Sunday Sorted: Here’s What To Do With Your Crew This Weekend
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Last weekend of spring alert!
Here are eight excellent ways to soak it up with your crew. There are markets to eat at, live music to dance to, street festivals to attend, and films to see, so hop to it.
Sydney: McQueen at Golden Age Cinema and Bar
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Golden Age Cinema and Bar is one of those iconic Sydney venues – somewhere you immediately think to take out-of-towners for a primer on what the city’s all about. If it’s been a while since you’ve been without visitors in tow, this weekend is an ideal chance to refresh your memory.
The Surry Hills art-deco haven Is screening McQueen this weekend, a documentary tracing the life of fearless fashion designer and renegade Alexander McQueen. Book your tickets on the Golden Age Cinema website.
Melbourne: Queenscliff Music Festival
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If you prefer your Sundays served with a side of live music and a sea breeze to boot, Queenscliff Music Festival is the place to be. Now in its 21st year, the festival line-up is as diverse and beguiling as ever, including indie darling Courtney Barnett, The Kite Machine, Jen Cloher and many more.
Head to Queenscliff for the day, or camp (or glamp!) all weekend long to take advantage of the seaside town’s many cultural spoils – wineries, boutique markets and gourmet cafes abound. Visit the Queenscliff Music Festival website to learn more about tickets.
Adelaide: Adelaide Farmers’ Market
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Adelaide’s Showground Farmers’ Market is a Sunday institution, insanely popular with locals and visitors alike. Stock up on everything you could possibly need for a week’s worth of fabulous eating at South Australia’s largest produce market – cheese from Alexandria Cheese Company, Yorke’s Seafood, Zara Grace Lamb and veggies from The Veggie Basket, just to name a few. Catch a Korean cookery demo in the Market Kitchen at 11am, led by the Kimchi Club.
Stallholders are on a rotating roster, so be sure to check out the Showground Market’s website to see what you’re in for this weekend.
Brisbane: Love/Hate Actually at Wonderland Festival 2018
Because who DOESN’T have strong opinions about the 2003 film Love Actually? Natalie Bochenski and Amy Currie have been having this fight on stages all over the country, and they’re heading to Brisbane to reignite the debate just in time for Christmas.
In Wonderland Festival show Love/Hate Actually, two comedians grapple with the larger things in life, like what the film Love Actually means to the human race. Amy loves it; Natalie thinks it’s manipulative hell-fire cinema, a vom-com not a rom-com. Who’s right? You’ll have to buy a ticket to find out.
Perth: The George Street Festival
With a strong ethos of sustainability, vibrant locals, food stalls, stacks of original art, jewellery and design wares, the George Street Festival, an annual celebration of the East Fremantle community, is the best place to lap up the last weekend of spring. There are also heaps of cute animals to ogle and a fun, family vibe. Prepare for a weekend of totally wholesome fun.
Hobart: Farmgate Festival
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Eating yourself into a stupor is surely the best way to round out a weekend. The good people at Farmgate Festival certainly think so, anyway. Farmgate Festival is a Tamar Valley event for you and all your foodie mates, a chance to get to know the farmers who grow and make your food at a series of farm tours, talks and feasts.
Visit The Beehive for an intro to all Tasmanian honey, Muddy Creek apples for an apple-picking sesh, and OD on olives at Lentara Olive Grove. If all that leaves you with a bit of an appetite, stop by Moores Hill Vineyard, Café Lime, Iron Pot Bay Vineyard or Moon Lily Kitchen Cakes for a long lunch. For more information and tickets, visit the Farmgate Festival website.
Canberra: Undercurrent Design Market
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Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you would’ve noticed Canberra abuzz with a celebration of all things design this month. It’s the Design Canberra Festival, and it’s transformed the city into a mecca of design events, exhibitions, talks, tours, activations, collaborations, artist studios, and open homes for the fifth year running.
This Sunday marks both the last day of the festival and the perfect chance to score original and contemporary design wares at The Undercurrent Design Market at Canberra’s National Portrait Gallery. Get a lead on Christmas shopping (for others, sure, but mostly just for yourself) with ceramics, jewellery, textiles and glass, all made by some of the country’s most interesting emerging design talents.
The market is open from 10am to 3pm – don’t miss it.
Darwin: Lunch On The Waterfront
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Whether you’re easy like Sunday morning or leaving the house for the first time this weekend, Darwin Waterfront Precinct is your one-stop-shop for a leisurely Sunday arvo.
Stroll along the boardwalk until hunger strikes, then pull up a chair at Hot Tamale for corn chips and queso, because everyone needs liquid cheese on Sundays.
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