Your Ultimate Easter Long Weekend Itinerary
All the things to do now you're too old for Easter egg hunts (or are you?).
Your Ultimate Easter Long Weekend Itinerary
All the things to do now you're too old for Easter egg hunts (or are you?).
Easter is one holiday that can lose its sheen pretty quickly. Usually once your parents decree you’re “too old” for Easter egg hunts. But with the four-day break and eating-centred celebrations (because you fasted for the last six weeks for Lent, right?), there’s plenty to get excited for. While some venues shut, others turn on the charm. Only the best have made it into this list, our ultimate Easter Weekend itinerary.
Top image: Soda Factory.
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The Vic Hotel Enmore is kicking off the long weekend with the traditional Bad Friday. Hosted by The Music Booze Co and FBi this marks the fifth year of a long weekend event that has in the past filled the Vic’s courtyard with the likes of The Preatures, Sticky Fingers and DMA’s. This year’s solid lineup includes Gang of Youths, the Lulu Faes, Flowertruck and many more, with DJs playing all arvo. Add to the mix that famous Vic spit roast and it’s a darn attractive way to spend your afternoon off in the (fingers crossed) sunshine.
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If we had to pick our favourite thing about Easter holidays it would hands down be Easter-related feasting — eggs, buns, fish, the works. The Soda Factory is paying tribute to a holiday of gorging ourselves with their Good Friday Feast. From 5pm, their very best food specials will converge onto your day off. With $1 hot wings and $1 hotdogs together on one day, along with free sides and fries all night, you can get a head start on the Easter feasting you know you’re going to be doing all weekend.
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The second International Wall Ball Championship, where 160 men and women from across Australia compete for the Golden Hand trophy, is no laughing matter. Kind of. The trophy is essentially a life-size plaster mould of a hand covered in gold paint that the winner wears around their neck and the game involves a bouncy ball. Regardless, for a sport that will give you the most enthusiastic crowd around and take your childhood playground memories and cram them full of adult ambition and sweat, the Wall Ball Championship is something you’ve just got to see.
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A long weekend couldn’t be a better time for a long art work, and Artspace’s latest in The National playing ‘Sorrow’ from High Violet for six hours in a row, while wrapped in swirls of ice machine smoke. The performance was recorded in May 2013 at New York’s MOMA PS.1 Gallery, in front of a live crowd. The song is three-and-a-half minutes long, so yep, you can settle in and watch it 105 times in a row. It’s part of the exhibition An Imprecise Science, comprised of works from 13 international artists and curated by Alexie Glass-Kantor with Talia Linz. The exhibition is the first one in Artspace’s revamped venue, worth checking out in itself.
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Saturday and Sunday, the Grounds of Alexandria will be filled with fresh foods and handmade crafts galore. It’s your chance to wander the boutique stalls, gather ingredients for Sunday brunch, indulge in some Grounds seasonal treats, hug an IRL bunny and watch little people search for eggs. This year, the Grounds have installed a giant chocolate easter egg, said to be Australia’s biggest hollow chocolate easter egg in 2015, on the premises. It’s all well and good to look at, but you’ll really want to be there at 2pm on April 5, when the egg is cracked open and the pieces handed around to all present. You can also enjoy live music, while waiting for your chance to pose for a photo with The Grounds’ other giant fragment of Easter paraphernalia, a moss-covered bunny going by the name of Kate, the Moss Bunny.
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Who says Easter egg hunts are just for kids? Watsons Bay Boutique Hotel is hosting an egg hunt unlike any other on Easter Sunday, with their aqua egg hunt for children and kids at heart alike. Suit up in your best snorkelling gear to find treasures (swappable for chocolate eggs) littered on the sandy floor of Watsons Bay. More fun is on tap for the adult crowd throughout the weekend, with DJs spinning music all weekend long and Yolanda Be Cool headlining at Euphoria on Sunday. Alternatively come in on Saturday for the Bay Brunch.
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Rhythm of the Night, Goodgod’s ’90s dance night and the best excuse to dress up in your finest Hot Tuna ensemble, is turning one this Easter Sunday, giving you just another reason to celebrate this long weekend. For the birthday bash DJs Levins, Ariane and Radge will be blasting ’90s dance hits in the Danceteria, with ’90s RnB taking over the front bar from G Coo, babygirl, Nacho Pop, Leon Smith and Flossy from Laprats. Head to the Facebook event to get in requests for your favourite jams. Don’t dally on the night either; last Easter they hit capacity before 10pm.
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It’s been a while since the last event, so to refresh your memory: it’s nothing but vinyl, all night long. Throwing down the party in the basement bar are three local artists with three of the biggest record collections in town, each spinning for two hours non-stop. First up, there’s Donny Benet, who returns to Australia after playing SXSW with Jack Ladder and Kirin J Callinan. Then there’s Steele Bonus, who makes up one half of Heartbeat DJs, and the Soul of Sydney DJs, who’ve lately been responsible for mad block parties and warehouse jams all over the city. Whether you want soul, jazz, funk, afro-beat, boogie, Latin and disco, you got it. Strictly Vinyl starts at 9pm and doesn’t slow down until 3am. Get there before 11pm for free entry or turn up with a tenner.
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It’s Easter. Time to stuff yourself with baby animal-shaped chocolates and cross-covered pastries while feeling absolutely zero shame. To help you make the most of it, we’ve put together a list of the best holiday treats making up your Easter hunt this year. From Hot X Bun Zumbarons to 99% chocolate eggs and the latest molten Messina creation, this Monday is your last chance to make sure you’ve scoffed your share of Easter goodies.
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Look, you might want to do something properly restful and mindless today. And the latest instalment in the Fast and/or Furious franchise could not be better mindless entertainment. And yes, to be clear, we mean that as a compliment. In an age where most Hollywood blockbusters do everything they can to seem dark and gritty, this souped-up seven-part soap opera drives straight in the other direction, delivering delightfully silly, self-aware thrills at every possible turn. The most over-the-top film in the franchise so far, Fast & Furious 7 doesn’t just jump the shark; it sails over the shark’s head at 245mph, in a $3.5 million Lykan Hypersport, in slow motion, while half a dozen strippers dance to a Wiz Khalifa song playing in the background.
