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		<title>1000 Pound Bend Cafe</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something exciting is happening in Little Lon.  For the first 100 years of Melbourne&#8217;s life, it was infamous as a “den of inequity” – reputedly bustling with prostitutes and opium.  From 1948, a clean up of this “street of evil” followed and the area became, well, fairly boring.  Melbourne institution Rue Bebelons started a change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Japanese Summer Festival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sound of taiko (Japanese drums) will echo through Docklands as part of the Japanese Summer Festival.  To hear taiko being performed is to experience an energy that has been channelled through ancestry for over 500 years.  Last year, I was enthralled by the rhythm of taiko.  I will be going back again this year!  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CAE Summer Courses</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 21:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is this the year to do something for yourself?  The CAE Summer Course Guide is out!  It contains courses on everything from cooking for healthy bones to de-cluttering your life.  Take a leaf out of my friend Trixie&#8217;s book &#8211; she&#8217;s decided it&#8217;s her time, now or never &#8211; and is doing a course to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MSO Free Concerts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 21:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late in the Summer, Melburnians flock to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl to experience the joy of orchestral music while relaxing on the grass lawns.  Picnic rugs are laid out, champagne corks popped, and dips passed around.  Somehow there is always a new romance or two in the air before the night is out!  This year [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:45:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday 29 January 2012, to the sound of beating drums and firecrackers, dragons will prance through Melbourne’s Chinatown to celebrate Chinese New Year.  It is the Year of the Dragon!  And our Millennium Dragon is the longest processional dragon in the world!  It will dance its way around Chinatown, accompanied by other dragons.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Festivals Melbourne 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 21:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the 2012 dates for some of my favourite Melbourne festivals.  I will be sharing more with you about these festivals as the year unfolds.  I hope these dates help with planning your year!  If you click on the festival name, it will give you a link to the festival.  If I&#8217;ve blogged about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nicholas Building</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 21:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a magical quality to the Nicholas Building.  It isn&#8217;t the architecture or even the location.  It is a feeling that you are about to discover something new.  I thank all the artists who have lived and worked in the building for that.  Because I think their personal voyages of self discovery must have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carols by Queerlight</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 22:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Swing into the Christmas season with Carols by Queerlight. This will be lots of fun. As the Melbourne Rainbow Band says &#8220;It&#8217;s as camp as&#8230;.um&#8230;.Christmas!&#8221; Along with the Rainbow Band, the Melbourne Gay and Lesbian Chorus will be performing. The effervescent Luke Gallagher will be an MC, along with Joy FM&#8217;s Danae Gibson. Another great [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bennetts Lane</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 02:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On sultry Summer nights we would cycle in, and prop our bikes at the end of the lane.  On dark Winter evenings, we would pile into our housemate’s little white van, and park it in the grounds of the nearby church.  It was our reward at the end of a day of study: jazz and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Substation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sixteen years ago, the mighty red brick Substation building was like a slain dragon. Its once shiny scales were gone &#8211; every one of its windows had been smashed. The guts of the building were in a state of decay. However, local resident Darren Williams had a vision. A group of artists shared that vision. [...]]]></description>
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