Summer in the City is Guardian Australia’s ultimate guide to the best arts, gigs and festivals happening around the country. Here, we’ve picked out some highlights for Melbourne in January; to view the full interactive list, click here
20 January at Queensbridge Square
Lunar new year celebrations have everything the staid western calendar lacks: firecrackers and the smell of gunpowder in the air; skies of coloured lanterns glowing in the dark; streets awash with the colour red, symbol of luck and vitality, and most of all dragons.on the Yarra bursts to life in late January as the celebrations usher in the year of the rabbit, but it’s those spectacular dragons, dancing to the beat of drums on the backs of extraordinary acrobats that the crowds come to see.
Polly Borland’s photographs are strange, surreal and almost immediately recognisable: fleshy blobs stuffed into stockings; powerful nudes that will stare you down; and portraits of famous faces including. The latter is a close friend of Borland’s, as the two came up together in Melbourne’s 80s punk scene. Cave once let her smush his face into a giant stocking, topped with a blue wig and red lipstick. Because that’s what friends are for.
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