Even Rachael Fleming,an actual pilot-in-training and whose family operates a flight school,plummeted nose-first into the river.
Melbourne hipsters and Sydney smarties have long enjoyed lampooning Moomba as a slightly daggy leftover from another age,yet it remains the most popular of free community festivals.
A pioneer in the male-dominated arts industry,she is remembered as tenacious,generous and a moral compass for many.
Dance lovers had plenty of reasons to kick up their heels,the music program was expansive – but theatre was patchy and the White Night side was a damp squib.
Sidney Myer Music Bowl will transform into a bamboo forest maze,and a secret venue will create the energy of an old-school rave:two of the 133 RISING events in May and June.
Melbourne Festival,which will replace the old International Arts Festival and White Night,had planned big public events and installations.
Having met the challenges of sustainability,diversity,inclusion and transparency,Melbourne's fashion festival is adding fun to the mix.
Given the sell-out crowd of 1700,Neil Gaiman’s conversation with us at Perth Concert Hall on Sunday night felt strangely intimate.
A chance encounter with gamelan music in Indonesia has inspired a beguiling cross-cultural experiment by Susheela Raman.
Sustained immersion in one of the most profound albums of 1999 is a weird experience in 2019:a collage of sublime performance and prepared artefacts in limbo between gripping immediacy and mechanical nostalgia.
Robert Davidson’s multimedia work is a recital for the modern day.