Newsletter | #787 | What's On this Week |
What's On Newsletter | #787
Tuesday 25th January 2022 - Monday 31st January 2022
Stay safe - Be kind - Be Melbourne
In light of a surge in covid cases, check events and venues before making plans.
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Australia Day
Australian Open
Disney+ Drive-In - Melbourne Showgrounds
Frozen | The Musical (final shows)
Herring Island Summer Arts Festival
Jagged Little Pill - the Musical
Kaleidosquare
Live at the Bowl
Lunar New Year Celebrations
Macedon Summertime Fling
Melbourne Street Eatz
Midsumma Festival
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Polly Woodside Tour
Summer Nights Drone Show
Survival Day
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.
Lunar New Year Celebrations
Year of the TIGER - Festivals & Celebrations
New Year's Day is Tuesday, 1 February 2022
Melbourne hosts Lunar New Year celebrations in the Central Business District and suburbs, each festival offers its own unique theme, performances and food.
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
Summer Nights Drone Show
2 free shows every night- Until 5th February 2022
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 Pride March - Sunday 6th February 2022 Pride Street Party - Sunday 13th February 2022
Jagged Little Pill - the Musical
Music and lyrics by Alanis Morissette starring Natalie Bassingthwaighte
Until 6th February 2022 - Comedy Theatre
Nominated for 15 Tony Awards this electrifying production about a perfectly imperfect family living in 21st century suburbia.
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.
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 until 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 - Queen Victoria Gardens
A mirrored kaleidoscopic cube featuring an open steel structure on four u-shaped concrete columns featuring 89 angled mirrored panels.
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)
Cool off and reflect..
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 King Richard, Spider-Man: No Way Home, West Side Story and Dune.
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.
Experience: Kryal Castle
Step into another world full of medieval adventure
Open every weekend
Everyone will be enchanted by the story of the Land of Kryal with its magical Oggles and the She-Dragon Ushnagh heroic Knights and the Arthurian legend of the Castle.
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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