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  • Staging justice: people, places, planet and practice

    Thursday 23 July 2026 6:00pm - 8:00pm
    Please join us for a special lecture by Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow Professor Taiwo Afolabi. In times of crisis and upheaval, the performing arts can play a vital role in envisioning more just and equitable futures. Drawing from his extensive international research and practice, P...
  • Unbound frequencies

    Tuesday 28 July 2026 7:30pm - 8:40pm
    Unbound Frequencies showcases new composer-performer works from the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music’s Interactive Composition community. Exploring synthesis, audiovisual performance, spatial sound, and experimental music practices, the program traverses immersive sonic environments, live electr...
  • Beneath the Street: Subterranean Dialogues

    30 June 2026 - 29 July 2026
    Presented by VCA Design & Production Supported by Creative Spaces, City of Melbourne. The exhibition explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Moving between surface and depth, the physical and ...
  • Beneath the Street: Subterranean Dialogues

    30 June 2026 - 29 July 2026
    Presented by VCA Design & Production Supported by Creative Spaces, City of Melbourne. The exhibition explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Moving between surface and depth, the physical and ...
  • Beneath the Street: Subterranean Dialogues

    30 June 2026 - 29 July 2026
    Presented by VCA Design & Production Supported by Creative Spaces, City of Melbourne. The exhibition explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Moving between surface and depth, the physical and ...
  • Beneath the Street: Subterranean Dialogues

    30 June 2026 - 29 July 2026
    Presented by VCA Design & Production Supported by Creative Spaces, City of Melbourne. The exhibition explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Moving between surface and depth, the physical and ...
  • Beneath the Street: Subterranean Dialogues

    30 June 2026 - 29 July 2026
    Presented by VCA Design & Production Supported by Creative Spaces, City of Melbourne. The exhibition explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Moving between surface and depth, the physical and ...
  • Beneath the Street: Subterranean Dialogues

    30 June 2026 - 29 July 2026
    Presented by VCA Design & Production Supported by Creative Spaces, City of Melbourne. The exhibition explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Moving between surface and depth, the physical and ...
  • Beneath the Street: Subterranean Dialogues

    30 June 2026 - 29 July 2026
    Presented by VCA Design & Production Supported by Creative Spaces, City of Melbourne. The exhibition explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Moving between surface and depth, the physical and ...
  • Beneath the Street: Subterranean Dialogues

    30 June 2026 - 29 July 2026
    Presented by VCA Design & Production Supported by Creative Spaces, City of Melbourne. The exhibition explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Moving between surface and depth, the physical and ...
  • Beneath the Street: Subterranean Dialogues

    30 June 2026 - 29 July 2026
    Presented by VCA Design & Production Supported by Creative Spaces, City of Melbourne. The exhibition explores what exists beneath the visible — hidden systems, ecologies, networks, histories and tensions that shape everyday experience. Moving between surface and depth, the physical and ...
  • Macgeorge Visiting Lecture: LIFEWORK vs. Work of Art

    Wednesday 29 July 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm
    Please join us for a Macgeorge Fellow lecture by Professor Amelia Jones (Robert A. Day Professor at Roski School of Art & Design, University of Southern California). LIFEWORK vs. Work of Art This lecture will build on the research and thinking of Professor Jones’s single-author book i...
  • Master of Music (Orchestral Performance) Showcase Concert 2026

    Wednesday 29 July 2026 7:30pm - 9:15pm
    Join our Master of Music (Orchestral Performance) students in their annual showcase concert. You will hear the entire cohort perform alongside elite musicians from our city’s professional orchestras. The concert will be introduced by members of the ensemble and directed by Richard Davis and Tim B...
  • Art Forum: Amelia Jones

    Thursday 30 July 2026 - All day
    A free talk presented by Amelia Jones as part of the Art Forum series. Amelia Jones is Robert A. Day Professor at Roski School of Art & Design, USC, in Los Angeles and has taught and lectured around the world at institutions including University of Manchester, the Sorbonne (Paris), Univer...
  • Classical Voice Mega Day 2026

    Sunday 2 August 2026 9:30am - 6:00pm
    We are inviting high school students and singing teachers with an interest in classical voice to join us for a celebration of all things singing with Conservatorium staff, students and alumni at a free Classical Voice Mega Day. Participants will engage in workshops, masterclasses and rehearsals, ...
  • Bach reimagined

    Tuesday 4 August 2026 7:30pm - 8:45pm
    Join renowned pianist Kristian Chong in Bach works for keyboard and works for other instruments that have been transcribed and reimagined by masterful composers Liszt and Busoni for the piano. Opening with grandeur, Bach’s Chromatic Fantasie and Fugue remains one of his most daring and innova...
  • Earth-Like

    Wednesday 5 August 2026 7:00pm - 8:15pm
    Quercus Trio, pioneers in celebrating Australian horn trios, present trios by Don Banks and John Polglase alongside Stuart Greenbaum’s horn trio “Earth-Like,” a world premiere exploring our search for habitable worlds and what makes us human. From cosmic conditions for life to intimat...
  • Art Forum: Paul Donald

    Thursday 6 August 2026 12:15pm - 1:00pm
    A free talk presented by Paul Donald as part of the Art Forum series. Paul Donald was born and raised in New Zealand before attending Sydney College of the Arts, The University of Sydney, Australia, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting. After living for several years in Ma...
  • Letters to Louise

    Tuesday 11 August 2026 7:30pm - 8:30pm
    A Musical Tribute to the Legacy of Louise Hanson-Dyer In a tribute to the great 20th century patron of the arts and music publisher, Louise Hanson-Dyer, mesmerising mezzo-soprano Dimity Shepherd partners with pianist Caroline Almonte to present a breathtakingly diverse collection of works com...
  • Art Forum: Emmanuel Rodriguez

    Thursday 13 August 2026 12:15pm - 1:00pm
    A free talk presented by Emmanuel Rodriguez as part of the Art Forum series. Emmanuel Rodríguez Chaves is a Costa Rican visual artist whose practice treats the image as a phenomenological device—experienced through gaze, memory, and affect—rather than a fixed representation. Over more than a ...
  • The sonata as storytelling

    Tuesday 18 August 2026 7:30pm - 9:10pm
    The Sonata as Storytelling explores the sonata as a powerful vehicle for musical narrative, bringing together two masterpieces that reveal the expressive possibilities of the form across two centuries. Composed in the final months of his life, Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A major, D959 unfolds ...
  • Art Forum: Kyla McFarlane

    Thursday 20 August 2026 12:15pm - 1:00pm
    A free talk presented by Kyla McFarlane on the work of Cate Consandine (1970-2026), as part of the Art Forum series. Working across film, performance and sculpture, Cate Consandine’s works explore the physical expression of psychological and emotional states, centering on the relationship bet...
  • Get Up 2026

    29 July 2026 - 9 September 2026
    Jazz and Improvisation students lead jam sessions. All music students welcome. Get Up Schedule 29 July 2026, 7PM - Lionel Lounge 19 August 2026, 7PM - Lionel’s Lounge 9 September 2026, 7PM - Lionel’s Lounge Venue This jam session takes place in Lionel’s Lounge. Please ente...
  • Collisions 2026

    5 August 2026 - 16 September 2026
    Collisions brings together musicians, dancers and artists for a night of cross-disciplinary improvisation and collaboration. Celebrating spontaneity, experimentation and the new - Collisions is a series of interdisciplinary improv nights curated by students from the Conservatorium Jazz and Im...
  • Battle of the Bands 2026

    12 August 2026 - 23 September 2026
    Students from the Conservatorium’s Jazz & Improvisation program curate their own Battle of the Bands competition. Schedule Heat 1 : Wednesday 12 August, 7PM - Lionel Lounge Heat 2: Wednesday 2 September, 7PM - Lionel’s Lounge Finals: Wednesday 23 September, 7PM - Lionel’s Loun...