8 Days: Your one-stop guide to the week ahead
FOOD
Oriental Teahouse relaunches its feasting menu and game "Dumplings for Dating at Home" as a takeaway experience for lovers in lockdown. The board game of truth or dare-style questions comes with an array of dumplings, cocktails, wines and dessert.
Local delivery or pick-up from Oriental Teahouse, 455 Chapel Street, South Yarra, $140 (two people), 9826 0168, orientalteahouse.com.au
Tricks of the trade: Designer Trent Jansen in his workshop.Credit:Louie Douvis
FESTIVAL
Electric Dreams Online is a festival about connecting people through the power of art and technology. Supported by Arts Council England, the program features theatre, music, games and experiences designed for cyberspace. Check out Twelve Thousand Years in Fragments, a participatory audio-visual symphony.
Until Aug 16, various times and prices, electricdreamsfestival.com
ART
The Grey Zone: Collecting and Collaboration in Contemporary Art and Design is an exhibition of objects and design pieces that consider how we engage with the everyday world and the items in it. Artbank presents a 3D viewing room with Edition Office and designer Trent Jansen.
Until Sep 25, free, artbank.gov.au
MUSIC
Multi-instrumentalists Mildlife share a portion of a live session recorded in June at Melbourne's Colour Club. The 15-minute video melds their 2017 single The Magnificent Moon with their latest track, Vapour, linked by an improvised jam that traverses electronic, jazz, psychedelia and disco genres.
Free, watch on YouTube via linktr.ee/mildlife_
SERIES
Loving Captivity is a new romantic comedy series that follows Ally, a single mum who agrees to iso-date Joe, the man who dumped her before the world changed. Created by Libby Butler and Lewis Mulholland, and starring Christie Whelan Browne (Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell), the six-part web series explores dating in the time of social distancing.
MUSIC
American composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith premieres her latest album The Mosaic of Transformation in a global livestream performance. Known for her ambient musical style that uses a wide range of synthesisers, the show features visuals by Sean Hellfritsch, who has created videos for Bjork and Grizzly Bear.
Thursday, 8pm, $18, kaitlynaureliasmith.com