Lord Mayor Sally Capp says the pandemic has been good for Melbourne and that the city has emerged bruised but bolder and braver than before. | carawaters
and 5,938 people have died from the virus in Victoria since the pandemic began, according to the health department.
“But that all came crashing down with the ‘bring bring’ of a telephone,” she will say. “It was one, then two, then three major city events – including the Melbourne International Comedy Festival – calling to tell me they were cancelling because of this virus.”Her talk is part of TEDxMelbourne’sseries. Kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer or powdered gold, silver or platinum.
Capp will say that the roar of a record Grand Final crowd, queues for coffee and sold-out tickets for the Rone exhibition and musical Hamilton are all signs Melbourne’s wounds are healing.
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