Top 10 Melbourne Culture On this week 05/08/2018
Polish your monocles and lube your disdainful smirks, Melbourne. For it’s not your capacity for reflective appreciation you’ll be flexing this week. It never is.
10) Zero Waste Victoria Festival
5th August
Ladies, Gentleman, Others, it’s time we picked up arms and FIGHT. But uh don’t worry. We’re cowards too. And damn proud. This is a war on waste. So…we mean…we’re fully willing to accept we’re cowardly, but at least for one day make up the moral points by being a little bit less lazy and..you know…buy some sustainably sourced tofu gravlaxers or something. At least you can say you tried.
9) The REAL Big Hug
5th August
Damn straight. Well…what we mean is, hell yeah. A celebration after the marriage equality postal vote of the massive effort of the volunteers, the campaigners and, of course, the supporters, to the tune of a colossal cupcake collage and an eve of manicure and massage.
https://on.com.au/search/events/The-REAL-Big-Hug/e3754da0-95f2-11e8-b46c-77c2608f137f
8) Improvisé Exhibition Launch
11th August
Mainlining directly to your capacity for pretension comes Dawe’s Tangierian-inspired works detailing his fascination with theatre, love and dance…and the almighty fez.
7) Jackson’s Polished Man Private Party and Fundraiser
8th August
Kate Ceberano and Andrew DeSilva in an event space not open to the public. …Sounds like a dream doesn’t it? But in all seriousness, this event is entirely serious. You know what that means. Hand over your wallets. All proceedings from this night of live music and live artworks (including an auction) will go to ending violence against children.
6) Melbourne Art Fair
2nd-5th August
It’s your last chance to meet the minimum requirements for ‘cultured’, Melbourne. “Melbourne Art Foundation joined with over 50 Victorian cultural organisations, institutions, art spaces, satellite fairs and galleries to stage Melbourne Art Week” and today, kids, is the last day to doll yourself up, shin-holster that whisky, crack out your smart phone and Instagram as many damn photos as you can of yourself appreciating contemporary experimental art.
https://on.com.au/search/events/Melbourne-Art-Fair-2018/ee0b7ba0-95fb-11e8-b46c-77c2608f137f
5) Indian Film Festival Opening Night
10th August
One of the newest fetishes of film-goers the world over is opening itself face-ward, skyward, frontward and backward and you better get in damn quick to be able to consider yourself as one of the cultural elite who liked it before it was cool.
4) Hot Chocolate Festival
1st-31st August
31 hot chocolate flavours over 31 days. All served with an extra shot of hot couverture chocolate and a giant handcrafted marshmallow. Write that down. Send it to your doctor. Set an appointment for the end of the month.
https://on.com.au/search/events/Hot-Chocolate-Festival-2018/4f9db110-95f9-11e8-b46c-77c2608f137f
3) West Projections Festival
4th-5th, 10th-11th August
Live projections, residents programs, virtual reality, live performance and sound-bytes across the city in a living monument to the capacity for contemporary artists to confuse and intimidate the living f-k out of tourists and Melbournians alike.
https://on.com.au/search/events/West-Projections-Festival-2018/0126d3f0-95f8-11e8-b46c-77c2608f137f
2) Celine Dion
7th-8th August
50 million albums, 30 years, 5 grammys, 2 academy awards, 7 music awards. She just…won’t…die. Come experience the zombified zircon (she’s gotta be at least 70% made up of it by now) live in all her sparkling glory.
https://on.com.au/search/events/Celine-Dion-Live-2018-Melbourne/0a0b63b0-2f5e-11e8-a8dd-e3a56d3eda89
1) Jimmy Webb Tour
9th August
With his own friends and keys and credit cards. One of America’s greatest song writers -though in the current climate that standard has undoubtedly been warped in some strange manner – is coming back to Australian shores joined by Barnesy, David Campbell Kate Ceberano, Ed Kuepper and Ian Moss.
https://on.com.au/search/events/Jimmy-Webb-Tour-Melbourne/9fcdc6e0-6ded-11e8-b2e5-cbd173431c8c
Honourable Mention:
Michelangelo Private Collection Exhibition
2nd-10th August
And all the best private parts too. Michelangelo knows (knew) how you perverts like it.
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