The Butterfly Club
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The Butterfly Club is a performing arts
venue in South Melbourne, Victoria
, Australia
Drawing from a growing interest in cabaret
, the Club was conceived and created by artist and entrepreneur, Matthew Grant. Grant lived and worked from the building from 1993: opening to the public in 1998. By 2002 the club was seen by others as a viable professional space. Grant sold the club in November 2003.* http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news.asp?sId=52485 , by 2006 the Club was Melbourne
's only full-time cabaret venue.
The club, together with the Australian National Academy of Music, has played a key role in developing the Melbourne Cabaret Festival.
In January 2011 The Butterfly Club again changed hands to new custodian Simone Pulga The Herald Sun, 11 Jan 2011
Performing arts
The performing arts are those forms art which differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, and presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some physical art object...
venue in South Melbourne, Victoria
South Melbourne, Victoria
South Melbourne is an inner city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 km south from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area are the Cities of Port Phillip and Melbourne...
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
Drawing from a growing interest in cabaret
Cabaret
Cabaret is a form, or place, of entertainment featuring comedy, song, dance, and theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue: a restaurant or nightclub with a stage for performances and the audience sitting at tables watching the performance, as introduced by a master of ceremonies or...
, the Club was conceived and created by artist and entrepreneur, Matthew Grant. Grant lived and worked from the building from 1993: opening to the public in 1998. By 2002 the club was seen by others as a viable professional space. Grant sold the club in November 2003.* http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news.asp?sId=52485 , by 2006 the Club was Melbourne
Melbourne
Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...
's only full-time cabaret venue.
The club, together with the Australian National Academy of Music, has played a key role in developing the Melbourne Cabaret Festival.
In January 2011 The Butterfly Club again changed hands to new custodian Simone Pulga The Herald Sun, 11 Jan 2011
References
External links
- The Butterfly Club
- http://www.artshub.com.au/au/news.asp?sId=52485