- Hamlet in Mount Waverley is giving away free coffee all day on Monday 3 February.
- Experience the magic of intimate starlit evening performances by original artists, surrounded by thousands of twinkling candles, against the backdrop of Fed Square’s iconic architecture from 4-6 February.
- The Brunswick Beethoven Festival runs in two parts, 5 to 8 Feb and 18 to 22 Feb.
- See in the Year of the Snake with a traditional lion dance performance, designed to bring good luck and fortune at the Darebin Intercultural Centre in Preston on 5 February. Enjoy live performers in lion costumes, accompanied by the music of beating drums, clashing cymbals and resounding gongs, guided by the Laughing Buddha.
- The Waterfront Festival on 7-8 February is Frankston’s most iconic celebration of all the best things about summer and delivers the best live music, delicious food and drink, rides and amusements, free activities and heaps of entertainment for every member of the family.
- The Geelong Pro Rodeo is on 7 February.
- The 2025 Port Fairy Jazz Festival is on 7-9 February.
- Celebrate Lunar New Year with two nights of back-to-back martial arts action classics, featuring the master of Hong Kong Kung Fu cinema – Bruce Lee – on the Big Screen in Fed Square on 7-8 February
- The Summer Jam summer basketball festival in St Kilda on 7-9 February will celebrate unique hoops culture showcase hosting the nations best players competing to be the Streetball Champions of Australia
- The St Kilda Latin Festival on 7-9 February promises a weekend full of flavours, aromas and great experiences right next to the beach.
- Ignite your senses at the City of Melton’s vibrant Melton Night Market on 7 February. Iimmerse yourself in flavours, rhythms and traditions inspired by Asia.
- The Korumburra Show is on 7-8 February.
- The Rio Festival comes to Melbourne on 8 February.
- Witness world-class polo and immerse yourself in the glitz and glamour of a lively party atmosphere featuring live entertainment and DJ at the Luxury Escapes Twilight Beach Polo event in St Kilda on 8 February.
- The Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) launches its fiftieth anniversary celebrations on 8 February with a special opening party for Image Economies.
- The Trans Book Festival at The Wheeler Centre on 8 February is a day to celebrate the talents, courage and creativity of trans and gender diverse authors.
- The Trans and Gender Diverse Clothes Swap, is back for another year in St Kilda on 8 February as part of Midsumma
- Discover the joy of edible gardening and connect with the vibrant community of growers, enthusiasts, and nature lovers at Bass Coast Edible Gardens on 8-9 February.
- More than 400 local and interstate artists will be at the Kaicon amime, gaming, pop culture and original art pop-up artist alley at MCEC on 8-9 February.
- The dancing Lunar New Year lions will be in Coburg Central on 8 February
- The Elwood Carnival is on 8 February,
- The Midsumma Festival Northside Pride Pool Party is on at the Fitzroy Pool on 8 February
- The Whittlesea Circular Fashion Market is on 8 February at the Civic Centre in South Morang.
- The Ballarat Urban Wine Walk is on Saturday 8 February
- Treaty Day Out, the music festival celebrating First Nations music and culture, is back for its fifth year in Morwell in Gippsland on 8 February 2025.
- The next Second Chance Bendigo Preloved Pop Up market is on 8 February at the Bendigo Exhibition Centre.
- The Tyrendarra Agricultural Show is on 8 February
- The annual Picnic at Hanging Rock Classic Car Show is on in the Macedon Ranges on 9 February
- The Camelot Castle Medieval Village Fair in Yellingbo on 9 February will feature themed free entertainment for the whole family. Enjoy displays of life in medieval times, Punch ‘n Judy shows, face painting, target practice, games and market stalls.
- The 15th annual Torquay Rotary Motor Show is on 9 February
- The Snake Valley Swap Meet is on 9 February
- The Lang Lang Show n Shine and Swap Meet is on 9 February
- Victoria’s Pride Street Party is happening as part of the Midsumma Festival on Sunday 9 February.
- The Cranbourne Psychic and Wellbeing Expo is on 9 February.
- The Elwood Bowls Record Fair is on 9 February
- Maroondah City Council’s Superhero Sunday is on 9 February in Ringwood North.
- Fairfield in Feb is a series of afternoon performances on 9 and 16 February at the Fairfield Amphitheatre produced by Yarra City Arts and guest presenters.
- The 2025 Wyndham Multicultural Lunar Festival is taking place at Stockland in Point Cook on 9 February,
- The New To You Preloved Market at Williamstown on 9 February will feature 2000sqm of wall to wall preloved fashion and accessories.
- The Mornington Racecourse Market is on Sunday 9 February.
- There’s a pool party to celebrate the newly reopened Carnegie Memorial Swimming Pool on 9 February.
- Celebrate the wonderful foldable umbrella invention of Slawa Horowitz-Duldig atDuldig Studios’ annual World Umbrella Day event in East Malvern on 9 February.
- Join the festivities and celebrate the Year of the Snake at the 2024 Glen Waverley Lunar New Year and Lantern Festival on 9 February.
- Join in the Preston Market’s Year of the Snake celebrations on Sunday 9 February 2025.Enjoy a lively entertainment lineup, captivating Lion Dance and store blessings.
- Fed Square is celebrating the Year of the Snake with a range of exciting performances and activities on 9 February. See the dragon dancers in action or join in a Tai Chi or Gentle Chinese Dance class.
- Melbourne’s premier LGBTQIA+ cultural celebration, the Midsumma Festival, is set to illuminate the city until Sunday, 9 February 2025.
- Until 9 February, QV Melbourne will celebrate Lunar New Year with an interactive Snakes & Ladders experience. The playful and architectural twist on the classic game of snakes and ladders will take over QV Square, in the heart of Melbourne’s CBD.
- This Lunar New Year, join the celebrations at The Glen and Box Hill Central shopping centres and take part in a vibrant cultural experience. Until 12 February, both centres will host a variety of free and family-friendly activities to mark the Year of the Snake.
- Chill out at the Yarra Valley Chocolaterie & Ice Creamery and celebrate the end of summer with their annual Ice Cream Festival from 12-23 February
- Circus Latino will be in Ballarat from 14 February to 2 March
- Prepare to be dazzled as Mornington Green unveils the world’s largest sunflower. Beginning on 14 February 2025, visitors can immerse themselves in a sunflower wonderland, featuring an extraordinary arrangement of 3,000 sunflowers meticulously cultivated to form a colossal sunflower shape.
- 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 from 15 February to 29 June.
- The PayPal Melbourne Fashion Festival is on 22 February to 8 March.
- The Koorie Art Show at Koorie Heritage Trust runs til 23 February andi s dedicated to showcasing the work of Koorie and Victorian-based Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists through a statewide call for entries.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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: 3-9 February 2025
By Melbourning
