Coinciding with the Portugese National Day, A Taste of Portugal celebrates Portugese culture with a showcase of Portugese cuisine, music, dance, history, language and tourism. Savour a Portugese custard tart, purchase colourful ceramics, jewellery or handbags, dance to Brazillian rhythms, listen to traditional Fado singers and learn about the tourism spots of Portugal. When: June 12 Where: Queen Vic Markets Visit the website here.
Smash hit Broadway musical You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown comes to Melbourne in June 2016 with a fun, fresh approach to an ageless story about a boy and his best beagle friend. Join Snoopy and the gang as they navigate their way through a day full of book reports, baseball games, kite flying, unrequited love, friendship, misunderstandings and a little philosophy. Nominated for four Tony awards, this revised production of You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown is an affordable musical comedy for the whole family, and it opens at one of Melbourne’s newest theatres, the Alex in St Kilda. “You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown has been a smash hit on Broadway and Peanuts is everyone’s favourite. If you loved the movie come and see the show!” – Alex Vass When: June 21 to July 2 Where: Alex Theatre, Theatre 1, 135 Fitzroy St, St Kilda.
Gin lovers of the world rejoice as World Gin Day returns for its EIGHTH year on Saturday 11 June 2016! Tomorrow, people from all around the world will be raising their glass with a legitimate excuse (not that we need one) to drink some gin, whether it’s in a cocktail, G&T or neat (yes, you can drink gin neat!). Looking for a place to enjoy some gin? Here are some venues across Melbourne celebrating the almighty gin: Gin Palace: 10 Russell Place, Melbourne Martini massages, bathtub gin, Gin dessert table, buy one get one free G&T’s Martinis and Negronis till late Four Pillars Gin Four Pillars Gin will be celebrating with celebrating gin all weekend long with three days of distilling sessions, maker’s classes, free tastings plus so much more. New Gold Mountain A flight of three mini martini’s (60ml) will take you through the history of the martini ~Martinez, South Side & Classic using Ransom Old Tom, Ransom Dry & East London Liquor Company Gins. Craft & Co Be the first to taste their own gin straight from …
One main contributor to Melbourne’s claim to be the ‘Fashion Capital of Australia’ is the famous Chadstone Shopping Centre – The Fashion Capital. With 3 floors of up to 530 shops, spanning over an area 171, 217 meters squared, Chadstone holds the title of being Australia’s largest shopping complex, boasting all the luxury brands such as Prada and Tiffany & Co, major department store icons Myer and David Jones, boutique specialist Ted Baker and Sass & Bide and featuring a Hoyts Cinema of entertainment. However, one of the problems with Chadstone is getting there if you don’t have your own car, as the public transport route is not the easiest journey to take, especially for some visitors new to Melbourne. Enter The Fashion Shuttle, a direct and free coach service running back and forth from the city (Federation Square) to Chadstone Shopping Centre throughout the day. This is by far the most comforting and stress free option, no need to worry about topping up the Myki card or getting on the wrong bus, just …
Whilst pitched as a comedy slash drama, Amy Tofte’s Flesh Eating Tiger is a play not for the faint-hearted. A cautious word to the wise, it is not a ‘fun’ performance, it has heavy content, it’s real, rough, raw…. black, beautiful. It’s a love story, but not in a traditional sense. You will laugh, you will probably cry and without a doubt you will at times feel uncomfortable. Going in with a pre-description of ‘man addicted to alcohol, woman addicted to man, it’s not possible to not feel anything at the end of this 70-minute piece in the super-intimate Owl & Cat Theatre. Flesh Eating Tiger is a unique concept, blurring the lines between reality and storytelling, it’s actually a performance within a monologue within a play. The beautiful cast of two unnamed characters portrayed by Amy Gubana and Marcus Molyneux take us through the rocky ups and downs of what starts as a forbidden crush and move very quickly through the fiery, tumultuous relationship of a married woman and an ex-alcoholic struggling with sobriety. …
Celebrate the best in food and beverage that Australia has to offer at Good Food & Wine Show. With hundreds of local and international exhibitors, your new favourite food and drinks are only a sample away. Whether you’re into sweet or savoury, beer or wine, there’s something for everyone. Enjoy a cooking show from high-profile chefs such as Colin Fassnidge, Matt Moran, Alastair McLeond plus more or see local and interstate chefs and restaurateurs cook three-course meals and provide hints and tips to recreate at home. There’ll be over 200 local and international exhibitors including 400 Gradi, Della Rosa Fresh Foods, Hawkers Beer, Maggie Beer and Melbourne Martini. When: 3- 5 June 2016 Where: Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre Visit the Good Food & Wine Show website.
If you ask any Melbourne cinephile what their favourite months of the year are, it will no doubt be the months of July & August. The reason? The Melbourne International Film Festival, of course. Held over two and a half weeks and attracting over 200 000 visitors each year, MIFF showcases the best of the best cinema from Australia and around the world. We took a moment to chat to Artistic Director, Michelle Carey ahead of the festival to find out more about what goes into making the festival so unique and pulling together such a giant program for it. Can you tell us a little more about how you became MIFF Artistic Director and what your favourite part of being the artistic director is? It wasn’t a very straightforward path, I have experience in my 20’s in music, working in radio on bands and events and that kind of thing, and then on a trip to Europe in my late 20’s discovered film was my passion and so I just started volunteering. I worked …
Healesville Sanctuary is teaming up with Yarra Valley icons to bring you a gourmet experience with a wild difference! Now in it’s 5th year, Wine and Wildlife will bring the finest wines from De Bortoli and Punt Road (to name a few), craft beer and cider from Napoleone, delicious chocolate from Kennedy and Wilson, gourmet cheese tastings and more to the sanctuary. Graze your way through the four pavilions showcasing an exciting line-up of local wineries and breweries, along with a hearty winter menu by Sanctuary Harvest Head Chef Pascal. All the winter favourites will be on offer including slow cooked beef with winter root veggies, to pulled lamb rolls with mint jelly, to red lentil and pumpkin soup with crusty bread. There’ll be roaring open fires plus live acoustic music set against the backdrop of the Sanctuary’s stunning bushland setting. Keepers will also be roaming the grounds with some of our furry, feathered and scaly friends for serendipitous wildlife encounters! Just a one hour drive from Melbourne CBD through Victoria’s beautiful wine country, it’s the …
Set your taste-buds on fire at The Melbourne Chilli Festival on Saturday 4 June and help raise funds for the Prahran Mission. Think you can handle the spice? Take part in the chilli eating competition with 5 competitions held with 5 contestants each. The winner will be determined by the fastest time out of all the winners in total. Contestants must eat 12 x chicken wings marinated in the world’s hottest chilli extract, in 5 minutes or less. The chilli extract has a scoville reading (unit for measurement of heat) of 9.1 million. To put that into perspective a fresh jalapeno has a scoville reading of just 2,000. The hottest Melbourne food trucks will be also there on the night including Dos Diablos, Billy Van Creamy, Soul Kitchen Pizza , Little Mushroom Co and Hobba . All trucks will have a chilli element in addition to their existing menu. Entry by gold coin donation When: Saturday 4 June Where: 424 Malvern Road, Prahran Visit the Melbourne Chilli Festival website.
Sydney Dance Company’s CounterMove is an exhilarating double bill that will intrigue, move and entertain you. Featuring a laugh-out–loud funny piece, Cacti, by Swedish Choreographer Alexander Ekman and Rafael Bonachela’s deeply moving world premiere, Lux Tenebris. Receiving rapturous reviews from around the world, Cacti is a brilliantly conceived, laugh-out-loud funny piece that dares to poke fun at contemporary dance. While Rafael Bonachela’s world premiere, Lux Tenebris explores light and darkness with fiercely physical movement and deep, electronic beats by composer Nick Wales (long-term collaborator of Sarah Blasko). Don’t miss CounterMove in it’s limited Melbourne season. We Know Melbourne exclusive: Quote SDCHOTEL online to receive $10 off tickets throughout the season. When: 25 May – 4 June Where: Southbank Theatre, Melbourne. Visit the CounterMove website.
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