Teach Your Children Well at the Biennale of Sydney

More strikingly than ever there's a collective burning desire to nix partisan pettiness in favour of a united front. Perhaps because we're, as a species, facing a pandemic that kills almost indiscriminately. The only group of people who seem largely unaffected are children. Arguably some of...

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Top 10 Melbourne Culture On this week 08/03/2020

Exotic constipation, by design.   10) Derek Gripper (Live) 10th March What: Derek Gripper is a classical guitarist who has taken a unique path. As a South African classical musician he felt limited by the music of the traditional classical guitar and so went on a journey through different musical styles,...

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Top 10 Sydney Culture On this week 08/03/2020

Accept your fate.   10) AI and the Bias of Machines: Robert Elliott Smith 9th March What: How do we stop the internet making bigots of us all? We live in a world increasingly ruled by technology, finding comfort in the idea that this technology is free of prejudice; only its...

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Top 10 things On in Brisbane this week 01/03/2020

War's upon us.   10) Making Meaning: Collections as Data 6th March What: Making Meaning: Collections as Data is a one-day symposium featuring influential and challenging speakers from the research, government, digital humanities and GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) sectors. Making Meaning aims to raise awareness of the potential of...

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Top 10 Melbourne Culture On this week 01/03/2020

Steam your silk and coiff your quiff, Russell Brand's coming to town.   10) International Women's Day 2020: How She Got There Panel Discussion 5th March What: Celebrate International Women's Day with women leaders and entrepreneurs and learn their story of how they got where they are today. This event is...

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Top 10 Sydney Culture On this week 01/03/2020

Everyone's a madman these days.   10) Taboo Talk (March) 4th March What: Should migrants and refugees be expected to integrate into mainstream Australian culture? Taboo Talk is a real-life platform for people to engage in conversation around difficult and sensitive topics of concern. The idea is to create a ‘brave’...

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Top 10 Melbourne Culture On this week 23/02/2020

The gases you'll be consuming this week are real classy.   10) Teddy Bears' Picnic 23rd February What: Prepare for a fun-filled day of marvellous market stalls, food trucks, roving entertainment, performances, and a vintage carnival. And don’t forget to enter the famous Teddy Bear Parade. You’re sure of a big...

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Top 10 Sydney Culture On this week 23/02/2020

The peak of this week is brought to you by Netflix.   10) Liverpool Language Festival  29th February What: Get an in-depth insight into the great linguistic diversity of the languages in existence. By the end of this event, you'll not only have gained a greater insight into the languages on...

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Laugh (No One’s Watching) at the Brisbane Comedy Festival

Pessimism seems to be the default emotional and intellectual position of humans in 2020. This isn't without reason. War, famine, torture, slavery, over-consumption, environmental catastrophe and indoctrination of children are all as present as they ever were, but now we have to read about it and...

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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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