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Breaking down long-established boundaries, The New Black Vanguard: Photography between Art and Fashion exhibition is set to arrive at Bunjil Place Gallery from 21 March “ 7 June as part of the PHOTO 2020 International Festival of Photography. Travelling from New York's Aperture Foundation and curated by Antwaun Sargent, the exhibition presents fifteen artists whose vibrant portraits and conceptual images challenge the idea that blackness is homogenous, with works serving as a form of visual activism.

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After internationally touring their award-winning show TOUPÉ, Australia's queens of character comedy return to Melbourne as three blokes with a dream. Daryl, Vinnie and Berrick are self-proclaimed thespians with mullets and mummy issues.

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When does art begin? Is it a significant event or series of events that changes the course of one's life journey? For Stephen Mills, creativity really began for him in 2006 after a major life jolt from a motor vehicle accident [MVA]. A fractured vertebrae from the impact was the direct result to his body, but an artist was born at this pivotal time. Unplanned occurrences can have unexpected results, and for Stephen, the ebb and flow of life has been artistically documented. Stephen's upcoming exhibition is titled OUTPOURING.

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You're invited to Jim and Barb's golden wedding anniversary! After 50 years of marriage these Baby Boomers from Balwyn annoy one another so much they literally want to kill each other. Meanwhile, Greta Thunberg is on the TV telling them that the world is on fire and it's all their fault. This dissent into the disappointing abyss of toenail cuttings, stray hairs, sleep apnoea and unfulfilled dreams is layered with precision timing, nonsensical absurdity and deadpan delivery. Multi-award-winning creators of Die Roten Punkte, Clare Bartholomew and Daniel Tobias are back with a brand-new murderously funny physical farce.

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At the end of 2019, much of Australia's east coast (NSW and Victoria) and the Flinders Ranges and Kangaroo Island (SA) went up in flames. The Black Summer collapsed the tyranny of distance: the far from here became intimate as smoke crawled into every set of lungs, near or far, as particulate-matter, particles that are small enough to enter and damage human lung tissue. For months, Australians breathed air pollution up to 26 times above levels considered hazardous to human health. Climate emergency is now a thing that envelopes and entraps us all.

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Actor and Activist Janie Gibson began rehearsals for her Adelaide Fringe debut Voices Of Joan, whilst locked in a prison cell in Collinsville Queensland. Janie staged a theatrical blockade last Friday to protest the Adani Carmichael coal mine. Dressed as a mermaid, Gibson chained herself to a cattle grid to stop work on the mine and send a message to Adani and the Australian government that this mine is a carbon bomb that will accelerate catastrophic climate change. Her placard read: Mythical Creatures: Mermaids & Honest Coal Barons. Be it a case of life imitating art or art imitating life, Janie's new theatre work Voices Of Joan calls on the courage of rebel icon Joan of Arc to aid us in these dark times.

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Known for his incredible ability to deal with hot topics in a hilarious and slightly offensive way, Akmal promises this year to deliver a show that is punctual and jam-packed with words...some of which he will be using for the first time. @akmalsaleh #akmalsaleh @OfficialAkmal #OfficialAkmal

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An Australian comedic favourite, no stranger to stages down under and an all-round likeable rogue, Jimeoin effortlessly delivers his idiosyncratic observations on everyday suburban life with his trademark devil-may-care style and humorous ramblings in his new show... Ramble On! @jimeoin #jimeoin

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Insightful and brutally honest, stand-up comedian Lawrence Mooney returns to the stage in 2020 for his new show, Beauty. Emerging from his guise of former Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Beauty will be a veracious culmination of Lawrence's comedic brilliance.

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Manchester born and proud Australian comic, Nurse Georgie Carroll is set to return to the stage in 2020 for her show, Off the Charts. Drawing humour from her unique role as mother, wife, comedian and nurse, Georgie's combination of nationalities, home life and hospital has provided a 24/7 training ground that has nurtured her naturally funny bones. #NurseGeorgieCarroll @NurseGeorgieCarroll

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Randomist cult comedian Ross Noble is set to return to the stage in 2020 for his new show Humournoid. The show will visit 27 regional and metropolitan locations throughout Australia, while promising a truly unique stand-up experience. @realrossnoble #realrossnoble

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Sydney's biggest annual comedy festival returns to take over the city from April 20 to May 17. @sydneycomedyfestival @Syd_Comedy_Fest #sydneycomedyfestival

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Opening 27 March 6-8pm. Exhibiting in the PROJECT SPACE, Altar'd Lament examines migration, diaspora culture and history. It is produced by Masonik, a multi-disciplinary art collective, and features live music, video projection, and spoken-word performance alongside an immersive art installation.

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A solo exhibition by Ann Thomson, one of Australia's iconic female artists is showing at Mitchell Fine Art in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane from March 25th. Ann Thomson's new exhibition draws from a multitude of residencies and painting expeditions around the world. Brisbane is where I grew up and where my inspiration and influences began, says Thomson My painting has always moved between representation and abstraction which I continue to explore today. @mitchellfineartgallery #artexhibition #brisbaneartgallery #abstractart #contemporaryart

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Justin Miller Art have announced the first Australian Exhibition by, international fine art photographer Matt Draper with the exhibition Art Science opening March 20th as part of the Ocean Lovers Festival. Drapers incredible images are acquired from hundreds of hours free diving with magnificent creatures from the ocean and are rarely exhibited to the public as private collections attain his work often before public display. In his first exhibition on home soil, after achieving notoriety throughout the United States, Draper, with the Ocean Lovers Festival will bring Californian Ocean Alliance pioneering scientist Dr. Ari Freidlaender to Australia to deliver talks. Donations from the exhibition proceeds will support Antarctic whale research.

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Out of Sight Out of Mind, by not-for-profit Festival partner Underwater Earth will reveal the wonders of the ocean in a fully immersive and interactive Virtual Reality film and photographic exhibition at the Bondi Pavilion Gallery this March, as part of the Ocean Lovers Festival. The free exhibition, proudly supported by the Vine Foundation, will be open from March 17 to 22, to take viewers for a sneak peek below the waves of Bondi, the Great Barrier Reef and farther afield. Audiences will come face to face with a Humpback Whale and can explore Sydney's seaweed beds as if they were a fish. #iseachange

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Revolver Upstairs and Just Another Agency present Revolving Panels', a collection of artist's panels taken straight from the walls of Revolver's downstairs oasis, Smokers Paradise.

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3×3 presents three solo shows by Arts Project artists James MacSporran, Samraing Chea and Rebecca Scibilia, whose works overlap in their collective muse on urban culture and landscape whilst diverging in individual style and tone.

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InkMasters Cairns invites entries for our 5th biennial Inkmasters Print Exhibition at Tanks Arts Centre, Cairns. Entries close 8 May 2020. This is an international juried exhibition that brings together the best printmakers from around the world. Works entered can be any print medium (or combination of media), traditional and contemporary, in a range of formats including 3D works such as artists' books. Selected works are eligible for a number of non-acquisitive prizes. Works will be archived in an online catalogue and video record of the launch that takes place on 24 July 2020. Exhibition finishes 23 August 2020.

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Play It Forward is thrilled to announce the World Premiere of our next newly commissioned major choral work - ECOTORIO at the Melbourne International Singers Festival on Sun June 7, 2020! ECOTORIO is an exciting new song cycle written for SATB community and school choirs by Dave Newington and Jonathon Welch, written in real time about climate change events that have occurred around our planet over the past months. #ecotorio #MISF20 @MelbSingersFest @playitforwardoz

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Perth-born, Melbourne-based Stuart Ringholt creates performance-based, process-oriented and audience participation-reliant works which deal with experience of fear and embarrassment devised in amateur self-help environments. @artgallerywa #artgallerywa #screenspace

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WA's talented young artists are celebrated in this yearly showcase, gauging the pulse of young people who will influence, empower and shape the world we live in. @artgallerywa #artgallerywa @agwapulse #pulseperspectives #agwapulse

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Come and see the 52 finalists' entries to the 2020 Tom Bass Prize for Figurative Sculpture at the historic Juniper Hall. @tombassprize #tombassprize

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One of Asia-Pacific's leading contemporary art galleries, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney is pleased to present It's Not Real, a solo exhibition of new works by Australian artist Karen Black on 13 “ 28 March 2020.

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Cousin Tara delivers an hour of eclectic musical comedy cabaret that would make Rachel Bloom burst with frenzied delight.

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This 90 minute fun-filled interpretation of Mozart's masterpiece is fused with Freddie and Elton classics. The story is adapted to a very familiar sci-fi world of light sabres, singing robots and the fight between good and evil.

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Opening 27th of March 6-8pm.In a time of increasing sensitivity to climate change. Apparition is an exhibition that examines our connections to the natural world.

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John Fluevog is visiting Australia and you can meet him in person as he officially launches his first flagship store in Australia! @fluevog

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Music Victoria announce the return of the Live Music Professionals program for 2020. Designed to strengthen and support Victorian live music businesses, the free professional development program is open to application from venue owners and managers, band bookers and independent promoters.

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Artmarketspace is excited to announce it has developed its own new auction capability and will launch with a fabulous single-owner auction of works from the Estate of David Boyd, consigned by members of the Boyd family.

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