Newsletter #989 What's On Melbourne |
What's On Melbourne Newsletter
Tuesday 9th December 2025 - Monday 15th December 2025
Featured This Week
Celebrate New Year's Eve on the Water
Cherryhill Orchards: Twilight Cherry Picking
Christmas Lights Cruise
Coburg Night Market
DIVA | Australian Museum of Performing Arts
East Ivanhoe Christmas Fair
Joy: See it. Share it.
Magic Show: Impossible Occurrences
Maho Magic Bar
Melbourne's Christmas Festival
Melbourne's Christmas Markets
Myer Christmas Windows
New Year's Eve - Fireworks
NYD FUNHOUSE 2026
Oprah Winfrey in Conversation
Outdoor Cinema Guide
Summer Night Market @ Queen Victoria Market
The Phoenix: Greyhound Race
The Vegan Market - Fed Square
Westwood | Kawakubo
Yarra Glen Racecourse Craft Market
+ New Year's Eve Parties
+ Heads Up.. this weekend
Free Every Week
Stay safe - Be kind - Be Melbourne
Tuesday 9th December 2025 - Monday 15th December 2025
Featured This Week
Celebrate New Year's Eve on the Water
Cherryhill Orchards: Twilight Cherry Picking
Christmas Lights Cruise
Coburg Night Market
DIVA | Australian Museum of Performing Arts
East Ivanhoe Christmas Fair
Joy: See it. Share it.
Magic Show: Impossible Occurrences
Maho Magic Bar
Melbourne's Christmas Festival
Melbourne's Christmas Markets
Myer Christmas Windows
New Year's Eve - Fireworks
NYD FUNHOUSE 2026
Oprah Winfrey in Conversation
Outdoor Cinema Guide
Summer Night Market @ Queen Victoria Market
The Phoenix: Greyhound Race
The Vegan Market - Fed Square
Westwood | Kawakubo
Yarra Glen Racecourse Craft Market
+ New Year's Eve Parties
+ Heads Up.. this weekend
Free Every Week
Stay safe - Be kind - Be Melbourne
Step aboard and watch the Yarra come alive with festive magic
Christmas Lights Cruise featuring the Crown Christmas Fountain Show
7th - 24th December 2025 boarding @ Southbank Promenade
As the night falls be mesmerized by the breathtaking Crown Christmas Fountain Show of dancing water music and lights. Take in Melbourne's iconic skyline as the city shimmers in festive colours Southbank buzzes with holiday energy and the Yarra River reflects it all in its dazzling brilliance!
Mind-blowing magic right before your eyes - Dinner & Show
Impossible Occurrences
Every Friday night witness magic miracles up close with award-winning magician Luke Hocking at Melbourne's #1 magic & illusion show at the 5 Star Marriott Hotel.
Melbourne will jingle all the way to Christmas Day
Melbourne's Christmas Festival
See the city light up with dazzling decorations festive events and family-friendly activities! Traditional favourites like the giant Christmas tree at Fed Square and the Myer Christmas Windows draw visitors from near and far.
Every jingle every bell and every HO HO HO will create the most wonderful family memories.
Melbourne's Christmas Wonderland
Daily until 24th December 2025 @ Caulfield Racecourse
Melbourne's Christmas Wonderland is an immersive walk-through experience where every moment of Christmas has been beautifully brought to life.
Celebrate a 70 year old Melbourne tradition
Myer Christmas Windows
10am - 8pm daily until 6th January 2026 @ Myer Bourke St Mall
Visiting the Myer Christmas Windows has been a much-loved Australian tradition Myer's gift to the City of Melbourne now attracts an estimated 1.4 million visitors each year. This year's windows follow the magical journey of a child's Christmas letter from Melbourne to Santa's North Pole workshop.
It's CAROLS time
Melbourne's Carols
It's that wonderful time of year when families rug up head out into the night air and gather for a good old-fashioned round of Christmas carols. There's something timeless about standing together singing the songs we all grew up with and watching the kids' faces light up as the music carries across the park..
Celebaating two of the most influential fashion designers Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo
Westwood | Kawakubo
Until April 2026 @ National Gallery of Victoria
Bringing together works from the NGV Collection with selected important loans from international museums and private collections, the exhibition highlights key collections and concerns, showcasing over 140 designs that explore the convergences and divergences between the two designers' work.
From opera stars to pop icons, celebrate the power and creativity of the diva.
DIVA
11th December 2025 - 26th April 2026 @ Australian Museum of Performing Arts
Celebrating some of history's most provocative and powerful divas, DIVA, an acclaimed international exhibition at the new Australian Museum of Performing Arts.
Enjoy a season of films beneath the open sky
Outdoor Cinema Guide
Relax in a deckchair, sink into a beanbag, or have a picnic on the grass as you soak in the fresh night air and the magic of the big screen.
Melbourne Outdoor Cinema's
Extended due to popular demand
Joy: See it. Share it.
Until Saturday 7th February 2026 @ Immigration Museum
Joy brings the Immigration Museum to life with an emotive adventure where creativity, colour and storytelling join forces to take you on a transformative journey.
An intimate evening of conversation reflection and inspiration
Oprah Winfrey in Conversation Melbourne
Thursday 11th December 2025 @ Plenary | Melbourne Convention Centre
In a moderated conversation Oprah will share powerful lessons from her own life explore the universal themes that connect us all - resilience happiness growth and purpose - and invite attendees to imagine what's possible no matter where they are on their journey.
World's Richest Greyhound Race
The Phoenix
Saturday 13th December 2025 @ The Meadows
With the biggest prize pool of any greyhound race in the world, the Phoenix attracts the best inform chasers and challengers. Be on course to witness who will take home the win and a $1m cheque in 2025! A 12 race card also invites plenty more opportunities to watch world-class racing and be part of a phenomenal night of racing at Australia's premier track.
The Japanese magic bar is back with a fresh line-up of tricksters illusions and cocktails
Maho Magic Bar
Nightly until February 2026 @ Spiegel Haus Melbourne
Be transported to downtown Tokyo for a neon-lit night of mischief magic laughter and cocktails with the ultimate line-up of sleight-of-hand superstars direct from Japan.
Unforgettable summer evenings at Queen Victoria Market
Summer Night Market
Wednesday nights @ Queen Victoria Market
Global street food cooling cocktails artisan shopping and live entertainment under Melbourne's glittering twilight skyline. Free entry.
Experience the past present and future of Formula 1
F1 The Exhibition - Formula 1 Exhibition
Daily until April 2026 @ Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
The exhibition offers fans up-close encounters with legendary F1 cars spanning multiple eras along with state-of-the-art racing simulators that let visitors test their skills on the iconic Albert Park track. Interactive installations and hands-on displays highlight F1 technology while exclusive archival footage interviews and historic memorabilia bring the sport's greatest moments to life.
Live musical experience by candlelight
Candlelight Concerts
Melbourne's most quietly beautiful night out is a Candlelight Concert by Fever.
Our Picks
Playable Videogames Exhibition
Game Worlds
Daily until 8th February 2026 @ ACMI - FedSquare
Spanning over 50 years of play Game Worlds features more than 30 videogames from the 1970s to today with 44 playable moments original builds rare design materials and hands-on prototypes you won't find anywhere else. Explore major titles like Minecraft Final Fantasy XIV Online The Elder Scrolls Online SimCity and Stardew Valley joining iconic titles including World of Warcraft The Sims Neopets and the highly anticipated Hollow Knight: Silksong.
Discover a world four billion years in the making. You'll come face to face with animals from around the world
Our Wondrous Planet
Daily @ Melbourne Museum
Become part of Earth's incredible living systems: ride the swirling currents of the ocean connect with intriguing creatures and vast root networks beneath the soil and join in the magical moment when a coral reef starts its life cycle.
Travel back in time to early medieval Scotland and discover the unique and mysterious treasure trove of Viking-age treasures
Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard
Daily @ Melbourne Museum
Buried around AD 900 and discovered in 2014 by metal detectorists the Galloway Hoard brings together a stunning variety of materials and treasures from the early medieval kingdoms of Britain and Ireland mainland Europe and as far away as Central Asia.
Dive into an immersive hands-on journey through the galaxy's first LEGO Star Wars exhibition
LEGO Star Wars: The Exhibition
Daily @ Melbourne Museum
Over eight million LEGO bricks will transform Melbourne Museum into a tribute to George Lucas's beloved space saga.
Performing Arts
Shows that make Melbourne one of the world's premiere theatre destinations...
Shows & Musicals
Check out the rest of the shows plays and musicals playing now and coming soon to Melbourne..
Step beyond the rainbow and into a world where dreams defy gravity
Oz - The Cirque Experience
Friday & Saturday until Saturday 13 December 2025 @ The Alex Theatre St Kilda
Oz The Experience is a spellbinding fusion of circus theatre and fantasy - an immersive adventure that brings the Land of Oz to life like never before. Be swept up in dazzling illusions breathtaking acrobatics and unforgettable characters.
The most Tony Award-winning new musical of the season
MJ - The Michael Jackson Musical
Extended until March 2026 @ Her Majesty's Theatre
He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Now Michael Jackson's unique and unparalleled artistry is startin' somethin' in Melbourne in the multiple Tony Award-winning MJ the Musical.
Step inside the velvet-draped world of Blanc de Blanc
Blanc De Blanc Encore
Wed 7pm Thu 7pm Fri 6pm & 845pm Sat 4:30pm & 7:30pm Sun 6pm @ Spiegel Haus Melbourne
This adults-only spectacle delivers world-class acrobatics sultry burlesque and outrageous humour all set to a pulsing soundtrack of vintage jazz and contemporary beats. From jaw-dropping aerial acts to cheeky champagne-fuelled antics Blanc de Blanc Encore is a hedonistic night of high-end entertainment that bubbles with energy sensuality and style.
New Year's Eve Parties
Parties with front-row seats to Melbourne's fireworks
Breathtaking panoramic views and front-row seats to the Melbourne fireworks
New Years Eve h2o - Sunset on the Yarra
Wednesday 31st December 2025 @ Metropolis
Celebrate New Year's Eve in ultimate style at the prestigious Metropolis on Southbank overlooking Melbourne's iconic Yarra River
Ring in 2026 with a memorable evening aboard one of our exclusive New Year's Eve cruises
Celebrate New Year's Eve on the Water
Wednesday 31st December 2025 @ Southbank Promenade
Ring in 2026 with a memorable evening aboard one of our exclusive New Year's Eve cruises.
Whether you're looking to dance the night away enjoy a more relaxed evening or witness breath taking fireworks we have the perfect cruise for you!
- NYE Party Cruise
- NYE Party Cruise Over 40s
- NYE Midnight Fireworks Cruise
- NYE Early Fireworks Cruise
Book Now
Book your place online or call (03) 8610 2600 (tell them we sent you!)
New Year's Day
3 Levels. 3 Sounds. One Unforgettable Vibe.
NYD FUNHOUSE 2026 feat Shakes + Les & Jessica Mashaba
Thursday 1st January 2026 @ The Emerson - South Yarra
A multi-sensory takeover across three levels of music culture dance and food we're setting The Emerson ablaze with energy elegance and unforgettable vibes.
See the city skyline, See the midnight fireworks.
New Year's Eve 2025 - Fireworks
Wednesday 31st December 2025
Melbourne's free Celebration Zones offer the best inner-city views of fireworks, plus family-friendly entertainment, music and food trucks.
One-stop shop | 14K products under one virtual roof
Furniture Masters - Superstore
Furniture & Homewares - Every room of the house.. kitchen lounge dining bedroom bathroom hallway family home office deck backyard and garage.
Stores: Bedzy, Bing Lee, Costway, Fantastic Furniture, Kitchenaid, Momentous Living, Onebed, RenovatorStore, The Good Guys, UpDown Desk
Melbourne's Christmas Markets
With Christmas and summer looming, markets are great places to grab those special and unique gifts at bargain prices.
Christmas Markets
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