Melbourne Comedy Festival 2014

Need a good belly laugh but don't know where to find one? Well you are in luck because the 28th Melbourne International Comedy Festival will literally take over Melbourne from the 26th March - 20th April. With an enormous program of stand-up comedy, cabaret, theatre, street performance, film, television, radio and visual arts, being performed at exciting and classy venues such as Town halls, bars, cabaret clubs, pubs, circus tents and theatres, it is no wonder that this festival is one of t...

Galaxy Now is an exhibition/Pop Up Happening at Fort Delta Gallery, 59 /113 Swanston street.
(Under Capitol Theater)
When: Thursday 13-Sunday 16 March,11am-6pm daily. The Galaxy Now project bringing to life the fashion/art crossover work of Sara Thorn and Bruce Slorach produced in Melbourne from 1983-1994. Their labels Sara Thorn, Abyss Studio, Galaxy emporium, Funkessentials were synonymous with fashion as culture, textile, print, pattern as a form of communication. Origina...

Saturday 22nd February 2014 | The city comes alive from dusk to dawn in a night celebration of music, theatre, dance, design, food, film, fashion, sport & art. After captivating audiences in 2013, the Helpmann Award winning White Night Melbourne will return in 2014. A major event created and presented by the State Government of Victoria, in its 2013 debut, White Night Melbourne attracted more than 300,000 people to the heart of Melbourne. From 7pm on Saturday 22 February 2014, Melbo...

Featuring:
Jon Stevens – Noiseworks / INXS
Dizzy Reed – Guns N’ Roses / Hookers & Blow
Richard Fortus – Guns N’ Roses / Psychedelic Furs
Marco Mendoza – Whitesnake / Thin Lizzy
David Lowy – Red Phoenix / Mink
John Tempestra – The Cult / Rob Zombie

Toorak Times has 5 tickets to giveaway to readers

The Dead Daisies – Sunday 16th February – Gershwin Room

Tickets will be given to the first 5 people to say 'Yes' on the Facebook...

WHAT: Punk Journey crowd funding project to raise $7500 by the 31st March to put on an all encompassing punk exhibition at BRIGHTSPACE gallery in St Kilda this November

WHERE: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/pu...rney/x/5896968

PUNK EXHIBITION To celebrate the history of the Melbourne Punk scene from 1977-1987 and highlight the importance of St Kilda as the epicentre of Melbourne's vibrant Punk subculture, Melynda von Wayward is holding an all-encompassing Punk ...

Saturday 1 February 2014 - A glass-free event The Yalukit Wilum Ngargee is the Wominjeka (Boon Wurrung language for welcome) festival opening the St Kilda Festival’s 9-day program. Held in St Kilda’s O’Donnell Gardens, a significant contemporary Indigenous meeting place, the YWN main festival day brings you a deadly program of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander music and arts. Now in its ninth year, this annual celebration of Indigenous culture features emerging and established Indigen...

WHETHER it's the beach, the 96 tram or Mr Moon enticing visitors to Luna Park, almost every part of St Kilda tells its own story.

Eight artists have portrayed their own experiences of living in St Kilda as part of the St Kilda Revisited exhibition at St Kilda Town Hall.

Artist and exhibition co-ordinator Elisabeth Rodda said the free exhibition explored the past, present and future of the well-known s...

The Brunswick Music Festival is returning in 2014 for its 26th year with a stellar lineup of eclectic local talent and international acts including: Blair Dunlop, David Bridie and Frank Yamma, FourPlay String Quartet, Jamie Macdowell and Tom Thum, La Sagra della Musica feat. Kavisha Mazzela,Santa Taranta, La Voce Della Luna, Love Over Gold, Mama Kin, Melbourne Rhythm Project, Melbourne Scottish Fiddle Club, Mikelangelo and The Big Mouth Choir, Miles and Simone, Peter Rowan Bluegrass Trio, Rory ...

For the 2013/2014 summer, outdoor cinemas have sprung up everywhere around Melbourne and provided the weather is good, makes a welcome change to watching a film.

Southgate Cinema runs every Tuesday and Wednesday night in the shopping centre next to the Yarra River, joining established screens in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Belgrave, atop the city’s Curtin House and at St Kilda’s Sea Baths. The free, semi-indoor cinema is in the atrium at Southgate and puts patrons in deckchai...

Welcome to the Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival, a celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander arts and culture from across the nation. From Wednesday 5 February – Sunday 16 February 2014, the festival presents a diverse range of art forms and experiences for all ages, like Indigenous theatre, music, literature, film, cabaret, dance and visual arts. Enjoy performances from a range of popular Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, like soprano and composer Deborah Cheetham at the...