Newsletter | #780 | What's On this Week |
What's On Newsletter | #780
Tuesday 7th December 2021 - Monday 13th December 2021
Stay safe - Be kind - Be Melbourne
- This Week -
Arriba! Mexican Festival
Darlinghurst Live at Temperance
Disney: The Magic of Animation
Happy Place: World's Most Instagrammable Exhibit
Imaginaria: Walk Through Experience
Knox Diwali Fair
Linda McCartney: Retrospective
Magic & Illusion - Dinner & Show
Melbourne Experience: Afternoon Tea at the Windsor
Melbourne Markets
Melbourne Music Week
Melbourne's Christmas Festival
Moonlight Cinema @ Royal Botanic Gardens
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Myer Christmas Windows
New Years Eve Parties
Out on the Weekend | Roots Music Festival
Oz Comic Con
Pasted and Wasted: Melbourne Music Poster Expo
Pick Your Own Cherries | Cherryhill Orchard
pond(er)
Powerpal | Free Electricity Monitor
Seeing the Invisible: Augmented-Reality Art Experience
Secrets & Stories Cryptic Adventure
So Soiree: Stonnington Arts Festival
Southgate's River Dining Pop-up
TeamKids - Summer Holiday Fun
The Lightcatcher
Treasures of the Natural World
Van Gogh: The Lume
Xplore Melbourne: Treasure Hunt App
Zipline Experience | Yarra River
Free Every Week
TeamKids - Summer Holiday Fun
Choose your ADVENTURE these School Holidays
TeamKids Australia's favourite School Holiday program provider will be delivering yet another wonderful mix of excursions incursions and in-house days that promise to keep the children happy engaged safe nurtured and having fun over the Summer School Holidays.
For more information call 1300 035 000
Secrets & Stories Cryptic Adventure
Solve cryptic clues and find a secret Melbourne that you never knew existed
From 1.5 to 2 hours
This new cryptic adventure from Adventure Clues takes you around Melbourne into a wizard's magical world!
Magic & Illusion - Dinner & Show
Mind blowing magic right before your eyes
Friday nights
Discover Melbourne's best kept secret! Witness the impossible only inches from your eyes at Impossible Occurrences Magic Show. Bookings accepted for Friday's commencing November 2021.
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
A Broadway sensation nominated for 14 Tony Awards
From 12 November 2021 - Regent Theatre
Baz Luhrmann's revolutionary film comes to life onstage remixed in a new musical mash-up extravaganza. A theatrical celebration of truth beauty freedom and - above all - love Moulin Rouge! is more than a musical; it is a state of mind.
Official Tickets
ticketmaster.com.auArriba! Mexican Festival
Free Event - Expecting over 40,000 people
Friday, Dec 10th to 12th - Flagstaff Gardens
Celebrate Mexican Heritage and Culture in Melbourne with performances, live music, dance, and Mexican cuisine.
Melbourne's Christmas Festival
Melbourne set to jingle all the way to Christmas Day
An expanded Christmas Festival will bring joy to Melbourne this festive season with an exciting line up of attractions markets festivals light shows and a pop-up maze.
Best news.. most are FREE!
Christmas Festival of Lights - Geelong
The Lightcatcher
The moment we've all been waiting for... drum roll, please...
MPavilion 2021 - The Lightcatcher by MAP studio (Venice) Queen Victoria Gardens
A mirrored kaleidoscopic cube featuring an open steel structure on four u-shaped concrete columns featuring 89 angled mirrored panels.
Happy Place
World's Most Instagrammable Exhibit
2 December 2021 - 30 January 2022 - Crown Melbourne Metropol Precinct
Featuring larger-than-life, unbelievable and exceptionally playful installations and multi-sensory immersive rooms, you can get snap-happy in the world's largest indoor Confetti Dome, the famed Rubber Ducky Bathtub and the wildly popular Cookie Room scented with the aroma of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies, to name just a few of the photo-friendly spaces.
Yarra River Zipline Experience
Flying 9m above the river at 40kpm
1 - 28 December 2021 - Tickets now onsale
THRILL-SEEKERS whiz 130m across the Yarra River at speeds of up to 40km/h from FedSquare to Alexandra Gardens.
Myer Christmas Windows
Celebrate a 66 year old tradition in 2021
Until 24 December 2021: The Tale of Peter Rabbit
Since 1956 Myer's gift to the City of Melbourne now attracts an estimated 1.4 million visitors each year.
Out on the Weekend
Roots Music Festival
Saturday 11th December 2021 - Seaworks Williamstown
The festival is Australia's premier celebration of all things Alternative-Country and Americana with a stellar ALL-VICTORIAN line-up including WAGONS, MICH THOMAS' ROVING COMMISSION, LIZ STRINGER, WARNER BROTHERS, NEIL MURRAY, SHERRY RICH & THE GRIEVOUS ANGELS and many more..
Knox Diwali Fair
Free ticketed event, with activities, food and tradition
Sunday 12th December 2021 - Shree Swaminarayan Temple - Boronia
Join us in celebrating the Knox Diwali Fair 2021. Diwali traditionally symbolizes joy, love, reflection, resolution, forgiveness, light and knowledge; and represents the victory of good over evil, and an occasion to strengthen family and social relationships.
Linda McCartney: Retrospective
Ballarat International Foto Biennale
Art Gallery of Ballarat
For the first time in Australia, an exclusive look back at the career of the world-famous photographer Linda McCartney (1941-1998).
Disney: The Magic of Animation
Discover the creativity and innovation of almost 100 years of Disney Animation
Shown in Australia for the very first time this exhibition features over 500 exceptional artworks including original paintings sketches and concept art.
Melbourne Music Week 2021
We're ready to celebrate. Are you?
3 - 12 December 2021
Now in its 11th year with a massive line-up of imaginative music and arts events. Max Watt's MMW Club for eight huge consecutive nights of non-stop music with local, interstate and international acts.
pond(er)
A space for visitors to cool off and reflect on their relationship with the environment
A beautiful architectural installation, replete with a pink pond evocative of Australia's inland salt lakes, has been selected as the winner of the NGV Architecture Commission 2021 in the Grollo Equiset Garden at NGV International.
Pasted and Wasted: Melbourne Music Poster Expo
A celebration of the People Places and Sounds of the Australian music scene.
Fridays Saturdays and Sundays - The District Docklands
Pasted and Wasted brings these Music Posters back to life including the rarest most iconic and historically significant items from the Nick Vukovic Collection.
Xplore Melbourne: Treasure Hunt App
It's your time to Xplore Melbourne
Xplore Melbourne is a self guided covid safe treasure hunt featuring street art music and discovery points which will feature hidden bars and restaurants retail accommodation and activity discounts.
When we come out of lockdown: Start at the corner of Swanson Street and Collins Street scan the QR code to activate the Acknowledgement of Country and find the clue for the next location.
Imaginaria
Walk Through Experience
Dailt until 30 January 2022 - The District Docklands
Explore echo light chambers, bound your way into giant bubbles, wander between shimmering digital vines and take a leap into a three-metre abyss.
Southgate's River Dining Pop-up
SOUTHGATE'S PICTURESQUE RIVER DINING ACTIVATION IS BACK
Running throughout summer, Southgate's riverside dining destination along Southbank's River Promenade will be set up between the Princes and Evan Walker Bridges.
Pure South, Waterfront, BearBrass, PJ O'Brien's and Yassas
Van Gogh: The Lume Melbourne
Stepping into THE LUME Melbourne is an epic adventure into art.
Australia's first digital gallery transforms the world's finest art into fully immersive sensory encounters. The walls come alive as masterpieces come to life in a 360-degree experience.
Seeing the Invisible: Augmented-Reality Art Experience
A Free Art Experience
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne and Cranbourne Botanic Gardens
The most ambitious and expansive exhibition to date of contemporary artworks created with augmented reality (AR) technology will premiere across 12 botanic gardens in six countries simultaneously.
So Soiree: Stonnington Arts Festival
Discover cabaret, circus, comedy and live music
2-12 December 2021 - Grattan Gardens and Chapel Off Chapel
So Soiree will illuminate the south with a thought provoking and spectacular line up of performances across some of Stonnington's most iconic locations.
Melbourne Experience: Afternoon Tea at the Windsor
Wednesday to Sunday at 12.30pm and 2.30pm
The longest-running Afternoon Tea in Melbourne it is held daily in our beautiful historic dining room One Eleven on silver three-tiered stands with silver teapots French sparkling wine on arrival and a selection of eleven specialty teas.
Treasures of the Natural World
Exclusive to Melbourne Museum
For the first time in Australia the world's biggest rarest oldest and most fascinating treasures from London's Natural History Museum.
New Years Eve Parties
New Year's Eve Party Cruise
See in the new year with a drone spectacular on water
Friday 31st December 2021 - Federation Wharf
Join our cruise on the Yarra River and experience a night club on water. See in the new year with Melbourne River Cruises and enjoy high-quality food, drinks, and music.
H2O Harbourside
Melbourne New Years Eve
Friday 31st December 2021 - 86 Newquay Promenade Docklands
Join the H2oh event at this absolute Waterfront Venue for one of Melbourne's most exciting & renowned NYE events on the Harbour front.
New Years Eve on The Emerson Rooftop
Entertainment all night long!
Friday 31st December 2021 - The Emerson South Yarra
It's time to celebrate the end of 2021 and where else is better than on The Emerson Rooftop!
Check Out!
Melbourne Markets
Markets open this weekend..
Alphington Farmers' Market
Arts Centre Market
Bourne Local Twilight Market | Berwick
Bumble Bee Baby & Children's Market | Aspendale Gardens
Collingwood Children's Farm Market
Fitzroy Mills Market
Footscray Night Market
Heide Makers' Market
Melbourne Book Market
Melbourne's Sunday Markets
Nunawading Christmas Twilight Market
Postal Lane Markets
Rose Street Artists' Market
Sunbury Village Market
The Trust Makers' Market - Rippon Lea
WAM Twilight Makers Market
Powerpal | Electricity Monitor
100% Free - Smart Meter Energy Monitor & App
Powerpal connects your electricity meter to your smart phone and reveals your power usage in real-time, helping you to make better decisions about the way you use energy.
Register before the end of 2021 and you will enter the draw to win a Tesla Model 3.
Australian Homemaker Centre
One-stop shop for furniture office and homewares. 14 Stores | 35K+ Products
Furniture & Homewares - Every room of the house.. kitchen lounge dining bedroom bathroom hallway family home office deck backyard and garage.
April & Oak B2C Brosa E-Living Elite Fantastic Milano Republic Nestz Zanui Utopia Home
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