Newsletter | #786 | What's On this Week |
What's On Newsletter | #786
Tuesday 18th January 2022 - Monday 24th January 2022
Stay safe - Be kind - Be Melbourne
We highly recommend checking with the event organiser prior to making plans.
- This Week -
Australia Day - Wednesday 26th January
Australian Open
Disney+ Drive-In - Melbourne Showgrounds
Doll House: Miniature Worlds of Wonder
Happy Place: World's Most Instagrammable Exhibit
Herring Island Summer Arts Festival
Imaginaria: Walk Through Experience
Jagged Little Pill - the Musical
Kaleidosquare
Live at the Bowl
Melbourne Disability Connection Expo
Melbourne Street Eatz - Food Trucks Exhibition Centre
Midsumma Carnival
Midsumma Festival
Mornington Art Show
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Outdoor Cinema Guide
pond(er)
Summer Night Market | Queen Victoria Market
Summer Nights Drone Show: Docklands
TeamKids - Summer Holiday Fun
Van Gogh: The Lume Melbourne
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.
Kaleidosquare
A Mad Hatter's tea party of curious experiences
FedSquare - Friday 14th January 2022 - Thursday 31st March 2022
A massive program of over 160 free activities, including workshops, live gigs, candlelight concerts, free films, and Melbourne Fashion Festival.
Featured
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
Summer Nights Drone Show
2 free shows every night in January
9.30pm & 10:30pm - Harbour Esplanade - Docklands
See the night sky sparkle as 350 drones light up Docklands to tell stories in an enchanting visual spectacular combined with poetry soundscapes.
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.
Midsumma Festival
Australia's premier LGBTQIA+ arts and cultural experience
Sunday 23rd January 2022 - Sunday 13th February 2022
Midsumma Festival brings together a diverse mix of LGBTQIA+ artists, performers, communities and audiences across 100 Melbourne venues and iconic event spaces.
Midsumma Carnival - Sunday 23rd January 2022 Midsumma Pride March - Sunday 6th February 2022 Pride Street Party - Sunday 13th February 2022
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.
Jagged Little Pill - the Musical
Music and lyrics by Alanis Morissette starring Natalie Bassingthwaighte
2nd January - 6th February 2022 - Comedy Theatre
Nominated for 15 Tony Awards, this electrifying production about a perfectly imperfect family living in 21st century suburbia.
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
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.
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.
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.
Check Out!
Street Eatz - Food Trucks Exhibition Centre
Melbourne Markets
Featured markets open this weekend..
Abbotsford Farmers' Market Bentleigh Rotary Sunday Market Camberwell Sunday Market Campbells Creek Collectables Fair CERES Makers & Flea Market Eltham Farmers' Market Fitzroy Mills Market Frankston Community Market Keysborough Computer Market Kingsbury Drive Community Market Mansfield Bush Market Melbourne Book Market Mt Martha South Beach Market Rose Street Artists' Market St Leonards Foreshore Market Tarwin Lower Market The Arts Centre Sunday Market The Fitzroy Market Tocumwal Foreshore Market Warrnambool Summer Markets
Paintball Skirmish - Little River
Paintball Skirmish Package - 200 Paintballs
Take your friends out of the pub and into the wild. Paintball Skirmish is the thrill of the chase in a purpose-built environment. Using the best equipment with dozens of other people, you'll have the time of your life!
From $49 per person
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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