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2NARAMA 11-20 Jan daily Artboy Gallery Facebook phenomenon TOONARAMA returns to celebrate TOON-tastic 2somes and Dynamic Duos! A caricature collection featuring the famous and infamous... Cool Celebrities, Sexy Sports Stars, Community Cuties, Drag Divas, Fabulous Friends and Awesome Aussie Icons as drawn by Melbourne cartoonist BRETT WILLIS! Event Details ▸
AIDS Memorial Quilt and GLBTIQ Art Exhibition 25 Jan-1 Feb daily Louis Joel Arts and Community Centre Exhibition of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in Altona plus a small exhibition of 5 artists from the west who have worked or volunteered in the GLBTIQ community. The panels are machine-sewn, hand-sewn, appliqued, embroidered, hand-dyed, and many blocks have messages to loved ones written on them. Event Details ▸
Blue and Pink Phenomenon 17 Jan-24 Feb Thurs-Sun The Substation An exhibition of Australian Artists who explore the phenomenon of Queer, featuring Deborah Pauuwe (SA), Liam Benson (NSW), Drew Pettifer (VIC) and Deborah Kelly (NSW), examining the queer role played in a post-identity and also, increasingly, post-gender contemporary society. Premier Event Event Details ▸
Drawing on Desire 22-26 Jan Tues-Sat The Owl and Pussycat Gallery Stacey Bennett is Midsumma's inaugural Gender Studies Competition Winner. Drawing on Desire presents a new body of work exploring love, heartache and infatuation using playful charm, double imagery and the rawness of her subject. Event Details ▸
Exposed: Steve Scalone 19 Jan-3 Feb daily The Laird Hotel Winner of The Laird's Men on Men Art Competition for 2012, 'Bear' Steve Scalone pocketed cash and had his winning image grace the cover of MCV. Now Steve gets to expose himself (or his arts anyway) for Midsumma 2013. Event Details ▸
Figure It Out 17 Jan-6 Feb Mon-Sat Kingston Arts Centre Figurative art by four Melbourne GLBTIQ Artists - Gregg Wilson, Ann McGinley, Robert Hempel and Michael Rigg. Event Details ▸
Gender Typ(0)es 17 Jan-7 Feb Mon-Fri Project Space Spare Room Gender Typ(0)es, What gender are you?! The work is intended to provoke audience examination of their subjective gender experience against contemporary representations of gender norms, and aims to create space for gender-non-conforming performativity. Event Details ▸
How To Mend A Broken Heart 15 Jan-2 Feb Tues-Sat Lord Coconut Heartache never looked so good... Medical illustrator Beth Croce has a different take on how to mend a broken heart. Hunky boys and dashing dolls demonstrate the hands-on approach to heart surgery in this series of 10 hand-painted works on vintage book covers. Event Details ▸
Midsumma 25 years Retrospective Exhibition at Chapel off Chapel 23 Jan-3 Feb daily Chapel off Chapel As Midsumma celebrates our silver jubilee in 2013, we invite you to reminisce with us over the years gone by. The exhibition, split across Chapel off Chapel and Northcote Town Hall Rooftop, covers 25 years of Midsumma posters, guides and photos! Event Details ▸
Midsumma 25 years Retrospective Exhibition at Northcote Town Hall 28 Jan-10 Feb daily Northcote Town Hall Rooftop As Midsumma celebrates our silver jubilee in 2013, we invite you to reminisce with us over the years gone by. The exhibition, split across Chapel off Chapel and Northcote Town Hall Rooftop, covers 25 years of Midsumma posters, guides and photos! Event Details ▸
Monochromes 23 Jan-3 Mar daily Wyndham Art Gallery Contemporary art exhibition showcasing emerging artists from the west and featuring David Sequeira. David Sequeira is an award-winning artist and arts educator who works in a range of media, exploring the notions of language and information through colour and geometry. Event Details ▸
Moreland Arts; Nomadic Design 13 Jan-1 Feb daily Victoria Street Mall and Coburg Library Windows Ara Dolatian and Michele Donegan collaborate as 'Nomad' and install coloured woollen webs in galleries and public spaces working with the existing architecture. The web will reinvent Victoria Mall by creating a sense of other-worldliness reminiscent of nomads. Event Details ▸
Outside 17-27 Jan Thurs-Sun See www.outsideprojects.tumblr.com OUTSIDE (reasons for leaving your back door unlocked), presents a complex system of individual and collective storytelling using video, sculpture, photography, performance, installation and projection - an exhibition turned house party. Event Details ▸
Photo Stimulus 16 Jan-9 Feb Wed-Sat Edmund Pearce Gallery Photo artists provide CANDY for the eyes and INTELLECTUAL STIMULUS for the grey matter. Three photo-media artists reflect on fun, hedonism, and the richness of the real and unreal. These complementary exhibitions ensure a stimulating visit! Event Details ▸
Queer City Visual Arts; Gay Bash-up! 8 Jan-8 Feb Mon-Sat Mailbox 141 Queer City finds a new home! This Midsumma will see us witness the most anticipated match-up in the history of art. Are you ready? Rat vs Jimwah in the battle of the century! Style against style, brush against can, who will be triumphant? Event Details ▸
Queer City Visual Arts; Play-Full 16 Jan-1 Feb Mon-Fri 1 Spring Street Queer City finds a new home! Play-Full is an exhibition that will take viewers on a ride that is amusing, entertaining and lively. It will feature the return of the successful Toy to the World project, raising funds to go towards HIV research. Event Details ▸
Queer Square 15-30 Jan daily City Library Queer Square - Young people from Victoria tell their stories of life as queer students in 2012. With one square space each to fill with their own experiences, each Queer Square tells a unique story. Presented by Safe Schools Coalition Victoria and Minus18. Event Details ▸
'Roller Derby Saved my Soul' by Zina Sofer 15 Jan-3 Feb daily Gasworks Arts Park, Foyer Gallery Positive power in action by the girls of the Victorian Roller Derby League. Gasworks Arts Park and the Victorian Roller Derby League have joined forces to support this fantastic exhibition of action images, super women and the fans that love them, by talented photographer, Zina Sofer. Premier Event Event Details ▸
Ross Watson Exhibition 18 Jan-3 Feb Fri-Sun Ross Watson Gallery Ross Watson artworks featuring Stephen Fry, fellow Hobbit star Luke Evans, and singer Sam Sparro, in this outstanding exhibition which was first opened by Sir Ian McKellen in London in September. Event Details ▸
same same beloved 15 Jan-3 Feb daily Hares& Hyenas A photography exhibition celebrating love, intimacy and landscape between same-sex couples. Dismayed by the ongoing discrimination and lack of shared humanity shown by many, Deborah has produced a series of engaging photographic images celebrating same-sex relationships. Event Details ▸
The Gay Agenda 25 Jan-3 Feb Wed-Fri 10am-4pm, Sat 9am-4pm, Sun 10am-3pm OnStone A photographic commentary by Kris Darmody and Brenton Geyer. Social and political conservatives are deliberately whipping up a frenzy of hatred toward our community, plotting to undermine our collective strength, unity and place in society with an invention they call The Gay Agenda. Event Details ▸
The Pilot 18 Jan-1 Feb Thurs-Sun Off the Kerb Gallery and Studios The Pilot by Peter Eglezos, showcases a series of collected mass-media images that are ruptured, distorted and violated. Using found imagery from magazines, including DNA, GQ and Mate Magazine, Peter Eglezos explores the place of the gay man in contemporary society. Event Details ▸
'The Shakes' 18 Jan-1 Feb Thurs-Sun Off the Kerb Gallery and Studios Melbourne sculptor Luke Boslem undertakes an intriguing investigation into personal confinement, and presents it as an astounding installation that invites the viewer to experience the artist's personal battle with insecurity, self-containment and liberation. Event Details ▸
'Wisdom 101' by Mark Clough 15 Jan-3 Feb daily Gasworks Arts Park, Angela Robarts-Bird Gallery Wisdom 101 is a series of paintings that meditate on the exploration of mankind's search for wisdom across the ages, by Mark Clough, a painter, writer and spoken word performer who also played a prominent role in the national 'No To Homophobia' campaign. Event Details ▸
Yarra Arts; Energy from Stillness 16 Jan-2 Feb Wed-Sat Red Gallery Energy from stillness harnesses the strength and imagination from 2 and 3 dimensional artworks to create an art exhibition that is truly one of beauty. Artists: Matto Lucas, Emma Buckland, Alexander Edwards, Tama Favell, Hillary Green, Jacqueline Gwynne, Savina Hopkins, Cath Johnston, Sol Mann, Renuka Rajiv and Mel Simpson. Premier Event Event Details ▸
'Zanele Muholi : Mo(u)rning' 12 Jan-2 Feb Mon-Sat Walker Street Gallery & Arts Centre Mo(u)rning is a solo exhibition from South African artist and activist Zanele Muholi, who works to recreate an understanding of black lesbian women in post-apartheid South Africa. She presents the power of love and community in the face of vicious hate crimes. Event Details ▸

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