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Unicorn Party

The day will feature free rides on ‘unicorns’ – much like ponies with horns – face paint and make-up, hair make-overs and balloons.
There’ll be unicorn food, too, plus unicorn products.

  • Dandenong Market, corner Clow and Cleeland streets, Dandenong. Sunday 19 November, 10am to 3pm.


Flashback fun

The Lasers Retro Party will take guests back in time.

  • Waltzing Matilda Hotel, corner Springvale and Heatherton roads, Springvale. Saturday 18 November, 8pm to 2am. $20 entry.


Garnar Lane Light Boxes

These light boxes are visible 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Melbourne-based artist David Wadelton in this set of photographs presents images of the milk bar, the fish and chip shop, apartment blocks, newsagents, old shop signs, long-closed businesses and back lanes.

  • Garnar Lane, between Thomas and Lonsdale streets, Dandenong. Until 30 November.


9 by 5 exhibition

Artists present their creativity on nine inch by five inch panels in a wide variety of styles.
The exhibition commemorates the original 9 by 5 exhibition held in Melbourne in 1889.
The first 9 by 5 exhibition featured Tom Roberts, Charles Condor, Arthur Streeton and Frederick McCubbin and introduced the impressionist style to Australia on cigar box lids.

  • Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre, corner Walker and Robinson streets, Dandenong. Until Saturday 4 November. Tuesday to Friday, 11am to 5pm, and Saturday, 11am to 3pm.

 


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This exhibition features work from artists with refugee or asylum seeker backgrounds.

  • Walker Street Gallery and Arts Centre, corner Walker and Robinson streets, Dandenong. Friday 17 November to Saturday 16 December. Open Tuesday to Friday, 11am to 5pm, and Saturday, 11am to 3pm.

 

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