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Square Peg Round Hole exhibition
What:
Square Peg Round Hole exhibition
Where:
Per Square Metre, 191 Johnston St, Collingwood
When:
Launching Thurs Jan 24, 7pm
How much:
free
Description:
Meredith Earls and Ben McNamara are fresher than a Brumby’s steak and bacon pie cooked this morning. Straight out of uni, their art illustrations are well thought out and demand eye-popping attention. (It's one of those exhibitions where the advertising poster is so good, you ring the number asking where the poster sale is.
Event: Launch
Stimulus: A
Melbourne Chinese Books & Art
King Zhou was the most notorious tyrant of the Shang dynasty. His wit was sword-sharp and his bare hands could rip the flesh of any ferocious beast. In our educated opinion, he was also a little bit odd. Get this: he liked to entertain his guests by setting up a giant “alcohol and pool garden” whereby he would fill a pool with liquor and hang cooked meats from the trees.
The Super8 Diaries launch
Take a deep breath and reminisce the mass of muddy punters sweating out their day's worth of beer. Remember the good times?
Last year the Trainwreck 20/20 people threw a fundraiser event for their four-year-long project, The Super8 Diaries. A documentary about fall-to-your-knees-and-praise-worthy Australian bands shot on the kind of Super8 cameras film nerds sell their bikes at Cash Converters over.
Bim Kenisis
How often do we hoist our skirts above the knee and kick around the Charlston? Not enough. Bim Kenesis make us dream of a 1930s speakeasy with their latest collection, The Sarsaparilla Gang. Hot Dawg!
These glad-rags are created by a hip-to-the-jive lady from Perth who knows how to put on the ritz.
Obus
The neon tights, silk skirts and dripping shirts of Obus have travelled far and wide. Clutching on to their bus ticket and heaving their wardrobes, they have set up a brand new concept store in Flinders Lane.
The all-Australian made label only launched in 2000 and has since marked its territory in places where the toilet flushes anti-clockwise.
Brunswick Bound
Think back to primary school winter wash outs. It's pouring outside, your polar fleece track pants smell of damp and playing poison ball on the basketball court is off. You resort to spending your lunchtime within the comforting confines of the library.
Walking into Brunswick Bound on a rainy day is like finding solace on a winter wash out with the cosiness and friendly face of the store providing instantaneous relief from the bitter wind outside.
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