This Week in Melbourne: What's On #770

Published: Tue, 09/28/21

Newsletter: 28 September - 4 October 2021

What's On Newsletter | #770
Tuesday 28th September 2021 - Monday 4th October 2021

Stay safe - Be kind - Be Melbourne

With changing COVID restrictions please confirm before making plans.

- This Week -

A Biography of Daphne
Animals at Home: Zoo Live Streams
Big Games Night In
Brett Ashby: Frequency
Daylight Saving Starts
Greater Dandenong Children's Festival
Knot | Multi-Sensory Journey
Melbourne For Life!
Melbourne Fringe Festival
Penguin Parade
Police Blue Ribbon Day
School Holidays Guide
Stream Australian Classical Music

Free Every Tuesday

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

School Holidays Guide (Week #2)

Can you believe the SPRING holidays are here!

Back to school Monday 4 October 2021

One-stop guide to keep the kids entertained during the school holidays.

Greater Dandenong Children's Festival

2021 - Online

Two massive weeks of FREE online events, workshops & activities

We invite all mini adventurers and their families to join us for two weeks of fun online activities and workshops over the school holidays from 18 September to 3 October.

Big Games Night In

Melbourne International Games Week 2021

Sunday 3 October 2021

MIGW's Big Games Night In offers a free-to-access space for games enthusiasts of all ages to enjoy new games by local game developers, specially curated by ACMI.

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.

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.

Police Blue Ribbon Day

Wear a blue ribbon

Wednesday 29th September 2021

Blue Ribbon Day is a chance for the community to say thank you to those who protect and serve our community and ensure that those who have fallen are never forgotten.

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.

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.

Daylight Saving Starts

Clockwise one hour from 2am to 3am.

Turn your clocks FORWARD one hour for the start of the 2021/2022 daylight saving period on Sunday 3 October 2021.

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

Knot | Multi-Sensory Journey

All you need: phone app your tickets and headphones

KNOT is a trilogy a three part 360 degree audio experience unfolding in three different locations - for the first episode audiences will situate themselves on a park bench for the second in a car and for the third in a room of their home.

Brett Ashby: Frequency

Digital Performance Art

International Artist, Brett Ashby takes his audience inside Pentridge, Melbourne's former historic prison.

The art focuses on the exchange of energy, art and power through physical whole body movement.

Animals at Home: Zoo Live Streams

Melbourne Zoo Werribee Open Range Zoo and Healesville Sanctuary

Live streams let you keep an eye on some of the Zoo's most popular residents any time of the day or night. There are also virtual tours of all three Zoos.