Melbourne Lit Writing Group Melbourne Lit is all about your growth as a writer. You will meet new friends, discover new outlets for publishing your work and find a home for all things textual. Our group is friendly and loves gentle critique, discussion about publishing and anything that we can find to make us better writers. Melbourne Lit meets every Saturday and every Wednesday at 3 PM. Find us at the Riverland Café beside Federation Square. Look for a group of people with their head in the c …

Please contact Mat Clarke directly to find out how you can become a sponsor and advertise with us. Only a few dollars a month. Conditions apply. Are you in the industry of bringing the performing arts to the public, or want to be, then this is the group for you. Here we talk about our profession or hobbies and discuss what roads we have taken and skills we have acquired. Maybe you're just starting out and need some advice? Come along and we'll give you some tips on where to begin. Meet people in …

Do you want to partake in interactive creative activities and meet many fun motivated people interested in chasing their creative dreams? Have you dabbled in the arts for years or just started and want to finally take the next step to become a creative professional and live your dream? Are you an established professional in a creative field and would like to meet other like minded people and contribute your knowledge and experience to others? Do you want to learn from leaders in the fields o …

This is a critique/support group for Middle Grade and Young Adult writers who are determined to finish and/or polish a novel-length manuscript they’ve started but don’t seem to find the confidence or motivation to finish. This group is for those writers who: write at an intermediate to professional level - sorry, no newbies or hobbyists are committed to finishing a Middle Grade or Young Adult manuscript have a minimum of 10,000 words ready to critique will actively participate in face to face …

This group has been established to provide a forum for anyone working or aspiring to work in the field of comedy to socialize, engage and potentially collaborate with each other. The group is open to producers, directors, writers, actors, comedians, MC’s, clowns, illustrators, puppeteers, technical support, agents, venue operators, managers & employees as well as the forgotten but equally important 'others', working or aspiring to work in different roles and mediums of comedy in Melbourne. If yo …

This group is for people who have a secret dream to be artists or writers. Or for people who would love to try their hand at writing or art without the pressures of having to create a finished artwork or piece of writing. It's less about technique, more about personal expression! Not serious, but fun! It's also about sharing yourself with others through creativity. You can choose to share you writing/art if you want to, or not, if you don't want to. This group is also about spiritual and persona …

About The Vault The Vault is a monthly get-together for creatively inclined folk held at Loop Bar (usually!) on the last Monday of the month. Our aim is to gather together creative people - be they artists, writers, musicians, media, marketers, entrepreneurs (etc) - who can meet each other in a friendly, convivial atmosphere to share and generate ideas. Format of evening: The first 15 minutes is for informal chat before the speaker's presentation at 6.15. We then tackle the discussion topic, af …

The purpose of this group is to bring together the talent in the field of arts in Melbourne. Amateur photgraphers, film makers, musicans, writers ... all welcome. A data geek who wants to be a film maker? - this is the place! An accountant who wants to write a book? Good place to discuss your ideas!

Welcome to Right Voice For You, Melbourne! What would it be like to be totally comfortable, compelling and present in front of a group of any size? What would it be like to share your message and voice with the world with total ease? What would it be like if you had the freedom to make mistakes, be silly, or even more terrifying, have everyone captivated by you? Right Voice For You guides participants past their limitations about being seen and heard and offers dynamic tools for showing up as th …

Welcome to Write Club! Rule #1: 'You cannot talk during write time." Rule #2: 'Phones and Facebook do not work during write time.' Rule #3: You are only free during free time. During write time, you must write.' Rule #4: 'If it is your first time at Write Club, you must write.'

The Creative Co-op is a group where creative people can meet and discuss issues related to their work as well as attend inspiring creative activities. Creative people are inherently very sensitive people and need to support each other and themselves to enjoy doing what they love doing. There will be some events related to the Artist Way Book by Julia Cameron and other methods which are designed to help creative people. These events will be targeted at specific parts of the creative journey and p …

Calling all professional working artists! If your art is your career, let us get together and share the passion. Away with those "pretenders" and "hobby-artists"; this group is all about authentic artistic connection by WORKING ARTISTS - professional artists and emerging artists whose main focus in life is their art. * We welcome visual artists, sculptors, illustrators, contemporary performers, cinematographers and those who feel their work is indeed of artistic merit. * Our aim is to meet with …

We live in a great country, but let's face it considering the primary national pastime is having a pie at the footy it's hard to find others who appreciate and enjoy the fine art that is opera! The purpose of this meetup group is to bring die-hard opera nerds like me together so we can meet, talk about this great art and occasionally see a production!

For creatives, who work or have regular involvement in Art, Design, Fashion, Music or any creative fields or mediums.

Calling all Melbourne soul lovers!  Do you sing Stevie Wonder in the shower or belt out Otis Redding in the car?  Then you should join us. We're a fun and friendly group who meet in the CBD on Tuesday nights to sing and socialise. There's no 'choir director' in charge: we hire a singing teacher (Tom), and all members can have input into how the choir runs and what we sing. We're a non-profit group, and we charge a fee which covers paying for our teacher, hiring the venue and the meet-up site fee …

Combine your hunger for the truth with a chicken parma! Combine your thirst for knowledge with a pot of beer, a glass of wine or a lovely cup of tea! The Mordi Skeptics in the Pub is for those who enjoy exploring things underpinned by science, evidence and reason in a social setting. Big ideas are presented and discussed from a rational and logical perspective. We also spend time honing our 'bulldust barometers' - detecting the fallacious and debunking the superstitious. Sample topics include a …

This is a group for all aspiring film makers. Including, videographers, actors, producers, screen writers, animators and other film enthusiasts! Yes it's a broad group of people because that's what film making is all about, diversity. Every great director or production company starts with only a few people, however such dreams can not flourish without collaborations, networks and the opportunity to learn from each other. I formed this group to allow people (including myself) to come together to …

Interact with fellow screenwriters. Expand your skills. Exchange ideas. Receive feedback, and who knows perhaps get your scripts sold and or produced.

We seek brain-aching, adrenalin-rushing, higher-level, small-group discussion on society, psychology, philosophy, arts and culture (but not new-age spiritualism). We seek fascinating pieces of writing (with content accessible to the educated lay reader) to share and discuss. You might want to share a piece you're writing for publication, something new you've found in a journal or on the web, or something old but brilliant. Or whatever takes your fancy. A facilitator posts details of the piece fo …

Do what you love. Turn your passion into your career. Start a company. Create jobs. Inspire others. Change the world. Vision Women as Entrepreneurs were created with the vision to build, support and promote the Australian national community of like-minded aspiring and accomplished female entrepreneurs. With partnerships, empowerment and inspiration, WE encourage more women to bravely step into entrepreneurship, increasing the current 17% female presence in the Australian entrepreneurial space. …

Melbourne Media Makers is an informal group that meets upstairs at POP Restaurant in Hardware Lane (bar is called Five Boroughs) to chat about all things multimedia and the social web. No presentations or PowerPoint. Very relaxed :) If you are interested in meeting people who are working with audio, video or words on the web, this is a great meeting to attend. We welcome bloggers, podcasters, videobloggers, filmmakers, artists, photographers, writers, PR and social media people. Everyone is welc …

If you are interested in reading, are single and would like to meet new interesting people who are just like you, then this is for you!!! This meeting up group stems from the fact that there are many meetup groups for book discussions and many more for singles, but not any for singles with an interest or passion in reading and books. I believe that reading offers an insight that cannot be gained just through our first-hand experiences in life. It inevitably provides us new perspectives on the wo …

A group running experiments in how to apply agile and lean concepts to filmmaking.

Are you a young musician working to make it in 'the biz'? The Young Musicians Coven (YMC) is a group for young musicians to meet and network with other musicians like themselves. Make like-minded friends, share ideas, find fans, compare promotion strategies, maybe even form some bands. If you play and/or create music come on down! As a young musician trying to make it in the industry it can often be difficult to know where to start, especially for solo artists and small groups. The main focus of …