Newsletter #972 What's On Melbourne Newsletter #972 What's On Melbourne

What's On Melbourne Newsletter
Tuesday 12th August 2025 - Monday 18th August 2025

Featured This Week

Afterpay Day
Care Expo
DV8 Reunion
Elvis Week - Live from Graceland
ENESS: Iwagumi Air Scape
ENTRECOTE on the Mountain
Hot Chocolate Festival
Magic Show: Impossible Occurrences
Melbourne International Film Festival
National Science Week
St Kilda Spirits Festival
Street Art of Melbourne Exploration Game
Trophy Boys
Warm Up This Winter with a Cosy Cruise on the Yarra

Stay safe - Be kind - Be Melbourne

Dine Sip & Soak in the views along the Yarra All Winter Long!

Warm Up This Winter with a Cosy Cruise on the Yarra

Step aboard the Spirit of Melbourne and experience the city like never before from the warmth of our heated indoor dining deck.

Whether you're planning a romantic night out a weekend catch-up or simply want to treat yourself we've got the perfect cruise for every occasion:

- Brunch Cruise

- Lunch Cruise

- Dinner Cruise

Magic & Illusion - Dinner & Show

Impossible Occurrences

Mind-blowing magic right before your eyes. Every Friday night witness miracles up close with award-winning magician Luke Hocking at Melbourne's #1 magic & illusion show at the 5 Star Marriott Hotel.

MIFF 2025: 275+ Films 18 Days One Epic Festival

Melbourne International Film Festival

7th - 24th August 2025

Expect over 275 features shorts and immersive screenings lighting up screens across Melbourne regional Victoria and even online for the stay-at-home crowd.

FOUR days of amazing deals specials and bargains

Afterpay Day

Thursday 14th August 2025 - Sunday 17th August 2025

Daily prizes. The best offers. Exclusive drops. Mega online shopping event will be offering huge savings across some of your favourite stores and brands.

Step right up and experience the magic of Elmo's Circus Dream

Elmo's Circus Dream Under the Big Top

8th - 31st August 2025 @ Watergardens Shopping Centre - Taylors Lakes

Experience thrilling daredevil acts dazzling clowns and incredible circus artistry alongside your favourite Sesame Street characters including Abby Cookie Monster Grover as well as Bert & Ernie!

Australia's annual celebration of science and technology

National Science Week

Saturday 9th August 2025 - Sunday 17th August 2025

Now in its 26th year National Science Week enables those with a general interest in science and teachers organisations and students to both host and attend a range of entertaining events and activities about science technology and engineering.

Iwagumi Air Scape is a free interactive art experience for all ages

ENESS: Iwagumi Air Scape

1st - 17th August 2025 @ Prahran Square

By day visitors can explore immense air-filled inflatables that appear to be thousands of tonnes of rock. As the sun sets the artwork transforms with a vibrant display of colour and an interactive soundscape inspired by nature's gentle inhabitants.

Brand-new festival set to shake up Melbourne's drinks scene

St Kilda Spirits Festival

Friday 15th August 2025 - Sunday 17th August 2025 @ St Kilda Town Hall

Sip your way through over 200 spirits from 30 local and international distillers. Whether you're a gin junkie whisky whisperer vodka visionary or just someone who loves a good negroni this is your chance to taste it all over three flavour-packed days.

With FREE entry you're only required to come hungry and ready for a good time

Winter Night Market

Wednesday nights until 27 August 2025 @ Queen Victoria Market

Wrap up warm and embrace the winter chill as the Market's sheds and laneways come alive with the inviting aromas of delicious food; the sounds of live local musicians; and the vivid spectacle of quirky roving performers promising a fun and not-to-be-missed night for all.

Elvis Presley's Graceland has announced that Virtual Elvis Week will return this year

Elvis Week

Live from Graceland August 8-16 will allow viewers to celebrate the legacy of the King of Rock 'n' Roll through an online experience featuring live concert events conversations with special guests ultimate contests and unique fan experiences.

Elvis Week will feature 10 events broadcasted live from the Graceland Soundstage: The Ultimate Return; Ultimate Elvis Tribute Artist Contest Semifinal and Final Round; Elvis Gospel Celebration; That's The Way It Is: A Tribute; Elvis: An Author's Perspective; A Night in Elvis' Hollywood; Elvis Music Salute Conversations on Elvis; and Elvis: Live on Stage.

Melbourne Winter Masterpieces

French Impressionism

From the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Daily until 5th October 2025 @ National Gallery of Victoria (NGV)

Drawn from Boston Museum of Fine Arts' rich collection of Impressionist masterworks French Impressionism presents more than 100 paintings by key figures including Claude Monet Pierre-Auguste Renoir Edgar Degas Camille Pissarro Edouard Manet Mary Cassatt Berthe Morisot Paul Signac and Alfred Sisley. Audiences will have the opportunity to experience the hallmarks of Impressionism: distinctive brushwork vivid use of colour innovative viewpoints and depictions of subjects and places dear to the artists.

NGV Friday Nights: French Impressionism

Every Friday night until 3 October 2025 - 6-10pm

Your Friday Nights ticket includes unlimited entry to the French Impressionism exhibition from 6-10pm as well as live music performances.

Dive into an immersive hands-on journey through the galaxy's first LEGO Star Wars exhibition

LEGO Star Wars: The Exhibition

Daily @ Melbourne Museum

Over eight million LEGO bricks will transform Melbourne Museum into a tribute to George Lucas's beloved space saga.

Chocolate lovers the Hot Chocolate Festival is turning winter into one giant gooey chocolate-fueled adventure

Hot Chocolate Festival 2025

1st - 31st August 2025

Across the Mornington Peninsula Great Ocean Road and Yarra Valley Chocolateries August is all about steaming mugs wild flavours and sugar-fuelled happiness.

Live musical experience by candlelight

Candlelight Concerts

Our Picks

Candlelight: A Tribute To Coldplay

Candlelight: A Tribute To Metallica

Candlelight: A Tribute To Taylor Swift

Candlelight: Coldplay vs. Ed Sheeran

Candlelight: Timeless Composers

Candlelight: Tribute To QUEEN vs ABBA

Candlelight: Vivaldi Four Seasons

The Jazz Room: A Journey to the Heart of New Orleans

Witness Mein's intricate and mesmerising works this winter

Annemieke Mein: Nature Revealed

Until 30th August 2025 @ Whitehorse Artspace

Annemieke Mein OAM is one of Australia's most popular artists known for her exquisitely-made and incredibly detailed textile art that represents local fauna and flora.

Performing Arts

A queer black comedy and drag extravaganza about power, privilege and high school debating

Trophy Boys

12th - 24th August 2025 @ Fairfax Studio

It is the biggest night of Melbourne's academic calendar, the Grand Finale of the Year 12 Interschool Debating Tournament, and the all-boys team from the elite St Imperium College are ready to totally annihilate their sister school - until..

The new girl in town is making heads spin. You've got to move fast when you're 16 going on 70.

Kimberly Akimbo: A Musical

Shows until 30th August 2025 @ Playhouse Theatre

Kimberly Akimbo is the musical that took Broadway by storm. It won countless hearts and raked in five Tony awards including Best Musical with music by Jeanine Tesori the brilliant mind behind the critically acclaimed Fun Home. This Australian premiere directed by four-time Helpmann Award-winner Mitchell Butel and starring Marina Prior Casey Donovan and Christie Whelan Browne brims with infectious energy and tunes that soar.

With its high-energy dance numbers soulful storytelling and unforgettable music In The Heights is a must-see theatrical event.

In The Heights | The Musical

Shows until Sunday 17th August 2025 @ Comedy Theatre

In The Heights tells the story of a tight-knit community on the cusp of significant change. Full of hopes and aspirations some are about to embark on an incredible journey of love and ambition while others are faced with some of the biggest challenges of their lives including what it means to be "home".
A grown-up musical for the whole family

Annie

Shows until 8th November 2025 @ Princess Theatre

It's one of the most awarded and loved musicals of all time. With its iconic score featuring classics like: It's the Hard-Knock Life Easy Street and Tomorrow Annie is truly a timeless musical masterpiece.

The eight-time Tony Award-nominated musical will play a limited season exclusively in Melbourne

Beetlejuice The Musical

Shows until 31st August 2025 @ Regent Theatre

BEETLEJUICE is funnier more irreverent more reckless and frankly more repellent than ever in this original musical based on Tim Burton's dearly beloved film.

Performing Arts

Shows & Musicals

Check out the rest of the shows plays and musicals playing now and coming soon to Melbourne..

Make the most of Melbourne

Even more things to see hear and do this week

There's just too much happening to squeeze it all into this week's newsletter! Make sure to check out the full lineup of events online so you don't miss out on anything exciting. Check out More on this week..

Heads Up.. coming soon!

Heads Up..

ABBA - Thank You For The Music

Abduction

Air Supply - 50th Anniversary Celebration

Ben Folds | & A Piano Tour

Billy Guyatts: Up to $500 Cashback Sale

Care Expo

DV8 Reunion

Echoes of Pink Floyd - 60 Years of Pink Floyd

ENTRECOTE on the Mountain - The Villager

One Night of Adele

Toni Childs - A Retrospective

Coming in September

The most Tony Award-winning new musical of the season

MJ - The Michael Jackson Musical

9th September 2025 - 14th December 2025 @ Her Majesty's Theatre

He is one of the greatest entertainers of all time. Now Michael Jackson's unique and unparalleled artistry is startin' somethin' in Melbourne in the multiple Tony Award-winning MJ the Musical.

Coming in October

An Epic Cinematic Journey with Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

MSO: Marvel Studios' Infinity Saga Concert Experience

Thursday 16th October 2025 - Saturday 18th October 2025 @ Hamer Hall

It's time for fans - new and old - to assemble and relive every iconic moment from this defining canon of films all accompanied by the MSO.

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Learn about well-known and underground artists as you walk the streets from Melbourne (CBD) to Fitzroy and Collingwood.

Explore Hosier Lane ~ Melbourne's most iconic street art lane and the backstreets of other popular areas.

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Sponsored Partner

Check out these fabulous T2 Tea & Penguin Books Gift Packs ..

T2 Tea x Penguin Books Gift Packs

Onsale until 23rd September 2025 @ T2 Tea

Reading and sipping is a magical combination, so T2 Tea has partnered with Penguin Books to pair teas with iconic stories. Inside, you'll find The Wonderful Wizard of Oz printed with an exclusive T2 cover, a tea set for one, and four teas representing the book's famous characters: Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Woodman and the Scarecrow.

Weekend Markets

Melbourne's biggest list of weekend markets.

A Plus Market - Plus Size Fashion Event

Akoonah Park Market

Beckley Park Market - Geelong

Bentleigh Rotary Sunday Market

Bittern Rotary Community Market

Creswick Market

Daylesford Sunday Market

Healesville Community Market - 3rd Sunday - Coronation Park

Kensington Market

Lardner Park Craft & Food Market

Millgrove Market - 3rd Saturday

Montrose Community Craft Market

Oakleigh Rotary Sunday Market

Pearcedale Market

Pipeworks Market

St Andrews Market

That's Mine: Wyndham Makers and Farmers' Market

Treasures & Tastes @ Trinity Market - Surrey Hills

Trust Makers' Market - Rippon Lea

Younghusband Rose Street Market - Kensington

Regular Weekend Markets - Saturday, Sunday, 3rd Saturday, 3rd Sunday of the month

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