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 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 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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Square Your Shoulders and Brace Yourself at the Urban Square Pop-Up Market

The holiday season is once again upon us. Unlike the many, many other holiday seasons like Easter, Labour Day, ANZAC day or the several days following the decision to get drunk on Horse Jizz (1 part beer, 1 part milk), this time of year still places...

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