This Week in Melbourne: What's On #682

Published: Tue, 01/21/20

Newsletter: This Week 21 - 27 January 2020

Newsletter | #682
Things to do in marvellous Melbourne
21st January 2020 - 27th January 2020

Adventure Clues Challenge
Alice in Wonderland
Australia Day
Australia Day Party @ Temperance Hotel
Australian Tennis Open
Balit Narrun Festival | Share the Spirit
Belgrave Survival Day
Come From Away | A New Musical
Darebin Art Prize
Eat Drink WaterTaxi to the Tennis with BearBrass
Festival of Sails
Herring Island Summer Arts Festival
High Tea at Melbourne Zoo
Invasion Day Rally
Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines
Lunar New Year Festivals
Midsumma Festival
MSO's Chinese New Year Concert
Port Fairy Folk Music Festival
The Art of Star Wars and Superheroes
Velvet, Iron, Ashes | Ashes Urn Exhibition
Victorian Hot Rod Show

Australian Open

Tennis Rod Laver Margaret Court Grand Slam AO Live Stage

- Monday 20th January 2020 - Sunday 2nd February 2020

The stars of tennis make Melbourne Park their own as the on-court action and off-court entertainment of Grand Slam tennis take over the city. Join the biggest names in the game this summer for two weeks of all-star action. Who will reign supreme in 2020?

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Eat Drink WaterTaxi to the Tennis with BearBrass

Australian Open Southgate Southbank Ferry

The only way to travel from Southbank to the Tennis at Melbourne Park. Enjoy a meal at BearBrass and then enjoy a return trip with Melbourne WaterTaxis along the Yarra to Melbourne Park.

MSO's Chinese New Year Concert

Classical music Chinese New Year

- Friday 31 January 2020 @ Hamer Hall

Now in its seventh year the MSO's Chinese New Year concert has become one of Australia's major cultural highlights. In 2020 eminent Chinese conductor Yi Zhang leads this unique musical celebration featuring one of the most important Chinese compositions in the world today.

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War Horse

- Unitl Sunday 8th March 2020 @ Regent Theatre

Tony Award®-winning production of War Horse is hailed by Time Magazine as ‘a landmark theatre event', this powerfully moving and imaginative drama, filled with stirring music and songs, is a show of phenomenal inventiveness.

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Balit Narrun - Share the Spirit Festival

Free event

- Sunday 26th January 2020 @ Treasury Gardens

An outdoor concert that centres around music created by indigenous artists with a focus on showcasing the true diversity of indigenous performers across different genres.

Street Art Adventure Clues Challenge

- Activity APP Challenge Hunt

Uncover secret street art spots in the city by solving a series of cryptic clues on your mobile. It's the perfect day out with friends or family a great idea for a date fun for the solo adventurer and awesome as a team building event.

High Tea at Melbourne Zoo

High Tea Brunch Melbourne Zoo

Join us for a special brunch High Tea at Melbourne Zoo. This earlier brunch time means you have longer to explore the Zoo! The brunch sitting is still beautifully set in a high tea style with a buffet selection and tiered trays to the table from our on-site kitchen and pastry chefs.

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Australia Day Weekend 2020

Australia Day, long weekend, things to do, holiday

- Sunday 26th January 2020 | Public Holiday: Monday 27 January 2020

We celebrate our National Day with fun activities and events. The 26th of January refers to the First Landing Day or Foundation Day, in 1788 when Captain Arthur Phillip, the first governor of New South Wales, arrived at Sydney Cove.

Invasion Day Rally

Australia Day Party @ Temperance Hotel

Australia Day Party

- Sunday 26 January 2020 @ Temperance Hotel

Celebrate Australia Day with us here at Temperance Hotel in South Yarra. We've got Live Music from 2pm DJs from 10pm to late AND $7 Drink specials ALL DAY!! We are giving away 100 FREE PINTS of Byron Bay Lager from 2pm until keg runs out so be quick!

Victorian Hot Rod Show

55th Victorian Hot Rod & Cool Rides Show

- 25-27 January 2020 @ Royal Exhibition Building

It's going to be a great opportunity over three massive days of our Australia Day weekend to get up close and personal with hundreds of Australia's coolest hot rods customs street machines and motorcycles in all their gleaming glory all competing for a huge prize pool of over $50000 in prizes and trophies.

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Come From Away | A New Musical

Show musical stage show theatre

- Matinee and Nightly @ Comedy Theatre

Best Musical: COME FROM AWAY takes you into the heart of the remarkable true story of 7000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that put their lives on hold and opened their homes to this world of strangers.

Herring Island Summer Arts Festival

Art Sculpture Pottery Exhibition

- Weekends 18th January to 13th April 2020

The Herring Island Summer Arts Festival showcases contemporary Australian visual art including painting photography sculpture and fibre art as well as special Australia Day activities.

Lunar New Year | Melbourne Festivals

Year of the RAT

- Saturday 25th January 2020 is New Year's Day

Melbourne hosts Chinese and Lunar New Year festivals in the CBD and suburbs celebrating the Year of the RAT Each festival offers its own unique theme performances and food. Visitors will experience Chinese Lion Dance Firecrackers Traditional Folk Music Dancers Martial Artists and much more.

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Midsumma Festival

#belong #loudproud #proud

- Sunday 19th January 2020 - Sunday 9th February 2020

Midsumma Festival has been held annually since 1988. Melbourne's Queer community and friends come together for this collaborative, innovative celebration of queer arts and culture. Pride March returns on Sunday 2 February 2020