Recently managed to catch Micmacs before it finished up in cinemas in Melbourne. Highly recommended!
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Category Archives: Culture
Mary and Max at ACMI
Mary and Max: The Exhibition is on at ACMI.
Tuesday 2 March – Sunday 6 June 2010
Open daily 10am – 6pm*
Free exhibition > Gallery 2
*except ANZAC Day (April 25) open 1pm-6pm
World Music at Fairfield Amphitheater
The World Music Concerts are on again at Fairfield Amphitheater. Each Sunday in February from 5pm to 7.30pm. More info at Cultural Infusion.
7 February
Cypher Sapiens – Contemporary Hip Hop Dance
Fuefukuro – Japanese traditional bamboo flute ensemble
Sergei Golovko – One of World’s best ‘tuned’ percussionists14 February
Mattopancetta Comedic improv – 15th Century Italian theatre
Brunswick Women’s Choir – Diverse community of women
Chinese Performing Arts – Development Inc Celebrating Chinese New Year21 February
interACT – with live art by Anthony Breslin
A VicHealth sponsored promotion of diversity in the
Arts including leading intercultural musicians28 February
Go Figure – Performance focusing on Health & Well-Being
Cook Island Royal Polynesian Dance Team – Cook Island drumming & dance culture
The Black Jesus Experience – Afrojazz/Hip-Hop ensemble
Melbourne City Museum to Close
The Melbourne City Museum, located in the Old Treasury building, is set to close around March of next year. Time to finally get around to visiting it! Info on the museum at their website.
HT: To the White Hat newsletter for pointing this out
Update: Also, a story in the Melbourne Leader on the closure.
Melbourne Moonlight Cinema
La bohème at Sidney Myer (Free)
Puccini’s La bohème is on at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl next week.
8pm, Friday 11 December
Sidney Myer Music Bowl
Gates to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl open at 4pm**
More info at The Arts Centre and Opera Australia
Movies: Gran Torino
Recently picked up Gran Torino at the local video store (on recommendation). Well worth watching!
John Clarke on Poetica
A fascinating and entertaining feature on John Clarke’s poetic endeavours from Radio National. Available to download (and also with full transcript). My favourite was ‘The Hunting of the Smirk’
‘Twas ruddock and the blundertrope
All romping through the perjyblade,
Did slither down the sewerscope
To the Frightenhate Parade.
Or perhaps ‘The Half-Yearly Prophet’
People of Moron, I say to you, Wisdom is not in others. It is in ourselves. We are not others. Other people are. We are us. And yet they are not Them. They are merely an Us which does not include anybody here. Any questions so far? The world is a seamless cloth. Take shelter in it but do not expect it to fit.
Best listened to, like most in this form.
Sidney Myer Free Concerts 2009
It is February, so the Sidney Myer Free Concerts (by the MSO) are on again. The details for this year are as follows (more info here and here).
12 February: Berlioz, Bizet, Enescu, Gershwin, Hughes, Wagner
14 February: Mahler, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Tchaikovsky
18 February: Beethoven
21 February: Rodrigo, Rossini, Schubert
The first concert was great. Arrived about 6pm and found decent seats. The starlings had a bit of fun singing along with the orchestra which was amusing (to me at least).
We missed out on getting into the second concert as when we arrived the gates had already closed! Managed to sort of hear things from beside the fence. Lots of people left at the intermission, but no more plebs from outside were allowed in.