{"id":1817,"date":"2013-05-29T09:25:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T23:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onlyaustralia.com.au\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2013-05-29T09:25:44","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T23:25:44","slug":"melbourne-festival-art-trams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onlyoz.com.au\/oa\/stuff\/trivia\/melbourne-festival-art-trams","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne Festival Art Trams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne trams featuring art from the 70&#8217;s, 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s will make an appearance in this year&#8217;s Melbourne Festival in October.<\/p>\n<p>Hopping on a Howard Arkley, pulling the bell on a Mirka Mora or leaping from a Michael Leunig were the stuff of everyday life for Melbourne\u2019s tram travellers from the late 1970s to the early \u201990s.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018\u2018Art trams\u2019\u2019 were introduced by the then Ministry for the Arts in 1978, while Rupert Hamer was premier, as part of the Transporting Art project, which ceased in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Now art trams are set to return under a partnership between Arts Victoria, Yarra Trams and the Melbourne Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Eight Victorian artists will be chosen to transform city trams into public artworks as part of the festival\u2019s visual arts program.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlymelbourne.com.au\/melbourne_details.php?id=2216\">Melbourne Festival<\/a> runs from October 11 to October 27, 2013<\/li>\n<li>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/victoria\/art-trams-on-track-20130528-2n9os.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">TheAge<\/a> | Debbie Cuthbertson &#8211; May29, 2013<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melbourne trams featuring art from the 70&#8217;s, 80&#8217;s and 90&#8217;s will make an appearance in this year&#8217;s Melbourne Festival in October. 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