This Week in Melbourne: What's On #710

Published: Tue, 08/04/20

Newsletter: This Week 4 - 10 August 2020

What's On Newsletter | #710
4th August 2020 - 10th August 2020

COVID-19 FREE ZONE

This Week

8 Days: Entertainment Guide to the Week
AFL Premiership: Round 10
Champagne Showcase - Live Streamed Classical Concert
Easey Comedy | Zoomed LIVE
Get cultured: Melbourne's Best Online Exhibitions
High Tea in a Box
Hot Chocolate Festival
Judith Lucy & Denise Scott - Disappointments
Keith Haring/Jean-Michel Basquiat | Virtual Tour
Making Her Mark: Selected Works from the Collection
Melbourne International Film Festival - 68½ streaming online
Melbourne Writers Festival
Signposts: Stories of our Fragile Times
youfoodz - Ready-Made Meals Home Delivered
Vault Sessions

Hot Chocolate Festival

Enjoy the Hot Chocolate Festival at home

- August 2020

The Great Ocean Road, Yarra Valley and Mornington Peninsula Chocolateries have created 31 limited-edition hot chocolate flavours that you can enjoy as DIY kits delivered to your door.

Melbourne Writers Festival 2020

Melbourne Writers Festival Has Taken Its 2020 Program Online

- 7 - 16 August 2020

There are 100 guests from Australia and around the world on this year’s line-up including two ex-PMs prominent Aussie novelists Helen Garner and Claire G Coleman and the author of Crazy Rich Asians.

Comedy Gold

We all need a little laughter in our life

life is better when you’re laughing!

We’ve got the comedians and they’ve got the lols. Grab your friends and book some tickets for gigs in your favourite venues around the country.

Ben Elton Daniel Sloss Frank Woodley Ivan Aristeguieta Jimeoin Julia Morris Kevin Bloody Wilson Nicole Byer Peter Helliar Rosie Waterland Ross Noble Sydney Comedy Festival Gala The Chaser Tim Minchin Tom Gleeson Tommy Little Trixie & Katya Live Urzila Carlson and Wil Anderson

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High Tea in a Box

Home Delivery

Indulge yourself with hand crafted High Tea in a Box for two by Collins Coffee House.

Easey Comedy | Zoomed LIVE

Hosted by Adam Hills every Thursday night

Fresh lineups every week showcasing the best & brightest names in comedy. This week: Celia Pacquola Lloyd Langford Alex Ward Jordan Barr and Urvi Majumdar.

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Judith Lucy & Denise Scott - Disappointments

spend an hour under the doona with Jude and Scotty

- Every Sunday at 5pm on ZOOM

Join Scotty and Jude as they talk about new disappointments - anything from politics to television to the fact that Judith has started shaving her face while Scotty couldn't be bothered and let her beard grow free.

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Melbourne International Film Festival

#MIFF 68½ streaming online

- August 6 to 23 2020

The program is expected to feature groundbreaking headline titles originally intended for the annual film event. Along with newly discovered feature-length films MIFF 68½ will also feature four short film streams shorts awards and a virtual adaptation of their critics campus.

Champagne Showcase

Live Streamed Classical Concert

- Saturday 15 August 2020 at 6:30pm

Featuring six of Melbourne's best performers including Soprano Rada Tochalna and Baritone Stephen Coutts; Harpist Vanessa McKeand; Classical Guitarist Anthony McGarrigle; renowned Cellist Megan Smithies, and Classical Pianist Yani Lam.

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Vault Sessions | Streaming

Feat. Alice Skye, Ziggy Ramo & Cash Savage and the Last Drinks

- Watch on Thursdays at 7.30pm

Join us for a series of digital concerts from the iconic Hamer Hall stage, featuring a lineup of home-grown musos. Streaming to you weekly from the best seat in the house, your couch.