Featured Events in Melbourne in January, 2025(December Updated)

Australian Open is the first Grand Slam tennis event of the year, usually held in Melbourne Park, in January every year. Melbourne Park is a comprehensive sports center, starting from Federation Square in the center of Melbourne and only a 10-minute walk southeast along the Yarra River. The park includes venues and facilities such as Rod Laver Arena, Margaret Court Arena, and John Cain Arena. 1.Rod Laver Arena As the venue for the Australian Open men's and women's singles finals every year, Rod Laver Arena is a multi-purpose venue in Melbourne Park with a capacity of 15,500 spectators. It is the first stadium in Australia to have a retractable roof. Depending on rainy weather or extreme heat, the roof of the stadium can be closed within 20 minutes to ensure the normal conduct of games or activities. 2. Margaret Court Arena Margaret Court Stadium is one of the main venues for the Australian Open. The interior of the court is composed of wooden structures and metal fittings that resemble the trajectory of a beating tennis ball. The retractable roof can be closed in less than 5 minutes. Margaret Court Stadium has a total of 7,500 seats. The upper floors of the north and south stands and the east and west stands are in the shade, and the player boxes are reserved in the lower level of the northeast stand. 3. John Cain Arena John Cain Stadium (formerly known as Melbourne Stadium) is another multi-functional stadium in Melbourne Park. It is used as one of the main venues for the first eight days of the Australian Open. The venue can accommodate 10,500 spectators and also has a retractable roof. , the roof can be closed or opened in just 10 minutes. The three major entrances to the Australian Open: City Entrance(the closest entrance to Melbourne city center) Grand Slam Oval Club Entrance (convenient for self-driving & taxi pick-up) Garden Square Entrance(the closest entrance to the tram station)

From cattle dogs to lap dogs, divine felines to the black cats of superstition, Cats & Dogs explores humanity’s deep connection to these animals through more than 250 works of art and design. Drawn from the NGV Collection and spanning all periods and media, this exhibition of cats and dogs in art and design reveals how our domesticated companions have long been a rich source of visual imagery – from ancient history to the present day.

Explore Southside Flyers v Townsville Fire sporting information for 4th January, as well as links for Basketball tickets and more with Fixture Calendar. The Southside Flyers are a professional basketball team that competes in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) in Australia. The team was established in 2019 and quickly rose to fame, winning the championship in their inaugural season. Led by Head Coach Cheryl Chambers, the Flyers have a star-studded roster including Olympians Jenna O'Hea and Leilani Mitchell, as well as WNBA player Liz Cambage. The team plays their home games at the Dandenong Basketball Stadium, which has a seating capacity of over 3,000. In addition to their Townsville Fire6 success, the Flyers have also been recognized for their community involvement, receiving the Townsville Fire6 Community Engagement Award in 2020. With their impressive track record and talented players, the Southside Flyers are a force to be reckoned with in the Australian basketball scene. The Townsville Fire is an Australian women's basketball team that competes in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). Founded in 2009, the team has quickly become a powerhouse in the league, winning three Townsville Fire6 Championships in the past decade. The Fire is known for its strong team culture and competitive spirit, which has led to their consistent success on the court. The team boasts several talented players, including Townsville Fire6 MVP Suzy Batkovic and Australian Opals representative Cayla George. The Fire plays their home games at the Townsville Entertainment and Convention Centre, which has a capacity of 5,100 and provides an electrifying atmosphere for fans. With a strong history of achievements and a roster of talented players, the Townsville Fire is a force to be reckoned with in the world of women's basketball. Information Source: fixturecalendar.com

Explore Southside Flyers v Geelong United sporting information for 8th January, as well as links for Basketball tickets and more with Fixture Calendar. The Southside Flyers are a professional basketball team that competes in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) in Australia. The team was established in 2019 and quickly rose to fame, winning the championship in their inaugural season. Led by Head Coach Cheryl Chambers, the Flyers have a star-studded roster including Olympians Jenna O'Hea and Leilani Mitchell, as well as WNBA player Liz Cambage. The team plays their home games at the Dandenong Basketball Stadium, which has a seating capacity of over 3,000. In addition to their WNBL success, the Flyers have also been recognized for their community involvement, receiving the WNBL Community Engagement Award in 2020. With their impressive track record and talented players, the Southside Flyers are a force to be reckoned with in the Australian basketball scene. Geelong United is a professional basketball team based in Geelong, Australia. The team competes in the National Basketball League (NBL), the top-tier league in Australia. Geelong United was founded in 2011 and has quickly become a force to be reckoned with in the league. Over the years, the team has won numerous awards and competitions, including the 2015 NBL Championship. The team boasts a talented roster, including notable players such as Damian Martin and Chris Goulding. Their home games are played at the Geelong Arena, a state-of-the-art multi-purpose stadium with a seating capacity of over 8,000. Geelong United promises an exciting and competitive game every time they step onto the court. Information Source: fixturecalendar.com

Melbourne Home Show features exhibitors with fabulous ideas for consumers Melbourne Home Show features exhibitors with fabulous ideas for consumers.Here you’ll find the latest in products and services for home improvement. Visitors meet with professionals to make that next remodeling, renovation, landscaping or decorating project a big success. Information Source: Australian Exhibition Group | expotobi

Explore Southside Flyers v Townsville Fire sporting information for 31st January, as well as links for Basketball tickets and more with Fixture Calendar. The Southside Flyers are a professional basketball team that competes in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL) in Australia. The team was established in 2019 and quickly rose to fame, winning the championship in their inaugural season. Led by Head Coach Cheryl Chambers, the Flyers have a star-studded roster including Olympians Jenna O'Hea and Leilani Mitchell, as well as WNBA player Liz Cambage. The team plays their home games at the Dandenong Basketball Stadium, which has a seating capacity of over 3,000. In addition to their Townsville Fire6 success, the Flyers have also been recognized for their community involvement, receiving the Townsville Fire6 Community Engagement Award in 2020. With their impressive track record and talented players, the Southside Flyers are a force to be reckoned with in the Australian basketball scene. The Townsville Fire is an Australian women's basketball team that competes in the Women's National Basketball League (WNBL). Founded in 2009, the team has quickly become a powerhouse in the league, winning three Townsville Fire6 Championships in the past decade. The Fire is known for its strong team culture and competitive spirit, which has led to their consistent success on the court. The team boasts several talented players, including Townsville Fire6 MVP Suzy Batkovic and Australian Opals representative Cayla George. The Fire plays their home games at the Townsville Entertainment and Convention Centre, which has a capacity of 5,100 and provides an electrifying atmosphere for fans. With a strong history of achievements and a roster of talented players, the Townsville Fire is a force to be reckoned with in the world of women's basketball. Information Source: fixturecalendar.com

Djapu artist Dhambit Munuŋgurr is renowned for her innovative use of acrylic blue paint on bark. Her latest exhibition, La Terre est bleue: L’art de Dhambit Mununggurr (The Earth is Blue: The Art of Dhambit Mununggurr), is the fifth exhibition presented by the NGV to debut at the Australian Embassy in Paris. It features a new series of works on paper that reflect the cultural memories and experiences of her life in northeast Arnhem Land. This marks Munuŋgurr’s first exploration of paper as a medium, departing from her previous works on bark and board. Building on the success of past NGV exhibitions in Paris, including Blak Rainbow: L’Art de Dylan Mooney, Rituel et Cérémonie: Extrait de Mémoires Ancestrales, Gothique Blanc: Petrina Hicks, and DESTIN: L’Art de Destiny Deacon, this exciting debut exhibition introduces French audiences and international visitors to one of Australia’s most daring and inventive contemporary painters. The exhibition is presented by the Australian Embassy in Paris in partnership with the National Gallery of Victoria and Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Art Centre, and has been curated by Myles Russell-Cook, Senior Curator of Australian and First Nations Art, NGV.

Looking fifty years into the future, Reimagining Birrarung: Design Concepts for 2070 presents a series of provocations for the lands and waters of the Birrarung (Yarra River). Focusing on ecological regeneration, public access and connectivity across the catchment, this exhibition asks what it means to acknowledge a river as a living and integrated natural entity.

REKOSPECTIVE is an immersive exhibition that charts the bold and dynamic practice of renowned Kamilaroi artist, Reko Rennie. The exhibition resists a conventional chronological sequence, allowing audiences to freely navigate the intersection between culture, politics and identity from a contemporary First Nations perspective. Rennie’s distinctive style, which blends iconography from his Kamilaroi heritage with contemporary media, explores the complexities of his Aboriginal identity and Melbourne upbringing. REKOSPECTIVE unveils new works from Rennie, presented alongside pieces that have garnered the artist international acclaim over the last two decades. REKOSPECTIVE showcases Rennie’s unique style and offers an important perspective in dialogues surrounding cultural and social visibility.

Akil Ahamat is a Malay artist and filmmaker from Sri Lanka. This exhibition is the second work commissioned by the gallery this year. In response to the theme of "Slow Cinema for Short Attention Span", Akil has created a series of fascinating multi-channel installations that reshape the audience's experience of film and stillness.

Curated by the NGV in collaboration with the artist especially for Australian audiences, the exhibition Yayoi Kusama includes many works never-before-seen by local audiences as well as a diverse display of the artist’s popular immersive rooms, including the global unveiling of the artist’s most recent immersive infinity mirror room work. Comprising more than 180 works, the exhibition is the largest ever exhibition of the artist’s work in Australia and one of the most comprehensive retrospectives of the artist ever presented globally. Featuring painting, sculpture, collage, fashion, video and installation, the exhibition reveals the astonishing breadth of Kusama’s multidisciplinary practice. Yayoi Kusama will be displayed across the entire ground floor of NGV International and extend into NGV’s public spaces and the surrounding Melbourne Arts Precinct including NGV’s iconic Waterwall, Great Hall, and Federation Court. A major highlight of the exhibition will be an impressive assembly of Kusama’s iconic immersive installations, including her infinity rooms that ingeniously use mirrors to create the visual illusion of infinite space. A new, never-before-seen kaleidoscopic infinity mirror room, currently in development especially for the exhibition, will make its global premiere in Melbourne. The exhibition also includes the Australian debut of Dancing Pumpkin, a towering 5-metre-tall bronze sculpture newly acquired by the NGV with the support of the Loti and Victor Smorgon fund. Conceived by the artist in 2020, Dancing Pumpkin takes her iconic motif into new and surprising conceptual terrain and allows audiences to walk under the towering sculpture. The exhibition also features the Australian premiere of THE HOPE OF THE POLKA DOTS BURIED IN INFINITY WILL ETERNALLY COVER THE UNIVERSE, 2019, which visually entangles viewers within 6 metre-high tentacular forms covered in yellow-and-black polka dots. A further highlight will be the presentation of Narcissus Garden, a new iteration of the installation Kusama first presented unofficially at the Venice Biennale in 1966. This installation comprises 1400 stainless silver balls, each 30cm in diameter and presented en masse as visitors enter the Gallery. The NGV will have an opportunity to acquire this work for its Collection through the 2024 Annual Appeal, which invites philanthropic donations of any size. Our public spaces will also be transformed by Kusama’s signature polka-dots, extending the sensory experience of Kusama’s work beyond the exhibition galleries to include a site-specific artwork for the NGV’s iconic Waterwall and an installation of enormous balloons that will float playfully over visitors’ heads in NGV International’s Great Hall, titled Dots Obsession.

***The Boys are bringing you the BEST OF EINSTEINS TOYBOYS for a HUGE! NEW YEARS EVE PARTY WITH 4 BIG SETS!*** *PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL ONLY HAVE LIMITED TICKETS FOR THIS PARTICULAR SHOW. IF SOLD OUT IN PRE-SALE THEN THERE WILL BE NO DOOR TICKETS AVAILABLE. So please ensure to grab your tickets in advance* Hailing from the live music capital of Australia, Melbourne’s EINSTEINS TOYBOYS have been a mainstay of its traditional thriving live music entertainment scene for over 20 years. Einsteins Toyboys masterfully perform the Classic Rock songs of the 60’s, 70’s & 80’s. ----------------------------------- DINNER & SHOW - $50 + eventbrite fees DOOR - LIMITED TICKETS ***DINNER WILL BE SERVED FROM 8PM TO 10PM ——————————————- DOORS: 8PM SET 1: 9-9:45PM SET 2: 10-10:45PM SET 3 - 11-11:45PM SET 4 - 12-12:45AM -------------------------------------- +18 DRINK SPECIALS AVAILABLE ON NIGHT 168 Chesterville Rd, Moorabbin Information Source: Pockets Moorabbin | eventbrite

Shredability has FREE BEGINNERS Skate Lessons coming up at BOX HILL Skatepark, Proudly Supported by Whitehorse City Council. This booking is for Beginners. We have boards to lend those that dont have their own, as well as helmets, but we reccomend bringing your own helmet and board if you have them (we only have a limited amount) If it rains unfortunately we may have to postpone or cancel, so please watch your email if the weather forecast might be questionable. You can book multiple tickets, but only one at a time. If you are booking for a brother and sister you will have to book their tickets separately. PLEASE ARRIVE TEN MINUTES BEFORE THE LESSON STARTS. PLEASE FILL OUT THE WAIVER PRIOR TO ARRIVING: www.shredability.com.au/registration All skate coaches are trained by the Australian Skateboarding Federation and have working with kids checks. If you do miss out on these, and are interested in others, we will be holding more, and in other areas too. Please sign up for more information on our webpage www.shredability.com.au events@shredability.com.au Information Source: Renton Millar | eventbrite

Explore Cheltenham Town v Walsall sporting information for 4th January, as well as links for Football tickets and more with Fixture Calendar. Cheltenham Town is a professional football team based in the town of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in England. Founded in 1887, the team has a rich history and has competed in various national and regional competitions. Currently, they compete in the English Football League Two, which is the fourth tier of the English football league system. Cheltenham Town has also participated in the FA Cup and the EFL Cup, making it to the third round of the FA Cup in the 2018-2019 season. The team has won several accolades, including the National League title in 1999-2000 and the League Two play-off title in 2006. Some notable players who have played for Cheltenham Town include England international players such as Grant McCann and Lee Holmes. The team's home ground is the Jonny-Rocks Stadium, which has a capacity of over 7,000 spectators and is known for its lively atmosphere during matches. Walsall Football Club, also known as the Saddlers, is a professional football team based in Walsall, England. The club was founded in 1888 and is currently playing in League Two, the fourth tier of English football. Walsall have a long-standing rivalry with local team Wolverhampton Wanderers and their home ground is the Banks's Stadium, with a capacity of over 11,000. Over the years, the Saddlers have had several notable accomplishments including winning the Football League Third Division twice and the Football League Trophy in 2015. Some of the team's star players include Elijah Adebayo, Liam Kinsella, and Hayden White. With a strong history and dedicated fan base, Walsall has cemented its place in the world of English football. Information Source: fixturecalendar.com

Majak Door are back with their exciting new single “Everybody's Listening To The Radio Now” (dropping December 6th!) and they’re stoked to play it live at Pockets! Blending surf-rock, '60s psychedelia, and dreamy pop, Majak Door’s sound is a chill, tropical wave of lo-fi goodness – definitely a band to keep on your radar! They’ll be joined by two other rising acts, Metdog and Glob, bringing even more fresh sounds to the night. So, come down for a night of killer tunes and great vibes Don't miss it! --------------------------------- Happy Hour 7-9pm $8 Beers, Wines & Spirits $12 Cocktails ---------------------------------- +18 Event 168 Chesterville Rd, Moorabbin Information Source: Pockets Moorabbin | eventbrite

Join the Kanata Wind Ensemble for a concert entirely of overtures! We'll be playing special arrangements of old favourites like Barber of Seville and Die Fledermaus as well as some seldom-heard overtures like Gershwin's A Cuban Overture and Malcolm Arnold's magical Tam O'Shanter Overture . Also on the program - Bernstein's Overture to Candide and Kabalevsky's Colas-Breugnon Overture . You won't want to miss this exciting program played by some of Ottawa's finest musicians! Information Source: Kanata Wind Ensemble | eventbrite

Social Tennis Mix Single/Double Come join us for a fun-filled day of tennis at Caulfield Park Tennis! Whether you're a seasoned pro or just starting out, this event is perfect for players of all levels. Get ready to show off your skills in both singles and doubles matches. Meet new people, enjoy some friendly competition, and improve your game all at the same time. Don't miss out on this exciting opportunity to play tennis and have a great time with fellow enthusiasts. See you on the court! ----- Follow us on Eventbrite and Socialsfor upcoming events. Website Instagram Facebook Information Source: Kismetrix | Singles Events | eventbrite

Explore accurate Cheltenham Town v Colchester United Round of 16 sporting information for 14th January, as well as more Football times with Fixture Calendar. Cheltenham Town is a professional football team based in the town of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire in England. Founded in 1887, the team has a rich history and has competed in various national and regional competitions. Currently, they compete in the English Football League Two, which is the fourth tier of the English football league system. Cheltenham Town has also participated in the FA Cup and the EFL Cup, making it to the third round of the FA Cup in the 2018-2019 season. The team has won several accolades, including the National League title in 1999-2000 and the League Two play-off title in 2006. Some notable players who have played for Cheltenham Town include England international players such as Grant McCann and Lee Holmes. The team's home ground is the Jonny-Rocks Stadium, which has a capacity of over 7,000 spectators and is known for its lively atmosphere during matches. Colchester United is a professional football team based in Colchester, Essex, England. Founded in 1937, the team currently competes in League Two, the fourth tier of English football. The team has a strong history, with their most successful period being in the 2006-2007 season when they reached their highest ever league position, earning promotion to the Football League Championship for the first time in their history. The team has also enjoyed success in cup competitions, winning the Football League Trophy in 1996 and reaching the fifth round of the FA Cup in 1949 and 1971. Some notable players who have donned the Colchester United jersey include England international Bobby Charlton, as well as current Premier League stars Jamal Lowe and Luke Woolfenden who both came through the club's youth academy. The team plays their home matches at the Colchester Community Stadium, which has a capacity of over 10,000 and boasts state-of-the-art facilities for both players and fans. Information Source: fixturecalendar.com