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Museums Victoria is the Major Partner, Official Precinct Partner and Foundation Partner for Melbourne’s newest festival Now or Never. The Melbourne Museum Plaza bursts into life for Now or Never with a tantalising whole-of-precinct program fusing art, ideas, sound and technology. You’ll be lured into a world of curiosity, wonder and discovery with a celebration of National Science Week, a &#8220;Melbourne Planetarium Presents&#8221; program in the Neversphere, a special Future Forums edition, and unique exhibitions and events as part of the inaugural festival. The World Heritage listed Royal Exhibition Building will also fling back its doors, filling the magnificent space with a program of nighttime dance, RnB, hip hop and clubbing. While on site, make sure you also visit the fabulous Fantastic Beasts™: The Wonder of Nature exhibition on at Melbourne Museum, direct from the National History Museum in London and other great exhibitions on during this time.

Museums Victoria

Founded in 2010 in Melbourne by brothers Josh and Jake Uljans and school mate Karl van Buuren, Moon Dog began with a lil’ brewery in the back streets of Abbotsford, with the trio brewing beer in a brew house welded together from ex-dairy equipment and selling mind-blowing craft beer from the back of a ‘97 Volvo V40 station wagon.
More than a decade later, we’ve made some upgrades to the equipment, we’ve expanded our brewery into Preston, we’ve opened two brew pubs and our Moon Dog family has grown and grown, but one thing has stayed the same-brewing outrageously delicious beers and seltzers that blow minds is what it’s all about!

Moon Dog

Nestled in the picturesque Goulburn Valley, Mitchelton Winery is a luxurious and relaxing destination that offers visitors a unique and unforgettable experience. Home to award-winning wines, the winery boasts an onsite Cellar Door where visitors can indulge in wine-tasting. In addition, guests can savour gourmet dining at one of the two restaurants, unwind in the hotel, and explore the Mitchelton Gallery of Aboriginal Art. With breathtaking views of Goulburn River, this sophisticated destination is both accessible and inviting, offering a perfect blend of luxury and relaxation.

Mitchelton

ACMI is proud and excited to partner with Now or Never in its founding year. As a leading institution in the world of film, television, and digital media, ACMI is dedicated to showcasing and celebrating the transformative power of moving images. With a rich collection of artefacts, immersive exhibitions, and vibrant programs, ACMI nurtures creativity, fosters understanding, and connects diverse audiences with the magic of the moving image. Through our partnership, we aim to inspire, educate, and entertain, encouraging all to explore the captivating world of visual storytelling with Body Crysis.

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70 industry leading artists. 12 unique shows. Six iconic Melbourne venues—NONSTOP WKND is the choose-your-own-adventure festival within a festival closing Now or Never with a bang. 
 
Explore the intersections of sound, listening, ecology, machine learning and AI with performances and talks by artists, researchers and musicians.
In her performance lecture Krell and the Destruction of Worlds, Catherine Ryan links the history of experimental electronic music with notions of planetary and civilisational collapse. It’s a feel-good story.
Computer scientist and bird-listener Santiago Renteria will perform a new work titled Spectral (De)compositions: Dadamining Datamining in which the carols and warbles of Australian magpies are analysed, computed, decoded and estranged in real-time.
Drawing inspiration from visionaries like James Lovelock, Rosi Braidotti and Gregory Bateson, and the contested legacies of acoustic ecology, Sarah Barns will present the soundscape composition Superorganisms: Listening to the Anthropocene.
Wild Hope exhibition artists Sean Dockray, James Paker and Joel Stern (Machine Listening) will host a listening session to their piece, Environments 12, about what it means to capture, synthesise and play the sound of the world back to the world, in a never-ending feedback loop.
This free event is also part of <a href="https://designhub.rmit.edu.au/exhibitions-programs/wild-hope-conversations-for-a-planetary-commons/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wild Hope: Conversations for a Planetary Commons</a>, an exhibition calling for a radical shift to ‘planetary thinking’ as vital to the survival of human and non-human life on Earth, at RMIT Design Hub Gallery 15 August–30 September. No tickets or registration are required.
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NONSTOP WKND: Planetary Auditions

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