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The Musical Plants by Playable Streets

  • Description:

    Have you ever made music with a marigold? Composed with a chrysanthemum? Or listened to some lavender? Connect with nature! Reach out and touch real plants to play these unique organic instruments.

    The Musical Plants are new experimental instruments that combine organic matter and bespoke digital sensors developed by Playable Streets. For the first-time these plant-based instruments are available for the public to play and create new live compositions.

    Swelling with textural waves and phasing rhythmic movement, The Musical Plants will be unlike any musical instrument you have ever seen, heard or played. The Musical Plants installation is open to everyone to interact with, explore, and make new collaborative compositions.

  • Video Link (YouTube / Vimeo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVR67LrKaAQ

Friday, Saturday, Sunday

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Nick Schuller

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    A master of deadpan humour, Nick Schuller is as dry as they come. His acerbic wit and understated delivery have established Nick as one of the most exciting acts in the thriving Melbourne comedy scene. 

    He was handpicked by the Melbourne International Comedy Festival to be part of the prestigious Comedy Zone in 2022 and has toured nationally with the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow.

    He has performed around the country and the world and has supported some of the biggest names in comedy including Tom Gleeson, Ray O'Leary and Phil Wang. 

  • Video Link (YouTube / Vimeo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwYOcLlDfmM

Sunday

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Tess Birch

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    Tess Birch is the first ever lawyer to become a comedian.  Her sold out 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival show ‘How Not To Run A Music Festival’ received 4 stars from the Age, which labelled it “brilliant”.  Tess is a regular in the Australian comedy scene, two-time Moth storySLAM champion, and has had her stories featured on ABC Radio Melbourne.

  • Video Link (YouTube / Vimeo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGe1agSXV4I

Saturday

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Claire Hooper

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    One of Australia’s most beloved comedians, Claire Hooper has been entertaining kids and adults for 20 years on-stage and on-screen.

    Her 2024 comedy show So Proud won her the Piece of Wood Award at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. Claire is currently touring her latest comedy show, Nothing To See Here.

    Claire has written books, columns and articles and had a lot of fun on television including as a co-host of The Great Australian Bake Off; team leader on Good News Week; a panelist on The Project, and as a guest on various shows such as Have You Been Paying Attention?, Spicks and Specks and The Weekly with Charlie Pickering.

    In 2025, Claire made history as the host of the first international adaptation of the UK’s Richard Osman’s House of Games, aptly named Claire Hooper’s House of Games for ABC TV.

    Claire is also an experienced broadcaster having presented radio shows on Nova 937, RTRFM and Mix 106.5. Claire has also hosted the Qantas In-flight Smile High Club, and has been a regular guest on Melbourne’s ABC, Triple M and Triple RFM. Claire is an accomplished podcaster, with 3 seasons of ABC’s acclaimed show The Pineapple Project under her belt, plus her own podcast I’m the Worst with Claire Hooper where she delves into the darkest secrets of her comedy mates.

    Claire is also a comedy director and (though it’s unlikely to be relevant) a qualified garden designer.

     

  • Video Link (YouTube / Vimeo): https://youtu.be/mAIjT3z67kQ

Sunday

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Lizzy Hoo

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    Lizzy Hoo is many things – a noodle enthusiast, designer, sports lover, and rescue greyhound owner.

    Lizzy is also a stand-up comedian, presenter, writer, and actor – And over the last few years has become one of the most in demand and hilarious live performers in Australia. You may have seen her on Network 10’s Have You Been Paying Attention? and The Cheap Seats, a guest on ABC’s Question Everything and The Weekly, Channel Nine’s The Hundred with Andy Lee and SBS’s The Cook Up with Adam Liaw. Her stand up has also appeared on numerous Melbourne International Comedy Festival Galas broadcast on the ABC and Just For Laughs Australia on Network Ten.

    In 2022, Lizzy released her stand up special Hoo Cares on Amazon Prime Video worldwide to great acclaim, including a nomination for Best Stand-Up Special at the 2024 AACTA’s.

    Lizzy is a master of mining her life and family into material that leaves audiences left wanting more. A hilarious, self-assured, observational-style has resonated with comedy-goers around the world, with Lizzy’s stand-up clips garnering millions of views online.

    It’s been a sharp rise to stardom, having only given stand-up a go for the first time in 2017, as a way to gain more self-confidence in the work place. Safe to say it worked out pretty well.

    With each passing year, Lizzy has been exponentially growing her audience to sold out houses around Australia, while exponentially stretching the ability to use her name as a pun with shows such as Hoo Dis?, Hoo Cares, Woo Hoo and most recently Deja Hoo.

  • Video Link (YouTube / Vimeo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRrElx9veOY

Saturday

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