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	A Different Temporality Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985 Encompassing pivotal events from the era, A Different Temporality is a powerful review of Australian feminist art practice from 1975 through to 1985.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Harun Farocki and Vernon Ah Kee War at a Distance and Tall Man Drawing together work by two distinct voices in the film art scene, War at a Distance and Tall Man are twinned meditations on the inexorable proliferation of moving images.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	AES+F Angels-Demons. Parade Angels-Demons. Parade creates an arresting and playful spectacle in Melbourne's CBD with striking, six-metre-tall sculptures of fiendish cherubs.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Daniel King look closer In look closer, indigenous filmmaker and photographer Daniel King, attempts to have us confront and reappraise the assumptions constructed when we encounter people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art With the arrival of the late 1960s came the rise of people power - the political and social landscape was primed to explode into a new consciousness and art in turn responded. Now, in a new century, contemporary artists revisit, revise and revitalise these paradigmshifting approaches in Power to the People.	10:00am - 8:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Melbourne Festival Lounge Melbourne Festival's pop-up performance lounge will be the place to soak up the backstage atmosphere, relax and celebrate.	10:30am - 10:30pm Add to diary » More information »
	In camera and in public (International) Ranging from candid street photography through to surveillance photography, In camera and in public explores the camera and its relationship to the subject, unaware of being photographed.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	The Border Project Half-Real Half-Real is a thrilling theatre work that turns the whodunit genre on its head - by letting the audience take control of the narrative.	1:00pm - 2:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	4:00pm - 5:20pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	6:00pm - 7:20pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Back to Back Theatre Ganesh Versus the Third Reich Ganesh Versus the Third Reich is a triumphant return from one of Australia's most acclaimed theatre ensembles.	7:30pm - 8:45pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	The Manganiyar Seduction by Roysten Abel (India) Acclaimed around the world, The Manganiyar Seduction is a fusion of traditional Rajasthani musicianship with dazzling stage design, creating what is one of the highlights of this year's Festival program.	7:30pm - 8:50pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Chunky Move and Victorian Opera Assembly Assembly is the final work of Gideon Obarzanek as head of Chunky Move, which investigates the enigmatic motion of crowds by intergrating dance with theatrical and operatic performance.	8:00pm - 9:00pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	National Theatre of China (China) Rhinoceros in Love China's most popular contemporary drama, Rhinoceros in Love is a provocative tale of unrequited love and the darkly unhinged desperation of youth.	8:00pm - 9:45pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Tom Tom Crew Raw energy personified, Australia's Tom Tom Crew smash together acrobatics, hip-hop and percussion to create an entertaining, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle - a circus show for the 21st century.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	The Border Project Half-Real Half-Real is a thrilling theatre work that turns the whodunit genre on its head - by letting the audience take control of the narrative.	8:00pm - 9:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	The Electric Canvas Cacophony: The Art of Conflict From across the Yarra River it catches your eye - flickering globules and streaks of brightly coloured light, strafing and playing across the surface of the Arts Centre.	8:00pm - 1:00am Add to diary » More information »

Friday Oct 7, 2011

	A Different Temporality Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985 Encompassing pivotal events from the era, A Different Temporality is a powerful review of Australian feminist art practice from 1975 through to 1985.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	AES+F Angels-Demons. Parade Angels-Demons. Parade creates an arresting and playful spectacle in Melbourne's CBD with striking, six-metre-tall sculptures of fiendish cherubs.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art With the arrival of the late 1960s came the rise of people power - the political and social landscape was primed to explode into a new consciousness and art in turn responded. Now, in a new century, contemporary artists revisit, revise and revitalise these paradigmshifting approaches in Power to the People.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Daniel King look closer In look closer, indigenous filmmaker and photographer Daniel King, attempts to have us confront and reappraise the assumptions constructed when we encounter people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	In camera and in public (International) Ranging from candid street photography through to surveillance photography, In camera and in public explores the camera and its relationship to the subject, unaware of being photographed.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Harun Farocki and Vernon Ah Kee War at a Distance and Tall Man Drawing together work by two distinct voices in the film art scene, War at a Distance and Tall Man are twinned meditations on the inexorable proliferation of moving images.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Come Together: Artists in Conversation The popular Artists in Conversation series returns, giving you access to the ideas, thoughts, inspirations and lives of the artists involved in this year's Festival.	1:00pm - 2:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	2:00pm - 3:20pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	6:00pm - 7:20pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Harun Farocki and Vernon Ah Kee War at a Distance and Tall Man Drawing together work by two distinct voices in the film art scene, War at a Distance and Tall Man are twinned meditations on the inexorable proliferation of moving images.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Back to Back Theatre Ganesh Versus the Third Reich Ganesh Versus the Third Reich is a triumphant return from one of Australia's most acclaimed theatre ensembles.	7:30pm - 8:45pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	The Manganiyar Seduction by Roysten Abel (India) Acclaimed around the world, The Manganiyar Seduction is a fusion of traditional Rajasthani musicianship with dazzling stage design, creating what is one of the highlights of this year's Festival program.	7:30pm - 8:50pm Add to diary » More information »
	Ilbijerri Theatre Company Foley Having spent decades spinning the yarns of black Australia, both contemporary and bygone, Gary Foley now uses his well-honed skills as troublemaker, teacher and teller of tales to bring his experiences to the stage.	7:45pm - 9:05pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Chunky Move and Victorian Opera Assembly Assembly is the final work of Gideon Obarzanek as head of Chunky Move, which investigates the enigmatic motion of crowds by intergrating dance with theatrical and operatic performance.	8:00pm - 9:00pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	National Theatre of China (China) Rhinoceros in Love China's most popular contemporary drama, Rhinoceros in Love is a provocative tale of unrequited love and the darkly unhinged desperation of youth.	8:00pm - 9:45pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Tom Tom Crew Raw energy personified, Australia's Tom Tom Crew smash together acrobatics, hip-hop and percussion to create an entertaining, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle - a circus show for the 21st century.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Border Project Half-Real Half-Real is a thrilling theatre work that turns the whodunit genre on its head - by letting the audience take control of the narrative.	8:00pm - 9:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	The Electric Canvas Cacophony: The Art of Conflict From across the Yarra River it catches your eye - flickering globules and streaks of brightly coloured light, strafing and playing across the surface of the Arts Centre.	8:00pm - 1:00am Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	8:00pm - 9:20pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Mono and the Holy Ground Orchestra (Japan) Supported by Wintercoats Japanese post-rock legends Mono make their eagerly awaited return to Australia, this time joining their singular blend of arcing guitar and surging drums with the majesty of a full orchestra.	9:30pm - 11:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	The Lovebirds The vibrant tropicana landscape of this year's Melbourne Festival Lounge will host the world premiere of The Lovebirds, a wild and exotic cabaret wonderland filled with song, dance and a Rio Carnival of colour and energy.	9:30pm - 10:30pm Add to diary » More information »

Saturday Oct 8, 2011

	A Different Temporality Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985 Encompassing pivotal events from the era, A Different Temporality is a powerful review of Australian feminist art practice from 1975 through to 1985.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	AES+F Angels-Demons. Parade Angels-Demons. Parade creates an arresting and playful spectacle in Melbourne's CBD with striking, six-metre-tall sculptures of fiendish cherubs.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art With the arrival of the late 1960s came the rise of people power - the political and social landscape was primed to explode into a new consciousness and art in turn responded. Now, in a new century, contemporary artists revisit, revise and revitalise these paradigmshifting approaches in Power to the People.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Harun Farocki and Vernon Ah Kee War at a Distance and Tall Man Drawing together work by two distinct voices in the film art scene, War at a Distance and Tall Man are twinned meditations on the inexorable proliferation of moving images.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	In camera and in public (International) Ranging from candid street photography through to surveillance photography, In camera and in public explores the camera and its relationship to the subject, unaware of being photographed.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Daniel King look closer In look closer, indigenous filmmaker and photographer Daniel King, attempts to have us confront and reappraise the assumptions constructed when we encounter people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Chunky Move and Victorian Opera Assembly Assembly is the final work of Gideon Obarzanek as head of Chunky Move, which investigates the enigmatic motion of crowds by intergrating dance with theatrical and operatic performance.	2:00pm - 3:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Border Project Half-Real Half-Real is a thrilling theatre work that turns the whodunit genre on its head - by letting the audience take control of the narrative.	2:00pm - 3:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	4:00pm - 5:20pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	6:00pm - 7:20pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	The Manganiyar Seduction by Roysten Abel (India) Acclaimed around the world, The Manganiyar Seduction is a fusion of traditional Rajasthani musicianship with dazzling stage design, creating what is one of the highlights of this year's Festival program.	7:30pm - 8:50pm Add to diary » More information »
	Back to Back Theatre Ganesh Versus the Third Reich Ganesh Versus the Third Reich is a triumphant return from one of Australia's most acclaimed theatre ensembles.	7:30pm - 8:45pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Ilbijerri Theatre Company Foley Having spent decades spinning the yarns of black Australia, both contemporary and bygone, Gary Foley now uses his well-honed skills as troublemaker, teacher and teller of tales to bring his experiences to the stage.	7:45pm - 9:05pm Add to diary » More information »
	Chunky Move and Victorian Opera Assembly Assembly is the final work of Gideon Obarzanek as head of Chunky Move, which investigates the enigmatic motion of crowds by intergrating dance with theatrical and operatic performance.	8:00pm - 9:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	National Theatre of China (China) Rhinoceros in Love China's most popular contemporary drama, Rhinoceros in Love is a provocative tale of unrequited love and the darkly unhinged desperation of youth.	8:00pm - 9:45pm Add to diary » More information »
	Tom Tom Crew Raw energy personified, Australia's Tom Tom Crew smash together acrobatics, hip-hop and percussion to create an entertaining, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle - a circus show for the 21st century.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Border Project Half-Real Half-Real is a thrilling theatre work that turns the whodunit genre on its head - by letting the audience take control of the narrative.	8:00pm - 9:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	The Electric Canvas Cacophony: The Art of Conflict From across the Yarra River it catches your eye - flickering globules and streaks of brightly coloured light, strafing and playing across the surface of the Arts Centre.	8:00pm - 1:00am Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	8:00pm - 9:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Black Dice (USA) Lucky Dragons (USA), Kangaroo Skull (Aus) and Sulumi (China) Renowned as one of the preeminent forces of the noise art movement, Black Dice have built a reputation as one of the most mercurial, abrasive and overwhelming live music experiences touring the world today.	9:30pm - 11:30pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Lovebirds The vibrant tropicana landscape of this year's Melbourne Festival Lounge will host the world premiere of The Lovebirds, a wild and exotic cabaret wonderland filled with song, dance and a Rio Carnival of colour and energy.	10:00pm - 10:15pm Add to diary » More information »

Sunday Oct 9, 2011

	A Different Temporality Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985 Encompassing pivotal events from the era, A Different Temporality is a powerful review of Australian feminist art practice from 1975 through to 1985.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	AES+F Angels-Demons. Parade Angels-Demons. Parade creates an arresting and playful spectacle in Melbourne's CBD with striking, six-metre-tall sculptures of fiendish cherubs.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art With the arrival of the late 1960s came the rise of people power - the political and social landscape was primed to explode into a new consciousness and art in turn responded. Now, in a new century, contemporary artists revisit, revise and revitalise these paradigmshifting approaches in Power to the People.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	In camera and in public (International) Ranging from candid street photography through to surveillance photography, In camera and in public explores the camera and its relationship to the subject, unaware of being photographed.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Sumi Ink Club Sumi Ink Club will be holding an open-to-the-public meeting at Gallery One on Sunday 9 October from 12pm - 6pm to create a collaborative wall drawing. Ink and brushes will be provided…..come draw with us!	12:00pm - 6:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	4:00pm - 5:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Back to Back Theatre Ganesh Versus the Third Reich Ganesh Versus the Third Reich is a triumphant return from one of Australia's most acclaimed theatre ensembles.	5:00pm - 6:15pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Tom Tom Crew Raw energy personified, Australia's Tom Tom Crew smash together acrobatics, hip-hop and percussion to create an entertaining, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle - a circus show for the 21st century.	5:00pm - 6:15pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	The Manganiyar Seduction by Roysten Abel (India) Acclaimed around the world, The Manganiyar Seduction is a fusion of traditional Rajasthani musicianship with dazzling stage design, creating what is one of the highlights of this year's Festival program.	5:00pm - 6:50pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	National Theatre of China (China) Rhinoceros in Love China's most popular contemporary drama, Rhinoceros in Love is a provocative tale of unrequited love and the darkly unhinged desperation of youth.	6:00pm - 7:45pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	6:00pm - 7:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Border Project Half-Real Half-Real is a thrilling theatre work that turns the whodunit genre on its head - by letting the audience take control of the narrative.	6:00pm - 7:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Tom Tom Crew Raw energy personified, Australia's Tom Tom Crew smash together acrobatics, hip-hop and percussion to create an entertaining, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle - a circus show for the 21st century.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Electric Canvas Cacophony: The Art of Conflict From across the Yarra River it catches your eye - flickering globules and streaks of brightly coloured light, strafing and playing across the surface of the Arts Centre.	8:00pm - 1:00am Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	8:00pm - 9:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Sulumi (China) Qua China's Sulumi is a purveyor of the finest, take-no-prisoners electro-glitch-house this side of a souped up Sega Mega Drive. Pounding, chaotic, euphoric.	8:30pm - 11:30pm Add to diary » More information »

Monday Oct 10, 2011

	A Different Temporality Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985 Encompassing pivotal events from the era, A Different Temporality is a powerful review of Australian feminist art practice from 1975 through to 1985.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Andreas Exner & Rose Nolan (Germany/Australia) The Solo Projects The Solo Projects draws together an array of new works by two international forces of the European-inspired avant garde: German Andreas Exner and Melbourne-based Rose Nolan.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	AES+F Angels-Demons. Parade Angels-Demons. Parade creates an arresting and playful spectacle in Melbourne's CBD with striking, six-metre-tall sculptures of fiendish cherubs.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art With the arrival of the late 1960s came the rise of people power - the political and social landscape was primed to explode into a new consciousness and art in turn responded. Now, in a new century, contemporary artists revisit, revise and revitalise these paradigmshifting approaches in Power to the People.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Daniel King look closer In look closer, indigenous filmmaker and photographer Daniel King, attempts to have us confront and reappraise the assumptions constructed when we encounter people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	2:00pm - 3:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	6:00pm - 7:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Seraphim Trio The Visionary One of Australia's most celebrated chamber music ensembles is joined by virtuoso clarinetist and composer Paul Dean for a concert of new and classical works.	7:00pm - 9:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Electric Canvas Cacophony: The Art of Conflict From across the Yarra River it catches your eye - flickering globules and streaks of brightly coloured light, strafing and playing across the surface of the Arts Centre.	8:00pm - 1:00am Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	8:00pm - 9:20pm Add to diary » More information »

Tuesday Oct 11, 2011

	A Different Temporality Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985 Encompassing pivotal events from the era, A Different Temporality is a powerful review of Australian feminist art practice from 1975 through to 1985.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Andreas Exner & Rose Nolan (Germany/Australia) The Solo Projects The Solo Projects draws together an array of new works by two international forces of the European-inspired avant garde: German Andreas Exner and Melbourne-based Rose Nolan.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	AES+F Angels-Demons. Parade Angels-Demons. Parade creates an arresting and playful spectacle in Melbourne's CBD with striking, six-metre-tall sculptures of fiendish cherubs.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art With the arrival of the late 1960s came the rise of people power - the political and social landscape was primed to explode into a new consciousness and art in turn responded. Now, in a new century, contemporary artists revisit, revise and revitalise these paradigmshifting approaches in Power to the People.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Daniel King look closer In look closer, indigenous filmmaker and photographer Daniel King, attempts to have us confront and reappraise the assumptions constructed when we encounter people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Harun Farocki and Vernon Ah Kee War at a Distance and Tall Man Drawing together work by two distinct voices in the film art scene, War at a Distance and Tall Man are twinned meditations on the inexorable proliferation of moving images.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	2:00pm - 3:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	6:00pm - 7:20pm Add to diary » More information » Tickets Unavailable
	motiroti (International) Journeys of Love & More Love An edible, three-course journey through a tale of migration, homecoming and cookery with the Journeys of Love & More Love.	6:30pm - 7:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE (Impempe Yomlingo) (South Africa) Thirty South African performers stage a stunning music-theatre adaptation of Mozart's greatest operatic work: The Magic Flute, in an explosion of choral song, marimbas, drums and township-style percussion celebrating the spirit of contemporary Africa.	7:30pm - 9:45pm Add to diary » More information »
	Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen (USA) Aftermath Original production by New York Theater Workshop Aftermath is a visceral theatre production that weaves real-life stories of Iraqis into a shocking tapestry of war and loss.	7:30pm - 9:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Ilbijerri Theatre Company Foley Having spent decades spinning the yarns of black Australia, both contemporary and bygone, Gary Foley now uses his well-honed skills as troublemaker, teacher and teller of tales to bring his experiences to the stage.	7:45pm - 9:05pm Add to diary » More information »
	Tom Tom Crew Raw energy personified, Australia's Tom Tom Crew smash together acrobatics, hip-hop and percussion to create an entertaining, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle - a circus show for the 21st century.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Electric Canvas Cacophony: The Art of Conflict From across the Yarra River it catches your eye - flickering globules and streaks of brightly coloured light, strafing and playing across the surface of the Arts Centre.	8:00pm - 1:00am Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	8:00pm - 9:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Border Project Half-Real Half-Real is a thrilling theatre work that turns the whodunit genre on its head - by letting the audience take control of the narrative.	8:00pm - 9:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	motiroti (International) Journeys of Love & More Love An edible, three-course journey through a tale of migration, homecoming and cookery with the Journeys of Love & More Love.	9:00pm - 10:00pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast

Wednesday Oct 12, 2011

	A Different Temporality Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985 Encompassing pivotal events from the era, A Different Temporality is a powerful review of Australian feminist art practice from 1975 through to 1985.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Andreas Exner & Rose Nolan (Germany/Australia) The Solo Projects The Solo Projects draws together an array of new works by two international forces of the European-inspired avant garde: German Andreas Exner and Melbourne-based Rose Nolan.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	AES+F Angels-Demons. Parade Angels-Demons. Parade creates an arresting and playful spectacle in Melbourne's CBD with striking, six-metre-tall sculptures of fiendish cherubs.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art With the arrival of the late 1960s came the rise of people power - the political and social landscape was primed to explode into a new consciousness and art in turn responded. Now, in a new century, contemporary artists revisit, revise and revitalise these paradigmshifting approaches in Power to the People.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Daniel King look closer In look closer, indigenous filmmaker and photographer Daniel King, attempts to have us confront and reappraise the assumptions constructed when we encounter people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	In camera and in public (International) Ranging from candid street photography through to surveillance photography, In camera and in public explores the camera and its relationship to the subject, unaware of being photographed.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Harun Farocki and Vernon Ah Kee War at a Distance and Tall Man Drawing together work by two distinct voices in the film art scene, War at a Distance and Tall Man are twinned meditations on the inexorable proliferation of moving images.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen (USA) Aftermath Original production by New York Theater Workshop Aftermath is a visceral theatre production that weaves real-life stories of Iraqis into a shocking tapestry of war and loss.	2:00pm - 3:30pm Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	2:00pm - 3:20pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	6:00pm - 7:20pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	motiroti (International) Journeys of Love & More Love An edible, three-course journey through a tale of migration, homecoming and cookery with the Journeys of Love & More Love.	6:30pm - 7:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen (USA) Aftermath Original production by New York Theater Workshop Aftermath is a visceral theatre production that weaves real-life stories of Iraqis into a shocking tapestry of war and loss.	7:30pm - 9:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE (Impempe Yomlingo) (South Africa) Thirty South African performers stage a stunning music-theatre adaptation of Mozart's greatest operatic work: The Magic Flute, in an explosion of choral song, marimbas, drums and township-style percussion celebrating the spirit of contemporary Africa.	7:30pm - 9:45pm Add to diary » More information »
	Byron Perry DOUBLE THINK Prodigious Australian choreographer Byron Perry presents DOUBLE THINK, a shifting world of light and shadow with this playful experiment in movement.	7:30pm - 8:15pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Ilbijerri Theatre Company Foley Having spent decades spinning the yarns of black Australia, both contemporary and bygone, Gary Foley now uses his well-honed skills as troublemaker, teacher and teller of tales to bring his experiences to the stage.	7:45pm - 9:05pm Add to diary » More information »
	Maxim Rysanov with Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and Alexander Sitkovetsky (Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania) The renowned Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra makes its exclusive Australian debut, directed by one of the world's premier viola players, the charismatic Maxim Rysanov.	8:00pm - 9:31pm Add to diary » More information »
	Tom Tom Crew Raw energy personified, Australia's Tom Tom Crew smash together acrobatics, hip-hop and percussion to create an entertaining, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle - a circus show for the 21st century.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information »
	Hofesh Shechter Company Political Mother Propulsive, forceful and possessed of a savage beauty, Political Mother is a masterful work from one of the most exciting minds in contemporary dance.	8:00pm - 9:10pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Electric Canvas Cacophony: The Art of Conflict From across the Yarra River it catches your eye - flickering globules and streaks of brightly coloured light, strafing and playing across the surface of the Arts Centre.	8:00pm - 1:00am Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	8:00pm - 9:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Border Project Half-Real Half-Real is a thrilling theatre work that turns the whodunit genre on its head - by letting the audience take control of the narrative.	8:00pm - 9:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Lucky Dragons (USA) Geoffrey O’Connor Armed with a varied and ever-changing array of synthesisers, loop pedals, wind instruments and percussive elements, the Lucky Dragons live experience is half interactive art project, half neo-hippy freak jam, and all shimmering sonic dreamscape.	8:30pm - 11:30pm Add to diary » More information »
	motiroti (International) Journeys of Love & More Love An edible, three-course journey through a tale of migration, homecoming and cookery with the Journeys of Love & More Love.	9:00pm - 10:00pm Add to diary » More information »

Thursday Oct 13, 2011

	AES+F Angels-Demons. Parade Angels-Demons. Parade creates an arresting and playful spectacle in Melbourne's CBD with striking, six-metre-tall sculptures of fiendish cherubs.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art With the arrival of the late 1960s came the rise of people power - the political and social landscape was primed to explode into a new consciousness and art in turn responded. Now, in a new century, contemporary artists revisit, revise and revitalise these paradigmshifting approaches in Power to the People.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	A Different Temporality Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985 Encompassing pivotal events from the era, A Different Temporality is a powerful review of Australian feminist art practice from 1975 through to 1985.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Daniel King look closer In look closer, indigenous filmmaker and photographer Daniel King, attempts to have us confront and reappraise the assumptions constructed when we encounter people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	In camera and in public (International) Ranging from candid street photography through to surveillance photography, In camera and in public explores the camera and its relationship to the subject, unaware of being photographed.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Harun Farocki and Vernon Ah Kee War at a Distance and Tall Man Drawing together work by two distinct voices in the film art scene, War at a Distance and Tall Man are twinned meditations on the inexorable proliferation of moving images.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Utopia (International) Intimate Publics A forum and exhibition themed around art in the Asia Pacific region.	11:00am - 5:30pm Add to diary » More information »
	Come Together: Artists in Conversation The popular Artists in Conversation series returns, giving you access to the ideas, thoughts, inspirations and lives of the artists involved in this year's Festival.	1:00pm - 2:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Border Project Half-Real Half-Real is a thrilling theatre work that turns the whodunit genre on its head - by letting the audience take control of the narrative.	1:00pm - 2:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Ilbijerri Theatre Company Foley Having spent decades spinning the yarns of black Australia, both contemporary and bygone, Gary Foley now uses his well-honed skills as troublemaker, teacher and teller of tales to bring his experiences to the stage.	2:00pm - 3:20pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Hofesh Shechter Company Political Mother Propulsive, forceful and possessed of a savage beauty, Political Mother is a masterful work from one of the most exciting minds in contemporary dance.	2:00pm - 3:10pm Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	2:00pm - 3:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine It's a jungle in here Part psychodrama, part multimedia marvel, It's a jungle in here is a confronting tour of the fragile rules that organise our public lives.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	6:00pm - 7:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Andreas Exner & Rose Nolan (Germany/Australia) The Solo Projects The Solo Projects draws together an array of new works by two international forces of the European-inspired avant garde: German Andreas Exner and Melbourne-based Rose Nolan.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	motiroti (International) Journeys of Love & More Love An edible, three-course journey through a tale of migration, homecoming and cookery with the Journeys of Love & More Love.	6:30pm - 7:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen (USA) Aftermath Original production by New York Theater Workshop Aftermath is a visceral theatre production that weaves real-life stories of Iraqis into a shocking tapestry of war and loss.	7:30pm - 9:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE (Impempe Yomlingo) (South Africa) Thirty South African performers stage a stunning music-theatre adaptation of Mozart's greatest operatic work: The Magic Flute, in an explosion of choral song, marimbas, drums and township-style percussion celebrating the spirit of contemporary Africa.	7:30pm - 9:45pm Add to diary » More information »
	Byron Perry DOUBLE THINK Prodigious Australian choreographer Byron Perry presents DOUBLE THINK, a shifting world of light and shadow with this playful experiment in movement.	7:30pm - 8:15pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Ilbijerri Theatre Company Foley Having spent decades spinning the yarns of black Australia, both contemporary and bygone, Gary Foley now uses his well-honed skills as troublemaker, teacher and teller of tales to bring his experiences to the stage.	7:45pm - 9:05pm Add to diary » More information »
	Hofesh Shechter Company Political Mother Propulsive, forceful and possessed of a savage beauty, Political Mother is a masterful work from one of the most exciting minds in contemporary dance.	8:00pm - 9:10pm Add to diary » More information »
	Tom Tom Crew Raw energy personified, Australia's Tom Tom Crew smash together acrobatics, hip-hop and percussion to create an entertaining, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle - a circus show for the 21st century.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information »
	fortyfivedownstairs Whiteley's Incredible Blue by Barry Dickins A hallucinatory exploration of Whiteley's life and art; a one-man theatrical fever dream, an urgent swell of colour, sound and language.	8:00pm - 8:55pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Maxim Rysanov with Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra and Alexander Sitkovetsky (Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania) The renowned Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra makes its exclusive Australian debut, directed by one of the world's premier viola players, the charismatic Maxim Rysanov.	8:00pm - 9:34pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Electric Canvas Cacophony: The Art of Conflict From across the Yarra River it catches your eye - flickering globules and streaks of brightly coloured light, strafing and playing across the surface of the Arts Centre.	8:00pm - 1:00am Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	8:00pm - 9:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Border Project Half-Real Half-Real is a thrilling theatre work that turns the whodunit genre on its head - by letting the audience take control of the narrative.	8:00pm - 9:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	motiroti (International) Journeys of Love & More Love An edible, three-course journey through a tale of migration, homecoming and cookery with the Journeys of Love & More Love.	9:00pm - 10:00pm Add to diary » More information »

Friday Oct 14, 2011

	AES+F Angels-Demons. Parade Angels-Demons. Parade creates an arresting and playful spectacle in Melbourne's CBD with striking, six-metre-tall sculptures of fiendish cherubs.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art With the arrival of the late 1960s came the rise of people power - the political and social landscape was primed to explode into a new consciousness and art in turn responded. Now, in a new century, contemporary artists revisit, revise and revitalise these paradigmshifting approaches in Power to the People.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	A Different Temporality Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985 Encompassing pivotal events from the era, A Different Temporality is a powerful review of Australian feminist art practice from 1975 through to 1985.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Daniel King look closer In look closer, indigenous filmmaker and photographer Daniel King, attempts to have us confront and reappraise the assumptions constructed when we encounter people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	In camera and in public (International) Ranging from candid street photography through to surveillance photography, In camera and in public explores the camera and its relationship to the subject, unaware of being photographed.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Harun Farocki and Vernon Ah Kee War at a Distance and Tall Man Drawing together work by two distinct voices in the film art scene, War at a Distance and Tall Man are twinned meditations on the inexorable proliferation of moving images.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Utopia (International) Intimate Publics A forum and exhibition themed around art in the Asia Pacific region.	11:00am - 5:30pm Add to diary » More information »
	Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine It's a jungle in here Part psychodrama, part multimedia marvel, It's a jungle in here is a confronting tour of the fragile rules that organise our public lives.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Andreas Exner & Rose Nolan (Germany/Australia) The Solo Projects The Solo Projects draws together an array of new works by two international forces of the European-inspired avant garde: German Andreas Exner and Melbourne-based Rose Nolan.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Come Together: Artists in Conversation The popular Artists in Conversation series returns, giving you access to the ideas, thoughts, inspirations and lives of the artists involved in this year's Festival.	1:00pm - 2:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen (USA) Aftermath Original production by New York Theater Workshop Aftermath is a visceral theatre production that weaves real-life stories of Iraqis into a shocking tapestry of war and loss.	2:00pm - 3:30pm Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	2:00pm - 3:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	6:00pm - 7:20pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	motiroti (International) Journeys of Love & More Love An edible, three-course journey through a tale of migration, homecoming and cookery with the Journeys of Love & More Love.	6:30pm - 7:30pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Give Peace a Chance Give Peace A Chance is an educational program focusing on documentaries that exhibit, with verve, passion and vigour, the determination of communities and brave individuals to make a difference.	7:00pm - 8:30pm Add to diary » More information »
	Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE (Impempe Yomlingo) (South Africa) Thirty South African performers stage a stunning music-theatre adaptation of Mozart's greatest operatic work: The Magic Flute, in an explosion of choral song, marimbas, drums and township-style percussion celebrating the spirit of contemporary Africa.	7:30pm - 9:45pm Add to diary » More information »
	Byron Perry DOUBLE THINK Prodigious Australian choreographer Byron Perry presents DOUBLE THINK, a shifting world of light and shadow with this playful experiment in movement.	7:30pm - 8:15pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Jessica Blank & Erik Jensen (USA) Aftermath Original production by New York Theater Workshop Aftermath is a visceral theatre production that weaves real-life stories of Iraqis into a shocking tapestry of war and loss.	7:30pm - 9:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Ilbijerri Theatre Company Foley Having spent decades spinning the yarns of black Australia, both contemporary and bygone, Gary Foley now uses his well-honed skills as troublemaker, teacher and teller of tales to bring his experiences to the stage.	7:45pm - 9:40pm Add to diary » More information »
	Hofesh Shechter Company Political Mother Propulsive, forceful and possessed of a savage beauty, Political Mother is a masterful work from one of the most exciting minds in contemporary dance.	8:00pm - 9:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Tom Tom Crew Raw energy personified, Australia's Tom Tom Crew smash together acrobatics, hip-hop and percussion to create an entertaining, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle - a circus show for the 21st century.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information »
	fortyfivedownstairs Whiteley's Incredible Blue by Barry Dickins A hallucinatory exploration of Whiteley's life and art; a one-man theatrical fever dream, an urgent swell of colour, sound and language.	8:00pm - 8:55pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	The Electric Canvas Cacophony: The Art of Conflict From across the Yarra River it catches your eye - flickering globules and streaks of brightly coloured light, strafing and playing across the surface of the Arts Centre.	8:00pm - 1:00am Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	8:00pm - 9:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Border Project Half-Real Half-Real is a thrilling theatre work that turns the whodunit genre on its head - by letting the audience take control of the narrative.	8:00pm - 9:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	motiroti (International) Journeys of Love & More Love An edible, three-course journey through a tale of migration, homecoming and cookery with the Journeys of Love & More Love.	9:00pm - 10:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Okkervil River (USA) Supported by Roller One The poster kids of high concept alt-country, Texan six-piece Okkervil River can also lay claim to being amongst the most critically lauded indie bands of the past decade.	9:30pm - 11:30pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Lovebirds The vibrant tropicana landscape of this year's Melbourne Festival Lounge will host the world premiere of The Lovebirds, a wild and exotic cabaret wonderland filled with song, dance and a Rio Carnival of colour and energy.	9:30pm - 10:30pm Add to diary » More information »
	fortyfivedownstairs Whiteley's Incredible Blue by Barry Dickins A hallucinatory exploration of Whiteley's life and art; a one-man theatrical fever dream, an urgent swell of colour, sound and language.	10:00pm - 10:55pm Add to diary » More information »

Saturday Oct 15, 2011

	AES+F Angels-Demons. Parade Angels-Demons. Parade creates an arresting and playful spectacle in Melbourne's CBD with striking, six-metre-tall sculptures of fiendish cherubs.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art With the arrival of the late 1960s came the rise of people power - the political and social landscape was primed to explode into a new consciousness and art in turn responded. Now, in a new century, contemporary artists revisit, revise and revitalise these paradigmshifting approaches in Power to the People.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Harun Farocki and Vernon Ah Kee War at a Distance and Tall Man Drawing together work by two distinct voices in the film art scene, War at a Distance and Tall Man are twinned meditations on the inexorable proliferation of moving images.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Utopia (International) Intimate Publics A forum and exhibition themed around art in the Asia Pacific region.	11:00am - 5:30pm Add to diary » More information »
	Give Peace a Chance Give Peace A Chance is an educational program focusing on documentaries that exhibit, with verve, passion and vigour, the determination of communities and brave individuals to make a difference.	12:00pm - 12:55pm Add to diary » More information »
	Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine It's a jungle in here Part psychodrama, part multimedia marvel, It's a jungle in here is a confronting tour of the fragile rules that organise our public lives.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	In camera and in public (International) Ranging from candid street photography through to surveillance photography, In camera and in public explores the camera and its relationship to the subject, unaware of being photographed.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Daniel King look closer In look closer, indigenous filmmaker and photographer Daniel King, attempts to have us confront and reappraise the assumptions constructed when we encounter people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent.	12:00pm - 4:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Andreas Exner & Rose Nolan (Germany/Australia) The Solo Projects The Solo Projects draws together an array of new works by two international forces of the European-inspired avant garde: German Andreas Exner and Melbourne-based Rose Nolan.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Come Together: Artists in Conversation The popular Artists in Conversation series returns, giving you access to the ideas, thoughts, inspirations and lives of the artists involved in this year's Festival.	1:00pm - 2:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE (Impempe Yomlingo) (South Africa) Thirty South African performers stage a stunning music-theatre adaptation of Mozart's greatest operatic work: The Magic Flute, in an explosion of choral song, marimbas, drums and township-style percussion celebrating the spirit of contemporary Africa.	1:30pm - 3:45pm Add to diary » More information »
	Ilbijerri Theatre Company Foley Having spent decades spinning the yarns of black Australia, both contemporary and bygone, Gary Foley now uses his well-honed skills as troublemaker, teacher and teller of tales to bring his experiences to the stage.	2:00pm - 3:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Hofesh Shechter Company Political Mother Propulsive, forceful and possessed of a savage beauty, Political Mother is a masterful work from one of the most exciting minds in contemporary dance.	2:00pm - 3:10pm Add to diary » More information »
	Byron Perry DOUBLE THINK Prodigious Australian choreographer Byron Perry presents DOUBLE THINK, a shifting world of light and shadow with this playful experiment in movement.	2:00pm - 2:45pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Give Peace a Chance Give Peace A Chance is an educational program focusing on documentaries that exhibit, with verve, passion and vigour, the determination of communities and brave individuals to make a difference.	2:00pm - 3:22pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Border Project Half-Real Half-Real is a thrilling theatre work that turns the whodunit genre on its head - by letting the audience take control of the narrative.	2:00pm - 3:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	A Different Temporality Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985 Encompassing pivotal events from the era, A Different Temporality is a powerful review of Australian feminist art practice from 1975 through to 1985.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	4:00pm - 5:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Give Peace a Chance Give Peace A Chance is an educational program focusing on documentaries that exhibit, with verve, passion and vigour, the determination of communities and brave individuals to make a difference.	4:30pm - 5:50pm Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	6:00pm - 7:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	motiroti (International) Journeys of Love & More Love An edible, three-course journey through a tale of migration, homecoming and cookery with the Journeys of Love & More Love.	6:30pm - 7:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Give Peace a Chance Give Peace A Chance is an educational program focusing on documentaries that exhibit, with verve, passion and vigour, the determination of communities and brave individuals to make a difference.	7:00pm - 8:34pm Add to diary » More information »
	Byron Perry DOUBLE THINK Prodigious Australian choreographer Byron Perry presents DOUBLE THINK, a shifting world of light and shadow with this playful experiment in movement.	7:30pm - 8:15pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE (Impempe Yomlingo) (South Africa) Thirty South African performers stage a stunning music-theatre adaptation of Mozart's greatest operatic work: The Magic Flute, in an explosion of choral song, marimbas, drums and township-style percussion celebrating the spirit of contemporary Africa.	7:30pm - 9:45pm Add to diary » More information »
	Ilbijerri Theatre Company Foley Having spent decades spinning the yarns of black Australia, both contemporary and bygone, Gary Foley now uses his well-honed skills as troublemaker, teacher and teller of tales to bring his experiences to the stage.	7:45pm - 9:05pm Add to diary » More information »
	Kronos Quartet (USA) Sun Rings Composed by Terry Riley for string quartet, chorus and pre-recorded spacescapes The Kronos Quartet presents the Australian debut of Sun Rings - an artistic commission by NASA that is an amalgam of chamber music, hypnotic visuals and sounds of deep space as recorded by the Voyager spacecraft.	8:00pm - 9:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Hofesh Shechter Company Political Mother Propulsive, forceful and possessed of a savage beauty, Political Mother is a masterful work from one of the most exciting minds in contemporary dance.	8:00pm - 9:10pm Add to diary » More information »
	Tom Tom Crew Raw energy personified, Australia's Tom Tom Crew smash together acrobatics, hip-hop and percussion to create an entertaining, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle - a circus show for the 21st century.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information »
	fortyfivedownstairs Whiteley's Incredible Blue by Barry Dickins A hallucinatory exploration of Whiteley's life and art; a one-man theatrical fever dream, an urgent swell of colour, sound and language.	8:00pm - 8:55pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	The Electric Canvas Cacophony: The Art of Conflict From across the Yarra River it catches your eye - flickering globules and streaks of brightly coloured light, strafing and playing across the surface of the Arts Centre.	8:00pm - 1:00am Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	8:00pm - 9:20pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	The Border Project Half-Real Half-Real is a thrilling theatre work that turns the whodunit genre on its head - by letting the audience take control of the narrative.	8:00pm - 9:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	motiroti (International) Journeys of Love & More Love An edible, three-course journey through a tale of migration, homecoming and cookery with the Journeys of Love & More Love.	9:00pm - 10:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	A Night with Aesop Rock and Kimya Dawson (USA) featuring Rob Sonic and DJ Big Wiz (USA) Support by The Narcicyst and Omar Offendum (Iraq/Syria) Aesop Rock, the enigmatic poet-laureate of hip-hop, appears in the company of Kimya Dawson, former member of Moldy Peaches and leader of the so-called anti-folk movement.	9:30pm - 11:45pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Lovebirds The vibrant tropicana landscape of this year's Melbourne Festival Lounge will host the world premiere of The Lovebirds, a wild and exotic cabaret wonderland filled with song, dance and a Rio Carnival of colour and energy.	10:00pm - 10:15pm Add to diary » More information »
	fortyfivedownstairs Whiteley's Incredible Blue by Barry Dickins A hallucinatory exploration of Whiteley's life and art; a one-man theatrical fever dream, an urgent swell of colour, sound and language.	10:00pm - 10:55pm Add to diary » More information »

Sunday Oct 16, 2011

	AES+F Angels-Demons. Parade Angels-Demons. Parade creates an arresting and playful spectacle in Melbourne's CBD with striking, six-metre-tall sculptures of fiendish cherubs.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art With the arrival of the late 1960s came the rise of people power - the political and social landscape was primed to explode into a new consciousness and art in turn responded. Now, in a new century, contemporary artists revisit, revise and revitalise these paradigmshifting approaches in Power to the People.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	In camera and in public (International) Ranging from candid street photography through to surveillance photography, In camera and in public explores the camera and its relationship to the subject, unaware of being photographed.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine It's a jungle in here Part psychodrama, part multimedia marvel, It's a jungle in here is a confronting tour of the fragile rules that organise our public lives.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Mozart's THE MAGIC FLUTE (Impempe Yomlingo) (South Africa) Thirty South African performers stage a stunning music-theatre adaptation of Mozart's greatest operatic work: The Magic Flute, in an explosion of choral song, marimbas, drums and township-style percussion celebrating the spirit of contemporary Africa.	1:30pm - 3:45pm Add to diary » More information »
	Give Peace a Chance Give Peace A Chance is an educational program focusing on documentaries that exhibit, with verve, passion and vigour, the determination of communities and brave individuals to make a difference.	2:00pm - 3:14pm Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	4:00pm - 5:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Give Peace a Chance Give Peace A Chance is an educational program focusing on documentaries that exhibit, with verve, passion and vigour, the determination of communities and brave individuals to make a difference.	4:00pm - 5:25pm Add to diary » More information »
	Kronos Quartet (USA) Sun Rings Composed by Terry Riley for string quartet, chorus and pre-recorded spacescapes The Kronos Quartet presents the Australian debut of Sun Rings - an artistic commission by NASA that is an amalgam of chamber music, hypnotic visuals and sounds of deep space as recorded by the Voyager spacecraft.	5:00pm - 6:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Tom Tom Crew Raw energy personified, Australia's Tom Tom Crew smash together acrobatics, hip-hop and percussion to create an entertaining, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle - a circus show for the 21st century.	5:00pm - 6:15pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	6:00pm - 7:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	motiroti (International) Journeys of Love & More Love An edible, three-course journey through a tale of migration, homecoming and cookery with the Journeys of Love & More Love.	6:30pm - 7:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	6:30pm - 7:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Tom Tom Crew Raw energy personified, Australia's Tom Tom Crew smash together acrobatics, hip-hop and percussion to create an entertaining, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle - a circus show for the 21st century.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information »
	fortyfivedownstairs Whiteley's Incredible Blue by Barry Dickins A hallucinatory exploration of Whiteley's life and art; a one-man theatrical fever dream, an urgent swell of colour, sound and language.	8:00pm - 8:55pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	The Electric Canvas Cacophony: The Art of Conflict From across the Yarra River it catches your eye - flickering globules and streaks of brightly coloured light, strafing and playing across the surface of the Arts Centre.	8:00pm - 1:00am Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	8:00pm - 9:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	8:30pm - 9:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Will Sheff (USA) Support by Mike Noga and Jimmy Stewart Will Sheff, the much-acclaimed lead singer of Okkervil River, will perform a once-off, intimate sideshow with support from Mike Noga and Jimmy Stewart.	8:30pm - 11:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	motiroti (International) Journeys of Love & More Love An edible, three-course journey through a tale of migration, homecoming and cookery with the Journeys of Love & More Love.	9:00pm - 10:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	9:45pm - 10:45pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out

Monday Oct 17, 2011

	AES+F Angels-Demons. Parade Angels-Demons. Parade creates an arresting and playful spectacle in Melbourne's CBD with striking, six-metre-tall sculptures of fiendish cherubs.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art With the arrival of the late 1960s came the rise of people power - the political and social landscape was primed to explode into a new consciousness and art in turn responded. Now, in a new century, contemporary artists revisit, revise and revitalise these paradigmshifting approaches in Power to the People.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	2:00pm - 3:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	The CNN Freedom Project Ending Modern-Day Slavery A live panel discussion sees CNN anchor and correspondent, Anna Coren, and prominent figures from the fields of politics, business and the law, tackle issues of human trade and exploitation head on.	6:00pm - 8:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	6:00pm - 7:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	6:30pm - 7:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Provocateur: The Rebellious Text Melbourne Festival, in collaboration with Red Stitch, presents a series of rehearsed readings of radical and politically inspired modern playwrights in Provocateur: The Rebellious Text.	7:45pm - 9:45pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Electric Canvas Cacophony: The Art of Conflict From across the Yarra River it catches your eye - flickering globules and streaks of brightly coloured light, strafing and playing across the surface of the Arts Centre.	8:00pm - 1:00am Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	8:00pm - 9:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	8:30pm - 9:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	9:45pm - 10:45pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out

Tuesday Oct 18, 2011

	AES+F Angels-Demons. Parade Angels-Demons. Parade creates an arresting and playful spectacle in Melbourne's CBD with striking, six-metre-tall sculptures of fiendish cherubs.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art With the arrival of the late 1960s came the rise of people power - the political and social landscape was primed to explode into a new consciousness and art in turn responded. Now, in a new century, contemporary artists revisit, revise and revitalise these paradigmshifting approaches in Power to the People.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	A Different Temporality Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985 Encompassing pivotal events from the era, A Different Temporality is a powerful review of Australian feminist art practice from 1975 through to 1985.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Harun Farocki and Vernon Ah Kee War at a Distance and Tall Man Drawing together work by two distinct voices in the film art scene, War at a Distance and Tall Man are twinned meditations on the inexorable proliferation of moving images.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine It's a jungle in here Part psychodrama, part multimedia marvel, It's a jungle in here is a confronting tour of the fragile rules that organise our public lives.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Andreas Exner & Rose Nolan (Germany/Australia) The Solo Projects The Solo Projects draws together an array of new works by two international forces of the European-inspired avant garde: German Andreas Exner and Melbourne-based Rose Nolan.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	2:00pm - 3:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	6:00pm - 7:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Utopia (International) Intimate Publics A forum and exhibition themed around art in the Asia Pacific region.	6:00pm - 8:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	6:30pm - 7:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Pan Pan Theatre (Ireland) The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane The Rehearsal is an exhilarating piece of theatre that ricochets wildly between Shakespearean drama, postmodern dismemberment and self-referential farce.	7:30pm - 9:50pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Provocateur: The Rebellious Text Melbourne Festival, in collaboration with Red Stitch, presents a series of rehearsed readings of radical and politically inspired modern playwrights in Provocateur: The Rebellious Text.	7:45pm - 9:45pm Add to diary » More information »
	Kronos Quartet (USA) The Kronos Quartet concert showcases the depth and diversity of the world's preeminent contempory string quartet as they perform an exhilarating suite of works including three Australian premieres.	8:00pm - 9:50pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Jecko Siompo/JeckoSDance (Indonesia) We Came from the East A rising force in the choreography scene, Jecko Siompo conjures up a furious display of the apparently indelible links between traditional Papuan dance and contemporary hip-hop.	8:00pm - 9:00pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Tom Tom Crew Raw energy personified, Australia's Tom Tom Crew smash together acrobatics, hip-hop and percussion to create an entertaining, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle - a circus show for the 21st century.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information »
	fortyfivedownstairs Whiteley's Incredible Blue by Barry Dickins A hallucinatory exploration of Whiteley's life and art; a one-man theatrical fever dream, an urgent swell of colour, sound and language.	8:00pm - 8:55pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	The Electric Canvas Cacophony: The Art of Conflict From across the Yarra River it catches your eye - flickering globules and streaks of brightly coloured light, strafing and playing across the surface of the Arts Centre.	8:00pm - 1:00am Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	8:00pm - 9:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	8:30pm - 9:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	9:45pm - 10:45pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out

Wednesday Oct 19, 2011

	AES+F Angels-Demons. Parade Angels-Demons. Parade creates an arresting and playful spectacle in Melbourne's CBD with striking, six-metre-tall sculptures of fiendish cherubs.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art With the arrival of the late 1960s came the rise of people power - the political and social landscape was primed to explode into a new consciousness and art in turn responded. Now, in a new century, contemporary artists revisit, revise and revitalise these paradigmshifting approaches in Power to the People.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	A Different Temporality Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985 Encompassing pivotal events from the era, A Different Temporality is a powerful review of Australian feminist art practice from 1975 through to 1985.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	In camera and in public (International) Ranging from candid street photography through to surveillance photography, In camera and in public explores the camera and its relationship to the subject, unaware of being photographed.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Harun Farocki and Vernon Ah Kee War at a Distance and Tall Man Drawing together work by two distinct voices in the film art scene, War at a Distance and Tall Man are twinned meditations on the inexorable proliferation of moving images.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Utopia (International) Intimate Publics A forum and exhibition themed around art in the Asia Pacific region.	11:00am - 5:30pm Add to diary » More information »
	Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine It's a jungle in here Part psychodrama, part multimedia marvel, It's a jungle in here is a confronting tour of the fragile rules that organise our public lives.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Andreas Exner & Rose Nolan (Germany/Australia) The Solo Projects The Solo Projects draws together an array of new works by two international forces of the European-inspired avant garde: German Andreas Exner and Melbourne-based Rose Nolan.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	2:00pm - 3:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	You Say You Want a Revolution Wheeler Centre Talks The Wheeler Centre and Melbourne Festival join forces to present a series of talks exploring some of the ideas that underpin and inform this year's Festival program.	6:00pm - 7:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	6:00pm - 7:20pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	6:30pm - 7:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Pan Pan Theatre (Ireland) The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane The Rehearsal is an exhilarating piece of theatre that ricochets wildly between Shakespearean drama, postmodern dismemberment and self-referential farce.	6:30pm - 8:50pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	James Rhodes Outrageous, charismatic and brilliant, the virtuoso classical pianist James Rhodes makes his keenly awaited Australian debut.	8:00pm - 9:45pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Jecko Siompo/JeckoSDance (Indonesia) We Came from the East A rising force in the choreography scene, Jecko Siompo conjures up a furious display of the apparently indelible links between traditional Papuan dance and contemporary hip-hop.	8:00pm - 9:00pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Tom Tom Crew Raw energy personified, Australia's Tom Tom Crew smash together acrobatics, hip-hop and percussion to create an entertaining, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle - a circus show for the 21st century.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information »
	fortyfivedownstairs Whiteley's Incredible Blue by Barry Dickins A hallucinatory exploration of Whiteley's life and art; a one-man theatrical fever dream, an urgent swell of colour, sound and language.	8:00pm - 8:55pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Phillip Adams BalletLab Aviary A Suite for the Bird Aviary is a fantasia of contemporary dance and exotic birdlife set against the avian-inspired 20th century idiom of French composer Oliver Messiaen's Catalogue d'Oiseaux.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	The Electric Canvas Cacophony: The Art of Conflict From across the Yarra River it catches your eye - flickering globules and streaks of brightly coloured light, strafing and playing across the surface of the Arts Centre.	8:00pm - 1:00am Add to diary » More information »
	Schaubühne Berlin (Germany) Hedda Gabler For the first time, the acclaimed Schaubühne Berlin brings its award-winning redefinition of theatre to Melbourne, with a stylish, modern take on Ibsen's iconic tale of entrapment and revenge in Hedda Gabler.	8:00pm - 10:15pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	8:00pm - 9:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	8:30pm - 9:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Bachelorette (New Zealand) Rat Vs Possum The music of Bachelorette is what might happen were you to toss 70s psychedelia, 80s electro-pop, 90s shoegaze and 00s electronica into a blender and turn it to ‘high’.	8:30pm - 11:30pm Add to diary » More information »
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	9:45pm - 10:45pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out

Thursday Oct 20, 2011

	AES+F Angels-Demons. Parade Angels-Demons. Parade creates an arresting and playful spectacle in Melbourne's CBD with striking, six-metre-tall sculptures of fiendish cherubs.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art With the arrival of the late 1960s came the rise of people power - the political and social landscape was primed to explode into a new consciousness and art in turn responded. Now, in a new century, contemporary artists revisit, revise and revitalise these paradigmshifting approaches in Power to the People.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	A Different Temporality Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985 Encompassing pivotal events from the era, A Different Temporality is a powerful review of Australian feminist art practice from 1975 through to 1985.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	In camera and in public (International) Ranging from candid street photography through to surveillance photography, In camera and in public explores the camera and its relationship to the subject, unaware of being photographed.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Harun Farocki and Vernon Ah Kee War at a Distance and Tall Man Drawing together work by two distinct voices in the film art scene, War at a Distance and Tall Man are twinned meditations on the inexorable proliferation of moving images.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Utopia (International) Intimate Publics A forum and exhibition themed around art in the Asia Pacific region.	11:00am - 5:30pm Add to diary » More information »
	Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine It's a jungle in here Part psychodrama, part multimedia marvel, It's a jungle in here is a confronting tour of the fragile rules that organise our public lives.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Andreas Exner & Rose Nolan (Germany/Australia) The Solo Projects The Solo Projects draws together an array of new works by two international forces of the European-inspired avant garde: German Andreas Exner and Melbourne-based Rose Nolan.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Come Together: Artists in Conversation The popular Artists in Conversation series returns, giving you access to the ideas, thoughts, inspirations and lives of the artists involved in this year's Festival.	1:00pm - 2:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	2:00pm - 3:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	You Say You Want a Revolution Wheeler Centre Talks The Wheeler Centre and Melbourne Festival join forces to present a series of talks exploring some of the ideas that underpin and inform this year's Festival program.	6:00pm - 7:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	6:00pm - 7:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	6:30pm - 7:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Pan Pan Theatre (Ireland) The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane The Rehearsal is an exhilarating piece of theatre that ricochets wildly between Shakespearean drama, postmodern dismemberment and self-referential farce.	7:30pm - 9:50pm Add to diary » More information »
	Provocateur: The Rebellious Text Melbourne Festival, in collaboration with Red Stitch, presents a series of rehearsed readings of radical and politically inspired modern playwrights in Provocateur: The Rebellious Text.	7:45pm - 9:45pm Add to diary » More information »
	Jecko Siompo/JeckoSDance (Indonesia) We Came from the East A rising force in the choreography scene, Jecko Siompo conjures up a furious display of the apparently indelible links between traditional Papuan dance and contemporary hip-hop.	8:00pm - 9:00pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Tom Tom Crew Raw energy personified, Australia's Tom Tom Crew smash together acrobatics, hip-hop and percussion to create an entertaining, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle - a circus show for the 21st century.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	fortyfivedownstairs Whiteley's Incredible Blue by Barry Dickins A hallucinatory exploration of Whiteley's life and art; a one-man theatrical fever dream, an urgent swell of colour, sound and language.	8:00pm - 8:55pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Phillip Adams BalletLab Aviary A Suite for the Bird Aviary is a fantasia of contemporary dance and exotic birdlife set against the avian-inspired 20th century idiom of French composer Oliver Messiaen's Catalogue d'Oiseaux.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	James Rhodes Outrageous, charismatic and brilliant, the virtuoso classical pianist James Rhodes makes his keenly awaited Australian debut.	8:00pm - 9:45pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	The Electric Canvas Cacophony: The Art of Conflict From across the Yarra River it catches your eye - flickering globules and streaks of brightly coloured light, strafing and playing across the surface of the Arts Centre.	8:00pm - 1:00am Add to diary » More information »
	Schaubühne Berlin (Germany) Hedda Gabler For the first time, the acclaimed Schaubühne Berlin brings its award-winning redefinition of theatre to Melbourne, with a stylish, modern take on Ibsen's iconic tale of entrapment and revenge in Hedda Gabler.	8:00pm - 10:15pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	8:00pm - 9:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	8:30pm - 9:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	9:45pm - 10:45pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out

Friday Oct 21, 2011

	AES+F Angels-Demons. Parade Angels-Demons. Parade creates an arresting and playful spectacle in Melbourne's CBD with striking, six-metre-tall sculptures of fiendish cherubs.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art With the arrival of the late 1960s came the rise of people power - the political and social landscape was primed to explode into a new consciousness and art in turn responded. Now, in a new century, contemporary artists revisit, revise and revitalise these paradigmshifting approaches in Power to the People.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	A Different Temporality Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985 Encompassing pivotal events from the era, A Different Temporality is a powerful review of Australian feminist art practice from 1975 through to 1985.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	In camera and in public (International) Ranging from candid street photography through to surveillance photography, In camera and in public explores the camera and its relationship to the subject, unaware of being photographed.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Harun Farocki and Vernon Ah Kee War at a Distance and Tall Man Drawing together work by two distinct voices in the film art scene, War at a Distance and Tall Man are twinned meditations on the inexorable proliferation of moving images.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Utopia (International) Intimate Publics A forum and exhibition themed around art in the Asia Pacific region.	11:00am - 5:30pm Add to diary » More information »
	Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine It's a jungle in here Part psychodrama, part multimedia marvel, It's a jungle in here is a confronting tour of the fragile rules that organise our public lives.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Andreas Exner & Rose Nolan (Germany/Australia) The Solo Projects The Solo Projects draws together an array of new works by two international forces of the European-inspired avant garde: German Andreas Exner and Melbourne-based Rose Nolan.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Come Together: Artists in Conversation The popular Artists in Conversation series returns, giving you access to the ideas, thoughts, inspirations and lives of the artists involved in this year's Festival.	1:00pm - 2:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	2:00pm - 3:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	You Say You Want a Revolution Wheeler Centre Talks The Wheeler Centre and Melbourne Festival join forces to present a series of talks exploring some of the ideas that underpin and inform this year's Festival program.	6:00pm - 7:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	6:00pm - 7:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	6:30pm - 7:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Pan Pan Theatre (Ireland) The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane The Rehearsal is an exhilarating piece of theatre that ricochets wildly between Shakespearean drama, postmodern dismemberment and self-referential farce.	7:30pm - 9:50pm Add to diary » More information »
	Jecko Siompo/JeckoSDance (Indonesia) We Came from the East A rising force in the choreography scene, Jecko Siompo conjures up a furious display of the apparently indelible links between traditional Papuan dance and contemporary hip-hop.	8:00pm - 9:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Tom Tom Crew Raw energy personified, Australia's Tom Tom Crew smash together acrobatics, hip-hop and percussion to create an entertaining, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle - a circus show for the 21st century.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information »
	fortyfivedownstairs Whiteley's Incredible Blue by Barry Dickins A hallucinatory exploration of Whiteley's life and art; a one-man theatrical fever dream, an urgent swell of colour, sound and language.	8:00pm - 8:55pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Phillip Adams BalletLab Aviary A Suite for the Bird Aviary is a fantasia of contemporary dance and exotic birdlife set against the avian-inspired 20th century idiom of French composer Oliver Messiaen's Catalogue d'Oiseaux.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	The Electric Canvas Cacophony: The Art of Conflict From across the Yarra River it catches your eye - flickering globules and streaks of brightly coloured light, strafing and playing across the surface of the Arts Centre.	8:00pm - 1:00am Add to diary » More information »
	Schaubühne Berlin (Germany) Hedda Gabler For the first time, the acclaimed Schaubühne Berlin brings its award-winning redefinition of theatre to Melbourne, with a stylish, modern take on Ibsen's iconic tale of entrapment and revenge in Hedda Gabler.	8:00pm - 10:15pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	8:00pm - 9:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	8:30pm - 9:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Konono No. 1 (Democratic Republic of the Congo) Bachelorette (New Zealand) For the first time, Congolese Konono No.1 bring their hypnotic crossover musical stylings to Australia, introducing a sound of street funk that is almost entirely homemade.	9:30pm - 11:30pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	9:45pm - 10:45pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	fortyfivedownstairs Whiteley's Incredible Blue by Barry Dickins A hallucinatory exploration of Whiteley's life and art; a one-man theatrical fever dream, an urgent swell of colour, sound and language.	10:00pm - 10:55pm Add to diary » More information »
	The Lovebirds The vibrant tropicana landscape of this year's Melbourne Festival Lounge will host the world premiere of The Lovebirds, a wild and exotic cabaret wonderland filled with song, dance and a Rio Carnival of colour and energy.	11:00pm Add to diary » More information »

Saturday Oct 22, 2011

	AES+F Angels-Demons. Parade Angels-Demons. Parade creates an arresting and playful spectacle in Melbourne's CBD with striking, six-metre-tall sculptures of fiendish cherubs.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Power to the People: Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art With the arrival of the late 1960s came the rise of people power - the political and social landscape was primed to explode into a new consciousness and art in turn responded. Now, in a new century, contemporary artists revisit, revise and revitalise these paradigmshifting approaches in Power to the People.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Harun Farocki and Vernon Ah Kee War at a Distance and Tall Man Drawing together work by two distinct voices in the film art scene, War at a Distance and Tall Man are twinned meditations on the inexorable proliferation of moving images.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Utopia (International) Intimate Publics A forum and exhibition themed around art in the Asia Pacific region.	11:00am - 5:30pm Add to diary » More information »
	Isobel Knowles & Van Sowerwine It's a jungle in here Part psychodrama, part multimedia marvel, It's a jungle in here is a confronting tour of the fragile rules that organise our public lives.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	In camera and in public (International) Ranging from candid street photography through to surveillance photography, In camera and in public explores the camera and its relationship to the subject, unaware of being photographed.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	A Different Temporality Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985 Encompassing pivotal events from the era, A Different Temporality is a powerful review of Australian feminist art practice from 1975 through to 1985.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Andreas Exner & Rose Nolan (Germany/Australia) The Solo Projects The Solo Projects draws together an array of new works by two international forces of the European-inspired avant garde: German Andreas Exner and Melbourne-based Rose Nolan.	All day Add to diary » More information »
	Jello Biafra (USA) with special guests Hardcore's biggest star, Jello Biafra (lead singer of the Dead Kennedys), presents a special night of music and spoken word at the Forum Theatre.	2:00pm - 6:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Phillip Adams BalletLab Aviary A Suite for the Bird Aviary is a fantasia of contemporary dance and exotic birdlife set against the avian-inspired 20th century idiom of French composer Oliver Messiaen's Catalogue d'Oiseaux.	3:00pm - 4:15pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Pan Pan Theatre (Ireland) The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane The Rehearsal is an exhilarating piece of theatre that ricochets wildly between Shakespearean drama, postmodern dismemberment and self-referential farce.	3:30pm - 5:50pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	4:00pm - 5:20pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	6:00pm - 7:20pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	6:30pm - 7:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	KURSK: An Oratorio Requiem by David Chisholm and Anzhelina Polonskaya (Australia/Russia) KURSK: An Oratorio Requiem is a collaboration between composer David Chisholm and poet Anzhelina Polonskaya that creates a moving elegy to the lives lost in the tragic sinking of the Kursk submarine.	7:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information »
	Provocateur: The Rebellious Text Melbourne Festival, in collaboration with Red Stitch, presents a series of rehearsed readings of radical and politically inspired modern playwrights in Provocateur: The Rebellious Text.	7:45pm - 9:45pm Add to diary » More information »
	notes from the hard road and beyond A musical collaboration from revolution to redemption Following last years extraordinary Seven Songs to Leave Behind, the Festival has assembled some of the world's finest singers for one night only to reprise the soundtrack of freedom with notes from the hard road and beyond.	8:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Jecko Siompo/JeckoSDance (Indonesia) We Came from the East A rising force in the choreography scene, Jecko Siompo conjures up a furious display of the apparently indelible links between traditional Papuan dance and contemporary hip-hop.	8:00pm - 9:00pm Add to diary » More information »
	Tom Tom Crew Raw energy personified, Australia's Tom Tom Crew smash together acrobatics, hip-hop and percussion to create an entertaining, adrenaline-fuelled spectacle - a circus show for the 21st century.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	fortyfivedownstairs Whiteley's Incredible Blue by Barry Dickins A hallucinatory exploration of Whiteley's life and art; a one-man theatrical fever dream, an urgent swell of colour, sound and language.	8:00pm - 8:55pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	Phillip Adams BalletLab Aviary A Suite for the Bird Aviary is a fantasia of contemporary dance and exotic birdlife set against the avian-inspired 20th century idiom of French composer Oliver Messiaen's Catalogue d'Oiseaux.	8:00pm - 9:15pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	The Electric Canvas Cacophony: The Art of Conflict From across the Yarra River it catches your eye - flickering globules and streaks of brightly coloured light, strafing and playing across the surface of the Arts Centre.	8:00pm - 1:00am Add to diary » More information »
	Schaubühne Berlin (Germany) Hedda Gabler For the first time, the acclaimed Schaubühne Berlin brings its award-winning redefinition of theatre to Melbourne, with a stylish, modern take on Ibsen's iconic tale of entrapment and revenge in Hedda Gabler.	8:00pm - 10:15pm Add to diary » More information » Selling Fast
	notes from the hard road and beyond A musical collaboration from revolution to redemption Following last years extraordinary Seven Songs to Leave Behind, the Festival has assembled some of the world's finest singers for one night only to reprise the soundtrack of freedom with notes from the hard road and beyond.	8:00pm - 10:35pm Add to diary » More information »
	Site UnSeen A interactive theatre piece which literally walks the audience through the streets of St Kilda, crafting with dark humour and wit, the sensate moments that constitute an experience of homelessness.	8:00pm - 9:20pm Add to diary » More information »
	Pan Pan Theatre (Ireland) The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane The Rehearsal is an exhilarating piece of theatre that ricochets wildly between Shakespearean drama, postmodern dismemberment and self-referential farce.	8:30pm - 10:50pm Add to diary » More information »
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	8:30pm - 9:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Jello Biafra (USA) with special guests Hardcore's biggest star, Jello Biafra (lead singer of the Dead Kennedys), presents a special night of music and spoken word at the Forum Theatre.	9:30pm - 11:30pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	Quartetthaus Quartetthaus is a beautiful intimate space, purpose-built to enable 52 patrons at each performance to open their minds to the rich history and contemporary resonance of the string quartet.	9:45pm - 10:45pm Add to diary » More information » Sold Out
	fortyfivedownstairs Whiteley's Incredible Blue by Barry Dickins A hallucinatory exploration of Whiteley's life and art; a one-man theatrical fever dream, an urgent swell of colour, sound and language.	10:00pm - 10:55pm Add to diary » More information »

Melbourne Festival6-22 Oct 2011

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Thursday Oct 6, 2011

A Different Temporality

Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985

Harun Farocki and Vernon Ah Kee

War at a Distance and Tall Man

AES+F

Angels-Demons. Parade

Daniel King

look closer

Power to the People:

Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art

Melbourne Festival Lounge

In camera and in public (International)

The Border Project

Half-Real

Site UnSeen

Site UnSeen

Back to Back Theatre

Ganesh Versus the Third Reich

The Manganiyar Seduction

by Roysten Abel (India)

Chunky Move and Victorian Opera

Assembly

National Theatre of China (China)

Rhinoceros in Love

Tom Tom Crew

The Border Project

Half-Real

The Electric Canvas

Cacophony: The Art of Conflict

Friday Oct 7, 2011

A Different Temporality

Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985

AES+F

Angels-Demons. Parade

Power to the People:

Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art

Daniel King

look closer

In camera and in public (International)

Harun Farocki and Vernon Ah Kee

War at a Distance and Tall Man

Come Together:

Artists in Conversation

Site UnSeen

Site UnSeen

Harun Farocki and Vernon Ah Kee

War at a Distance and Tall Man

Back to Back Theatre

Ganesh Versus the Third Reich

The Manganiyar Seduction

by Roysten Abel (India)

Ilbijerri Theatre Company

Foley

Chunky Move and Victorian Opera

Assembly

National Theatre of China (China)

Rhinoceros in Love

Tom Tom Crew

The Border Project

Half-Real

The Electric Canvas

Cacophony: The Art of Conflict

Site UnSeen

Mono and the Holy Ground Orchestra (Japan)

Supported by Wintercoats

The Lovebirds

Saturday Oct 8, 2011

A Different Temporality

Aspects of Australian Feminist Art Practice 1975-1985

AES+F

Angels-Demons. Parade

Power to the People:

Contemporary Conceptualism and the Object in Art

Harun Farocki and Vernon Ah Kee

War at a Distance and Tall Man

In camera and in public (International)

Daniel King