What's on: April

Adelaide * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

The Way We Wear Easter vintage fair
Burnside Ballroom, Adelaide
Sat 23 & Sun 24 (10am-4pm), Mon 25 (12-4pm)

Brisbane * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
 
Let there be rock film program (April highlights)
Cinémathèque, Queensland Art Gallery  
Martin Scorsese's film concert of The Band The Last Waltz (1978) (Sat 30 1pm)

David Bowie's final performance as Ziggy in Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1973) (Sat 30 3pm)
The Rolling Stones 1969 tour film Gimme Shelter (1970) (Sat 30 6pm & Fri 6 May)

Suitcase Rummage mini-markets
King George Square, Brisbane
Sat 2 (12-5pm)

 Sydney* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

 

An Edwardian Summer exhibition
Museum of Sydney, Historic Houses Trust 
(Hurry Closes Tues 26 April!)

 

 Cult Sinema film screenings  
Annandale hotel & nearby Mu-Meson Archives headquarters
(crnr Parramatta Rd & Trafalgar St Annandale) (Every week)
Check out the Easter theme with killer bunnies in Night of the Lepus (1972)!

Sydney Vintage Clothing, Jewellery & Textiles Show
Canterbury Racecourse
Fri 15 (5.30-9pm), Sat 16 (9.30am-5.30pm) & Sun 17 (10am-4pm)
Adults $14, pensioner $10, children 10-16yrs $5, under 10yrs free, family $30

Vanity Fair Vintage Fashion Market 

Paddington Town Hall

Sat 9 April (10am - 3pm) free entry

Melbourne* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Australian Centre for the Moving Image film program April highlights
It came from Kuchar, Fri 15 & 22 (9.30pm) 
The Vampire (El Vampiros) 1957 cult classic, Tue 19 (6.30pm)

ManStyle fashion exhibition
National Gallery Victoria, Fashion & Textile Gallery

11 Mar - 30 Oct

free entry

Vintage Clothes Australian vintage fashion guru Nicole Jenkins talks on ladies fashions 1920s-1960s
Cheltenham branch library, 12 Stanley Avenue, Cheltenham
Thu 7 (2pm)
free with morning tea to boot! (bookings required)



Perth* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Vintage Life Market Held on the last Sunday of the month
Darlington Hall, Owen Rd, Darlington
Last Sunday of the month (10am - 3pm)
$2 admission

Darwin, Hobart * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
please send me your vintage happenings!


Overseas* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Toronto: Get your hair cut into a chic bob while visiting the Bata Shoe Museum's exhibition
Roaring 20s: heels, hemlines & high spirits and watch a film from their 1920s film program 

   

London: admire the The Cult of Beauty: the Aesthetic Movement at the V&A in London

Vintage crack: Australian Women's Weekly treasure trove

The National Library of Australia have been keeping themselves very busy - they've just finished digitizing the first 50 year's worth of issues of the Australian Women's Weekly (from 1933 to 1982). That's 2770 magazines - from back to cover!

Best yet they've made this amazing resource accessible to us all to see, search, and enjoy on the web. The project was undertaken in association with the State Library of New South Wales (from whose collection many of the magazines were supplied) and with the permission of Australian Consolidated Press.

You can search by keywords across all issues, look at at a particular date range, read a whole issue, or best yet check out their amazing timeline of covers. It's not all kittens, kitsch and kweens. But be warned - this stuff is like vintage crack, its highly addictive! Don't be surprised if your friends and family have to stage an intervention to get you out of there..

 Check out the Australian Women's Weekly digital archive for yourself on Trove