MsBehaviour in Melbourne

I was in Melbourne for a few days last week and had a great time exploring the laneways, snapping pictures of the street art and discovering funky little shops. Melbourne is much bigger than Wellington with a population the size of New Zealand in one city. It sprawls for miles but the centre feel quite compact. I was staying on Flinders street near Federation square overlooking the Skydeck, and running a workshop for the British Council  at the Arts Centre on St Kilda's Rd.

I spent a day wandering around the centre snapping up a few bargains on the way before meeting at the Pop Up Pirate radio studio for an interview. The station is based on the university campus in an old shipping container with the trasmitter on the top, and three ladders that you have to climb to get to the studio. It's one of the most quirky places I've every done a show and reminded of my old days back in the UK doing pirate radio.

In the evening I caught up with Megan from XMediaLab tapas who was in town running a Transmedia Masterclass with Jeff Gomez . It was great seeing her as we don't often get the chance to meet, as she lives in China and I live in New Zealand. The following day I ran a Creative Business Toolkit workshop for the British Council as part of the People in Your Neighbourhood Australian programme. You can view a prezi of my workshop with all of the resources which I have released under a Creative Commons license.

Later on I joined a workshop with Akala from the Shakespeare Hip Hop company, with a fun session guessing whether quotes were from Shakespeare or Hip Hop tracks which is harder than you might think. Afterwards I went for a pint in an English style pub opposite Flinders station with G from Sugarlicks Recordings and Thomas from the UK charity Bottletop.

It was an early night before heading to Skills Victoria to run an Open Innovation day, before flying back to Aotearoa and a lecture at Victoria Uni the following morning. I'd like to go back to Melbourne again soon as it's an interesting place, and has just been voted the world's most liveable city for 2011.

Check out more photos from my Melbourne set at Flickr.