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Day August 26, 2010

Melbourne Spring Fashion Week: Breakfast Series 2010

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Learn the inner workings of retail professionals at MSFW’s Business Breakfast SeriesMelbourne’s retailers, designers, fashion industry leaders and marketers can access a wealth of business expertise at Melbourne Spring Fashion Week’s (MSFW) Business Breakfast Series, proudly presented by the Victorian Government and the City of Melbourne.

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Running from Monday 30 August through to Friday 3 September, the seminars will be based on the “Good Book of Retail”; hosting knowledge-focused, educational forums, drawing together retail experts, brand managers, designers, creative industry business leaders and marketers.Volume 2010 begins with Chapter One which talks about Melbourne as a customer service city and examines how Melbourne ranks in human factors, what dynamics and innovations are changing business outlooks and how consumer driven culture can make a difference to success. Chapter Two focuses on the description of retail, examining consumer changes and new retail models. Chapter Three notes that caring is the latest fashion statement, asking how the new feel good retail hybrid manifests infashion and retail, and what role retail can play in social conscience. Chapter Four invites guests to collaborate, highlighting the benefits of sharing recourses to inspire and offer a different look at retail possibilities. While the final event – Chapter Five – is all about the unexpected, it also discusses the evolution of retail,highlighting the consumer’s power to embrace everything from new innovations to limited edition, bespoke, artisan and handmade products. City of Melbourne Acting Lord Mayor Susan Riley said “Fashion, retail and design are synonymous with Melbourne and its stylish reputation rests on our ability to generate ideas and creative energy.’’The MSFW Business Breakfast Series offers a great opportunity for people to harness our city’s ideas and creative energy and putthem to good use in their own business endeavours.” The events will be hosted by some of the city’s most well respected industry professionals, see the full list here.

See more here

2010 Melbourne International Arts Festival

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Sinead O’Connor, John Cale, Robert Lepage, Jack Charles, Hotel Pro Forma, Michael Clark Company, Thomas Adès, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Akram Khan Company, The Black Arm Band & Beck’s Festival Bar

The 25th Melbourne Festival, and the second under the artistic direction of Brett Sheehy, announces a dynamic and emotive program of work from some of the finest creative minds of our times. Over 16 days, from 8 to 23 October, the Festival presents an unparalleled feast of music, dance, theatre, opera, visual arts, multimedia and outdoor events from renowned and upcoming Australian and international companies and artists.

Festival highlights this year include free outdoor aerial spectacular K@osmos; Hotel Pro Forma’s awe inspiring, large-scale operatic spectacle, Tomorrow, in a year, featuring the groundbreaking music of electro-pop masters The Knife; world renowned recording artists Sinead O’Connor (in her exclusive Australian performance), John Cale and Meshell Ndegeocello; one of Australia’s most highly regarded performers in his one-man show, Jack Charles V The Crown; the residency of British composer, Thomas Adès, the most inventive contemporary composer of his generation. As part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival: Beck’s Festival Bar at the Forum Theatre, will be featuring some intriguing acts: Boredoms (Japan), Low (USA), Ponzu Island (Australia), The Drones (Australia), Dead Meadow (USA) and more.

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Boredoms

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Ponzu Island

The Festival features two Australian premieres. come, been and gone, the bold new dance work from the world renowned Michael Clark Company featuring the music of the legendary David Bowie with Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and Brian Eno and internationally revered director, film maker and actor Robert Lepage’s  magical journey to modern China with The Blue Dragon, a heart-wrenching love story told with Lepage’s trademark striking theatrical vision.

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Come, Been and Gone, Simon Williams, Photography: Jake Walters

The Festival closes with a one-off spectacular finale, Seven Songs to Leave Behind, a unique concert featuring international music legends Sinead O’Connor, John Cale, Meshell Ndegeocello and Rickie Lee Jones, with award winning Indigenous artist Gurrumul Yunupingu and festival favourites Black Arm Band and Orchestra Victoria at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl on Oct 23.

For more info see the festival site here