Tuesday 6 November
The Age
Tuesday November 6, 2001
Five things to do today
? CUP: Celebrate the Cup with Phar Lap at the Melbourne Museum. Activities include a live screening of the race (3pm, Australia Gallery), children's activities (11am and 4pm, Piazza), jockey stories (1.30pm and 2.30pm, Piazza) and more. Open 10am-5pm. Ph: 131 102.
? THEATRE: Directed by Lindy Davies, the VCA's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream is performed in the VCA Studio 45, 45 Sturt Street, Southbank, until November 18 (Tuesday-Saturday 8pm, Sunday 4pm). Book:96859325.
? RACE: Country race meetings today: the East Gippsland Cup at Bairnsdale, Princess Highway, Bairnsdale (entry: adults $12/6; under 16 years, free. Ph:51524057); and the Wangaratta Jazz Festival Cup Carnival, Osboldstone Road, Wangaratta (entry: adults $10/5; under 16 years, free; gates open 9am. Ph:1800352229).
? MUSIC: Part of the extended season of the famous Spiegeltent (until November 25; visit www.spiegeltent.net), get a dose of Totally Gourdgeous (6pm), The Happy Sidesho (11.30pm; also November 7-8 and 14-16) or the Refreshing Room (daily 2pm-6pm).
? ENTRIES: An open-entry photo-based media exhibition, the 2002 Nikon Summer Salon is calling for entries. For details, visit www.ccp.org.au (or telephone: 9417 1549 from tomorrow).
My Life
Fifteen minutes of fame
Jason Godfrey, 29, Sydney
I'm just spending the day in Melbourne before I go down to Hobart. I'm going to see my family. I've been working in Sydney for the past six years or so. I work in the timber yards making a lot of building materials for houses and stuff like that. I'll probably stay in Hobart for two to three months and do a bit of part-time or casual work before I go back to Sydney. Melbourne's a good place. I lived here about 10 or 12 years back. But my real home is probably Hobart, where my father and brothers and sisters are. -- FLEUR LEYDEN
Tuesday 6 NOVEMBER
13 days until the ``Raw Energy Fat Tire Festival" at Thredbo Alpine Village. Birthday of Jean Shrimpton. 31 years since Italy formally recognised China.
``Success took me to her bosom like a maternal boa constrictor." -- Noel Coward
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