DC TIMEOUT: JUNE
What is going on?
Nocturne: An Immersive Journey
Until May 17th
Explore Sydney with recordings from a group of First Nations guides on this immersive walk around The Rocks and Walsh Bay.
You’ll be given a smartphone and headphones before the Nocturne team sends you off into The Rocks and Walsh Bay.
A group of First Nations guides will speak to you throughout your 90-minute walk via a series of recordings, telling you where to go while sharing stories about their culture, history and the local area.
LOCATION: Sydney
Here Now
June 11th
A brand spanking new food and wine festival is going down as part of Vivid Sydney this year – and you are not going to want to miss it. Created by P&V co-owner and booze legend Mike Bennie, Chat Thai’s Palisa Anderson, and Jake Smyth and Kenny Graham of Mary’s, Here Now is a celebration of a the good things in life – food, drinks, music and art.
The full-to-the-brim line-up will see Sydney’s top restaurants and chefs, alongside winemakers, brewers, distillers and producers from around NSW come together for one mighty day.
LOCATION: Macquarie Place Park, Sydney
100 Canberra
Until July 2nd
An intergenerational initiative presented by Embraced; The Centenarian Portrait Project by Teenagers has introduced 465 hundred-year-olds to 465 teenage artists from all walks of life across all corners of Australia.
Join the Belconnen Arts Centre in celebrating 100 of these relationships through portraits created and insights shared. Discover important stories and be inspired to deepen your own intergenerational connections.
LOCATION: Generator Gallery, Canberra
Canberra International Music Festival
Until May 7th
The Canberra International Music Festival presents a 10-day festival of classical and contemporary art music in May each year, with programming unique to the national capital.
With memorable, inspiring and thought-provoking music, the 2023 Canberra International Music Festival paints a musical portrait of our contemporary world. Through the magic of music, the Festival invites its audience to find to the child inside all of us.
LOCATION: Various Locations
Queen Victoria Night Markets
June 7th - August 30th
The Queen Vic Market’s famed sheds will transform into a winter wonderland complete with hot bevvies, open fires and live entertainment.
Mark your calendars and grab your warmest winter woollies, Melburnians: the Queen Vic Market’s beloved Winter Night Market is back. You can spend cosy Wednesday evenings enjoying live entertainment, huddling around open fires and feasting on goodies from a selection of global street food stalls, carts, trucks and festival bars.
LOCATION: Queen Victoria Markets, Melbourne