Tuesday 12 March 2019

Victoria - An event everyday in March

Melbourne International Comedy Festival
March 12
Love, Immigration Museum
Developed in partnership with Heide Museum of Modern art, Love combines visual art, historic and contemporary artefacts, and personal reflections from the community and visitors to explore love in all its joyous, illogical, heart-breaking and tender glory.
March 13
Formula 1® Season Launch, Federation Square
To mark the start of the 2019 FIA Formula 1 World Championship, Melbourne will play host to the inaugural season launch event.
Hosted by Formula 1®, Federation Square will come alive with the free extravaganza as all 20 drivers, 10 Team Principals and with legends of the sport participate in the live stage show, bringing the heroes of Formula 1® to the public for the first time in the sport’s history.
March 14
Opening Night, Melbourne Queer Film Festival
Film lovers united for the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, with Matt Bomer to star in opening film, Papi Chulo.
Director John Butler (Handsome Devil, MQFF 2016) has created a funny, tender and surprising comedy that brims with compassion and empathy, providing a much-needed anecdote to the division and hate that is so prevalent in the current political landscape.
March 15
Mornington Peninsula World’s Longest Lunch, Melbourne Food and Wine Festival
At the Mornington Peninsula Regional World’s Longest Lunch, guests will wine and dine amongst the vines of Montalto Vineyard and Olive Grove with a long lunch presented by Montalto chef Gerald Phelan and Jackalope Hotel's executive chef Guy Stanaway.

Enjoy a sensational three-course menu showcasing the best of the Peninsula's produce, with canapés on arrival and matched wines from Montalto Estate and Willow Creek Vineyard.
March 16
The Village Feast, Melbourne Food & Wine Festival
The perfect dose of fun, The Village Feast is the day trip of dreams. A day pass delivers entry to The Village Feast, where multiple pop-up stalls will line the streets offering exceptional food, drink and produce (for purchase) complemented by entertainment including a town fair for kids, competitions and live music.
It’s the ultimate playground for the world's biggest stars. Watch as the fastest cars in the world tear up the Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit at the 2019 season opener. Lewis Hamilton will start his world championship defence in Melbourne, as Australia's very own Daniel Ricciardo vies for a podium spot in his hotly anticipated first race for Renault Sport.
March 18
Tudors to Windsor, Bendigo Art Gallery
Tudors to Windsors traces the history of the British monarchy through the outstanding collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London. This exhibition highlights major events in British (and world) history from the sixteenth century to the present, examining the ways in which royal portraits were impacted by both the personalities of individual monarchs and wider historical change.
March 19
The Krystyna Campbell-Pretty Fashion Gift, National Gallery of Victoria
Featuring designers from Charles Frederick Worth, the celebrated father of haute couture, to the iconoclastic Alexander McQueen, the exhibition includes over 200 garments and archive works from the extensive fashion research collection comprising hundreds of designers’ sketches; workbooks; photographs; and fashion magazines, journals and periodicals from the early nineteenth century onwards.
Empire is Australia’s internationally renowned artist Rone’s most ambitious takeover yet.
Set amongst the decaying glory of art deco mansion, Burnham Beeches in Victoria’s stunning Yarra Ranges, it is a multi-sensory experience — part exhibition, part installation, part Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality experience that combines art, vision, sound, light, botanical design and scent.
AFL
March 21
Richmond v Carlton, Melbourne Cricket Ground
More than 95,000 fans are set to descend on the famed Melbourne Cricket Ground as Australian rules football returns to its spiritual home for yet another huge season that culminates with the Grand Final on that one day in September.
March 22
Collingwood v Geelong, Melbourne Cricket Ground
The road to redemption after a heartbreaking Grand Final loss begins for Collingwood at the Melbourne Cricket Ground as the black and white take on the Geelong Cats.
March 23
Opening Night, Muriel’s Wedding
One of Australia’s most iconic films comes to the stage at Her Majesty’s Theatre, as moving on from Porpoise Spit becomes a big, brash and cheeky musical.
March 24
Fromage a Trois Cheese Festival, Melbourne Food and Wine Festival
Set in the stunning surrounds of Werribee Park Mansion on the final day of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival, Fromage a Trois Cheese Festival will take visitors from farm gate to picnic blanket, with the best in artisan cheese and local produce.
Made especially for The Australian Ballet by Alexei Ratmansky, the world’s most in-demand choreographer, this Cinderella has all the elements of the story we know and love – a feisty heroine, a dashing prince, a kindly godmother and a deliciously wicked stepmother – with some fantastical additions.
March 26
Sidney Nolan Ned Kelly Series, Geelong Gallery
For the first time in 15 years, the National Gallery of Australia’s collection of Sidney Nolan’s ‘Ned Kelly’ paintings is touring Australia in its entirety. The national tour gives Australians across the country the chance to experience some of the most famous and poignant masterpieces of 20th century Australian art.
March 27
Opening Gala, Melbourne International Comedy Festival
The city will light up with laughs when the Melbourne International Comedy Festival takes over town! For three and a half weeks, Melbourne will be the nation’s hive of happiness, injecting all-day, all-night infectious fun to the city.
March 28
Hannah Gadsby: Douglas, Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Hannah Gadsby thinks Douglas is the only one who can help her follow up on the trail blazed by her last show: Nanette. But before she takes the mysterious offering for a trot around the world, the Australian comedienne is coming home to take him off leash for a world premiere.
The Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show returns with new Presenting Sponsor Lawn Solutions Australia, the country’s largest network of turf specialists.

This year, visitors will experience the 2019 Welcome Garden by Mark Browning, Landscape Design Show Gardens from Australia’s biggest names and a hub of activity in the Royal Exhibition Building’s Gallery Precinct.
March 30
Escher x Nendo - Between Two Worlds, National Gallery of Victoria
Escher x Nendo, Between Two Worlds, is a ground-breaking exhibition that features the work of Dutch artist M. C. Escher in dialogue with the work of acclaimed Japanese design studio nendo.
March 31
Darren Sylvester, Ian Potter Centre at NGV Australia
Darren Sylvester: Carve a Future, Devour Everything, Become Something is the Melbourne-based contemporary artist’s first large-scale solo exhibition in a public institution.
Bringing together works spanning the entire twenty years of his career, this exhibition is a timely and unique opportunity to review Sylvester’s practice and reveals his continued discussions on desirability, authenticity and mortality, all presented in a high-gloss finish.

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