By Anonymous (not verified) , 11 April, 2026 Melbourne International Comedy Festival April 11 – 17, 2026 Daniel Herborn David Urbanke The first week of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is a reminder of life’s need for absurdity and the seriousness of silliness done well.
By Anonymous (not verified) , 11 April, 2026 Heide Museum’s <em>John Perceval: All That We Are</em> April 11 – 17, 2026 Lisa Gorton Heide Museum and Art Gallery The first major exhibition of John Perceval’s work in 30 years shows an artist whose sensitivity to childhood animated his paintings and sculptures.
By Anonymous (not verified) , 8 April, 2026 Illustrator and satirist Ralph Steadman April 4 – 10, 2026 Paola Totaro Mike Bowers Best known for his gonzo collaborations with Hunter S. Thompson, illustrator and political satirist Ralph Steadman remains unafraid to call out those he views as troublemakers.
By Anonymous (not verified) , 4 April, 2026 Five poems April 4 – 10, 2026 Jill Jones We duck under a brutalist overpass We rise again but into what The air that is no longer there
By Anonymous (not verified) , 4 April, 2026 <em>Beyond the Neck</em> April 4 – 10, 2026 Robert Reid Steven Mitchell Wright Almost 20 years after its premiere, Tom Holloway’s play about the Port Arthur massacre, Beyond the Neck, remains grimly relevant.
By Anonymous (not verified) , 4 April, 2026 Artist Jon Campbell April 4 – 10, 2026 Matthew Griffin Matthew Griffin Jon Campbell’s artworks, showing in the survey exhibition yEAH / dUNNO at Geelong Gallery, record a demotic Australia that is mostly vanishing.
By Anonymous (not verified) , 4 April, 2026 <em>MOTHER</em> April 4 – 10, 2026 Tiarney Miekus Phoebe Powell MOTHER at the Ian Potter Centre is the largest exhibition on mothers and motherhood yet shown in Australia – but does it go far enough?
