Expressions of Interest to hold a major event in the City of Yarra from January 2023 to December 2023 are now open.

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We are opening our community venues to artists and arts organisations at a new, discounted rate.

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Yarra Council wants to support artists and arts organisations to create and present artworks in response to the climate emergency.

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Are you an individual artist or creative organisation looking for support to realise a project in 2023?

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The Leaps and Bounds Music Festival has been extended, with a string of incredible new shows added thanks to a funding boost from the State Government’s On the Road Again fund.

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How Council manages events in public spaces is guided by Yarra’s Events in Public Spaces Policy. Since its inception in 2006, the Policy has sought to strike a balance between enabling events to occur and ensuring our community continues to have access to our parks and open spaces for their quiet enjoyment and recreation.

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Leaps and Bounds Music Festival will host a a 4-day takeover at the Abbotsford Convent from 30 June to 3 July.

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Eight articles focused on homelessness have been published in Al Jazeera by Ali MC with the proud support of Yarra's Creative and Engage Grant Program.

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The Leaps and Bounds Music Festival will put the ‘live’ back in live music this winter, with an electrifying program of in-person gigs showcasing the artists, producers and local venues that make the City of Yarra Melbourne’s music capital.

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In September 2021, Melbourne lost a great champion of community radio and alt-country music. This year, PBS and Leaps and Bounds present a very special live broadcast, and tribute to David Heard between 3pm and 5pm on Thursday 23 June.

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The City of Yarra’s premier celebration of local live music, the Leaps and Bounds Music Festival, returns this winter with a massive line up of in-person shows across the city.

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We are committed to supporting people with disability to live full and active lives, ensuring that Yarra is an inclusive and accessible community and a place where everyone can live well. Access to arts participation and living a rich cultural life is big part of living well.

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Three murals by artist Sam Yong were commissioned by Yarra City Council in 2020 and are located on the Collingwood Senior Citizens Centre (CSSC), next to the Collingwood Town Hall, on Hoddle Street in Collingwood.

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Leaps and Bounds Music Festival is returning to Yarra this winter and is looking for local live music venues to take part.

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Anthony Romagnano’s work ‘Celebration Banners’ is currently on display outside Collingwood Town Hall, having recently been a part of our 2021 Festive Celebrations.

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After a 3-year hiatus, Sound Waves returned to Fitzroy Swimming Pool in February 2022. As part of the Rediscover Yarra initiative, this edition of Sound Waves was eclectic, vibrant and unlike any Sound Waves before it, with over 3,000 punters enjoying live tunes around Fitzy’s poolside throughout February. 

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We caught up with Kent Morris to talk about his recent exhibition 'Cultural Reflections - Up Above and Unvanished' at Richmond Town Hall.

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Yarra City Council is creating a new festival to celebrate the richness and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and arts, in June 2022.

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The Plant Society and the Yarra City Council invite you to be a part of the inaugural Garden State festival to celebrate gardening as an art form and to explore the vital role plants play in the art of living.

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Blak Pearl artists studio open to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community at Florence Peel Centre, Fitzroy. 

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