This Week in Melbourne: What's On #771

Published: Tue, 10/05/21

Newsletter: This Week - 5 - 11 October 2021

What's On Newsletter | #771
Tuesday 5th October 2021 - Monday 11th October 2021

Stay safe - Be kind - Be Melbourne

With changing COVID restrictions please confirm before making plans.

- This Week -

Animals at Home: Zoo Live Streams
Art to Roam Online Auction
Be Kind to Animals Week
Birdology - Pamela Irving Exhibition
Hey Hey It's Saturday: 50th Anniversary Special
Love Your Bookshop Day
Melbourne Documentary Film Festival Online
Melbourne For Life! Support Melbourne's Frontline Fighters
Melbourne Fringe Festival
Melbourne International Games Week
Online Careers Forum
Penguin Parade
Orchid Society Spring Show
Step Inside: Melbourne Theatre Co
Stream Australian Classical Music

Free Every Tuesday

Birdology - Online Exhibition

Pamela Irving 2021 Solo Online Exhibition

Saturday 9th October 2021 - 24th October 2021

A must see art exhibition by award winning Australian contemporary artist Pamela Irving, her works described as irreverent and whimsical.

Get Vaccinated: Road To Freedom

Arm yourself against COVID-19

Protect yourself your loved ones and the wider community by getting the COVID-19 vaccine. Use the COVID-19 vaccine eligibility checker to find out when you can arm yourself and book your vaccination.

Eligibility Checker | Book Online

Melbourne International Games Week

Connecting Games, Technology & Culture

MIGW 2021 - 2-10 OCTOBER 2021

This year's packed (hybrid) program celebrates the fun and fantasy of games as well as exploring games for good, games as art and games that grow industry and business

Melbourne Fringe Festival

Knock Knock. Who's there? It's us. And we're in your house

30 September to 17 October 2021

The reimagined Melbourne Fringe Festival is here to help you ride out the roadmap with a fabulous program of more than 120 on-demand interactive outdoor socially-distanced and home-delivered events.

Melbourne Documentary Film Festival

Due to Covid-19 the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival heads online

1-31 October 2021

Now in its sixth year, the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival returns with a new, characteristically eclectic lineup of fantastic non-fiction features!

Be Kind to Animals Week

Edgar's Mission

11th Year: Friday 1 to Thursday 7 October 2021

Be Kind to Animals Week reflects on the importance of being kind to animals and demonstrating how simple acts of kindness can have an enormous impact on all furred feathered fleeced and finned beings.

Penguin Parade | Live Stream

Tune in from 6pm AEST every night to watch

Watch the world's largest colony of Little Penguins waddle up Phillip Island's floodlit beaches to their homes every night at sunset.

Melbourne For Life!

Support Melbourne's Frontline Fighters

Local Eats for Melbourne's Frontline Fighters and those Disadvantaged by the Pandemic. 100% of all funds raised will be used to purchase meals from Melbourne for Life restaurant partners and enable 5 hospitality works to return to work for that day.

Art to Roam

Online auction

Tuesday 5th October 2021 (World Animal Day)

Art to Roam is a unique event which will see artists from around the world collaborating with the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) to create an exclusive online auction.

Hey Hey It's Saturday: 50th Anniversary Special

7pm - Sunday 10th October 2021 on Channel 7

90 minutes of highlights that reflect Hey Hey's 30 years on-air.

A Biography of Daphne

Online at Australian Centre for Contemporary Art

Biography of Daphne is a curatorial project that revisits the Classical myth of Daphne as the starting point for an investigation of trauma and metamorphosis symbiosis and entanglement in contemporary art.

Orchid Society Spring Show

Southern Suburbs Orchid Society Virtual Spring Show

6-8 October 2021

A virtual exhibition of the spring show and flowering competition.

Online Careers Forum

Melbourne Polytechnic

5-7 October 2021

Melbourne Polytechnic has identified four in-demand industries offering increased job growth and career opportunities across Victoria. These include education (early years), construction trade, health and human services and food and fibre.

Stream Australian Classical Music

A concert hall in your laptop: Australian gems you can stream online

Australia has world-class classical venues and orchestras including Melbourne Digital Concert Hall Australian Chamber Orchestra Australian Brandenburg Orchestra Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Melbourne Recital Centre Sydney Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Opera House.

Melbourne Digital Concert Hall
melbournedigitalconcerthall.com

Australian Chamber Orchestra
aco.com.au

Australian Brandenburg Orchestra
brandenburg.com.au

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
mso.live

Melbourne Recital Centre
melbournerecital.com.au

Sydney Symphony Orchestra
sydneysymphony.com

Sydney Opera House
sydneyoperahouse.com

Love Your Bookshop Day

Support your favourite bookshop

Saturday 9 October 2021

Let’s celebrate Australia's unique community of bookshops. Their shelves are filled with exciting stories, new friends, important history lessons and adventures into other worlds.