This Week in Melbourne: What's On #683

Published: Tue, 01/28/20

Newsletter: This Week 28 January - 3 February 2020

Newsletter | #683
Things to do in marvellous Melbourne
28th January 2020 - 3rd February 2020

Adventure Clues Challenge
Antipodes - Group Exhibition
Australian Tennis Open
Brewers Feast - Craft Beer & Food Festival
Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
Come From Away | A New Musical
Dragon's Awakening Ceremony
Eat Drink WaterTaxi to the Tennis with BearBrass
Hamlet - Australian Shakespeare Company
Herring Island Summer Arts Festival
High Tea at Melbourne Zoo
How to Write a Book
Inflatable Regatta - Yarra
Keith Haring | Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines
Lunar New Year Festivals
Melbourne Stars -v- Sydney Sixers
Midsumma Pride March
MSO's Chinese New Year Concert
Pool & Spa + Outdoor Living Expo
Super Bowl | Live @ Precinct Hotel
The Art of Star Wars and Superheroes
Velvet Iron Ashes | Ashes Urn Exhibition
War Horse
Werribee Pop Up Park

Midsumma Pride March

Together we march

- Sunday 2nd February 2020 @ Fitzroy St, St Kilda

The 25th annual Midsumma Pride March returns on Sunday. Parade, pride and party come together once a year in Melbourne's iconic march celebrating solidarity in gender and sexuality diversity.

Inflatable Regatta - Yarra River

- Saturday 1st February 2020 @ Yarra Bank Reserve, Hawthorn

Gather the crew and head off down 2kms of the Yarra River! Tickets include everything you need. Live Music: Karate Boogaloo and Surprise Chef!

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Australian Open - Tennis

Tennis - Rod Laver - Margaret Court - Grand Slam - AO Live Stage

- Final 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 for two weeks of all-star action.

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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

- Until 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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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, 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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Dragon's Awakening Ceremony | Lunar New Year

Year of the RAT

- Sunday 2nd February 2020 @ China Town | Little Bourke Street

Celebrate the Year of the RAT at Melbourne Chinatown's 2020 Chinese New Year Festival. Don't miss the amazing Dai Loong Dragon Parade: this remarkably long and lucky beast is carried and animated by 200+ people!

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Super Bowl | Live @ Precinct Hotel

Kansas City Chiefs -v- San Francisco 49ers

- Monday 3rd February 2020 @ 60 Swan Street Richmond

We'll be screening all the action from Miami live and loud across 7 large screens, including 2.5m screens in both our stage and courtyard areas.

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Come From Away | A New Musical

Show musical stage show theatre

- Matinee and Nightly @ Comedy Theatre

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.

Pool & Spa + Outdoor Living Expo

Pool, Spa, Outdoor Living, Swimming, Hot Tubs

- 31 Jan - 2 Feb 2020 @ Melbourne Exhibition Centre

For anyone dreaming of a new backyard sanctuary, looking for a new swimming pool or thinking of renovating their current backyard, the SPASA Victoria Pool & Spa + Outdoor Living Expo is an unmissable summer event. From sprawling family pools and lap pools, to intimate hot tubs, luxurious outdoor products, an inspirational show garden and the latest in outdoor living and entertainment, the Expo is a celebration of the latest and greatest innovations that help create the Australian backyard.

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Herring Island Summer Arts Festival

Art Sculpture Pottery Exhibition

- Weekends until 13th April 2020

The Herring Island Summer Arts Festival showcases contemporary Australian visual art including painting photography sculpture and fibre art.

How to Write a Book | Course

Write a book

- February - December @ Hampton

How to Write a Book is a seven week writing course covering covering Plot, Characters & Setting with Leeanne Vernon. Start now and this time next year you'll have a first draft of your new book.

Brewers Feast - Craft Beer & Food Festival 2020

Breweries, Beer, Food pairing, live music, craft beer

- 1-2 February 2020 @ Abbotsford Convent

Brewers Feast Festival 2020 is an annual summer showcase of the best brews, cider and food in Melbourne, whether you're a beer aficionados & Cicerone or just wanting to enjoy a great day with friends.

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