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Lotjpa: Speaking to |
| Venue: | Melbourne Museum, Nicholson Street, Carlton |
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| Date: | 'until 27 June 2010' |
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| Time: | Open daily 10.00am - 5.00pm |
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| Fee: | Admission: Adult $8, children and concession FREE. |
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| Booking: | For further details phone 13 11 02 or visit museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum |
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| This exhibition explores the connection between Victorian Aboriginal teenagers and youth and Indigenous community members and Elders in the Shepparton region. Featuring photographs taken by Koorie youth complemented by community and Elder's stories and a series of videos, the exhibition reveals the importance of oral history in Victorian Aboriginal culture. |
Going Places: The Technology of Transport |
| Venue: | Scienceworks, 2 Booker St, Spotswood. (Melway 56, B1). |
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| Date: | 'Until 17 October 2010' |
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| Time: | Open daily 10.00am-4.30pm |
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| Fee: | Admission: Adults $8, Children and Concession FREE. |
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| Booking: | For further details ph 03 9392 4800 or visit museumvictoria.com.au/scienceworks |
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| Pilot an airship through sky hoops, ride the hovercraft and land a plane on the flight simulator. Find out how travel has shaped society and put yourself to the test with a multitude of transport challenges. With more than 20 hands-on exhibits, Going Places is a wild ride. This unique exhibition explores the way mankind has developed new transport technology to overcome gravity, distance and the division of continents to move us around the globe. |
New Years Eve Hvg |
| Venue: | Hunter Valley Gardens |
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| Date: | '31 December 2010' |
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| Fee: | Entry to the Gardens is $22.50 per adult and children 16 and older, $12 for children between 4-15 years of age with children 3 years and under admitted free. |
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| Booking: | 02 4998 4000 or Hvg.com.au |
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Celebrate the start of 2011 with entertainment including the Little Scallywagz, amusement rides, fireworks display and our Lights Spectacular!
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HVG Birthday Weekend |
| Venue: | Hunter Valley Gardens |
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| Date: | '9-10 October 2010' |
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| Fee: | Entry to the Gardens is $22.50 per adult and children 16 and older, $12 for children between 4-15 years of age with children 3 years and under admitted free. |
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| Booking: | 02 4998 4000 or Hvg.com.au |
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| Help Hunter Valley Gardens celebrate its birthday with free rides on the Ferris wheel, jumping castle and other amusement rides. There will be a giant birthday cake to share, pony rides, face painting, activities and much more. All rides and activities are free after Gardens Admission. |
Festival of Flowers |
| Venue: | Hunter Valley Gardens |
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| Date: | '1-30 September 2010
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| Fee: | Entry to the Gardens is $22.50 per adult and children 16 and older, $12 for children between 4-15 years of age with children 3 years and under admitted free. |
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| Booking: | 02 4998 4000 or Hvg.com.au |
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| Festival of Flowers is an event designed to immerse visitors in an unforgettable visual and sensory experience. There are over 250,000 annuals planted throughout Hunter Valley Gardens along with fabulous entertainment, activities, attractions, demonstrations, talks, tours and workshops. This event provides a stunning viewing and hands on experience for all visitors. Hunter Valley Gardens will also host The Pink Tea in aid of Breast Cancer during the festival. |
Hunter Valley Gardens Chocolate Festival |
| Venue: | Hunter Valley Gardens |
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| Date: | '7-8 August 2010' |
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| Fee: | Entry to the Gardens is $22.50 per adult and children 16 and older, $12 for children between 4-15 years of age with children 3 years and under admitted free. |
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| Booking: | 02 4998 4000 or Hvg.com.au |
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Hunter Valley Gardens Running Festival |
| Venue: | Hunter Valley Gardens |
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| Date: | '18 July 2010' |
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| Fee: | Entry to the Gardens is $22.50 per adult and children 16 and older, $12 for children between 4-15 years of age with children 3 years and under admitted free. |
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| Booking: | 02 4998 4000 or Hvg.com.au |
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| It's not every day that you get to run through world famous gardens, historic homesteads, international golf resorts and of course, some of the most famous wineries in Australia. Mix that with a huge selection of races, a friendly country race crew, loads of prizes and you have an event not to be missed. |
Mid Winter Wander |
| Venue: | Hunter Valley Gardens |
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| Date: | '20 June 2010' |
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| Time: | from 9.00am |
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| Fee: | Entry to the Gardens is $22.50 per adult and children 16 and older, $12 for children between 4-15 years of age with children 3 years and under admitted free. |
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| Booking: | 02 4998 4000 or Hvg.com.au |
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| Share the motoring passion with Veteran & Vintage, Classic & Commercial, Hot Rods, Street Machines & Bikes. The largest special vehicle procession in NSW kicks off at 9.00am from the Stockland Shopping Centre at Glendale, finishing at Hunter Valley Gardens Village |
Improvisation Workshop |
| Venue: | Abb |
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| Date: | '21st January 2011' |
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| Time: | 1pm - 4pm |
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| Fee: | $55 |
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| Booking: | 03 9416 2555 or Impromelbourne.com.au |
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| This Improvisation Workshop is specifically for 12 -17 year olds. |
AMF Early Bird Special |
| Venue: | AMF Bowling centres |
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| Time: | before 10.30am |
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| Fee: | All games are only $6.90 |
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AMF Bowling takes the hassle out of holidays, with entertainment that's fun for the whole family. State of the art bowling, the latest in amusement machines, cafes and fully licensed bars, AMF Bowling offers everything you need for a great day out.
If getting out of bed is a struggle, take advantage of another great deal on offer - buy any two full priced games and you'll get a $6 voucher to use anywhere in the centre (valid before 5pm).
These deals are available every day of the public summer school holidays at your local AMF Bowling centre. |
Marvelous MelBurton: Tim Burton opens exhibition at ACMI |
| Venue: | ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne |
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| Date: | 'from 24 June until 10 October 2010' |
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Artist and film maker, Tim Burton, today delighted crowds with an appearance at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne to officially open Tim Burton: The Exhibition, which will be on display at the centre until 10 October, 2010.
Among attendees joining Mr Burton for the opening of the exhibition direct from The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, were Victorian Minister for the Arts Mr Peter Batchelor, ACMI Board President The Hon. John Thwaites, ACMI Director Tony Sweeney, MoMA Director Mr Glenn Lowry, and curators from both institutions.
The major exhibition, presented as part of Melbourne Winter Masterpieces 2010, explores the full scale of Burton's career, as director, concept artist illustrator and photographer, through hundreds of artworks that spectacularly illuminate the creative vision behind Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Alice in Wonderland. |
Tim Burton Film Retrospective: Pee-wee's Big Adventure |
| Venue: | ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne |
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| Date: | '2nd and 4th of July' |
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| Time: | Friday 9:30pm and Sunday 3pm |
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| Burton's feature film directorial debut brilliantly combines a kinetic visual inventiveness - extravagant sight gags and whimsical set pieces abound - with the no-holds-barred persona of Paul Reubens' disarmingly single-minded man-child protagonist, Pee-wee Herman. It also marked the director's first collaboration with composer Danny Elfman, with whom Burton has made thirteen features (to date). Imported 35mm print. |
Boys like Girls |
| Date: | 'Friday 9th July-Friday 16th July' |
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| Booking: | Thehifi.com.au; 1300 The Hifi and Ticketek on 132 849 Ticketek.com.au |
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Friday 9th July: The Hi-Fi, Brisbane (18+)
Saturday 10th July: The Hi-Fi, Brisbane (U18)
Sunday 11th July: Roundhouse, Sydney (Lic/AA)
Wednesday 14th July: The Hi-Fi, Melbourne (U18)
Thursday 15th July: The Hi-Fi, Melbourne (18+)
Friday 16th July: Fowlers, Adelaide (Lic/AA)
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Quest for the South Magnetic Pole |
| Venue: | Australian National Maritime Museum: 2 Murray Street Darling Harbour Sydney |
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| Date: | '2 July - 18 October 2010' |
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An exhibition coming to the Australian National Maritime Museum shows how scientists and explorers have been racing to reach Earth's South Magnetic Pole... and still haven't quite got there.
They've got exceedingly close recently, with Australians leading the way to a point within a couple of km of the goal. Problem is, the pole keeps moving... sometimes leaping more than 200 km a day. The exhibition Quest for the South Magnetic Pole traces one of the longest and most curious pursuits in exploration history. |
Fashion Police: Joan Rivers, Kelly Osbourne, Giuliana Rancic and George Kotsiopoulos |
| Venue: | E! |
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| Date: | 'Beginning Saturday, March 10th' |
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| Time: | 6:30pm |
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| Divas, debutantes and fashionistas alike - you've been warned. This March, E! Entertainment Television is expanding the popular weekly series 'Fashion Police' to one hour. Host and comedic icon Joan Rivers continues to hold court and brings her incomparable wit and unapologetic critique of fashion and pop culture to viewers across the world. As always, she is joined by the outspoken 'Fashion Police' panel featuring Kelly Osbourne, Giuliana Rancic and George Kotsiopoulos. Together this foursome pours through photos and videos of the week's most high-profile moments and fashion choices, from red carpet gowns to casual daytime wear, to point out the best and the worst in celebrity style. The new format of 'Fashion Police' begins Saturday, March 10th at 6:30pm AEDT on E!. |
American: The Bill Hicks Story |
| Venue: | ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne |
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| Date: | 'Thursday 4 November - Tuesday 23 November, 2010' |
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The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) presents a Long Play season of the innovative documentary, American: The Bill Hicks Story (2010) the definitive portrait of the razor sharp comedian Bill Hicks.
The film takes an intimate look at Hick's life and his bold and belligerent takes on drugs, politics, religion, philosophy and the American Dream which remain as relevant today, more than a decade after his death in 1994.
Fifteen years after his death Bill Hicks is now more popular than ever, and is widely seen as on of the best comedians of the modern era. However in America, where he challenged institutions and societal norms, he suffered from censorship and was never truly recognised by a wide audience. In the country which enshrines freedom of speech in its constitution his story is truly about what it means to be an American.
American: The Bill Hicks Story follows Hicks from his youth living in Houston, Texas in the 1970s with his strict Southern Baptist parents, when with the aid of like-minded friends the 15 year-old began sneaking out to perform at the newly opened Comix Annex in Houston. In 1987 he moved to New York City, and, for the next five years, performed about 300 times a year. As his work progressed his comedy took on wider themes, and he began hitting out at the targets of the day - fundamentalist religion, the Reagan administration and 80s pop culture. |
Tron Legacy: The IMAX 3D Experience |
| Venue: | IMAX Melbourne Museum, Rathdowne Street, Carlton |
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| Date: | 'From 16 December, 2010' |
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| Time: | Films screen daily from 10.00am. |
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| Fee: | $24.00 adults, $19.50 concession, $17.50 child, $72.00 family (2 adults & 2 children) |
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| Booking: | For session times visit Imaxmelbourne.com.au or call 03 9663 5454 |
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| Tickets to the latest Walt Disney Pictures high-tech 3D blockbuster, Tron Legacy: The IMAX 3D Experience, are now on sale at IMAX Melbourne Museum. See it in stunning IMAX 3D on the biggest 3D screen in the southern hemisphere from 16 December, 2010. Sam Flynn (Hedlund), the tech-savvy 27-year-old son of Kevin Flynn (Bridges), looks into his father's disappearance and finds himself pulled into the digital world of Tron where his father has been living for 25 years. Along with Kevin's loyal confidant Quorra (Wilde), father and son embark on a life-and-death journey of escape across a visually-stunning cyber universe that has become far more advanced and exceedingly dangerous. |
Mounties July School Holiday Program |
| Venue: | Mounties is located at 101 Meadows Road Mt Pritchard NSW 2170 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday 5 July to Friday 15 July' |
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| Booking: | Mmounties.com.au |
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| Mounties July School Holiday Program runs from Tuesday 5 July to Friday 15 July, with activities ranging from live performances to fitness sessions, cooking classes, movies and more. |
Bunjilaka celebrates NAIDOC Week |
| Venue: | Melbourne Museum, Nicholson Street Carlton |
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| Date: | '4 to 11 July 2010' |
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| Time: | Open 10.00am to 5.00pm daily |
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| Fee: | Included with Museum entry (adults $8, children and concession FREE) |
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| Booking: | For further information, visit museumvictoria.com.au/bunjilaka or phone 13 11 02. |
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NAIDOC Week, or National Aboriginal and Islander Day Observance Committee, is an important annual event that celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture and achievements. The theme of NAIDOC Week this year is 'Unsung Heroes - Closing the Gap by Leading their Way'. Bunjilaka is proud to present an exciting program that celebrates Indigenous contributions to Australian society.
20 Years: Bold. Black. Brilliant. - Ilbijerri Theatre Company: A Retrospective.
20 Years: Bold. Black. Brilliant. celebrates the 20th anniversary of the longest running Indigenous theatre company in Australia.
From Little Things Big Things Grow: Fighting for Indigenous Rights 1920-1970
This exhibition tells the story of a group of Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, who worked together to fight for justice for Aboriginal people.
Jacky Jacky in the Box
First performed in 2008, Jacky Jacky in the Box is a confronting performance art installation that challenges audiences to think about their perceptions of Indigenous Australia as an anthropological curiosity.
Jacky Jacky in the Box is showing from 11am to 5pm from Friday 9 to Sunday 11 July as part of the exhibition
20 Years: Bold. Black. Brilliant.
Milarri Garden and Forest Gallery Cultural Interpretation Tours
Join Bunjilaka's Aboriginal guide as they explore the Milarri Garden and Forest Gallery's specifically designed South Eastern Australia Indigenous garden.
Tours run from 4-8 July and 10-11 July at 1pm and 3pm. |
Grand Pacific Tours |
| Fee: | Entry fee will be $5 per person |
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| Booking: | RSVPs are essential as seats are limited; call 1800 622 768. |
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Grand Pacific Tours is the market leader in providing the mature age traveller with value for money, luxury coach holidays to New Zealand. Grand Pacific Tours provide a holiday option to suit every budget. Boasting three distinct styles of touring, the expo will outline their full range including Luxury Coach Holidays; Ultimate Small Group Touring (20 travellers only) and a selection of Special Interest Tours.
At the Expo you will meet some of New Zealand's top tourism operators whose products are part of Grand Pacific's exciting tour itineraries. Speak with the experts about the superb quality of accommodation and the extensive range of attractions visited on tour. Key activities to be showcased include the new Overnight Boat Cruise in the Bay of Islands; the Kauri Museum; the geothermal activity and Maori culture in Rotorua; the Skyline Gondola in both Rotorua and Queenstown; cruising on Milford Sound; the TranzAlpine Rail Journey; plus representation from the various regions visited. All your questions will be answered.
You will also have the opportunity to win a New Zealand tour for two people valued in excess of $5,700, which will be drawn on the day. |
The List Operators for Kids |
| Venue: | Seymour Centre, Cnr Cleveland Street and City Road, Chippendale, 2006 |
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| Date: | 'Tue 5 (2pm) Wed 6 (10.30am & 12.30am) Thurs 7 (10.30am & 12.30am), Fri 8 (10.30am & 12.30am), Sat 9 (10.30am) October' |
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| Time: | 55 minutes |
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| Fee: | $17.50 |
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| Booking: | Box Office P: 02 9351 7940 W: Seymourcentre.com or via Ticketmaster |
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The List Operators for Kids is a cool show for anyone aged 4 to 400 million (dinosaurs allowed) coming to the Seymour Centre this October!
After a three-week run at this year's Edinburgh Fringe and sold out seasons in Melbourne, Adelaide and Brisbane; The List Operators for Kids will have all kids big and small rolling in the aisles of the Seymour Centre as part of the Sydney Children's Festival from Tuesday 5 till 9 October 2010. |
SchoolAid's inaugural Kids Helping Kids Awards |
| Date: | 'open for entry until 15 September' |
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| Booking: | Schoolaid.org.au to download the registration form. |
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| The Awards will recognise and reward the outstanding fundraising achievements of Australian schoolkids, as well as the tireless work of the teachers and principals helping to develop the next generation of philanthropists. Kids Helping Kids Awards partners, Microsoft and Cartoon Network, are providing an incredible range of technology and entertainment prizes to recognise and reward these achievements, whilst the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation is a primary supporter of the Awards. |
Learn to Cook at Maria's Greek Family Table |
| Venue: | Raw Materials in Footscray |
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| Date: | 'Saturday 20 November' |
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| Time: | 11am-1pm |
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| Booking: | Greekalicious.com.au |
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The queen of Greek gastronomy Maria Benardis, from world famous Kalamata is headed to Melbourne to teach aspiring cooks how to astound guests, husbands, lovers, and the family, with the most delicious and authentic Greek recipes around.
She will teach Melbourne's taste Trojans the secrets of her famous Myconean caramalised onion and feta filo pies, zucchini and haloumi fritters, loukoumades (Ancient Greek doughnuts), and much more.
Benardis's classes always guarantee - much like Greek mythology - a message you can take-away and consume for years to come. Her captivating storytelling lifts the lid on Greek cuisine, as never before. She enchants food lovers with tales of family life and Greece that are uniquely her own, and her knowledge of Greek culture, food and the ancient ways is heartfelt. |
Clicquot in the Snow for 2011 |
| Venue: | Thredbo Village Resort, Thredbo NSW 2625 |
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| Date: | '1st of August - 7th of August' |
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| Booking: | Thredbo.com.au |
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| Veuve Clicquot returns to Thredbo this winter season for Clicquot in the Snow 2011, a celebration of two of life's great pleasures, Veuve Clicquot and apres ski. |
Christmas at QVB |
| Venue: | the Queen Victoria Building, Sydney |
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| Date: | 'From Monday 28th of November through to Christmas Eve' |
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| Booking: | Qvb.com.au |
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This Christmas, for the first time ever, Sydney's most beautiful shopping centre, the Queen Victoria Building, will play host to a
very special guest - Santa Claus.
Inaddition to the iconic Swarovski Christmas Tree, a bespoke crystal garden, dripping in thousands of Swarovski jewels, has been handcrafted
to house a traditional Victorian Father Christmas. Mums and dads are encouraged to bring their children to pose in what will undoubtedly be
Sydney's most beautiful Christmas portraits.
Standing at an impressive 24 metres tall underneath the majestic central dome and spanning a full three levels of the building, the tree
has become a must-see destination for Christmas shoppers.
Adorned with Swarovski crystal ornaments, 60,000 twinkling lights and
topped off with the incredible Swarovski Star, the tree boasts a
total of 144,000 individual crystals and is truly a sight to behold. |
Eumundi Summer Nights |
| Venue: | Eumundi Markets: 80 Memorial Dr, Emmundi |
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| Date: | 'Friday the 13th of January' |
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| Time: | 5 - 9pm |
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Eumundi Summer Nights has been a great opportunity for locals to enjoy a relaxed night out, with market food stalls (no need to cook dinner on a Friday night!), art and craft stalls, funky fashion, massage and more.
Live music tomorrow night is the fabulous folk singer extraordinaire Ange Takats (renowned far and wide and lucky for us, living locally) as well as Caravana Sun (joining us from Sydney).
Film: Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs
The most delicious event since macaroni met cheese. Inspired by the beloved children's book, the film focuses on inventor Flint Lockwood and his latest creation - a food processor that converts water into food. He decides to test it out... but things don't go according to plan and he manages to launch it into the atmosphere. It begins to rain food in the island. A television station sends a weather reporter to cover the phenomenon and Flint becomes famous. However, the greedy and glutton Mayor Shelbourne overworks the machine and the food becomes a menace to the human race. |
PlayStation King of the Mountain Series at Perisher |
| Venue: | Perisher |
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| Date: | '10 July 2010 - 18 September' |
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| Booking: | Perisher.com.au/winter/events/index.php |
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PlayStation and Columbia Sportswear have joined forces to present the three-part 'King of the Mountain Series' at Perisher this winter season.
Known as the PlayStation King of the Mountain Series, in association with Columbia, the event will see Australia's best skiers take on Slopestyle, Super Half-pipe and Giant Gap Jump disciplines in a bid to be crowned best overall free-rider, in Men's Women's and Grommet categories. The King of the Mountain Series provides a platform for skiers to showcase their skills in tackling Australia's best free-ride facilities in a competitive environment at Perisher. |
Museum Victoria wins Gold in Houston |
| Premier and Minister for the Arts Ted Baillieu said this year's award follows a win at the MUSE awards in 2010 for the development of new exhibition technology used in Wild: Amazing Animals in a Changing World. |
Oh Alfred! |
| Venue: | Prince Alfred Park: Chalmer St, Surry Hills |
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| Date: | '10th and 11th of September' |
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| Time: | 11am-2pm |
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| In celebration of Sydney's vibrant 'creative spirit', Oh Alfred! is calling out for participants to help produce the creative material that will soon transform the fence surrounding Prince Alfred Park into a vibrant display of community creative. Materials are supplied, no experience is required, and fun is guaranteed. |
Middle Eastern Showcase Gala Dinner |
| Venue: | the Ivy Room, 320 George Street, Sydney |
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| Date: | 'Sunday 10 October' |
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| Time: | 7pm - 11.30pm |
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| Fee: | $250 |
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| Booking: | 02 9240 3000 |
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Tickets are selling fast to the most glamorous and decadent event on the Crave Sydney International Food Festival calendar, the 10-course Middle Eastern Showcase Gala Dinner, hosted at the Ivy Room Sydney this Sunday 10 October 2010 from 7pm.
Top names in the world of Middle Eastern cuisine, including Melbourne stars Greg Malouf (MoMo) and Ismail Tosun (Gigi Baba) together with the fabulous Yotam Ottolenghi from London's Ottolenghi food stores; Musa Dagdeviren, who owns three celebrated restaurants in Istanbul; and Kamal Mouzawak, who founded the first farmers' market in Beirut - will each create a dish on the night.
The dinner will live up to its name and showcase the best of delicious and exotic Middle Eastern dishes during a sumptuous 10-course banquet paired with matching wines. The Ivy Room provides the perfect, opulent surrounds for the once in a lifetime occasion. So, grab your Middle Eastern cuisine loving husband, wife, friends or family and book your seat before you miss out. Sydney may never see a night like this again. |
FREE Slurpee for Red Heads |
| Venue: | Paticipating Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane 7-Eleven loactions |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday 8th of September 2010' |
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| In celebration of all things red haired - our new Prime Minister, redhead matches... we could be here for hours really... 7-Eleven have announced they will provide free Slurpees to anyone who comes in to a 7-Eleven store today, Wednesday 8th of September 2010 with a ginger-tinge to their hair. Real or fake, red heads are the real winners today... |
The Wonder Pets! |
| Venue: | Nick Jr. |
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| Date: | 'Weekdays from May 2nd' |
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| Nick Jr.'s hit preschool series The Wonder Pets! airs in May at the new time of 4pm weekdays. |
The Comedy of Errors |
| Venue: | Athenaeum Theatre, 188 Collins Street, Melbourne |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 15 July - Sunday, 1 August 2010' |
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| Time: | Tuesday and Wednesday - 7pm, Thursday to Saturday - 8pm, Sunday - 5pm |
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| Booking: | Ticketmaster 136 100, or the venue 03 9650 1500 |
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Poised to delight Melbourne audiences at the Athenaeum Theatre from 15 July, The Comedy of Errors was Shakespeare's first comedic play and considered to be one of his best.
The Australian Shakespeare Company Artistic Director, Glenn Elston places his inspired comedic touch on a production that draws on the style of commedia dell'arte combined with the surreal and absurd that breathes new life into Shakespeare's much loved text.
The Comedy of Errors is a joyful journey of the chaos and confusion. Its popularity stems from its sublime farce that incorporates not one but two sets of identical twins - allowing for a compounding number of 'errors' to unfold as the play progresses. This fast paced comedy will take audiences on a roller coaster day of mistaken identity that leads to seduction, arrest, infidelity, beatings, theft and general all round madness, and ends (of course) in resolving and reuniting all concerned.
The talented cast includes Brendan O'Connor, Simon Mallory, Terri Brabon, Ross Williams, Kevin Hopkins, Hugh Sexton, Josephine Bloom, Syd Brisbane, Adrian Dart, Tony Rive, Shireen Morris, Phil Lambert, Doru Surcel, Lisa Angove and Sally McLean. |
Cars 2 at Westfield |
| Venue: | Westfield Shopping Centres around New South Wales |
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Start your engines this school holidays as activity stations from the official Disney-Pixar CARS Truck Tour pop up at Westfield Shopping Centres around New South Wales.
WESTFIELD PENRITH: Maters Pitstop, 585 High St, Penrith NSW
Mon 4 to Fri 8 Jul
11am-2pm daily
WESTFIELD TUGGERAH: Doc Hudson's Track, 50 Wyong Rd, Tuggerah NSW
Mon 4 to Fri 8 Jul
10am-2pm daily
WESTFIELD HURSTVILLE: Doc Hudson's Track,Cnr Cross & Park, Hurstville NSW
Tue 5 to Sat 9 Jul
11am-2pm daily
WESTFIELD BURWOOD:Doc Hudson's Track, 100 Burwood Rd, Burwood NSW
Mon 11 to Fri 15 Jul
11am-2pm daily
WESTFIELD CHATSWOOD: Doc Hudson's Track, 1 Anderson St, Chatswood NSW
Mon 11 to Fri 15 Jul
11am-2pm daily
WESTFIELD KOTARA: Doc Hudson's Track, Cnr Park & Northcott, Kotara NSW
Mon 11 to Fri 15 Jul
11am-2pm daily
WESTFIELD MIRANDA: Doc Hudson's Track, 600 Kingsway, Miranda NSW
Tues 12 to Sat 16 Jul
11am-2pm daily |
Charlie and Lola's Best Bestest Play |
| Venue: | The Playhouse, Sydney Opera House |
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| Date: | 'From December 17th' |
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| Fee: | $29 |
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| Booking: | Sydneyoperahouse.com |
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| ThissummereveryonesfavouritebrotherandsisterCharlieandLolabringtheirstageshowtoSydneyOperaHouse.CharlieandLolasBestBestestPlayisbasedonthepopularbooksbyLaurenChildandadaptedfromsomeofthefunniestepisodesofthehitseriesseeninAustraliaonABCTVandCBeebies.Theseadorableandhilariouscharacterswillbebroughttolifebyadelightfulmixofpuppetsandmusic. |
Orangutans Return to the Wild |
| Venue: | Sydney University, BOSH Lecture Theatre 1 (29th November) & Monash University, Caulfield Campus, A205 Lecture Theatre (Thursday 2nd December) |
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| Date: | 'Monday 29th November and Thursday 2nd December' |
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| Time: | from 7pm |
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| Fee: | $19.75 |
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| Booking: | Orangutans.com.au or by phoning 02 9011 5455 |
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The Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS) will bring two world-renowned experts to Australia later this month to reveal plans for the largest ever release of ex-captive orangutans back into the wild.
A fundraising target of $150,000 has been set by BOS Australia to purchase ten quarantine enclosures for the release program which will allow the first 24 orangutans to have vet checks, radio tracking implants, DNA testing and be quarantined for up to a month before being released into the wild as the first colony.
Next year a total of 108 rehabilitated organgutans will be released back to their natural habitat - with a long term plan to release the majority of over 800 animals that BOS currently cares for.
Funds raised from tickets sold to attend the public event will go toward purchasing the quarantine cages needed for the release program. |
Kids Flicks: Beauty and the Beast |
| Date: | ' Until Sun 27 Feb' |
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| Disney's adaptation of an 18th century French fairy tale tells the story of a beautiful maiden who helps release a prince from a spell that has turned him into an ugly beast. The film became the first animated feature to be nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture. |
A Wonderland AT RiPPON Lea HOUSE and Gardens |
| Venue: | Rippon Lea House and Gardens, 192 Hotham Street, Elsternwick. |
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| Date: | 'January 8th to January 29th' |
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| Time: | Monday to Thursday 11am & 6pm Friday & Saturday 11am (no shows on Australia Day 26 January) |
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| Fee: | All tickets $25 (adults and children). Groups of four $90 |
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| Booking: | Call us on 1300 122 344 or book online at shakespeareaustralia.com.au or Ticketmaster 136 100 or online at Ticketmaster.com.au |
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The Cheshire Cat, Queen of Hearts, Mad Hatter and all the madcap characters of Alice in Wonderland have taken up residence in the beautiful gardens of Rippon Lea House and Gardens this summer!
Join Alice as she follows the White Rabbit into the curious world of Wonderland. She will get taller and smaller, dance with the Dodo, talk with a Caterpillar, sneeze with the Duchess, have tea with the Mad Hatter and keep her head from the Queen of Hearts. |
Make Your Mark: 2010 Sydney New Year's Eve |
| Venue: | Sydneynewyearseve.com |
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Sydney is the city that knows how to party and plans are in full swing for the party of the year with another unrivalled fireworks show for 2010 Sydney New Year's Eve.
Brand new 'X' shaped fireworks and cutting edge pyrotechnic shapes including lightning bolts, crescent moons, double hearts, bowties and a star inside a ring will all premiere this year, while for the very first time a multi-layered Bridge Effect will mark Sydney as the New Year's Eve capital of the world.
For a safe and enjoyable 2010 Sydney New Year's Eve:
-Pick a vantage point and be aware that popular areas fill up quickly
-Plan ahead if you're heading to the harbour foreshore and take public transport
-Remember not to take glass to the event and place rubbish into bins provided
-To get the full multimedia Sydney New Year's Eve experience, tune your radio to 104.1 2Day FM to hear the synchronised fireworks soundtracks |
Monsters, Ghouls and Melancholy Misfits: The Raven + Vincent PG |
| Venue: | ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne |
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| Date: | '17th and 18th July' |
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| Time: | 4.15pm (Sat) and 6pm (Sun) |
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| Edgar Allan Poe gets a Hollywood makeover in this classic Universal Pictures horror film adaptation from 1935, featuring Bela Lugosi as a brilliant but morbidly obsessive surgeon who doesn't take rejection well, and Boris Karloff as an unsuspecting victim. Imported print. Screens with Vincent (Tim Burton, 6 mins, USA, 1982) in which the tormented hero of Burton's story - seven-year-old Vincent Malloy - imagines a transformed suburban world worthy of Poe in a stop-motion animated short narrated by Burton's childhood idol and muse Vincent Price. |
From Fairy Tale to Film: ACMI Curator's Talk |
| Venue: | ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne: Studio 1 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday 27th of Jan' |
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| Time: | 2pm |
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| Fee: | FREE |
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| Booking: | Tickets available on the day from the Tickets & Information Desk. |
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| Join ACMI Curator Emma McRae for a greater insight into Dreams Come True: The Art of Disney's Classic Fairy Tales. Touching on a range of subjects, with particular emphasis on the European origins of Disney's fairy tale animations and how they were adapted for the screen, Emma will discuss the artists and stories behind the Magic Kingdom. |
The Australian Society for Fish Biology (ASFB) Annual Conference and Symposium |
| Venue: | The Age Theatre: Melbourne Museum, Nicholson Street Carlton |
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| Date: | '12th of July' |
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| Time: | 6 - 7.30pm |
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| Fee: | Free entry |
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| Booking: | No booking is required |
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The Australian Society for Fish Biology (ASFB) is holding its 2010 Annual Conference and Symposium at Melbourne Museum. The theme of the symposium is 'Climate change and the aquatic environment - the future for fish and fisheries'. Leading experts from around the world will present their latest research findings and provide insights into the potential impacts of climate change on aquatic ecosystems.
Presented by ASFB and Museum Victoria, a free public lecture featuring four of Australia's key fish and fisheries experts will allow further discussion on the symposium topic. This talk will provide the audience with credible scientific findings and predictions on our marine and freshwater environments, fish and fisheries.
Topics that will be covered include the impacts of climate change on fish habitats, the effects of temperature on fish reproduction and the development of ecosystem models to investigate climate change impacts on fisheries. |
Chalk Urban Art Festival |
| Venue: | Church Street, Parramatta, NSW |
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| Date: | 'Thursday 7 October- Sunday 10 October' |
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| Time: | 10.00 AM- 5.00 PM Daily |
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| Fee: | Free |
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Parramatta will be transformed into a visual delight this Thursday to Sunday, with the largest urban art festival in the southern hemisphere, Chalk Urban Art Festival, taking place at Church Street.
Expected to attract thousands of keen spectators, the four day festival will feature a pavement art competition for artists from all over Australia, a mini chalk competition for the general public and interactive school holiday workshops. |
Gooey |
| Venue: | Video Garden ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne |
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| Date: | 'Daily' |
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| Time: | 6am-11pm |
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| Fee: | Free outdoor exhibition |
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| In Gooey, Melbourne artists Lycette Bros. transform the Video Garden into a quirky, interactive musical orchestra, with playful blob creatures who squeak, yelp or burp to create harmonic percussive loops. Playing the blobs like a digital piano creates different rhythms and beats that bring the Video Garden to life with fun musical sequences. |
Big Summer Sleepover |
| Date: | 'Thursday January 19 and Friday January 20, 2012' |
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| Booking: | Facebook.com/sydneyoperahouse |
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| From 9am on Saturday November 19, Sydney Opera House's Big Summer Sleepover will open for entries as part of the Summer at the House program. Over two special nights, 80 lucky winners will slumber in the stunning surrounds of the Concert Hall Northern Foyer - a unique location inside the House boasting unrivalled harbour views. |
12th Sydney Film School Festival |
| Venue: | Chauvel Cinema |
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| Date: | 'Wed 14th July' |
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| Time: | 6:30pm |
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| Fee: | Event is free and open to the general public. |
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With great pleasure we announce the celebrated Australian film director, Ray Lawrence, as a very special Key Note Speaker for our 12th Sydney Film School Festival.
The director of some of the most critically acclaimed works in Australian cinema - Bliss (1985); Lantana (2001); Jindabyne (2006) - will be addressing the audience during the second festival night, prior to the final screening and awards ceremony.
Held twice yearly at the Chauvel Cinema in Paddington, the SFS Festival celebrates the completion of the semester's productions and the graduation of the 1-year Diploma students. |
Grab a bite and win a bike |
| Venue: | Chifley Plaza Food Precinc |
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| Date: | 'until 23 December' |
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| Fee: | $10 or more |
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| Booking: | Chifleyplaza.com.au |
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When customers spend $10 or more in the food court at Chifley Plaza food precinct, customers can enter the draw to win a Colnago M10 Dura Ace cycling bike valued at $10,999.
Rules: Customers must spend over $10 or more at Chifley Plaza's food precinct (level 1) to be eligible to enter. Entrants must complete an entry coupon at Chifley Plaza and place in the entry barrel. The winner will may be required to show proof of purchase. Customers can only enter once per day. |
2011 FReeZACentral Mentoring Program |
| Date: | 'Applications for the 2011 FReeZACentral Mentoring Program close on November 24' |
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| Booking: | Freezacentral.vic.gov.au |
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Apply for the 2011 FReeZACentral Mentoring Program and you could be working with mentors like Clare Bowditch, Deborah Conway, DW Norton (Superheist), Angie Hart (Frente), Jen Cloher or staff from all your favourite festivals and record labels like - Soundwave, The Falls, Big Day Out, Destroy All Lines, Roadrunner and triple j.
Each year FReeZACentral, a Victorian Government Victoria Rocks Initiative, managed by The Push and Mushroom Marketing, accepts around 50 young people between the ages of 18 and 25, who live in the state of Victoria into its mentoring program. Participants are paired with a mentor to help them establish themselves in the music industry. The mentoring program provides both pathways into performance and working as an artist, tour and event management, music business, publicity and marketing, technical production and stage management as well as networking and work experience opportunities. |
Toyota Dream Car Art Contest |
| Date: | 'Entries close 29 February, 2012.' |
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| Booking: | Toyota.com.au/dream-car |
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For some, a dream car simply requires a slick paint job. Others dream of an 'Automatic Noodle Truck' with a massive conveyer belt at which people can sit, and have dinner come to them.
Nobody can deny the imagination of children, so Toyota is giving Aussie kids the chance to design their own Dream Car as part of the global Toyota Dream Car Art Contest.
Children aged up to 15 are invited to submit a drawing of their 'Dream Car' in any artistic medium, including all types of paint, coloured markers, crayons, chalk and more. |
Borderland Experiences: free talk by Najat El Hachmi |
| Venue: | Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders Street, Melbourne |
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| Date: | '26 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 6-7pm |
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| Fee: | Admission: Adult $8, child/concession FREE |
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| Booking: | More info 13 11 02 or museumvictoria.com.au/immigration museum |
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In this talk, Spanish author Najat El Hachmi explores what it means to grow up on the border between two cultures and the role that literature played in shaping her identity. Najat was born in Morocco and moved with her family to Catalonia, Spain as a child. Her first book, I am Catalan too, deals with issues of identity and sense of belonging and her second book, The Last Patriarch, looks at the conflict between traditional and new values.
This event is presented by the Consulate General of Spain in Melbourne.
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