Newsletter #860 What's On this Week

Published: Tue, 06/20/23

Newsletter: What's On | 20 - 26 June 2023

What's On Melbourne Newsletter
Tuesday 20th June 2023 - Monday 26th June 2023

Experiences in the world's most loveable city.

Featured This Week

& Juliet
ACMI: Goddess: Power Glamour Rebellion
Adventure Park's Winter Glow
ArtVo Trick Art
Belgrave Lantern Festival
Code Camp - The Best School Holidays Ever
Connection: The Lume Melbourne
East Gippsland Winter Festival
Fantastic Beast: The Wonder Of Nature
Lightscape - Royal Botanic Gardens
Live Music This Week
Melbourne's Brunch Afloat
Melbourne Magic Festival
MIRROR: New views on photography
Newport Folk Festival
Pat Cronin Foundation: Be Wise Ball
Pierre Bonnard: Designed By India Mahdavi
Rembrandt: True to life
Shoshi Jacobs: The Winged Ones @ Compendium Gallery
Sleepless Footscray Festival
Sovereign Hill's Winter Wonderlights
The Rink: Ice Skating @ Rising
The Rocky Horror Show
The Story of the Moving Image
Winter Night Market

Free Every Tuesday

Stay safe - Be kind - Be Melbourne

Melbourne's Brunch Afloat

ELEVATE YOUR BRUNCH EXPERIENCE

Saturdays and Sundays 1PM - 3PM

Elevate your brunch game with our incomparable bottomless brunch cruise in Melbourne. We invite you to lavish yourself in unlimited mouth-watering brunch options meticulously curated to satiate every palate.

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Adventure Park's Winter Glow

SNOW | LIGHTS | FIRE | ICE

16 June -16 July 2023 | Adventure Park Geelong

With snow rides epic light installations and amazing fire twirling and ice sculpting displays! See live ice-sculpting and fire-twirling displays plus millions of dazzling lights and hundreds of glittering installations all over the park. Ride action rides play mini-golf plus lots more activities for the kids.

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BABBA

Live At Your Local (June & July)

Welcome to the wonderful musical illusion that is BABBA.....

A BABBA show is an electrifying experience that transports audiences back to the glory days of ABBA. With stunning costumes captivating choreography and pitch-perfect renditions of the band's greatest hits.

It's the best night out in town!

Skyways Hotel - 23.6.23 - liveatyourlocal.com.au

Matthew Flinders Hotel - 24.6.23 - liveatyourlocal.com.au

Plaza Tavern Werribee - 21.7.23 - liveatyourlocal.com.au

Stamford Inn - 22.7.23 - liveatyourlocal.com.au

All shows are 18+ Tickets are on sale now!

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Shoshi Jacobs: The Winged Ones

Each piece holds an energy and its own unique story.

19 June - 1 July 2023 - Compendium Gallery 909A High Street, Armadale

This collection of works embodies themes of contrasting emotions; grief, unconditional love, fear, hope, presence, absence.

Magic & Illusion - Dinner & Show

Mind blowing magic right before your eyes

Every Friday night witness miracles upclose with award-winning magician Luke Hocking at Melbourne's #1 magic & illusion show at the 5 Star Marriott Hotel.

Code Camp - School Holiday Camps

The Best School Holidays Ever

Code Camp is Australia's favourite school holiday and after-school program!

Let Code Camp inspire your children to get creative with technology these holidays learn some valuable new skills have fun and make new friends.

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The Rink: Ice Skating @ Birrarung Marr

Open through the winter school holidays

Put on your skates and slice up the ice under a deep constellation of lights! The Rink at RISING takes the concept of ice skating to a whole new level.

These school holidays, skate under a stunning array of lights and decorations, enjoy a selection of free activities, and round off the experience with some food and drinks.

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Lightscape 2023 - Royal Botanic Gardens

Back by popular demand- Immersive after-dark experience

Nightly until Sunday 6th August 2023

Never before seen lightworks along with the impressive Winter Cathedral will light up the Gardens when Lightscape returns in June. Immersed in light colour reflection and music the all-new trail just over 2km will take you through the green heart of Melbourne. Expect colour-changing installations large-scale illuminated sculptures and surprises along the way.

Sovereign Hill's Winter Wonderlights

By day Sovereign Hill delights but when the sun goes down thats when it really shines.

24 June - 16 July 2023 - Sovereign Hill

Throughout the day visitors can wander the streets as 'snow' falls enjoy pantomimes and theatre shows Christmas-themed arts and crafts the chance to share a photo with St Nick and wonderful wintry treats like mulled wine and gingerbread. As the sun goes down ever-changing projections bring Sovereign Hill's streetscape to dazzling life as a spectacular light show illuminates the much-loved museum.

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Sleepless Footscray Festival

Immersive experiences, performances and art installations

17 June - 1 July 2023

Produced by Stargazed Productions, Sleepless is a community arts festival, that runs for two weeks and features a huge line-up of immersive experiences, performances, art installations and food pop-ups.

Belgrave Lantern Festival

Free event takes place during the shortest day of winter and marks the turning of the seasons towards spring.

Saturday 24th June 2023 - Reynolds Lane Belgrave

The Belgrave Lantern Parade is an annual event that celebrates the winter solstice community and creativity at the Hills through a display of hundreds of beautiful candle-powered lanterns. Thousands of people flock the streets marching with both big and small lanterns.

Newport Folk Festival

Fantastic program of concerts, workshops and join in sessions

FRIDAY 23 JUNE 7.30pm-10.30pm + SATURDAY 24 JUNE 8.30am-11.00pm

There's a smorgasbord of music on offer with something for everyone to savour. Cajun, Celtic, Australian Bush, Skiffle, Classical, Choirs, Storytellers and more.

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East Gippsland Winter Festival

East Gippsland comes alive in a festival of light, food, music, art and culture

9 June - 9 July, 2023

From Paynesville on the Gippsland Lakes to Omeo in the High Country, and all the way to Mallacoota in the far east, our 2023 winter festival program will be jam-packed full of family-friendly events, winter feasts, workshops and beautiful art installations.

Melbourne Magic Festival

The Melbourne Magic Festival casts its spell across Melbourne

26 June - 8 July 2023

Over 130 performances of 30 different shows including top international guest magicians from all over Australia!

Live | This Week In Melbourne

Check out the live shows this week in Melbourne

Melbourne's vibrant music scene pumps out live music 7 nights a week in hotels bars and live music venues.

10CC: The Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour

ARC Presents Dark Side Of The Moon

Beethoven Septet

Billy Ocean

Blues Roulette: Live at The Count's

Candlelight: A Tribute To Coldplay

Candlelight: A Tribute To Queen

Candlelight: Best Of Anime Soundtracks

Candlelight: Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake & More Ft. Ballet

Carla Lippis: Mondo Psycho - Album Launch

Celtic Punk At The Tote

Cloud9 Women's Choir: Duality - Songs of Connection

Come Together - The Music Of The Beatles

Dragon | 50th Anniversary Concert

Emma Donovan and The Putbacks

Gypsy - The Australian Fleetwood Mac Show

Henry Rollins

Jackie Bornstein's Great Women of Jazz

Mary L Trump

The Grogans: Grogan Grove - Anniversary Show

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Pat Cronin Foundation: Be Wise Ball

Saturday 24th June 2023 - Melbourne Town Hall

The Pat Cronin Foundation Be Wise Ball is a black-tie event that offers guests a dazzling night of world-class entertainment, amazing food and drinks, and chances to win incredible prizes.

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ArtVo Melbourne | Trick Art

Become part of the artwork at ArtVo Melbourne

ArtVo Melbourne @ Docklands is open 7 days a week

The interactive trick art gallery is your chance to touch the art and strike a pose in front of the mind boggling themed zones. The venue is a fun activity for all ages with over 80 different 3D reality defying artworks and optical illusions to work with across 9 different themed zones.

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Rembrandt: True to life

Rembrandt: True to life follows the work of the seventeenth-century Dutch master from his early years in Leiden in the 1620s through to his final years in Amsterdam in the 1660s.

Until 10 September 2023 - NGV International

The NGV holds the most important Rembrandt collection in the Southern Hemisphere and this exhibition is a unique opportunity for audiences to explore the great range of the artist's prints alongside some of his key paintings in the most comprehensive exhibition of Rembrandt's work to be held in Australia in twenty-five years.

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Goddess: Power Glamour Rebellion

Melbourne Winter Masterpieces series

Until 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.

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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.

Fantastic Beast: The Wonder Of Nature

Explores the links between the magical creatures of the wizarding world and the remarkable animals of our natural world

Until Sunday 8th October 2023 - Melbourne Museum

Wonder at the magic of the creatures from the Wizarding World alongside the remarkable animals from London's Natural History Museum collection and learn about their shared abilities and behaviours that allow them to dazzle attract and escape.

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Connection: The Lume Melbourne

Breathtaking Stories Through First Nations Art & Music

From 26 June 2023 @ The Lume Melbourne

Connection features over 550 digital and original artworks from more than 110 visual and musical artists representing the largest collection of First Peoples' art ever assembled.

& Juliet

The award-winning & JULIET at the Regent Theatre

Nightly until July 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.

The Rocky Horror Show Final Shows

The Legendary Rock & Roll Musical

Until 25 June 2023 - Athenaeum Theatre

A brand-new Australian production marks its 50th Anniversary in 2023 starring Australian superstar Jason Donovan and Myf Warhurst as the Narrator.

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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.

The Story of the Moving Image

the "BEST" free exhibition in Melbourne

FREE | Open daily | 10am - 5pm @ ACMI, Fed Square

Discover how inventors, innovators and artists at the turn of the 20th century wielded light, split time and captured motion, heralding a technological revolution that continues today.

MIRROR: New views on photography

Great photography can hold up a mirror to the world and reflect our innermost thoughts and feelings

Free until January 2024 - State Library of Victoria

Showcases over 140 photographs from the State Collection, alongside creative responses from emerging and established Victorian storytellers to tell fascinating tales of Victoria through a contemporary lens. 

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