Harvest Festival stretched way beyond the usual stage and audience festival experience. There was an entire fringe entertainment extravaganza engaging and involving anyone and everyone they could. As well as roving performers, there was an abundance of abstract and whimsical artworks around the venue. 

Melbourne Uni Madness

There's nothing more hilarious than watching your friends making fun of everything and anything on stage in front of hundreds of people. The Melbourne Uni Law Review 2012 was one crazy funny night at the Lithuanian Club in North Melbourne.

Unexpected Pleasures

Unexpected Pleasures is a contemporary jewellery exhibition (as the picture says haha) at the National Gallery of Victoria. It has some really artistic and really crazy designs but I suppose that's what happens when you fuse art and functionality. There's not much I can really say about this other that it was a good time filler and I enjoyed looking around. Oh, also it's free.

Finding Gems

As promised in my Hidden Gems and Rough Diamonds post, I had a bit more of a search in the city to find some more Look.Stop.Shop installations that I couldn't find last time. These beautiful little watercolour (I think) artworks were in the window of a shop called Design A Space down a tiny little laneway called Manchester Lane. The artist is Emma Leonard. 

Time In Motion

I was recently in the Arts Centre having a look around and I found this little photographic exhibition tucked away in a corridor near the main foyer. Time In Motion celebrates 50 years of the Australian Ballet with some of the current dancers and their achievements. 

Hidden Gems and Rough Diamonds

Melbourne is widely known for it's laneways but so often we hear about them but don't actually go an explore them. Look.Stop.Shop have created a fusion of art and shopping with their project Hidden Gems and Rough Diamonds. As I love Melbourne, shopping and art, I though this would be great to explore but unfortunately I decided to go on the first day and it wasn't all on display yet.

Royal Melbourne

Tucked away in a secret little gallery in Melbourne you will find the Royal Melbourne exhibition celebrating Her Majesty The Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the past 60 years of her reign. I have know this was on for a couple of weeks but whenever I walked past it, it was always closed. So the other day I checked to see if it was open and to my delight, it was! I'd never been in this tiny exhibition space located in the City Gallery outside of the Melbourne Town Hall and was quite surprised at what they had in there.

The Light In Winter

Each year in June "The Light In Winter" is exhibited at Federation Square in Melbourne to celebrate winter and the magic it brings. It aims to bring together the creative brilliance in Melbourne to create a whimsical art piece for everyone to see. This year there was a illuminated see saw with the light following the lowest point of the seat. There's a video further down of us discovering this.