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OBSERVER: Arts House

Friday, March 21, 2025

Arts House transforms into a space of healing and cultural sovereigntyBlak Women’s Healing is a significant Yirramboi program and whole-building takeover at Arts House curated by Wemba-Wemba and Gunditjmara visual artist and academic, Dr Paola Balla, to be presented from April 23 to May 17.An exhibition of visual, oral, text-based and material culture, Blak Women’s…

OBSERVER: Don’t Look At Me

Live Nation presents Paul Williams (pictured) in Don’t Look at Me from March 27 – April 20 at the Victoria Hotel Banquet Room and the Westin, Melbourne.Multi-talented Williams has been making waves across Kiwi television screens with his role of assistant (as well as one of the three writers of the tasks and script) in…

OBSERVER: Love Don’t Live Here Anymore, You Do

Live Nation Entertainment presents Jesse Griffin AKA Wilson Dixon’s show Love Don’t Live Here Anymore, You Do from March 27 – April 6 in the Chinese Museum as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.Jesse Griffin is an actor, comedian, writer and director who has worked throughout the UK, Australia and NZ since the mid-1990s….

OBSERVER: End Game

Katie Reddin-Clancy presents End Game from March 31 to April 20 at the MC Showroom as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.Presenting the big questions most of us are afraid to answer End Game is part The Secret part Warrior of Light part Eat, Pray, Love exploring one woman’s journey at Earth School as…

OBSERVER: The Final Call

Friday, March 14, 2025

The Local Paper/Melbourne Observer music columnist Rob Foenander notes that Whittlesea CEO Craig Lloyd, in his side hustle as a xcountry music entertainer, has released his new single titled The Final Call.

OBSERVER: MICF comedy for young people

Pilot’ is comedy by young people, for young people at the 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival.‘Pilot’ is bringing together six of Australia’s most promising up-and-comers to headline their first ever Melbourne International Comedy Festival shows.Producers Ethan Gallagher and Dylan McBurney come from comedy and performance backgrounds, and saw a gap in the festival’s youth programs…

OBSERVER: OK Column with John O’Keefe

Actor-musician Rick Springfield has announced a MRI scan revealed he has lingering brain damage caused by a fall on stage in LA some 25 years ago. At the time of his fall Rick thought he had hurt his wrist and that cured itself. Onwards and upwards for Rick, aged 76, is keeping up his concert…

OBSERVER: The Arts with Peter Kemp

Presented by The Signal Curators Group, the show Unreal is concerned primarily with the relationship between perception and reality.Within this overreaching concept lies a particular focus on the politics of perception and reality, system of knowledge and their particular basesexplored, the question “who benefits from this message of the truth” presented by viewer to interrogate.The…

OBSERVER: Louise Lovely’s Labassa

The National Trust property Labassa in Caulfield North presents Louise Lovely’s Labassa on Friday, March 21 from 6pm-7.30pm and 8pm to 9.30pm.Film pioneer Louise Lovely was Australia’s most successful actress in Hollywood’s early silent era, and also Labassa’s most celebrated resident of the 1930s. Visitors are invited to delve into Miss Lovely’s extraordinary life story…

OBSERVER: Stand Up For Seniors

Tasmanian comedian Daryl Peebles is bringing his stand-up comedy show Stand Up for Seniors … but not necessarily on the bus to the Melbourne International Comedy Festival from March 26 to April 6 at 6pm at Wheat, Wine and Whisky, Collingwood.Describing himself as an ‘elder-comic’ entering his ‘final quarter in the football game of life,’…