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Little Big Shots

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ArtPlay and Little Big Shots present a selection of films for the little ones (taken from the International Film Festival for Kids in June 2015). Featuring the best in local and international children’s shorts and animations, the short films will inspire and get the kids giggling, thinking and cheering. This one-day festival is about kids, suitable for kids aged 2 to 7 years and (sometimes) by kids When: 8 November 2015. Where: ArtPlay Birrarung Marr, Batman Avenue. Visit the website here.

Escape Hunt Melbourne

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Grab your friends and go on a unique adventure with the Escape Hunt experience. You will voyage back 100 years in time and play the part of a famous London detective, Shylock Barnes (or Charlotte Barnes), solving challenging mysteries set in old Siam. Find your way out of the locked room through solving clues and puzzles before your time is up! There’s five different games rooms to choose from with three different adventures – abduction in the graveyard; secrets of the brewery; and the train bomb heist. Suitable for all ages, the experience is one of the most fun ways you can spend 90 minutes of your time with your friends or a partner. Visit the website here.

What's on in October

What’s on in October

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The days have finally started to get longer, the weather warmer and the our social diaries busier. We’ve wrapped up what you can’t miss this October. Melbourne Festival 8th October – 25th October 2015 Celebrating 30 years of arts and culture, the Melbourne Festival returns to our city from 8-25 October. With a program filled with  dance, theatre, music, circus, visual arts, multimedia, outdoor and free events there is something for everyone. Read more here.  Salami Festa 16th October – 18th October 2015 Arguably one of Melbourne’s most unique and delicious food festivals, the Salami Festa returns to Melbourne this October for it’s fourth year. Celebrating the art and tradition of salami making, the best of the best Melbourne salami makers will be competing to have their prized homemade salami judged by leading salami aficionados and punters. Read more here.  Meyers Place Latin Fiesta 11th October 2015 This October, Meyers Place will be transformed into a Latin American street party. The all-ages festival will be filled with the party vibes, showcasing Latin American’s finest food, …

Meyers Place Latin Fiesta

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This October, Meyers Place will be transformed into a Latin American street party. The all-ages festival will be filled with the party vibes, showcasing Latin American’s finest food, wine and culture from Meyers Place venues San Telmo, Lily Blacks, Mr Big Stuff, Loop and Loop Roof. And if that’s not enough to get the party started,  there’ll also be live music from Latin American bands  (curated by Mick Williams, PBS Latin connection segment presenter), Carpoeira, and dance lessons of salsa, merengue and samba. When: October 11, 2015 Where Meyers Place Visit the website here. 

AFL

AFL Grand Final Hawthorn vs West Coast

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Footy fans looking for something to do leading up to Saturday’s Hawthorn-West Coast Grand Final have a host of choices. Here’s a  quick look at what’s on offer, starting Wednesday afternoon. Foxtel Footy Festival The Foxtel Footy Festival, located in Yarra Park outside Gate 3 at the MCG, celebrates everything Melbourne has to offer including food, music, movies and of course football. The festival starts at 4pm Wednesday, September 30 and runs through to Grand Final Day, Saturday October 3. Toyota AFL Live Site The centrepiece of the Foxtel Footy Festival is the Live Site, featuring a number of activities, live broadcasts, player appearances and activities for kids. The Grand Final will be shown live on big screens throughout the Live Site on Saturday. Toyota AFL Grand Final Parade The Toyota AFL Grand Final Parade, proudly supported by the City of Melbourne, starts at noon, Friday, October 2. There’s a new route with the parade starting at the Old Treasury Building and finishing at Yarra Park. AFL Grand Final at Cocoon Join us for the …

Finders Keepers Market

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The Finders Keepers market returns to the Royal Exhibition Building this weekend, bringing together the best local and national craft makers and designers. Starting on Friday (yes, the public holiday) and running through until Sunday, the markets are the perfect spot to start your Christmas shopping early. On top of the usual stalls, there’ll also be live music, cafe, food trucks, a bar. Etsy lovers, this is the dream. When: 2-4th October 2015.  6-10pm on Friday, 10am-6pm on Saturday, and 10am-4pm on Saturday. Where: Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton Visit the website here.

Fringe Festival Review: A Star is Bored

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A Star is Bored was anything but boring. In fact, it had all the energy of a one-man mini Broadway show in loud flanno PJs with fabulous hair. Kicking off with a hilarious showreel, where Nick parodies everything from Broadway and primetime crime to teen horror movies, we were taken on his journey from the ill-matched mean streets of Reservoir through an all-consuming Foxtel addiction, his never-give-up-efforts to make it big in reality television (including a super-funny ‘Toddlers & Tiaras’ parody) to his final destination – when it all came together in a shower of glitter – set to Sesame Street. Nick Eynaud’s vocal range was incredible – his catchy but well written songs adapted to the tune of popular hits from the last few decades, my personal favourite.. set to Kate Bush’s Wuthering Heights was perfectly timed and came out of left field for maximum effect.  I simply can’t recommend this show enough, especially if you are a fan of pop culture and musical theatre, ironic references to the desperation and depravity of soul-selling reality television and the narcissistic belief …

MSO: Live in Concert

MSO: Back to the Future Live in Concert

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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Robert Zemeckis’ classic, time-travelling comedy, Marty McFly and ‘Doc’ Emmet Brown are coming to Plenary’s big screen! Take a trip back to 1985/1955 and relive the action alongside the MSO’s performance of Alan Silvestri’s dynamic score. These screenings include the Australian premiere of additional music written by the composer especially for the film’s 30th anniversary. Completists will also note that 2015 is the ‘future’ as experienced by Marty in Back to the Future: Part II. Visit the website here.

Gravity Floatation Centre

Our Gravity Float Experience

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Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to exist in a world without gravity? Last week, we got to experience the true feeling of weightlessness with the latest relaxation trend – floatation therapy, at the Gravity Float Centre. If you’re scratching your head, confused about exactly what is floatation therapy, then you’re in the same boat (no pun intended) as we were. Floatation therapy dates back to the 1950s when medical practitioner and neuropsychiatrist , John Lily wanted to test the effects of sensory deprivation. Since then floatation therapy has been used widely for stress, anxiety and muscle relaxation. Gravity Float Centre is located in Northcote (right opposite Welcome to Thornbury), and their centre is focused on providing the ultimate relaxation therapy. Their range of  organic skincare products, herbal teas and zen waiting room are the perfect complement to your therapy. After you have filled out the usual registration forms, you are led into your private Gravity Float room (there’s 6 of them in the centre) and a staff member runs you through what …

Melbourne Fringe Festival

Fringe Festival Review: The Sparrow Men

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The fun thing about improv is that you can go to the same show every night for a week, and quite literally never see the same thing twice. Having seen these two in action before at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, I was once again (as always) impressed by their quick wit, fast ability to throw themselves into character and to draw energy and direction from each other with the smallest of cues. As with most performances of this genre, the audience are asked to throw out their best and brightest one-word ideas for the theme of the night’s show. In this instance we were visibly taken from the sumptuous, marble-roofed home of two fussy retirees, one nosily and jealously spying through the venetian-blinded windows on the new wealthy neighbours as they were moving in, over to the neighbours themselves, past two would-be assassins Russian with a penchant for ham (by the gram) – and then right back around to the beginning, each set of characters somehow linked to one-another as part of the story – it all becoming …