This Week in Melbourne: What's On #775

Published: Wed, 11/03/21

Newsletter: This Week - 3 - 8 November 2021

What's On Newsletter | #775
Wednesday 3rd November 2021 - Monday 8th November 2021

Stay safe - Be kind - Be Melbourne

Arbory Afloat | Yarra River Bar
Austen Con 2021 - Jane Austen Expo
Ballarat International Foto Biennale 2021
Disney: The Magic of Animation
Eating Out After Lockdown
Latest Movies
Love, Loss and What I Wore
Melbourne Cup Carnival 2021
Melbourne Awakens - Now Open
Movember 21 | Grow a MO for Charity
Seeing the Invisible: Augmented-Reality Art Experience
The Pirate Experience | Queens of the Damned Theatre
Van Gogh: The Lume Melbourne
Victorian Seniors Festival 2021: reimagined

Free Every Week

Love, Loss and What I Wore

Performed by a cast of 5, artists portray 30+ characters

The Butterfly Club - 29 November - 4 December 2021

Adapted from Ilene Beckerman's memoir of the same name, Love, Loss and What I Wore is a collection of monologues centred around clothing and the female experience, covering all the important subjects; mothers, dresses, mothers, buying bras, mothers, hating purses and why we only wear black.

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Disney: The Magic of Animation

Discover the creativity and innovation of Disney Animation

Australian Centre for the Moving Image - FedSquare

Shown in Australia for the very first time this exhibition features over 500 exceptional artworks including original paintings sketches and concept art.

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Van Gogh: The Lume Melbourne

Stepping into THE LUME Melbourne is an epic adventure into art.

Now Open - The Lume Melbourne: Melbourne Exhibition Centre

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.

Seeing the Invisible

A Free Art Experience Will Have You Seeing the Invisible

Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne and Cranbourne Botanic Gardens

The most ambitious and expansive exhibition to date of contemporary artworks created with augmented reality (AR) technology will premiere across 12 botanic gardens in six countries simultaneously.

Movember 21

Grow a MO and save a BRO

Movember fundraisers are a global community of fired up Mo Bros and Mo Sisters - aka rock stars making a difference in mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer.

Your donation could help save a father, brother, son, friend, a man's life.

Magic & Illusion - Dinner & Show

Mind blowing magic right before your eyes

Friday nights - Marriott Melbourne Hotel

Discover Melbourne's best kept secret! Witness the impossible only inches from your eyes at Impossible Occurrences Magic Show.

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Back To the Movies

Movies include James Bond in No Time To Die Eternals Venom: Let There Be Carnage Shang-Chi Legend of the Ten Rings The Last Duel plus British Italian and Scandinavian film festivals.

What's Showing..

Melbourne Cup Carnival

The Melbourne Cup Carnival is an unequalled world-class event that encompasses the finest racing entertainment fashion culture food and wine all in one place - Flemington.

Be enthralled and swept up in the magic of the celebration that stops a nation ! Held across four days it is unrivalled in its prestige and tradition and is the unmissable social occasion of the year.

Thursday - KENNEDY Oaks Day November 4

Saturday - MACKINNON Stakes Day November 6

Spring Racing Carnival Flowers

Austen Con 2021

A much-loved celebration and exploration of all things Jane Austen.

Saturday 6 November, 2021 - Abbotsford Convent

A fantastic mix of live and online events, heralds the greatly anticipated fourth annual Austen Con.

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Theatre is BACK

Get in quick for these world-class shows..

The Wedding Singer From 27 January 2022

Friends! The Musical Parody From 23 November 2021

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child From 31 October 2021

Jagged Little Pill - the Musical From 2 January 2022

Bat Out of Hell | The Musical From 8 February 2022

Frozen | The Musical From 3 November 2021

As You Like It From 8 November 2021

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Moulin Rouge! The Musical

A Broadway sensation nominated for 14 Tony Awards

From 12 November 2021 - Regent Theatre

Baz Luhrmann's revolutionary film comes to life onstage remixed in a new musical mash-up extravaganza. A theatrical celebration of truth beauty freedom and - above all - love.

Official Tickets

ticketmaster.com.au

The Pirate Experience

Queens of the Damned Theatre Restaurant

Every Saturday night in the Docklands

Expect a night of cutthroat comedy bold burlesque and swashbuckling sideshow as the crew bring you a cabaret show you'll never forget.

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Get Vaccinated: Road To Freedom

Arm yourself against COVID-19

Protect yourself your loved ones and the wider community by getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Use the COVID-19 vaccine eligibility checker to find out when you can arm yourself and book your vaccination.

Eligibility Checker Book Online

Eating Out After Lockdown

Where to eat after lockdown..

First call for every Melburnian is a local restaurant, cafe or pub. They have been doing it tough and need your support!

Read Post Lockdown Guide..

Arbory Afloat

Yarra River Restaurant & Bar

Daily 12pm-9.30pm

Resurrecting for its sixth season alongside the city in which it resides Melbourne's largest outdoor floating bar and restaurant Arbory Afloat returns to the Yarra River marking the end of hibernation and arrival of good times.

Victorian Seniors Festival

Reimagined for online and radio

What can you expect? Think of the classic old English rhyme: Something old something new something borrowed and something blue. We have been inspired to produce creative programming that expresses continuity optimism for the future and learnings from generation to generation.

Ballarat International Foto Biennale

Photographic art exhibition held every 2 years

Now Open - Art Gallery of Ballarat

We showcase work from domestic and international artists that is new previously unseen in Australia or contextualised afresh; and in our Open Program we foster the development of emerging artists.

Exhibitions

Linda McCartney: Retrospective

Alix Marie: Styx

Erieta Attali - Lard Buurman - Rory Gardiner & John Gollings: In Translation

Steven Arnold: Notes from a Queer Mystic

Arum Dayu - Erika Ernawan - Meicy Sitorus & Tamarra: Dibalik

We Will All Eventually Return To The Earth

Number One | Gudinski

Chow And Lin: The Poverty Line

Anindita Banerjee: Ondormohol (The Inner Quarters)

Aletheia Casey - Gideon Mendel - Ruth Maddison & Rachel Mounsey: Raining Embers

Robert Fielding: Miil-miilpa