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    Show Your WEST-SIDE Art Prize and Exhibition is back to celebrate local creatives

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    As a Footscray artist known as LaDY MoHaWK, I am excited to announce the upcoming Show Your WEST-SIDE Art Prize and Exhibition 2024. This free public art exhibition offers a unique opportunity for local artists to showcase their talents. The theme for this year’s exhibition is ‘Westside Stories,’ inviting artists to explore and depict the diverse experiences, stories, and landscapes found within the west of Melbourne.
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    Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon brings her Object Of Projection to Newport’s Substation

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    Most know Kim Gordon as the co-founder of alt-rock band Sonic Youth. From 1981 to 2011 their atonal sounds won them the sort of indie cred few have equalled. Since the band’s breakup Gordon has continued her adventures in music and sound whilst experimenting with film, writing, acting, painting and design. While all these aspects of her work appear in the exhibition Object of Projection, now showing at The Substation in Newport, four short films form its clamorous beating heart.have equalled. 
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    Film Reviews – July 2024

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    Film reviews of a documentary about Midnight Oil, a queer coming of age story set in Melbourne, an acclaimed bikie drama, and Yorgos Lanthimos's latest film
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    Recommended reading from local bookshops – July 2024

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    Reviews of the books Peripathetic, The Reappearance of Rachel Price, The Ministry of Time, and Moon Road
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    Then & Now: The Anglers Tavern 1880s

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    More than a pub, the Anglers Tavern is a local social icon with a liquid history dating back to the 1860s. Originally known by many names, Anglers Arms, Anglers Rest and Anglers Hotel, it has weathered floods and reinvented itself through the years.

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