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Melbourne Design Market

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Join 50 designers and thousands of design-lovers at the June Market in 2016. The Melbourne Design Market is the occasion to launch new products, to meet the designers who created these products and to come together in one place buy and sell, share and learn, build relationships and careers, all within an informal, fun, market setting.

Taking place in the atmospheric carpark of Melbourne’s Federation Square, the market will be filled with hundreds of great designs from furniture, fashion, jewellery and homewares, together with fine coffee, food, music and a capacity crowd of design devotees.

When: 10am – 5pm, Sunday June 19

Where: Federation Square

Visit the Melbourne Design Market website. 

Ice Skating at Fed Square

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Get your skates on – Melbourne’s only outdoor ice rink is back for another year this June.

Whether you’re young or young at heart the rink is the perfect place to take in the views while skating the ice. With a dramatic backdrop of the city and Yarra river, the River Rink will transform you into a fairyland of light and colour.

This year there will also be different themes on select evenings plus live music, as well as food and drinks to give you the energy to whiz around the rink a few extra times.

When: Saturday 18 June – Sunday 17 July, 10am – 10pm (45 minute sessions beginning on the hour every hour)

Where: River Terrace, Fed Square

Visit the website here.

Tromba Tequila Dinner at Red Spice Road

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If your only memory of tequila is slamming it down with salt and lime, this July your thoughts about tequila are set to change. On July 24th, Red Spice Road are teaming up with Tequila Tromba  to bring you a Tequila Tromba Dinner. Sip on a delicious range of Tromba Tequilas cocktails perfectly married to the fresh south-east asian flavours cooked up by Head Chef Dylan McCormack.

When: Thursday, July 21.

Where: Red Spice Road.

Visit the website here.

Melbourne International Jazz Festival

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The Melbourne International Jazz Festival is an annual world-class jazz festival. This year’s festival will feature more than 100 unique jazz performances by local and international artists in concert halls, arts venues and jazz clubs as the city comes alive with the spirit of jazz. It’s diverse program includes modern masters of jazz, late-night art parties, free events and Australian and international acts. So whether you’re a jazz aficionado or a jazz newbie, the program has something for everyone.

When: Until June 12

Where: Various venues across Melbourne.

Visit the Melbourne International Jazz Festival website.

A Taste of Portugal

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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. 

You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown

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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.

World Gin Day

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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 the still! Distiller Sebastian will be leading a guided tour of the distillery taking you on an informative journey on the production of gin and what makes their gin unique. There’ll also be gins matched to  cheese and charcuterie.

When: Saturday, 11 June

Where: Various venues across Melbourne

 

 

The Fashion Shuttle

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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 get on sit back and relax.

When:

Fed Square > Chadstone 9am, 10:30am, 11:30am, 12:30pm, 1:30pm 2:30pm & 3:30pm

Chadstone > Fed Square 11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, 4:30pm & 6pm* (*nb 6pm does not run on Sundays)

Where: Corner Finders & Russell St.

Visit the Chadstone website here.

Review: Flesh Eating Tiger

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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. 

The passion and rawness at times was so intense it crawled under the skin and made us uncomfortable, no doubt touching a nerve with everyone in the audience, but also keeping the audience enthralled the entire time. 

At the time, I loved it, hated it, I couldn’t decide, but also couldn’t sit on the fence. A powerful performance and touching tale which gets even better in hindsight.

When: 8pm (4pm Saturday) until 4 June

Where: The Owl & The Cat Theatre – 34 Swan Street Cremorne

Visit the website here.

Good Food & Wine Show

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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.