Newsletter | #781 | What's On this Week |
What's On Newsletter | #781
Tuesday 14th December 2021 - Monday 20th December 2021
Stay safe - Be kind - Be Melbourne
- This Week -
Adventure Park's Festival of Lights
Afrodisiac + Fei Pao: NGV Friday Nights
Anthony Callea: The Songs of George Michael
Banyule's Carols By Candlelight
Candlelight Open Air: Christmas Special
Christmas Lights Search
Circus Of Illusion
Disney: The Magic of Animation
Come Together: The Music Of The Beatles Orchestrated
Dreams - The Rumours of Fleetwood Mac
Esther Hannaford: Carole King's Tapestry
Free Public Transport Vouchers
Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto
Happy Place: World's Most Instagrammable Exhibit
Imaginaria: Walk Through Experience
Linda McCartney: Retrospective
Love Actually in Concert
Magic & Illusion - Dinner & Show
Melbourne's Christmas Festival
Melbourne Experience: V8 Hot Lap
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Myer Christmas Windows
New Years Eve Parties
Outdoor Cinema Guide
Pasted and Wasted: Melbourne Music Poster Expo
pond(er)
Powerpal | Free Electricity Monitor
Queen of Hearts: Album launch
S.S. Metaphor
Secrets & Stories Cryptic Adventure
TeamKids - Summer Holiday Fun
The Cat Empire
The Lightcatcher
Treasures of the Natural World
Van Gogh: The Lume 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
Dreams - The Rumours of Fleetwood Mac
Melbourne's best Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks tribute show
18 & 19 December 2021 - Musicland Music Complex Fawkner
Delivering the authentic sounds and visual styles of Buckingham, Fleetwood, Nicks & McVie, 'Dreams' captures the true essence of what made Fleetwood Mac the global success they continue to be today.
Queen of Hearts: Album launch
Queen of Hearts: Stefania Serna, Elizabeth Obando and Bonnie Smith
"Queen of Hearts" All Female Mariachi band Album launch "Memories" at The Night Cat Fitzroy on Thursday 16 December 2021.
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
Performing now at 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.au
Adventure Park's Festival of Lights
Perfect family outing
27th December 2021 - 9th January 2022 - Adventure Park | Geelong
Christmas Festival of Lights is returning to Adventure Park with more epic light installations, an extended walking trail, two new rides and more awesome Christmas activities for the kids this festive season. This year there'll be an additional 700,000 lights over a 2km walking trail that will illuminate the night sky in a dazzling glowing wonderland for a third year in a row.
Circus Of Illusion
12-13 January 2022 - The Palms at Crown
Escape into a world where sawdust and sequins join cutting edge illusions that create an extravaganza called Circus of Illusion. A truly magical experience where circus and illusions are fused into a whimsical show of wonders.
Ticket Giveaway: We have two double passes to give-away. Enter Here..
S.S. Metaphor
All hands on deck! Because as you surely know by now-we're all in this together.
5th - 19th December 2021 - Malthouse Outdoor Stage
Welcome aboard the luxury cruise liner S.S. Metaphor! Sure this glittering ode to freedom adventure and endless possibility is stuck at sea but as top tier passengers you'll be none the wiser about troubles back home... or even below deck!
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
Pramkicker
Sadie Hasler's hit play about two sisters on opposite ends of their 30's.
14th - 18th December 2021 - Theatre Works
Pramkicker is a whip smart love letter to women facing the enormous societal expectations surrounding motherhood.
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.
Free Public Transport Vouchers
250,000 free public transport vouchers
To encourage people back into the city over the festive season and summer holidays, 50,000 public transport vouchers are up for grabs
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.
Anthony Callea: Live
Ladies & Gentlemen, The Songs of George Michael
17th - 19th December 2021 - The Palms at Crown
Anthony Callea is undoubtedly one of Australia's finest vocalists, and the ARIA award winner will once again bring to life his LIVE Concert Experience of "Ladies & Gentlemen, The Songs of George Michael" celebrating the impressive and iconic music catalogue of George Michael that has touched millions for decades.
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.
Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto
5 Dec 21 - 25 Apr 22 - NGV International
An exhibition of one of the world's most influential fashion designers: Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto is the first exhibition in Australia to solely focus on the fashion contributions of 20th-century French designer Gabrielle (AKA Coco) Chanel.
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
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.
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.
Come Together: The Music Of The Beatles Orchestrated
Over 2 Hours of The Beatles Classics
Friday 17th December 2021 - Palais Theatre
A 24 Piece Symphony Orchestra Conducted by George Ellis with Special Guest Vocalists Steve Kilbey from The Church Rick Price Bobby Fox and Dave Wilkins
Pasted and Wasted: Melbourne Music Poster Expo
A celebration of the People Places and Sounds of the Australian music scene.
Friday's Saturday's and Sunday's - 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.
The Cat Empire
20-years - Final Victorian Shows of the Original Line-up
15 & 16 December, 2021 | Sidney Myer Music Bowl
Expect an unforgettable celebration with plenty of reflection and immeasurable joy.
Christmas Lights Search
The Melbourne Christmas Lights Guide will help you and your family plan to see all of Melbourne's best Christmas Light displays.
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.
Love Actually in Concert
Featuring a live symphony orchestra
Saturday 18th December 2021 - Plenary | Melbourne Convention Centre
Featuring an all-star cast, the film has become one of our all-time festive favourites. The orchestra will perform the hit soundtrack live with the film being projected onto a huge screen.
Imaginaria
Walk Through Experience
Daily 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.
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.
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.
Melbourne Experience: V8 Hot Lap
Six laps in a real V8 race car at Sandown Raceway
Get the blood pumping as you blast around Sandown Raceway in the driver's seat of a V8 race car! A highly skilled instructor will be seated beside you giving you live tuition through a headset as you tackle the circuit reaching speeds of up to 200km/h.
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 - 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!
Tropical Vacay Party at The Albion Rooftop
'A CHANGE OF SCENE WITHOUT THE TRAVEL STRESS
New Year's Eve: Friday 31st December 2021 @ The Albion Rooftop
The Albion invites you to it's New Year's Eve with getaway Tropical Vacay Party channeling a relaxed, summer vibe.
Check Out!
Melbourne Markets
50+ Markets open this weekend..
Arts Centre Market Emu Plains Market Eynesbury Christmas Market Fitzroy Mills Market Flowerdale Community Market Footscray Night Market Geelong Swap Meet Bulla Market Grantville Christmas Market MADE on Watton Christmas Market Melbourne Book Market Myrtleford Farmers Market Numurkah Lions Club Broken Creek Market Postal Lane Markets Rialto Christmas Creators Market Rose Street Artists' Market The District Docklands Christmas Night Market Tolmie Craft & Farmers' 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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