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Open House Melbourne

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Explore our city at Open House Melbourne! Ever wanted to know what the view is like from the top of the spire of Melbourne Central or what happens behind closed doors at Arts Centre Melbourne? For one weekend of the year, you can find out all this and more as you explore the city’s most historic and significant buildings, religious structures and architectural monuments. Open House Melbourne is  a free event where over 100 buildings dotted around Melbourne opens their doors for people to explore good design and architecture. The weekend also offers a range of free events, tours, workshops and exhibitions that illustrate our rich history, reflect how we live and work, and offer insights into our future city. Our top picks for 2016 include: 5×4 Hayes Lane Project | A unique, inner-city dwelling of size five by four meters! I The build is designed for sustainable living and is built and powered with both passive and active eco-driven processes, materials and performance considerations. Doll House | Explore highly sustainable living in this residential building made up of …

Celebrate Pop Culture at Supernova

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Get your inner geek on and rub shoulders with your favourite Supa-Star celebrities and the creative talent that inspire their imaginary worlds under one big roof at the Supernova Pop Culture Expo this April. Described as Comic-con, the Australian way the festival is for all ages, young or old and will celebrate all things pop culture. Gathered from and surrounded by the wonderful worlds of comic books, animation/cartoons, science-fiction, pulp TV/movies, toys, console gaming, trading cards, fantasy, entertainment technology, books, internet sites and fan-clubs, the result is an amazing atmosphere for all fans of comic books, animation/cartoons and science-fiction. When: Sat 16 April 2016 – Sun 17 April 2016 Where: Melbourne Showgrounds Visit the website here. 

Sustainable Living Festival

Sustainable Living Festival

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The Sustainable Living Festival returns to Melbourne this February and seeks to inspire and empower everyday Australians to accelerate their uptake of sustainable living. This year’s theme  is ‘Embrace It’, where everyone is encouraged to embrace the winds of change. Many of the Festival events have been developed by and are being held within local communities ranging from city and metropolitan locations to regional cities and rural towns. The Big Weekend is the flagship three-day event held at Federation Square, Melbourne on 12-14 February 2016. Some major highlights include: The Green Market –  showcasing over 100 exhibitors offering sustainable home and lifestyle solutions, garden advice and gear, fair trade products, and local organic food. Visitors are encouraged to explore the Festival’s rich and diverse program of forums and workshops, exhibitions, films and performance, markets and tours to make their world come alive! So come along and check out what’s on offer at the Sustainable Living Festival. The Great Local Lunch – On banks of the Yarra River, in the heart of Melbourne, over 200 farmers, backyard …

Fat Tuesday

New Orleans Carnival

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Po’ Boy Quarter joins forces with Ding Dong Lounge to present Fat Tuesday New Orleans Festival Melbourne on Tuesday, 9 Feb at Piazza Italia, Argyle Street in Carlton. New Orleans is known for it’s party vibe, delicious food, jazz music and of course a swinging good time, and this festival promises all that. The evening will showcase a rich smorgasboard of Southern food with Po’ Boy Quarter, Girl with the Gris Gris, Bluebonnet BBQ & Taco Truck cooking up all the traditional dishes including Louisiana Gumbo, Po’ Boys, Texas BBQ, Tacos and more. To get you dancing and swinging your hips, music will come from Adam Rudegeair’s Bayou Tapestry with Henry Manetta, Jazz Party, Horns Of Leroy, The Always for Pleasure Allstars with Kerri Simpson and The Gumbo Blues Band with Chris Wilson, Steve Lucas, Jerome Smith, Matt Dwyer and Ash Davies & Skyscraper Stan and The Commission Flats. To top it all off, there’ll also be a fortune teller’s booth and a costume competition that will culminate with the crowning of Melbourne’s very first King and Queen of Mardi Gras! Book your …

Celebrate the Chinese New Year

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Chinese New Year is just around the corner and if you want to celebrate the arrival of the Year of the Monkey we recommend these following celebrations during the Melbourne’s Chinese New Year Festival. Chinese New Year Festival Opening Ceremony – Federation Square Welcome the Year of the Monkey with a spectacular Chinese New Year celebration held across two days at Fed Square! This Saturday marks the official opening ceremony and celebrations will start at 10am, including Chinese lion dance, drumming, beautiful light displays, children’s performances, live music and a variety of stallholders serving up your favourite Chinese dishes. Chinatown – Saturday 6th Feb – Sunday 14 Feb The 2-week program of events will be unveiled and celebrations will commence on the weekend, right here, right in the heart of Melbourne Chinatown, an integral part of the City of Melbourne since the goldrush days of the 1850s. During the day, roving musicians, artists and performers will take to the streets of Chinatown. Traditional figures in Chinese mythology, Chinese traditional musicians and artists will enthral passers-by. Other activities …

Dominoes

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Experience the thrill of thousands of breezeblock ‘dominoes’ falling one by one to create a moving sculpture, running through the city and unfolding over the course of a day. Along paths and promenades, through buildings and across plazas, the domino line will work it’s way through Melbourne. There’ll be over  7000 giant dominoes forming a 2km chain threading its way through historic and everyday parts of Melbourne. When: Saturday Feb 6 from 1pm. The Domino Fall will start from 5pm Where: Download the map here. 

Victorian Pride March – 2016

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Representing The Swanston Hotel, Grand Mercure and Mercure Welcome Melbourne under the Accor Hotels banner – we participated in the Victorian Pride March, 2016 last Sunday. The theme this year – Marriage Equality. A small, but dedicated group of cool individuals – it was actually our first time marching as a team, but armed with enough rainbow flags to kit out a small army and some jumbo bubble wands, we rocked out to the sounds beats of JOY FM, and were even lucky enough to be marching behind My Pet Warehouse who brought along some gorgeous puppies (including a super-cool, giant Great Dane). And let’s be honest, puppies trump EVERYTHING! Accor Hotels are committed to celebrating Diversity in all shapes and forms and have recently submitted an open letter to publicly pledge support for Marriage Equality. As a company, Accor supports diversity and recognises the rights of it’s LGBTU employees to live and work, free of prejudice and discrimination.

Moonlight Cinemas Summer Shows

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Australia’s favourite outdoor cinema, Moonlight Cinema have just released their tickets for the month of February and mong the line-up are three of this year’s standout biopics: Steve Jobs, Trumbo and Joy; as well as three advanced screenings of inspiring films based on real-life events: The Finest Hours, Concussion and The Lady In The Van. There’ll also be  advanced screenings of Hollywood’s biggest films Hail, Caesar! and Zoolander 2; alongside cult classics Clueless and The Rocky Horror Picture Show and all the latest blockbusters including  The Hateful Eight from Quentin Tarantino; Joy starring Jennifer Lawrence and The Revenant for Leonardo DiCaprio’s Oscar contending performance. For all the romantics, cult classic Breakfast at Tiffany’s will be returning on Valentine’s Day presented by Lindeman’s, who are providing everyone with  a free glass of sparkling on arrival. And if that’s not enough to get you booking, there’ll also be advanced Moonlight Cinema screenings including Michael Fassbender’s not to be missed performance as Apple co-founder Steve Jobs and Breaking Bad’s Bryan Cranston in a whole new light as Dalton Trumbo, in Trumbo.  When: Through to March 27, 2016 Where: Royal …

Modern Vietnamese breakfast with a twist at TBC

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Looking for a decent breakfast in the city is like looking for a needle in a haystack. While there are so many cafes that do serve up a breakfast menu, there are few and far between that do anything that little bit different from your standard bacon and eggs/avocado on toast combo. The Brass Coq (TBC) are hoping to change that all with the recent launch of their breakfast menu. You may remember our review of our dinner menu last year when the We Know Melbourne team were invited along to try the dinner – remember that VFC (Vietnamese Fried Chicken)?! Located in the ‘legal precinct’  this little spot is now open from  7am in the morning until 11pm.  The breakfast menu is filled with popular Vietnamese breakfast dishes with Asian and French influences (yes there’s even rare beef pho on the breakfast menu!) and is one of the CBD’s first modern Vietnamese breakfast. We dined on 3 different dishes. First on the list was the TBC’s Scrambled eggs, where the scrambled eggs were given …

Your guide to Australia Day

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Everybody loves a good party and this Australia Day there’s plenty of celebrations around town to  commemorate the first fleet of European ships that set foot in Australia and of course all things great about Australia. So whether you’ve got the day off (or for the lucky ones, the whole weekend), here’s your ripper guide on what to do this Australia Day. Australia Day Parade One of Melbourne’s favourite Australia Day activities, the vibrant Australia Day Parade sees thousands of people line Swanston Street each year. A family friendly event, the parade will see more than 100 community and cultural groups come together for this spectacular annual event. The Food Truck Festival The Docklands will come alive for Australia Day  events, activities, fun, food and fireworks throughout the afternoon and into the evening. 17 of  Melbourne’s favourite food trucks, (includingStreet Feast, C’est Chick, Nem n Nem, White Guy Cooks Thai, Real Burgers, Chilli Express, Kurbside Cravings and many more) will be coming to the party cooking up  everything from crepes and cakes through to burgers, bangers and Thai. …