight-to-Streaming Movies of 2024 So Far
From 2024's first half, you need to be catching an Oscar-winning documentary, Glen Powell as a fake assassin and plenty of horror shocks from your couch.
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Eight New Movies You Can Watch in July That Have Been Fast-Tracked From Cinemas to Streaming
Get comfy on the couch with 'Furiosa', the latest gem from Hirokazu Kore-eda and a hypnotic vision of an AI-dominated future.
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Must-Stream TV: All the Best Shows You Should Be Watching From 2024 So Far
Don't spend hours scrolling through streaming platforms — here's 2024's standout shows that you need to see.
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The 15 Best Returning TV Shows of 2024 So Far
These are the beloved small-screen favourites to say "yes chef!" to, sleuth along with and giggle with — and get catchy songs stuck in your head from, too.
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The 15 Best Films of 2024 So Far
The best movies from 2024's first half include a meditative trip to Tokyo, a scorching neo-noir thriller, multiple Oscar-winners and a stunning robot story.
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The 15 Best New TV Shows of 2024 So Far
From gloriously surreal comedies and unforgettable true tales to stunning remakes and savvy sci-fi mysteries, 2024 has been filled with new small-screen highlights.
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Coming Soon: Australian-Premiere VR Experience 'Horizon of Khufu' Will Get You Wandering Around Ancient Egypt
Who needs an overseas plane ticket, or a time machine, when you can journey 4500 years back into Egypt's history at this immersive virtual-reality experience?
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'The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck' Author Mark Manson Is Returning Down Under to Give Brutally Honest Advice
You've read the bestselling book. You might've also seen the movie. Now, hear author Mark Manson share tips and stories live.
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SXSW Sydney Has Announced Its First 2024 Keynote Speakers and Added a Stack of New Sessions to Its Growing Lineup
Human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson and author Johann Hari will get chatting at the festival's second event Down Under in October 2024.
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SXSW Sydney Has Added More Than 500 Speakers, Screenings, Artists, Workshops and Games to Its 2024 Lineup
If this year's festival already sounds huge — and it does — less than a third of the full program has been revealed so far.
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From the Smartphone Backlash to Taking on the One Percent, 2024's Festival of Dangerous Ideas Program Is Here
Roxane Gay, Jean Twenge, Masha Gessen and David Runciman lead the lineup at Sydney's deep dive into crucial and complex topics, which will also be livestreaming some of its sessions.
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Roxane Gay Will Get Chatting at Sydney's Festival of Dangerous Ideas and Melbourne's Now or Never
On the tenth anniversary of 'Bad Feminist', the writer and social commentator's 2024 trip to Australia will span two cities.
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Browse secondhand vinyl — the specialty is classic dance and bass — or sit down for a coffee and pastry.
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Now or Never's Second Huge Year Will Close Out Winter 2024 in Melbourne with More Than 100 Events
From live music in the Royal Exhibition Building to an audiovisual installation above the Yarra, this year's lineup is full of highlights.
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Brisbane Festival's 2024 Program Is Here with Dazzling Fashion, The Art Boat's Return and a Bingeable Theatre Show
Also on the lineup across September: a Warumpi Band celebration, 400-plus drones telling a First Nations story above the city and 'Eucalyptus' turned into an opera.
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Twelve of the Best RISING 2024 Events That Will Help You Get Out of the House This Winter
RISING 2024's most-exciting events include an absurdist dinner party, a massive festival within the festival and a heap of different one-off parties.
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Volume Has Added a World-Premiere Installation Scored by Flume and a Blak Country Night to Its 2024 Lineup
André 3000, Kim Gordon, Genesis Owusu and Tkay Maidza now have plenty of company on the Volume music series program.
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A Lit-Up Train That's Pumping Out a Techno Soundtrack by Paul Mac Is Riding Sydney's Rails During Vivid 2024
This isn't your ordinary commute — this is 'Tekno Train', which takes you on a 60-minute trip filled with lighting and music that changes to match the train's speed and the landscape outside.
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RISING Has Expanded Its 2024 Program with Late-Night DJs, the Full Day Tripper Lineup and More
More Dirty Three, more 'Hellraiser', Melbourne Symphony Orchestra doing a secret pop-up show: they're all on the bill now, too.
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Peter and the Starcatcher
Fri, 8 Nov - Sat, 30 Nov 2024
Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne
This Tony-winning and Neverland-set hit is finally making Its Australian debut, including a season in Melbourne.
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Planetarium Nights
Multiple single dates
Scienceworks, Spotswood
Spend a Friday night staring up at the full-dome screen at Melbourne Planetarium with a drink in your hand.
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Palm Tree Music Festival
Sun, 8 Dec, 2024
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne
This impressive fest is returning Down Under for the second time with The Chainsmokers leading the lineup.
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Feast for Good at OKO Rooftop and Cafe
Sun, 29 Sep, 2024
OKO Rooftop and Cafe, Fitzroy
All proceeds from ticket sales and the raffle go towards charities in Sudan.
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Green Day: 'The Saviors' Tour
Sat, 1 Mar, 2025
Marvel Stadium, Docklands
These 90s and 00s favourites are returning Down Under to play their iconic 'Dookie' and 'American Idiot' Albums in full.
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The Killers: Live in Australia 2024
Thu, 12 Dec - Fri, 13 Dec 2024
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
You'll be doin' just fine when The Killers hit Melbourne to celebrate 20 years of 'Hot Fuss'.
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Bianca Del Rio: Dead Inside!
Fri, 31 Jan - Sun, 2 Feb 2025
Comedy Theatre, Melbourne
'RuPaul's Drag Race' icon Bianca Del Rio is returning Down Under in 2025 with her latest tour.
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Ministry of Sound Classical
Sat, 16 Nov, 2024
Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne
Ministry of Sound is bringing its massive orchestra show filled with dance music to Sidney Myer Music Bowl this spring.
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Garage Sale Trail
Multiple single dates
Various locations across Melbourne, Melbourne
Save your life's clutter from landfill or land yourself some bargains — more than 14,000 sales pop up each year.
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SXSW Sydney Has Dropped the First Lineup of Speakers, Musicians, Films and Games for 2024's Festival
Australian astronaut Katherine Bennell-Pegg, TikTok marketing head Sofia Hernandez, Courtney Act, Nakkiah Lui, Hamish Blake, 'Heartbreak High' star Ayesha Madon: they're all on the bill.
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Melbourne's Firelight Festival Is Returning for 2024 with an Underground Light Show and Labyrinth Beneath Marvel Stadium
More than 144,000 lights will beam beneath the AFL stadium at this Docklands event, with the maze sticking around for over two weeks.
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After-Dark Puppetry in the Zoo, Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon, Gleaming Installations: Illuminate Adelaide 2024 Has Them All
The annual winter arts festival in the South Australian capital will also feature 'Fire Gardens', Max Cooper's '3D AV', Dutch pianist Joep Beving and more.
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Concrete Playground Has Submitted Two Panels for SXSW Sydney 2024 — and You Can Help Make Them Happen
We're keen to dive into the state of socialising and hospitality at this year's SXSW Sydney, and back up our 2023 panel on youth, information and the digital age — and we need your votes.
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Three Exclusive Travel Packages to Book If You Want to Experience the Best of Melbourne's RISING Festival
We've teamed up with RISING to create these one-of-a-kind travel packages to Melbourne's epic winter festival.
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'Parrtjima — A Festival in Light' Is Back in the Red Centre for 2024 — and This Is What It Looks Like
If you haven't already put this dazzling First Nations festival in the Northern Territory on your must-attend list, this is what you're missing out on.
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Winter Feast, the Nude Solstice Swim, Genesis Owusu, Marlon Williams: Dark Mofo's 2024 Gap Year Has Them All
The Mona Gala, a new exhibition, a multi-storey nightclub and late-night tunes are all happening in Hobart this winter, too.
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Five Ways 'Titanic: The Artefact Exhibition' Makes You Feel Like You're Actually on the Ship
This exhibition is the most detailed exploration of history's most infamous shipwreck to ever run in Australia.
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Melbourne's Citywide Winter Festival Now or Never Is Returning for Its Second Year in 2024
Mark your diary: after 2023's debut fest proved a success, this event is bringing back its music, performances, installations and talks in August.
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You Can Now Vote for the Conference Sessions That You'd Like to See at SXSW Sydney 2024
Early bird tickets for the tech, innovation, screen, music, games and culture festival's second Australian run are also on sale.
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Coming Soon: 'Sonic Neon' Is the Rave Room with 26,000-Plus Lights That's Set to Dazzle Luna Park Sydney
Luna Park's Crystal Palace, which dates back to 1935, will welcome lights, lasers and mirrors as part of this immersive six-room experience.
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Farewell Mona Foma: Tasmania's Museum of Old and New Art Has Called Time on Its Summer Festival After 16 Years
If you went along in February, you went to the last fest, with 2024's Mona Foma the event's final run.
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Ali Wong's First-Ever Stand-Up Tour Down Under Has Added Extra Shows Due to Demand
The 'Beef' star played to full houses in the US, and in Paris and London — and Down Under audiences are just as keen to see her.
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Calling All Book Obsessives: Here's Who You'll Be Seeing (and Reading) at 2024's Melbourne Writers Festival
From Toshikazu Kawaguchi and Michael Cunningham to Ann Patchett and Ziggy Ramo, there's no shortage of highlights on MWF's lineup.
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Emmy-Winning 'Beef' Star Ali Wong Is Bringing Her Latest Stand-Up Tour Down Under This Winter
The comedian, 'Always Be My Maybe' writer and actor, and 'Dear Girls' author is hitting Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Auckland.
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Six Beautifully Chaotic Multiplayer Games to Play with Your Mates on a Rainy Saturday Afternoon
Load up any of these multiplayer titles for guaranteed good times with your squad.
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RISING's 2024 Program Includes Free First Peoples' Art and a Yasiin Bey-Led Blockwide Fest Within the Fest
The full lineup spans 105 events featuring 480-plus artists, all to start off winter in Melbourne with a feast of art, music and performances.
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From Air, Budjerah and Yasiin Bey to 40-Kilometre-Long Laser Beams: Vivid Sydney's Packed 2024 Program Is Here
Celebrating its 14th year, the festival's 23-night lineup will fill the Harbour City with music, lights and openair art, food events and conversation.
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'Lessons in Chemistry' Author Bonnie Garmus Is Headlining 2024's Huge Sydney Writers' Festival Lineup
The literary love-in's full program spans 223 events with nearly 300 speakers, including 35 international guests.
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Calling All 'Normal People' Obsessives: Sally Rooney's New Book 'Intermezzo' Will Hit Shelves This Spring
You'll be able to read the acclaimed Irish author's fourth novel, which focuses on two grieving brothers, in September.
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