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Five Books You Need To Read This Month: June
Author: Simon Clark
Five Books You Need To Read This Month: May
Welcome to this month’s round up of the books we think you need to be reading. It’s a bit of an eclectic mix this month, with a mixture of fiction, poetry and some non-fiction. We’ve got monsters, deplorables, teenagers and NDNs’. We move from the Hindu Kush, to Brooklyn, to Prague and to Australia. So hopefully there will be something on the list that catches your eye, ends up on your TBR pile, and hopefully on your bedside table.... Read More | Share it now!
New exhibition set to illuminate Melbourne’s QV Square and surrounds
Melbourne’s QV Square and the surrounding laneways will later this month be transformed into a vibrant outdoor garden gallery of interactive neon art installations. Running from 17th May until 17th June, Melbourne-based international artist Carla O’Brien will fill the space with her new exhibition Neon Night Garden.... Read More | Share it now!
Australian literary heavyweights travelling to China for the 10th anniversary of Australian Writers Week
An acclaimed group of Australian authors will travel to China next week for the tenth annual Australian Writers Week.... Read More | Share it now!
Smash hit musical Jersey Boys returns to Sydney in 2018 and you could be part of it
If you’ve ever dreamed of being in a smash hit musical then 2018 could be the year for you! The producers of the international hit musical Jersey Boys are on the hunt for fresh Australian talent, ready for the show’s return to Sydney in 2018.... Read More | Share it now!
Jai Courtney tops the bill in Melbourne Theatre Company’s new production of Macbeth
Melbourne Theatre Company have pulled together a powerhouse cast for their new production of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The production, directed by Simon Phillips, is the third and final instalment in a trilogy of Shakespearian reinterpretations directed by Phillips for Melbourne Theatre Company, following on from acclaimed productions of Hamlet and Richard III.... Read More | Share it now!
Fresh cuts and community engagement the focus of new exhibition at the Blacktown Arts Centre
Garage Barbershop, a new exhibition at the Blacktown Arts Centre, is a celebration of the craft and culture of barbering, and the important role the humble barbershop can play within the community.... Read More | Share it now!
Hotel guests asked to disrobe in the name of art and self liberation
From the 1st May until the 15th June, the Art Series Hotel Group are inviting guests to sleepover, strike a pose and find themselves the subject of a life drawn masterpiece. This is all part of the hotel group’s ‘No Robe Package’ which asks guests to reveal the “real” them for a group of artists to capture the image in art form, forever and for keeps.... Read More | Share it now!
Hannah Gadsby wins the 2017 Barry Award with her show Nanette
Hannah Gadsby has taken out the 2017 Barry Award for Best Show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Gadsby won with her show Nanette – a self described swan song.... Read More | Share it now!
Melbourne to host the first major Australian exhibition of the influential and popular Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai
The great wave off Kanagawa – It is perhaps the best known and most recognisable piece of Japanese art. It has adorned walls, notebooks and computer desktops the world over, and now Australian art enthusiasts get to witness it, alongside other works by its creator, in the flesh at Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria this July.... Read More | Share it now!
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