😍 Featured Events
🪄 Harry Potter™: The Exhibition
✨ Melbourne, get ready for magic! ✨⚡
Step into the Wizarding World at Harry Potter: The Exhibition! This interactive and immersive experience brings you closer than ever to your favorite characters, props, and locations from the films. 🏰⚡
✨ Conjure your Patronus & test your Quidditch™ skills
🧙♂️ Get up close with authentic costumes & props
🎬 Go behind the scenes & uncover movie magic
🏰 Explore iconic spots like Hagrid’s Hut & The Great Hall
📍 Exhibition & Experience Centre, Melbourne
📅 Open daily 10am – 7pm
👨👩👧👦 All ages welcome! Wheelchair accessible ♿
🔒 Prison Island
Where escaping isn’t the goal… winning is! 💥
Gather your crew and take on 34 epic prison cells filled with wild mental and physical challenges. 🧠💪
🎯 90 minutes of non-stop action
👫 Teams of 2–5 (perfect for families, friends, or co-workers)
🎉 Awesome for birthdays, bucks & hens—bride/groom plays FREE!
📍 The District Docklands
👧 Ages 7+ welcome!
🌈 SENSAS: A Multi-Sensory Experience
🖐️ Test all five senses (sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing) in both pitch-black and ultra-colourful workshops
✨ Gather your team to take on exciting challenges and surprising experiences in the Sensory Labs
🤩 Conquer your primary fears and embrace your emotions
🪙 Collect as many sensory charms as possible—each charm means a donation to a local charity supporting people with disabilities
💖 Perfect for groups of all sizes. Age requirement: 7+. Duration: 2 hours. 📍 South Yarra VIC
🎤 RISING: Blockbuster
Winter in Fed Square is about to get overtaken by Punjabi heat. Blockbuster is a massive day-to-night celebration bursting with Pakistani music, Punjabi truck art and mouthwatering street food. Taking its name from the viral hit ‘Blockbuster’, it’s a free all-ages event that’s set to splash the city with colour.
🗓 7 June, 3pm - 8pm
📍 Federation Square, Melbourne
RISING: intangible #form
For a hundred years, The Capitol Theatre has been a prismatic fantasy. Look up and get lost in the crystal cave, dreamlike in its symmetry. Now, for his first time showing intangible #form in Melbourne, artist Shohei Fujimoto morphs the iconic auditorium into a pulsing ocean of lasers. A light-spiked gateway to the edges of perception.
🗓 8 June, 4.30pm - 10.30pm
📍 The Capitol: 113 Swanston St, Melbourne
🍹 Alcotraz: The World’s First Prison-Themed Cocktail Bar
Alcotraz is Melbourne’s immersive prison-themed cocktail bar, where you’ll wear an orange jumpsuit, sip secret cocktails, and dodge the Warden 👮♂️⛓️
🍹 4 custom cocktails (or swap for beer/wine)
🎭 New stories, new cocktails, same unforgettable chaos
📍 Melbourne | 18+ only
The Story of the Moving Image
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.
🗓 Daily, 10am - 5pm
📍 ACMI: Flinders St, Melbourne
RISING: Space-out Competition
Find your mat and drift to victory. A public competition to test the outer limits of the zone out.
Lose the thread. Abandon the point. Replace your mental to-do list with a cymbal-playing monkey. This is Space-Out, the competition to see who can do the most nothing.
🗓 9 June, 3pm - 4.30pm
📍 QV Square: Swanston St, Melbourne
RISING: SHOUSE Communitas
ast year over 1000 music-lovers gathered in St Paul’s for the first Communitas, a massive act of co-creation and musical elation. The horns blew, the tambourines shook, the harmonies surged. Now Jack and Ed from SHOUSE, with their Communitas comrades Deep Soulful Sweats, are back at it, ready to help reach further and lift higher.
🗓 8 June, 4pm - 5pm
📍 Melbourne Town Hall: 90/130 Swanston St, Melbourne
💣🔥 Melbourne, Can You Beat the Boom?
123Boom! is the real-life arcade game experience that’s taking Melbourne by storm! Solve puzzles, dodge lasers, battle flying monsters—and most importantly, stop the bomb before time runs out! ⏳
👥 Perfect for groups of 4-8 💥 6 immersive challenges that test your speed, skill & teamwork
🎯 Avoid lasers, solve puzzles & dodge flying monsters ♿ Wheelchair accessible
📍 551 Little Collins St, Melbourne CBD
📅 Choose your date & time
⏳ Duration: 75 minutes 👀 Age: 12+
Ayoung Kim – Delivery Dancer's Arc: 0° Receiver
Using CGI, live-action footage and game engines, Korean artist Ayoung Kim creates a speculative multiverse that blurs the boundaries between space, time and the self.
Work duration: 30 mins on loop.
🗓 Daily
📍 ACMI, Fed Square (Gallery 2, Ground Floor )
Australian Music Vault
The Australian Music Vault is a celebration of the Australian contemporary music story – past, present and future. It’s a place to explore your love of music, revisit some of the big music moments of your life and discover exciting new stories from today’s Australian music scene.
🗓 10am - 5pm Daily
📍 Arts Centre Melbourne, 100 St Kilda Rd, Melbourne
National Celtic Folk Festival
The Australian Music Vault is a celebration of the Australian contemporary music story – past, present and future. It’s a place to explore your love of music, revisit some of the big music moments of your life and discover exciting new stories from today’s Australian music scene.
🗓 6-9 June 2025
📍 Portarlington
Oz Comic-Con
Step into the extraordinary world of Oz Comic-Con, where creativity thrives and passion unites fans of every generation! Embark on a thrilling journey across two action-packed days filled with adventure, laughter, and all things pop culture.
🗓 7-8 June
📍 Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Convention Centre Place, South Wharf
Djaara Lights
Experience the six seasons by Troy Firebrace and Drew Berick, with one of Bendigo's most unique and cultural activation experiences.
Djaara Lights aims to highlight Dja Dja Wurrung culture in the Bendigo region through combining the display of Djaara artwork and augmented reality experiences. A sequence of activations tells stories of the Dja Dja Wurrung six seasons on Djandak (Country) from Dja Dja Wurrung People, the Traditional Owners of Bendigo.
🗓 Daily, 7:00PM - 11:00PM
📍 Oscars Walk and Bath Lane Precinct, Bendigo
