35+ things to do for an egg-cellent long weekend in Canberra
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It’s finally the Easter long weekend and our event calendar is looking egg-cellent.
Here’s everything that’s happening in Canberra, you better hop to it!
Easter Holiday fun at Canberra Outlet
Canberra Outlet is offering a range of exciting and free activities these Easter holidays!
Explore the free Easter Maze, open daily from 11 am to 2 pm outside the Lindt store. Kids and families can enjoy navigating the maze while indulging in delicious Lindt chocolate giveaways. The first 50 children to complete the Easter Maze at 11 am on select dates (Saturday 12, Sunday 13, Saturday 19, and Sunday 20 April) will receive their very own cuddly Easter Bunny plush.
For fans of the beloved animated series, SpongeBob SquarePants and Patrick Star will be making special appearances for live shows and meet and greets. From Wednesday 23 to Sunday 27 April, these iconic characters will be performing at 11am and 1pm daily outside Little Amigos. And don’t miss the extra shows on Anzac Day, with performances at 1 pm and 3 pm.
To wrap up the festivities, PLAY – The Dance Company will be putting on a showcase performance on Sunday 27 April at 3pm. Featuring a blend of dance, music, and dynamic choreography, this free performance is a perfect way to end the holiday celebrations.
Until Sunday 27 April | Canberra Outlet, Iron Knob Street, Fyshwick | Find out more here.
Easter at Marketplace Gungahlin
The kids won’t be bored with this line-up of events. From the Battle of the Bunnies – where primary school students are invited unleash their artistic talents by decorating larger-than-life Easter bunny sculptures – to making bunny masks, fairy garden jars, a mini farm and more, you’ll need to book ahead to reserve your spot in these fun and free workshops!
Make sure to check out the website to see the full program.
Until Sunday 27 April | 30 & 33 Hibberson Street, Gungahlin | More information here.
Easter Egg-citement at Corin Forest
Get ready for a long weekend full of snow, slides, and chocolate! Head to Corin Forest to take a thrilling ride on the alpine slide, hunt high and low for eggs, and experience the magic of snow before winter even arrives!
Tickets are limited, so book early before they sell out.
Until Monday 21 April | Corin Forest, 1268 Corin Road, Paddy’s River | corin.com.au
Canberra and Region Heritage Festival
This annual festival features more than 130 events to learn about Canberra’s history. This year’s theme, “Unearthed,” explores hidden treasures and untold stories, shining a light on the lesser-known histories that shape the community.
This year’s events include a self-drive guided tour to fossick for fossils, a walk at Black Mountain to unearth the lesser-known stories of its Aboriginal, historic and natural heritage, and a tour to discover stories of the women who shaped Canberra into the city it is today
Until Sunday 11 May | Various locations | environment.act.gov.au
Markets
Stamp Markets
Interested in stamps? Head along to the Stamp Markets to browse a range of items for sale from local dealers (including stamps, coins, and collectables) as well the Stamp Society’s sales table. Meet up and chat with members of the Canberra Stamp Society and find some treasures for your collection.
Saturday 19 April | Baptist Hall Kingston, 11 Currie Crescent, Kingston | canberrastamps.org
Canberra Fashion Market
Explore a bustling marketplace packed with stallholders selling new and quality pre-loved fashion, including clothing, shoes, boots, bags, jewellery and accessories. Big-name designer labels abound, with great buys available especially for early-bird shoppers.
Sunday 20 April | Fitter’s Workshop, Printers Way, Kingston | canberramarkets.net.au
Capital Region Farmers Market
Sample the region’s freshest produce from over 100 stallholders who bring freshly picked, grown and hand-crafted goods to Canberra. Speak directly with growers and learn cooking tips while supporting the Rotary Club of Hall’s community projects.
Saturdays, 7 am-11:30 am | Exhibition Park in Canberra, Mitchell | capitalregionfarmersmarket.com.au
The Little Burley Market
Enjoy this waterside Saturday market featuring multicultural cuisines, chef-created desserts, fresh pastries, beautiful blooms, handmade jewellery, artisan pottery and more. Take the kids for free arts and crafts while taking in magnificent lake views.
Saturdays, 9 am-2 pm | Queen Elizabeth Terrace, Parkes | thelittleburleymarket.com.au
Haig Park Village Markets
Browse delicious cuisines, fresh produce, artisan products and locally handmade crafts while enjoying live music, an artists’ table and family-friendly activities. It’s the perfect Sunday outing in leafy Braddon.
Sundays, 8 am – 2 pm | Haig Park, Girrahween Street, Braddon | haigparkvillagemarkets.com.au
Old Bus Depot Markets
Lovers of fine hand-crafted wares, clothing collectors, food fanatics and jewellery junkies are just a few of the people who head to Canberra’s award-winning Old Bus Depot Markets every Sunday. In a fabulous old industrial building you’ll experience the endless colour, tastes, sounds and atmosphere that is “Canberra’s Sunday Best”.
Not your average market, each week you’ll find over 200 stalls of exceptional quality, featuring items all hand-crafted by local and regional creatives. There’s simply no better way to spend your Sunday in Canberra.
Sundays, 9.30 am – 2.30 pm | 21 Wentworth Ave, Kingston | obdm.com.au
Food and Wine
Bar Beirut Seafood Feast
This Good Friday, Bar Beirut is hosting a seven-course seafood feast featuring their signature seafood hits, including zippy kingfish tarter, spiced calamari, and freshly shucked oysters with pomegranate mignonette and yogurt pearl!
Friday 18 April | Bar Beirut, 25 Garema Place, Canberra | barbeirut.com.au
Easter Saturday at Hotel Kurrajong
This Easter Saturday Hotel Kurrajong is serving high tea with a twist – it’s seafood themed.
The menu is a little different from your standard high tea offering, inviting people to book their families in for a decadent meal. Instead of cucumbers, you’ll find finger sandwiches stuffed with blue swimmer crab meat, while pulled butter-poached lobster sliders, tempura prawns, and oysters Rockefeller replace savoury tarts.
As for the sweets, they also have an assortment of irresistible treats, from chocolate-dipped strawberries to Belgian chocolate mousse tart. Add in a continuous flow of refreshing mimosas, premium teas, freshly brewed coffee, and an Easter egg hunt in the courtyard, and it’s the perfect mix of elegance and coastal indulgence.
Saturday 19 April, 12 pm – 2 pm | 8 National Circuit, Barton | Book here.
Canberra Cellar Door
Explore a thoughtfully curated selection of local wines that changes with the seasons at this pop-up in the Canberra and Region Visitor’s Centre. Taste wines from multiple local wineries, discover the stories behind regional varieties, and purchase your favorites.
Saturday 19 April | Canberra and Region Visitors’ Centre, 30 Barrine Drive, Parkes | canberracellardoor.com.au
Easter Sunday Buffet High Tea
Just in time for Easter, the Hyatt is bringing back its famous buffet High Tea! You’ll be able to indulge in dessert stations (including chocolate mud cake, chocolate trifle, strawberry cream trifle, tiramisu, and more), a live creperie station, and a Florence Gelato Pop-Up.
Little ones joining? Make sure to join the complimentary Easter Egg hunt at 3 pm!
Sunday 20 April, 11.30 am – 2.30 pm | Hyatt Hotel Canberra, 120 Commonwealth Avenue, Yarralumla | hyatt.com
Stage and Screen
Erth’s Prehistoric Picnic
Pack a picnic and prepare to get very close to your favourite ancient creatures. This outdoor show features dinosaurs and, for the first time, the towering, three-metre-tall Thunderbirds, sending the venue back to the wilderness of a distant era. It’s perfect for the whole family!
Friday 18 April | Mill Theatre at Dairy Road, Building 3.3, 1 Dairy Road, Fyshwick | ticketing.humanitix.com
The Gospel According to Paul
Jonathan Biggins portrays Paul Keating in this funny, insightful and poignant portrait of the former Prime Minister. This one-man show showcases Keating’s eviscerating wit, rich rhetoric and ego, while asking what we can learn from this singular politician.
Friday 18 April | Mill Theatre at Dairy Road, Building 3.3, 1 Dairy Road, Fyshwick | ticketing.humanitix.com
Whitefella Yella Tree
Award-winning playwright Dylan Van Den Berg has penned a heart-warming and heartbreaking story about love, Country, and Blak queerness throughout history. Set in the early 19th century, the play follows Ty (River Mob) and Neddy (Mountain Mob) as they fall in love on the brink of colonial Australia.
Saturday 19 April | Mill Theatre at Dairy Road, Building 3.3, 1 Dairy Road, Fyshwick | ticketing.humanitix.com
Rhys Darby: The Robots Are Coming
The Kiwi icon returns with a brand-new stand-up show for 2025. In a world full of AI and robot tech, can a simple dad with slightly tight jeans stay relevant? Rhys hopes to prove that right now a touch of very human silliness is more important than ever!
Saturday 19 April | Canberra Theatre Centre, London Circuit, Canberra | canberratheatrecentre.com.au
Music
The Black Blues Brothers
This is a virtuoso American-style show with a vintage “Cotton Club” charm, featuring five artists of the famous Nairobi Sarukazi school performing jumps, pyramids and unbelievable acrobatics. This blend of contemporary circus and musical comedy, paying tribute to the Blues Brothers, creates an electrifying atmosphere enhanced by an irresistible musical score.
Friday 18 April | Canberra Theatre Centre, London Circuit, Canberra | canberratheatrecentre.com.au
Australian Youth Orchestra
Join these rising classical stars for a special concert featuring a vibrant mix of iconic symphonic masterpieces and contemporary Australian works. The program includes Strauss’s “The Blue Danube,” Ann Carr-Boyd’s “Look at the Stars,” Jessica Wells’s “Uplift,” and Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.”
Saturday 19 April | Snow Concert Hall, Canberra Grammar School, 40 Monaro Cres, Red Hill | ayo.com.au
Exhibitions
BLAZE 2025
Canberra Contemporary’s eagerly awaited emerging artist showcase, BLAZE, returns to present the dynamic and diverse voices of Kamberri/Canberra’s rising creative talents.
Featuring six exciting artists at the beginning of their careers, BLAZE offers an insight into the evolving art scene of the region and exhibits bold, thought-provoking works across installation, painting, photography and sculpture.
Featuring the work of Sophia Childs, Sophie Dumaresq, Gabrielle Hall-Lomax, Emeirely Nucifora-Ryan, Brennan O’Brien and Jessika Spencer.
Until 17 April | Canberra Contemporary, 44 Queen Elizabeth Terrace, Parkes | canberracontemporary.com.au
Studio Notes
A Group Exhibition featuring Jenna Caspari, Olivia Goodbee, Jessica Guthrie, Fiona Hiscock, Sarah McGrath, Nicole Reed, Regine Schwarzer, Anne Smerdon, Kate Waanders, Madeliene Winch, Studio Notes is a celebration of the artist’s most intimate space – the studio.
This group exhibition brings together a collection of works that begin in solitude, in the quiet corners of creative practice where light falls softly across a table, objects are lovingly arranged, and time seems to bend around the act of making. Studio Notes invites you to experience these works not just as finished pieces, but as echoes of the artists’ private worlds.
Showing Thursday 17 April until Sunday 11 May | Grainger Gallery, Dairy Road, Fyshwick | Find out more here
Anne Dangar
Get lost in a world of swirls, squares, lines, and colours at the NGA’s free Anne Dangar exhibit.
This iconic Australian artist played an important part in bringing modern art to Australia in the twentieth century, and this exhibit allows locals a chance to browse her ceramics, paintings, archival material, and more in this major retrospective exhibition celebrating her life and art.
Until Sunday 27 April | National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place East, Parkes | More information here.
Ethel Carrick
The National Gallery of Australia is continuing its focus on celebrating the work of all women artists, with its major exhibition Ethel Carrick. Post-impressionist art lovers will be excited to see 140 pieces by Carrick, in the first retrospective of her work for nearly half a century.
What’s even better? Entry is free, so you can visit as many times as you want!
Until Sunday 27 April | National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place East, Parkes | More information here.
20 Years of Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
Experience the wonder of two decades of award-winning nature photography as a new exhibition opens at the National Archives of Australia. 20 Years of Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year celebrates the winning entries from each year since its inception.
Conceived in 2004 by Dr. Stuart Miller AM, the competition aims to stoke the public’s fascination with the natural world and provide a platform for emerging and established photographers alike to showcase the remarkable flora, fauna, and landscapes of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, and New Guinea.
Until Sunday 27 April | National Archives of Australia, Kings Avenue, Parkes | More information here.
Pompeii
If seeing Pompeii in Italy is on your bucket list, mark your calendars for this one! The National Museum of Australia is showing its Pompeiiexhibit, featuring over 90 discovered objects from the ancient city before Mount Vesuvius erupted. This display in Canberra will be the first time some of these objects have been seen outside Europe!
Visitors will be taken into the exhibit with an engaging atmosphere created by large-scale digital projections and captivating soundscapes. Expect to see recovered jewellery, sculptures, pottery, frescoes, and other objects once used by this civilisation.
Until Sunday 4 May | National Museum of Australia, Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula, Acton | Book here.
Constellations by Robin Fox
Constellations is an unmissable immersive audiovisual experience in which sound, light, and space collide.
Internationally recognised, Australian-based audiovisual artist Robin Fox will transform The Gallery at the NFSA into a splendour of sound and light, with sixty crystal balls suspended from the ceiling, acting as target points for white laser lights that explode and refract on impact – splitting into a colourful cornucopia of light and sound. See you there?
Until Sunday 4 May | National Film and Sound Archive of Australia, McCoy Circuit, Acton | More information here.
Mint-60
As a celebration of the 60th anniversary of the Royal Australian Mint, there is a display of never-before-seen objects from the national coin collection – including Roxie, who was Australia’s first coin packing robot. On display until 12 May, so make sure you head in to check it out!
Until Sunday 11 May | Denison Street, Deakin | ramint.gov.au
Djara
Djara reveals the profound connection between First Nations peoples, stars, sky, and Country. Through storytelling, dance, song, and a captivating audio-visual experience, this exhibition brings together leading artists, traditional custodians, and astrophysicists to share millennia-old knowledge.
Until 8 June | Canberra Museum + Gallery, City | More information here.
Beyond Measure: Expanding the Sky
Beyond Measure presents multidisciplinary artworks that challenge and expand perceptions of the cosmos. Featuring photography, installation, and digital technology, it explores our relationship with space, shaping our understanding of the universe and our place within it.
Until 8 June | Canberra Museum + Gallery, City | More information here.
Lindy Lee
Lindy Lee is one of Australia’s most accomplished contemporary artists. This exhibition brings together highlights from across the artist’s career as well as a monumental new installation and works on paper.
Exploring themes of ancestry, spirituality, the environment, and the cosmos, this display of new and recent works will shed light on Lee’s ever-evolving and ambitious practice.
Until Tuesday 1 July | National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place East, Parkes | More information here.
The Immersive World of Thom Roberts
This is the first solo exhibition for this multidisciplinary, contemporary Australian artist opens at the National Portrait Gallery. Showcasing over 100 works spanning his prolific, decade-long career, the exhibition features painting, installation and animation, as well as major new work, inviting audiences to consider the world through his eyes.
Until Sunday 20 July | National Portrait Gallery | portrait.gov.au
KULATA TJUTA: TIRKILPA
Kulata Tjuta: Tirkilpa is the largest and most significant installation of the culturally important and visually spectacular Kulata Tjuta (Many Spears) Project.
Like others in the series, it is rooted in age-old traditions, knowledge and skills that are designed around keeping Country and culture strong. On show at the National Gallery of Australia head along to see the large-scale, multi-disciplinary installations that incorporate film, sound, live performance and other artistic collaborations.
Resonance – Art as the Voice of Nature
This exhibition at the Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG) showcases art from the NatureArt Lab teaching team and community, nature journals and natural history objects collected over our eight years of operation.
Celebrating the richness of biodiversity and the deep connections between art and the natural world, the exhibition extends beyond visual art, incorporating community engagement, school programs, and international nature tours spanning Borneo, Costa Rica, the Galapagos Islands, Amazonian Ecuador, and Peru.
Until Sunday 27 July | 176 London Circuit, City | More information here.
Fit to Print: Defining Moments from the Fairfax Photo Archive selected by Mike Bowers
Showcasing the best of Australian photojournalism, the National Library has invited renowned Australian photojournalist Mike Bowers to select some of his favourite images from the Fairfax Photo Archive.
Tracing the art of photojournalism from its infancy to the highly illustrated news stories you know so well today, the free exhibition explores how the pioneers of press photography in Australia developed their storytelling skills.
Until Sunday 20 July | National Library of Australia, Parkes Place West, Parkes | More information here.
Outer Space: Stromlo to the Stars
Celebrating 100 years of Mount Stromlo Observatory, this interactive exhibition highlights groundbreaking astronomical discoveries and the vibrant community of scientists and families behind them. Features immersive installations, historical objects, and interactive activities perfect for all ages.
Until 16 November | Canberra Museum + Gallery, City | More information here.
A Total Work of Art: Sidney Nolan and the Stage
Celebrate 50 years of Nolan’s cultural legacy with the Canberra Museum and Gallery’s year-long program of exhibitions, concerts, talks, and a symposium. A Total Work of Art: Sidney Nolan and the Stage showcases Sidney Nolan’s dynamic stage designs for opera, ballet, and theatre. You’ll discover costumes, set designs, and the iconic “Lyrebird” costume from The Display, 1964.
Until 8 March 2026 | Canberra Museum + Gallery, City | More information here
Sport and Wellness
Yoga for Wellness & Joy: with Trish @ Sanctuary
Trish is committed to the collective wellbeing of all her clients and sharing the joy and benefits of Slow Flow Yoga. She is running classes at Sanctuary every Friday morning, followed by a cuppa!
No experience required. Wear loose comfortable clothing, bring a mat (if you have one), water, a small towel and a light blanket as the weather cools.
Every Friday, 7.45 am and 9.15 am | 17 Brockman St Narrabundah | Register by emailing trish@wisdominone.com.au
Workshops and Programs
Foreshore Ghosts, Tales and True Crime
Hear about the tragedies of the Railway Station, the horrors of the old mortuary, the dramas of the Causeway and true crime involving Lake Burley Griffin in this guided night walking tour of the Kingston Foreshore and Causeway!
It will throw a whole new light on this side of town.
Saturday 19 April | Norgrove Park, Eyre Street, Kingston | trybooking.com
Unearth Deep Time – Self Guided Walk
Unearth the deep past on a self-guided tour of the National Rock Garden at the National Arboretum. You will be able to touch fossils and reveal the past lives of giant clams, trilobites and corals, the inhabitants of tropical reefs that once grew in Canberra.
Plus, young explorers can follow the Treasure Map to uncover unique geological treasures!
Until Sunday 11 May | National Arboretum Canberra, Forest Drive, Molonglo | nationalarboretum.act.gov.au
