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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.

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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)

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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. 

Red Spice Road

Red Spice Road

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Recently some of our We Know Melbourne team got to visit well known South East Asian restaurant Red Spice Road in McKillop Street. The first thing that strikes you about this place is that it is a large venue but cleverly divided into separate zones each with it’s own feel and style. The obvious starting point ti at the McKillop street bar where we enjoyed a nice glass of wine and probably the standout dish of the night being an amazing appetizer of spiced duck ball on a wafer of fresh, chilled watermelon. The duck was quite spicy but combined with the watermelon it was just right! We toured the other sections of the restaurant which included the appropriately named Long Room which is home to a couple of very long communal tables which are a signature feature of Red Spice Road to encourage the feeling of shared eating that the owners feel is central to the Asian dining experience. There’s also a courtyard, function rooms and the very stylish Lantern Room which featured some …

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.

Modern Love

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“You would think that a rock star being married to a super-model would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.”—David Bowie They say that when David Bowie first saw his supermodel wife, Iman Khan it was love at first sight. 23 years later and the couple seem to be going as strong as ever. But before Iman, David Bowie was as prolific in love as he was at amassing one of the world’s most epic catalogues of art. Check out the ‘knew that’s’ and ‘no-ways?’ of his love life: Angela Bowie: Before Iman, there was Angela Bowie, David Bowie’s first wife who he met when they were dating the same man. They divorced 10 years later. Susan Sarandon: Susan spilled the beans and that during the 80’s she had a “wild love affair” with David Bowie after co-starring with him in the 1983 Vampire Flick – The Hunger. Susan, we never knew! Mick Jagger: Acccording to Mick’s 2012 books, “Mick the wild life and mad genius of Mick Jagger, “ Mick and David had an ongoing …

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I’ll take my tea with cheese please!

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We’ve got to admit that when we think of cheese the first thing that we think of pairing it with is certainly not tea. However, as you know the We Know Melbourne team can’t stay away from cheese, it’s our Kryptonite and so one rainy Sunday afternoon we decided to try out the Porcelain Tea Parlour. The Porcelain Tea Parlour is located on Johnston St, Carlton, just a couple minutes walk from the Lygon main strip. It’s easy to miss if you’re not looking out for it, but we can smell a good cheese a mile away. Open till late every night, it’s the perfect spot for a night out (if you don’t want a boozy night). The interiors feel like you’ve entered someone’s cosy lounge room with a big chesterfield couch in the middle and a couple of tables filling the rest of the floor. Make sure to check out all the ceramic tea pots lined up on the wall, the variety is outstanding! The area doesn’t fit too many people in, which we …

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 …

Supersense Festival

Supersense – Festival of the Ecstatic

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For the first time ever, Supersense will take over the Arts Centre this August. Billed as a festival “exploring the ecstatic, extreme and sublime horizons of human experience, a hypersensory playground for the curious and bold.” The three day festival will cover contemporary dance, music, film, art, sound and everything in between. The festival, curated by performer Sophia Brous will see the likes of Ariel Pink, The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, HTRK plus many more take to the stage. Tickets for this contemporary, cutting-edge festival are available now with whole day or single show passes for headlining acts. Where: The Arts Centre Melbourne, 100 St Kilda Road, Melbourne When: Fri, 7 August – Sun, 9 August 2015. Find out more here.