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!
HERCANBERRA ACTIVE DAY
HerCanberra’s ACTIVE Day is back—presented by the First Ever BMW X2—and to say that we’re excited is a slight massive understatement.
Once again, we’ve joined with some of Canberra’s best studios, instructors and experts to bring you a day bursting with all things health, fitness, and wellness.
Last year we held our inaugural event at The Social Club, and had so many ladies (and men) join us that we were practically spilling down the tiled steps into Green Square! This time around we’ve moved to the ANU Pop-Up Village—which means more space for you, more healthy food options, and some special new additions.
THIS SUNDAY, HEAD ALONG FOR:
- 10.15 – 11 am: Kitten Yoga presented by Flossie’s Kitten Rescue and SOULution Yoga. Click here for tickets.
- 11.15 am – 12 pm: Hip Hop New 2 Dance with Dance Central. Click here for tickets.
- 12 – 1 pm: Cooking demonstration at Coffee Lab. Click here for tickets.
- 1 – 1.45 pm: Project Strength and Conditioning with Project Fitness. Click here for tickets.
- 2 – 2.45 pm: CODE PEACH with Nicole Leadbeatter. Click here for tickets.
- 3 – 3.45 pm: Mindful Relax – Meditation Class with Deanne Brennan. Click here for tickets.
FUEL UP
Get ready to fuel your day with Pop Up vendors like Brodburger, Tikka Stand, What the Pho, MOLO Live, Zambreros and more! Read the full list here.
TREAT YO’ SELF
We know that health is about more than just fitness—which is why we’ve got a whole bunch of offerings to get you feeling good from the inside out. With such a huge line-up of classes to get you sweating, your muscles will no doubt cry for some TLC. Soothe them with Evolve Yoga’s free massage tasters, or stop in at Myogen for a free massage or Normatec recovery session.
If it’s retail therapy you’re after, you can shop for activewear from Canberra labels including Fuerza Apparel and Girls Sweat Too. If you’ve been dying to check out the gorgeous new Beautique by Jessica Peris but haven’t made it out yet, you can get the glitter treatment on site.
Happening Sunday 29 April from 10 am – 4 pm at the ANU Pop U, ANU Campus, Acton.
Tickets and more information via Eventbrite.
STYLE AND BEAUTY WITH JESINTA FRANKLIN
This Saturday Jesinta Franklin will feature in a special Canberra Centre Q&A event to discuss all things fashion and beauty this upcoming season.
Not only will you enjoy advice from Australian fashion icon—Jesinta—you’ll be treated to cocktails and canapes on arrival, one on one style advice from Canberra Centre’s in-house stylist Fiona Keary, a complimentary pamper session at the beauty bar and a gift bag.
Happening Saturday 28 April from 11.30 am – 1 pm at Canberra Centre.
For more information and to secure a ticket for a perfect weekend treat, visit www.canberracentre.com.au.
HENRY ROLLAND PARK OPENING
West Basin’s newest park, on the edge of Lake Burley Griffin, will officially open on Saturday 28 April – let’s celebrate!
Spend your Saturday enjoying live music, games and activities and food and drinks as you take in the surrounds.
The new park, which is connected to the lake by a 150m long boardwalk, has lawn areas, picnic and barbeque facilities, exercise equipment and more than 23,000 plants.
Canberra Urban Adventures, GoBoat Canberra, Girls Sweat Too, Project Fitness and Dragon Boat ACT Clubs including Diamond Phoenix, Dragon Flyers and NAVMAT (visit bact.com.au) will all be there to help celebrate with activities for you to try.
String Elephants, Chicago Charles, Guac , Eleanor Ailie and Bill Olson will be providing live entertainment right throughout the day.
Henry Rolland Park is located in West Basin, adjacent to Barrine Drive. Walk or cycle to the park and take in the 150m long boardwalk.
If catching the bus, hop off along Commonwealth Avenue at Regatta Point.
Alternatively, there is plenty of public parking available near the park, adjacent to Barrine Drive and Commonwealth Avenue. Come and enjoy a day at the lake and see Canberra’s newest park for yourself.
Happening Saturday 28 April from 10 am to 4 pm at Henry Rolland Park, Barrine Drive, Acton.
THE CANBERRA INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL
Mary Finsterer By William Hall.
Ten days of expertly curated music performed by internationally celebrated artists, with thought-provoking conversations and culinary surprises on the side – that’s the Canberra International Music Festival.
From Beowulf to Bach and Bernstein, the 2018 Festival unfurls a broad canvas around Canberra this Autumn: 23 ticketed concerts, site specific events, musical walks and free sessions confirm Canberra’s renown as a top destination.
See the city in all its seasonal beauty and experience masterpieces on period instruments, delve into the great epics of the past and discover the music of our time in new ways.
Happening 27 April – 6 May at various locations across Canberra.
Find more information via the website.
DUTCH FOOD AND CULTURE FESTIVAL
Enjoy food, drink and performances at the Dutch Food and Culture Festival in the Albert Hall on the last Sunday of April 2018.
An amazing and free event on Sunday 29 April 2018 for all of Canberra alike, not just the Dutchies!
Enjoy Dutch food, drinks, culture, games, music & fun from the Netherlands. You don’t have to be Dutch to wear orange!
Happening Sunday 29 April from 9.30 am – 4 pm at Albert Hall, Commonwealth Avenue, Yarralumla.
Find more information on the website: www.oranjefeestcanberra.org.
BLANC DE BLANC
From the acclaimed creative minds behind Madonna’s recent Rebel Heart tour Blanc de Blanc is the sell-out sensation, delighting audiences from Sydney Opera House to London’s West End. Now it’s Canberra’s turn for a seductive, immersive and naughty night out inside the Fortuna Spiegeltent.
Blanc de Blanc serves a blend of vintage glamour, high-end spectacle and titillating acts to infatuate, illuminate and delight. Bringing the finest cabaret and acrobatic talent from around the world into a wild, shimmering night – anticipate big moves, great tunes, lots of skin, and more than a few surprises.
Blanc de Blanc is the headline show of Spiegeltent Canberra presented by Strut & Fret in association with Canberra Theatre Centre. The full Spiegeltent Canberra program, featuring some of the best nationally and internationally touring cabaret, comedy, can be found here.
Happening from 26 April – 20 May at the Fortuna Spiegletent , Canberra Theatre Centre.
Find more information here.
Franco’s Hair Salon joins the effort against domestic violence
Franco’s Hair Salon, L’Oreal, and the White Ribbon Capital Region Committee are getting together to address domestic violence in the Canberra community.
The group are partnering to raise awareness and funds, all while giving survivors and the community a pampering.
When you think about it, we tell our Hairdressers everything. These chats are more-often-than-not light-hearted and a good chance to get a load off our chests. Franco’s hairdressers will receive guidance from White Ribbon Australia and Karinya House on spotting signs a client might be suffering domestic violence as well as referral points in Canberra to help anyone they might identify.
Franco’s are also opening their new salon to the whole community to help raise funds for White Ribbon’s vital primary prevention initiatives and education programs right here in the Canberra region.
You’re invited to get a treatment and blowdry at their new Salon in the Sydney Building 15 East Row in Civic from 10 am to 5 pm Sunday 29 April.
You can pay what you like with all proceeds going to White Ribbon Australia.
Bookings are essential on 6249 7991.
SHORT+SWEET THEATRE CANBERRA
Short+Sweet is a 10-minute play festival. Thirty 10 minute plays, more than half written by people from the ACT and Capital Region, are produced and performed by local performing artists over a two week run at the Canberra Theatre Centre.
Come along to see Canberra’s creatives at their best. Professional writers, directors and actors take their place alongside our enthusiastic and talented amateurs to impress the judges and their mums.
And the best thing is, if you don’t like what you’re seeing you never have to wait more than 10 minutes for the next play to start!
Top 20 Week 1: 17-20 April, 7:30 pm
Wildcards: 21 April, 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm
Top 20 Week 2: 24-27 April, 7:30 pm
Gala Final: 28 April, 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm
Happening Tuesday 17 April–Saturday 28 April at Courtyard Studio, Canberra Theatre Centre, 188 London Circuit, Canberra City. Tickets between $25.00–$30.00.
Check out the website for more information.
PLUS500 BRUMBIES V CRUSADERS
The defending Super Rugby Champions, and eight times title holders, Crusaders provide the opposition for the Plus500 Brumbies at GIO Stadium for what is sure to be one of the highlights of the Super Rugby Calendar.
The New Zealanders, replete with a stack of All Blacks talent, are sure to provide entertaining opposition, with the Brumbies often enjoying exceptional battles against their trans-Tasman foes.
This fixture will see Brumbies co-captain win his 100th Brumbies Super Rugby cap, becoming only the twelfth player in the entire history of the club to do so. Carter will join an elite group of centurions on matchday.
Always a tremendous encounter, the Brumbies and Crusaders have fought many epic battles down the years and will clash again as the club recognisees the important part that the armed forces play in Australia with its themed ‘Military Round’.
Come early to see local club sides RMC and ADAF meet in the curtain-raiser with the two Military Academies likely to provide an entertaining matchleading into the main event between the Brumbies and the Crusaders at 7.45pm.
Tickets available online.
MEETING MOZART
Your kids will laugh with delight as they join pianist Simon Tedeschi, Michelle Doake (as Mrs Mozart) and a string quintet in exploring and learning about classical instruments through popular Mozart pieces. From variations on Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star through to his great orchestral pieces including Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Turkish March (Rondo alla Turca) and music from The Magic Flute, your kids will have so much fun with Mozart’s masterpieces, they won’t even realise they are learning!
The show is followed by an informal and relaxed meet and greet in the foyer where your kids can get up-close with the string instruments. More information and tickets available here.
Happening Saturday 28 April from 10 – 11 am at Canberra Theatre Centre.
Find more information via the website.
SHOWTIME SATURDAYS PRESENTS HOT VEGAS AT CASINO CANBERRA
Get your glam on, Showtime Saturdays are back!
Showtime Saturdays presents Hot Vegas at Casino Canberra. Experience three shows a night with a range of vocalists, dancers, and specialty duos.
Happening Saturday 28 April at Casino Canberra, 21 Binara Street, City. Catch the performances at 9 pm, 10 pm and 11 pm.
CANBERRA AND REGION HERITAGE FESTIVAL
The 2018 Canberra and Region Heritage Festival will be 16 days of celebration for the region’s Aboriginal, historic and natural heritage.
The theme for 2018 is ‘My Culture, My Story’. Go and explore, celebrate, share and preserve your cultural heritage. The festival will be focusing on what makes a place special by sharing the strength of cultural identities. With over 100 events, most free, you can enjoy tours, open days, dances, talks, dinners, markets and more.
Hear the stories and celebrate intangible cultural expression of dance, costume, music, poetry, storytelling, traditional games and handicrafts.
The festival raises awareness to the ongoing need to conserve the region’s natural, historic and Aboriginal heritage.
Happening from Saturday 14 until Sunday 29 April at various venues.
Visit the website for more information.
CARTIER: THE EXHIBITION
Cartier Paris. Crocodile necklace 1975 special order, gold, yellow diamonds, emeralds, rubies 30 and 27.3 cm (length each) Collection Cartier © Cartier Photo Nils Herrmann Made as a special order for María Félix.
Cartier: The Exhibition is a breathtaking display of some of the world’s most exquisite jewels, featuring items from royal families, celebrities and the astonishing Cartier collection showing exclusively at the National Gallery of Australia.
Immerse yourself in over 300 spectacular items, including royal tiaras, necklaces, brooches and earrings.
Never before have so many incredible diamonds, pearls, sapphires, emeralds and other precious stones been seen in Australia. Highlights include the Queen’s ‘Halo’ tiara worn by Kate Middleton at her wedding to Prince William, Princess Grace of Monaco’s 10.48 carat diamond engagement ring, Dame Elizabeth Taylor’s diamond and ruby necklace, Dame Nellie Melba’s diamond stomacher brooch, and a selection from the NGA’s exceptional Ballets Russes costumes.
Step into the dazzling world of the Maison Cartier and its clients to discover concepts of glamour throughout the 20th century, accompanied by our rich program of talks, tours and events and Cartier: The Exhibition catalogue.
Cartier: The Exhibition is on show at the NGA, exclusive to Canberra.
Happening Friday 30 March until Sunday 22 July at the National Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place East, Parkes.
See the website for more information.
SPIEGELTENT
Photography: Jacinta Oaten
Starting this month, Spiegeltent Canberra will be set up in Civic Square, featuring some of the best nationally and internationally touring cabaret, comedy, music and dance shows around.
The highlight performance of the program comes from the acclaimed creative minds behind Madonna’s recent Rebel Heart tour. BLANC de BLANC is a sell-out sensation, delighting audiences from Sydney Opera House to London’s West End. Now it’s Canberra’s turn for a seductive, immersive and naughty night out inside the Fortuna Spiegeltent.
BLANC de BLANC is happening on select dates from Thursday 26 April- Sunday 20 May. See the website for ticketing and more information on this stand out show.
The Spiegeltent will also be hosting a whole array of other outstanding performances that are not to be missed! The full program can be viewed on Spiegeltent’s website.
Spiegeltent is happening from Thursday 26 April- Sunday 20 May at Civic Square, London Circuit.
AUSDANCE ACT PRESENTS ‘DANCE WEEK’
Ausdance ACT are celebrating Australian Dance Week with a host of celebrations, classes and events. Dance week is held from Sunday 29 April to Sunday 6 May.
The highlight of the week falls on International Dance Day with Big Dance. Big Dance commissions acclaimed choreographers to create a work that can be performed by anyone in the world, through online tutorials and community workshops. Big Dance engages thousands of people with one unifying choreographic piece, performed across local regional and metropolitan communities. The 2018 Big Dance routine includes versions to suit a variety of capabilities and circumstances, including standing, seated and suggestions on adapting the choreography for different abilities.
Big Dance is happening on Sunday 29 April from 2:30-3pm at the National Portrait Gallery, King Edward Terrace, Parkes.
See the website for bookings and more information.
For more information on all the events on offer for Dance Week (29 April- 6 May), visit Ausdance ACT’s facebook.
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.
CHINESE HIGH TEA AT NATURAL NINE
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.
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