Newsletter #861 What's On this Week

Published: Tue, 06/27/23

Newsletter: What's On | 27 June - 3 July 2023

What's On Melbourne Newsletter
Tuesday 27th June 2023 - Monday 3rd July 2023

Experiences in the world's most loveable city.

Featured This Week

& Juliet
2.22 - A Ghost Story
ACMI: Goddess: Power Glamour Rebellion
Adventure Park's Winter Glow
Around The World In One Day | Cultural Festival
ArtVo | Trick Art
BABBA - Live at your local
Chaos Lab: A Creative Experience for Children
Code Camp - School Holiday Camps
Connection: The Lume Melbourne
Dining In The Dark
Docklands Firelight Festival
Fantastic Beast: The Wonder Of Nature
Lightscape - Royal Botanic Gardens
Live Music | This Week
Magic & Illusion - Dinner & Show
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
Melbourne Magic Festival
Melbourne's Brunch Afloat
Pierre Bonnard: Designed By India Mahdavi
School Holidays Guide
Shoshi Jacobs: The Winged Ones
Sleepless Footscray Festival
Sovereign Hill's Winter Wonderlights
The Eagles Story
The Rink: Ice Skating @ Rising
The Rocky Horror Show

Free Every Tuesday

Stay safe - Be kind - Be Melbourne

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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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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The Eagles Story

Live Shows in July 2023

Australia's Premier Eagles Experience is a celebration of the iconic American rock band, The Eagles. With incredible attention to detail, the performers bring the band's legendary music to life in a way this is both authentic and electrifying.

Friday 21st July - Yarraville Live (Dinner & Show)

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Sat 29th July - Ringwood Bowls Club (Supper & Show)

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Tickets are on sale now!

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!

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.

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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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.

School Holiday Guide

Our biggest winter guide yet!

Saturday 23 June - Sunday 10 July 2023

Keep the kids entertained during the Winter School Holidays with Melbourne's best guide jam packed with events activities and venues.

Adventure Park's Winter Glow

All Day Activities for KIDS

ArtVo Trick Art | Docklands

Chaos Lab: A Creative Experience for Children

Circus Royale | Narre Warren

Code Camp

Fairy Park

Gumbuya World

Imaginator: Walk Through Experience

Jurassic Creatures Live

Lightscape - Royal Botanic Gardens

Potion Putt - A Wizardry Minigolf Course

Ryan 'Brickman' McNaught: The Wonder of LEGO® Disney

Shoshi Jacobs: The Winged Ones

The Rink: Ice Skating

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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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Chaos Lab

A Creative Experience for Children

School holidays - District Docklands

Chaos Lab allows children's imaginations to run wild with the craziest and most colourful dreams imaginable. This interactive laboratory experience will inspire the young to release their creativity!

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Dining In The Dark

Ever wondered what it's like to eat in the dark?

Wednesday 19 July, 2023 - Juliet Melbourne

After donning your blindfold in the darkened, candlelit room, you'll soon realise that focusing on taste and smell alone can be a truly enlightening experience - provided you're not afraid of the dark!

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Melbourne Documentary Film Festival

8th Edition Online + In-Cinema at Cinema Nova

Online: 1st - 31st July 2023 | In-Cinema: 21nd - 30th July 2023

The Melbourne Doc Fest each year curates world class features direct from some of the hottest most prestigious film festivals in the world.

Lightscape 2023 - Royal Botanic Gardens

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

Delights by day, 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.

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!

Around The World In One Day | Cultural Festival

Free entry - organized by Moonee Valley City Council

Sun 02 Jul 2023 - The Clocktower Centre - Moonee Ponds

The festival aims to take you on a virtual trip around the world showcasing the diverse cultures and traditions right in your own backyard in Moonee Valley.

2.22 - A Ghost Story

Winner BEST NEW PLAY - the critically acclaimed supernatural thriller 2.22

25 July - 20 August 2023 - Her Majesty's Theatre

An adrenaline-filled night where secrets emerge, and ghosts may or may not appear. What do you believe? And do you dare discover the truth?

ArtVo Melbourne | Trick Art

Become part of the artwork at ArtVo Melbourne

Open 7 days @ Docklands

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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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.

32 Bars | Live at Paris Cat

360 - Back To Life Tour

ARETHA | A Love Letter to the Queen of Soul

BABBA - Live At Your Local

Brett Wood: Live at The Count's

Candlelight Orchestra: Best Of Hans Zimmer

Candlelight: Ed Sheeran + Imagine Dragons

Candlelight: Tribute To Beatles On String

Celebrating Hot Chocolate With Mark Williams

City of Melbourne Highland Pipe Band: Heart of Scotland

Claymore

Darren Hanlon

Divine - Baazigar Tour

Esoteric

King Stingray - Thats Where I Wanna Be Tour

Lastlings

Lisa Ono | Australia Tour 2023

Polyphia

The Eagles Story

Young Lions - Make A Rainbow And Put It In The Sky Tour

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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

The Legendary Rock & Roll Musical

Until 30 July 2023 (extended) - 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

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

Melbourne's "BEST" free exhibition

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. 

Show Announcement

GREASE | The Musical

GREASE Is The Word | GREASE is still the word

31 December 2023 - 28 January 2024 - Her Majesty's Theatre

Featuring dazzling costumes and all those unforgettable songs including: Summer Nights Sandy Hopelessly Devoted to You You're The One That I Want Greased Lightnin' and Grease is the Word.