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Celebrate plant-based living at the Vegan Market.  Explore a variety of stalls showcasing the finest vegan food, drinks, fashion, beauty products and eco-friendly goods. The Vegan Market of Melbourne has something for everyone – from longtime vegans to those simply interested in embracing more sustainable lifestyle choices.  Indulge in a world of tantalising vegan cuisine – an array of flavour awaits, with vendors serving up the best in plant-based meals and treats.  Check out stalls offering cruelty-free beauty products, sustainable fashion, and eco-conscious home goods, allowing you to incorporate veganism beyond your diet. Discover innovative, local brands committed to a kinder and greener future.   This event is about more than just veganism: it’s about community, sustainable living and supporting local businesses. Learn about the vegan lifestyle from passionate vendors and likeminded individuals. You might even leave with some newfound vegan recipes or lifestyle tips!   Bring along your friends, family, or anyone curious about exploring the world of veganism for this one-day market.   Stay tuned for updates on vendors and activities on the Vegan Market of Melbourne event page.    This event is free to attend, with food, drinks, and goods available for purchase.   The Vegan Market of Melbourne is presented in partnership with Fed Square.  Image credit: Damien Raggatt   Low Waste Event Thanks to the closed loop system from Green My Plate, we are proud to say the upcoming Vegan Market will be a low waste event. All food vendors will be serving up their delicious food on the reusable Green My Plate plates and bowls which you then simply place into the pink bins within the venue. The team from Green My Plate will be continuously collecting the reusable plates and co to then wash and recirculate, leaving a cleaner footprint, and diverting single-use food packaging from landfill. The process is simple. Simply head to your choice of food vendor, order up, then place your reusable plate in the pink bin. The plates will be reused over and over at events across Victoria. We encourage and thank everyone for doing their part and assisting us with making dishes, not waste.  

Time to take a breath – renew, refresh and reinvent.    This Spring at Fed Square, RESET offers us an opportunity to start afresh.   Renew those good intentions to plant some seedlings, start a compost bin or learn how to darn our woollies.   Refresh our ideas and get inspired by new ways of living sustainably.    And let’s reinvent the way we do things – tiny changes in our daily lives add up to big collective impact. It’s never too late to start.   RESET is a full program of events and activations, including markets, festivals, immersive activities and practical and creative workshops, to inspire us all to make some little – or big – changes to our daily life, to help minimise our negative impact on the environment, and increase our positive impact.   This spring, why not join us at Fed Square to reaffirm our commitment – big or small – to make a positive change?   Let’s RESET, together. 

Two new works by Melody Woodnutt include a streetside projection on Gertrude Street alongside an installation work of expanded cinema within the Mission to Seafarers Norla Dome called, Fata Morgana and Death Shroud for a Ship, respectively. These works sit within a new series called Celestial Bodies which tie together the sea and the cosmos as vast bodies that sit above and below an ascending yet sinking ship. It is a poetic attempt to embrace glittering spectral bodies; at once our own and all else born of dead stars. Created as haunting silvery vessels of sound, 16mm expanded cinema, strobe, fog, a death shroud, and digital projection. About the artist Melody Woodnutt is a contemporary artist working within the expanded field of 16mm analogue moving image film. Woodnutt’s works take the form of kinetic or immersive installations, still images, and short films that function as portals or ‘topias to distil broader societal complexities into quasi-fictional worlds and allegories. Follow Centre for Projection Art on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centreforprojectionart/ Follow Centre for Projection Art on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/centreforprojectionart/ Follow Centre for Projection Art on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ProjectionArt Image Credit: Celestial Bodies: Fata Morgana (street projection, Gertrude St); and, Death Shroud For a Ship (installation, Norla Dome)