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25941 Wake up with Design Groove Therapy https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/12/Gracie-Steindl-scaled.jpg A hip hop dance experience designed to help you take life less seriously, even if it’s just for the hour Groove Therapy was born from conversations with people who wished they could dance but found the idea of stepping into a dance studio a bit daunting. They pump the bass and foster a safe space to learn... Queen Victoria Gardens
25947 Wake up with Design Collective Voice Exploration https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/12/IMG_1160-scaled.jpg Open your lungs and feel the simple glow of singing alongside friends and strangers Ocean Ornob is an artist who’s interested in the warm power that communal singing can have on the central nervous system. He’s created a short morning workshop that’s perfect for all voices — especially for those who’ve never been the first... Queen Victoria Gardens
25930 Wake up with Design Morning Dance Class with Deanne Butterworth https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/12/WUWD_DB.png Attune yourself to physical, emotional and sonic space with contemporary dancer, Deanne Butterworth   Deanne Butterworth is a dancer who moves with grace and strength—two characteristics we’d likely all love to begin our days embodying. For Wake up with Design, she’s inviting us to rouse our bodies and embrace the morning energy.  The session will be a soundtracked... Queen Victoria Gardens
25970 Wake up with Design Pilates in the Park https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/12/Mpavillion_Marie-Luise-scaled-e1733286145587.jpg Get energised and wake up to a stronger core with morning Pilates Pilates is back at MPavilion! Led by Garage Pilates’ Sebastian Coles, a qualified Pilates instructor with over 15 years of experience, it’s a chance to start the day with a full-body workout that’ll leave you feeling that post-Pilates buzz. Sebastian integrates movement, breathing... Queen Victoria Gardens
25928 Building Blocks We Are Stardust https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/12/We-Are-Stardust_001-1.png A family AI workshop for dreaming new “naturaficial” ecologies into the pavilion  Physicists know it. Astronomers know it. Moby knows it. We are all made of stars. This project, spearheaded by RMIT Architecture Immersive Futures Lab, invites children (aged 6 to 12) to harness the stardust using text-to-3D AI.  The gardens become a narrative backdrop and the pavilion itself... Queen Victoria Gardens
25925 Building Blocks Hands-On with a New Material  https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/12/2.-JFR001-FrankstonHigh-231120-030-WebRes-MPham.jpg Make your own vivid objects and go beyond petrochemical plastics   Artist Jessie French, from OTHER MATTER, is a global leader in environmentally responsible material design. Her work creating sustainable, regenerative plastics is part of the global fight against pollution.  Join her for a workshop where you’ll get to create and play with non-petrochemical plastics. Get hands-on... Queen Victoria Gardens
25919 Building Blocks Encountering Atmospheric Elements https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/12/Fleeting-Space-by-Qirong-Liu-and-Jinchen-Ding-1.jpg Get in your element and wear the atmosphere in this hands-on family workshop    The elemental shapes of Tadao Ando’s pavilion heighten light and shadow, while the pond gives us reflections and wind ripples. Now a trio of spatial designers, creatives and educators—Anna Conrick, Gyungju Chyon and Danica Karaičić—are helping kids fully embody the atmospheric elements at... Queen Victoria Gardens
25912 Building Blocks Elijah Money Printmaking for Kids https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/12/HERO_Archer-Eels.png A kids’ printmaking session that celebrates Binderap, as the months that are drier get set to inspire Co-presented with BLINDSIDE January and February are Binderap season. It’s the time of year when the brown butterflies flutter, the cicadas sing, and the days stretch further into fun.  Join Wiradjuri artist Elijah Money and Blindside for a simple printmaking... Queen Victoria Gardens
25921 Building Blocks Create Your Own Book! https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/12/0H1A0862ThomasMcCammon-WyndhamCityCouncil-Workshop1-1-scaled.jpg Drop in with the kids and make your own eight-page masterpiece alongside Kids’ Own Publishing artists  Join Kids’ Own Publishing at MPavilion for a workshop where children become the authors, illustrators, and designers of their very own eight-page book. The publishers are experts at making interactive spaces where kids take creative control. With support from... Queen Victoria Gardens
25948 Building Blocks WeaVee Station https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/12/IMG_5550-scaled-e1733276838801.jpg Get weaving your own way and try your hand at macramé making in this community craft project There’s a misconception that being a weaver always involves sitting tranquilly, spending years mastering a specific technique before you create anything. Chaco Kato from Slow Art Collective invites us re-think that idea. In this workshop, you can just... Queen Victoria Gardens
25917 Building Blocks Boxwars at MPavilion https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/12/Copy-of-74701533_2620536984673324_8476247335955857408_o.jpg Block their socks off at BoxWars, the family activity that gives chaos a good name All’s fair in love and cardboard. To headline our family-friendly summer series, we’re inviting Boxwars into the fray. They’re the fun-loving mavericks who make cardboard-based art and mayhem. For MPavilion they’ll build a full-scale recycled cardboard maze inspired by Tadao... Queen Victoria Gardens
25926 Building Blocks OPEN Play Design  https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/12/Open-Play_Open-House-Melbourne-scaled.jpg Kids dive into future-dreaming design, as the pavilion opens wide for play Young minds always come up with the most maverick designs. This interactive workshop, for ages 3 to 10, is all about puzzling through fun design challenges using felt shapes. Run by the not-for-profit architecture team at Open House Melbourne, the focus is on... Queen Victoria Gardens
25923 Building Blocks A Family Affair with Music In Exile https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/12/Ausecuma-Beats-by-Dallas-Howell-1.jpg Share the joyous vibrations of West Africa and Lebanon in this family-friendly gig and drumming workshop  At an Ausecuma Beats gig, the band lights up when the crowd connects with their deep Afrobeat grooves and sends that energy back.  So, why not get the kids started young with West African rhythms? That’s the idea behind... Queen Victoria Gardens
25934 Wake up with Design ‘Refresh and ready’ with Jo Lloyd https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/12/Jo-Lloyd-_-Photo-Credit-Peter-Rosetzky-1.jpg Revive your body and mind in this playful workshop with dance artist Jo Lloyd    Dancer, choreographer and teacher Jo Lloyd (Swans, MPavilion 11) is getting us moving in the mornings. Working in response to the site, her workshop incorporates contemporary dance and yoga practices that’ll have you refreshed and re-energised before the bustle of the city beckons.   You don’t need... Queen Victoria Gardens
25918 Building Blocks Design Odyssey – Designing for Joy and Play https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/12/MPavilion_Image_-Marie-Luise-Skibbe-2023-1-scaled.jpeg Ways to access that light giddy feeling, led by experts who take joy seriously  In a world that can feel like a cascade of calamity, acts of joy and playfulness can be the best intervention. But, of course, you can’t just conjure joy from thin air.  This discussion is about practical ways we can tackle... Queen Victoria Gardens
25746 Home Ground A Very Koori Pool Party https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/MPV008-Koori-005-MichaelPham-HighRes-scaled.jpg Make a splash at an art happening inspired by early modern Queer photography and Ancient Corroboree practices     Early black-and-white photographs of same-sex couples lounging by riverways were often seething with implicit sexuality. A Very Koori Pool Party will indigenise and complicate these images with an art happening that promises to be very Ibiza-meets-Warrandyte.  DJ...
25670 Home Ground Expiry D8 https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO-expiry-D8-MichaelPham-WebRes.jpg A taboo-breaking space for the death-curious Expiry D8 is a meeting place for liberating conversations and inspiring new attitudes about death-care. We’re inviting the death-curious for two evenings of transformative conversation, connection and art immersion. At the heart of the event is a speed-dating style experience inspired by Swiss Sociologist Bernard Crettaz’s ‘Cafés Mortels’, where death... Queen Victoria Gardens
25625 Home Ground MPavilion Live with Being Biracial Podcast Audio https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO-Image.-SarahPannell_BeingBiracial_CultureMakers_HR-scaled.jpg A pond-side podcast about biracial belonging in the arts, recorded live Maria Birch-Morunga is a Māori/Pakehā facilitator and craft queen. Kate Robinson is an Iranian/Australian family violence lawyer and artist. Together, they’re two biracial women who are endlessly fascinated by the juggling of cultures, identities, and family gossip that can come with being mixed-race. Their... 2023-11-29 Queen Victoria Gardens
25630 Home Ground My Body is my Home Audio https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/my-body-is-my-home-scaled.jpeg A creative workshop for women and non-binary people centring the body as the first sanctuary in navigating ageing, insecurity and change In an economy where homeownership is increasingly out of reach for many, women over 55 have become the fastest-growing demographic needing homelessness assistance. This workshop invites women and non-binary people over 45 to come... 2023-11-29 Queen Victoria Gardens
25619 Home Ground Heritage Coexistence Audio https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/Image-1-1.jpg A thought-provoking talk that sees heritage from new, open-ended angles Questions of heritage can be fraught. This event takes a wide-ranging, laser-mapped view, led by Belgrade-born architect, researcher and curator Milica Božić. It begins with a talk focusing on the intertwined First Nations, colonial, and natural heritage embedded in Queen Victoria Gardens. The discussion will... 2023-11-29 Queen Victoria Gardens
25603 Home Ground Free to Feed: Stories of Home Audio https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO-Image.-Free-to-Feed-Photo-by-Parker-Blain-scaled.jpg Gather, graze, and share stories of belonging over Free to Feed’s shared table at MPavilion Free to Feed  thrive on moments that combine storytelling and communal eating. This shared table at MPavilion whisks together both.  They’ll be setting up one of their famous grazing tables, which are always fragrant and brimming with dishes from around the world. Gather for an informal dinner... 2023-11-29 Queen Victoria Gardens
25646 Home Ground City Stories – Designing Inclusive Urban Space https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/03/Stool-Dolly-9-1-scaled.jpeg Intimate insights into the everyday give new nuance to the collective experience of the city A city can be a very different place from one perspective to the next. This talk looks at inclusive design through a series of personal lenses. It’s led by Caroline Bos, Co-Founder and Principal Urban Planner of UNStudio—a company that’s... Queen Victoria Gardens
25638 Home Ground SWANS Audio https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO-Image.-SWANS-Photo-by-Michael-Pham-scaled.jpg Created and performed by Deanne Butterworth & Jo Lloyd  A pair of dancers inhabit the pavilion to disrupt familiar narratives and embody the light and dark symbolism of swans. Celebrated performers Deanne Butterworth and Jo Lloyd move inside the pavilion’s elegant greys, and alongside its still waters, in a new dance work that channels the... 2023-11-29 Queen Victoria Gardens
25576 Home Ground The Golden Years https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO-Image.-The-Golden-Years.jpg A diverse, inquisitive panel of experts across design, anthropology and education asks how design can reimagine home for our ageing population Between now and 2050, Australia’s elderly population is predicted to more than double, with the population over 85 set to quadruple. As we age, our requisites of the home evolve. While our need for belonging,... Queen Victoria Gardens
25578 Home Ground The Future of Blak Theatre https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO-Image.-Healing-Stories.jpg Join ILBIJERRI Theatre Company and Melbourne Theatre Company for a groundbreaking conversation that celebrates the vibrant tapestry of First People’s stories What does it mean to authentically present First Peoples’ stories on stage? What does Blak theatre practice look like? How do we navigate the relationship between institutions and community priorities? Join leading Blak creatives... Queen Victoria Gardens
25585 Special Events RMIT Fashion Party https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO-Image.-RMIT-2023-Photo-by-Michael-Pham.jpg The pavilion converts to runway mode in a homespun fashion show followed by an afterparty with DJ Brown Suga Princess Home; hogar, ghar, jia, watan is a fashion takeover at the Pavilion. The RMIT Fashion Show is a chance for some of the industry’s best emerging designers to splash the concrete confines with couture-minded and future-forward creations.  ... Queen Victoria Gardens
25570 Special Events Opening Party with PBS Audio https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO-Image.-Driftwood-Photo-by-Melanie-Evans-scaled.jpg Come experience the new hum happening in Tadao Ando’s iconic pavilion, as we celebrate the launch of Season 11  It’s opening night! So, in collaboration with PBS 106.7FM, we’re kicking things off with a night of garden partying and sound-art immersion. Shio (Eternal Rhythm, PBS) will set the mood, before we glide into celebrations with a... 2023-11-29 Queen Victoria Gardens
25601 Dusk til Dark CORIN https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/Resized-Corin-scaled.jpg An ambient improvised set from a renowned experimenter, ripples and plays in the shaded waters of the pavilion pond Corin Ileto is a Filipina-Australian electronic producer, composer, DJ and performer. Her productions nestle somewhere between trance and baroque-laden ambience. Each release draws from science fiction, western classical music, personal histories and ancestral heritage. Her background... Queen Victoria Gardens
25599 Dusk til Dark Fia Fiell https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/Hero-Image.-Fia-Fiell-Photo-by-@jordankmunns-1-scaled.jpeg Prepare for a slow-motion plunge into synthesist Fia Fiell’s lush, ambient otherworlds  Unfurl next to the dusk-lit pavilion pond. Get comfortable and get immersed. Vietnamese-Australian electronic artist Fia Fiell performs as a keyboardist on multiple synthesisers, building dreamlike and haunting sonic worlds that meld lush melodic cycles, vibrant digital textures and soaring drones. Wielding an elastic approach to... Queen Victoria Gardens
25604 Dusk til Dark Xani x Kelly https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO-Image.-Xani-Photo-by-Michelle-Grace-Hunder-scaled.jpeg A violinist and a composer team up to paint the pavilion with multi-layered landscapes of sound  Xani Kolac is a maestro of psychedelic violin. Her music spans everything from jazz and art-rock to chamber music and soaring pop. But the common thread is her wild ways on the electric fiddle. She often plays hypnotic passages,... Queen Victoria Gardens
25607 Dusk til Dark Black Aleph https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO-Image.-Black-Aleph-scaled.jpeg Doom metal that draws from middle eastern modal music to build a heady hypnotic din  The M stands for metal, as Black Aleph pound MPavilion with their all-enveloping sound. On their debut album Apsides, the Sydney/Eora and Melbourne/Naarm trio build dark, earthy worlds from doom and post-metal gestures. The band use guitar, cello, and Iranian... Queen Victoria Gardens
25610 Dusk til Dark The Night Terrors https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO-Image.-TheNightTerrors_2023_credit-NicoleReed-HiRes-1-scaled.jpg As dusk falls and shadows grow long, The Night Terrors come to conjure dark synth magic One for the goths, night owls and flying foxes—Melbourne/Naarm’s legendary Night Terrors are set to descend upon the pavilion. With Miles Brown on the haunting theremin melodies, and Sarah Lim blasting dancable darkness on the vintage synthesisers, they’ve built... Queen Victoria Gardens
25616 Dusk til Dark Tilman Robinson https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO-Image.-Tilman-Robinson-Live-Shot-Photo-credit-Bee-Elton-scaled.jpeg A sought-after composer/sound designer known for electro-acoustic and dark ambient music, stretches a Broadway classic into vast new plains  Tilman Robinson is a composer known for creating uncanny sonic tapestries and wraithlike realms. His skills as an artist have seen him work with artists as varied as Sinead O’Connor, Ben Frost, Nico Muhly and a long... Queen Victoria Gardens
25624 Wake up with Design Belonging to Myself https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO_BTM-scaled.jpg A meditation experience with the potential to poetically reframe your relationship to solitude Sometimes it’s best to start the day just quietly selfing out. But, of course, spending meditative time alone isn’t always easy in a world that demands constant attention. In this 15-minute solo experience, Naarm-based artist Gareth Hart invites you to spend the... Queen Victoria Gardens
25632 Wake up with Design Listening for Homing Songs https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/Homing-Songs-Photo-by-Phoebe-Kelly-scaled.jpg Get lost in thoughts of foliage and drown out the morning traffic with birdsong Magpies with their ecstatic, warbling song. Suburban fairy-wrens cheeping merrily. Wattlebirds calling with their rhythmic click-and-chirp. Few things unwind the mind quite like native bird calls. This free sound work from artist Catherine Clover invites us to start our day totally... Queen Victoria Gardens
25635 Wake up with Design The Sounds of our City with Jacinta Parsons https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/Resized-Jacinta-scaled.jpg Much-loved radio host Jacinta Parsons opens us up to communal silence to provoke reawakening of our listening selves.  We already know researcher, broadcaster and writer, Jacinta Parsons, is a great talker and listener. Now she’s inviting us to shut up and listen intently to the beautiful, clanging hum of the city surrounding us.   Jacinta is... Queen Victoria Gardens
25608 Home Ground Calentura Audio https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO-Image-web-res.-Calentura.-Photographer-Jackie-Dixon-scaled.jpg ‘El Gran Mono meets Bellaqueo’ Colombia’s Picó sound system culture is set to rumble the concrete on a summer’s day at the pavilion Picó are huge, hand-painted fluorescent speaker stacks that blast tropical music in cities such as Barranquilla, Cartagena and Santa Marta. Now Picó sound system culture is arriving direct from Colombia’s Caribbean coast... 2023-11-29 Queen Victoria Gardens
25594 Home Ground BLAKitecture: HOME Audio https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO-Image.-BLAKitechture.jpg Join a participatory and interactive yarn with the creative team behind ‘HOME’ as they prepare for the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale Celebrate the opportunities of understanding and shared perspectives on what ‘home’ means with Bradley Kerr and the 2025 Creative Directors of the Venice Architecture Biennale‘s Australian Pavilion as they share insights on their upcoming exhibition HOME.... 2023-11-29 Queen Victoria Gardens
25587 Home Ground An Accessible Hometown Audio https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/nate-watson-ArnSNszzd1M-unsplash-scaled.jpg Finding ways to build a more inclusive city starts right outside the pavilion’s entranceways This International Day of Persons with Disabilities we’re connecting to lived experiences and driving a discussion of inclusive design. This in-depth discussion is a collaboration between the social enterprise consultancy Amplifier Collective, and Travellers Aid, experts in delivering services to people who... 2023-11-29 Queen Victoria Gardens
25622 Dusk til Dark Acopia https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/Landscape_Acopia-scaled.jpg Drift into a gloaming dreamworld of sultry vocals, pensive synths, and smouldering basslines Naarm/Melbourne-based trio Acopia make slow-burn anthems that float between electronica, shoegaze and dream pop. Rooted in love and loss, their wistful 2023 self-titled release was lauded by Pitchfork as “charged with tension… intimate and intense, dazed and direct”.   For Dusk til Dark, the... Queen Victoria Gardens
25580 Home Ground Belonging https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO-shot_image-by-William-Hamilton-Coates-scaled.jpeg A percussive composition with tentacles that reach for limits (both self-imposed and unavoidable) Carmen Chan Schoenborn is an educator, musician and composer whose work resonates at the avant-garde edges of percussion. Her graphic compositions have been featured internationally, but you’re just as likely to find her bending notes at Make It Up Club, Melbourne/Naarm’s longrunning... Queen Victoria Gardens
25651 Home Ground Homing Songs https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO-Catherine-Clover-Homing-Songs-credit-Helen-Frosi-1200x800-1.jpg A playful, participatory openair workshop where birdsong and human voices coalesce Magpies, ravens, wattlebirds, blackbirds and sparrows. Queen Victoria Gardens is home to plenty of singing personalities. But their warbling melodies aren’t prewritten.  Like us, birds have to explore each new place—echo off their environment—and find their own frequencies. This workshop invites us to channel... Queen Victoria Gardens
25648 Home Ground Design Odyssey: the 15-minute walk https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/thomas-pavitte-T5o-f6ffrTg-unsplash-scaled.jpg A panel discussion that hits the pavement and tests our urban fabric, 15 minutes at a time The 15-minute city is an urban design concept that’s gained traction in recent years. It suggests we’d be happier and healthier if we could meet our daily needs within a 15-minute walk, bike ride or public transport trip... Queen Victoria Gardens
25613 Dusk til Dark Abby Sundborn https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO-Image.-Abby-Sundborn-Reeves-Photo-by-Jordan-Munn-scaled.jpeg Dissolve into the electroacoustic soundscapes of cellist and composer Abby Sundborn A fixture of Melbourne/Naarm’s electronic and art music scenes, Abby Sundborn’s music fuses her background in classical cello, academic degrees in sound production and interactive composition, and her presence in Naarm’s underground experimental, DIY, and rave scenes. The resulting electroacoustic compositions are both elegant... Queen Victoria Gardens
25618 Dusk til Dark Mindy Meng Wang https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/Mindy_Web.png A modern guzheng pioneer reshapes traditions, live at the pavilion Mindy Meng Wang 王萌 is a visionary Chinese-Australian composer and world-class modern guzheng player. Her work seamlessly bridges traditional and contemporary practices, introducing the ancient Chinese horizontal harp into diverse Western genres, including experimental, jazz, classical, electronic, and improvisation. Born and trained in China, Mindy... Queen Victoria Gardens
25592 Dusk til Dark Chloë Sobek https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/HERO-Chloe-Sobek-3_Cropped-for-web.jpg Ghostly atonalism and sound collage from an artist working at the exploratory edges A restless dance of scratched strings, scurrying about in a soft pneumatic rain of noise. Slow plucks unravel into labyrinthine harmonies and maximalist shrieks, echoing among the greys. It’s all happening—sometimes all at once—courtesy of Chloë Sobek , a composer-performer and electroacoustic sound... Queen Victoria Gardens
25568 Home Ground Body Nostalgia Audio https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/Atypical_00178.jpeg Step into an aromatic artwork that opens your senses and draws out the body’s memory, making it tangible Nothing tethers you to home quite like your sense of smell. Even the simple scent of a fresh-cut lawn can transport you to specific moments in time, and reopen forgotten perspectives. This new collaboration between interdisciplinary creators... 2023-11-29 Queen Victoria Gardens
25557 Dusk til Dark Purient https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/Purient1.jpg A rising DIY electronic producer and vocalist with a dreamlike sound opens up and invites the last of summer’s golden rays in From industrial dance abrasiveness to tender cradles of ambience and subversive pop moments—Melbourne/Naarm’s Purient knows how to use light and shade. With her new EP, MWAH, she deepens her ability to seamlessly meld... Queen Victoria Gardens
25555 Special Events Escala de Cinzas (Greyscale) https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/Mpav_lr-23-scaled.jpg A delectable art project by João Loureiro that sends gelato to the grey area Gelato tries on a delicious dissonance at MPavilion. It’s Greyscale, our collaboration with Brazilian artist João Loureiro and much-loved local gelateria Piccolina. Back by popular demand, with new flavours in limited hues. Loureiro’s work often tests the borders of perception and truth. He... Queen Victoria Gardens
25552 Special Events Kiosk Takeover: Wagashi & Tea https://mpavilion.org/assets/files/2024/10/Resized-Wagashi-scaled.jpg Experience a bright new batch of hand-made, edible art from Minako Asai on opening weekend.    Following her hit workshops last year, Minako Asai is back with a new season’s worth of beautiful Japanese confectionery. From 11am until 3pm on opening weekend, we’ll be filling the kiosk with a batch of her hand-made wagashi that’ll... Queen Victoria Gardens

Wominjeka (Welcome). We acknowledge the people of the Eastern Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which MPavilion stands. We pay our respects to their Elders, past and present – and recognise they have been creating, telling stories and caring for Country for thousands of generations.

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