Roles in TV soap-operas have launched the careers of many prominent Australian actors. A short course in acting for soaps at the VCA has proven very popular over summer. By Ryan Sheales

The Sidney Myer Free Concerts bring great classics and great artists together during Melbourne’s summer season of outdoor music at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl. 

Every year graduating students from each of the VCA School of Art’s studios – Drawing, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture and Spatial Practice – as well as those completing Honours and the Postgraduate Diploma of Visual Art – present some of the highlights from their year of study.

In 2011 a flood raged through Warmun in the East Kimberley region of Western Australia, gathering up and damaging much of the community’s treasured Indigenous art collection. Nearly two years later, a ground-breaking new partnership is bringing many of the restored works back to their rightful place. By Kate O’Hara.

A new exhibition to open at the Potter Museum at the University draws from the Gerard Herbst Poster Collection to put the spotlight on Polish poster art. By Katrina Raymond.

Zoe Nikakis reviews a new book by Damon Young about the influence gardens have had on some of the world’s best writers. Dr Young is an honorary Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne.