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Festivals and Annual Events

This festival gives local and international actors a chance to perform to the best of their ability for your amusement. Don’t miss it! It starts on the 1st of February and is enjoyed by Australians and tourists alike. The event, which started off as a mediocre short-scale musical festival, has transformed into a country-wide extravaganza and is celebrated with immense joy and zeal.

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Festivals and events in Melbourne

Showing 1–16 of 16 festivals

Plan around 16 festival seasons, public events, Ramadan/Eid periods, book fairs, art cycles, and winter food activity.

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St Jeromes Laneway Festival

This festival gives local and international actors a chance to perform to the best of their ability for your amusement. Don’t miss it!

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St Kilda Festival

This festival exhibits the extensive range of entertainment, vibrant live music, action and activities critical to the St Kilda’s captivating and symbolic milieu.

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Melbourne Fashion Festival

Check-in to catch the alluring and glamourous episode of the avant garde fashion show. The event takes place for a period of seven days from the 15th to the 22nd of March.

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Melbourne Food & Wine Festival

This festival presents an illustration of Melbourne’s gastronomic intrinsic worth. The 16 days of this festival allow you to gain exposure to some of the most appetizing and lip-smacking cuisines, and is reason

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Port Fairy Folk Festival

Experience the taste of national and international music, in the old fishing village of Port Fairy. The Port Fairy Folk Festival takes place over a four-day period (from the 6th to the 9th of March), and featur

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Melbourne International Comedy Festival

This is a parade of perhaps the funniest people who will ever have the chance to entertain you, and you definately won't be able to stop laughing at their jokes.

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St Kilda Film Festival

This festival features the Australian art of short-film-making, in which the people show their creativity at St. Kilda’s Palais Theatre and George Cinema.

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Melbourne International Film Festival

The event takes place from the 16th till the 22nd of July and features some of the most prominent documentaries and films acclaimed filmmakers of the world.

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Melbourne Art Fair

The Melbourne Art Fair puts on view 80 of the most highly rated galleries from many countries across the world including Australia, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, China, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, the U

Melbourne Writers' Festival

Melbourne Writers' Festival

This festival will appeal to fans of great literature. Books written by world renowned authors are available for purchase, and various writing workshops are offered to the general public.

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Melbourne Fringe Festival

The Melbourne Fringe Festival embraces a wide array of art forms where the performers spice up the event with their innovative and highly entertaining art works.

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Royal Melbourne Show

This show portrays the agricultural side of the city, and features exciting action-filled sports, with farm machinery and animals and amusement rides.

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Melbourne International Arts Festival

One of the most significant festivals in Melbourne, highlighting the global art forms of dance, theatre, visual art and multimedia is the Melbourne International Arts Festival.

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Spring Racing Carnival

It includes the ever famous Melbourne Cup at Flemington, and always takes place on the first Tuesday in November.

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Wangaratta Festival of Jazz

Australia’s foremost event of music that exhibits the jazz and blues held in Wangaratta in north-east Victoria, is the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz.

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Meredith Music Festival

If you want to combine the fun of camping, and listening to the best underground music, then Meredith Music Festival is the right event to attend.

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