Serenity now! 10) Pleasure: Valentine's Day 'Art Celebrates Love' 14th February What: In this Valentine’s Day talk, Pleasure co-curator Julian Goddard asks three artists about the role that love plays in their work.While love and the experience of beauty often go unnoticed in contemporary art, this will be a chance...
Go fly a kite. 10) Wine Selectors 50 Best Tasting 13th February What: Now's your chance to discover and taste all 50 of 2019's best Australian wines for yourself. Share a glass with expert tasting panel members at this unique event that sells out every year. Take in the spectacular...
The call of the wild sounds a lot like "Lexapro!" 10) Berlin I Love You 15th February What: Valentine's Day is here, so dance with the devil it is to the sounds of techno all night. Why: An event with music as laconic as its description to counter a day crammed with...
It's a scary world we're living in, and the monsters keep mutating into worse versions of themselves. The terrible thing about being an adult is realising that the fear never ceases, it just becomes more complex, deeply rooted and more abstract, and, worst of all,...
It's the twilight of humanity and there's still 6 hours of contemporary dance to endure. 10) Dessert 4 Difference Bushfire Fundraiser 8th February What: A collaboration that brings you a night filled with plated desserts from some of Melbourne's best pastry chefs; Rod Shokuhi (Sixtene Melbourne, Jacques Reymond Restaurant, Stones...
2020 is underway. In the past it has taken time for the new year to establish itself, shed the loose skin of the previous year and reveal a whole new patch of subcutaneous tumours. But in 2020, we've not even cleared a month and not only are...
It's time you sought the solace of a higher power. Get down on your knees and chug. 10) Inflatable Regatta 1st February What: Gather the crew and head off down 2kms of the Yarra River! A ticket includes a boat & oars, life jackets, a water-proof bag, sunscreen & drinking...
These are depressing times. Every moment of every day, in what has become some kind of self-hating vaguely pleasurable sadomasochistic relationship with the universe, we are reminded of how every move we make results in something catastrophic. It's no longer the pretty chaos theory of a butterfly...
If not now, when? Perhaps in about two weeks when the apocalypse truly hits. Nothing will be off the table then. 10) 'Choose Love' Screening 22nd January What: 'Choose Love' explores many different facets of forgiveness, addressing new scientific findings, and raising some important questions. The documentary describes a journey...
This week will really make you laugh. People who think that elucidating a problem will provoke a lasting change in mass consciousness are hilarious. 10) House | Museum #3 Conversation Series 22nd January What: The ‘house museum’, even if historically defined, still proves a fundamentally contemporary and elusive subject. Uniting...