Geelong Arts Centre launch must-see 2022 season filled with theatre, cabaret, dance, circus and music

After two incredibly topsy turvy years for the arts and entertainment industry, the Geelong Arts Centre is presenting a 2022…

Geelong Arts Centre to be transformed into Australia’s largest and most striking regional arts centre under $140M makeover

With a rising cafe and bar culture, the stunning waterfront and urban precinct, historic seaside villages and breathtaking natural beauty,…

A new thrift store has opened in Torquay selling vintage treasures, surfboards and surf wear

Much like no one does burgers like Boss and ice cream like Messina, no one does vintage quite like The…

Lou Wall uses comedy as a “unifier” and joins the Illuminati in upcoming Geelong Arts Centre x Melbourne Fringe Takeover

Multi-award winning comedian Lou Wall “pretty much spent the last six months of lockdown trolling the Illuminati… trying to join…

Australia’s largest and longest-running regional LGBTQI+ festival returns to Daylesford in 2022

Following last year’s slightly reimagined event, ChillOut Festival has announced its glistening program for 2022, celebrating its 25th year and…

Twisted Beaches Apparel allows you to showcase your favourite local surf spot with pride

Melbournian brothers Darcy and Alastair describe themselves to have a strong passion for surfing the Victorian coastline, which ultimately inspired…

Geelong to get first dedicated youth mental health facility

In a major boost for mental health services designed to support young people – particularly those across regional Victoria –…

Discover the best photographic art with these must-see exhibitions at the Ballarat International Foto Biennale

Ballarat, like all of Victoria’s regional cities, never fails to surprise with the depth and wonder of its artistic offerings….

Melbourne Fringe Focus: Taiwan explores subculture, tradition, hope and fear

When many Australians think of Taiwan, they think of…well…China. Yet for decades, Taiwan has been home to one of the…

Geelong’s newest online florist Flowerkind understands that it’s the gesture that counts

Nothing brightens a room up (or one’s mood) like a fresh bouquet. As a dining table centrepiece, on your dresser…

Platform Arts LAB 2022 need you to be their next resident artist

Applications are almost about to close for Platform LAB 2022. Platform Arts have created a wonderful safe space for creatives…

Emily Rastas FEEL/HEAL exhibition will truly transcend you to another realm

After a severe back injury left Emily Rastas bed and couch bound in 2018, she has established a firm understanding…

A new Gallery and Cocktail Bar is popping up at a grand hotel on the Bellarine this summer

When it comes to summer on the Bellarine, there’s not much better than lapping up the sunshine and indulging in…

Up your decorative candle game with these adorable (and vegan!) soy candles made locally

There is nothing quite like entering a house to the smell of waxy vanilla and caramel burning in the air….

Ballarat International Foto Biennale is transforming every corner of Ballarat with photographic art

One of Australia’s most significant arts festivals, the Ballarat International Foto Biennale (BIFB), has returned to Victoria’s biggest goldfields towns…

Higher Order has all your senses catered for in a new art-inspired dining experience

The culinary genius Scott Pickett, of Chancery Lane, Longrain, and Matilda, is bringing his creative brain over to Southbank at…

Vance Joy is returning home for a tour that celebrates everything Aus music

Performing at outdoor venues, Vance Joy will be bringing the joy back into live music in Australia in his biggest…

A nostalgia-fuelled Cruel Intentions musical is coming to Melbourne for those in search of guilty pleasures

Based on the 1999 cult classic film of the same name, Cruel Intentions: The ‘90s Musical is heading to Australia…

‘What We Miss’ will leave you feeling a new sense of vibrancy to the days that seem to have once been lost

The multi-disciplinary artist from Melbourne, Christopher Jewitt, is bringing voltaic saturations of colour to Geelong’s Boom Gallery. ‘What We Miss’…

Archie 100: A Century of the Archibald Prize arrives at Geelong Gallery this week

Australia’s most prestigious art prize, the Archibald Prize, is hitting a major milestone with its 100th anniversary this year. High…

ACMI is extending its ‘Disney: The Magic of Animation’ exhibition until January next year

Disney: The Magic of Animation will now run until 23 January 2022 with a summer program to kick off with special…

Melbourne Fringe is coming to Geelong with an ever-adventurous program you can’t miss

Each year Melbourne Fringe Festival descends upon Victoria’s capital city with an ambitious and ground-breaking program full of weird, wonderful,…

Feel like royalty and ride in style with Geelong Hummer Limousines

“The future is female” according to Geelong Hummer Limousines owner Zee Blagojevic and we have no doubt after seeing the…

‘Writing in the Sand’ tells the epic story of legendary band Yothu Yindi and ‘Treaty’, the song that gave voice to a movement

Long before they were ARIA Hall of Fame inductees, Yothu Yindi were a bunch of Yolŋu (Aboriginal people of East…

 

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