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What's On Newsletter | #785
Tuesday 11th January 2022 - Monday 17th January 2022
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Australian Open
Beyond The City: Music Festival
Casey Kite Festival
Disney+ Drive-In - Melbourne Showgrounds
Disney: The Magic of Animation
Doll House: Miniature Worlds of Wonder
Happy Place: World's Most Instagrammable Exhibit
Herring Island Summer Arts Festival
Imaginaria: Walk Through Experience
Live at the Bowl
Melbourne Bridal & Wedding Expo
Mornington Art Show
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Outdoor Cinema Guide
pond(er)
Summer Night Market
TeamKids - Summer Holiday Fun
The Lightcatcher
Treasures of the Natural World
Van Gogh: The Lume Melbourne
What Was That? Night Theatre at Werribee Mansion
Free Every Week
Australian Open 2022
World's top tennis players
17-30 January 2022
The stars of tennis make Melbourne Park their own as the on-court action and off-court entertainment of Grand Slam tennis take over the city. Join the biggest names in the game this summer for two weeks of all-star action.
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
The Goddesses
Inspired by Greek Mythology with some of the most seductive fierce and powerful goddesses to roam the grounds of Mount Olympus.
3-6 February 2022 @ Meat Market - North Melbourne
This visually dazzling theatre show will introduce you to the stories and personalities of each Goddess taking you on an emotional rollercoaster learning that we can all somehow relate to these mythical beings.
Summer Night Market
Wednesday nights at Queen Victoria Market
Wednesdays 5pm-10pm
After a two-year hiatus Melbourne's original and favourite Summer Night Market is back! The Market will come alive with all the things we love and have missed including delicious street food refreshing cocktails great shopping and live music from local performers.
Mornington Art Show
50th Anniversary Art Show in 2022
20-26 January 2022 - Mornington Community Centre and Studio
Mornington Art Show displays over 850 paintings for sale.
Live at the Bowl
Open-air performance series
Over four joyous months the Sidney Myer Music Bowl will come to life. See some of the best home-grown acts take the stage and revel in the return of international artists. With something for everyone across multiple nights of the week your 2022 calendar never looked so good. Keep an eye out for more exciting program announcements throughout the series.
January 2022
Doll House: Miniature Worlds of Wonder
Lose yourself in a miniature world of wonder and intrigue.
Until late January 2022 - Como House
Together with furniture accessories ephemera and virtual experiences Doll House: Miniature Worlds of Wonder unlocks the imagination of makers collectors activists and players and reveals the stories hidden in their worlds.
2022 Live Music Tours
Australian tours confirmed for 2022
Disney+ Drive-In
Melbourne Showgrounds
14th January 2022 - 24th February 2022 - Melbourne Showgrounds
Outdoor movie powerhouse, Open Air Cinema has teamed up with Disney+ once again to bring back their sell-out drive-in cinema so you can catch all your favourite nostalgic flicks on the big screen.
Melbourne Street Eatz
The city's favourite food truck event
Until 25 April 2022 - Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
Each week they'll bring in a fresh rotation of Melbourne's best food trucks ensuring a hugely diverse cuisine offering. So whether you're into calamari or curry, tofu or tacos, there's something for everyone.
Herring Island Summer Arts Festival 2022
Weekends Australia Day Labour Day Good Friday and the Monday after Easter
15 January 2022 - 18 April 2022 - Herring Island
The three arts groups participating are the Association of Sculptors of Victoria Valley Potters and the Contemporary Art Society of Victoria.
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.
Casey Kite Festival
This family event is open for everyone and has no Entry Fee
Saturday 15th January 2022 - Casey Central Park, Narre Warren South
Cranbourne will be enjoying their first Indian festival of 2022 with Music, Dance, Kites, Kids entertainment and variety of food.
Happy Place
World's Most Instagrammable Exhibit
Until 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.
What Was That?
Night Theatre at Werribee Mansion
Selected Friday and Saturday evenings @ Werribee Park Mansion
Based on the true stories of the Chirnside family (19th century wealthy squatters) this play combines history scary elements and comedy.
Melbourne Bridal & Wedding Expo
not to be missed!
Sunday 16th January 2022 - Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
From celebrants, photographers, gown designers, venues, live music and DJ entertainment, event stylists, florists, stationery designers and more - our exhibitors can help you create your dream wedding.
Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto
Until April 2022 - 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.
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.
Latest Movies
Films now showing include Spider-Man: No Way Home Venom: Let There Be Carnage West Side Story and Dune.
Imaginaria
Walk Through Experience
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.
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: Laser Tag Game
Gamr - Chirnside Park
Don your best battle suit and enter a 400 square metre maze during this two game laser tag experience. Armed with the latest laser tag equipment, manoeuvre through the war zone as you play to destroy your enemy and lead your team to victory. With up to 21 people per game, the pressure will be on!
Melbourne Markets
Featured markets open this weekend..
Bentleigh Rotary Sunday Market
Camberwell Sunday Market
CERES Makers & Flea Market
Darebin Computer Market
Echuca Moama Market
Eltham Farmers' Market
Fitzroy Mills Market
Frankston Community Market
Kingsbury Drive Community Market
Melbourne Book Market
Rose Street Artists' Market
St Leonards Foreshore Market
The Arts Centre Sunday Market
The Fitzroy Market
Warrnambool Summer Market
Powerpal | Electricity Monitor
100% Free - Victorian households
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.
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