The worst of the rain has gone leaving us instead with miserable wind and cold.
So what’s worth seeing and doing around Canberra to cheer ourselves up on this Canberra Day long weekend?
Just leave your thoughts in the comments.

The worst of the rain has gone leaving us instead with miserable wind and cold.
So what’s worth seeing and doing around Canberra to cheer ourselves up on this Canberra Day long weekend?
Just leave your thoughts in the comments.
The enlighten festival is going ahead I believe.
Just walked past Andrew Barr playing table tennis with paint at the back of the portrait gallery? Cameras were there and it looked like fun?
The Brumbies are playing the Cheetahs at the highly unusual time of 3:30pm on Saturday.
Canberra Punk and Beyond presents: Rock Against Boredom Revisited
ANU Bar, Saturday 10 March
8pm to 11.30pm
FREE, but numbers limited so get there early
Young Docteurs, Vacant Lot, Real Gone Lovers, Capital Punishment, Life and Limb, Call to Colour
plus multimedia film/photographic images from the golden age of Canberra punk
From Facebook:
Thursday:
— I Don’t Really Read @ Smiths
— One Wall, One Night @ City Walk
— DJ Krush: 20th Anniversary World Tour @ Transit
— Feature Night @ The Pot : Christiaan Sep
— Horseface Ethel And Her Marvelous Pigs In Satin – A Cabaret Schmabaret @ The Newsroom
Friday:
— Petite Public Art @ CMAG and around Civic
— Lights! Canberra! Action! Screening @ Senate rose gardens
— Waterford, Faspeedelay, and (half of) The Longest Day @ The Front
— ‘Truth, Lies and Alibis’ CD Launch @ The Southern Cross Club
— Women Of Notes & Rhythm: International Women’s Day Edition @ Transit
Saturday:
— Pub Theatre – PJ O’Reilly’s and Civic Pub
— Mal & Sam minus band @ The Pot Belly
— Beth n Ben Funtimes@ The Phoenix
Sunday:
— The Beach @ Tocumwal Lane (with the triumphant return of the missing lincolns!
— LollyGag & Effigy Ent Present : ARIL BRIKHA (SWE) LIVE @ The Clubhouse
— DIAFRIX & JOELISTICS: Running To Shine Tour @ Transit
Monday:
— Secret Gig That No One Knows About @ The Newsroom
— Secret Gig That Is Even More Secret Than The Secret Gig Before It @ The Newsroom
All Weekend:
Thursday:
— Room to Read Canberra – International Women’s Day Event @ Tilleys
Saturday:
— Chrome (goth night) at the Civic Hellenic Club
— The Universe Revealed @ the Street Theatre
All weekend:
— The Real & Ideal at the M16 Artspace
— EXTREME FILM AND SOUND: STORIES FROM ANTARCTICA @ NFSA
— Get Buck’d Off! @ Tuggeranong Arts Centre
— gallery@bcs presents La Petite Mort, A debut exhibition of paintings by Imogen McKenzie
— See Questacon in a different light!
— Behind the Lines at Museum of Australian Democracy
— 10 Centuries of manuscripts at the National Library. Handwritten
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