
The Best Things to Do in Melbourne This Weekend
Weekends are precious. Two glorious days devoid of responsibility and overflowing with possibility. Luckily, Melbourne's got plenty happening to make sure you don't spend the days indoors binge-watching Netflix and instead discovering new bars, absorbing art and feasting your way through food markets. Here are our picks of the weekend's happenings.
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Top image: The Exchange Beach Club
The Best Things to Do in Melbourne This Weekend
Hit up this beach club, track down a plate of 29-cheese pasta or head to an indoor drive-in cinema.
The Best Things to Do in Melbourne This Weekend
Hit up this beach club, track down a plate of 29-cheese pasta or head to an indoor drive-in cinema.
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Arts & Entertainment
Ammonite
Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan are exceptional in this exquisite period romance from the director of 'God's Own Country'.
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Food & Drink
Yokoso Collingwood Fitzroy Japan Festival
Enjoy sake, gyoza, Japanese tunes and shopping for kimonos at this one-day street fest.
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Arts & Entertainment
Shore Cinema Williamstown
Check out a movie by the water at Melbourne's newest outdoor cinema.
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Design & Style
Le Creuset Summer Sale
Snag some colourful French cookware that'll last you a lifetime at up to 25 percent off.
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Arts & Entertainment
Heide Summer Festival
An inaugural program of live tunes, storytelling, dance and performance takes over the museum's sculpture park for nine weeks.
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Arts & Entertainment
Summerland
This primarily World War II-set drama is mostly a straightforward affair, but it boasts memorable work from Gemma Arterton and a quiet yet potent undercurrent of subversion.
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Arts & Entertainment
Promising Young Woman
Carey Mulligan is fierce and formidable in this brilliant, blistering and bubblegum-hued take on the rape-revenge genre.
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Food & Drink
Prosecco Bar Pop-Up
Indulge in loaded grazing boards and King Valley prosecco at Gertrude Street's pop-up summer terrace.
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Food & Drink
All-You-Can-Eat Meat and Cheese Boards
Feast your way through unlimited German cheese, charcuterie and pretzels.
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Food & Drink
Summertime Fling Festival
Unearth the best of the Macedon Ranges' vinous delights, with a three-week program of wine, food and music events.
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Food & Drink
Triennial Extra
A month-long series of tunes, performances, eats and drinks, to complement the blockbuster NGV Triennial exhibition.
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Arts & Entertainment
Pieces of a Woman
'The Crown' star Vanessa Kirby plays a woman coping with trauma in this raw and resonant drama.
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Arts & Entertainment
The Dry
The best-selling Aussie crime novel jumps to the big screen, and Eric Bana is superb as its conflicted central cop.
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Arts & Entertainment
Fed Oasis
Fed Square is transforming into a greenery-filled oasis with a program of free film screenings, live music and workshops.
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Food & Drink
Twenty-Nine Cheese Gnocchi 2021
South Yarra's Cucinetta is serving up this extremely cheesy gnocchi for two weeks only.
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Arts & Entertainment
Dude, It's a Coen Brothers Retrospective
It's screening everything from 'The Big Lebowski' and 'Fargo' to 'No Country for Old Men' and 'Inside Llewyn Davis'.
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Arts & Entertainment
Bondathon
Watch your way through all 24 official Bond movies to-date — all in the lead up to 'No Time to Die'.
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Arts & Entertainment
Drive In(Door) Cinema
Motor on into MCEC to watch a movie, with everything from 'The Shining' and 'Clueless' to 'The Little Mermaid' and 'Fury Road' on the bill.
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Food & Drink
Melbourne's Happiest Hour
Score 50 percent off your entire bill at 30 Melbourne bars and restaurants throughout January.
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Food & Drink
Burrito Heaven at Carwyn Cellars
This summer, pair your Carwyn Cellars beer session with Mexican eats courtesy of the Little Tienda crew.
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Arts & Entertainment
Live at the Bowl
A two-month COVID-safe music festival at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl featuring the likes of Missy Higgins, Lime Cordiale and Birds of Tokyo performing with the MSO.
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Arts & Entertainment
Uptown: An Art Exhibition for Our City
This new exhibition turns the top of Bourke Street into an outdoor art gallery.
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Arts & Entertainment
Mona Foma 2021
The huge summer festival will feature more than 352 artists — across everything from light and laser shows to huge art installations and heaps of live tunes.
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Travel & Leisure
Inflatable Fun Park
Bounce around Melbourne's pop-up inflatable theme park — and wander through a huge inflatable maze.
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Arts & Entertainment
Pentridge Open-Air Cinema
Catch a movie under the stars at Melbourne's newest cinema.
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Arts & Entertainment
Shakespeare Under The Stars 2020–21
Pack a picnic and see Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' or 'Macbeth' play out in the Royal Botanic Gardens.
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Arts & Entertainment
Atong Atem: To be real
This exhibition showcases the photographer's work as part of the Photo 2021 International Festival of Photography.
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Arts & Entertainment
Melbourne Music Week Extended
The annual event is taking over bars, clubs and unusual Melbourne venues once again.
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Arts & Entertainment
Eternal
This new Darkfield Radio production is inspired by Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', and is designed to be listened to alone, at home, while you're in bed.
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Arts & Entertainment
'Tenet' at IMAX Melbourne
See Christopher Nolan's blockbuster the way he intended — and catch an exclusive greeting from the director, too.
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Food & Drink
The Exchange Beach Club 2020–21
This pop-up beach bar in Port Melbourne is back for another summer — with $2 oysters and weekend bottomless boozy brunches.
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Food & Drink
QT Secret Garden Bar
This hidden rooftop has Four Pillars gin cocktails and stunning city views.
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Food & Drink
Arbory Afloat 2020
The Yarra's floating bar returns with cocktails on tap and a Mediterranean menu.
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Arts & Entertainment
Imaginaria
A multi-sensory playground with light-filled mazes, inflatable bubbles and a black hole simulator is taking over The District Docklands.
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Arts & Entertainment
David Noonan: Stagecraft
Transformation and ambiguity are the leading themes of this exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ballarat.
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Design & Style
MPavilion 2020
Instead of building something new, the event is reactivating its previous six eye-catching structures.
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Arts & Entertainment
Ocean Invaders
You can now get up close and personal with swarms of jellyfish at Sea Life's million-dollar exhibition.
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Arts & Entertainment
Cameo Outdoor Cinema 2020–21
Big releases, retro flicks, choc tops and popcorn under the stars in Belgrave.
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Arts & Entertainment
Sea Life's Dining Under the Sea
Tuck into a three-course meal — and two hours of drinks — while surrounded by marine creatures.
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Food & Drink
Lakeside at Carousel
A new lakeside picnic ground complete with food, booze and picnic gear to hire.
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Arts & Entertainment
Cork and Canvas Reopening
The much-loved paint-and-sip studio is returning with daily sessions from November 4.
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Arts & Entertainment
Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards
Australia’s longest running and most prestigious art awards for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists is going digital — and it’s free to watch.