The Melba Spiegeltent in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia | Performance & event venue

The Melba Spiegeltent

Locality: Collingwood, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9676 0300

Address: 35 Johnston St 3066 Collingwood, VIC, Australia

Website: http://themelbaspiegeltent.com

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24.01.2022 On the podcast, Matthew Wade with a story about his early explorations at sex-on-premises venues, performed at The Melba Spiegeltent last year. Please rate, rev...iew and subscribe to the podcast, I am trying to build the audience there so that I can use it to connect with you all when the theatres reopen and we can gather again. More subscribers also helps when I'm applying for grants to commission new stories for the podcast during lockdown! Help a gal out: See more

20.01.2022 Like many other arts companies, businesses and people we’ve been adapting to isolation. The last few weeks we’ve met unprecedented challenges. We’ve had to come... to terms with a great pause in the delivery of our programs shows, classes, workshops, regional touring, and events at The Melba have been cancelled. Our building, a home to so many circus artists, has been closed to the public. It’s been hard. Our income has been drastically reduced. We’ve been disconnected from our community, our artists and you, our audience. In order to survive these losses we’ve hibernated a large part of our business and we’ve reorganised the way we work so we can look to the future. We’re taking this isolation period as an opportunity to do something we don’t often get to do in the arts to slow down, breathe and look around. To use our creativity. To imagine and plan for a future nobody can quite see yet. To find new ways of working so we can continue to support and engage artists, create work through and post pandemic and keep the lights on for you while our doors are closed. We’re working behind the scenes to rise to these challenges. We welcome you to share this journey with us and continue to be a big part of our inspiration as you always have been. What is it about circus, performing arts or other artforms that is keeping, or could keep you going through this Great Pause? Is your digital feed full to the brim with inspiration or is something lacking? What are you missing most? What are you looking forward to? Now is the perfect time to reflect on what art means to us all.

17.01.2022 Check out our awesome lineup for Melbourne International Comedy Festival ! Not long to go now we can't wait to bring you the laughs. Book your tickets and come stretch your smile muscles with us.

11.01.2022 Be our Comedy Festival VIPs! At all performances of NEON: Reboot and Railed you can reserve your very own, exclusive booth for up to 8 people. We'll even throw in a free bottle of bubbles! Plus if you book your VIP Booth Experience for both shows in the one night you'll get 10% off (and TWO bottles of bubbles). Call your friends and make a night of it! https://themelbaspiegeltent.com//melbourne-international-c

04.01.2022 The health and wellbeing of The Melba Spiegeltent community is supremely important to us. For this reason all events at The Melba will be postponed or cancelled up to 19 April. We are working with artists to support them as best we can in this uncertain time. We urge everyone to be patient as ticket agencies, artists and venues work through this unprecedented and constantly changing situation. We will be in touch with ticket holders regarding refunds or ticket deferment. ... You can get our most up to date information on our website. Take care of each other and find joy in your day. We can't wait to celebrate with you when we come out the other side.

03.01.2022 Today we’re pretending we can celebrate like this after the Green Room Awards last night. We’re thrilled to have received this year’s award for Contemporary & Experimental Performance Program. Huge (socially distant) hugs to Brian Robertson, our Melba Spiegeltent Producer and to all our staff, crew and artists. The program doesn’t exist without all of you! Big congrats to Party Ghost, whose Melba season received the Contemporary & Experimental Performance Award For Circus. Sending all the Melba love to all the winners and nominees and to our beautiful community of artists. It's so important to have something to celebrate right now, and today we celebrate artists everywhere for their strength, resilience and their earth-shaking fabulousness.