ECHOES GROUP EXHIBITION: featuring Arabella Strachan, Lynda Sterns, Fiona Johnston
"Echoes" is a captivating exhibition featuring the works of Arabella Strachan, Lynda Sterns, and Fiona Johnston. Together, their diverse practices resonate like overlapping voices, exploring memory, presence, and transformation.
Proof of Concept to Prototype to Production
Join us for the FB IDEAs Lunch & Learn session with our Hub Member honepd. Resident product design expert Andrew Jack will share insights on moving from prototype to physical product - covering key principles and pitfalls in developing engineered, mass-manufacturable goods, based on honepd’s decade of experience designing and delivering millions of units.
New Date: 29 Oct: Women of Fishermans Bend Social Circle
FB IDEAs is proud to host the new Women of Fishermans Bend Social Circle, facilitated by Hub Member Helena Chen Erck. This initiative will create a safe, supportive space for local women to connect, share experiences, and build community.
Weaving Stories of Change: An Intercultural Celebration of Art, Architecture and Care
Join a compelling line up of First Nations urban culturalists, Stevie Thorpe, Bianca Easton and Merilyn Merm Duff for a unique intercultural art parade, yidaki healing, film screening, exhibition and yarn. Together we commemorate the delicate dance of decolonizing a community of practise into a culture of care.
Cleantech in Business
Join the Victorian Cleantech Cluster for a chance to connect with Victoria's peak body for cleantech networking, collaboration and innovation. 100% for the sector, by the sector. Celebrate the PowerOn Incubator Participants and discover future opportunities.
Observer Exhibition
A group exhibition that brings together seven distinctive artists exploring how we perceive, interpret, and translate the world around us. Featuring Gerard Russo, Andrea Vargas, Joanne Morris, Keith Ross , Florence Wang, Ellen Jury and Anita Mirabito
Observer Exhibition Opening Night
oin us for the Opening Night of the Observer Exhibition.
Through painting, sculpture, fibre and mixed media, Observer considers the act of looking, not as passive seeing, but as a relationship between the viewer and the viewed. Each artist reveals what happens when perception meets emotion, and observation becomes expression through action.
Circular Design Collective Open Day
Celebrate National Recycling Week and join us for a day of creativity, community and circular innovation as we celebrate the makers turning waste into wonder at the Circular Design Collective.
Drawing As Witness - Charcoal Drawing with Gerard Russo
Join artist Gerard Russo for a gentle introduction to observational drawing
Create Your Own Ceramic Jewellery Charm
Create Your Own Wearable Art In Just 1 Hour
Join artist Andrea Vargas for a fun workshop creating stylish and original jewellery.
Beginner Needle Tufting Workshop
Join our punch needle tufting workshop, at Romulus Folio Gallery in South Melbourne.
Your teacher Arabella will guide you through the basics of punch needling using both yarns and fabric to create small artworks on embroidery hoops. Feel encouraged to tap into your creative instincts, guided by Arabella’s distinctive textile-based artistic practices
Beginner Needle Tufting Workshop
Your teacher Arabella will guide you through the basics of punch needling using both yarns and fabric to create small artworks on embroidery hoops. Feel encouraged to tap into your creative instincts, guided by Arabella’s distinctive textile-based artistic practices.
Westgate Park Volunteer Day & BBQ
Come along to Fishermans Bend on Sunday 26 October for the Westgate Park Volunteer day & BBQ. Join Westgate Biodiversity for a morning of volunteering, helping care for the park and local habitat followed by sausage sizzle and tasting of local wines.
Beginner Needle Tufting Workshop
Your teacher Arabella will guide you through the basics of punch needling using both yarns and fabric to create small artworks on embroidery hoops. Feel encouraged to tap into your creative instincts, guided by Arabella’s distinctive textile-based artistic practices.
Beginner Needle Tufting Workshop
Join our punch needle tufting workshop, at Romulus Folio Gallery in South Melbourne.
Your teacher Arabella will guide you through the basics of punch needling using both yarns and fabric to create small artworks on embroidery hoops. Feel encouraged to tap into your creative instincts, guided by Arabella’s distinctive textile-based artistic practices
Fishermans Bend: Delayed but Not Derailed
Join the Fishermans Bend Business Forum for an important community briefing on the evolving plans for Fishermans Bend.
Art+Engineering: unlocking new models for collaboration
Join us to explore new forms of collaboration where art meets engineering in Fishermans Bend - and the value of industry partnerships that make it happen.
Circular Design Think Tank #3
What do you see? Have you got an idea that could transform this waste into a circular design product?
In partnership with CBCo Brewery, No Bull Cause is hosting a design challenge competition to inspire more circular thinking in design.
Join us at the Fishermans Bend Circular Design Collective for a series of three monthly design sessions - or create-tanks - to reimagine what these unused cans and plastic beer tops from CBCo could be transformed into. The only limits are your imagination!
Worms at Work: Pilot Launch
Come along to Fishermans Bend on Thursday 16 October for the official launch of Worms at Work, a new initiative where urban worm farms are transforming food scraps into nutrient-rich compost – hidden inside specially designed community benches.
Designing for Non-Typical Projects and Stakeholders
Hub member Studio MK creates inclusive urban designs through community-led consultations - reshaping Melbourne’s major park projects. Join us for this Lunch & Learn session and hear about challenges & triumphs imagining resilient urban futures.
OPENING NIGHT: ECHOES GROUP EXHIBITION: featuring Arabella Strachan, Lynda Sterns, Fiona Johnston
"Echoes" is a captivating exhibition featuring the works of Arabella Strachan, Lynda Sterns, and Fiona Johnston. Together, their diverse practices resonate like overlapping voices, exploring memory, presence, and transformation.
From Purpose to Practice: Simple Steps to Market Your Startup with Impact
Branding isn’t just a logo — join us for this FB IDEAs lunch & learn session and learn how to create clarity, trust, and traction. Host Justin Taylor brings strategic marketing experience with a startup founder’s perspective to the table.
Precious Plastic - School Holidays Workshop
Join Precious Plastics Melbourne for a fun and interactive school holiday workshop where kids can learn about plastic recycling. This free hands-on session introduces micro-recycling technology and explores the circular economy, inspiring young changemakers to take action on plastic waste.
Enabling commercial futures with circular products
Are you a curious business ready to build a sustainable, circular future? Join us at the FB IDEAs Hub and be among the first to learn about Circular Innovation for Products, a new framework for developing sustainable physical products and packaging solutions for the circular economy.
Tapestry Art Workshop
This spring, FB IDEAs is turning the Fishermans Bend Circular Design Collective into a pop-up weaving studio as the AKC artsbus rolls in for a hands-on school holiday tapestry arts workshop.
Kids Pour Painting Workshop with Angelina
Join artist Angelina Mirabito for a fun, hands-on workshop exploring colour. Children of all ages welcome. Parent attendance is required.
Micromobility in Fishermans Bend
Join us for the results of NTRO's staff e-micromobility trial program in collaboration with FB IDEAs and microFleet. Australia's premier transport research body, NTRO has completed an extensive trial testing e-scooters and e-bikes as workplace transport options. Whether you're in transport planning, sustainability, or operations, discover practical findings on how e-micromobility can transform workplace mobility.
Your TRUE COLOURS: A Palette Knife Painting Workshop
Join Melbourne-based abstract artist Angelina Mirabito for a transformative, hands-on palette knife painting workshop where your inner child takes shape in vibrant colour.
Revisioning Social Procurement – Why profit matters?
Hosted by UpSol, join us for this lunch-and-learn session to explore how achieving the triple bottom line for ‘People and Planet’ should just be the by-product of a good business decision.
Your Inner Child: A Palette Knife Painting Workshop
Join Melbourne-based abstract artist Angelina Mirabito for a transformative, hands-on palette knife painting workshop where your inner child takes shape in vibrant colour.
Circular Design Think Tank #2
What do you see? Have you got an idea that could transform this waste into a circular design product?
In partnership with CBCo Brewery, No Bull Cause is hosting a design challenge competition to inspire more circular thinking in design.
Join us at the Fishermans Bend Circular Design Collective for a series of three monthly design sessions - or create-tanks - to reimagine what these unused cans and plastic beer tops from CBCo could be transformed into. The only limits are your imagination!
Angelina Mirabito - Whispers from the Grove Exhibition Opening Night
Join us for the opening night of Whispers from the Grove - a space where time softens and the rhythms of nature speak in quiet murmurs. This is an invitation to the opening of an exhibition that listens beyond sound, with a heart open to the subtle pulse beneath the surface.
Angelina Mirabito - WHISPERS FROM THE GROVE Exhibition
Whispers from the Grove invites you to enter a space where time softens and the rhythms of nature speak in quiet murmurs, an invitation to listen beyond sound, with a heart open to the subtle pulse beneath the surface.
Future Forces: Innovation and Opportunity in Australian Agrifood
Curious about where agtech is heading and the opportunities for advanced manufacturing in Fishermans Bend? In partnership with Farmers 2 Farmers, we are hosting a lunch and learn session for local businesses and innovators to learn more about the cross-sector opportunities in agriculture for design, engineering and advanced manufacturing businesses and innovators in Fishermans Bend.
Circular Design Think Tank #1
What do you see? Have you got an idea that could transform this waste into a circular design product?
In partnership with CBCo Brewery, No Bull Cause is hosting a design challenge competition to inspire more circular thinking in design.
Join us at the Fishermans Bend Circular Design Collective for a series of three monthly design sessions - or create-tanks - to reimagine what these unused cans and plastic beer tops from CBCo could be transformed into. The only limits are your imagination!
Quantum Tech for Business
Curious about quantum physics and what it could offer your business in the future? Join us for a lunch and learn session with Chris Ferrie, notable quantum educator, best selling author for an introduction to quantum computing and explore modern applications for start ups and small business.
Remembering Celtic Story & Song
Presented by in collaboration with Romulus Folio Gallery, this session is open to all peoples from all ancestral lineages as we share conversation, stories, and songs that have been sung into being from our ancestors. Perhaps a space within you will open to become more curious about your culture’s own stories and traditions.
LEFTOVERS: Art That Rethinks Rubbish
This bold group exhibition brings together ten artists working with waste materials to challenge how we value the discarded. Curated by Dodgy Paper and Lousy Ink, the project speaks to the possibility and power of what we usually throw away.
Weaving Three Stories - Emu Feather flower making Workshop
Weaving Three Stories returns for its third workshop in Fishermans Bend, led by First Peoples to foster intercultural connection through storytelling and creative practice. Join this hands-on emu feather flower-making session alongside art, ceremony, and shared reflections on caring for Country.
Placemaking in Action: Access All Areas
Join us for an engaging networking event and panel discussion exploring how placemaking can shape thriving, people-first precincts. Hear from three leading voices in urban transformation - REDO × Atelier × FB IDEAs — each offering practical insights into how we can use spaces in the meantime to grow cities that are inclusive, activated, and made for community.
Winter Writing for Wellbeing Workshop by ROMULUS
Embrace the stillness of winter and reconnect with your inner voice in this 90-minute Writing for Wellbeing Workshop, held in the evocative setting of the Romulus Folio Gallery during its current winter exhibition.