Saturday 3rd August

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Hello Canberra,

📆 Today: It’s Saturday 3rd August. Have a great weekend!

⛅️ Weather: 14° and mostly sunny. Getting down to -3° tonight.

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New Eats: 🍽️ Ballyhoo

Ballyhoo will be the final restaurant to open in the space where the iconic Lobby restaurant used to be. The precinct in the parliamentary triangle already houses Rosa's and KOTO.

Ballyhoo will offer laid-back dining with Mediterranean and South American influences. It will be headed by hatted chef Dave Young, who previously ran Temporada. The restaurant has opened bookings for "first look seatings" starting on August 20 and featuring a set menu. Details here.

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Something to do: ✂️ Book Binding Workshops

Based Book Arts is a local creative workshop specialising in book arts. They run a series of workshops on bookbinding using a variety of techniques. During the workshop, you'll learn basic bookbinding skills and how to make your own book. There are three workshops coming up in August; long stitch, french stitch, and case binding. Details here.

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News: ✏️ ACT Holding Out for Better Education Funding Deal

The ACT Government has held off on signing the Federal Government's Better and Fairer Schools Agreement in the hope of getting a better funding deal. The agreement requires states and territories to adopt a number of measures to improve student outcomes, and in return, they'll receive increased funding. All other states apart from WA and NT are also holding out for an increase in funding. More.

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Sport: Josh Papalii's 300th Game

Raider Josh Papalii will play his 300th NRL game this weekend against the Bulldogs. While he'll get a special shoutout at Belmore Oval, the celebrations will happen next weekend when the Raiders play the Sea Eagles at home. The Raiders will be looking to get a crowd of 20,000 for the occasion, and there will be special hats, t-shirts, foam fingers, and fan clappers. More.

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Concert: 🎻 Alpenrose Trio

Join the Alpenrose trio for an evening of Beethoven, Faure, and Brahms. They'll be performing at the Wesley Music Centre this evening as part of their Australian tour. The Alpenrose Trio features three young Australian musicians who met at the Mozarteum University in Austria while pursuing their Music Master's degrees. Details here.

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This Weekend in Canberra

There is a community festival happening in Lyneham, a Blues music festival, an Olympics watch party and more happening this weekend. Get the full rundown here.

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Classifieds

Vinyl LP Records Sale: music, 1930s to 1980s, new & used. 15 crates, private collection. Mostly African-American genres: Blues, Funk, Soul, RnB, Rock n' Roll. Eftpos: Cards all Ok. ATM on site. Saturday, August 3, from 1:00 pm to 4:00pm.

At: Harmonie German Club, 49 Jerrabomberra Avenue, Narrabundah, Canberra South. The sale is Inside.

This is part of the International Blues Music Day, 9 acts of Live music, 3pm to 11pm. Free entry to Records sale. Live music, entry fees apply.

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Live music: 🎹 Sundowner

Sundowner is a new music festival by GangGang celebrating some of the best electronic and dance music in Australia. There will be 18 acts across 2 stages. Early bird tickets for the October event have gone on sale. Details here.