Wednesday 31st July

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Hello Canberra,

📆 Today: It’s Wednesday 31st July

⛅️ Weather: 13° and mostly sunny. -2° tonight.

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👩‍🍳 The CIT Restaurant

Are you looking to go out for a good meal without breaking the bank? A 2-course lunch or dinner at The CIT Restaurant will cost just $25! The CIT Restaurant provides a simulated work environment for hospitality and culinary students and is open for dinner on Thursday evenings and lunch on Fridays. While it is a training restaurant, I’ve only heard good things about the food and service. Details here.

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News: 🍎 Free School Meals

Five schools in Canberra will take part in a pilot program offering a free breakfast and lunch to students three days a week. The pilot will run until July 2025 and will examine the feasibility of rolling out the program to all public schools. The food is prepared by Embrace Disability Group, a business that employs people living with disabilities.

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Something to do: 🕵️ Tuggeranong Homestead Murder Mystery

It’s 1924, and you’ve been invited to the wake of the mysteriously and recently departed Reilly family patriarch. During the night, someone will fall victim. It’s your job to question the other mourners and put together the clues to solve the mystery before the authorities arrive. The murder mystery night is happening at the Tuggeranong Homestead on August 24th. Details here.

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This Weekend: 🏮 Light Up Lyneham

The Light Up Lyneham community festival is back. There will be live music, entertainment, market stalls, and a sunset lantern walk to the illuminated local wetlands and back. It’s happening this Saturday from 3pm to 8pm at the Lyneham Shops. Details here.

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Sport: 🏉 Raiders First Home Game

The Raiders NRLW team will be playing their first home game of the season this Saturday. They’ll be taking on last year’s Premiers, the Newcastle Knights. Adult tickets are available for just $18, and a family ticket is $50. Details here.

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Exhibition: 🚢 Hopes and Fears

The National Library’s latest exhibition, Hopes and Fears: Australian Migration Stories celebrates the people who made the long journey to Australia as migrants. It includes posters, photographs, newspapers, oral histories, diaries and mementoes drawn from the collections of the National Library of Australia. It’s on now until February next year. Details here.

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Eats: 🍦 Goodberries Franklin Opens Today

Canberra cult favourite, Goodberries is opening their newest store in Franklin today. The frozen custard at Goodberries is made with just milk, cream, eggs, sugar, and honey, and is churned very slowly at a lower temperature to create a soft-serve-like ice cream without any artificial additives. Goodberries opened their first store in Canberra in 1998 and it’s still a locally owned family business. Goodberry’s Franklin is located at 127/3 Clare Burton Cres, Franklin.

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Concert: 🎻 Beethoven 9

To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, the Canberra Symphony Orchestra will perform the symphony, including the ever-popular final movement, the Ode to Joy. The performance will open with the world premiere from Australian/New Zealand composer Miriama Young. Details here.

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Comedy: Em Rusciano

Since Em Rusciano’s last wildly successful comedy tour in 2019, she was given the surprise diagnostic trifecta of ADHD, Autism and early menopause. Outgrown is a hilarious, searing and multi-sensory look at the beauty that can emerge after everything has been burned to the ground. Em Rusciano is in Canberra on August 17th at the Canberra Theatre. Details here.