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After the success of her first comedy festival production KEATING! in the Old Council Chambers at Trades Hall in 2005, Catherine Woodfield decided that it was about time that all available nooks and crannies in the proud and historic building were filled with a diverse mix of emerging and established artists interested to push the bounds of funny. She was pretty sure folks would come.

In late 2005, Catherine registered a company, Bella Union Enterprises Pty Ltd, and set about finding artists and staff to join what she hoped would be quite a party.

Comedy @ Trades had its premiere season during the 2006 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. In our first year we programmed 27 shows, created six theatres and hosted around 20,000 patrons. And most importantly, we all had a hoot!

Since then, Bella Union has presented Comedy @ Trades seasons in 2007, 2008 and 2009 playing host to over 150 shows and providing an alternative performance playground for over 110,000 festival patrons since inception. 

Now Bella Union runs all year round as both a performance space and a casual bar, hosting parties, fundraiser benefits, theatrical performances, live comedy, forums, book launches and just about everything else you can think of.

Program Guide for this Presenter

• 2009 Melbourne Fringe Festival
• A Swingin' Bella Christmas
• A Very Bella Christmas 2008
• A Very Bella Christmas 2009
• A Very Bella Christmas 2010 - featuring the premiere of The Terminativity
• A Very Bella Christmas 2011
• Alistair Hulett & David Rovics
• AMUSEum
• Bella Festa
• Bitchen Kitchen
• Closing Night Party
• Collingwood Vs Geelong
• Collingwood Vs St Kilda
• Comedy @ Trades - 2009 Season
• Comic Book Funny
• DJ Monski Mouse
• Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough: A Tribute to the Songs of Michael Jackson
• Double Denim with DJs Jess McGuire and Jacqui Wilson
• Eurovision 2010
• Eurovision 2010 Oslo
• Eurovision 2011 Dusseldorf
• Eurovision 2012 Baku
• Eurovision 2013 Malmo
• Flap! with Elana Stone
• Hot Dub Time Machine with Tom Loud & DJ Manchild
• Just Like Heaven
• Ladies, Bring A Platter
• Mock The Vote
• Nicholas Roy with Owl Eyes
• Night @ The Oscars
• PANIC ROOM with Dave Bushell
• Scott Edgar & The Universe
• So You Drink? You Can Dance!
• Somebody To Love: A Tribute to the Songs of Queen
• Spandex Ballet
• TEST EVENT
• The Beat with DJ Andy Black and Friends
• The Biscuit Readings
• The Bitter Sweethearts with Luke Brennan & The Sticky Valentines
• The Colors Tribute Band
• The Gulf of Carpet Area
• The Pinch: Death To The Pinch
• The Pirates and Sirens Ball
• THE TERMINATIVITY
• The Trygve & The Barnie: DIFFERENT PArty
• Time for The Guru
• Time For The Guru Vol II
• Tom Loud's Video Dance-A-Rama
• Trade Aid 1: Anarchist Guild Social Committee - 2nd AGM
• Trade Aid 2: Something Good
• Truman Joseph's Nature Box
• Weekend DJs

Website: http://www.bellaunion.com.au

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• Bella Union in association with Hank's Jalopy Demons
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• Beth King and the Hemingway Collective
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• Brown Farthing Productions
• Bunker Productions International
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• Cabaret di Bella
• Catch Release
• Cath Styles
• Catherine Deveny
• Celia Pacquola
• Century Entertainment
• Children of the Wave
• Circus Trick Tease
• Comrade Dubs and Jesse I
• CXP Music
• Damian Callinan
• Damian Clark
• Dan Lethbridge
• Dandenong Theatre Company
• Daniel Burt
• Dave Bushell & Xavier Michelides
• Dave Callan
• Dave O'Neil
• David Rovics
• Deakin University
• Deborah Frances-White
• Departed Sounds
• Des Bishop
• Des Rogers - ALP Candidate for Namatjira (NT)
• Diana Clark
• Dirty Work Comedy
• DJ Hannah Fox
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• Don Paul
• Done by Law
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• Downwind Media
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• Eddie Ifft
• Elizabeth Campbell
• Emerging Writers Festival
• Emily and Tash
• Emily Sweeney
• Emma Dean & Jake Diefenbach
• Emma Sachsse
• Enter Closer
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• Evin Donohoe
• Express Media and Australian Poetry
• feminaust
• Fiona Claire
• Fred Smith
• Freeplay Festival
• Friends of the Earth
• Future of Rap
• Galnya Productions
• Geraldine Quinn
• Globe Players
• Griffith REVIEW & UQP
• Grounded Astronaut Theatre
• Harvest Productions
• Herman, Mellado & Serra
• Holmesglen Writers Press
• Human Rights Arts and Film Festival
• Hybrid Publishers
• INH Productions
• Jack Post
• Jambands Australia & Melbourne Music Week
• James Dowdeswell
• Jess Love
• Jo Lloyd
• Jon Bennett
• Jones, Quinn & Zaid
• Julz Hay
• K
• Kale Bogdanovs
• Khaled Khalafalla
• Kill Your Darlings
• L. Wolf Productions
• La Mauvaise Reputation
• Labor Environment Action Network
• Lakes
• Laughing Stock Productions
• Laura Davis
• Lawrence Leung
• Lee Gambin
• Lehmann B. Smith
• Littlefox Press
• Live Nation
• Lord Uke
• Lou Sanz and Claire Hooper
• Lucie Thorne
• Lucy Watson
• Lucy Wise
• Lucy Wise and Jeremiah Rose
• Luke & Wyatt
• Luke Sinclair
• Marieke Hardy & Michaela McGuire
• Matty Ellis
• Max Mortimer
• Melbourne International Comedy Festival
• Melbourne Jazz Fringe Festival
• Melbourne May Day Committee 2013
• Melbourne Poets Union
• Melbourne Songwriters Showcase & Muso's Unite
• Melbourne Women's International Jazz Festival
• Merit Badge: Adventure
• Merrigoround Music
• Michael Chamberlin
• Michael Ryan Skolnik
• Michelle Alina Dabrowski
• Mike McLeish & Fiona Harris
• Mikey Dynon
• Milke
• Mischa Merz
• Miss Anna's Go-Go Academy
• Miss Anna's Go-Go Academy
• Missing Supergirl
• Mobile Industries
• Mongolian Workers Party
• More Comedy
• Mr Jimmy
• Mr McClelland - DJ Extraordinaire
• NAIDOC
• Nakedfella Productions
• National Theatre Drama School
• National Union of Workers
• Neil Murray
• Neil Sinclair & Doug Pickering
• Nev and The Blues
• New International Bookshop
• Next Wave Festival
• NGO Fuan Nabilan Ba Matan Aat
• Nicholas Roy
• North Melbourne Language and Learning
• Omar Musa // Luka Lesson
• P A O'Reilly
• Pan Macmillan Australia
• PBS & Chelsea Wilson Presents
• PBS & Emma Peel presents
• PBS 106.7FM
• Pesky in association with Bella Union
• Philip Escoffey
• Pigeons Projects
• Political Asylum
• Pop Up Playground
• Pop! FM
• Puncher & Wattmann
• Puppy Fight Social Club
• RABBIT Journal
• Red Room Theatre
• Reece Cossar
• Right Now Inc.
• RMIT Fine Arts Photography Studio
• Road Trauma Support Services Victoria Inc.
• Rocket Clock
• Rod Quantock
• Ross Daniels
• Ruby Hunter
• Runners / The Hazelman Brothers / Monte Morgan
• S>M>E>G: The Stick Monkey Enterprise Group
• Sammy J, David Quirk & Felicity Ward
• School Girl Report
• Scribe Publishing
• Shaolin Punk
• Short Fuse Productions
• Short Fuse Productions and Julz Hay
• Shu Liu in association with magro
• Simon Huggins for Yarra
• Skills In Time
• Sleepers Publishing
• Slutwalk Melbourne
• Smilet Productions
• Socialist Party of Australia
• Sometimes She Sings
• Soyfish
• Spanish Australia
• Speed Orange
• Spinifex Press
• Spontaneous Broadway
• Spotify, Catherine Haridy Management & Select Music
• Stage Masters
• Steve Hughes
• Sticks Stones Broken Bones
• Stop. Traffick
• Straightup Agency & Footprints Inc.
• Strut & Fret and Liblab Music
• Stuart
• Suns of Fred
• Superstar
• Sweet Thursday Productions & Theatre on a Horse
• Sydney PEN
• TaDaa Productions
• Team Filmonik
• TESS
• The Aerial Maps
• The Anarchist Guild Social Committee
• The Ancients
• The Broken Heartbreakers
• The Centre for Poetics and Justice
• The Combs
• The Comedy Zone
• The Forsaken Poets
• The Global Women's Project
• The Great River
• The Greek Community of Melbourne & Victoria; The Antipodes Festival; Democritus League; & Greek Resistance Fighters League Vic
• The Greens Melbourne
• The Half-Arsed Three
• The Hazelman Brothers
• The Hounds
• The Junes
• The Lost and Lonesome Recording Co.
• The Pigeon Mafia
• The Shambles
• The Stevenson Experience
• The Text Publishing Company
• The Vulgar Press
• The Wheeler Centre
• Think Big Productions
• This is Siberian Husky
• Tim Helmy
• Timothy Clark and Liam Ryan
• Token Artists
• Tomcat
• Tony Martin
• Tracy McNeil
• Triple R & Little General
• Tristen Bird
• Triumvirate Theatre
• UWA Publishing
• Victorian Gay & Lesbian Rights Lobby
• Victorian Opera
• Victorian Trade Union Choir
• Victorian Trades Hall Council
• Vigilantelope
• Vignette Press
• Visible Ink
• Vitamin Records
• Vocal Australia
• Walleah Press
• Waterline
• Watson & Julz Hay
• Windrush Promotions
• Winternationale
• Wit Large
• Wizard Sandwiches
• Word of Mouth Reviewers
• Writers Victoria
• Yeo - Charlie LIm - Matt Witney
• Young UN Women Australia (Melbourne Committee)