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Yarraville Library’s Bad Art Night draws inspiration from saxophones

Community & Milestones09/02/2026364Views 0Likes 0Comments

Tucked away behind the Yarraville Library in leafy Wembley Street is a lovely little garden alcove that plays host to what the Yarraville Library likes to call a monthly ‘Bad Art Night’. It’s an opportunity for locals, bookworms, and budding Picassos alike to showcase their artistic talents ... or lack thereof. To tell the truth,…

Let’s dance … while sitting down!

Concert Highlights09/11/2025333Views 0Likes 0Comments

Ever been excited about going to the local dance? Frocking up. Suiting up. Partners at the ready... phew, I’m exhausted just writing this! How would you like to take the easy option? Dancing while sitting down is so much more relaxing. Well, mark Saturday night, 29 November at the Williamstown Town Hall in your diary. That’s when the…

Melbourne Airport Community Giving Fund supports the Inner West Symphony Orchestra

Community & Milestones20/10/2025353Views 0Likes 0Comments

We’re very pleased to share that on 10 October 2025, the Inner West Symphony Orchestra was selected as a recipient of the Melbourne Airport Community Giving Fund. This support is already making a real difference for us and the communities we serve. Thanks to the fund, we have been able to acquire new percussion instruments…

‘The Elephant Man’ of the trombone

Did You Know?15/10/2025317Views 0Likes 0Comments

Scholarly opinion has long claimed that Sir Edward Elgar is England’s greatest composer. Consummate orchestration and rich romantic timbre have seen such works as the Enigma Variations, the Cello Concerto in E minor, and the forever popular Pomp and Circumstance marches become staples in orchestral repertoires around the world. However, Sir Edward had a dark…

IWSO presents: SYMPHONIC DANCES

ConcertNovember 29, 2025 @ 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM UTC+10 316Views 0Likes 0Comments

The IWSO is bringing 2025 to a red-hot close with an extravaganza of dance music that will take you from 19th-century Bohemia to the streets of 1950s New York. From the sizzling Latin rhythms of Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Symphonic Dances from West Side Story’ to the exuberant folk melodies of Dvorak’s ‘Slavonic Dances’, this season finale is…

IWSO presents: MYTHIC

ConcertAugust 3, 2025 @ 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM UTC+10 131Views 0Likes 0Comments

Join the Inner West Symphony Orchestra for MYTHIC, a musical exploration of Australian contemporary works celebrating the power and beauty of our natural world. Highlights will include Elena Kats-Chernin's imagined journey into the depths of an underground cave, Katy Abbott’s ethereal ‘Stars that Split the Night’ for massed choir and orchestra (featuring special guests Grace…

iWSO presents: Peter & the Wolf

ConcertApril 27, 2025 @ 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM UTC+10 119Views 0Likes 0Comments

The Inner West Symphony Orchestra (IWSO) invites you to an afternoon of music, storytelling and a bit of the unexpected. Dukas’ rousing brass ‘La Peri Fanfare’ will open the show, leading us into Brahms’ boisterous ‘Academic Festival Overture’. From there we’ll take you on a tour of the orchestra through two classics: Prokofiev’s ‘Peter & the Wolf’,…