True Acceptance with Alice in Chains at the Museum of Pop Culture

The feeling of being out of place never abates. We discover that humans use exclusion as a form of power and survival early on in life, but there’s always the ever-present hope that with taxes, impotence and hair loss we’ll no longer have the need for...

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No Surprises with Dolly Parton

Relief is perhaps the worst sensation one can experience. In the moment it seems like the best possible thing to feel, but that’s what makes it so dangerous. It’s a temporary thing that seems endless. It’s essentially a hard drug without the reliability of an...

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Top 10 Australia Culture On this week 29/11/2020 (COVID-19 EDITION)

Workin' 9 to 5! It's strange to think that was ever economically viable.   10) Totalitarianism's Long Dark Shadow Over China 4th December What: The Embassy of Canada and The National Endowment for Democracy invite you to the seventeenth annual Seymour Martin Lipset Lecture on Democracy in the World. The lecture...

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Top 10 Australia Revelry On this week 29/11/2020 (COVID-19 EDITION)

Lean in.   10) LP Giobbi's House Hymns 29th November What: LP Giobbi is a producer-DJ-music director-synth warrior goddess born draped in sequins and cloaked in fog at a seance in the mountains of Oregon. Experience her unique sound in this livestreamed performance. Why: We don’t generally believe in the occult, but if...

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Top 10 Australia Culture On this week 22/11/2020 (COVID-19 EDITION)

Introspect. Then drink.   10) Atlas Obscura: Dino 101  28th November What: Attention dinosaur nerds and science stans! Join Dustin Growick, host of the YouTube channel The Dinosaur Show, and leader of Atlas Obscura's Dinos and Dunes in the Colorado Desert trip, and Kristina Gustovich, middle school teacher, geologist, improviser, and...

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Top 10 Australia Culture On this week 15/11/2020 (COVID-19 EDITION)

Finger your brain.   10) Life on Venus? Or Much Ado About Nothing? 19th November What: Several weeks ago, a team of astronomers reported the detection of phosphine on Venus. If this stinky, toxic, perhaps biogenic gas does exist on Venus as reported, we stand to learn something profound. If clever...

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Top 10 Australia Revelry On this week 15/11/2020 (COVID-19 EDITION)

We're almost out, but not quite yet.   10) Friendsgiving: Live at the Ryman  19th November What: Pop-country music stars Riley Green, Matt Stell and more are performing for Friendsgiving: Live at the Ryman, which will have limited in-person tickets as well as a livestream. Why: White Country musicians singing about white Country...

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Top 10 Australia Culture On this week 25/10/2020 (COVID-19 EDITION)

The truth is stranger than fiction. Largely because Björk is still alive.   10) Study and Struggle: Deconstructing Settler Colonialism and Borders 28th October What: The Study and Struggle program is the first phase of an ongoing project to organise against incarceration and criminalisation in Mississippi through four months of political...

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Top 10 Australia Revelry On this week 25/10/2020 (COVID-19 EDITION)

We're not out of the woods yet. So just drop your pants and take a s*** wherever you want.   10) Michael Franti: Stay At Home  31st October What: Michael Franti is a globally recognised musician, humanitarian, activist, and award-winning filmmaker revered for his high-energy live shows. As a result...

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