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Salami Festa: Celebrate your love of the cured meat

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Salami like your Nonna makes it! 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. With the heat on for salami makers (last year a non-Italian took out the grand prize), we expect the standards this year to be notched up to the next level.  Festa patron Guy Grossi, will be leading the judging panel along with chefs Dom Marzano, Rosa Mitchell (Rosa’s Kitchen), Massimo Scalas (Salumi Australia) Pina Busa (Home Make It) and special guest nonna Rocchina Catoggio. This Festa isn’t just for the Salami makers, but also for lovers of the delicious cured meat. There’ll be a pop-up salami shed hosting salami making demonstrations by Home Make It, a range of workshops, live music, two bocce courts, and stellar Italian food from Saluministi, Ladro and D.O.C – plus …

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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.

Oktoberfest

Oktoberfest in the Gardens

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Oktoberfest in the Gardens returns to Melbourne for it’s fifth year. Embrace the largest Australian Oktoberfest celebrations and taste your way across Europe with a large selection of imported German beer, cider, wine and a range of other beverages. The Festival will take over Birrarung Marr with a a massive beer hall, authentic German food stalls, roving performers, a silent disco plus, beer and more beer. So even though you might not be in Germany celebrating the traditional Oktoberfest, it’s the perfect  way to take part in the Bavarian Festival from afar. We’ll ‘prost’ to that! Our German friends have come to the party for We Know Melbourne readers. While the event is sold out Saturday, use the code FRIDAY BEER will get you discounted tickets to the Friday event! When: Friday, 23 October + Saturday, 24 October Where: Birrarung Marr Visit the website here.  Terms and conditions here. 

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.

Stonybrook Food Truck Fest

Stonybrook Food Truck Fest

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This weekend, some of Melbourne’s most popular food trucks will be leaving their usual inner city truck stops and heading Hillside for a special once-only street food opportunity, Food Truck Feast. Iconic Melbourne food trucks including Happy Camper Pizzas, Mr Burger, Dos Diablos and Jakob’s Kitchen will be joining in on the  party at the new Stonybrook estate in Hillside. For those with a sweet tooth, there will also be ice creams and gelati from Bianco Latte, or try the famous strawberry and chocolate crepes from Rue De Creperie. With sunny days forecast for the weekend, this is the perfect opportunity to escape the city! Visit the website here.

Melbourne Magic Show

Impossible Occurrences

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Our new We Know Melbourne Hit Pick!! A fantastic “old school” magic/illusion/mind reading show held every Friday night less than 5 minutes walk from The Swanston Hotel! An intimate performance in a tastefully, small room with a maximum of 60 participants lets you get “up close and personal” with master magician Luke Hockin . The overall vibe is like a turn of the century parlour show with lots of laughs and surprises! Book a dinner & show package or just simply stay for the show. Ask our friendly  Swanston Hotel Concierge team for more information. 5 stars! When: Friday nights – 2 shows: 7:30pm & 9:30pm Where: The Marriott Hotel Visit the website here.  

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 …

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Fringe Festival Review: Torte e Mort: Songs of Cake and Death

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The biggest challenge one faces when they go and see a cracking Fringe Festival performance, is how do you talk about the show without actually giving away the best bits? It’s a bit like Fight Club – the number one rule is; you don’t talk about it… Channeling a gorgeous Marie Antoinette, Anya Anastasia, backed by Bec Matthews (aka ‘The Executioner’) on drums, kazoo, saw and more, delivered clever and catchy songs that took us at a rapid and humorous pace through the life, death and hereafter of the infamous French queen – from her hedonistic ‘let them eat cake’ beginnings through to her untimely end and beyond. The performance was rounded out with visits from prominent afterlife figures positioned throughout the show to add deeper, life lessons to the show which were packed with satire, wise-cracking puns and glow-in-the-dark paint. I actually was sort of sad when the show came to an end. If you are a fan of perfectly placed puns, don’t mind a little bit of intellectual humor balanced with gorgeous costumes, …

Channels Australian Video Art Festival

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Channels Australian Video Art Festival,  Australia’s only biennial celebration of video art and culture kicks off with a bang this Thursday.  The 10-day curated festival will feature 60 artists in 21 events and will present the very best contemporary video practice from across the globe in Melbourne and in the digital sphere.  International festival guest Sam Smith’s new exhibition Slow Fragmentation will mark the launch of the event and the evening will screen  a selection of twelve video works from artist-run-initiatives in Australia and New Zealand at Screen Space. Other highlights include: Saturday 19th September, 4-6pm – opening event with drinks at Incu and Zambes. Selected by Project QUAD, seven video works are presented in non-traditional exhibition spaces including shopfronts, restaurants and hotels along one of Melbourne’s busiest laneways. Flinders Lane, CBD. Saturday 19th September, 10am – 5pm –  In the Epoch of the Near and Far opening. In the Epoch of the Near and Far features work by Petra Cortright (USA), Heath Franco (AUS), Marian Tubbs (AUS), Emile Zile (AUS/NL), Keith Deverell (UK/AUS) and Aaron …