Crank Up the Future at the Meredith Music Festival

Meredith is a name you don't hear as often as you used to. Partly because it's not really in vogue anymore, mostly because following Christmas in 2018, everyone decided to write off aunt Meredith because the dementia finally took her completely and she revealed that...

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Nigh On Intercultural Competence at the African Music and Cultural Festival

An incredibly complex, varied place, essentially the entirety of the political spectrum made manifest in a land mass unbroken by sea, all reduced referentially by one World Vision ad to the image a fly-bitten kid with bare feet who sees god in a bowl of...

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Just Keep Dancing at Festival of the Sun

That which once gave us joy and life has become our greatest tormentor. The sun. We took advantage of its warmth and the offshoots of that warmth with little regard for its capacity for destruction. Now, like a cat that starts preemptively chewing the meat off grandma's leg...

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Gas Masks and Cage Dancing at The Petting Zoo

It's a whole new world. A wondrous place filled with baby-choking, grandma-killing smog, floating charred and petrified gum leaves and a horizon the colour of a blood clot in the lung of a cancer patient. A wonderful time to realise that although we may afford ourselves the...

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Top 10 things On in Brisbane this week 08/12/2019

It's a wiggly, wiggly world, but we’re all dying slowly.   10) Thriller X Papercut presents Bris Me The Horizon 14th December What: Get down to The Brightside on for a stack of Brisbane legends putting together one mammoth BRING ME THE HORIZON set aptly titled, BRIS ME THE HORIZON! After BRIS...

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Top 10 Melbourne Culture On this week 08/12/2019

Things get pretty weird this week. Apparently, despite it being the year 2019, Prosecco is still popular.   10) Live Performance: Antihero 14th December What: The presentation of artist Madison Bycroft's live performance work, Antihero. In the development of the Antihero, Bycroft has borrowed, critiqued and subverted the traditional format of...

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Top 10 Melbourne Revelry On this week 08/12/2019

This week's a mixed bag. There's MDMA but there's also a girl group from X Factor.   10) PERCEPTION Day Party 8th December What: PERCEPTION Day Party is back for the second instalment of what is sure to be an experience like no other. This time they take to one of...

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Top 10 Sydney Culture On this week 08/12/2019

Drink up. Carollers are coming.   10) Sydney XXXL Book Launch 12th December What: Frank Sartor AO, former Lord Mayor of Sydney, NSW Minister for Planning, Minister for Climate Change and the Environment, will launch Ed Lippmann’s new book Sydney XXXL at The Architect's Bookshop. Sydney XXXL, digs deep into Sydney’s history,...

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Top 10 Sydney Revelry On this week 08/12/2019

Say hello to the sun. Say goodbye to benign skin tumours.   10) Moonbow: Full Moon Cacao Ceremony + Ecstatic Dance 13th December What: Close the decade together in ceremony and celebration with a radiant four hour experience of medicine music, cacao ceremony, drumming, ecstatic dance and grateful reflection. Under the...

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Dance in the Grey Area at the Good Things Festival

It's nearing the end of 2019 and the concept of good and bad is more nebulous than ever. In part because of unprecedented technological advancement, in part of because of the proliferation of media in relation to said advancement and its consequences vis a vis babies,...

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