Sunday Sorted: Here’s What You And Your Crew Can Do This Weekend
Grab your mates and enjoy live music, visual art, and even a spot of architecture.
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It’s hard to fault any Australian city during the month of November. Around the country, it’s warm enough to spend entire weekends outside and in shorts, but not so sweltering that you can’t function. Summer’s definitely in the air, though, and these weekend activities are the perfect ways to make the most of it.
Grab your mates and enjoy live music, visual art, and even a spot of architecture this weekend. You can thank us later.
#1 Sydney: The Newtown Festival
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This iconic Inner West music, food, and dog-patting festival turns 40 this year (!), and it’s definitely cooler than your weird uncle who has the same birthday. This year, Camperdown Memorial Rest Park will play host to many Sydney music-playing legends, including indie dads Dappled Cities, Palms, Georgia Mulligan, Dive Bell, Exhibitionist and more.
There’s also a Karaoke Tent by Heaps Gay, a writers’ tent by Newtown bookstore Better Read Than Dead, and even a dog show (because of course). Entry is by gold coin donation, and all proceeds go to Newtown Neighbourhood Centre. To find out more, visit the Newtown Festival website.
#2 Melbourne: The British Film Festival
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It’s the MINI British Film Festival, innit! Head to the Astor Theatre in St Kilda on Sunday for a choice selection of British cinema spanning multiple decades. First cab off the rank is none other than Mary Poppins (the original!) at 10:30am, followed by the 2018 release Peterloo at 12:50pm. The Happy Prince is screening at 4pm, and Where Hands Touch starring our gal Amandla Stenberg is on at 6:15pm.
Adult tickets start around the $20 mark. Cheerio then!
#3 Perth: Open House
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We’ve all got friend or two who go completely bonkers for architecture and design. Round them all up for a stroll through some of the city’s most drool-worthy buildings this weekend – from homes to offices and public landmarks – and they’ll be stoked enough to shout lunch.
Even if design isn’t so much your thing, consider this a prime opportunity for snooping around someone else’s book collection. Open House Perth walking tours are free to join, but be sure to generously hashtag all your Instagram posts from the day (it won’t be hard).
#4 Brisbane: The Finders Keepers Spring/Summer 2018 Market
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Brisbanites, prepare your bank accounts for Etsy-worthy trinkets, fine jewellery and more ceramic planters that you can shake a fiddle leaf fig at – The Finders Keepers design market is coming. The exceptionally curated market boasts more than 200 art and design stalls, stocked with the wares of independent makers and sellers.
There’ll also be plenty of food trucks (you’ll need to keep your stamina up, after all), live music and coffee – lots of coffee. The market opens at Brisbane Showground at 9am.
#5 Adelaide: OzAsia Festival
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Unless you’ve been living under a Adelaideian rock for the last two weeks, you would’ve noticed the city coming alive with the sights and tastes of Ozasia, a premier event boasting visual art, literature, dance, food, and more from Asia. Sunday is the last day, so get organised and formulate a plan of attack.
Catch The Last Mughal in Performance at 5pm in the Dunstan Playhouse – it’s a stirring performance of Indian music and poetry. There are film screenings, too: The Great Buddha (2017), a crime-noir documentary from Taiwanese documentary filmmaker Huang Hsin-Yao, and Ashwatthama (2017), an arthouse film about tradition, ritual and reality in an Indian village. Don’t snooze.
#6 Hobart: Take A Day Trip To Bruny Island
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If you live in Hobart and you’ve never seen a little penguin, you’re doing it wrong. A day trip to Bruny Island may be in the “Yeah, yeah, we’ll do that eventually” basket, but Sunday is the time to change that. Jump or drive on to the Bruny Island ferry from Kettering (40 minutes south of Hobart), float for 20 minutes in the right direction, and you’ll end up on Bruny Island, AKA a wildlife utopia complete with seals, dolphins, seabirds, penguins (!) and even rare albino wallabies.
There’s no need to take a picnic lunch (although this is highly encouraged) – Bruny Island oysters are next-level. Head to Get Shucked to try them fresh from the sea.
#7 Canberra: Heath Ledger: A Life in Pictures Exhibition
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Just in case you feel like crying all weekend, there’s an exhibition dedicated entirely to the late, great Heath Ledger at the National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra. Heath Ledger: A Life In Pictures brings together original film costumes and props (hello, Joker suit from The Dark Knight), performance and behind the scenes stills, and even Ledger’s own character research journals.
Entry is free, but bookings are essential. BRB, sobbing.
#8 Darwin: Kick Back At The Deckchair Cinema
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Is there anything better than watching a film under the stars? Darwin Film Society certainly doesn’t think so. They run the Deckchair Cinema, screening an eclectic selection of films all through the dry season, for exactly that reason.
On Sunday, November 11, bags a prime-position deckchair and watch Taika Waititi’s modern classic Hunt for The Wilderpeople (2016). The Deckchair Cinema will close on November 18 for cyclone season, so make hay while the sun shines!
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(Lead image: Pedro Szekeley / Flickr)
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