1. Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, Melbourne

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Melbourne Food and Wine Festival
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Melbourne’s biggest gastronomic celebration, the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, marks its 28th year in 2020.

Queen Victoria Market will be the home of the Festival in March 2020 where MFWF will stage parties, talks, demonstrations and events within Melbourne’s much-loved marketplace.

Over the 10 days of the Festival, Melbourne will welcome some of the world’s hottest talent, including Alison Roman, Fuchsia Dunlop, Ignacio Mattos, Helen Goh, Michael Solomonov and Lee Tiernan along with our local heroes including Josh Niland, Shannon Martinez, Ben Shewry, Andrew McConnell and Pamela Clark, just to name a few.

The program will take place from 19 – 29 March exclusively in Melbourne, with a dedicated festival in regional Victoria, set to launch in spring 2020, showcasing more of the state’s abundance of great food and drink than ever before.

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2. Pako Festa, Geelong

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Pako Festa is the largest free celebration of cultural diversity in Australia!

Every year, since 1983, it attracts scores of people from our local and cultural communities, professional performers, community groups, schools, businesses, street traders and artists from all walks of life.
Coming together in harmony, up to 100,000 people meet to enjoy a smorgasbord of cultural food, folk dancing, the famous Pako Parade, workshops, art exhibitions, films, craft displays, free activities for children and an amazing day of non-stop entertainment.
Pako Festa prides itself as being a free event, accessible to all who want to share the enriching experience of multiculturalism. All you need to bring for a great day out is a happy heart and an open mind.

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3. Bendigo Craft Beer and Cider Festival, Bendigo

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Spend a day in the sun with your best crew sampling over 100 beers and ciders and eating until your heart is content. Kick back on a hay stack and enjoy the smooth sounds of hand-picked live performances or reserve a seat with your group in the VIP tent, offering many surprises and luxuries on the day.

The Bendigo Craft Beer and Cider Festival occurs each March and boasts the best brewer and cidery line up seen at a regional event, with representation coming from right across the country.

Meet the brewers and taste beers from across all states, plus a terrific range of ciders – there are more than 100 unique beverages to tempt you alongside food trucks, live music, plenty of fun and festival games.

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4. Melbourne Cup Carnival, Melbourne

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The Melbourne Cup Carnival isn’t just about a single race – festivities overrun the city for more than a week, with four unique race days taking place. 

Sport, fashion, food and entertainment share the spotlight and the eyes of the world are on Melbourne. So dress up, sip your champagne and hope that you pick a winner.

The festivities attract more than 100,000 racing fans to the city, and virtually every bar, restaurant, cafe, shop and department store gets into the swing with a Cup-inspired event.

Cup culture is so ingrained that the entire state of Victoria enjoys a government-declared public holiday on Melbourne Cup Day.

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5. Great Ocean Road Running Festival, Great Ocean Road

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The Great Ocean Road Running Festival will be held in Lorne & Apollo Bay on the weekend of 16 – 17 May, 2020.

Set in what is truly Australia’s most stunning place to run, winding along the wild and windswept coast of the Southern Ocean, the scenic course is guaranteed to take your breath away.

This unique experience to run or walk along the Great Ocean Road free from traffic is unmissable.

The weekend features a variety of running & walking events to suit all ages and fitness levels, as well as Festival activities including yoga, kites, live music & more. Choose your distance and take on the Great Ocean Road:

  • 60km Ultra Marathon
  • 44km Marathon
  • 23km Half Marathon
  • 14km Paradise Run
  • 6km Run
  • 1.5km Kids’ Gallop
  • 5km / 10km Great Ocean Road Walk

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6. Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, Melbourne

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The smell of freshly cut grass and bursting blooms will scent the Melbourne air once again for the 25th anniversary of the Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show in 2020, hosted in the exquisite heritage listed Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens over five glorious Autumn days. Featuring the best landscape and floral talent from Australia and around the world alongside an extensive array of garden retail products, the Show is a celebration of lifestyle and our great outdoors.

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7. Riverboats Music Festival, Echuca

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The 2021 Riverboats Music Festival – Echuca-Moama, February 19-21.

Come and join us for a weekend on the river.
In a beautiful natural amphitheatre next to Australia’s longest river, we’re building a small stage on an old timber jetty.

It’s the same stage we built last year, a stage that across three short years has presented performances by some of Australia’s most adored artists. And we’ve only just begun.

Echuca-Moama is in northern Victoria on the banks of the Murray River, approximately 200kms (2.5 hours) from Melbourne.

It is situated on the Northern Highway, roughly one hour from Bendigo and 45 minutes from Shepparton.

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8. Light Up Melbourne Festival, Melbourne

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In April 2019, City of Melbourne will play host to Light Up Melbourne Festival.

Situated in Birrarung Marr – Lower Terrace, the family-friendly Festival will showcase larger than life lanterns which combine Chinese-folk culture and entertainment into popular Lantern Lights Festivals and carnival experiences.

The Festival will also have over 80 food stalls, traders and amusement games, not to mention the on-stage entertainment program, definitely an event not to be missed! Best of all, it is a FREE event!

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9. Melbourne International Film Festival, Melbourne

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In 1900, the master choreographer Marius Petipa – whose works include Swan Lake, The Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote and La Bayadère – created Harlequinade, a sweet-hearted romp based on commedia dell’arte characters, for the Tsar and Tsarina. It was a hit, but after the 1917 Revolution, the full-length ballet disappeared from the stage.

Alexei Ratmansky, former director of the Bolshoi Ballet and artist in residence at American Ballet Theatre, has deeply immersed himself in the works of Petipa, producing meticulously researched revivals. Through intensive study of the Harlequinade notation held at Harvard University, he has breathed new life into this cheeky, bubbly ballet.

Harlequin and Columbine are in love, but her father, who wants her to marry a rich older man, has her locked up by his loyal servant, Pierrot. Pierrot’s wife, sympathetic to the young couple, helps her escape, and a Good Fairy gives Harlequin a magical slap stick that helps him triumph over the odds and win Columbine’s hand.

Robert Perdziola’s extravagant, colour-saturated design for Harlequinade’s cast of thousands (including more than 30 children) is based on his study of the original sets and costumes. The music is by Riccardo Drigo, a close collaborator of Tchaikovsky’s, who arranged the score for Swan Lake.

After his century-long sleep, the irrepressible Harlequin is wide awake and ready to charm ballet lovers of all ages in this Melbourne-exclusive season.

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10. Australian Moto Grand Prix, Ventnor

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Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix
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The first inhabitants of Phillip Island were the aboriginal Bunurong tribe based around Western Port.  They were not permanent residents but most likely visited during the muttonbird season to feast on the abundant eggs and young birds.
 
George Bass was the first European to visit Western Port on the 5th January 1798 after a voyage down the coast from Port Jackson in a 28ft whaleboat.  
 
He named it Western Port because it was west of Port Jackson.  Sealers soon followed, harvesting the seals on the Bass Strait islands and Seal Rocks near the Nobbies.
 
The McHaffie brothers took out a lease of the whole of Phillip Island in 1842 and grazed sheep here.  They lost all bar 640 acres around the homestead when the Island was opened up for closer settlement during 1868-69.  Conditions were very harsh for the settlers and many left because of drought, failed crops and lack of water.  Chicory was one of the first crops grown and proved suitable for the Island’s climate, a lack of frosts being the main requirement.  It was grown here for over 100 years and the remaining chicory kilns with their pyramid-shaped roofs are a Phillip Island icon.

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11. Festival of Sails, Geelong

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The Festival of Sails is the largest annual keelboat regatta in the Southern Hemisphere with over 300 yacht entries and 3,000 competitors annually taking part in the event. First held in 1844, the Festival of Sails Regatta is one of the nation’s oldest sporting events and has evolved over many years culminating in its current format as Australia’s foremost keelboat regatta.

Running alongside the sailing action, the free community Waterfront Festival features numerous acts across three stages and a multitude of stallholders to provide you with fine food and wine, live music, entertainment and roving performers, art and craft market stalls, novelty stalls, an on-water Come & Try Zone and a dedicated family-friendly kids zone all along the stunning Geelong Waterfront and in the Royal Geelong Yacht Club.

The Festival of Sails promises something for all, thrilling sailing action, exciting on-water activities for all to try, and a great way to spend quality time with your family over the Australia Day Long Weekend.

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12. Royal Melbourne Show, Melbourne

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With much of south-east Australia impacted by the devastating bushfires that continue to burn, our thoughts and best wishes are with those that have been affected and the many volunteer firefighters, emergency services and community groups that continue to work tirelessly to protect the communities.

The Royal Melbourne Show is conducted by The Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria.

On behalf of our members, staff, exhibitors and clients, we are pledging an initial donation $50,000 to support the bushfire relief. These funds will be directed to charitable organisations best equipped to effectively and efficiently distribute the funds to communities affected by the bushfires.

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12. Melbourne Japanese Summer Festival, Melbourne

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The Melbourne Japanese Summer Festival will return in 2020! The event will take place on Sunday 23 February from 11:30AM to 5:30PM and will showcase traditional and contemporary Japanese culture with performances, foods and activities for all ages.

Here is the message from The the Lord Mayor of Melbourne.

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13.  Wine Machine, Yarra Valley

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Wine Machine is a full-bodied day of wine, food and lives music, showcasing both the splendour of our nation’s most picturesque wine regions and the spectacular music artists borne from Australian soil. Past line-ups included 
 
The Presets, PNAU, San Sisco, Sneaky Sound System, Hayden James, Jack River, Confidence Man, Miami Horror, The Kite String Tangle,  Touch Sensitive, Crooked Colours and Young Franco.

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15. Day By The Bay Festival, Point Cook

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Day By The Bay Festival heads to Point Cook on Saturday, March 23 with a jampacked line up of local artists including:

Mojo JuJu
The Orbweavers
Jess Ribeiro
HEXDEBT
Leah Senior
Way Dynamic

The festival will also feature local not-for-profit and community groups who work to protect the environment of Port Philip Bay, interactive activities for all ages, market stalls, and tasty food trucks.

Entry to the main festival is free.

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16. Tiny House Festival, Bendigo

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Since “Tiny Houses Australia” started back in 2013, it really has become the ‘Go-To’ place for Tiny House enthusiasts in Australia. A place to connect, educate, encourage and inspire those that have come across the Tiny House movement and want to learn more about what benefits ‘Going Tiny’ could hold for them.

Tiny Houses Australia runs regular Face to Face meet ups, Online Facebook “LIVE” broadcasts, Hands-on Workshops, Regular Presentations and Key note talks, and of course in 2019 they brought to life Australia’s First EVER Tiny House Festival.

With over 8,500 people from all over Australia (and internationally) attending our first Festival, it really was a sign that people are ready to make a change.

People are realising that life is short, we are only here once and that what REALLY matters, are relationships and experiences, and not money and things.

People want to have less debt, less stress, and want to lead a happier, healthier, more sustainable and more intentional way of life, and the Tiny House Movement is something that can really help them achieve this.

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17. Melbourne Fringe Festival, Melbourne

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Melbourne Fringe is a celebration of cultural democracy and art for everyone. By embracing diversity and a spirit of independence, we create a unique space for artistic self-expression linked to the life of our great city.

That’s why Melbourne Fringe is the most adventurous, inclusive, all-encompassing multi-artform festival in Australia.

Every year we feature thousands of artists from every discipline you can name (and a few others besides) performing 400+ events in over 160 venues to an audience in excess of 350,000 people.

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18. River Run, Geelong

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River Run Geelong returns in 2020 on Sunday, 1 March 2020.

The course takes in all parts of the Barwon River Path. Each event has a 5km and 10km distance and at no time in the series will participants cover the same part of the Barwon river path travelling in the same direction. The series is perfect for all fitness levels from the elite athlete to the first time walker and is pram friendly.

The point will be allocated to all participants in each event to determine after 3 events the kings and queens of the River. Overall Kings and Queens will be awarded, as well as winners in each age group and in both the 5km and 10km courses. To be eligible for these prizes you must participate in the same distance in all three events.

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19.  Moomba Festival, Melbourne

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Moomba 2020 swings open its gates from 6 to 9 March and take over the banks of Yarra River, Birrarung Marr and Alexandra Gardens for a huge long weekend of family-friendly fun. Best of all, entry is free!

Whether you’re a kid who loves a good boogie, a food-truck-loving foodie, or a daredevil bursting for a riding fix, Moomba has something for everyone.

Head to the Parade and look out for the Moomba Monarchs, TV and comedy star Julia Morris and Nazeem Hussain, watch the hilarious Birdman Rally from the banks of the Yarra or get your sports fix with watersports, skateboarding and basketball competitions happening all weekend.

So grab your mates, gather the family and come play at Moomba!

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20. Chinese New Year Festival, Melbourne

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Chinese New Year has a long tradition in Melbourne and includes free cultural festivities across the city.

Feasting and the awakening of the dragon are just some of the traditional festivities in Melbourne’s Chinatown. Join in and explore Melbourne’s rich Chinese heritage as Chinatown comes alive in stunning hues of red and gold.

Chinese New Year also lights up our city streets from Queensbridge Square to Southgate, South Wharf and Docklands to Queen Victoria Market, with light installations, street performances, outdoor food stalls and acrobatic lion dances.

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