Discover what’s on at Fed Square

Beneath Fed Square, time bends, sound scatters and the known dissolves.
Part durational performance, multi-sensory composition and dynamic meditation, Diagrammatica is an ever-evolving improvisation—an open-ended search for meaning through sound, image, and presence.
Inspired by the arcane language of physics diagrams, astral photography, and graphic musical scores, this immersive work invites you to watch, listen, and play within a world of unfolding connections.
Encounter the live film and soundscape, free, in the Atrium, as it emerges from the depths. and, for those ready to step further into the unknown, book a place in an intimate group descending on the hour to the rift where perceptions warp, and the system breathes through you.
Created and hosted by Jason Maling, in collaboration with sound artists Madeleine Flynn &amp; Tim Humphrey and filmmaker Rhian Hinkley, Diagrammatica also features an extraordinary lineup of guest musicians playing live within the underground chamber throughout the season.

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Installation

Free

RISING: Diagrammatica

The Yoorrook Justice Commission is the first formal truth-telling process into historical and ongoing injustices experienced by First Peoples in Victoria. Yoorrook was set up by agreement between the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria and the Victorian Government, but operates independently of both. Yoorrook delivered an interim report in June 2022, a critical issues report in August 2023, and will deliver final reports in 2025. Yoorrook is led by five Commissioners, of whom 4 are Aboriginal and 3 are Victorian First Peoples. The Commissioners bring a vast range of knowledge and experience about First Peoples’ knowledge, systemic disadvantage, land rights, history, law, trauma and healing.
Over the past four years Yoorrook has listened to stories, evidence, and to the truths of First Peoples and other Victorians from across Victoria. These powerful stories and lived experiences form the heart of their final report. The recommendations to the Victorian government provide a pathway based on those experiences for a better future for all Victorians.
You’re invited to celebrate the culmination of this historic process and show your support for the true path forward at the Yoorrook Final Event.
Register here: <a href="https://yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/events/yoorrook-final-event/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Yoorrook Final Event &#8211; Yoorrook Justice Commission</a>
For more information: <a href="https://yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://yoorrookjusticecommission.org.au/</a>
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Yoorrook Final Event

Nestled in the heart of Melbourne, Fondue Chalet brings an authentic French melted cheese experience to Fed Square. Featuring 18 private, cosy chalets (ski lodges), it’s the perfect spot to gather with your loved ones. Let us transport you to a charming French alpine village—sip on mulled wine, indulge in traditional French fondue, and soak up the warmth of crackling fire pits. A true winter escape, right in the city!
Brought to you by the creators of Raclette Igloo, this new immersive French melted cheese dining experience is popping up at Fed Square for just six weeks! Don’t miss your chance to indulge in a truly unique dining experience.
For more information visit: <a href="https://fonduechalet.com.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://fonduechalet.com.au/</a> 
Follow Fondue Chalet on Instagram: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/fonduechalet/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.instagram.com/fonduechalet/</a>

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Food + Wine

Fondue Chalet

Defiant, desolate, and darkly beautiful – Forest Swords returns after a decade to bring his deep, industrial psychedelia to RISING. Forest Swords, AKA composer/producer Matthew Barnes, is playing live in Australia for the first time in a decade. He’s unsheathing music that bleeds between muscular and bleak, haunting and euphoric. A set of expressive post-industrial landscapes integrated with HD imagery on ACMI’s massive cinema screen.
After spending the past few years working as an in-demand composer and sound designer – writing music for ballet, film and video games – his latest album Bolted was recorded in a warehouse space in Barnes’ home city of Liverpool. This former vehicle and munitions factory (with connections to shadowy guerilla artists The KLF) became a gateway for him to explore new sounds using a combination of hardware, software and tape machines. Stuck in a rainy winter with a broken foot, he began to see shimmers of psychedelia in the industrial gloom. The world of Bolted is taught, with a sense of urgency. Deconstructed synths, distorted mallets and marimbas bounce off clattering beats, foggy vocals and lightly dancing wind instruments.
Get immersed in the glittering smog.
For more information visit: <a href="https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/live-forest-swords/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/live-forest-swords/</a>
Image credit: Photo courtesy Forest Swords

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Performance

Music

Talk

Forest Swords Live at ACMI

Experience a new sound and video installation, a poem to the river in woiwurrung, by Wurundjeri artist and language specialist Brooke Wandin.
Language comes from Country. Language is the expression of Country. Through sharing and revitalising woiwurrung, Brooke Wandin and her family tell the story of the river, its place names across Country, and the way it flows. In wurrung dhumbunganjinu, we can hear woiwurrung speaking to the river, the birrarung, in her language, one she remembers and understands.
wurrung dhumbunganjinu is a family recording of woiwurrung sharing. This sound work rejuvenates our ancient oral tradition and strengthens our undeniable connection to Country. 
Recorded at Coranderrk, a place of attempted assimilation, this is our resistance.
Language is carried along birrarung from Coranderrk downstream to Fed Square. 
I am in awe of Birrarung. She is powerful, durable, yet fragile and sensitive, the veins that pump through Country, the source of creation. She has flowed since the beginning and always will. 
&#8211; Brooke Wandin
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Screen

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The Test Garden is a window into <a href="https://artsprecinct.melbourne/laak-boorndap/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Laak Boorndap</a>, the new 18,000 square metre urban garden being delivered as part of the <a href="https://artsprecinct.melbourne/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Melbourne Arts Precinct Transformation Project</a>.
A densely planted, multi-layered, and continuously flowering space for people, art and performance, Laak Boorndap will be at the centre of the Melbourne Arts Precinct and will create more space for nature in our city. Along with our landscape architects and horticulturalists Hassell, Super Bloom, James Hitchmough and Nigel Dunnett, we have partnered with University of Melbourne to place experimentation and research at the heart of this project through rigorous scientific testing at the horticulture campus in Burnley.
Our new pop-up Test Garden demonstrates the naturalistic planting style of Laak Boorndap and provides a test bed for programming, research and conversations about climate change, biodiversity and ecology. Throughout the year, come and visit this garden to watch it grow and bloom with the seasons, take part in public programs and workshops, and find out more about our research insights into climate resilience and biodiversity preservation.
Follow <a href="https://www.instagram.com/laak.boorndap" target="_blank" rel="noopener">@laak.boorndap</a> for regular updates on programming and plants in season.

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Test Garden

Step into a one-of-a-kind live experience with Double Vision – a three-night festival of breathtaking audiovisual art at ACMI. This unique program brings together some of the most innovative artists from Australia and around the world, performing live in our state-of-the-art cinemas. Expect an electrifying mix of sound, music and moving image.
Featuring artists Honeysmack, Jani Ho, Tom Hall, mHz, Penelope Trappes, Peter Knight, Aviva Edean and Dogmilk Films, Double Vision showcases the future of creative expression, where music, technology and visual storytelling collide in real time.
For more information visit: <a href="https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/double-vision/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/double-vision/</a>
Image credit: Tom Hall

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Double Vision at ACMI

A new and exciting market is coming to The Atrium.
Come and meet Melbourne’s leading creators, designers and makers who will be coming together each month from May for a destination shopping event.
Shop the best curated selection of jewellery, art, candles, cards and more. You will find a beautiful selection of hand made local products from Melbourne’s most talented makers who bring their passion and energy for their wares straight to you. Indulge in the perfect gift for body and soul, your home or loved ones. You can find a special memento of your time in Melbourne, whether on holiday, or to make your trip into the city extra special!
The Creative Society Market will also be showcasing local producers of food and drinks in their gourmet pantry where you can taste the best of Victorian produce and talk to the makers themselves. Find fantastic food to take home and enjoy, delicious treats to eat while you wander and shop plus artisan distillers for something special to savour.
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<li>When? Come and visit on the 3rd Saturday of each month (excluding September), plus special mid-week pop up dates in December for Christmas and in January during the Australian Open.</li>
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For more information visit: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/creative_society_markets" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.instagram.com/creative_society_markets</a>

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Creative Society Market

What's On

Discover restaurants, bars and cafes serving up Melbourne&#8217;s best breakfast, coffee, lunch, drinks or dinner for any occasion and budget.

Discover All

Eat + Drink

Serving snacks, light meals, coffee and drinks.

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ACMI Cafe + Bar

Bringing the world’s great beers together with exciting locals from Australian craft breweries.

Good Beer Week and Beer DeLuxe, Fed Square

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Beer Deluxe

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Chocolate Buddha

NGV Cafe offers breakfast, lunch and afternoon tea

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NGV Cafe

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Taxi Kitchen

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Pilgrim Bar

Celebrating the work of the Australian-born Paris-based fashion designer, this major new exhibition is the largest of Martin Grant’s career. Drawn from the NGV collection, including many works donated by the designer from his own personal archive as well as loans from his family and friends, Martin Grant encompasses more than four decades of the designer’s career. Beginning in the mid-1980s in Melbourne, the exhibition continues through the early 1990s when Grant re-established his eponymous label in Paris, and extends to his most recent collections.
Throughout his illustrious career, Martin Grant’s clients have included his muses Cate Blanchett and Lee Radziwill, as well as Naomi Campbell, Juliette Binoche, Rebel Wilson, and Lady Gaga. Conceived in close collaboration with the designer, the exhibition reflects Grant’s design sensibility and aesthetic through fashion, photography, sketches, press clippings and runway footage.
For more information visit: <a href="https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/martin-grant/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/martin-grant/</a>

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Exhibitions

Martin Grant at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Welcome to Wurrdha Marra – meaning ‘Many Mobs’ in the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung language. The name comes to the NGV from the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation and supports the purpose of this space in sharing the work of First Nations artists, from emerging to senior figures, and across time and place. For First Nations peoples around the world, art and design are part of a continuum where the past intersects with the present, different materials converge, and diverse perspectives come together. The central role of art in passing down important cultural knowledge is celebrated in this display through the diverse approaches that artists take to maintaining and regenerating customary cultural practices and iconography while also creating new forms of expression.
The works included in this inaugural hang are by emerging artists as well as senior figures across both time and place. Each of these artists has in their own way been at the forefront in creating new forms of expression, and in maintaining and regenerating customary cultural practices and iconography. Great individual artists, working in Aboriginal-owned art centres or independently after studying at art school, continue to shape and transform art in Australia, inspiring many others to follow their example.
For more information visit: <a href="https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/wurrdha-marra/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/wurrdha-marra/</a>
Image credit: Wingu Tingima, Minyma Tjuta (Seven Sisters) 2006, synthetic polymer paint on canvas, 138.0 × 205.0 cm, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. Purchased with funds donated by Supporters and Patrons of Indigenous Art, 2006 © Wingu Tingima/Licensed by Copyright Agency, Australia, Photo: Christian Markel/NGV

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Wurrdha Marra at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

From cattle dogs to lap dogs, divine felines to the black cats of superstition, Cats &amp; 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.
The exhibition features works by contemporary and historical artists including Rembrandt van Rijn, Francisco de Goya, Albrecht Dürer, Pierre Bonnard, Eileen Mayo, David Hockney, Jeff Koons, Hulda Guzmán and more alongside celebrated Australian artists, including Claudia Moodoonuthi, Trevor Turbo Brown, Atong Atem, Charles Blackman, Grace Cossington Smith and Nora Heysen.
Presented thematically, with dogs on one side and cats on the other, the exhibition unpacks particular behaviours, cultural symbolism and art-historical motifs. These include: working dogs and cats; mythology; religion and spirituality; and cats and dogs in popular culture.
Traversing painting, prints, drawings, textiles, photography, sculpture, decorative arts and fashion, Cats &amp; Dogs reveals the global appeal of these animals across borders and cultures, with works from Australia, Europe, Asia and North America.
For more information visit: <a href="https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/cats-and-dogs/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/exhibition/cats-and-dogs/</a>
Image credit: 
Christine Godden 
Joan and her dog 1975, printed 1976 
gelatin silver photograph 
15.2 × 22.9 cm(image) 19.6 × 25.2 cm(sheet) 
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne 
Purchased from Admission Funds, 1991 © Christine Godden

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Cats & Dogs at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Coming Home is a compelling solo exhibition by Dr. Jenny Murray-Jones of up to 25 of her paintings from KHTs unique and importance Collections of Victorian First Peoples Art and Cultural belongings and recent works by Dr. Murray-Jones.
Murray-Jones is a Yorta Yorta and Baraparapa artist. Her work offers a poignant exploration of family reconnection, delving into themes of Country, Kinship, and the enduring impact of colonisation and institutional life.
Through her rich and emotive use of colour and texture, Murray-Jones captures both the beauty and complexity of her family’s journey.
Her works tell stories of resilience, loss, and the healing power of reconnecting with family and Country. Each piece invites viewers into the artist’s personal history, where moments of joy and pain are intertwined, reflecting the strength of her cultural identity and the deep connections that bind her to her Ancestors and Country.
This exhibition, which coincides with National Reconciliation Week 2025 (27 May-3 June) offers a unique opportunity to engage with Murray-Jones powerful depictions of the Stolen Generations and intimate family moments, bringing to life her personal narrative and cultural research in a deeply moving and thought-provoking way.
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Jenny Murray-Jones (Yorta Yorta, Baraparapa and Wiradjuri) 
Coming Home, 1999, 
oil on canvas 
Collection of the Koorie Heritage Trust 
Photo: Graham Baring

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Coming Home at KHT

Connections to Home is the first solo exhibition of carvings and paintings by revered Barkindji and Ngiyampaa Elder, Uncle Colin (Col) Clark.
This exhibition showcases fifty of Uncle Col’s crafted artworks, including spears, shields, clubs, tapping sticks, digging sticks, boomerangs, didgeridoos, painted emu eggs, bowls, and paintings created over the past 20 years.
Connections to Home demonstrates Uncle Col’s deep knowledge of wood and carving as a cultural practice that connects him to Country and home, but also to his Ancestors and the ongoing legacy expressed through his Marra or hands in Barkindji as he has been nicknamed.
The exhibition explores six overarching themes, developed by Uncle Col and his collaborators: Reading Country; The River is the lifesource; A growing family; Connecting to Ancestors; The wood tells me; and Healing and medicine.
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Uncle Col (Marra) Clark (Barkindji and Ngiyampaa) 
Untitled, 2025 
synthetic polymer paint on emu egg and River Red Gum wood base 
Collection of the artist 
Photo: Christian Capurro

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Connections to Home at KHT

Visit some of Australia's most significant cultural attractions, including ACMI, the Koorie Heritage Trust and The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia. 

Your museum of screen culture. Navigate the universe of film, TV, videogames and art.

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ACMI

Discover the history of Aboriginal Victoria and South-East Australia

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KHT In Conversation

Koorie Heritage Trust

The world’s first major gallery dedicated exclusively to Australian art.

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The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia

Museums + Galleries

The Knot

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The Story of the Moving Image

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The Story of the Moving Image at ACMI

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Coming Home Jenny Murray-Jones at KHT

The Atrium

The Main Square

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<h2>ACMI&#8217;s centrepiece exhibition</h2>
Journey through the past, present and future of the moving image through interactive experiences, digital innovation and captivating stories.
From the first projections and optical illusions to the birth of film and beyond, moving images have the power to spark imagination, share stories and shape history. Discover how inventors, innovators and artists at the turn of the 20th century wielded light, split time and captured motion, heralding a technological revolution that continues today.
Featuring ancient shadow puppets, Victorian-era magic lanterns, original cameras, iconic costumes, movie sets, sketches, clips and contemporary art, The Story of the Moving Image traverses time, countries and cultures in a mesmerising exploration of an art form that changed the world and illuminated our collective humanity.
Five distinct sections frame the major moments in moving image history, including the origins and future of cinema, production design and the creative process, Australian culture and stories, the rise of videogames, and how screens inform, influence and empower us.
These stages come to life through <a href="https://www.acmi.net.au/interactive-experiences-at-acmi/">interactive experiences</a> that let you animate shadows, craft optical toys, experiment with time, assemble film scenes and create soundscapes in a custom Foley studio.
These moments can be collected with the <a href="https://www.acmi.net.au/lens/">Lens</a>, a free tool that collects your favourite objects, artworks and creations in the exhibition. It also animates the Constellation, connecting what you collected to the cosmos of screen content outside ACMI.