There's always something happening in this fair city of ours, so don't let the week pass you by without popping a few fun events into your social calendar. To help you plan, we've rounded up all the best activities happening this week, so all you have to do is scroll, pick and embark on your adventure.
Some of the best new things to do in Melbourne this weekend include ground-breaking arts festival Now or Never, Affordable Art Fair (which is the largest art fair in the world), and the tasty Garlic Bread Festival. Other highlights are the new Jurassic World exhibition and a Hot Chocolate festival. New openings on Melbourne's stages include fun pop musical Six and a thrilling stage adaptation of Frankenstein.
When in doubt, you can always rely on our catch-all lists of Melbourne's best bars, restaurants, museums, parks and galleries, or consult our bucket list of 101 things to do in Melbourne before you die.
What better place to throw a party than the palatial Royal Exhibition Building in Carlton Gardens? Last August, Now or Never, the brand-new festival of art, music, technology and ideas transformed the building into one heck of a soiree spot.
Now, the hot new festival is returning to warm up the city for another year. Now or Never is back from August 22-31 with a fresh new theme. In a quest to unlock the doors of our imaginations, the festival will have a theme of ‘Look Through the Image’.
Have you ever dreamed of walking with dinosaurs? Well Melbourne, life finds a way. Jurassic World: The Exhibition is roaring into the city this year following a hugely successful stint in Sydney. This enormous and immersive experience celebrates 31 years of the film franchise that began with the ground-breaking 1993 movie Jurassic Park.
Something special is happening right now at Bangarra Dance Theatre and it's on its way to Arts Centre Melbourne. Soon, Melburnians can experience a groundbreaking cultural journey with the theatre's first-ever cross-cultural mainstage production. Horizon brings together the creative forces of two distinguished First Nations choreographers on the Melbourne stage from August 29 until September 7.
To celebrate the arrival of spring, a fun-filled festival will take over Federation Square in September, with free family-friendly events that celebrate our natural world and how to better look after it.
RESET festival is all about starting fresh, refreshing ideas and getting inspired to take on new ways of living. It's about reinventing little parts of our lives to make big changes in the world.
Calling all avid art collectors and keen aesthetes, it’s almost time to gather up that loose change because the Affordable Art Fair (AAF) is just around the corner.
Set to be bigger and brighter than ever, the world’s largest art fair will enliven the Royal Exhibition Building with thousands of original works and vivid installations from some of Australia's best boutique galleries, as well as live painting sessions.
Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Topdog/Underdog, making her the first African-American woman ever to do so. Two decades later, the twentieth anniversary Broadway revival of the piece won a Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play just last year.
With those accolades under its belt, we’re excited to see Topdog/Underdog brought to the Melbourne stage.
As if Melbourne’s mainstages weren’t already bursting at the seams this year, somehow another production has managed to secure itself a slot at the esteemed Princess Theatre. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has been a literary classic for more than two centuries, with many folks recognising the book as the first-ever science fiction novel. This August, a faithful yet cutting edge adaptation of the classic horror is in town for a strictly limited season.
Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived… Holy Six! Australia can’t get enough of Six the Musical. The pop-powered global phenomenon has already had multiple record-breaking seasons across the country. And now, due to popular demand, the disgraced wives of King Henry VIII are warming up their voices for another lap Down Under. Six the Musical will hit the Comedy Theatre from August 3 and tickets are currently on sale until September 8.
Arm yourself with a backpack full of breath mints and an empty stomach: the fifth annual Garlic Bread Festival is coming to town on Saturday, April 31.
If you’ve ever found yourself rummaging through a Woollies freezer late at night for your fave frozen g-bread and you’re the only one at your table who dares ask for a second basket, this eight and a half-hour ode to the holy trinity of comfort foods - bread, butter and garlic - has your name written all over it.
Hosted by every Northsider's fave food truck park Welcome to Thornbury, the ultimate carb-fest promises to be even bigger and better this year with truckloads of classic and experimental garlic breads. Take your pick from beloved food trucks like Mr Burger, Woking Amazing, Pasta Face, Via Gianlu, plus more.
There'll even be garlic and rosemary Martini cocktails and a Soup Bar!
If you’re nervous about the moment your date leans in for a kiss, we’d recommend bringing along some breath mints. Entry is free and you can book a table here.
Need a good excuse to dress up and indulge in a night that’s all glitz, glamour, and gourmet delights? Dolly is bringing the magic of 1920s Paris right to Melbourne with its swish 'Paris After Dark' theme.
Picture this: a hidden cocktail bar beneath Melbourne's swish Le Méridien hotel, transformed into a chic Parisian bistro where the conversation flows and so does the Champagne.
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