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Presenter Asha Gill hooks up with Andy Mac,
the figurehead of Melbourne’s prolific street art movement
which has taken art out of the galleries and put it on city walls.
Andy celebrates the opening of his latest street exhibition with
a block party in one of Melbourne’s signature alleyways and
enlists Asha’s help stencilling the club banner of one of
Melbourne’s biggest Australian Rules Football clubs.
Andy introduces Asha to gender-bending performance
artist Mandy Spiegel, who shows Asha how to walk
and talk like a man. Asha hooks up with orthodox Jewish punk rocker
Bram Presser, who reveals the colourful Jewish
heartland of Melbourne. And when Bram persuades Asha to MC his crew
of Orthodox-boys-gone-wrong, Asha does it in drag.
Bram introduces Asha to Sri Lankan absurdist Shanaka,
who runs a restaurant where diners pay according to whim. Shanaka
ropes Asha into a surreal existential street protest involving wet
suits and a school of fish.
At a social game of lawn bowls, Asha meets garrulous
food critic Matt Preston who shows Asha the three
things that really make Melbourne tick – good coffee, good
food and Australian Rules Football.
Shanaka introduces Asha to volunteer worker and social
saint Akon Deng Shok, who works tirelessly to integrate
Sudanese refugees into Melbourne civic life. Asha helps Akon welcome
incoming migrants at Melbourne’s international airport and
celebrates Akon’s new nationality at a citizenship ceremony
with a distinctly African twist.
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