Past Events
May 2019
Michael Pearce: spend the afternoon with an award winning set and costume designer
The Channel, Arts Centre Melbourne,
St Kilda Road Terrace
Melbourne, VIC 3006 Australia + Google Map
Michael Pearce is a Melbourne based theatre set and costume designer, visual artist and occasional performer, designing for dance, drama and opera companies in Australia and New Zealand, Europe and Asia, including Australian Dance Theatre, Sydney Dance Company, the Netherlands Dance Theatre, Melbourne Theatre Company, Dance North, Hong Kong Arts Festival , Douglas Wright Co NZ and The New Zealand Ballet. He has designed nine works for The Australian Ballet, winning three Green Room Awards for Best Dance design, and…
March 2023
An evening with the author of The Simonsens of St Kilda
The Channel, Arts Centre Melbourne,
St Kilda Road Terrace
Melbourne, VIC 3006 Australia + Google Map
An event presented by Theatre Heritage Australia in association with Arts Centre Melbourne, is bound to be of interest to St Kilda history buffs. Roger Neill is a UK-based arts historian. His new book, The Simonsens of St Kilda, tells the fascinating true story of a family of singers and their pioneering opera company. Extraordinarily, twelve of the children and grandchildren of Martin and Fanny Simonsen became professional singers. From their noisy house of song in St Kilda, two of them became…
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