Take it Real Slow at the Transitions Film Festival

Change is always hard to accept. Everyone loses their minds when their favourite diabetic racist cereal mascot suddenly gets updated for the modern era and replaced with something that will be problematic again in five years. It's not the potential benefits or losses the change provokes. It's the...

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Be Happy or Don’t at the Electric Gardens Festival

We're all chasing a buzz. No matter how clean, sober or morally opposed to gluten you may claim to be, the fact remains that humans are, by nature, drug addicts. Anything to get that warm squirt of dopamine and serotonin that makes our limbs feel squiggly...

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Top 10 things On in Brisbane this week 16/02/2020

Don't laugh. When you're in your seventies you'll look ridiculous in black leather too.   10) Double Exhibition Opening: Marianna Simnett & Sancintya Mohini Simpson 22nd February What: See London-based artist Marianna Simnett’s CREATURE, which brings together three of her most significant film and installation works for her first exhibition in...

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Top 10 Melbourne Culture On this week 16/02/2020

Better stock up on the saline.   10) St Kilda Wine & Cider Walk 22nd February What: The St Kilda Wine and Cider Walk will bring together 15 of your favourite St Kilda venues with wineries from across the state for an afternoon of wine, cider and entertainment. Immerse yourself...

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Top 10 Sydney Revelry On this week 16/02/2020

Electrify yourself. Fried neural tissue makes EDM far more tolerable.   10) The Disco Affair feat. Beth Yen and Supermini 22nd February What: A disco collaboration between some of Sydney’s premiere music brands for a night of groovy ecstasy. It’s a Disco Affair. Hot Sunday Records, Disco Fiasco Records, Sunset Soulection...

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Be Better Now Before It’s Sold Out at Earth Frequency Festival

As humans we are constantly searching for ways in which to transform. Whether it be via a change in appearance, a change in consciousness or a change from one social media platform to another whose chosen form of communication is more metonymically relevant to whomever's...

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Fight the Power (the Other One) at the National Sustainable Living Festival

It's hip to be square. That's right. It's 2020 and Huey Lewis has never been more relevant. His impassioned ironic treatise concerning conformity may as well replace, on a mass scale, every anthem of every organisation and country. In 2020 to be opposed to a faction is...

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It’s Not the Time of the Season at Mardi Gras

It's the most wonderful time of the year. Our mental and emotional states have finally stabilised following the Christmas and New Year period and, at this moment, there's the longest amount of time between now and the next Christmas and New Year period. Hopefully, the way things...

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Top 10 things On in Brisbane this week 09/02/2020

We are the world. Isn't that terrifying?   10) BOADICEA: A Celtic Cabaret  14th February What: An opera depicting the life and times of Boadicea, the Celtic British Warrior Queen, who in 60 AD led an uprising against the Romans. Written by Judy Stevens and Clarry Evans, directed by Denny Lawrence. Why: Because...

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Top 10 Melbourne Culture On this week 09/02/2020

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...

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