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Welcome to the essential guide to your weekend, Canberra. Thanks to Zango, Canberra’s locally owned listing site, we’re bringing you this weekend’s coolest events—and hottest Open Homes.
Every Monday for more than eight years, we’ve published This Week in The Can, our comprehensive guide to everything happening around the city this week—but sometimes it’s just too epic to get through!
That’s why each Friday we publish our Weekend Edit—a curated selection of events we think you’ll love!
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MARTINI WHISPERER ROOFTOP GARDEN PARTY
Join us for an exclusive high tea with cocktail masterclass by the Martini Whisperer, Phillip Jones. Phillip is one of Australia’s leading craft spirit educators and mixologist.
Phillip has created three cocktails for the event and will guide guests through a comprehensive and fun masterclass. Phillip will teach you how to craft each cocktail at home and share top advice on how to run a flawless cocktail evening.
Remember to dress in your finest garden party attire as we will have prizes for the best dressed. One lucky guest will also win a lucky door prize – a cocktail masterclass for four hosted by the Martini Whisperer himself!
Cost: $99pp and includes Champagne High Tea and a cocktail of your choice.
Happening Saturday 8 February from 12–3 pm at the Burbury Rooftop Terrace.
Email hightea@burburyhotel.com.au or call 02 6163 1802 for bookings.
See Facebook for more information.
SUBSDANCE’S 12 HOUR DANCE MARATHON BUSHFIRE APPEAL
The Subsdance 12 hour bushfire appeal will be donating every cent raised to the bushfire appeal.
Non-stop dancing for 12 hours – different styles and talented instructors from across the Canberra dance community
Head to the Subsdance studio this Saturday 8 February for $5 Dance Classes all day donated by instructors and performers from all over the Canberra Dance Community! One class or 10, every little helps.
ON THE DAY: Donate supplies
Drop off clothes, towels, animal supplies, slabs of drinks, toiletries etc etc to be donated to those affected by the bushfires.
ON THE DAY: Volunteer
Volunteer to help on the day! Giving out water to dancers, taking donations and helping it run smoothly!
Bring snacks to share! Amazing at baking? Bake an extra batch to share with hungry fellow dancers! Buy a big old bag of oranges, bring slabs of water. Help us help each other.
Happening Saturday 8 February from 10 am – 10 pm (each class run approx. 45 mins) at Subsdance Dance Studio, 1/27-29 Eyre St, Kingston.
See Facebook for more information.
EXHIBITION PARK’S EPIC CHARITY WEEKEND
This February, get ready for an EPIC (excuse the pun) Charity Weekend at Exhibition Park in Canberra.
This Charity Weekend will feature three main charities: Lifeline, Rise Above Cancer Convoy and Capital Region Farmers Market (which is a community project run by the Rotary Club of Hall and in turn supports local producers and farmers).
So how can you support these worthy charities? Each will be hosting their own event—why not get along to all three?
LIFELINE BOOK FAIR
Lifeline Canberra’s book fairs raise a major portion of the funding needed to keep our local crisis support services.
With a wide range of fiction and non-fiction books, including rare books and collectables, children’s books, textbooks and foreign language books. You’ll also find magazines and pamphlets, sheet music, comics, maps and atlases, talking books, records and CDs, DVDs, games and jigsaws.
Entry to the Lifeline Canberra Book fairs is by gold coin donation.
Friday 7 February from 9 am–6 pm, Saturday 8 February from 9 am–5 pm and Sunday 9 February from 10 am–4 pm
RISE ABOVE CANCER CONVOY
The Rise Above Convoy for Cancer is an annual event to raise money and awareness for Rise Above – Capital Region Cancer Relief.
Every February, hundreds of Trucks and Motorbikes take the journey from Beard Industrial Estate just outside of Queanbeyan and drive through Canberra to Exhibition Park, where the family fun day and concert wrap up the Convoy.
It’s is their biggest fundraiser and helps over 900 patients who are battling Cancer throughout the region.
Sunday 9 February from 11 am–2 pm
CAPITAL REGION FARMERS MARKET
Sample the region’s freshest produce at the Capital Region Farmers Market. The Market features over 100 stallholders and is a community project run by the Rotary Club of Hall, the only rural Rotary Club in the ACT.
The Market provides a direct and unbroken link between food producers and customer and also enables the Rotary Club of Hall to support important regional community projects.
Saturday 8 February from 7.30 am–11.30 am
Happening 7-9 February at Exhibition Park in Canberra, corner of Flemington Road and Northbourne Avenue, Mitchell.
See exhibitionparkincanberra.com/event/epic-charity-weekend for more information.
FARRAH LIQUOR COLLECTIVE’S ONCE-A-YEAR LIQUOR WAREHOUSE SALE
After the silly season, it’s understandable if your wine rack or liquor cabinet is looking a tad depleted.
Luckily there’s an epic once-a-year liquor sale on this weekend where you can not only get some outrageously good deals, you can also taste a huge range of craft beers, wines and spirits (more than 100 of them in fact).
Farrah’s Liquor Collective opened up in Fyshwick in June 2019, bringing a brand new way of shopping for liquor to Canberra.
The massive 2400 square metres warehouse space houses an enormous array of wines, spirits and beers—some of which have never been for sale in Canberra before.
With the products already discounted year-round, it’s a great place to stock up any time, but on Saturday 8 February, Farrah’s Liquor Collective is launching their annual warehouse sale—and offering even further discounts.
Customers can stock up and take advantage of discounts including 15 per cent off any 12 bottles or more of wine, 20 per cent off all 4/6 packs of craft beer, and 5 per cent off all spirits—that’s off the already heavily reduced prices.
On the day there will be over 100 products available to taste, and headlining the spirit tasting is Doug van Tienen from Whisky Live, who will take customers through a specialised range of craft spirits from around the world.
Happening Saturday 8 February from 10 am–4.30 pm at Farrah Liquor Collective, Unit 1A, 8-20 Townsville Street, Fyshwick.
See farrahsliquorcollective.com for more information.
RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE: WERQ THE WORLD 2020
The Official RuPaul’s Drag Race World Tour returns with an all new production for 2020.
Mission leader Michelle Visage is on a journey to save the universe with the help of her intergalactic queens including Aquaria, Kim Chi, Monet Exchange, Plastique Tiara, Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, Violet Chachki and Season 11 winner Yvie Oddly! Presented by Voss Events in collaboration with World of Wonder and VH1.
Happening Thursday 6 February from 8 pm until 10 pm at Canberra Theatre Centre, London Circuit, Canberra.
See canberratheatrecentre.com.au for more information.
WINE, DINE AND DESIGN – THE ESTATE PREMIERE
You are invited to Estate Forrest’s premiere. Be among the first to experience their three prestigious display apartments, each distinctly styled by Coco Republic.
Come and indulge in culinary delights by Wildflour Artisan Bakery, sip on a selection of wines specially curated by the renowned Tyson Stelzer, enjoy award-winning Ona Coffee and live music—all with our compliments.
Coco Republic, who have collaborated on the Estate interiors, will be presenting a series of design and styling workshops over the course of the day.
Four free sessions will be run over the course of the day, covering ‘Interior Decoration’ (11 am), ‘Fung Shui’ (noon), ‘Current Trends’ (1 pm) and ‘Downsizing with Style’ (2 pm).
Please RSVP at estate@addvaldevelopments.com.au to reserve your place at one of Coco Republic’s exclusive styling workshops. Places are limited.
Happening Saturday 8 February 2020 from 11 am–3 pm at the Cnr of State Circle and Canberra Avenue, Forrest (entry off Hobart Avenue).
Cost: Free
Please RSVP to book your place in one of our exclusive styling workshops at estate@addvaldevelopments.com.au.
CELLAR DOOR
Cellar Door is a wine market for Canberra’s wonderful wine scene happening every Saturday from 3-6 pm. Buy wines from local makers every Saturday afternoon in the iconic Nishi Grand Stair, NewActon Precinct.
Grab a souvenir glass, taste the latest drops, and buy at cellar door prices.
Wine stalls rotate each week with complementing stalls like flowers, cheese, chocolate and books.
Make a day of it with a film at Palace Electric Cinema and NewActon’s leading food and drink destinations.
Happening every Saturday from 3-6 pm on the Nishi Grand Stair, inside the Nishi Building, Philip Law Street, NewActon.
See the website for more details.
BEERGUSTATION AT PIALLIGO ESTATE
With 8 superb craft beers from BentSpoke Brewing all matched especially with delicious meals from the Pialligo Estate kitchen… it’s a food and beer match made in heaven.
Arrive with your friends and find a seat on long tables at the fabulous new Pialligo Fields while enjoying the views over the Canberra skyline as the sunsets – the makings for the perfect Saturday!
You’ll spend some time with BentSpoke beer wizard, owner, co-founder and Head Brewer, Richard Watkins, and our Pialligo Estate Head Chef as they explain the beer and food flavours and why they are paired together.
Included in the experience, BentSpoke will be showcasing a number of their most famous brews.
Happening Saturday 8 February from 6 pm to 9 pm at Pialligo Estate, 18 Kallaroo Road, Pialligo.
See tickets.myguestlist.com.au for more information and booking.
EYE TO EYE
Credit: Miranda Otto, 1997, Montalbetti+Campbell
Eye to Eye is a summer Portrait Gallery Collection remix arranged by degree of eye contact – from turned away with eyes closed all the way through to right-back-at-you – as we explore artists’ and subjects’ choices around the direction of the gaze. The progression of visages is designed to prompt the senses, tapping into the endless subjectivity of being human.
Where one viewer sees a subject’s distant stare as baleful, another perceives a fatalistic cheer; here’s a face in three quarter profile pondering past triumphs, or perhaps you sense a layer of barely-there regret? Does the full stare with smouldering countenance shock or seduce, or is it a bit of both?
Whether sparking familiarity, empathy, diffidence or reverence, our summer collection show invites you to slow down – to see eye to eye with another life and imagine that lived experience. Eye to Eye features portraits of Natalie Imbruglia, Kev Carmody, Miranda Otto, David Williamson, a marble bust of Peter Garrett and many more, including several works new to the collection.
Happening until 16 February 2020 at the National Portrait Gallery.
See portrait.gov.au/exhibitions/eye-to-eye-2019 for more information.
AMANDA PALMER: THERE WILL BE NO INTERMISSION
Amanda Palmer’s third solo LP, There Will Be No Intermission is the multi-faceted artist’s most powerful and personal collection to date, with songs that tackle the big questions: life, death, grief and how we make sense with it all.
Somber yet exultant, There Will Be No Intermission presents still more dimensions to Amanda Palmer’s already voluminous talent, once again confirming her as a master songwriter at the height of considerable power.
This one-of-a-kind artist has miraculously moulded humour, tears, confession, and naked personal pain into a matchless piece of work that could very well have been morose and gloomy but is, instead, deeply relatable, healing and inspiring.
The touring show itself will feature Palmer on solo piano and ukulele, with no band accompaniment; a night of graphic, honest, and funny storytelling.
Happening Friday 7 September at the Canberra Theatre Centre, London Circuit, Canberra City.
See canberratheatrecentre.com.au for more information.
THIS WEEK’S OPEN HOMES
If you’re hunting for your dream home, weekends are the perfect time to browse. We’ve rounded up six of this week’s hottest Open Homes from across Canberra, thanks to Zango, Canberra’s locally owned listing site.
3 Parkin Street TORRENS
Updated one-level home in a desirable location
Sitting on an expansive block of approximately 742sqm in a quiet street, yet centrally located just a short stroll away from shops, schools and transport, this striking home forms part of your own private residential pocket within one of Woden’s most desirable suburbs.
OPEN HOME: Saturday 8 February | 12.30 pm – 1.15 pm | 3 Parkin Street, Torrens
See it here on Zango
19 Bailey Crescent GOOGONG
4 Bedroom Family Home in Ideal Location
This outstanding family home boasts great north orientation to the living areas and kitchen, and an excellent floor plan.
OPEN HOME: Saturday 8 February | 12.30 pm–1 pm | 19 Bailey Crescent, Googong, NSW
See it here on Zango
7 Foy Street FORDE
Private and Peaceful!
This is an executive residence that puts you within easy reach of all the benefits that Forde offers.
OPEN HOME: Saturday 8 February | 11-11.30 am | 7 Foy Street, Forde
See it here on Zango
25 Macalister Crescent, CURTIN
Modern Family Living
This wonderful family home was incredibly well thought out in the planning stages with flexibility in the floorplan, wonderful flow from the indoors to the alfresco area and fabulous attention to detail.
OPEN HOME: Saturday 8 February | 10 am-10.40 am | 25 Macalister Crescent, Curtin
See it here on Zango
22 Crace Street, WEETANGERA
Every Now and Then…
This classic family home, circa 1970, on a 1386m2 block with leafy established gardens, has been meticulously cared for and tastefully renovated by its current owners, and offers separate formal and casual entertaining spaces indoors and alfresco, as well as dual living potential.
OPEN HOME: Saturday 8 February | 10 am-10.30 am | 22 Crace Street, Weetangera
See it here on Zango
72/29 Jimmy Little Street, MONCRIEFF
Discerning Executive Townhouse
Showcasing a modern stylishly designed four bedroom three bathroom executive townhouse, immaculately finished and presented inside and out, this property will appeal to a multitude of buyers and is sure to impress all those who inspect.
OPEN HOME: Saturday 8 February | 10.30 am-11.15 am | 72/29 Jimmy Little Street, Moncrieff
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