Festivals and events

Asian Food Festival
From Chinatown to the outlying suburbs, Melbourne has one of the best restaurant communities in the world - diverse, exciting, adventurous, value for money and best of all - tasty! Discover the delights of Chinese, Malaysian, Indian, Thai, Japanese and Vietnamese cuisines as restaurants open their doors and bring out their best dishes. Special menus will be available at some restaurants and make sure you keep an eye out for special events and activities. Cooking demonstrations, cooking competitions and culinary awards are also highlights, with the aim to promote and recognise excellence in the Asian restaurant industry.
Where: all over Melbourne, visit Asian Food Festival for more information.
When: until the end of September

Kimono: Osaka's Golden Age
Discover breathtakingly beautiful kimono and accessories from the glory days of Japan. This extraordinary exhibition, highlighting the wealth and prosperity of the Edo and Meiji periods (1850-1900), is showing exclusively at the Immigration Museum. Direct from the Osaka Museum of History, the stunning collection celebrates the Immigration Museum’s 10th birthday and 30 years of the Melbourne-Osaka sister-city relationship.
Where: Immigration Museum, 400 Flinders St, Melbourne
When: until 14 September

Resonant Visions: Contemporary Video from Latin America
This free exhibition focuses on a small but diverse selection of works by four contemporary artists who have used video to explore different dimensions of the changing conditions of our times. The exhibition considers ideas that have dominated the social and political landscape in recent years: relationships between the individual and the collective, distinctions between regional identities and global perspectives in postcolonial contexts, and the transience and resilience of human existence.
Where: National Gallery of Victoria, St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
When:16 February – 17 August
_{Photo caption: Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla still from Returning a sound 2004 single channel colour video, sound, 5:42 Collection of the artists, courtesy of Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris © Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla}

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