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NewsTen Films from Sundance 2018 We Really Want to See In Australian Cinemas
Here's hoping we get to see the new Yayoi Kusama doco, the terrifying Toni Collette-starring thriller and the smart social satire that's been compared to 'Get Out'.
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NewsThe Program for Southeast Queensland's One-Off Commonwealth Games Arts Festival Has Been Revealed
Featuring an inflatable labyrinth, a celebration of Aussie female-fronted acts, beachside karaoke and more across 12 days of performances, exhibitions and gigs.
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NewsBrisbane Is Preparing to Say Farewell to the City's Last IRL Video Store
Oxley's Network Video will shut its doors for good this March, marking the end of an era.
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NewsNew Festival The Drop Will Tour the Country's Most Iconic Surf Spots
The boutique festival will follow the World Surf League Championships across the country, headlined by Safia, San Cisco and Dune Rats.
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NewsGroovin the Moo Announce 2018 Lineup
GTM returns to regional Australia with Flight Facilities, Paul Kelly, Royal Blood and a whole lot of local talent.
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NewsThe Designs for Australia's First Pride Centre Have Been Revealed
The dedicated LGBTI hub is due to open in St Kilda in 2020.
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GuideSpectacular Autumn Events For Culture Vultures Seeking Their Next Fix
Make sure you add these must-do events to your Sydney culture calendar.
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NewsFrom the 'Mona Lisa' to 'Codex Atlanticus': A Look Inside The Lume's Multi-Sensory Leonardo da Vinci Exhibition
The only 360-degree exact replica of the world's most-famous enigmatic portrait, da Vinci's notebook pages, 40 of his machine inventions brought to life: they're all on display.
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GuideSix Spectacular Art Exhibitions Hitting Sydney in 2023
Famous Modern masters and significant contemporary artists from Australia and abroad are being celebrated in these unmissable exhibitions.
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GuideEight Unmissable Exhibitions to See in Melbourne This Winter
Chilly winter weather is the perfect excuse to explore a few (or many) of Melbourne's world-class art exhibitions.
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GuideSeven Vivid Sydney Highlights You Need to Add to Your Winter Calendar
With pop-up cabaret bars, thought-provoking conversations and free live music, the 2022 run of Vivid Sydney is set to shine bright.
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GuideImmersive and Impressive Blockbuster Exhibitions to Look Forward to Around Australia in 2022
Plan trips to dive into all things Disney, peer at Yayoi Kusama's finest in two different cities, scope out Picasso's best and fall in love with Elvis paraphernalia.
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GuideHow to Get Your Arts and Culture Fix in Tropical North Queensland
Explore beachfront markets, local art galleries and a tropical gin distillery.
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GuideTen Dazzling Melbourne Exhibitions to Look Forward to This Summer
From international art and iconic fashion to design commissions and immersive installations, here are the exhibitions serving up your summer cultural fix.
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GuideFive of the Best RISING Festival Events That You Can Still Get Tickets To
Prepare your diary now for supernatural winter forests and once-off food pop-ups.
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GuideSeven Immersive and Impressive Art Exhibitions to Visit Around Australia This Autumn
Plan trips to walk over giant Monet artworks, visit Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' and explore decaying rooms filled with street art.
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NewsThis Photography Series Turns Tokyo Into a Blade Runner-Like Futuristic Realm
See the Japanese capital in a different light courtesy of Australian photographer Tom Blachford.
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NewsStephen King's Sequel to The Shining Is Being Adapted Into a Film
Doctor Sleep is headed to the big screen.
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NewsAlliance Francaise French Film Festival Reveals Loaded 2018 Lineup
With 45 formidable films on offer, from comedies and rom-coms to features on AIDS activism.
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News'The Shape of Water' and 'Get Out' Lead This Year's History-Making Oscar Nominations
Both an African-American director and a female director have been nominated for the big one — for just the fifth time in the history of the awards.
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NewsTen New Australian Films You Need to See in 2018
Last year was a standout for Australian film, and 2018 will bring a whole new slew of important homegrown stories to our cinemas.
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NewsNightmarish Immersive Theatre Experience Alone Is Bringing Its Psychological Thrills to Melbourne
You're required to participate alone.
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NewsA Digital Mahatma Gandhi Exhibition Is Coming to Melbourne
The exhibition comes from a residence in Delhi.
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NewsTen Films You Need to See in 2018
From an all-female 'Ocean's Eleven' to stylistic 70s horror remakes to Wes Anderson's dystopian dog future.
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NewsTen Cultural Experiences in and Around Melbourne's Docklands
Feed your mind with everything from outdoor film screenings to talks on urban living.
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NewsLaneway Festival Is Going Back to Basics by Adding a 'Block Party' to Its 2018 Lineup
The street party aims to recreate the vibe of the festival that launched it all back in 2004.
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NewsThis App Will Search More Than a Thousand Museums and Galleries For Your Artistic Doppelganger
Always thought that your selfies look like art? Maybe they do.
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NewsSBS Viceland Is Airing a Very Extended 17-Hour Doco on the Journey of The Ghan
It'll feature the entire 2979 kilometres of the train's trip from Adelaide to Darwin (well, minus the sections at night).
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EventGABS Craft Beer Fest
Fri, 4 Apr, 2025
Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, South Wharf
Where can you get a drink from a 120-tap bar? At 2025's Great Australasian Beer Spectapular.
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EventWhat's on in Frankston: 2025 Events
Multiple single dates
Various Frankston venues
From European beach clubs to street art and sand sculpting, here's everything hitting Frankston in early 2025.
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EventBiggest Best IMAX Film Festival
Sat, 11 Jan - Sun, 2 Mar 2025
IMAX Melbourne, Carlton
This IMAX Melbourne film festival is filled with the best and biggest flicks to see on its huge 32-metre-wide by 23-metre-tall screen.
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EventEuropa! Europa Film Festival
Wed, 12 Feb - Wed, 12 Mar 2025
Select cinemas in Melbourne, Various locations
Celebrate European cinema with a packed film festival lineup featuring 44 movies from 26 countries.
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EventThe Glam Slam
Fri, 24 Jan - Sun, 26 Jan 2025
Melbourne Park, Melbourne
Beyond the official Glam Slam tennis matches, you'll also find roaming drag queens and kings, glam stations, DJ sets, and plenty of rainbow flags.
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EventDrake: 'Anita Max Win' Tour
Multiple single dates
Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
The 'Hotline Bling' performer 'The Degrassi: The Next Generation' star is returning Down Under for the first time in eight years.
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EventThe Play That Goes Wrong
Wed, 3 Sep - Sun, 21 Sep 2025
Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne
This comedic production about a chaotic play focuses on The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society's efforts to stage a murder-mystery.
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EventPickleball Pop-Up at Ichi Ni Nana Izakaya
Thu, 9 Jan - Thu, 6 Feb 2025
Ichi Ni Nana Izakaya, Fitzroy
Drop by this Japanese restaurant to pair your sushi and cocktails with a few rounds of pickleball.
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Event$15 Cacio e Pepe at Marameo
Tue, 7 Jan - Fri, 31 Jan 2025
Marameo, Melbourne
The team is slashing the price of its most-popular pasta to celebrate its fifth birthday — but only until the end of January.
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EventAn Evening with David Sedaris
Thu, 6 Feb - Fri, 7 Feb 2025
Hamer Hall, Arts Centre Melbourne, Melbourne
David Sedaris is bringing his latest tour to Hamer Hall in Melbourne in February to delight NPR obsessives.
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NewsTen Golden Globe Winners to Add to Your 2018 Must-Watch List
If you're going to binge watch something this year, make sure it's the highest possible quality.
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NewsWhat We Do in the Shadows Is Getting Remade for US Television
Jemaine Clement is writing the pilot script, and expects it to shoot this year.
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NewsUluru's Incredible Field of Light Installation Has Been Extended Until 2020
Bruce Munro’s immersive installation will keep lighting up the Red Centre.
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NewsNew York's Metropolitan Museum of Art Will Start Charging Tourists Entry Fees
Headed to NY this year? Prepare to pay to get into this iconic site.
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NewsThis Swirling Design Has Been Chosen as Burning Man's 2018 Temple
It'll preside over the festival for nine days before being set alight.
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NewsSydney Festival Is Hosting a Huge Wedding Reception to Celebrate Australia's First Same-Sex Marriages
The Love Is Love Wedding Reception will feature a pink swimming pool, Karaoke Carousel, and plenty of cake and Champagne.
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NewsVillage Cinemas Has Cancelled Its Surge Pricing Trial
Unsurprisingly, charging more during peak times wasn't a popular move.
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NewsIceland Becomes First Country in the World to Legalise Equal Pay
Companies employing 25 people or more must prove their equal pay policies through government certification or face hefty fines.
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NewsVillage Cinemas Is Trialling Surge-Priced Movie Tickets Over Summer
At selected Victorian sites, prices will increase after 5pm on Friday and Saturday nights — including for candy bar items.
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NewsThis Japanese Art Project Collects Origami Sculptures Made From Chopstick Wrappers
Turning rubbish into art.
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NewsSeinfeld Might Be Getting the Point-and-Click Video Game Treatment
It'll be the ultimate game about nothing, obviously.
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NewsSummer Reading List 2017-18
Find a shady spot on the beach and make your way through these seven books.
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GuideConcrete Playground's Most-Read Stories of 2017
From mini-golf bars to tiny houses in the wilderness, here are the stories that resonated most with you this year.
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NewsTen Australian TV Shows You Should Stream This Summer
Hit pause on your fifth run of 'Seinfeld' — there's plenty of hilarious, relatable and completely bingeworthy local television to get into.
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NewsA Major Contemporary Aboriginal Artwork Will Grace Sydney Airport's International Terminal From 2018
The installation by Kamilaroi artist Archie Moore will be seen by 15 million passengers each year.
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NewsConcrete Playground's Top Ten Films of 2017
If you didn't catch these in cinemas, make it your mission to seek them out before the year's end.
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NewsEight Bluesfest Melbourne Sideshows You Need to See in 2018
The shows to catch even if you can't make it to Byron this year.
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NewsConcrete Playground's 2017 Boxing Day Movie Smackdown
Get maximum bang for your Kris Kringle gift voucher buck.
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NewsA New 5000-Capacity Live Music Space Is Coming to Melbourne's CBD
B3 will only open for three (massive) shows a year.
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NewsThe Ten Best Films Hardly Anyone Saw in 2017
Forget lightsabers, caped crusaders, fast cars and fairy tales and catch up on these under-seen gems over summer.
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GuideTen Epic Art Exhibitions to See Across Australia This Summer
From Yayoi Kusama to Pipilotti Rist to the NGV's huge new Triennial, this might be the country's best summer of art yet.
