Not-For-Profit People Conference

The Not-For-Profit People Conference is Australia's largest event focused on how to attract, manage, train and retain the best people for the NFP sector. Over two days and twenty-nine inspiring sessions, join five hundred senior leaders and team leaders, HR professionals and board members, volunteer managers and CEOs to explore the NFP sector's most pressing people issues like Leadership, Managing people well, People and organizational strategy, Strengthening HR, Recruitment, and Health and wellbeing.

For more information visit: https://nfppeople.com.au/conference/

Or call: (03) 9419 4707

Melbourne Elvis Festival 2023

The 2nd Annual Elvis Festival is proudly brought to you by Arpa Productions. This festival is a festival of music for the king himself, Elvis Presley!

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SIGN UP HERE FOR PRE-SALE TICKETS BEFORE THEY GO ON SALE TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

For more information and contact details visit: https://melbourneelvisfestival.com.au/

National Sustainable Living Festival

For over two decades, the National Sustainable Living Festival (SLF) has presented a leading event platform with the mission of creating widespread cooperation for ecological and social sustainability.

From its early beginnings in regional Australia, the Festival has grown into the nation’s largest and most comprehensive event for showcasing community, economic, and technological responses to the environmental challenges of our time.

Now the country’s longest running celebration of sustainability, the Festival has helped to push sustainable living into the mainstream and continues to present unique and creative opportunities for diverse audiences to connect with a positive and empowering social movement.

Throughout its history, SLF has been a strong advocate for urgent safe climate action at a scale and speed that can match the escalating climate emergency. In the wake of Australia experiencing unprecedented climate events, the Festival will urge a groundswell of climate awareness and support for the urgent action we need.

For more information and contact details visit: https://www.slf2023.org/about

Live at the Bowl

A festival of music, dance, community-led and family-friendly events for everyone.

This summer the heart of the city will come to life at Victoria’s most iconic outdoor venue, the Sidney Myer Music Bowl.

Gather your favourite people and enjoy a blockbuster line-up featuring some of the best home-grown acts and international artists.

Come together on the hill, share a picnic, take in symphonies at sunset or dance the night away to your favourite bands and DJs.

The program includes Arctic Monkeys, Bon Iver, Boris Brejcha, Darren Hayes, Falls Festival, Kehlani, Lorde, Midsumma Extravaganza, MSO Free Concerts, Pasifix, Synthony, Teeny Tiny Stevies and more to be announced.

For more information visit and contact details: https://whatson.melbourne.vic.gov.au/things-to-do/live-at-the-bowl

ALEXANDER McQUEEN - MIND, MYTHOS, MUSE

Alexander McQueen (1969–2010) remains one of the most extraordinary and significant fashion designers in recent memory, lauded for his conceptual and technical virtuosity. McQueen’s critically acclaimed collections synthesised his proficiency in tailoring and dressmaking with encyclopaedic and autobiographical visual references that spanned time, geography and media.

Organised by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, (LACMA), in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, this is the first major Australian exhibition to explore McQueen’s thought-provoking and singular viewpoint. Showcasing over 100 garments and accessories alongside more than 70 artworks, including painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper and decorative arts, from a multitude of eras and cultures, Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse offers unprecedented insight into McQueen’s far-reaching sources of inspiration, his creative process and his capacity for story-telling.

Acclaimed collections such as the controversial Highland Rape, autumn-winter 1995-96 and its poignant sequel The Widows of Culloden, autumn-winter 2006-07 highlight the autobiographical nature of McQueen’s work, while dramatic presentations of Deliverance, spring-summer 2004, The Horn of Plenty, autumn-winter 2009-10 and his last, Plato’s Atlantis, spring-summer 2010 traverse existential themes.

Organised into four thematic sections, the exhibition considers McQueen’s personal and philosophical design vocabulary. Mythos investigates McQueen’s use of belief systems, religious doctrines and mythologies as a framework for contemplating human nature and contemporary society; Fashioned Narratives explores the designers penchant for telling stories of imagined worlds via his collections and runway shows; Technique and Innovation highlights McQueen’s masterful technical abilities; while Evolution and Existence examines his fascination with nature and life cycles, especially his view of death – not as an end, but as an opportunity for change.

Alexander McQueen will be launched on Saturday 10 December 2022 with the popular event, the NGV Gala. A celebration of art, fashion, fine food and wine, the NGV Gala was inaugurated in 2017 and has since become an anticipated event on Melbourne’s events calendar.

For more information visit: https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/alexander-mcqueen/

Or call: (03) 8620 2222

TIME • RONE

Set in the long-abandoned third-floor wing of Flinders Street Station, Time is a nostalgic love letter to mid-century Melbourne and a tribute to one of the city’s great icons.

Created and developed across the past three years, this truly exceptional site-specific experience is Rone’s most ambitious project to date. Profoundly atmospheric, Time captures both the grand scale and character of the site and the minute detail of a period of Melbourne’s history long lost to progress.

A fictional history that transports audiences to post-WWII Melbourne, Time is inspired by an era when European migrants powered the city’s booming manufacturing industries. A vignette of mid-century working-class life and an ode to the faded yet enduring beauty of this forgotten place, Time captures the spirit of the city’s industrious past while offering glimpses of the station’s role as a once-glorious hub of work, learning and social life.

Closed Dec 24 to Jan 4, and all public holidays.

For more information visit: https://rone.art/

Contact: https://rone.art/pages/contact-us

Monet & Friends Alive

As with its predecessor, the multi-sensory exhibition will display its artworks via supersized projections splashed across its sprawling surfaces, and paired with a curation of tastes, aromas and sounds. Here, that means you'll be able to wander over a bridge and right into a recreation of Monet's famed 1899 work, Bridge Over a Pond of Water Lilies. Other interactive experiences will include a studio space where visitors can have a go at creating their own replicas of Monet's best-known paintings.

Further tapping into the French bohemian spirit will be The Lume's own take on a 19th-Century Parisian cafe, Cafe Lumiere, which will be serving up a menu of small bites, share plates and desserts to enjoy after your artistic adventures.

'Monet & Friends Alive' will launch on October 26, with tickets available from August 26. Head to the website for more details.

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