Attractions and Events in
Canberra
Major
attractions in Canberra
Canberra Tourism
maintains the ACT Government tourism website at
www.visitcanberra.com.au
This site has extensive listings of major attractions and events for the month.
National monuments
include:-
Parliament House
www.aph.gov.au/visitors/index.htm
Old Parliament
House
www.oldparliamenthouse.gov.au
National Gallery of
Australia
www.nga.gov.au
National Library of Australia
www.nla.gov.au
Australian War Memorial
www.awm.gov.au
Questacon -
science museum
www.questacon.edu.au
National Museum of Australia
www.nma.gov.au
Australian Institute of Sport
http://www.ausport.gov.au/ais/visit
National Archives
www.naa.gov.au
High Court of Australia
www.hcourt.gov.au
National Botanic Gardens
www.anbg.gov.au
National Screen and Sound Archives
www.screensound.gov.au
Tidbinbilla
Nature Reserve
http://www.tidbinbilla.com.au/
In all of these
important buildings, you'll learn something more about the Australian character
and way of life - through art, through collections in the museums and from the
people who conduct the guided tours. Usually the atmosphere is informal and the
guides are happy to answer questions.
National Capital
Exhibition Centre has many of Burley Griffin's
original plans on display, together with a model of the city as it is today -
great for getting your bearings.
www.nationalcapital.gov.au
Out in Canberra
Out in Canberra is a
great local website that lists information and what's on in entertainment,
restaurants, cafes and bars, entertainment venues, function venues, clubs and
wineries. www.outincanberra.com.au
Wine
The Canberra District
has a very good reputation for its high quality of cold climate wines. Canberra District
Wine Industry Association
www.canberrawines.com.au website provides details.
Visiting the Canberra District wine
regions is easy. Most wineries are less than an hour’s
drive from Canberra city, and many are easy to reach
from the Sydney to Canberra highway.
You can take one of the many winery tours to meet the
winemakers, see the vineyards and taste the wines, or
pick up a wineries guide to find your own way around.
Many offer cellar door sales.
The Canberra District Wineries Guide provides an
easy to follow map of the region’s
vineyards, cellar doors,
cafes, regional producers and
accommodation, as well as helpful information about
festivals, markets,
guided tours and transport, shopping and much more.
There are many
wineries in the Canberra District. They include:-
Affleck Vineyard
Barton Estate
Brindabella Hills
Winery
Capital Wines
Clonakilla Winery
Collector Wines
Dionysus Winery
Domaine Rogha Crois
Doonkuna Winery
Eden Road Wines
Four Winds Vineyard
Gallagher Wines
Granitevale Estate
Gundog Estate
Helm Wines
Jeir Creek Wines
Koonaburra Vineyard
Lake George Winery
Lambert Vineyards
Lark Hill Winery
Lerida Estate
Little Bridge Wines
Long Rail Gully Wines
Maipenrai Vineyard & Winery
McKellar Ridge
Wines
Mount Majura Vineyard
Mundoonen
Pankhurst Wines
Pialligo Estate
Shaw Vineyard Estate
Shepherds Run Wines
Surveyor’s Hill Winery
Taemas
Tallagandra Hill
Winery
Wallaroo Wines
Wily Trout Vineyard
Yarrh Wines
Yass Valley Wines
Events
A wide range of events are held in Canberra each year. These include the
following.
Floriade is an
annual flower festival held in September/October
www.floriadeaustralia.com
Rally of Canberra
in May/June www.roc.com.au
Canberra
International Chamber Music Festival in May
www.cicmf.org
National Multicultural Festival in February
www.multiculturalfestival.com.au
National Folk
Festival in April
www.folkfestival.asn.au
Canberra Districts
Wine Harvest Festival in April
www.canberrawines.com.au
Canberra Wines
www.winediva.com.au/regions/canberra.asp
There is a wide range
of business and professional activities in Canberra. The Professional Way
maintains a database. You can register online (it's free) to receive weekly
updates of events at
www.professionalway.com.au/index.html
DENDY picture
theatre at the Canberra Centre has recently opened in Canberra and succeeds Electric Shadows
which specialised in
international movies and non-English speaking movies and Art House movies and
these continue to be available from Dendy. Dendy has 9 screens, which includes 2
premium class cinemas. www.dendy.com.au
Greater Union
picture theatre at Manuka
www.greaterunion.com.au
Community Events
Calendar
Events, cultural, education, childcare, entertainment, getting
help, health and wellbeing, holidays, tourism, markets, fetes, plants, animals,
environment, sports, recreation, your community
http://www.ourcanberra.com/CommunityEvents-Canberra.html
ANU School of Music
The School of Music at the Australian National University is
highly regarded. Their concert program is available on their website at:
http://music.anu.edu.au/
Friends of ANU School of Music
Friends of the School of Music at the Australian National
University maintain a website listing their events.
http://music.anu.edu.au/support-us/friends
Inexpensive Culture
A website listing low-cost or no cost cultural events. Events
include music, film, lectures, talks and workshops.
www.gandy.id.au/culture.htm
ACT Government's
Community and Multicultural Directory listing ethnic community
organisations, churches, etc
http://www.dhcs.act.gov.au/matsia/multicultural/directory
Canberra Tourism
database of events and activities
www.visitcanberra.com.au
ActewAGL Community Calendar
www.fm1047.com.au/community/CommunityCalendar.asp
Discount Card
Privileges Card offers substantial discounts of 20% to 50% at a wide range
of leading leisure & entertainment venues, including restaurants and cafes,
cinemas, tourist attractions and related products and services.
www.privileges.com.au
Clubs
There is a wide
range of clubs in Canberra. These include community clubs, social clubs,
sporting clubs and ethnic clubs. A small number are "invitation only" and have
relatively high membership fees. However, most Clubs in Canberra warmly welcome
everyone to membership and most of these Clubs have very nominal membership fees
(say $12 a year for a family).
The larger Clubs
provide a range of eating facilities (restaurants, cafes, etc) at very
inexpensive prices and a wide range of entertainment suitable for the
family.
Ethnic Clubs
have a focus on the cuisine and style of their country, but everyone is welcome
to become a member. Some of the ethnic clubs include:
Harmonie German Club
Ph 6295 9853
www.harmonieclub.com.au
Italo Australian Club
Ph 6295 1015
www.italoclub.com.au
Austrian Australia
Club Ph 6286 5793
www.austrianclubcanberra.com
Hellenic Club Ph
6281 0899
www.hellenicclub.com.au
Canberra Irish Club Ph
6288 5088
www.irishclub.com.au
Scandinavian
Australian Association Inc. Ph 1300 722 354
www.scandinavianaustralian.org.au
Spanish Australian
Club Ph 6295 6506 www.nfc.org.au/Sponsors/SUPPORTERS/SPANISH-AUSTRALIAN-CLUB.aspx
Larger Clubs, with inexpensive dining and entertainment
for the family include:
Hellenic Club Ph
6281 0899
www.hellenicclub.com.au
Canberra Southern
Cross Club Ph 6283 7200
www.cscc.com.au
National Press Club
Ph 6273 3644
www.npc.org.au
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