- Silent Cinema with Live Scores at Fed Square from 25-27 February is a mini film and live music festival over three days, featuring classics of silent cinema, presented with live original scores performed by some of Australia’s most exciting composers.
- You are invited to an audience with The Female Pope at the Smorgon Family Plaza at Arts Centre Melbourne on 27-28 February. Witness Rakini Devi ‘s powerful transformative durational performance, inspired by the 10th-century Pope Joan and The Hindu Goddess Kali. This free performance protests misogyny and challenges traditional gender roles in society and religion.
- Bread, Circuses and Home on 28 February to 10 March is a free public installation and mini-festival at Fed Square by innovative Delhi–based duo Jiten Thukral and Sumir Tagra.
- The St Kilda Blues Festival is on from 28 February to 2 March.
- Feastival at Falls Creek is a three-day festival from 28 February-2 March featuring music, art, comedy, wellness, food and beverage.
- The Wangaratta Caravan, Camping and Leisure Roadshow is on 28 February to 2 March.
- The Museum Of Desire is Melbourne’s new must-visit experience! Discover 20+ attractions celebrating all things desire, love and pleasure. Daring, fun, and a little bit cheeky — it’s totally your type. Until 28 February in Collingwood.
- Hilton Melbourne Little Queen Street (HMLQS)’s rooftop pickleball court returns to the heart of Melbourne this summer, popping-up for an extended season until Friday 28 February.
- Join Thomas and Friends for one of three weekends in March at Puffing Billy Railway where you can meet your favourite storybook characters and enjoy a steam train adventure!
- The Lorne Sculpture Biennale runs from 1-30 March.
- Already a proud pet parent or looking for a new pet but don’t know where to start, then a day out at The Pet Show is a must! It’s on at the Melbourne Showgrounds on 1-2 March.
- The Womin djeka Balnarring Ngargee Festival featuring an array of amazing workshops, market stalls and music is back at Balnarring on 1 March.
- The Big Vinyl Dig is happening at the Ukrainian Hall in Essendon on 1 March
- The Stellar Short Film Festival 2025 is returning for its sixth year on Saturday 1 March. at the McClelland Sculpture Park + Gallery in Langwarrin.
- Bunjil Place in Narre Warren is partnering with the Māoriland Film Festival and AsiaTOPA to present a weekend of live performance and Indigenous films from across the Southern Hemisphere on 1-2 March.
- The 2025 Craigieburn Festival will be held on Saturday 1 March in Anzac Park.
- Mordi Fest on 1 March will feature the best of the region’s food, wine and entertainment and bring Mordialloc’s foreshore to life.
- The 2025 Melbourne Guitar Show at the Melbourne Showgrounds on 1-2 March will be an unmissable event, bringing Australia’s largest showcase of guitars, guitar products and guitar playing to a new home, new layout, new ideas and a new program.
- The Sips and Sounds Union Road Music Festival on 1 March in Ascot Vale promises to be a day filled with incredible live music, local talent, and unique stalls to explore.
- There’s a Latino Fiesta at the Point Cook pop-up park on 1 March
- The gardens at Billilla Mansion in Brighton will be the epicentre of Melbourne’s outstanding jazz scene on 1 March when the Jazz at Bililla Gardens event returns for 2025.Featuring performances from the Tamara Murphy Trio, Jarabi Band, and The Orlando Combo, pack a picnic and settle in for some uplifting grooves, high energy performances, and soulful crooners.
- Pirate Life Brewery in South Melbourne is hosting a pop-up vintage market on 1 March.
- Knox Fest is a free community event on Saturday 1 March 2025 from 10 am – 10 pm at Wally Tew Reserve, Ferntree Gully.
- The 2025 Maryborough Pro Rodeo is on 1 March
- The 2025 Australian Paranormal Conference and Expo is on at Kryal Castle in Ballarat on 1 March
- The Wandin Draught Horse and Yesteryear Festival on 1 March at Mont De Lancey will feature orking draught horses, old machinery, stationary engines, vintage cars, tractors markets stalls, and of course the museum and gardens.
- The Big Vinyl Dig is happening at the Geelong West Town Hall on 2 March
- The 13th annual Inverleigh Daschund Derby Day is on 2 March
- The Bendigo Fun Run returns to the streets of Bendigo on 2 March
- The Sydney Road Street Party is on 2 March as part of the Brunswick Music Festival
- Run Warrandyte on 2 March is a community event with 6 distance events to enter 21km, 15km, 10km, 5km, 2.2km and U8 Dash.
- Jazz at the Lake in Blackburn is back on Sunday 2 March, with a new evening format. Enjoy smooth jazz, delicious food, and a picturesque setting for a perfect family-friendly outing.
- The Glenferrie Festival is on 2 March along Glenferrie Road, spanning from Barkers Road to Burwood Road in Hawthorn.
- Cardinia Leisure is once more hosting its popular 5km & 10km Fun Run and Walk on Sunday 2 March 2025 in Pakenham
- Belgrave Survival Day on 2 March gives the Indigenous perspective of 230 years of European occupation.
- The Summer Heritage Fruit Tree Festival at Werribee Park on 2 March is a day celebrating growing fruit trees and preserving heritage varieties.
- Circus Latino will be in Ballarat until 2 March
- The Brunswick Music Festival will be back to light up your life and enrich your mind from 2-10 March 2025.
- Until 3 March 2025, Rooftop at QT is hosting the Red Bull Rally Rooftop Pickleball Court, set against the breathtaking Melbourne skyline.
- CLAW MONEY WORLD – a world-exclusive exhibition charting the career of trailblazing artist Claudia Gold is on at the Warrnambool Art Gallery until 6 March.
- The PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival runs until 8 March.
- Enter Antopia at Melbourne Museum where you shrink down to the size of ants to experience a day in the life of an ant colony. Discover a complex and fascinating superorganism in this immersive, interactive experience that digitally reinterprets a world of secrets we cannot see. It runs until 10 March 2025.
- Asia TOPA – Australia’s major triennial of Asia-Pacific performance runs until 10 March with an extraordinary program of new art and performance across dance, theatre, music, visual art and beyond, alongside a new nightlife program and opportunities to connect with artists and creative communities.
- Get ready for unforgettable summer evenings when the Summer Night Market returns to Queen Victoria Market until 12 March 2025 (excluding 25 December and 1 January).
- Enjoy a curated program of free outdoor cinema on the Big Screen at Federation Square until 25 March including major blockbusters, Kung Fu classics, silent cinema with live scores, and film festival screenings.
- Explore the timeless elegance of Women’s Ao Dai, a traditional Vietnamese dress commonly worn by Vietnamese women at an exhibition in Sunshine until 27 March
- On display for the first time outside of Europe, Underground: The Hidden Archive of the Warsaw Ghetto at the Melbourne Holocaust Museum (MHM) until 30 March with rare artefacts from the hidden archive of the Warsaw Ghetto.
- Moonlight Cinema is back at Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens with a stellar line-up of some of 2024’s best releases, plus two weeks of classic ‘Christmas Favourites’ until March 2025.
- The NGV’s blockbuster Yayoi Kusama exhibition runs until 21 April and includes many works never-before-seen by local audiences and is the largest ever exhibition of the artist’s work in Australia.
- The Blue Lotus Water Garden at Yarra Junction is one of Australia’s most spectacular seasonal gardens open to the public until 21 April 2025. The tropically themed water garden covers 14 acres featuring millions of beautiful lotus, waterlily and other flowers, stunning lakes, amazing vistas and wonderful facilities
- After leaving an indelible mark on Melbourne’s memory, Vincent van Gogh’s vibrant works will return to THE LUME Melbourne until 30 April 2025. Back by popular demand, Van Gogh is an enchanting experience that immerses you in a powerful multisensory symphony of light, colour, sound and aroma.
- Immerse yourself in the future worlds of screen culture. The Future & Other Fictions showcases the people and artworks imagining bright and bold futures through film, videogames, contemporary art and more at ACMI until 27 April.
- Notre-Dame de Paris: The Augmented Exhibition is a new immersive exhibition that relives the spectacular history of the Notre-Dame de Paris in an augmented takeover of the Long Room at the Immigration Museum until 27 April.
- The ever-popular Skyline Ferris Wheel makes its return in St Kilda until 27 April. Take in the breath-taking views of the St Kilda foreshore and pier with unparalleled views!
- Hanging Rock Winery’s Art in the Vines Sculpture Exhibition is an opportunity wander a trail of discovery, glass-in-hand, through an extraordinary exhibition of contemporary outdoor sculpture, until 30 April 2025.
- The world-renowned Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition on loan from the Natural History Museum London is now on display at the National Wool Museum in Geelong until 18 May.
- Uncover the untold stories of a global icon, Dame Nellie Melba. A Toast to Melbashares rarely seen objects, photographs, and personal treasures from Coombe Yarra Valley, Arts Centre Melbourne and Yarra Ranges Regional Museum—brought together for the first time in this dynamic new exhibition until 29 June.
- Get ready to be mesmerised by the breathtaking beauty of our blue planet at the Ocean Photographer of the Year Exhibition, hosted at Seaworks Williamstown until 6 July.
- From cattle dogs to lap dogs, divine felines to the black cats of superstition a new exhibition coming to the National Gallery of Victoria called Cats & Dogs, will explore humanity’s deep connection to the beloved companion animals through more than 250 works of art and design. Its on display from until 20 July 2025 at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square.
What’s on in Melbourne and regional Victoria this week: 24 February to 2 March 2025.
By Melbourning
