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🎭 Arts & Culture This Weekend

Arts & Culture events happening this weekend in Melbourne, saturday 3 & sunday 4 october. Galleries, theatre, comedy & film.

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What They Carried: Objects of Survival

On now – 31 Jan at 10:00 AM

ElsternwickMelbourne Holocaust Museum

$13 - $18 (free on Sundays)

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The Other Side of the Mountain National Carers Week Art Exhibition

On now – 18 Oct at 9:00 AM

HeidelbergLoft 275 - Ivanhoe Library and Cultural Hub

Free

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🎭 Arts & Culture

Ghostware

On now – 10 Oct at 8:45 AM

MelbourneMeat Market Meeting Room, Fringe Festival Hub

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The Enormous Radio

Today at 12:00 PM

NewportThe Substation

$10 – $20

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🎭 Arts & Culture

Fashion Machine

Saturday

Narre WarrenBunjil Place

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She Shapes History: The Women of the Abbotsford Convent

Saturday

AbbotsfordAbbotsford Convent

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🎭 Arts & Culture

Victorian State Ballet - The Nutcracker

Saturday

Narre WarrenBunjil Place

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Exhibition Celebration for 'Stitch with Sappho' Exhibition

Saturday at 1:00 PM

MoorabbinShirley Burke Theatre

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🎭 Arts & Culture

The Wizard of OZ - Youth Edition

Saturday at 2:00 PM

DandenongDrum Theatre

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🎭 Arts & Culture

Trash Wizard

Saturday at 3:00 PM

CarltonLa Mama HQ

$10 to $50

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Registrations

Saturday at 4:00 PM

NewportThe Substation

$10 – $20

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Fringe Westside : Shadow Resonance

Saturday at 5:30 PM

FootscrayBluestone Church Arts Space, 8A Hyde St, Footscray 3011

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🎭 Arts & Culture

Trash Wizard

Saturday at 6:30 PM

CarltonLa Mama HQ

$10 to $50

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🎭 Arts & Culture

A Night with Tina

Saturday at 6:30 PM

RingwoodKarralyka Theatre

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🎭 Arts & Culture

Ivan Aristeguieta: Ready To Mambo

Saturday at 6:30 PM

FrankstonFrankston Arts Centre

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Nature: A Kaleidoscope of Colour

Saturday at 11:00 PM

SpotswoodScienceworks

Paid

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Curator's Talk - Dancing Through the Decades

Sunday at 11:00 AM

BroadmeadowsBroadmeadows Museum

$15.00

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Springtime at Villa Alba Museum: Open Day

Sunday at 1:00 PM

KewVilla Alba Museum

$18.69

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🎭 Arts & Culture

Art in Focus - NEW26

Sunday at 3:00 PM

Southbank111 Sturt St

Free

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Trash Wizard

Sunday at 4:00 PM

CarltonLa Mama HQ

$10 to $50

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Chirantan - Amare Debo Na Bhulite

Sunday at 5:00 PM

DandenongDrum Theatre

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🎭 Arts & Culture

Pity Party

Sunday at 6:00 PM

BrunswickOld Plates

$15.00