The Best Things to Do in Melbourne This Weekend

This weekend in Melbourne, you can celebrate World Pizza Day with bottomless slices and spritzes, hit up the Summer Jam streetball festival and embrace the word of spots at Yayoi Kusama's enormous exhibit at the NGV.
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Published on February 06, 2025
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    Focus on David Lynch

    Thu, 6 Feb - Sat, 1 Mar 2025

    ACMI, Melbourne

    BYO damn fine cup of coffee for this season of Lynch's ten features, which pays tribute to the late, great visionary.

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    400 Gradi's World Pizza Day Party

    Sun, 9 Feb, 2025

    400 Gradi, East Brunswick

    Get around three hours of unlimited pizzas and spritzes, plus heaps of prizes. 

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    Drake: 'Anita Max Win' Tour

    Multiple single dates

    Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne

    The 'Hotline Bling' performer 'The Degrassi: The Next Generation' star is returning Down Under for the first time in eight years.

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    Melbourne Marriott Docklands Rooftop Infinity Pool Pass

    Mon, 16 Dec 2024 - Mon, 31 Mar 2025

    Melbourne Marriott Hotel Docklands, Docklands

    Spend your summer days sipping spritzes and paddling around this rooftop infinity pool.

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    Baby's Summer of Spritz

    Thu, 28 Nov 2024 - Fri, 28 Feb 2025

    Baby Pizza, Richmond

    Baby's summertime happy hour deal includes a bunch of $9.50 spritzes, $6.5 Peroni Rossas and a $7.50 house wine.

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    What's on in Frankston: 2025 Events

    Multiple single dates

    Various Frankston venues

    From European beach clubs to street art and sand sculpting, here's everything hitting Frankston in early 2025.

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    NGV Friday Nights: Yayoi Kusama

    Fri, 20 Dec 2024 - Fri, 18 Apr 2025

    NGV International, Melbourne

    The NGV's big Yayoi Kusama exhibition is hosting after-hours parties so you can spend Friday evenings surrounded by dots and pumpkins.

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    Underground: The Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto

    Sun, 17 Nov 2024 - Sun, 30 Mar 2025

    Melbourne Holocaust Museum, Elsternwick

    This is the first time the archive has been exhibited outside of Europe.

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    Van Gogh at The Lume

    Thu, 26 Dec 2024 - Mon, 31 Mar 2025

    THE LUME Melbourne, South Wharf

    Sunflowers, stars and a sublime multi-sensory experience: you'll find them all at this immersive and stunning exhibition.

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    Yayoi Kusama

    Sun, 15 Dec 2024 - Mon, 21 Apr 2025

    NGV International, Melbourne

    Australia's biggest-ever Yayoi Kusama retrospective is coming to the NGV in Melbourne with a brand-new infinity mirror room.

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    AACTA Festival

    Wed, 5 Feb - Sun, 9 Feb 2025

    HOTA, Home of the Arts, Surfers Paradise

    This returning celebration of Australian film and TV features 100-plus events over five days, complete with Working Dog, Leigh Whannell, Paul Kelly and more.

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    Biggest Best IMAX Film Festival

    Sat, 11 Jan - Sun, 2 Mar 2025

    IMAX Melbourne, Carlton

    This IMAX Melbourne film festival is filled with the best and biggest flicks to see on its huge 32-metre-wide by 23-metre-tall screen.

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    Free to Feed's Summer Feasts

    Mon, 6 Jan - Fri, 21 Feb 2025

    Free to Feed Fitzroy North, Fitzroy North

    Some of the social enterprise's culinarily-gifted participants are sharing the flavours and stories of their cultures via a pop-up dinner series.

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    Summer Jam

    Fri, 7 Feb - Sun, 9 Feb 2025

    Peanut Farm Reserve Basketball Court, St Kilda

    This annual streetball festival returns to St Kilda for three days of basketball, food, music and fashion.

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    Mov'In Bed Beach Cinema at The District Docklands

    Fri, 6 Dec 2024 - Sun, 30 Mar 2025

    The District Docklands, Docklands

    Watch movies on mattresses on the sand at Docklands — 'Gladiator II', 'Wicked', 'Joker: Folie à Deux' and 'Home Alone' are on the lineup.

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    Cats & Dogs

    Fri, 1 Nov 2024 - Sun, 20 Jul 2025

    The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne

    Featuring 250-plus works, NGV Australia's adorable exhibition agrees that there's no such thing as too many pet pictures.

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    Moonlight Cinema Melbourne

    Fri, 29 Nov 2024 - Sun, 30 Mar 2025

    Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, South Yarra

    Catch 'The Fall Guy', 'Gladiator II', 'The Substance' and a heap of Christmas movies under the stars in the Royal Botanic Gardens.

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    The Future & Other Fictions

    Thu, 28 Nov 2024 - Sun, 27 Apr 2025

    ACMI, Melbourne

    From 'Blade Runner 2049' to Björk, this world-premiere exhibition at ACMI explores and celebrates futuristic storytelling.

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    Long Live Longnecks at BANG

    Wed, 20 Nov 2024 - Fri, 28 Feb 2025

    BANG at The StandardX, Fitzroy

    You can get two-for-one Melbourne Bitter longnecks and $1 homemade dumplings during this happy hour deal.

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    Home Truth

    Wed, 13 Nov 2024 - Sun, 27 Apr 2025

    NGV International, Melbourne

    A house-within-a-house labyrinth has popped up outside the NGV International to get everyone thinking about small-scale architecture.

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    Bottomless Brunch at Ming Dining

    Fri, 4 Oct 2024 - Sun, 23 Feb 2025

    Ming Dining, Melbourne

    This CBD fine-diner is pairing a seven-course Asian-fusion feed with bottomless cocktails, beer and wine for only $69 per person.

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    The Fans Strike Back: A Fan Exhibition

    Sat, 23 Nov 2024 - Mon, 31 Mar 2025

    The District Docklands, Docklands

    This 'Star Wars'-worshipping showcase is bringing one of the planet's largest private collections of replica memorabilia from the franchise to Melbourne.

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    Honk! Untitled Goose Exhibition

    Tue, 17 Sep 2024 - Sun, 16 Feb 2025

    ACMI, Melbourne

    Start honking: this free world-premiere 'Untitled Goose Game' celebration at ACMI showcases everyone's favourite horrible goose.

The best things to do in Melbourne this weekend — spend each day discovering bars, absorbing art and feasting your way through food markets.

Top image: 400 Gradi.

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