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Yarraville students learn skills for life

A new program at Yarraville Special Developmental School is helping dozens of students gain valuable life and work skills. The Growing Great Graduates career skills...

Painters and Dockers do Yarraville for Australia Day

Legendary Australian rockers Painters and Dockers will light up the stage in Yarraville this Australia Day as they headline the second Stony Creek Music...

Summer Sounds music series kicks off

The annual Summer Sounds music series kicks off on the Williamstown waterfront on Saturday. Across February, there will be free outdoor concerts around Hobsons Bay,...

Brazilian storyteller to visit Williamstown

Brazilian storyteller Cadu Cinelli will visit Williamstown’s Loom Room next month. In 1998, Mr Cinelli co-founded Os Tapetes Contadores de Historias, or The Carpet Storytellers,...

Hopes for new arts festival to replace Big West

A new arts-based festival may replace the scuttled Big West Festival this year, despite the withdrawal of a proposal by key inner-west arts organisations. Maribyrnong...

Victoria University Secondary College: Inspiring students to play their part in creating the future

Inspiring students to play their part in creating the future, Victoria University Secondary College helps students achieve success, respect themselves and others and strengthen...

Seddon dancer Alice Dixon rolls into role

Seddon dancer Alice Dixon’s stage career is really on a roll. She is hopping on board this week’s world premiere of Tiny Slopes, by award-winning...

Maxine Beneba Clarke takes major poetry prize

The power of poetry to say a lot with a little has long attracted Yarraville writer Maxine Beneba Clarke. Fifteen years after she began playing...

Guided ‘surrealism’ walking tours for Seddon children

Children will be able to view Seddon from a different perspective on Saturday as part of two guided “surrealism” tours through the suburb. Organised by...

Miss Friby brings her burlesque best to Footscray

Cabaret is coming to the west as Footscray’s own Miss Friby teams up with The Reverence Hotel for a special run of shows. Australia’s Got...

Christmas carols return to Yarraville Gardens

Stars of stage and screen will lend their talents to Yarraville’s Carols in the Gardens this Saturday night. Thousands of people are expected to turn...

Newport resident to compete in the Cannonball Run

Newport’s Chris “Cannonball” Knoop this week left Australia to compete in the Cannonball Run. America’s coast-to-coast antique-motorcycle race attracts many wanting an adventure in the...

Dining and entertainment at Highpoint

Fast-paced entertainment and a new twist to the food court met at Highpoint shopping centre recently to celebrate the unveiling of a new casual...

Mystery of Three Well Known Australians

The person in the middle of the painting is surely a typical Aussie who doesn’t know what to make of the turmoil around him,...

Yana Alana descends on Williamstown

Award-winning cabaret performer Yana Alana is coming to Williamstown to perform her latest show, Yana Alana Covered. Yana Alana is the alter ego of Melburnian...

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Putting more women on the map

Community members now have a chance to nominate the achievements of remarkable local women by nominating them to be commemorated through place and road...

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