Arts Centre Melbourne

And we have the excruciatingly talented, the wonderful, extraordinary Sarah Louise Young, who I do know quite well from the fascinating 80 Days.

I'm interviewing her because she's coming out from London to the Arts Centre to do her one-woman show.

No, not Kate Bush, it's called.

You know what I'm talking about.

So please tell us a little bit about this cabaret Kate Bush or not Kate Bush show that you're doing.

I am so excited to be coming back to Melbourne.

This is our second time at the Arts Centre with an evening without Kate Bush, which is a huge, chaotic, eccentric love letter to Kate Bush's music.

But it's not a kind of traditional tribute.

Protest organisers told Green Left that more action is planned in the future.

Workers at the Melbourne Arts Centre in Narm went on a historic 24-hour strike from Friday to Saturday as part of their campaign for a fair pay, secure working conditions and proper government funding for the arts sector.

The industrial action was organised by three unions, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, the Electrical Trades Union and the Community and Public Sector Union, which all have members working at the centre.

The Arts Centre is Australia's largest performing arts venue, but after years of inflation and funding cuts, workers are facing real wage cuts in their latest offer.

Of course, it's on Channel 9.

And then New Year's Eve and the day before, Gala Concerts, that is on sale now, starring the magnificent Mark Vincent, the fabulous Caroline O'Connor, the Dana Jolly Dancers, 60-piece orchestra live on stage with Broadway hits, popular classics, apoconcerts.com, or you can just Google New Year's Eve and the day before, Australian Pops Orchestra, or phone 1300 182 183 for the Arts Centre box office.

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are extraordinary.

And ultimately, this year's theme, uh, is one that matters because e-evaluation is, at its core, a practice about making judgments about value, and value is never placeless.

What counts as a good outcome in Darwin is not necessarily what counts in Canberra or Melbourne or Suva or, or any other place.

Beyond this, uh, is my place or the way in which I understand what my place is different to yours.

Uh, can we both have different understandings of place in the context of the same space? Are spaces only one thing, or can spaces and places be many things to many different people? Uh, our methods, our timelines, and our reporting formats, you know, they've all emerged from requirements that have been set by others elsewhere, uh, and they carry assumptions about what is important, uh, with them, with them as well.

I just have to jump in here and say that because Adrian, uh, specifically mentioned Kirsten Clements' session, I did then have to go find Kirsten, uh, and try to get her to recap her five-minute Ignite in, like, 90 seconds or less.

Uh, thankfully, we got through most of it, so, uh, thanks, Kirsten, for, for being such a good sport

sportUh, Kirsten Clements here from Arts Centre Melbourne down in Naarm, Melbourne.

Uh, I spoke today on arts-based methods.

In Australia, we had the, I don't know, it must have been the 50th anniversary.

And at the Arts Centre, there was an orchestra playing with Jaws.

And it was quite a high, expensive, high-profile event.

And the audience was this amazing collection of Gen X people, these men with fins on their hats.

Jake Spear will take on the iconic dual role of Mrs Doubtfire and Daniel Hillard.

And the stage adaptation of The Shawshank Redemption will arrive in the new year, bringing Stephen King's enduring story to Playhouse at Arts Centre Melbourne from the start of February, with a stellar cast locked in.

And that's what's making news this week.

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Not in the lodge, despite somebody's wish, perhaps.

They are on display at the Arts Centre in Melbourne.

Kylie has her own display there, so she's got... all sorts of costumes, but the hot pants are there, and she does reckon they are sort of a little threadbare in certain areas.

Well, there was a lot of spinning around Dunham in that video