Melbourne Day is upon us - here's what's on

Even more reason to celebrate having being named world's most liveable city yet again

It's the FREE party of the year

Free Melbourne Day Family Festival and Concert at Docklands

"Absolutely '80s" concert and family festival

Sunday, 27 August, Docklands (see map below)

Noon to 3.02pm

(Yes, 182 minutes to celebrate 182 years)

Presented by

Brian Mannix (Uncanny Xmen)
Scott Carne (Kids in the Kitchen)
Ally Fowler (The Chantoozies)
Wendy Stapleton and Paul Norton (Wendy and the Rocketts)
Peta Evans-Taylor (The Voice 2015)
Absolutely '80s Band
And more!

Also:

Sunday Docklands Market, on Harbour Esplanade, from 10am to 5pm
Gourmet food trucks
Cutting of a giant birthday cake, made by Ferguson Plarre Bakehouses
Welcome to Country by Stan "Yarramunua" Dryden
Climb aboard the schooner Enterprize
Take a selfie with the 2017 Junior Lord Mayor of Melbourne
Hear the 50-strong Open Door Singers / Docklands Community Choir
Display of artwork celebrating our city's indigenous culture and heritage
Melbourne Star Observation Wheel's "Melbi Bear" giving out free kids' passes to fly on "The Wheel"
DJ Stick Mareebo
Children’s face painting
Roving entertainment
Get your free birthday cupcake (while they last)!
And more!

Learn more: Big names, big concert

Map: Where to find the concert, festival

Melbourne Day concert and festival location

Water Plaza, Docklands, in the centre of the love heart, is the concert stage and focus of the Melbourne Day family festival. You'll find it, you're a Melburnian!

Docklands Sunday Market: 10am to 5pm

Come for the chutney, stay for the all-ages family concert

The Docklands Sunday Market, expanded for the Melbourne Day family festival on August 27, will be along Harbour Esplanade (opposite Etihad Stadium).

Get your free piece of gorgeous

Try to resist. Get your birthday cupcakes (while they last) at the concert on 27 August. Thanks to Ferguson Plarre Bakehouses, who are bakin' us crazy with anticipation.

Enterprize: Free Open Day and tours

Seas the day and come sea the best-looking schooner in any harbour. The much-loved Melbourne Day icon, which brought the first European settlers in 1835, lowers her gangplank from noon to 4pm as part of the family festival on August 27.

Fill your heart with pride on Wednesday, 30 August

Feel the pride at the official flag-raising ceremony at Enterprize Park.

Join Lord Mayor Robert Doyle, city councillors, the 2017 Junior Lord Mayor, civic leaders and special guests as we salute the flag at 11am.

The event will be live on radio 3AW, with the station holding a special Melbourne Day outside broadcast of the Neil Mitchell Morning program from 8.30am to noon.

Welcome to Country by highly acclaimed Aboriginal artist Stan "Yarramunua" Dryden.
Hear the big sound of much-loved Victoria Police Pipe Band.
Meet Melbourne's "first settlers" - the Enterprize re-enactment crew in period costume, including Gilbert, the Tassie tabby, our city's first cat.
Hear our roving town crier in full voice.
And more!

This is a free public event, school groups and families welcome.

Enterprize Park, on the north bank of the Yarra River at the bottom of William St, is where the first Europeans landed on 30 August 1835 to start the first permanent settlement of Melbourne.

Learn more: Saluting our city

Lecture and book launch: The Making of Marvellous Melbourne

Royal Historical Society of Victoria's annual Melbourne Day lecture, to be delivered by Emeritus Professor Richard Broome, traces the development of Melbourne from an Aboriginal place to a colonial hub, in succession, of a sheep walk, a golden field of wealth, and an urbane modern metropolis.

The lecture will also cover how the RHSV created the best-selling book Remembering Melbourne, which completely sold out and is to be re-launched on 30 August.

Speaker: Emeritus Professor Richard Broome
When: Wednesday, 30 August 2017, refreshments 12.30pm, lecture 1pm to 2pm.
Venue: RHSV, 239 A’Beckett Street, Melbourne.
Cost: Members free, non-members $10.

Lecture and book launch: Learn more

Exhibition: Standing on the Corner

Royal Historical Society of Victoria's Standing on the Corner exhibition shows how Melbourne’s street corners have been used for more than 110 years. We taken them for granted but before the internet, they often were the "village square", reflecting the local community's soul. This exhibition captures the city's corners as they were, with supporting maps of the city from 1850 to 1960.

When: Daily until 20 December, 2017.
Times: 10am to 4pm Monday to Thursday and Saturday, 10am to 3pm Friday.
Venue: Royal Historical Society of Victoria, 239 A’Beckett Street, Melbourne.
Info: office@historyvictoria.org.au or phone 9326 9288.

SHE Talks: "My Big Idea"

'Celebrating Women's Bright Minds'

Special event on Melbourne Day

In a TED-style talk, eight women share their BIG IDEA that will entertain, stimulate, even shock and most definitely provide you with a spark to take home!

SHE Talks is helping shape Melbourne through events that bring diverse individuals together, through the sharing of conversations, ideas and working on projects as a team.

When: 30 August, 7pm to 9pm
Where: Donkey Wheel House, 673 Bourke St, Melbourne.
Cost: Tickets from $9.49.

Full details, tickets