Discover what’s on at Fed Square

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> 
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Fondue Chalet

The annual Flag Raising Ceremony marks the official beginning of NAIDOC Week in Victoria, bringing together community members to honour the strength, survival, and ongoing cultural legacy of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
This powerful event pays tribute to enduring connections to Culture, Country, and Language, and serves as a public acknowledgment of the significance of NAIDOC Week.
This year, the morning will begin with a cultural ceremony at Camp Sovereignty from 8:00am. All are warmly invited to attend and to accompany the flame from Camp Sovereignty to Federation Square.
Once at Federation Square, as part of the official proceedings, there will be a minute of silence in memory of those who have passed and all Ancestors who have fought for the survival of our people and cultures.
The ceremony concludes with the raising of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags along Swanston Street – a powerful symbol of pride, resistance, and enduring presence.
For more information about NAIDOC Week events across Victoria, visit: <a href="https://www.vicnaidoc.com.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.vicnaidoc.com.au/</a>

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First Peoples

NAIDOC Week 2025 Flag Raising

Celebrate NAIDOC in the City Friday 11 July from 1pm on the Main Stage at Fed Square!
This year’s NAIDOC theme, The Next Generation: Strength, Vision &amp; Legacy, is a powerful reflection on the achievements of the past and the promise of the future. Join us for a free celebration of music, culture, and community as Fed Square comes alive in honour of NAIDOC Week.
Featuring a powerhouse lineup with Electric Fields, Isaiah Firebrace, Scott Darlow, Canisha, The Violet Summers and more.
Explore the vibrant KHT NAIDOC Week Market, featuring over 20 First Peoples stallholders with art, craft, design, fashion, jewellery and more. Alongside the market, KHT will host a variety of free workshops and activities for all ages, as well as a welcoming Elders Lounge and quiet space.
Everyone is welcome, with kids’ activities, delicious food trucks and stalls, and much more &#8211; all kicking off from 1pm.
When: Friday 11 July, from 1pm – 6pm 
Where: Main Stage, Fed Square
Lineup:
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<li>Electric Fields</li>
<li>Cerulean (DJ set)</li>
<li>The Violet Summers</li>
<li>Koori Youth Will Shake Spears</li>
<li>Canisha</li>
<li>Isaiah Firebrace</li>
<li>Scott Darlow</li>
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This free event is proudly presented by City of Melbourne in partnership with Fed Square, supported by Koorie Heritage Trust (KHT).
For more details on NAIDOC Week check out: <a href="https://www.naidoc.org.au/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.naidoc.org.au/</a>
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NAIDOC in the City 2025

A new exhibition by Geelong’s acclaimed contemporary performance company Back to Back Theatre brings fresh perspective to the story of Henry V.
England’s Henry V arrives at a factory: he sees thousands of French warriors ready to take up arms against his depleted and tired troops. With not much more than stirring words, he leads his people through a battle that represents the tragedy and extremities of war. But beyond the cardboard armour and din of battle – who are these soldiers? If we see them as individuals, what more can we understand about them?
Globally renowned Back to Back Theatre brings its unique vision to Shakespeare’s timeless story of Henry V in Agincourt (named after the play’s pivotal battle), the latest in the company’s expansive body of screen-based works. Directed by Bruce Gladwin, with cinematography from Rhian Hinkley, Agincourt builds on iconic adaptations from cinema history, including Laurence Olivier’s Technicolor take in 1944, Kenneth Branagh’s grittier 1989 effort and Timothée Chalamet’s turn in The King (2019). It’s led by the company’s ensemble of actors who are perceived to have intellectual disabilities: Sarah Mainwaring, Simon Laherty, Scott Price, Grace Kenny, Nathan Legg and Jessica Walker, with contributions from over 100 community members, bringing a new perspective to a story we thought we knew.
Inside the gallery
This gallery features immersive sensory elements including:
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<li>Seating with embedded speakers that produce vibrations</li>
<li>Wall surfaces designed to be touched</li>
<li>Movable furniture that can be arranged to suit your needs</li>
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For more information visit: <a href="https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/charge-b2b-theatre/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/charge-b2b-theatre/</a>
Image credit: Jeff Busby

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Exhibitions

Performance

CHARGE! Agincourt by Back to Back Theatre

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

wurrung dhumbunganjinu (we speak language)

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

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

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

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Transport Public Bar

An iconic Melbourne bar and cafe nestled in the historic Federation Wharf vaults

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Riverland Bar

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Taxi Kitchen

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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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.
Image credit: 
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.
Image credit:  
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

CHARGE! Agincourt by Back to Back Theatre at ACMI

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

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Festival

A weekend of nail-biting videogame speedruns by some of Australia’s top competitors. Speedrunning is a practice where extremely skilled videogame players compete to complete games and challenges in the fastest time possible, often using bugs and glitches along the way.
Following on from the success of the demonstrations at ACMI during Melbourne International Games Week (MIGW) 2024 and presented in partnership with AusSpeedruns, this Speedrun Expo Weekend includes three sessions with a variety of Australian and international games, featuring some of the nation’s fastest runners competing for records and recognition.
For more information visit: <a href="https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/speedrun-weekend/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/speedrun-weekend/</a>
Image credit: Speedrunning at ACMI Big Games Night Out 2024. Photo credit: Eugene Hyland

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Speedrun Weekend at ACMI

<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.