JVG presents Mothers Day Live at the Brunswick Ballroom

Back to back mothers singing songs about motherhood: the joys, the trials, the ecstasy and the mundanity. We have kids running around the studios. Big kids and little kids. Supporting partners, musically and parentally. It’s an afternoon of motherly energy and talent that happens only once a year.

And now for the fourth year the radio show will precede a live expanded version of the show at the very plush Brunswick Ballroom. Mothers Day keeps getting bigger and better. From the radio station to the Ballroom where wall to wall mothers will sing of motherhood in all its glory and agony.

Line up includes:

Kerri Simpson

Angie Hart

Barb Waters

Rebecca Barnard

Talei Wolfgramm

Eliza Wolfgramm

Celia Church

Eliza Hull

and Marie Ewing (mother of 10, including the BB's Venue Director Will Ewing)

plus backing band The Mother's Little Helpers

MC Jon Von Goes

Shows (Silver & Bronze Membership)
12/05/2024 5.30pm | Admin Fee $11.00 | Book Tickets

Brunswick Ballroom
314 Sydney Road
BRUNSWICK
Melbourne, Victoria
3056
Australia

STELLA: The Miles Franklin Story – feat. Monique diMattina, Alma Zygier & Fem Belling

Songs, skits and gossip from a musical in development.

Acclaimed Australian composer/lyricist Monique diMattina presents a concert work-in-progress version of her newest project – STELLA: The Miles Franklin Story.

Sharing songs, stories, gossip and skits from this musical in development, Monique and her all-star chamber orchestra tell the extraordinary life story of Australian author Stella Miles Franklin.

Starring ALMA ZYGIER and FEM BELLING and featuring

The Brindabella String Quartet:

Fem Belling, Xani Kolac, Esther Henderson, Kalina Krusteva

The Talbingo Band:

Monique diMattina, Cat Canteri, Adrian Perger, Sam Lemann, Ben Robertson

Although the Miles Franklin Award is Australia’s most prestigious literary prize, most Australians are unaware that Miles was a woman, let alone the details of her extraordinary life.

Weaving together songs, gossip and Stella Miles Franklin’s own words, the show brings audiences on an epic journey from Franklin’s Snowy Mountains childhood to fame as the young author of My Brilliant Career, years battling for women’s suffrage and labour rights in the USA and UK, WWI field work, creative struggles and legacy as a trailblazing champion of Australian art, conservation and culture.

STELLA: The Miles Franklin Story will make you laugh, cry and love what Stella called ““our unique, inebriating, laughing, haunting, wistful, brooding, ancient, ageless, siren land”




Shows (Silver & Bronze Membership)
26/05/2024 2.00pm | Admin Fee $26.90 | Book Tickets

Brunswick Ballroom
314 Sydney Road
BRUNSWICK
Melbourne, Victoria
3056
Australia

Monstrous Theatre have just announced the world premiere of celebrated Australian playwright Ron Elisha’s dangerous comedy ROOTLESS COSMOPOLITANS. It will be directed by Suzanne Heywood and performed at Chapel off Chapel from 15th May - 2nd June 2024.
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­­This timely and thought-provoking black comedy explores the polarising power of social media, antisemitism, and the minefield of identity politics.
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The play centres around esteemed artistic director Ira Brot, who in six short years has transformed a small, struggling theatre company into an international sensation. Ira has the world at his feet - money, influence, and creative freedom – but one little tweet threatens to derail his perfect life.
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Add to this his Jewish convert wife, a vaguely antisemitic theatre company Chairperson and an ambitious assistant director waiting in the wings, and you have the ingredients for the oldest of all culture wars, played out on a modern stage. Ira must also deal with a complex relationship with his mother who, although long dead, is alive and kvetching inside his head.
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Shows (Silver & Bronze Membership)
15/05/2024 8.00pm | Admin Fee $26.00 | Book Tickets
17/05/2024 8.00pm | Admin Fee $26.50 | Book Tickets

Chapel Off Chapel
12 Little Chapel Street
Prahran, Victoria
3181
Australia