This Week in Melbourne: What's On #788

Published: Tue, 02/01/22

 
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Newsletter: This Week - 1 - 7 February 2022

 
Newsletter: This Week - 1 - 7 February 2022
 

What's On Newsletter | #788
Tuesday 1st February 2022 - Monday 7th February 2022

Stay safe - Be kind - Be Melbourne
 

- This Week -


Affordable Wedding Expo
Australian Shakespeare Company: The Comedy of Errors
Backyard Fest
Disney+ Drive-In
Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto
Hellenic Arts Fest
Herring Island Summer Arts Festival
Jagged Little Pill the Musical
Kaleidosquare - FedSquare
Live at the Bowl
Live Music Tours
Lunar New Year Celebrations
Magic & Illusion - Dinner & Show
Melbourne Street Eatz
Midsumma Pride March
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Now and Again | Music Festival
Pentridge Prison Ghost Tour
pond(er)
Secrets & Stories Cryptic Adventure
Sugar Republic's Bloomville
Summer Cinema at Melbourne Zoo
Summer Night Market
Summer Nights Drone Show
The Goddesses
The Lightcatcher
Valentine's Day Dinner Cruise
Van Gogh: The Lume Melbourne

Free Every Tuesday
 
Melbourne
 

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.
   
Melbourne
 

Valentine's Day Dinner Cruise

 
Melbourne River Cruises Valentine's Special
 
Cruising on 12th, 13th and 14th February 2022
 
Our 3 hour Valentine's Day cruises provide you and your significant other with high-quality service as well as great food and drinks to make your celebration a special and memorable occasion. We also offer a selection of entres, main meals, desserts and beverages for you to choose from.
   
Melbourne
 

Kaleidosquare - FedSquare

 
A Mad Hatter's tea party of curious experiences
 
FedSquare - Until 31st March 2022
 
A massive program of over 160 free activities including workshops live gigs candlelight concerts free films and Melbourne Fashion Festival.
 
Featured
           
Melbourne
 

Secrets & Stories Cryptic Adventure

 
Find a secret Melbourne that you never knew existed
 
This cryptic adventure takes you around Melbourne into a wizard's magical world!
   
Melbourne
 

Hellenic Arts Fest

 
A cornucopia of cinema, storytelling and feasting
 
5 – 13 February 2022 - Hellenic Museum
 
The Hellenic Museum is proud to present Hellenic Arts Fest, a multi-disciplinary summer arts festival celebrating Greek culture, history and storytelling.
           
Melbourne
 

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.
   
Melbourne
 

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.
   
Melbourne
 

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.
 
Melbourne Midsumma Pride March - Sunday 6th February 2022
 
Melbourne Pride Street Party - Sunday 13th February 2022
   
Melbourne
 

Midsumma Pride March

 
Presented by: Midsumma Festival, supported by City of Port Phillip
 
Sunday 6 February 2022 - Fitzroy Street St Kilda
 
Parade, pride and party come together once a year in Melbourne's iconic march celebrating solidarity in gender and sexuality diversity.
   
Melbourne
 

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.
   
Melbourne
 

Pentridge Prison Ghost Tour

 
Walking ghost tour of Pentridge Prison
 
Step inside Pentridge Prison, that once housed some of the state's worst criminals, for a spine-tingling two hour ghost tour.
 
Walk in the footsteps of Chopper Reed, discover the famous outlaw Ned Kelly's remains and experience the final moments of Ronald Ryan, the last man to be executed in Australia.
   
Melbourne
 

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.
   
Melbourne
 

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.
   
Melbourne
 

Sugar Republic's Bloomville

 
brand new pop-up for summer
 
Until 28 February 2022 - Woodlea Town Aintree
 
Bloomville is an indoor-outdoor journey through rainbow-coloured spaces filled with immersive installations and fun photo moments.
   
Melbourne
 

2022 Live Music Tours

 
Australian tours confirmed for 2022
                                     
Melbourne
 

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
 

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.
   
Melbourne
 

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.
   
Melbourne
 

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.
   
Melbourne
 

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.
   
Melbourne
 

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.
   
Melbourne
 

Latest Movies

 
Films now showing include King Richard Spider-Man: No Way Home West Side Story and Dune.
   
Melbourne
 

Magic & Illusion - Dinner & Show

 
Mind blowing magic right before your eyes
 
Friday nights
 
Witness miracles upclose at Melbourne's #1 magic & illusion show showcased at the 5 Star Marriott Hotel.
   
Melbourne
 

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.
   
Melbourne
 

Tickets Now Onsale

 
Official tickets from Ticketek and Ticketmaster
     
7-10 April 2022 - Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit
     
30 March to 3 April 2022
     
18&20 February 2022 - MCG
     
30 March - 24 April 2022
     
25 March - 9 April 2022
     
Saturday 19 February 2022 - Flemington Racecourse
     
Melbourne
 

Check Out!

           
Melbourne
 

Melbourne Markets

 
Featured markets open this weekend..

Melbourne Beaumaris North Community Market
Melbourne Bumble Bee Baby & Children's Market | Berwick
Melbourne Camberwell Sunday Market
Melbourne Kingston Farmers' Market - Highett
Melbourne Melbourne Book Market at Queen Victoria Market
Melbourne Rose Street Artists' Market
Melbourne The Fitzroy Market
   
Melbourne
 

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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