What’s On in Melbourne August 2023 (Free Obtain)

We at the moment are formally within the depths of winter! However that doesn’t cease August from shaping as much as be a month that is filled with splendidly enjoyable family-friendly occasions that may heat you up with pleasure.

Whether or not you’re into the humanities, sports activities, outside, music, or simply searching for enjoyable issues to do to maintain the boredom at bay, these superior actions and occasions will assist you profit from the remaining chilly winter days! 

This submit is up to date repeatedly so test again in to see what’s on in Melbourne in the present day and this weekend, in addition to what’s taking place for the entire month.

What’s On in Melbourne – CBD / Docklands

• Groovy Tunes with ArtPlay (Fri 9- Thurs 29 Aug) – Be part of grasp drummer and multi-instrumentalist Kofi Kunkpe in a joyful music and motion workshop for preschool aged youngsters.
• BEINGS By Common All the pieces​ (Wed 22 Could – Solar 29 Sep 2024) – A playful household journey at ACMI crammed with vibrant and playful digital artwork.
• The Artwork of Banksy – Australia: “With out Limits” Exhibition” (Wed 12 Jun – Sat 3 Aug) – The Artwork of Banksy: “With out Limits” is a surprising avenue artwork exhibition of museum high quality that includes over 150 artworks, comparable to licensed artwork, prints on completely different sorts of supplies, images, sculptures, installations, digital installations, murals, mapping reveals, and extra.
• Lightscape (Thu 4 Jul – Solar 4 Aug) – For the very first time, an immersive, after-dark expertise involves Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne this winter. Iconic tree canopies shall be drenched in color, and vibrant bursts of sunshine will tumble from the undergrowth and run-up timber like fizzing fireworks. Learn the Lightscape Evaluation.
• Little Murmur (Thu 25 Jul – Solar 4 Aug) – A brand new worldwide dance theatre efficiency that includes ground-breaking projections, a unprecedented soundscape and a blizzard of paper and confetti.
• PAW Patrol Dwell! (Sat 31 Aug – Solar 1 Sep)- PAW Patrol Dwell! “Race to the Rescue” is coming to Melbourne this August. All people’s favorite pups on stage for an action-packed, high-energy, musical journey.

• Storytime by State Library Victoria (Wed 7 Aug) – Share the delight of tales, songs, and film books along with your preschooler on Wednesdays on the Library. Learn the State Library of Victoria Evaluation.
• Winter Evening Market (Wed 5 Jun – Wed 28 Aug) – this is among the final ‘whats on Melbourne’ occasions in winter! Each Wednesday night take pleasure in scrumptious avenue meals, sizzling bevvies, roaring open fires, nice buying, stay music and enjoyable on the silent disco. Learn the Winter Evening Market evaluation.
• Tooth & Tails – SEA LIFE Melbourne (Sat 19 Aug – Mon 4 Sep) – Discover the fascinating world of marine creatures! Be taught concerning the moray eel’s sharp enamel and hidden jaws, sea stars’ distinctive digestion, and meet the spectacular Mega croc Pinjarra.
• Now or By no means Artwork Path (Thu 22 Aug – Solar 31 Aug) – Discover the Now or By no means Artwork Path, a magical journey to the long run. Alongside the Docklands promenade, expertise a luminous out of doors gallery merging the bodily and digital worlds. Don’t miss this free and wondrous journey!
• The Story of the Shifting Picture (ongoing) – Journey by means of the previous, current and way forward for the transferring picture by means of interactive experiences, digital innovation and fascinating tales. Learn the Story of the Shifting Picture ACMI Evaluation.

• The District Makers Market (Final Sunday of each month) – inventive and vibrant market stalls showcasing a wide range of artwork, craft, jewelry, homewares, presents and artisanal produce final Sunday of the month. 
• Polly Woodside (First Sunday of the Month) – Come aboard for a tour of the ship and uncover what life was like on a tall ship crusing the seven seas. Learn the Polly Woodside evaluation.
• Docklands Neighborhood Market (2nd & 4th Sunday of every month) – Seize your early morning espresso, take pleasure in a beautiful stroll & help your native producers at this pretty market.
• Melbourne Guide Market (Saturdays & Sundays) – curated assortment of greater than 5,000 new and pre-loved titles chosen and offered by 15 of Melbourne’s most skilled booksellers.
• Arts Centre Sunday Market (Sundays) – discover distinctive, quirky and handmade gadgets on the stalls. There are at all times some yummy treats too!
• Leonardo Da Vinci (Sat 16 Mar – Solar 16 Sept) – Leonardo da Vinci – 500 Years of Genius guarantees to be THE LUME Melbourne’s most bold, immersive and breathtaking expertise but.

• Mushy Play (ongoing) – Play along with your little one and make neighborhood connections in a protected and enjoyable indoor setting.
• Children Passport Queen Victoria Market (ongoing) – Accumulate your passport, then journey across the Market amassing stamps from our pleasant merchants, earlier than making your method to the Queen Victoria Market Customer Hub to assert your prize.
• Into the Music – Composition Workshop 2024 (ongoing) – Members in Into the Music – Composition Workshop will discover expertise and strategies used to create the music they hear on daily basis.
• Escape the Gaol (Ongoing) – At Previous Melbourne Gaol, youngsters can change into inmates on a mission to hatch the right escape plan. Learn my Previous Melbourne Gaol evaluation
• SEALIFE Melbourne Aquarium (ongoing) – See a few of the world’s most unbelievable animals, together with penguins, a 6-metre-long crocodile and 1000’s of tropical fish, plus the newly reopened oceanarium.

What’s on in Melbourne – North / North-East

• Cosy Collage Matinée @ Lacking Gorilla (Sat 27 Jul and Sat 10 Aug) – Dream of a screen-free, family-friendly winter escape by the fireside, exploring modern collage, sipping drinks, and having fun with nibbles to French Jazz & Cafe music.
• Meet Victoria the T. rex (Fri 28 Jun – Solar 20 Oct) – Victoria the T. rex is a world-class, interactive exhibition starring the actual fossil skeleton of a 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus named Victoria.
• Hurstbridge Wattle Pageant (Solar 25 Aug) – A rural avenue competition held on the final Sunday in August in Hurstbridge.
• Italian Day Pageant (Solar 25 Aug) – Get pleasure from stay leisure, cooking demos, pop up meals stalls, free youngsters actions, and extra!
• T.REX 3D (Fri 21 Jun – Sat 21 Dec) – Narrated by Sam Neill, expertise the enduring T. rex come to life on the world’s largest, greatest display on this thrilling IMAX 3D documentary!

• Underneath 5s Artwork Lessons (Fridays till 15 Sep) – Periods will discover the weather of artwork comparable to color, form, texture and sample by means of materials exploration and experimentation.
• Fitzroy Market (Saturdays) – a one-stop hub for all the things produce, meals, artisan, handcrafted, classic, second hand and native.
• Abbotsford Farmers Market (Saturday) – Store native and seasonal produce and go to the Collingwood Youngsters’s Farm which is simply subsequent door.
• Keeper Children Melbourne Zoo (Ongoing) – Educator-led every day actions that promote studying by means of storytelling, craft and play.

• Heide Gallery Children  (Fridays) – Be part of Artwork Therapist Tanis Douglas, who helps pre-school kids and their carers to achieve confidence observing artworks in a small group.
• Sensory Tray Periods (ongoing) – Pour, scoop, splash and extra at our sensory tray periods!
• Tiny Excursions (ongoing) – A forty five-minute tour created for early yr audiences that may invite them to marvel, uncover and be amazed.
• Dinosaur Stroll (ongoing) – Try the actual dinosaur bones at Melbourne Museum’s everlasting exhibition that includes ten dinosaur skeletons, three pterosaurs, and different choose megafauna artefacts comparable to large enamel!
• Mini Twitchers Heide (Ongoing) – Be a twitcher for a day and spot some stunning birds within the Heide Sculpture park! Use a map to find every space the place the twelve painted birds are hidden in timber within the sculpture park.
• Triceratops: Destiny of the Dinosaurs (ongoing) – An immersive voyage right into a misplaced world, the place guests will discover the landscapes of the Cretaceous and get to know the creatures that thrived there.
• Pauline Gandel Youngsters’s Gallery (Ongoing) – A world-class immersive studying and play expertise – and a wonderland for little learners! The exhibition combines hands-on exploration and discovery, open-ended play-based studying, extraordinary immersive environments and distinctive museum assortment objects.

What’s on in Melbourne – South / South-East / Bayside

• Prehistoric Bayside Exhibition (Sat 29 Jun – Solar 25 Aug) – Prehistoric Bayside is an immersive family-friendly exhibition showcasing the tumultuous lives of weird beasts courting again roughly 5-6 million years.
• Teen Digital Pictures Venture (Wed 24 Jul – Wed 11 Sep) – Have interaction in a spread of hands-on actions, tapping into the realm of digicam settings and managed lighting, as you study to craft fascinating photographs that resonate along with your distinctive perspective.
• Sizzling Wheels Monster Vehicles Dwell™ Glow Celebration™ tickets (Sat 10 Aug – Solar 11 Aug) – Sizzling Wheels Monster Vehicles Dwell™ Glow Celebration™ offered by BIG W lets audiences see real-life variations of Sizzling Wheels monster truck toys, together with Mega Wrex™, Tiger Shark™, and the brand new HW 5-Alarm™ fireplace truck, in thrilling competitions and battles at midnight.
• LINDEN PLAYS > FABRIC + PAPER MACHE BOWLS WORKSHOP (Sat 10 Aug) – Prepare to remodel recycled cloth into distinctive paper mache bowls, bursting with color and creativeness! Underneath the steerage of facilitator Anna Zobel, kids will discover the magic of upcycling whereas unleashing their creative aptitude.
• NGV TEENS: ART PARTY (Sat 10 Aug) – Expertise an unforgettable night time at NGV Worldwide full with DJs, workshops, efficiency and provoking talks completely for teenagers.
• Circus Royale – Pakenham (Sat 29 Jul – Solar 10 Sep) – Step Proper Up! Expertise a Circus Like By no means Earlier than: Circus Royale Brings Australia’s Solely 3D Hologram Show & Bonus Animatronic Dinosaur Exhibit to Pakenham!

• Sizzling Wheels Monster Vehicles Dwell™ Glow Celebration™ tickets (Sat 10 Aug – Solar 11 Aug) – Sizzling Wheels Monster Vehicles Dwell™ Glow Celebration™ offered by BIG W lets audiences see real-life variations of Sizzling Wheels monster truck toys, together with Mega Wrex™, Tiger Shark™, and the brand new HW 5-Alarm™ fireplace truck, in thrilling competitions and battles at midnight.
• Moorabbin Junction After Darkish (Sat 10 Aug) – Station Avenue’s first-ever avenue social gathering, celebrating area people. Expertise the magic as neon gentle artist Carla O’Brien transforms the road into an interactive wonderland.
• The Peasant Prince in 2024 (Mon 19 Aug – Tue 20 Aug) – The Peasant Prince tells the outstanding true story of a 10-year-old peasant boy’s journey from impoverished rural China to the worldwide dance scene. It is a story of braveness, resilience and unwavering hope.
• Wonderbox by Sensorium Theatre (Wed 21 Aug – Sat 24 Aug) – Sensorium Theatre, Australia’s solely theatre firm making work particularly designed for younger audiences with incapacity and their mates, invitations kids to roll the cube and set out alongside a protected, exhilarating pathway into the unknown.
• Little Play Instances (Each Wednesdays Begins Aug 9) – Legoland’s new program that’s designed to show pre-school kids new abilities by means of significant parent-child play!
• Mini Makers (Wednesdays) – Again for Time period 3, Mini Makers supplies masterclasses for youths ages 2 – 5, the place they will discover science, craft, cooking, music, motion and extra!
• Mornington Railway (Sundays) – Climb aboard the Mornington Railway steam prepare for a fun-filled outing.
• Sonica Botanica: Tales and Sounds from the Gardens (Till 31 Dec 2024) – Weaving collectively interviews, subject recordings and a musical rating, this evocative listening expertise responds to collectors’ passions, botanical data, favorite reminiscences, childhood impressions, historic anecdotes and cultural viewpoints
• Little Play Instances Legoland (ongoing) – An interactive parent-child Play & Be taught session primarily based on LEGO® DUPLO®

• Bentleigh Sunday Market (Sundays) – crops, clothes, cosmetics, jewelry, books, movies, instruments, antiques, crafts, pre-loved items, and extra! Each Sunday.
• Younger At Artwork (Tuesdays) – With the steerage of an skilled early childhood educator, contributors work on a distinct hands-on inventive exercise each week, utilizing supplies from the take-home artwork supplies field provided every session.
• Tune in Time Out Music Playgroup (Tuesdays) – A pre-school music group plus time for play and oldsters to chill out. The group runs weekly on Tuesday Mornings from 10:00 – 11:30am throughout faculty phrases.
• Camberwell Sunday Market (Each Sunday) – second-hand retro, classic, vintage, trend and collectible items you simply can’t discover anyplace else.
• Nationwide Steam Centre (Saturdays and Sundays) – A go to to the Nationwide Steam Centre will delight a large viewers from the pre-schooler obsessive about Thomas and prepare rides, to coach fanatics of any age!
• Gasworks Farmers’ Market (Third Saturday of each month till Solar 21 Dec) – On Saturdays absorb the colourful environment and pattern the perfect of native Victorian produce, straight from Victorian farmers and specialty makers.
• Little Play Squad Legoland  (Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays) – An interactive parent-child Play & Be taught session primarily based on LEGO® DUPLO®.
• Prahran Market Mini Marketeers (Each Tuesday) – Get pleasure from free, guided actions instructing toddlers the basics of consuming effectively and placing the ‘yum’ in wholesome meals decisions.
• Aboriginal Heritage Stroll (Sundays) – Journey into Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne, a major cultural web site for the native Kulin Nation, with a First Peoples information.
• The Explorer – Melbourne Gardens (ongoing) – Uncover the great thing about this inner-city oasis and revel in stay commentary within the consolation of an open-air minibus.
• Shrine Children (Each day) – The Shrine of Remembrance is the Nationwide Struggle Memorial of Victoria and it makes for an academic (and sobering) outing for households. Learn the Shrine Children Evaluation.

• Nature Play (ongoing) – Come alongside to Alex Wilkie Nature Reserve for Nature Play, an outside, child-led playgroup session facilitated by a professional ranger.
• WIIILD Wednesdays, Gumbuya World (ongoing) – Dive into Wildlife Wanderers, the path of free-roaming wildlife, savor two interactive reveals, and hop on junior rides! Stand up shut with unique animals, join with nature, and revel in thrilling leisure each week!
• Little Lunies at Luna Park (ongoing) – Uncover a implausible world of rides, points of interest, and video games to swimsuit Little and Huge Lunies! There’s one thing for everybody from outdated favourites just like the The Nice Scenic Railway, Ghost Prepare, & Carousel to the massive thrill rides just like the Energy Surge, Sky Rider, Twin Dragon and extra!
• St Kilda Breakwater (ongoing) – Spot the Little Penguin colony simply earlier than nightfall coming ashore from the promenade.
• The Ian Potter Basis Youngsters’s Backyard (ongoing) – A devoted, totally fenced house for households that includes crops, water, constructions, and pathways that mirror Melbourne’s altering seasons.
• Tales and Songs within the Sq. (Ongoing) – Nurture your little one’s early literacy abilities by becoming a member of in to learn aloud tales and sing motion songs and rhymes.
• Little Lunies at Luna Park (Ongoing) – Uncover a implausible world of rides, points of interest, and video games to swimsuit Little and Huge Lunies! There’s one thing for everybody from outdated favorites like The Nice Scenic Railway, Ghost Prepare, & Carousel to the massive thrill rides just like the Energy Surge, Sky Rider, Twin Dragon, and extra!
• St Kilda Breakwater (Ongoing) – St Kilda Breakwater – Spot the Little Penguin colony simply earlier than nightfall coming ashore from the promenade.
• Gumbuya World Wildlife Wanderers (ongoing) – be a part of a enjoyable day in your little ones with a 30-minute program, which can embrace storytime, video games and Nature Play-based actions.

What’s on in Melbourne – East

• BUSY BODIES (Tue 6 Aug – Tue 27 Aug) – Be part of the enjoyable every Tuesday throughout the faculty time period for FREE exercise periods tailor-made for pre-school aged kids.
• Bumble Bee Child and Youngsters’s Market (Solar 4 Aug and Solar 25 Aug) – top quality pre beloved, handmade, and new items at cheap costs.
• Artistic Children: Toddler Mornings (Wed 14 Aug) – Be part of us for our month-to-month craft periods at Artistic Children, Burwood One. It’s completely free and open to all!
• Park Orchards Market (Sat 17 Aug) – Get pleasure from music, youngsters actions, playgrounds, loads of parking, espresso, bread, pastries, recent fruit & veg, native eggs, honey, wholesale meat, artisan deli items, cheese, wine, crops, presents, homewares, canine & cats painter, arts & crafts and jewelry.
• Yarra Valley Railway (Each Solar) – make a journey on the historic Walker RM22 Railmotor from Healesville to Tunnel Hill. Learn the Yarra Valley Evaluation.
• Melbourne Tram Museum (Sat 10 Aug, Wed 14 Aug, and Sat 24 Aug) – Go to a Melbourne icon at this quirky museum. Learn the Melbourne Tram Museum full evaluation

• ECOSS Valley Market (Fridays) – Expertise the colourful Valley Markets, connecting native growers, artisans, and musicians within the coronary heart of the Yarra Valley.
• Wurundjeri Storytime (Fridays) – Be part of Rebecca from Wurundjeri Council in an interactive on-line storytelling session for kinders, early years teams and households aged 0 to five years. Youngsters will find out about Wurundjeri tradition, Woi-wurrung language and Dreaming tales by means of storytelling, rhyme and music. Please register every class group attending.
• BUSY BODIES Malvern Central (Each Monday) – Expertise FREE exercise periods for pre-school kids each Monday throughout the faculty time period. Play, study, cook dinner, and have enjoyable with partaking actions tailor-made by consultants to captivate little imaginations.
• Mt Baw Baw (June – September however dates will range relying on snow season) – Melbourne’s closest downhill ski resort is open for the winter season. Learn the recommendations on visiting Mt Baw Baw with youngsters
• Lake Mountain (June – September however dates will range relying on snow season) – toboggan, cross nation snowboarding and snow play, 2 hours from Melbourne. Learn the visiting Lake Mountain with youngsters evaluation

• Eastland (ongoing) – Signal as much as the free mini & me youngsters membership at Eastland (for youths 4 and underneath) and obtain unique gives, invitations to free occasions and $5 valet parking!
• ​Spirits of the Sky (ongoing) – See the pure behaviours of a wide range of native birds at Healesville Sanctuary which can embrace the Wedge-tailed Eagle, Black-breasted Buzzard, Barking Owl, magnificent parrots and extra.
• Afternoons of Superior at LEGOLAND® Discovery Centre (ongoing) – Younger builders can blast out of the classroom right into a world of creativity, hop on electrifying rides, and set off on epic afternoon LEGO journey!
• Belgrave Huge Goals Market (2nd Sunday of the month) – uncover authentic and bespoke design items, a few of the yummiest and freshest produce the world has to supply, stay music, bouncy fort and face portray for the youngsters.

What’s on in Melbourne – West

• Essendon Site visitors College (Saturdays) – Essendon Site visitors College is a mini street arrange for youths aged two to 10 years, full with street indicators, railway bells and site visitors lights. Learn the Essendon Site visitors College evaluation.
• Altona Homestead (recurring 1st Sunday of the month) – Expertise the famend Devonshire Tea at Altona Homestead on the primary Sunday of each month. Reserve your spot upfront for a pleasant time.
• Altona Seashore Market (recurring weekly each Tuesdays) – Expertise Melbourne’s well-liked Altona Seashore market, a weekly avenue market held on Pier Avenue, that includes recent meals stalls, distinctive crafts, and a scenic seaside backdrop, attracting each native residents and guests from all around the metropolis.
• Artwork within the backyard (Tuesdays) – It’s a mixture of nature play, sensory play, course of artwork, and playgroup. Run by ‘The Enjoyable In Artwork’.
• 2024 Spartan City Occasion Weekend (Sat 3 Aug – Solar 4 Aug) – Conquer thrilling obstacles and overcome rugged terrain with the Spartan Children Race! Put together for smiles, medals and a complete lot of mud!

• Toddler and Children Artwork Lessons (Thurs + Fridays) – The Enjoyable In Artwork’ supplies artwork courses for toddlers and children the place they’re extra concerning the enjoyable of creation and fewer concerning the final result of the art work.
• Floor Up: Constructing Huge Concepts, Collectively (Ongoing) – An exhibition for infants to five-year-olds the place curiosity is rewarded round every bend with shocking and intriguing sights, sounds and contact sensations.
• Robotics and coding package – Uncover the ability of mBot robots on this enjoyable introductory workshop that explores how easy packages can management complicated machines.
• Animal Land  (Mondays, Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays) – Youngsters’s Farm in Diggers Relaxation providing an genuine farm expertise for kids and households.
• Playnastics (Wednesdays & Thursdays) – Informal open play periods utilizing a number of Preschool Gymnastics tools and assets, in addition to puzzles, blocks and extra.
• Melbourne Planetarium (Ongoing) – Sit again and benefit from the marvel of the celebrities whatever the time of day – or the climate!

• Sunday Funday Station Resort (Sundays) – Each Sunday The Station Resort prepares an animal farm and different entertaining actions to maintain the little ones busy, whilst you sit again and chill out. Learn the Station Resort Evaluation
• Bells and Beats (Thursdays throughout faculty time period) – Come alongside on a musical journey with loads of enjoyable and dancing for 0 – 5 yr outdated’s.
• Enterprize Sail Williamstown (normally sails the third Sunday of each month) – go for a one hour sail on tall ship Enterprize in Williamstown
• Werribee Open Vary Zoo (ongoing) – Stroll by means of the Zoo recognizing lions, hippos, cheetahs, monkeys, gorillas and extra, catch the safari bus tour or discover the Ranger Children indoor play house and Village Children out of doors playground.
• Air Playground (ongoing) – Air Playground has launched at Scienceworks. Levitate objects, engineer paper planes, & study the physics of airflow.
• ​Clocktower Centre Youngsters’s Area (ongoing) – Mother and father and carers can sit again and chill out with a espresso and a snack from the Clocktower Café whereas the youngsters discover the house, watch the trams go by or hearken to their favorite e-book with the interactive Storytime Pod.
• Incy Wincy Infants (ongoing) – Barking Spider Artistic artist guides carers with their infants by means of a visible artwork expertise on the Gallery.
• Bounce Play Dates Essendon Fields (ongoing) – It’s not simply leaping and mountain climbing for youths, take pleasure in a minibouncer zone unique for toddlers (for youths <110 cm in top).

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