Things to do in Canberra this week (20 - 26 June)

There’s so much to get excited about in the capital this week, no matter what you’re into. Check out our guide to all the best events in Canberra.

For food and wine aficionados, we’ve found a very special winter truffle season wine tasting at the Mount Majura Vineyard, but if you’re looking for some adventure but can’t get away from town, the National Museum is offering a virtual reality experience giving visitors the chance to see the Kimberley in all its beauty, alongside guides who will tell the fascinating story of one of Australia’s most beautiful landscapes.

And for Taylor Swift fans with sweet memories of the Eras Tour, the Canberra Southern Cross Club in Woden is hosting a Tay Tay tribute act so you can relive your favourite memories.

Multiple Days

Art Exhibition: The Faces of Caring by Good Omen Goodeze

When: 10 June to 20 July
Where: The Link, Community & Information Centre, 1 McClymont Way, Strathnairn
Cost: Free.

Many of the 210 residents who volunteer at Good Omen Goodeze (GOG) are unsung heroes, producing creative and beautiful community art. This exhibition showcases fabric, knitting, crocheting, and other visual art forms, highlighting their contributions to the Canberra community and offering a glimpse into their world. It is a celebration of their work, their commitment to community and the love they knit into their donated goods, providing comfort one stitch at a time.

Step into the Limelight art exhibition

When: 20 June to 26 June, from 12 pm to 5 pm
Where: M16 Artspace, Galleries 1–3 & Chutespace, 21 Blaxland Crescent, Griffith
Cost: Free.

This art exhibition, hosted by M16 Artspace, showcases the creativity of ACT students with a diverse range of works.

Across the mediums of painting, textiles, sculpture, mixed media, drawing, and photography, students from kindergarten to Year 12 explore this year’s theme, ‘Enter the Unknown’.

Each student, from the smallest to the largest, has interpreted the theme in their own way, conjuring distant galaxies, subliminal dreamscapes, emotional depths unexplored, or far-off futures. See the creativity of Canberra’s students in the limelight.

Truffle Infused Tastings at Mount Majura Vineyard

When: 20 June to 26 June, book a session for time
Where: Mount Majura Vineyard, 88 Lime Kiln Rd, Majura
Cost: $40 per person. Book online.

Winter season is truffle season at the Mount Majura Vineyard, and they’re celebrating by inviting wine enthusiasts to savour the flavours and aromas of truffle-infused wine and delicacies.

Chase away the cold with triple cream brie, three glasses of wine to taste and truffled brie, all while looking over the beautiful wine country at Mount Majura. This tasting will include a 2012 Late Disgorged Silurian Sparkling as well as a special red from the cellar.

Carmen – The Australian Ballet

When: 20 to 25 June 2025
Where: Canberra Theatre Centre, Civic Square, London Circuit, Canberra
Cost: Tickets from $88 to $215, plus transaction fee. Tickets available from Canberra Theatre Centre.

Johan Inger’s award-winning production of Carmen is an exhilarating journey that thrusts Georges Bizet’s 19th-century opera into the modern world with a breathtaking display of athleticism and passion.

Created in 2015, Inger’s contemporary retelling of Prosper Mérimée’s 1845 novella is a darkly compelling story of the dangerously seductive Carmen, whose love affair with Don José ends in brutal tragedy. Broadening its gaze beyond its fiery heroine, Inger’s Carmen is seen through the eyes of a boy bewildered by the ugly manifestations of machismo.

The Great Kimberley Wilderness virtual reality adventure

When: 21 to 23 June, hourly from 10:15 am to 3:15 pm
Where: National Museum of Australia, Lawson Crescent, Acton Peninsula,
Cost: Adult tickets $20 | Children’s tickets $17.50 | Family (two adults and two children) tickets $60. Book online.

Experience the vast and beautiful landscape of the Kimberley through cutting-edge technology at the National Museum.

This 35-minute virtual reality experience brings together scientists and traditional owners to take participants on a journey across the Kimberley’s coastlines, gorges and endless horizons.

Visitors can experience the sun-baked Kimberley throughout prehistory as the virtual tour takes them 350 million years into the past to see Australia during the Devonian period, uncovering the ancient geology of the continent.

History, culture and geology combine to give a full picture of one of Australia’s most stunning landscapes.

Friday

Unwind: Free Yoga Class and Flow and Food

When: 20 June, 10 am
Where: Flow and Food Yoga & Ayurveda, G06/253 Northbourne Ave, Lyneham
Cost: Free.

If you’ve been looking to get into yoga but haven’t quite made the jump yet, this Friday class is for you.

This free yoga class is designed to unwind and de-stress, offering participants an opportunity to ease the demands of everyday life through exercise, stretching and breathing techniques. A perfect combination of fitness, wellness and spirituality, this yoga class concludes with guided meditation. This class is a great chance to see if yoga is for you.

Friday Night Casual Life Drawing at Tuggeranong Arts Centre

When: 20 June, 6 pm to 8 pm
Where: Tuggeranong Arts Centre, 137 Reed St N, Greenway
Cost: $28 per class; season pass for five sessions, $125. Book online.

Now in its third year, this monthly Friday evening class offers a low-pressure, stress-free, and fun environment, along with a culture of creative expression rather than technical ability.

Attracting both experienced artists who rock up with a full watercolour kit, right through to people who are drawing for the first time, Every Body is literally for anyone and everybody. And because the group is constantly changing, it doesn’t get “cliquey”, with lots of people who are new to Canberra coming along to make friends and socialise as well as few regulars.

Saturday

The Tay Tay Tribute Show at Canberra Southern Cross Club Woden

When: 21 June, 12:30 pm
Where: Canberra Southern Cross Club Woden, 92-96 Corinna St, Phillip
Cost: Tickets are $32.95. Book online.

Tay Tay fans unite! The Tay Tay Tribute Show is the closest you can get to experiencing the iconic Taylor Swift herself performing live!

Family-friendly event with a full rock band comprised of Australia’s finest touring musicians, ‘The Tay Tay Tribute Show’ will take you on an ever-changing and unique journey as they pump out smash hit after smash hit across each of the eras, including:

• The big Tay Tay numbers like ’Shake It Off’, ’Style’, ‘Karma’ & ’The Man’.
• Alternative rock anthems like ‘We Are Never Getting Back Together’, ’22’ & ’The Story Of Us’.
• Country classics like ‘Our Song’, ‘Fearless’, ‘Love Story’, Mean’ & ‘You Belong With Me’.
• Synth pop specials like ‘Look What You Made Me Do’, ‘Anti-Hero’, ‘Cruel Summer’ & ‘Bad Blood’ + many, many more!

Sunday

Bubbly & Bites in the Patio at Canberra Southern Cross Club Woden

When: Sunday 22 June at 3:00 pm
Where: Canberra Southern Cross Club Woden, 92-96 Corinna St, Phillip
Cost: $85 per person. Tickets available via Canberra Southern Cross Club.

Get down to The Patio where the elite meet to eat for the High Tea Grazing Table – complete with bottomless Prosecco, a delicious spread of traditional finger sandwiches, petite cakes, scones with fresh cream, and more. It’s the perfect way to spend an afternoon!

Upcoming events

• Lakeside at 5: Eric Ajaye & Lachlan Coventry – 27 June
• Unusual Varieties Wine Dinner – 3 July
• UC Capitals Holiday Camp – 7 July
• A Good Kind of Trouble with Brooke Blurton and Melanie Saward at the National Library – 8 July

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