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Rising (stylised RISING) is a city-wide arts festival held in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.The festival was announced in 2020 as Naarm/Melbourne's premier arts and culture festival, replacing the Melbourne International Arts Festival and White Night Festival, and is supported by the Victoria State Government.
Spoleto Melbourne – Festival of the Three Worlds, under the direction of composer Gian Carlo Menotti, was established in 1986 by the Cain government, as a sister festival of the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto and the Spoleto Festival USA held in Charleston, South Carolina. The festival changed its name to the Melbourne International ...
In July 2019, Festival X announced the inaugural event would take place in November and December 2019. [2] The first edition was attended by 100,000 in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. [3] A smaller scale one day event called Festival X Rising was held in New Zealand on 28 November 2019.
Cultural festival Tarra Festival: Yarram: 1972 Easter festival Tesselaar Tulip Festival: Silvan: 1954 Tulip festival Thai Culture and Food Festival: Melbourne: 2004 Multicultural festival The Big Freeze Winter Family Festival: Cranbourne: 2016 Encouraging families to stay active, creative and use their imaginations over winter The Village ...
The Royal Exhibition Building from the main avenue of the Carlton Gardens Victorian architecture dwarfed by the Rialto Towers. Melbourne's buildings and structures feature a wide variety of architectural designs, and the city is home to the Royal Exhibition Building, the first Australian building to be listed on the World Heritage Register.
The Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) is the largest stand-alone comedy festival and the second-largest international comedy festival in the world. First held in 1987, it takes place annually in Melbourne over four weeks, typically starting in March and running through to April.
Counting and Cracking is a play by Australian playwright S. Shakthidharan (better known as Shakthi).Theatre director Eamon Flack is credited as associate writer. The three-and-a-half hour play is based on the playwright's family story, and follows four generations from 1956 to 2004, from Sri Lanka to Australia.
Melbourne's independent music industry has been the subject of two documentary films, Sticky Carpet in 2006 and the DIY film Super8 Diaries Project in 2008. Some of the most important and influential alternative artists emerged from Melbourne in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Post-punk band The Birthday Party are one of "the darkest and most ...