The Weekend Edit
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Your essential guide to what’s on in Canberra this weekend!
Every Monday for more than seven 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… Here are the things you shouldn’t miss!
CANBERRA FASHION MARKET
Discover new and pre-loved fashion at the Canberra Fashion Market, including designer labels and a wide range of styles for women, men, teens and kids. Fashion, shoes, bags, jewellery, accessories and beauty products are on hand. Market goers have uncovered major national and international brands, including Kate Spade, Jimmy Choo, Guess, Dior, Jimmy Choo, Manolo Blahnik, Guess, Ralph Lauren, Decjuba, Kookai, Country Road and Witchery.
Support a sustainable lifestyle and help reduce waste by recycling quality, stylish fashion that’s too good to discard. You’ll also uncover interesting collectables. The Canberra Fashion Market (formerly Fash ‘n’ Treasure) has been around for 20 years, and with good reason. Food and coffee available.
Visit the yummy cupcake stand. Bring the kids and Plenty of free parking and public transport available. Only eight minutes from the city. $3 entry fee (kids under 12 free).
Held indoors and protected from the weather. New stallholders can apply on www.canberramarkets.net.au.
Happening Saturday 11 August from 10 am – 3 pm at Exhibition Park in Canberra.
See the website for more information.
TASTE OF TWO REGIONS 2018
Taste of Two Regions is back again this year to bring the wine and food of two magnificent regions to Canberra.
King Valley and Rutherglen, located side by side in North East Victoria, are known for innovative wine styles and excellent produce.
King Valley Prosecco Road sidles alongside Rutherglen’s boutique Muscat and Durif cellars, in a setting of rolling hills, mountain ranges, vines, open skies and historic townships.
The festival includes an exhibition with over 200 wines to taste, masterclasses, live entertainment, picnics and platters, as well as a prosecco breakfast, Italian family lunch an alternative variety dinner.
Get up close and personal with producers, find a new favourite wine style and enjoy some excellent cuisine, as King Valley and Rutherglen come to Canberra to offer you Tastes of Two Regions.
Happening Sunday 12 August at Pialligo Estate, 18 Kallaroo Road, Pialligo.
Purchase tickets and find more information here.
CELLAR DOOR
Image via facebook.com/pg/CellarDoorCBR
Cellar Door is a new wine market for Canberra’s wonderful wine scene. 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. Capital City Soul Club are the resident DJs.
Make a day of it with a film at Palace Electric Cinema and NewActon’s leading food and drink destinations.
Happening Saturday 28 July from 2-5 pm on the Nishi Grand Stair, inside the Nishi Building, Philip Law Street, NewActon.
See Facebook for more details.
THE TRUFFLE FESTIVAL – CANBERRA REGION
Credit: Martin Ollman
Indulge in a feast of the senses and join in the fun as The Truffle Festival – Canberra Region celebrates its 10-year anniversary. Each year from June to August more than 250 individual events are held across the Canberra region showcasing the region’s fresh Black Winter Truffle.
Taste and experience the magic of these highly-prized gems. Indulge in the special flavours and aromas of truffle dishes at local restaurants and cafes. Join a hunt and see for yourself how the talented dogs unearth truffles. Learn from the chefs and other truffle experts at a cooking class or demonstration, or pop along to a market and pick up some truffle delights for yourself.
The Truffle Festival is the ultimate foodie festival, and a fabulous celebration of winter in the Canberra region.
Happening Friday 1 June–Friday 31 August at various locations around Canberra.
Check out the website for more information.
HEATH LEDGER: A LIFE IN PICTURES
Heath Ledger. Credit: Karin Catt.
Audiences around the world know and love Heath Ledger as a charismatic movie star who pushed boundaries and created iconic roles. Now they have a chance to discover Heath’s creative process and deep passion for the film industry and the visual arts, in a unique exhibition curated in collaboration with his family.
Explore a selection of film costumes and props, Heath’s own character research journals, celebrity portraits and acting awards and more. A Life in Pictures offers a rare insight into the man behind the camera.
A program of special screenings and talks will complement the exhibition
Happening 10 August 2018 – 10 Feb 2019, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, Acton.
See website for more information.
So Fine: Contemporary women artists make Australian history
Credit: The Girls, Zoe Davis and Linde Ivimey, 2018 by Linde Ivimey. Steel armatures, acrylic resin, cast and natural human, sheep turkey, fox, chicken and snake bones, earth, paper, natural fibre, dyed cotton, dyed and sewn viscera. Courtesy of Linde Ivimey.
As conceptually thrilling as it is aesthetically rich, So Fine features new works from ten women artists reinterpreting and reimagining elements of Australian history.
Forming part of the Portrait Gallery’s twentieth birthday celebrations, the exhibition enriches the contemporary narrative around Australia’s history and biography, reflecting the tradition of storytelling in our country.
So Fine’s contributing artists – of various ages and backgrounds, and hailing from different parts of Australia – have all created new works for the exhibition. Aside from gender, their common attributes are a meticulous approach to creation, driven by considered, nuanced thinking. Their works are intricate, refined and affecting objects that reconceive events, people and places from Australia’s past.
The artists involved are Shirley Purdie, Linde Ivimey, Bern Emmerichs, Leah King-Smith, Nusra Latif Qureshi, Nicola Dickson, Pamela See (Xue Mei-Ling), Fiona McMonagle, Valerie Kirk and Carol McGregor. Charged with these makers’ passionate, intensely individual takes, and incorporating themes from pre-history to the present, So Fine challenges and delights, as well as interrogating the boundaries of contemporary portraiture.
Showing until Monday 1 October at the National Portrait Gallery. See the website for more information.
THE CURIOUS FEAST – NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK
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An oasis of warmth in the midst of the Canberra winter, the Curious Feast will ease you into National Science Week with plenty of hot food and drinks along with live music to warm you from the inside.
Head to MOLO Live at ANU on a Friday night, and make an evening of it with your friends. Alongside the bar and food trucks, Canberra characters will show you where science and technology are hidden in everyday life.
Happening Friday 10 August from 6pm. See the website for more information.
CHINESE HIGH TEA AT NATURAL NINE, CASINO CANBERRA
Canberra’s only ‘pop Chinese” restaurant, Natural Nine, is holding a weekly Chinese High Tea! Not only does this High Tea bring a delicious Asian twist to the high tea experience, but it also allows you to purchase treat stands rather than pay per head. If you love high teas or modern Asian cooking than this event is a must!
One stand including tea selection for two: $35pp. One stand including Sparkling to begin and tea selection for two: $45pp.
Happening every Friday and Saturday from 2.30pm – 4.30pm at Natural Nine, Casino Canberra.
Bookings required in advance, so to book via 02 6257 7074 or online at casinocanberra.com.au.
EXHIBITION: GREYBILLY
Credit: Abigail Varney.
Named after the grey, green and cream opal found in the South Australian mining town of Coober Pedy, Greybilly brings together work by Abigail Varney (Melbourne) and Nina Baker (Sydney).
Photographs by Varney present a vivid perspective on depleting resources in Coober Pedy. Conceptual jewellery by Baker sees the transformation of disposable plastic containers into objects of beauty. Curated by Yasmin Masri, Greybilly explores the search for, and creation of, what’s precious; and the reality of finite resources.
Cost: Free
Happening 3 August – 29 September at the Nishi Gallery, 17 Kendall Lane, NewActon.
See the website for more information.
PLAY UP
Discover PlayUP – The Right to Have an Opinion and Be Heard, where kids can explore the United Nations Convention on the Rights of a Child in a playful way. Adults can even join in the fun too! From listening pods and a roleplay Kindness Café to a fuzzy felt wall and craft activities, PlayUP has a range of exciting and immersive experiences that flip the traditional idea of museums completely on its head.
See the website for more information.
Free after museum admission.
WING FESTIVAL
Tuggeranong residents are invited to come by to get to know the Wing team, learn about the trial program and order free prizes delivered by drone! All ages are welcome, with activities for kids and food and drinks provided. Happening Sunday 12 August from 11am to 2pm at Greenway Oval. Visit the website for more information.
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