Featured Events

Back for its second year, the Central Victorian Indigenous Film Festival is showcasing an exciting range of Indigenous films from across Australia. Join us as we celebrate National Reconciliation Week 2018 and enjoy films created by, starring and telling stories about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Click here for full program. Emerge Cultural Hub…

Koto virtuoso, Satsuki Odamura, celebrates thirty years of ground breaking modern koto performance in Australia with a breathtaking fusion concert. The concert brings together international performers of koto and a range of classical and jazz instruments (including saxophone), as well as Japanese butoh (dance). To celebrate this special occasion, koto master Kazue Sawai will be…

This special photographic exhibition and public event will offer a uniquely African Australian perspective on hair styling, revealing a diversity of viewpoints and voices that challenge dominant Western ideals of beauty. Photographic self-portraits, designs and videos created by Congolese born multimedia artist Jean Michel Batakane, photographer Liz Arcus and designer Jagath Dheerasekara, capture 15 local…

Celebrating arts and culture from new, emerging and Indigenous communities in Melbourne’s outer north, the Emerge in the North 2018 runs over 9 days in venues across the north, from Broadmeadows to Epping, Thomastown to Coburg. Opening June 22 with the Arts & Craft Exhibition at Epping Community Services Hub, the Festival is a remarkable…

Direct from the Cambodian night markets to the clubs of Melbourne, Multicultural Arts Victoria are proud to present The Siem Reap Lady Boys as part of their 2018 national tour. It’s Destiny’s Child, Shakira, Beyonce, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey – it’s hits, wall to wall and it’s serious, glamorous, business. Gracing the Gasometer for…