The Weekend Edit
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What’s on in Canberra this weekend? Our Weekend Edit has you covered.
As our city springs back to life, there’s no shortage of great events around town. In search of inspiration? Look no further—we’ve curated a selection of our favourite things to do.
Food & Wine
Taste Local Festival at Canberra Centre
The Taste Local festival is a month-long celebration of local producers and talents at Canberra Centre. Enjoy unique experiences of blending workshops, tasting adventures, masterclasses, live music and more.
Pop-Up bars
Every Friday evening throughout the month of May enjoy a complimentary drink and nibbles in Canberra Centre’s cosy set-up before finishing your late-night shopping in the centre.
This evening fgrom 5pm to 8pm, you can sip on a local wine or a freshly made cocktail and relax in their exclusive pop-up bar while enjoying live music from local artists.
Workshops
This weekend’s workshops will focus on wine and cheese pairing—learn the art of perfectly pairing a wonderful glass of wine with a moreish piece of cheese.
The Tallagandra Hill Winery Matching Wines With Special Moments Workshop will run on Saturday 22 May from 2-3 pm and The Gallagher Wines – Wine and Cheese Pairing Workshop will run on Sunday 23 May from 2 – 3 pm.
Visit canberracentre.qicgre.com for more information.
Books
Irma Gold in conversation at Muse
The Breaking by Canberra’s Irma Gold is sharply observed and richly vivid—an intensely moving story about the magnetic bond between two young women and the enduring cost of animal exploitation. It is at once devastating and exhilarating, and ultimately transformative.
Get along to Muse in Kingston at 3 pm this Sunday 23 May to hear Irma Gold in conversation with Sarah St Vincent Welch.
Read our interview with Irma here.
Tickets available from musecanberra.com.au.
Exhibitions
FIORI, NUDI E ACQUA
Internationally acclaimed fine art and fashion photographer, Canberra’s Lori Cicchini presents Fiori, Nudi e Acqua, a collection of works embellishing the beauty of florals, nudes and water.
Cicchini’s solo show is the largest body of work she has produced for one show. Her ethereal works, from nudes literally floating in water or nestled in nature to floral vanitas still lifes, celebrate the fleeting fragility of beauty. They reflect birth, death and rebirth, asher bodies shed their skin to metamorphosise like chrysalis.
Showing at Grainger Gallery until 6 June | graingergallery.com.au
Markets
World Bee Day at the Capital Region Farmers Market
Canberra’s Capital Region Farmers Market is gathering its worker bees for what will be a buzzing hive of activity to celebrate World Bee Day.
The Market will celebrate this Saturday 22 May 2021 with bee-friendly displays and exhibitions, honey and bee themed food created by Market producers, a display of hives, native plants, flowers and their growers, local and regional honey producers, and information to help educate people on how they can help contribute to saving our bees.
Get along to Exhibition Park in Canberra between 7 am – 11.30 am. Find out more at capitalregionfarmersmarket.com.au.
Dance
QL2’s Rebel
REBEL is QL2 Dance’s major project for 2021 for its Quantum Leap ensemble.
As our world is transformed dramatically and events are unfolding that had been foretold but the warnings unheard, how do we find the way forward? Who will lead us all? We have looked for answers and inspiration in our past, in this era when activism brought deep changes in the world and reflected on the present, on the how and when and what. REBEL.
Choreographed by Ruth Osborne, Steve Gow, Jack Ziesing and Jodie Farrugia and showing until Saturday 22 May at Canberra Theatre Centre.
Information and tickets from canberratheatrecentre.com.au.
Stage
Rope
A brilliantly tense play from the author of Gaslight, which was performed by REP in 2016. Believing themselves to be intellectually superior to their contemporaries, two flatmates murder their friend purely to see if they can get away with it. They then throw a cocktail party, serving food from the top of the trunk where they have hidden his body. Tension and suspicions increase as the evening wears on.
Showing 20 May – 5 June at Canberra REP Theatre. More information and tickets from canberrarep.org.au.
Music
Phish and Phreaks: Drag Takeover
Every Drag Takeover is bringing you a bevy of local Canberran Drag Queens, Drag Kings and queer talent with and multiple stunning performers appearing at every show.
What sickening tricks will the stunning kings, queens, and deities pull to celebrate? Well, you’ll have to come and see for yourself!
Happening Saturday 22 May at The Boardwalk Bar & Nightclub, 114 Emu Bank, Belconnen.
See phishandphreak.com for more information.
Sport
Raiders v Storm
GIO Stadium is the place to be when the defending premiers, the Melbourne Storm, roll into town to take on the Canberra Raiders.
The Green Machine will be desperate to get one up on the Storm after they were knocked out in the Preliminary Finals in 2020, while the Storm will be looking to continue their dominance into 2021.
It’s on this Saturday 22 May from 7.35–9.30 pm—visit raiders.com.au for more information.
For a good cause
EQ COVID Fundraiser for India
EQ Cafe & Lounge is hosting a COVID fundraiser for the families of Indian COVID victims. 100% of the proceeds from food and beverage sales on the evening will be donated to charity, Sanjivani Health and Relief Committee.
Book a table and show your support for this one-night-only, very special event which will be held from 5-9 pm on Saturday 22 May at EQ Cafe & Lounge.
Tickets are only $40 per person for an Indian buffet dinner. Drinks can be purchased on the night, with 100% of bar sales also going to the charity, Sanjivani Health and Relief Committee.
