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Meat Fish Wine

Are you game?

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This September, Meat Fish Wine are teaming up with Hopkins River Beef and Fowles Wine for a one night only event. Embark on a culinary journey exploring the differences between wild game and farmed meat through 6 delicious course tasting menu accompanied by matched wines. To top of the night, Meat Fish Wine Head Chef, Malcolm Wright and hunter gatherer Matt Fowles, from Fowles Wine will provide the entertainment, battling it out as they present the qualities of meat from the wild and the farm. When: 7pm,Thursday, September 6. Where: Meat Fish Wine, 31 Artemis Lane Cost: $125 pp. Find out more here. 

Glow Festival

Glow Winter Arts Festival

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Light Up After Dark with the return of Glow Winter Arts Festival. Melbourne’s inner south is warming up for a 10 day artistic feast with the return of the second annual Glow Winter Arts Festival from 13 to 23 August. Taking over the suburbs of Prahran, Malvern, Armadale, Toorak, Windsor and South Yarra, the festival will feature  everything from comedy clubs to cinema, theatre, roving performers and live music. Whether you’re young or old,  you won’t get bored with Glow Winter Arts Festival diverse and exciting program of 50 events. When: Thursday , August 13 – 23, 2015 Where: Southside Cost: Varies Find out more here. 

Electric Fields Festival

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Be transported to the bright lights of Hong Kong, Seoul and Bangkok in a celebration of Asian food and culture.  This weekend Electrics Fields, takes over Highpoint Shopping Centre with a three-day festival packed full of ‘Asian-city-inspired’ live music, entertainment, delicious food and game shows.  And if that wasn’t enough to inspire you the festival will also hold a K-POP (Korean Pop) EXTRAVAGANZA headlined by Australian pop star and winner of The X Factor Season Five, Dami Im at 11am on Friday 31 July. Other highlights include: The Whacky Japanese Super Fun Happy Game Time Show including Sumo Wrestling and Wasabi Roulette Street food carts hosted by Highpoint’s new retailers sampling delicacies and new flavours from their exciting menus When: Friday 31 July to Sunday 2 August 2015. Where: Highpoint Shopping Centre, Level One, 120-200 Rosamond Road, Maribyrnong Find out more here.

Sunset Yoga

Sunset Yoga with Lucienne Shanti

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Relax and enjoy a Vinyasa Yoga Class at The Swanston Hotel, Grand Mercure. Mats supplied. When: 6pm – 7pm: Thursday 13th August in our Alchemy Room. (Book by 7 August) Thursday 20th August in our ON15 Room. (Book by 14 August). Cost: Gold coin donation. RSVP: kerstyne@erdigroup.com.au, (bookings essential)

The Literary Collection Dinner with Robyn Annear

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MGallery Hotels with The Wheeler Centre presents The MGallery Literary Collection series. The Grand Hotel Melbourne invites you to the next in the series of delicious. literary evenings. with special guest, proclaimed Australian author, Robyn Annear. Robyn Annear was born in Melbourne in 1960. As a historian and author, she spends her time on her property in Castlemaine writing and researching. She is best known for her books Bearbrass: Imagining Early Melbourne and A City Lost and Found: Whelan the Wrecker’s Melbourne, Robyn Annear is also the author of an unpublishable novel set in the city in 1893. Champagne & canapés on arrival 4 Course dinner and wine $125 per person RSVP: Call 1300 361 455 or grandhotelmelbourne@accor.com Find out more here: http://bit.ly/1R0KWzh

Bowie is

Win a sleepover and two tickets to David Bowie Is!

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We are offering you the chance to win a David Bowie Experience! Stay overnight at our Swanston Hotel, Grand Mecure this September and enjoy two free passes to the David Bowie Is Exhibition at ACMI. All you need to do is enter below and tell us in 25 words or less your fave David Bowie song and why? THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED. Terms and conditions here.

Get baking with Katherine Sabbath

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Ever wanted to learn how to make an Upside Down Icecream Cake? This August, celebrity baker, Katherine Sabbath will show sweet enthusiasts how to make her signature Upside Down Ice Cream Cake at two marvellous cake demonstrations at The Tea Salon in the Emporium Melbourne. Get all her tips and secrets about her inventive baking techniques and what inspires her colourful cake creations. Where: The Tea Salon, Emporium Melbourne When: Friday, August 14th from 10am to 12pm and 6pm to 8pm Cost: $45 pp. Find out more here. 

Insomnia Project

The Insomnia Project

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Did you know that 1 in 3 Australians suffer mild to extreme insomnia? “After a sell-out premiere season in 2014, The Insomnia Project aims to expose the harsh, and at times hilarious truths about suffering from this disorder using lyrical jazz-inspired songs with a textural merging of light, shade, spoken word, motion and viscerally poignant music. Follow four individuals battling one sleepless night, which leads them through a separate yet shared journey of fantasy, fear, loneliness and maddening exhaustion.” Where: La Mama Courthouse When: 29 July – 9 August Tickets $25. Win one of three double passes to The Insomnia Project. See our Facebook page for details.

Fashion Week

MSFW: Shop the City

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Ever wanted to shop the Vogue Fashion Night Out in real life? This August, This August  Melbourne Spring Fashion Week is partnering with Vogue Australia to bring Vogue Fashion’s Night Out (VFNO) to Melbourne. VFNO’s debut at MSFW: Shop the City is the iconic, international shopping event’s first time in Melbourne, and marks its first stop in a circuit of 27 cities and 19 countries around the world. Get your credit cards ready and see the latest spring/summer collections at Emporium Melbourne, Melbourne Central, QV Melbourne, The Strand Melbourne, Melbourne’s GPO, Bourke Street Mall, Collins Street, St Collins Lane, and Flinders Lane. When: August 28th 2015 Where: Melbourne CBD

David Bowie

David Bowie is coming to Melbourne

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David Bowie is coming to Melbourne. Well, not quite, but the Winter Master Pieces: David Bowie is is. Presented by ACMI, this major exhibition will  feature more than 300 items from Bowie’s personal archives. Seen by over 1 million people worldwide at sell-out shows in London, Chicago, Sao Paolo, Paris, and Berlin, this fantastic exhibition direct from the Victoria & Albert is one not to be missed. To celebrate the  launch of David Bowie Is, we’ve found 9 fun facts you probably never knew about Bowie: 1)David Bowie claims he had a ‘horrible’ incident with a cup of tea when he was 5 and refuses to drink it to this day. 2) David Bowie’s right pupil is permanently dilated – a result of his friend George Underwood punching him in the eye while the pair were still at school, in a fight over a girl 3) In 2004, Bowie was struck in the eye by a lollipop hurled from the crowd. It became lodged there, before being removed by a member of his road crew 4) Bowie lived at …