The Storytime program is for children aged 3-5 years, their parents and carers.

*No knowledge of the TV series Friends is required to enjoy this show. For those devotees, this is the one that you didn’t see coming…

Have You Tried Yoga is a window into the invisible or very visible life of those living with chronic illness and disability.

The Australian GLBTIQ Multicultural Council (AGMC)

Liane Moriarty writes smart, sexy suburban satire – and it’s made her a huge, if reluctant, star.

Sarah brings you a haunting, captivating, visceral experience of the beauty of difference in this one woman show.

Cosi will captivate the audience with gripping performances, that take you on a humbling journey of life within the walls of a rehabilitation centre.

Join in a Deaf dance party, or bust a move in the world’s smallest nightclub at Melbourne Fringe event, A Weekend for Everybody.

This year’s Coburg Carnivale will have an exciting program of participatory and live art experiences that promise to tantalise the senses.

Rothschild will explore her interest in the social aspect of sculpture and play, along with the influence in minimalism, classical architecture and popular culture

My Island Dream (MID) is back in 2018 and it’s going to be epic. This year we are going to have the biggest PASIFIKA celebration brought to you by the young people of Westside Pasifika for the young peoples of the West!

OFFICE will give a public lecture focusing on the street as a public space, questioning its role and value in our rapidly changing society.

Don’t stop talking honey because we sure won’t! #ECFF is here and wants you to be part of the conversation.

Join us for a Fierce, Fevered, and Effing-unbelievable Party. Wear what you want, dance how you choose. Let’s Get F*NKD.

In celebration of National Week of Deaf People (23-29 September) Auslan interpreters will be onsite at Healesville Sanctuary between 11am-3pm each day of the week

The relationship we have with colour is as much social and political as it is sensorial and emotional. It is sometimes selective, sometimes unavoidable, but always symbolic.

What would you do if you could make people nicer? The Good Person Recipe combines food, receipts and a touch of salt to cook up an intimate play about one waitress’ struggle to preserve her goodness.

Push your practice to the limits, be guided through the process of creating extraordinary experimental work for children using Live Art principles as a toolbox for creation.

Little Languages Program – more info coming soon

The much loved book by Roald Dahl bounds off the page in this spectacular live show.

This multimedia poetic experience investigates the steps foraged to elevate our voices then and now.

Focusing on the nature of celebrity and the role of gender in modern politics ‘antony//cleopatra’ is a pop art queer theory mashup, acting as both tribute and interrogation of Shakespeare’s version of history and femininity

Enter the raucous, radical, wildly funny world of Queerstories and enjoy an unexpected tale or two from a diverse line-up of stars and strangers.

RACE. CLASS. SEX. DRUGS. VIOLENCE. INCARCERATION. POVERTY.
THE PSYCHIC MAELSTROM OF COLONISATION.

(Limited Tickets!) On the eve of her wedding, Sophie’s quest to discover the identity of her father brings three men from her mother’s past back to the island they last visited 20 years ago.

Auslan interpreters will be present for pre and post match entertainment at the MCG.

The Vortons are devouring the universe and only a bewildered crew of no-hopers – led by a hundred-year-old playwright – can save the day.

Sarah brings you a haunting, captivating, visceral experience of the beauty of difference in this one woman show.

Get ready for circus, dance, comedy, cabaret and chaos from the best human beings they can mash together.

There’s no denying her commitment to the human rights framework, and her belief that Australia needs its own Bill of Rights.

Polly Borland’s more recent works see her exploring more abstract and surreal imagery.

In this panel discussion, we’ll discuss some ideas for marking LGBTI+ History Month in Australia. We’ll also discuss the work of Australians – including activists, archivists and academics – who have shaped our queer past and present.

The audacious power plays and tumultuous love affairs of the last Queen of Egypt have captivated artists, musicians, filmmakers and writers for more than 2000 years.

The Storytime program is for children aged 3-5 years, their parents and carers.

Get ringside for a rare theatrical combo: engrossing storytelling paired with the visceral thrill of live boxing.

Raw. Honest. Brave. Theatre. Circus. Dance.

Celebrate all the fun, fabulous and quirky talents that make Whitehorse great!

The audacious power plays and tumultuous love affairs of the last Queen of Egypt have captivated artists, musicians, filmmakers and writers for more than 2000 years.

CONNECTED Art Exhibition Celebration is a free event for the people of Victoria

Anne Summers is a person of phenomenal energy and copious talent. She’s an editor, a publisher, a writer, an activist and, for many, the godmother of Australian feminism.

This FREE community event is open and accessible to all and is a fun family friendly day out full of entertainment, interactive arts experiences, sporting activities, music, dancing and good times!

The audacious power plays and tumultuous love affairs of the last Queen of Egypt have captivated artists, musicians, filmmakers and writers for more than 2000 years.

(LIMITED TIX!) See John connect with the other side as he returns to visit Melbourne live. There will be question and answer sessions and messages from loved ones on the other side and more.

Australia’s premier queer arts and cultural festival returns in 2019, running from 19 January to 10 February.

So you think you know Hamlet? A hilarious rethink of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy – only this time Ophelia gets all the best lines.

This savage new performance work from the award-winning team behind GROUND CONTROL (Next Wave 2016) and ANGRY SEXX (Melbourne Fringe 2014), asks how do we tear down the monument of masculinity, and what tools can we find in the dirt?

Part rock concert, part side-splitting comedy and smashed together with acrobatic punk anarchy!

One of the most-read and famous children’s books of all time, ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’ emerges off the page in a masterful theatrical experience for the whole family.

Get into the Christmas Spirit with this family friendly event for the whole family.

Celebrate Australia Day with this wonderful night of entertainment and you can see the night go out with a bang with a stunning 10-minute fireworks finale.

Wodonga Brass presents this traditional Carols by Candlelight.

Join us for this free conversation at the Wheeler Centre, as we delve into the fine balance of art and activism – from creativity and accessibility to strategy.

What role can art play in transforming democracies? How can theatre and performance act as a vehicle to test drive new realities? And what happens when children are not students – but researchers and collaborators?

Sofie has had numerous appearances at not only the Melbourne Fringe but also in Edinburgh.

Experience Melbourne’s biggest professionally staged song and dance phenomenon, the Victorian State Schools Spectacular, a dazzling arena production guaranteed to entertain the whole family.  

Blasted will give Malthouse Theatre audiences the chance to experience the power and controversy of Sarah Kane, and the play that shook the world.

Experience Melbourne’s biggest professionally staged song and dance phenomenon, the Victorian State Schools Spectacular, a dazzling arena production guaranteed to entertain the whole family.  

Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions is a visually exciting and innovative blockbuster exhibition that brings together for the first time the work of these two giants of Australian art.

Sofie has had numerous appearances at not only the Melbourne Fringe but also in Edinburgh.

Set in the legendary city during the roaring “jazz hot” 20s, Chicago tells the story of two rival vaudevillian murderesses locked up in Cook County Jail.

Bring in the fembots! The sex slaves, domestic servants, ideal women! Enter the realm of robot ethics in this one-woman, one roomba show about sex, technology, and man-made women.

Adam Hills has always put his best foot forward which has earned the witty and charming comedian (and now author) adoring fans all over the world. 

It’s a book of short fiction, memoir and poetry by authors of various ethnicities, cultures, genders, sexualities and abilities.

Erth’s prehistoric creatures are unmistakably ‘alive’ and mostly friendly, in this fun, educational and unique performance that will delight all audiences from ages 5 years and up.  

Baldessin/Whiteley: Parallel Visions is a visually exciting and innovative blockbuster exhibition that brings together for the first time the work of these two giants of Australian art.

An annual sketch comedy show written, directed and performed by students that has been running for over 40 years

Modern society is deeply attuned to the issue of consent. We refuse to turn a blind eye to the pervasive nature of predatory behaviour and to the intractable statistic that one in five women will experience sexual violence.

Erth’s prehistoric creatures are unmistakably ‘alive’ and mostly friendly, in this fun, educational and unique performance that will delight all audiences from ages 5 years and up.  

Melbourne Theatre Company  2019 Season Launch.

A Future For All of Us – Melbourne – Hosted by Senator Richard Di Natale

Braiding Knowledge is an interactive day-long forum

2:20 AM is drawn from Lister’s own experience of losing a family member to suicide, along with real stories of people directly impacted by suicide.

Explore the format of hypothetical disaster drills and ask: What if a rapidly spreading contagion threatened Melbourne?

Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist, Maureen Dowd, talks frankly with her friend and colleague, Julia Baird, about gender and politics in the age of Trump.

The iconic Australian musical, The Boy from Oz, turns 20 in 2018, and to celebrate we’re staging a new production. 

Sharing stories from Melbourne’s west, Footscray Community Arts Centre’s West Writers Group will exhibit the works of their collective.

Biennial showcase of short student written works

Spice Trails is an immersive live art series of performative dinners and installations created by artist Rasha Tayeh.

Celebrate the 80th Birthday of this library. 

One-on-one micro-performances that dance around questions, insights and predictions of our personal and collective futures.

Blending lyrical, rapid-fire text with poetic imagery and domestic drama, Oil Babies is a dangerous, pithy and at times comedic work that speaks directly to the concerns we hold now.

The Storytime program is for children aged 3-5 years, their parents and carers.

Australia’s answer to Sons of Anarchy sends Ryan Corr, Abbey Lee and Aaron Pedersen into a brutal bikie turf war.

The A1 Darebin Art Salon celebrates art, expression and creativity within our community. Works must be recent or new and artists must live, work or study in the City of Darebin. Works must be no larger than A1 size.

Successful politician Sir Robert Chiltern has it all – money, power and the love of his adoring wife. But when the mysterious Mrs Cheveley threatens to expose a dark secret from his past, will his reputation, career and marriage be ruined?

A free event exploring cinema’s stylised visions of future cities, from the machinery of Metropolis to the mind-bending experiments of Dark City.

A free event featuring Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander filmmakers discussing their approach to cinema in front and behind the camera.

Panellists include Jack Charles, Beck Cole, Rob Collins, Cecilia Lewis, Curtis Taylor and Linda Yarrowin; moderated by Albert Wiggan.

A tale of daring and willpower, the importance of a good assistant, and of course, a white rabbit!

Midwinta Gala 2018

A sweaty play about the petty and the profound, the mundane and the mythic, Contest asks how we might be with each other if we don’t have to win.

A tale of daring and willpower, the importance of a good assistant, and of course, a white rabbit!

The streets will be filled with fun, snow (real and simulated), moving rides, free kids activities and market and food stalls.

A sweaty play about the petty and the profound, the mundane and the mythic, Contest asks how we might be with each other if we don’t have to win.

MoMA and the city that never sleeps – Lecture Series

CLOSING CELEBRATION (Drop in at any time during public hours to work on your piece, there will also be a number of facilitated craft classes run by Ramona Barry – 19 May to 29 July)

Special event – opening night

Based on a series of interwoven true stories, Polygraph is a play noir: part metaphysical thriller, part murder mystery and part love story.

Join a diverse line up of stars and strangers for a night of queer stories, unexpected tales of lives well lived and battles fought, pride, prejudice, love and humour, hosted by Maeve Marsden.

MoMA and the city that never sleeps – Lecture Series

Bell Shakespeare’s Associate Director, James Evans, will direct a production that’s seething with rage, leaving audiences breathless at how quickly violence reveals the fragility of democracy.

ONE STREET – MANY MOBS – ONE COMMUNITY

Forest Hill College Performance

Since 9/11, the number of journalists who have been imprisoned for their work has risen steadily.

Our year-round hard-core hands-on support for artists, will help every step along the Great Road of the Festival – and beyond.

MoMA and the city that never sleeps – Lecture Series

Circus Oz Big Top will be nestled within the trees beside the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, presenting a 70-minute non-stop spectacle of acrobatic mayhem for audiences of all ages.

Come on an impossible voyage to find the mythical snark in the wonderful world of Lewis Carroll.

The Talk is a terribly undomesticated evening. It’s one account of what happens when you start talking about sex with your family: what ‘the talk’ is, and what it shouldn’t be.

Join Michael Kimmelman, architecture critic of The New York Times, for a talk about the challenges and opportunities facing cities around the world. (Lecture with Q and A)

Celebrate the legacy of Disney in this ice skating spectacular!

Join us for a frank and compassionate conversation about dignity and autonomy for older Australians.

Drawing on queer and ancestral mythologies, Carrion collides distant past with far future, heralding the changes that lie waiting inside us.

One of Australia’s most eminent and awarded playwrights takes Lorca’s classic tragedy out of the villages of Spain and into the heat of rural Western Australia.

Don’t miss your chance to rediscover the real story of Oz in this fantastic musical treat featuring over 40 on stage!

From writing the body, to reconceptualising disability and deafness, to dark YA fantasy and more, explore ways to subvert, defy and reimagine conventions about writing and disability.

What is happening locally to support LGBTIQA+ communities of colour and communities of faith?

Kicking off the conference, our five festival ambassadors share their five rules for writing. Whether you’re emerging, emerged or somewhere in between, these gems of advice are bound to get you inspired.

Ruben is full of anger and dancing on the edge. His sister Adele has already lost one brother, and will not lose another.

New Yorker Mari Andrew shares how resilience and a sense of humour can help us survive the tumultuous journey to adulthood. 

New Yorker Mari Andrew shares how resilience and a sense of humour can help us survive the tumultuous journey to adulthood. 

Creating performances based on the investigation of multi-sensory perceptions and creative provocations, they are paving the way for inclusive arts practice.

To launch the 2018 Emerging Writers’ Festival, some of today and tomorrow’s most exciting and celebrated voices will examine our histories and imagine the stories of the future.

Princess Park is a beautiful place, a wonderful space for the community to enjoy and we ask you to join us to pay our respect and to RECLAIM THE PARK.

New York Times award-winning investigative reporter covering racial injustice, Nikole Hannah-Jones and actress Shareena Clanton discuss politics and race in a live discussion

What can younger Australian feminists learn from older feminists, and vice versa?

X barks the spot in the new tour PAW Patrol Live! “The Great Pirate Adventure!”

The inspirational true story of Carole King’s remarkable rise from teenage songwriter to global superstar.

Nothing hit’s you like Holden State of Origin in Melbourne! The pre match speeches will be Auslan interpreted at the ground.

How are ideas, and our expectations, around gender and sport evolving? And how does sport inform our sense of self? Who gets to play, and who gets to win, in the field of sports?

Little Kids’ Day In will be a fun day especially for kids aged 5 and under, their parents and carers. (Auslan session runs from 11am-1pm)

A collection of truly diverse stories – sometimes surprising and funny, often confronting and always illuminating – that paint a rich and detailed picture of what it means to come of age as an Aboriginal Australian.

Small and Loud offers emerging theatre writers, performers, comics and musicians the opportunity to try out their freshest ideas that are still in development when they’re ready to be tested in front of an intimate live audience.

Join a diverse line up of stars and strangers for a night of queer stories, unexpected tales of lives well lived and battles fought, pride, prejudice, love and humour, hosted by Maeve Marsden.

You will leave this event with new ideas and insights about how courage, wisdom and imagination can lead us towards a more compassionate, less anxious society.

Experience the thrill of a radio suspense drama played out before your eyes.

While synopses and pitches are useful marketing tools, they can also play a much more important role.

Expect open dialogues about racism, ableism, misogyny, transphobia, queerphobia, unacknowledged class privilege and an understanding of their influence on mental health.

Four performers. One hundred apocalypses. Sixty minutes.

myriad collective is proud to present TRANSPOSSIBLE: Trans and gender diverse communities envisioning creative futures.
 

Features site-specific installations, interventions and improvised performance works – designed to connect audiences to the indirect and not so subtle politics inherent in everyday architecture.

In an increasingly connected world where the question of immigration is often an anxious or heated one, being a newcomer can be uncomfortable, funny and weird. But it also makes for some great stories.

The Emerging Writers’ Festival launches its 2018 programme with a night of performances that reimagine the past and paint a picture for the future.

A performance that is shared equally between dog and handler..this work highlights the intimate and instinctive connection between humans and dogs.

Set to the rhythm of the sun, we start by paying our respects to Country and Elders before setting off on our pilgrimage across the Festival. Each day of Next Wave, a new artist leads us through a new Ritual.

Meet Next Wave programmers, ask questions, and hear about how to put together a killer application for the next Next Wave.

An overactive imagination just might save your life!

PLASTIC SHAKESPEARE continues the MUSC tradition of reconfiguring Shakespeare in inclusive, interesting and playful ways

“This is so stunningly beautiful and touching “children” of all ages should come away with a smile” – Susan Hetherington, ABC

The grand finale of the VCE Season of Excellence 2018, Top Acts showcases extraordinary performances by VCE composers, dancers, musicians and actors.

An overactive imagination just might save your life!

“This is so stunningly beautiful and touching “children” of all ages should come away with a smile” – Susan Hetherington, ABC