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The Substation is Melbourne’s newest contemporary, community-based arts centre.  Housed in the historic Newport substation, The Substation is a not-for-profit organisation which presents the very best in contemporary arts, including music, theatre, dance, circus, hybrid and visual arts, as well as nurturing the arts in the local community through workshops, classes and public programs

Whats On

Sista Act
Friday 17 May
The Substation is proud to support Sista Act a spectacular night of comedy, opera, dance, cabaret, rock, soul, hip hop and choir.

A fundraiser for Worawa Aboriginal Girls College.

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Vika & Linda 
Return Show
Saturday 18 May
For 25 years, the glorious voices of Vika and Linda Bull have comprised one of the most distinctive, versatile and emotionally charged sounds on the Australian music landscape.

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Catherine Bell The Gathering

The Gathering
2 May - 9 June
The Gathering is an exhibition r
esulting from a year-long artist residency by multi-disciplinary artist Catherine Bell at Caritas Christi Hospice, Kew.
FREE

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Future Now
16 May - 9 June

Future Now, an annual award exhibition of Victorian College of the Arts honours graduates is now in its third year.
Come check out some of our hottest new artists...
FREE

The Substation Artists Market
Sunday 2 June
Held on the first Sunday of every month, the Market not only provides a bustling and eclectic shopping arena but also plays host to fantastic live music provided by local musicians.
FREE

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Wooden Music Festival
Saturday 1 June
Featuring Perch Creek Family Jug Band, Quarry Mountain Dead Rats &
Max Savage.

Some of Australia's best acoustic music, from bluegrass to gypsy swing!
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Chris Wilson & Shane O'Mara
Live at The Continental Revisited
Fri 7 & Sat 8 June

Chris Wilson & Shane O'Mara revisit, reinterpret and re-stage moments from one of Australia's finest albums.

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Tex Perkins & Charlie Owen
Friday 14 June
The darkly charismatic front man of legendary bands Beasts of Bourbon, Cruel Sea and Tex, Don & Charlie heads to The Substation for the very first time.

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Katie Noonan
Songbook
Friday 21 June
‘Songbook’ will see Katie exploring material from throughout her career including songs in intimate solo performance mode.

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Ben Ottewell (Gomez)
Friday 28 June
Familiar to a faithful following as the most recognisable voice in Mercury Prize-winning Southport five-piece Gomez, Ben Ottewell appears at The Substation as part of his second Australian solo tour.

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Henry Wagons and The Unwelcome Company

Friday 30 November

HENRY WAGONS, named one of Melbourne’s Top 100 Most Influential People in 2009, is unanimously lauded as one of Australia’s great entertainers.

Along with his rare charisma he offers heavy doses of stomping outlaw country, irresistible crooning and classic song writing.