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The 3MBS Daily Arts Diary is a listing of music and arts events in and around Melbourne.

Tune in to hear the Diary at 8am and 6pm weekdays, 10am Saturdays and 9am Sundays on 3MBS FM or check this events listing page (updated every Tuesday).

If you or your group would like to appear in the Daily Arts Diary please contact the Arts Coordinator, Julie Jolly on (03) 9416 1035 or email at arts@3mbs.org.au

Click on the links below to view the latest music and special events, exhibitions, classes, children's events and auditions. Events are in date order, by category.

Music

Auditions & Opportunities | Theatre

Special Events & Festivals

Exhibitions | Classes

Children's Events

Music

Clair de Lune
Presented by: Twilight at the Terrace
Venue: Terrace Tearooms, Botanical Gardens, Enter through gate A, Anderson St., South Yartra
Thursday July 2nd at 6:30pm
Contact: 0407 302 771
With original and traditional pieces, flautist Megan Kenny and harpist Michael Johnson draw influence from Renaissance and Medieval court & dance pieces, Celtic jigs and ballads. Bookings Essential!

Musical Soiree
Presented by: Soroptimist House
Venue: Soroptimist House, 383 Toorak Rd, South Yarra
Sunday July 5th at 2:00pm
Contact: 9879 2161
Enjoy a pleasant Sunday afternoon with baritone Mark Casey and woodwind quintet, "Music of the Woods". Proceeds to local charities.

From the Golden Age
Presented by: Robin Ward Concerts
Venue: St Columbs Church, 5 St Columbs St, Hawthorn
Sunday July 5th at 6:00pm
Contact: www.earlyharps.com
International Harpist Robin Ward plays music from the 16th century to the present day, including pieces by Trabaci, Froberger, Buxtehude, Parry, and Glinka.

The Woohoo Revue
Presented by: Sorelli at Czech House
Venue: Czech House, 497 Queensberry St, North Melbourne
Saturday July 11th at 8:30pm
Contact: 042 583 5705
Enjoy a frenetic blend of Balkan melodies, Latin flavours, swing and dance floor savvy.

Memories of Vienna
Presented by: Robert Stolz Viennese Music Society
Venue: Whitehorse Centre, 397 Whitehorse Rd, Nunawading
Sunday July 12th at 2:00pm
Contact: 9262 6555
Enjoy melodies by masters of Viennese Operetta sung by Shu-Cheen Yu and Roy Best.

In Honour of Haydn
Presented by: Esterhazy Players
Venue: St Pauls Anglican Church, 275 Latrobe Terrace, Geelong
Sunday July 12th at 3:00pm
Contact: 5223 3003
Music includes Haydn, Pachelbel, W.F. Bach, Mozart and Delibes. Procees to support St Paul's heritage listed buildings and the book project, Popondetta, Papua New Guinea.

Melbourne Musicians in Concert
Presented by: Melbourne Musicians
Venue: St Johns Southgate, 20 City Rd, Southbank
Wednesday July 15th at 8:00pm
Contact: 9685 5111
Play CPE Bach, Handel and Purcell with soprano Elena Xanthoudakis, trumpeter Geoff Payne, oboist Anne Gilby and flautist Derek Jones.

49th Ida Doubleday Bequest Recital
Presented by: Music Lovers' Society
Venue: Glen Eira Arts Complex, Cnr Glen Eira & Hawthorn Roads, Caulfield
Saturday July 18th at 8:00pm
Contact: 9370 4896
Hear Clarinetist, Robin Henry with Claire Cooper playing piano. Music will include Francaix's Theme and Variations and Sitsky's Vartarun

John Tallis Chamber Music at Rippon Lea
Presented by: Team of Pianists
Venue: 192 Hotham St, Elsternwick,
Sunday July 19th at 6:30pm
Contact: 9527 2851
Enjoy the Chamber Choir , conducted by Nicholas Cowall with pianist Rohan Murray. Music includes Tchaikovsky's 1812 Festive Overture and an Australian Première of Bortniansky, Act III Alcide and Rachmaninoff's Finale from Ale.

C & C Rigg Bequest Classic Music in Historic Venues
Presented by: Team of Pianists
Venue: South Melbourne Town Hall, 210 Bank St, South Melbourne
Friday July 24th at 7:30pm
Contact: 9527 2851
Lead by Conductor Marco van Pagee, the VCA Symphony Orchestra play with Peter Boyd, Max Cooke and Jayson Gillham. Music includes Brouwer'sGuitar Concerto, Martin's Petite Symphony Concertante and Tchaikovsky'sPiano Concerto no. 1.

Auditions & Opportunities

Melbourne Chamber Choir and the Melbourne Women's Choir
Melbourne Chamber Choir and the Melbourne Women's Choir are auditioning for their new programs. Fine male vocalists in paticular are invited to audition for Melbourne Chamber Choir. Musicianship skills are needed as both choirs sing challenging and interesting repertoires. Welcoming and fun social environment. Close to city with public transport., Parking available. Contact: 9818 1296. (30/06/09)

Surrey Hills Chamber Orchestra welcomes string players.
If you are keen to play in an orchestra and you are grade 6-7 AMEB minimum and have orchestral or ensemble playing experience, do contact the orchestra. You can attend two rehearsals without committment. Phone 9877 5286 for more information. (16/06/09)

Theatre, Cabaret & Dance

Carousel
Presented by: Diamond Valley Singers
Venue: Warrandyte High School
July 3rd to July 11th
Contact: 9439 7843
Performing this towering musical, the Singers will donate proceeds from the performances to World Vision and Open House.

Happy Days by Samuel Beckett.
Presented by: Malthouse Theatre
Venue: Malthouse Theatre, 113 Sturt Street, Southbank
July 3rd to July 25th
Contact: 9685 5111
With Julie Forsyth playing Winnie, Happy Days is part vaudeville of half remembered love and joy, part a searing view into the abyss of meaninglessness if our minds were to give way, Happy Days veers between the strange and the practical with alarming resonances for contemporary audiences.

Aznavour - From Today
Presented by: Butterfly Club
Venue: Butterfly Club, 204 Bank St, South Melbourne,
Thursday July 9th to Saturday 11th at 9:00pm
Contact: 9690 2000
Miko Fourcault - Larche takes us on a musical journety through half a century of Charles Aznavour's music.

Special Events & Festivals

Exhibitions

Narelle Jubelin’s Cannibal Tours
Presented by: Heide Museum of Modern Art
Venue: Albert and Barbara Tuckler Gallery, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 7 Templestowe Rd Bullen
to July 12th
Contact: 9948 4098
Cannibal Tours explores the notion of cultural exchange, and the way in which the materials and ideas of one culture can become globally sought-after and distorted. This happens when meaning and significance change over time across borders. This transformation is embodied in Jubelin’s petit point renditions.

Carmel Seymour, Greg Spiller, Maara Serwylo
Presented by: C3 Contemporary Art Space
Venue: Abbotsford Convent, 1 St Heliers St, Abbotsford
Wednesday to Sunday to July 12th at 10am to 5pm
Contact: www.abbotsfordconvent.com.au
Solo shows by Carmel Seymour, Greg Spiller, Maara Serwylo.

20 Plus - Celebrating Twenty Years of the Flinders Lane Gallery
Presented by: Flinders Lane Gallery
Venue: Flinders lane Gallery, 137 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
to July 18th
Contact: 9654 3332
This gallery has been a major force over the years, in the contemporary art scene in Melbourne.

Jo Reitze's Sea Air
Presented by: Geelong Gallery
Venue: Little Malop Street, Geelong
to July 19th
Contact: 5229 3645
This exhibition‘s title refers to the invigorating and restorative qualities of the beautiful coastal environment of Ocean Grove.

The Creative Australia and the Ballet Russes exhibition
Presented by: The Arts Centre
Venue: Gallery 1, the Arts Centre, Southbank
until September
This Russian movement and its profound impact on all forms of art in Australia is the subject of a free exhibition

Selected artefacts from the David and Marion Adams Collection
Presented by: Ian Potter Museum of Art
Venue: Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne, Parkdale
to October 11th
Contact: www.art-museum.unimelb.edu.au
Includes pieces of Roman, Greek , Egyptian, Near East and Central Asian civilisations.

Nine Lives: on subject and subjectivity
Presented by: The Cunningham Dax Collection
Venue: 35 Poplar Rd, Parkville
to October 16th
Contact: 9342 2394
Brings together a rich variety of lived experience and creative expression by both untrained and professional artists.

Classes & Workshops

Children's Events