Newsletter: What's On | 8 - 15 July 2025What's On Melbourne Newsletter
Tuesday 8th July 2025 - Monday 15th July 2025
Featured This Week
Adventure Park's Winter Glow (Geelong)
Annemieke Mein: Nature Revealed
Annie
Bastille Day French Festival
Bottomless Dining on the Yarra
Here You Come Again
Magic Show: Impossible Occurrences
Melbourne Magic Festival
Pregnancy Babies & Children's Expo
Prison Island | Ticket Giveaway
Replay Festival: Comedy Republic
Riviera Winter Wonderland
School Holiday Fun on the Yarra
School Holiday Guide (Melbourne)
South East Winter Festival
The Finders Keepers
Yalumba x Ludlow Winter Wine Dinner
Free Every Tuesday
Stay safe - Be kind - Be Melbourne
Bringing the heart of the Barossa Valley to the heart of Melbourne for one night only
Yalumba x Ludlow Winter Wine Dinner
Wednesday 13th August 2025 @ Ludlow - Southbank
Join us for an unforgettable evening showcasing Yalumba's distinguished wines paired with an expertly curated menu from our Executive Chef. Fine Wine Expert Thapo Phahlane will guide us through a tasting journey featuring Yalumba's rarest and most exceptional varietals - including the remarkable 2014 Museum Release 'Signature'.
PERFECT SCHOOL HOLIDAY ENTERTAINMENT
Melbourne Magic Festival
Monday 7th July 2025 - Saturday 19th July 2025
Now recognised as the largest festival of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere. Over 200 shows for kids families and adults and magic classes for all ages!
Enjoy Bottomless Brunch Lunch or Dinner as you cruise through the heart of the city
Bottomless Dining on the Yarra
Step aboard the Spirit of Melbourne the city's iconic cruising restaurant and experience a unique dining journey along the Yarra River
Indulge in a multi-course menu paired with free-flowing drinks including premium wines beer spirits and soft drinks.
Witness Mein's intricate and mesmerising works this winter
Annemieke Mein: Nature Revealed
11th July 2025 - 30th August 2025 @ Whitehorse Artspace
Annemieke Mein OAM is one of Australia's most popular artists known for her exquisitely-made and incredibly detailed textile art that represents local fauna and flora.
Ticket Give-Away
Escape-Room Style Experience
Prison Island
Wed-Sun @ The District Docklands
Team up and take on a series of high-stakes challenges across 34 prison cells in this action-packed adventure.
Ticket Give-Away - Answer a question about Prison Island for a chance to WIN two tickets.
Cruises Departing Daily
School Holiday Fun on the Yarra
Make the most of the winter school holidays with a unique adventure on the Yarra River
Whether you're cruising towards historic Williamstown or taking in the sights of the city skyline there's something for everyone.
Magic & Illusion - Dinner & Show
Impossible Occurrences
Mind-blowing magic right before your eyes. Every Friday night witness miracles up close with award-winning magician Luke Hocking at Melbourne's #1 magic & illusion show at the 5 Star Marriott Hotel.
Our biggest Winter school holiday guide ever!
Winter School Holiday Guide
Saturday 5th July 2025 - Sunday 20th July 2025 @
Melbourne's best guide to keep the kids entertained during the Winter School Holidays.
Our Top Picks 14/38
Rendezvous and join in the joie de vivre
Bastille Day French Festival
Saturday 12th July 2025 - Sunday 13th July 2025 @ Queen Victoria Market
There is something for everyone at the 10th anniversary celebrations and rendezvous.
Step into a world of wonder as the all-new Lightscape returns to Royal Botanic Gardens
Lightscape
Nightly until 10th August 2025 @ Royal Botanic Gardens
New sights. New sounds. A whole new journey. Whether it's your first visit or a returning tradition Lightscape promises an unforgettable night out.
SNOW | LIGHTS | FIRE | ICE
Adventure Park's Winter Glow 2025
Nightly until 9th August 2025 @ Adventure Park | Geelong
With snow, theme park rides, dazzling light installations, fire twirling and ice sculpting displays, there's something the whole family will love.
Fun for big and little kids
Riviera Winter Wonderland
Daily until 3rd August 2025 @ Riviera Beach Club (Elwood)
Think ice skating, mulled wine, hot chocolates, toasted marshmallows, markets, private igloos & plenty more. Enchanting Igloo Dining, Enticing Ice Skating, Kids' Parties
Missed the Comedy Festival? Here's Your Encore
Replay Festival
1-31 July 2025 @ Comedy Republic
For four weeks straight the venue lights up again with a stacked roster of over 40 comedians reprising some of the most talked-about acts from the MICF.
Grazeland's much-loved Winter Wonderland is back for the school holidays
Grazeland's Winter Wonderland
Friday - Sunday until 20 July 2025 @ Grazeland - Festival of Food
Serving up a sizzling mix of food fiery entertainment and festive displays to warm the winter nights! No bookings required.
270+ of our craftiest friends..
The Finders Keepers: Design Market
Friday 11th July 2025 - Sunday 13th July 2025 @ Royal Exhibition Building
Enjoy the ultimate creative day out supporting designers, artists, makers, musicians and foodies all in one jam-packed event.
With FREE entry you're only required to come hungry and ready for a good time
Winter Night Market
Wednesday nights until 27 August 2025 @ Queen Victoria Market
Wrap up warm and embrace the winter chill as the Market's sheds and laneways come alive with the inviting aromas of delicious food; the sounds of live local musicians; and the vivid spectacle of quirky roving performers promising a fun and not-to-be-missed night for all.
Australia's LARGEST and the WORLD'S longest running early parenting event
PBC Pregnancy Babies & Children's Expo
Saturday 12th July 2025 - Sunday 13th July 2025 @ Melbourne Convention & Exhibition Centre
BIG brands BEST prices EXPERT talks and classes - all the LATEST innovations under one roof.
Melbourne Winter Masterpieces
French Impressionism
From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Daily until 5th October 2025 @ National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)
Drawn from Boston Museum of Fine Arts' rich collection of Impressionist masterworks French Impressionism presents more than 100 paintings by key figures including Claude Monet Pierre-Auguste Renoir Edgar Degas Camille Pissarro Edouard Manet Mary Cassatt Berthe Morisot Paul Signac and Alfred Sisley. Audiences will have the opportunity to experience the hallmarks of Impressionism: distinctive brushwork vivid use of colour innovative viewpoints and depictions of subjects and places dear to the
artists.
NGV Friday Nights: French Impressionism
Every Friday night until 3 October 2025 - 6-10pm
Your Friday Nights ticket includes unlimited entry to the French Impressionism exhibition from 6-10pm as well as live music performances.
73rd Box Hill Art Group Annual Exhibition and Art Sale
Box Hill Art Group Art Exhibition
Saturday 12th July 2025 - Sunday 13th July 2025 @ Box Hill Town Hall
Enjoy the great variety of artworks, come and meet the artists at our fabulous local Art Show.
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.
Live musical experience by candlelight
Candlelight Concerts
Our Picks
Theatre
A grown-up musical for the whole family
Annie
Tuesday 8th July 2025 - Sunday 28th September 2025 @ Princess Theatre
It's one of the most awarded and loved musicals of all time. With its iconic score, featuring classics like: It's the Hard-Knock Life, Easy Street and Tomorrow, Annie is truly a timeless musical masterpiece.
A rollicking joyous new musical comedy
Here You Come Again - Dolly Parton Musical Comedy
12th - 20th July 2025 @ Comedy Theatre
Here You Come Again is a musical comedy full to the brim with Dolly Parton's hits telling the story of a fan's journey guided by Dolly teaching life lessons.
The eight-time Tony Award-nominated musical will play a limited season exclusively in Melbourne
Beetlejuice The Musical
Until 31st August 2025 @ Regent Theatre
BEETLEJUICE is funnier more irreverent more reckless and frankly more repellent than ever in this original musical based on Tim Burton's dearly beloved film.
The acclaimed musical phenomenon HADESTOWN
HADESTOWN
Final shows until Sunday 13th July 2025 @ Her Majesty's Theatre
HADESTOWN is a defiantly hopeful theatrical experience that will take you on a journey to the underworld and back intertwining two mythic love stories - that of young dreamers Orpheus and Eurydice and that of King Hades and his wife Persephone. HADESTOWN invites you to imagine how the world could be.
Our picks: theatre shows plays and musicals
Shows & Musicals
Check out the shows playing now and coming soon..
Make the most of Melbourne
Even more things to see hear and do this week
There s just too much happening to squeeze it all into this week s newsletter! Make sure to check out the full lineup of events online so you don t miss out on anything exciting. Check out More on this week..
Heads Up.. coming soon!
Coming in October
An Epic Cinematic Journey with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
MSO: Marvel Studios' Infinity Saga Concert Experience
Thursday 16th October 2025 - Saturday 18th October 2025 @ Hamer Hall
It's time for fans - new and old - to assemble and relive every iconic moment from this defining canon of films all accompanied by the MSO.
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