This Week in Melbourne: What's On #712

Published: Tue, 08/18/20

Newsletter: This Week 18 - 25 August 2020

What's On Newsletter | #712
18th August 2020 - 25th August 2020

This Week

8 Days: Entertainment Guide to the Week
AFL 2020 Premiership: Round 13
Come To Where I Am - Australia
Comedy SOS
Get cultured: Melbourne's Best Online Exhibitions
Hot Chocolate Festival 2020
Keith Haring/Jean-Michel Basquiat | Virtual Tour
LEGO® Cat Competition: Win Replica of Your Cat
Love Letters to Melbourne
Marine Mindfulness: SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium
Melbourne International Film Festival 2020
National Science Week 2020
rage | To Melbourne, With Love
Self-Bingolation 80s Edition (Drag Queen Bingo)
Whitehorse Centre Farewell Concert

rage | To Melbourne, With Love

Music dedicated to Victorians in lockdown

- ABC Saturday, 22nd August 2020 - late

We're feeling for our mates in Melbourne, so we're dedicating a show to the Victorian artists who have given us so much over the years. Archie Roach, Paul Kelly and Crowded House to name a few..

Love Letters to Melbourne

Join us to create a Love Letter to Melbourne.

Melbourne Central has started the campaign to inspire people to share what they miss most about our city, the city we love.

Comedy SOS

Join some of Australia's funniest comedians online..

- Saturday nights

Upcoming Shows.. Georgie Carroll - The Gloves Are Off, Lawrence Mooney - Like Literally, Jimeoin - Ramble ON!, Steph Tisdell - Identity Steft and Ross Noble - El Hablador

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.

Self-Bingolation 80s Edition

Drag Queen Bingo

- Wednesday 19th August 2020 - 7.30pm

Pride of our Footscray is taking its quarantine queens online for a weekly bingo night. It's a total eclipse of the bingo! Aurora Arsenic streams live from her modern look mansion with bingo, comedy, phone calls & shows.

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.

Marine Mindfulness

Free online from SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium

SEA LIFE Melbourne Aquarium has released calming resources including guided meditation sessions set to beautiful imagery of marine creatures.

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

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.

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.