7 March 2013

DIY wotz on guide for the weekend of 8 March 2013

7 March 2013 | johnboy

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It’s here! Can you feel the excitement? It’s the Canberra Day long weekend!

What’s worth seeing and doing around this extraordinary city this weekend?

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johnboy11:39 am 08 Mar 13

And of course.. BEER FESTIVAL!!!

https://brewersfestival.eventarc.com/13562

Buckaroo_Banzai5:40 pm 07 Mar 13

Chrome – DJs playing Goth/industrial/dark electronic
Saturday 9th March, 9pm
Hellenic Club, Moore Street, Canberra City
https://www.facebook.com/events/536850916359026/

bundah2:44 pm 07 Mar 13

If one would like to see some fine musical talent ie. Pete Akhurst, Neon Honey and Jamahl Brown come this Friday evening to

http://enlightencanberra.com.au/portfolio/walt-mazz-a-centenary-pop-up/

BellaK2:44 pm 07 Mar 13

The Alliance Francaise Film Festival starts in Canberra today:
http://www.affrenchfilmfestival.org/sessions.aspx

johnboy2:40 pm 07 Mar 13

Free buses friday to watch the GWS Giants play mighty Essendon!

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzCxhBE0EgTSSlU2Sl9sSFN2cHM/edit?usp=sharing

johnboy1:13 pm 07 Mar 13

From Facebook:

Thursday:

— Many Faces: Portraits from Canberra Photographers @ This Studio Gungahlin

— CJ Bowerbird and Friends @ The Front

Friday:

— Walt and Mazz Enlighten Fest Pop Up Bar

— Theatre In Space @ Enlighten, National Archives of Australia

— Lights! Canberra! Action!

— Friday Variety @ The Polo

— Merry Muse 2XX Fundraiser with Moochers Inc, Matty Ellis, Trev Dunham and Pete West – 7:30 PM start

— Bronson (Melb) + Na Maza + Beneath The Tides + Eyes To The Sky @ The Basement

— EK CANBERRAVE ft Magic Bird 08/03/13 @ Trinity

— CUBE”S PHOTO CLEAN OUT NIGHT

— Groundwerk III @ The Clubhouse

Saturday:

— Nite Society feat. LURCH & CHIEF (live/melb) _ DAHRNOIR (live/canb) _ TOMTOM$ _ NITE SOCIETY DJS _ SAT MAR 9

— Super Raelene Bros @ The Polish Club

— Canberra Punk & Beyond present a Trip Wired Event-Renegades Revenge @ ANU BAR

Sunday:

— Beaten Bodies @ Honkytonks

— April’s Caravan presents Miss Mae and The King Hits at Lonsdale St Roasters

— NINA LAS VEGAS + TA-KU – SUN MARCH 10th – Trinity Bar (Black Opal Race Day After Party)

— ONE VERY BIG NIGHT AT MOOSEHEADS

Monday:

— Training Squad at Canberra’s 100th Birthday Celebrations

— Fun Machine at Regatta Point for Canberra Rocks Festival

johnboy1:05 pm 07 Mar 13

From our Calendar:

Friday:

— The return of the ‘Cock. @ Transit

— Box Wars might be my new favourite thing

— The return of the Sculpture Bar to the National Gallery

Saturday:

— 100 FREE BRODBURGERS (And may god have mercy on the souls of those queuing for them)

— The Necromancer of Black Mountain [Nerf War]

— Small brewers beer festival in the Botanic Gardens

Sunday:

— Imagining The Capital: Canberra on Film

Monday:

— Want to discuss the future of Australian Sport? @ CSIRO

— Reasons to stick around for the Canberra Day long weekend

All weekend:

— Silent Film Festival continues until Saturday @ NFSA

— Calling all budding Walters and Marions, We built this city at Civic Square

— Design 29: Creating a Capital @ National Archives

— Behind the Lines, political cartoons at the Museum of Australian Democracy

— Parties at the Shops

— Spiegel Garden!

— Kastom, the art of Vanuatu at the National Gallery

— Enlighten 2013

— But Once in a History at Parliament House. The Canberra origin story…

— Remember me: the lost diggers of Vignacourt at the War Memorial

— Toulouse-Lautrec the summer blockbuster for 2012-13 @ NGA

— Art of Nature at the CSIRO Discovery Centre

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At the Phoenix:

Thursday 7th 9pm
The Second Hand Salmon
Cannery Row
Josh Veneris

Saturday 9th 9:30pm
Popstrangers
Bored Nothing
Bearhug

Monday 11th
2XX Local n Live Present The Bootleg Sessions
Bent Hent
The Bus Vipers
Vintage Vulva
Miss Terry

Tuesday 12th 7:30pm
Andrew Galan’s Your Favourite Fictional Fascist Trivia

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