This Week in Melbourne: What's On #711

Published: Tue, 08/11/20

Newsletter: This Week 11 - 17 August 2020

What's On Newsletter | #711
11th August 2020 - 17th August 2020

This Week

8 Days: Entertainment Guide to the Week
AFL Premiership: Round 11
Champagne Showcase - Live Streamed Classical Concert
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair
Hot Chocolate Festival
LEGO® Cat Competition: Win Replica of Your Cat
Live Streams | Sea Life Melbourne
Melbourne International Film Festival
Melbourne Writers Festival - Digital
National Science Week
Red Nose Day
Wine and Cheese Tasting 5.0

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.

Red Nose Day

- Friday 14th August 2020

In 32 years, 10,000+ Australian children's lives have been saved, but still nine children under the age of four die suddenly every day.

Red Nose's goal is to reduce this number to zero.

Wine and Cheese Tasting 5.0

Saturday Arvo Cheese and wine Regional Hero's

- 15th August 4pm @ Henry and the Fox

Join us for week 5 of our fantastic online interactive wine tasting experience! Catch up with your favourite hosts Terry & Cam with special guest Pete Bently from Pikes Wine! Five fantastic wines from Negociants & Pikes paired with delicious cheeses from Calendar cheeses!

Hot Chocolate Festival

Enjoy the Hot Chocolate Festival at home

- August 2020

Create your own Hot Chocolate Festival fun with our decadent 'DIY' kits to melt, whisk and slurp at home.

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.

Live Streams | Sea Life Melbourne

Best part... FREE!

Discover more about some of our underwater creatures you'll find at SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium by watching some of our live streams.

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.

LEGO® Cat Competition

Win LEGO Replica of Your Cat

To celebrate International Cat Day, Legoland Discovery Centre is giving you the opportunity to WIN a custom-made LEGO® replica of your furry friend!

Vault Sessions | Streaming

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

- Watch on Thursdays at 7.30pm

Have you been missing live music gigs as much as we are? Join us for a series of digital concerts from the iconic Hamer Hall stage featuring a lineup of home-grown musos. Created in collaboration with the Australian Music Vault. Streaming to you weekly from the best seat in the house your couch.

National Science Week 2020

Australia's annual celebration of science and technology

- 15 - 23 August 2020

Now in its 23rd year National Science Week enables those with a general interest in science and teachers organisations and students to both host and attend a range of entertaining events and activities about science technology and engineering.

Whitehorse Centre Farewell Concert

- Premiering at 8pm on Friday 28 August 2020

After 34 years of serving the community, the time has come to bid the Whitehorse Centre farewell. Join us as we celebrate the end of an era with a free online event featuring Marina Prior and Kane Alexander.