Thursday 4th September

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Hello Canberra,

📆 Today: This week’s foodie news + The worst wedding reception possible.

⛅️ Weather: 17° and partly cloudy. A slight 30% chance of rain.

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🍽️ Canberra Eats

This week’s foodie news:

Lil Mickey’s Milk Bar: Creative group Church is holding a pop-up at Recess in Griffith for one night only this Saturday. They’re recreating a classic takeaway, serving all the favourites—including burgers with the works, fish and chips, spiders and Wagon Wheels. Details here.

International Riesling Challenge: The Canberra International Riesling Challenge is back this October. After the judging is complete, the doors will open to the public. Come along and explore the largest collection of Riesling in the Southern Hemisphere, alongside delicious bites from Le Cheeserie and Le Petit Breton Crêpes. Details here.

Kivotos: Braddon restaurant Kivotos has been serving up authentic Greek cuisine on Mort Street for the past 12 months, and now they’ve opened a new restaurant of the same name in the Hellenic Club.

Butter Boy at Dom’s: A couple of weeks ago, people were lining up around the block to get Butter Boy cookies at the Redbrick pop-up. If you missed out, you can get the viral cookies anytime at the newly opened Dom’s café at the NFSA.

Bottomless Thali: Popular Indian spot The Poet in Belconnen has started offering a bottomless Thali for lunch. Enjoy unlimited Thali for 80 minutes, including Indian beers and cocktails. Details here.

Giles St. Café: A new café for you to try—I missed this when it opened back in July—Giles St. Café in Kingston is open seven days a week for breakfast and lunch. They’re also doing takeaway picnic boxes for Floriade! Details here.

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Coming Up: 👰 Confetti and Chaos

You’re invited to the worst wedding reception you’ll ever attend. It was meant to be a surprise party to celebrate Will and Stacey’s wedding, but it’s turned into pandemonium—with secrets spilling out as uninvited and misbehaving family members bust in, bust up and bust a move. Audiences become guests caught in the crossfire in this immersive, improvised comedy dinner. It’s happening next Saturday at the Mercure Canberra. Details here.

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Looking Ahead: 🐰 Cirque Alice

Mind-bending contortionists, mesmerising aerialists, larger-than-life puppetry and enchanting dancers bring to life Lewis Carroll’s classic adventure Alice in Wonderland. It’s coming to Canberra in January. Details here.

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This Weekend: 🐸 Threatened Species Family Day

Belco Arts is hosting a free family day at Wildbark to celebrate National Threatened Species Day. There will be a free nature photography workshop, live music from award-winning singer-songwriter Wallabindi, and a creative drop-in activity. It’s also a great chance to see the National Threatened Species Day Open Photographic Exhibition. Details here.

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📚 Canberra Reads

The Man Who Planted Canberra: Charles Weston was one of our most visionary designers of green landscapes and a true founding hero of the nation’s capital. He experimented with and planted more than three million trees and shrubs from Australia and around the world to create the horticultural wonder of Canberra. The Man Who Planted Canberra, the illustrated biography of Charles Weston written by Robert Macklin with Dr John Gray, is now available from the National Library bookstore. Details here.

There was a launch event for the book at the Arboretum, but sadly, tickets were snapped up before I had a chance to share.

Death at Booroomba: Join author Alison Booth for an evening of secrets, suspicion and small-town shadows as she talks about her latest novel, Death at Booroomba. It’s happening at Woden Library on Monday. Details here.

The Eye of the Dragonfly: Tracey Lee Holmes will be in conversation with Phil Coorey on The Eye of the Dragonfly—a candid, wide-ranging and passionate book, part memoir and part manifesto, in which she shares both her stories and her views on sport’s most dramatic issues. Details here.

The Bolthole: Peter Papathanasiou will be in conversation with Beejay Silcox about his latest gripping crime thriller, The Bolthole. Details here.

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📰 Tidbits

Don Bradman’s Baggy Green: The National Museum has recently acquired a Baggy Green cap worn by Sir Donald Bradman—just one of 11 known to exist. It’s now on display in the refreshed Landmarks Gallery.

Library Report: A working group has found systemic issues in the ACT library system. The report also recommends changes for Civic and Erindale libraries, which have seen lower visitor numbers. More.

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