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What's On Melbourne Newsletter | #849
Tuesday 4th April 2023 - Monday 10th April 2023
This weeks' experiences in the world's most 'everything' city.
Easter Weekend
& Juliet
ACMI: Goddess: Power Glamour Rebellion
Alliance Francaise French Film Festival
Bendigo Easter Festival
Candlelight Concerts in Melbourne
Driftwood - The Musical
Easter Weekend: What's On
Gandel Gondwana Garden - Melboune Museum
Good Friday Appeal
Good Friday Appeal: Kids Day Out
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | ReImagined
Mary Poppins The Musical
Matador la experiencia
Melbourne Easter Show
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Melbourne Now
Monet & Friends: The Lume Melbourne
Pear-Shaped @ Theatre Works
Pierre Bonnard: Designed By India Mahdavi
Rushworth Easter Heritage Festival
School Holidays Guide | Melbourne Autumn
Tesselaar KaBloom Festival of Flowers
The Eagles Story
Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs
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Good Friday Appeal
The 92nd annual Good Friday Appeal on Friday 7th April 2023, brings together the community to raise money for the Royal Children's Hospital.
Easter Long Weekend
Friday 7th April 2023 - Monday 10th April 2023
Easter is four-day weekend, choccy egg full of fabulous things to do.
Melbourne Easter Show
Experience it all at the Melbourne Easter Show!
7-9 April 2023 - Dromana Estate
Join us for a fun filled day out with a wide range of children's activities interactive demonstrations roving entertainers carnival rides Easter Egg Hunts cuddle the animals and much much more!
Pear-Shaped
Deliciously dark new comedy by Miranda Middleton and Ziggy Resnick
5-15 April 2023 - Theatre Works
A captivating blend of wordplay magic realism projection and puppetry Pear-Shaped is a deliciously dark new comedy about growing up growing down and everything in between.
The Eagles Story
April / May Shows | Live At Your Local
The respect for the original band by members Pete McCarthy, Gary Young, Paul Gales, Norm McNaughton & Steve Wells are the driving force that continues to ensure that each in their own right 'Take it to the Limit' with 2 big sets of EAGLES Hits!
Magic & Illusion - Dinner & Show
Mind blowing magic right before your eyes
Witness miracles upclose with award-winning magician Luke Hocking at Melbourne's #1 magic & illusion show at the 5 Star Marriott Hotel.
Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Melbourne becomes comedy capital of the UNIVERSE
29 March - 24 April 2023
The 2023 Melbourne International Comedy Festival turns 37 celebrating with its biggest festival with more shows and venues than ever becoming one of the world's largest and most respected comedy festivals.
Dr Brown Brown Brown Brown Brown and His Singing Tiger
Join Dr Brown and his friend the Singing Tiger on an absurd adventure from breakfast to bedtime
Saturday 8th April 2023 - Sunday 16th April 2023 @ Melbourne Museum - Theatre
Absurd weird and wonderful this surreal visual comedy with live musical narration has kids storming the stage to help the hapless doctor and his singing side-kick. Suitable for audiences 5+
Goddess: Power Glamour Rebellion
Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series
5th April 2023 - 1st October 2023 @ ACMI
Featuring never-before-seen costumes cinematic treasures interactive experiences and large-scale projections this landmark ACMI-curated exhibition will unveil examine and celebrate the changing representation of femininity across film history through provocative on-screen moments.
Triceratops: Fate of the Dinosaurs
After 67 million years Horridus the Triceratops is here in Melbourne
Until 30 June 2023 - Melbourne Museum
Come face to face with one of the most awe-inspiring creatures ever to walk the Earth in an immersive voyage into a lost world.
Circus Royale - St Kilda
FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER CIRCUS ROYALE COMING TO ST KILDA
31 MARCH to 30 APRIL 2023 - ST KILDA WATERFRONT
Featuring a powerhouse of international superstars from around the globe this family friendly show is ultra-high energy designed to appeal to audiences of all ages.
Family Pass
We have 4 tickets to the first readers that shoot us a message
Michael Boyd's Circus of Illusion
It's the show we all need right now - uplifting whimsical wonderful and over the top
Wednesday 12 & Thursday 13 April 2023 - The Palms at Crown
Escape into a world where sawdust and sequins join cutting edge illusions and spectacular magic to create Circus of Illusion.
Ticket Giveaway
We have two double passes to give-away .. Enter Here
Rushworth Easter Heritage Festival
It's a day not to be missed.
Saturday 8th April 2023
It's a wonderful, action-packed family day with a great variety of market stalls, live music, kid's entertainment, great food, raffles, static and moving displays of vintage machinery and vintage cars and a visit from the Moora Working Draught Horses.
Matador la experiencia
An immersive fusion of live music Spanish street food dance circus and burlesque..
Until 23 April 2023 - Meat Market - North Melbourne
Inspired by a tale as old as time MATADOR is a fiery fusion of burlesque dance and jaw-dropping circus acts. Set across a fiery Spanish sunset this is a tale of forbidden love carnal desires passion and pain a tale of a love torn bull & the seductive Matador!
KaBloom Festival of Flowers
Millions of colourful flowers blanket the Dandenong ranges
Sat 25th March, 2023 - Tue 25th April, 2023 - Tesselaar Tulip Farm
Millions of blooming flowers, live music, great food sets the scene for a hidden world of fairies, pixies, magic and circus performers.
& Juliet
The award-winning & JULIET at the Regent Theatre
Until 9 April 2023 - Regent Theatre
This hilarious inspiring and poignant new musical is wrapped up in one of the most addictive and joyful soundtracks to ever hit the stage. Shakespeare gets a remix with some of the world's most loved and glittering pop anthems from legendary songwriter Max Martin and collaborators.
Mary Poppins The Musical
This triumphant theatrical experience is a must-see for 2023.
Until 30 April 2023 - Her Majesty's Theatre
It's time to rediscover the undeniable magic of one of the world's most loved tales and show new generations that - Anything can happen... if you let it.
Monet & Friends
@ The Lume Melbourne
The Lume Melbourne
Embark on a mesmerising journey across bohemian Paris and countryside France. Young and old will be plunged into Monet's Water Lilies and dancing with Degas' ballerinas in this stunning explosion of life light and colour.
Alexander McQueen: Mind Mythos Muse
Mind Mythos Muse
Until 16 April 2023 - NGV International
Alexander McQueen remains one of the most extraordinary and significant fashion designers in recent memory lauded for his conceptual and technical virtuosity. McQueen's critically acclaimed collections synthesised his proficiency in tailoring and dressmaking with encyclopaedic and autobiographical visual references that spanned time geography and media.
Driftwood - The Musical
A magical story of art and creativity, survival and perseverance..
3 - 20 May 2023 - Chapel Off Chapel
Tells the inspirational story of the renowned Austrian/ Australian sculptor Karl Duldig and his artist-inventor wife, Slawa Horowitz-Duldig. We follow their lives in pre-war Vienna, the family's narrow escape from Nazi Austria, Slawa's ingenious invention of the foldable umbrella, and the incredible chain of events that took place after miraculously escaping the Holocaust and rebuilding their careers as artists in Melbourne.
Ticket Giveaway
We have two double passes to give-away .. Enter Here
Candlelight Concerts
Enjoy a concert illuminated by candlelight and performed by live musicians in some of the most iconic venues in Melbourne.
Pierre Bonnard: Designed By India Mahdavi
Melbourne Winter Masterpieces: Pierre Bonnard
Friday 9 June until Wednesday 8 October 2023 @ NGV International
Pierre Bonnard is one of the most beloved painters of the 20th century, celebrated for his use of colour to convey an exquisite sense of emotion. The NGV has commissioned celebrated award-winning Iranian Paris-based designer India Mahdavi to design the exhibition's scenography.
Bendigo Easter Festival
An extensive program of activities and attractions offers something for all ages
Friday 7th April 2023 - Monday 10th April 2023 - Bendigo's beautiful Rosalind Park and surrounding streets
Bendigo will be transformed into a vibrant precinct bursting with family-friendly entertainment.
Gandel Gondwana Garden @ Melboune Museum
Included with museum entry
The Gandel Gondwana Garden is an outdoor gallery where you can step into the ecosystems of the past.
Explore Victoria's ancient landscapes and learn about creatures that once walked this land, from dinosaurs and megafauna to the ancestors of today's iconic Australian species.
MCG TOUR
Melbourne Cricket Ground Stadium TOUR
If you've never done a MCG tour you don't know what you're missing. I had been to the G over 100 times having grown up a block away but was surprised and shocked at how much I discovered about the MCG on this fabulous tour.
Best $30 I ever spent!
Melbourne Now
FREE ENTRY
Until 20th August 2023 - The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia Fed Square
Celebrating new and ambitious local art and design Melbourne Now will cross a range of contemporary disciplines including fashion and jewellery painting sculpture architecture ceramics video performance printmaking and publishing.
Royal Exhibition Building Dome Promenade
An icon unseen for 100 years.
Built for the 1880 Melbourne International Exhibition the Dome Promenade was a key attraction providing visitors the opportunity to view the emerging Melbourne skyline.
Discover the history of this extraordinary UNESCO World Heritage listed building before experiencing views from the dome over Carlton Gardens the city and greater Melbourne.
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
ReImagined - Extended by popular demand
Until July 2023 - Princess Theatre- will not be touring Australia
The most globally awarded play in history Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is now experienced as one thrilling theatrical event.
Next Week: School Holidays | Autumn Guide
Our guide to keep the kids busy during the autumn school holidays
Saturday, 6 April 2023 - Monday, 24 April 2023
Children's activities and care programs, festivals, exhibitions, shows and attractions.
Code Camp - Best School Holidays Ever
Every school holidays kids aged 5-13 years can design code and create with technology producing games websites music and videos in just 2-3 days.
Home Delivered - Ready-Made Meals Guide
Fresh and delicious meal kits delivered right to your door.
No fuss or simply ready made meals have everyone covered with express home delivery plans diet plans and weekly food plans
Powerpal | Electricity Monitor
FREE for every Victorian
Powerpal connects a smart phone to your electricity meter and shows power usage in real-time helping you to make better decisions about the way you use energy.
More to check out: this week
Weekend Markets
Anglesea Riverbank Market
Bright Rotary Markets
Camberwell Sunday Market
Charlton Lions Club Market
Easter Art Market - Woodend Art Group
Flinders Easter Market
Inverloch Rotary Market
Kingsbury Drive Community Market - Bundoora
Mallacoota Lions Summer Community Market
Mansfield Bush Market
Mt Martha South Beach Market
Point Lonsdale Market
Portsea Craft Market | Point Nepean
Promontory Produce & Craft Market | Foster
St Leonards Foreshore Market
Tarwin Lower Market
The Trust Makers' Market - Rippon Lea
Tocumwal Foreshore Market
Just announced..coming soon!
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