Fed Square

Our girl @deltagoodrem made it through to the Eurovision Grand Final! 😍 So – let’s get up early on Sunday, rug up and head to the Square to cheer her on from half a world away, as she represents Australia in the biggest global song contest around 🫶 Goooo Delta! 🌟   ✨ 𝙀𝙪𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙁𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝 𝙋𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙮 📅 Sunday 17 May, 5am–8.30am 📍Big Screen, Fed Square   📷 1. @casimaria with video overlay from Eurovision 2026, courtesy SBS. 2. Alma Bengtsson, courtesy @sbs_australia

Have you visited the annual Top Arts exhibition at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia at Fed Square? 🌟   We spoke with three of the Top Arts artists who completed their VCE art studies in 2025, to learn a bit more about their artwork and inspiration 🤩   ⚡Poppy Nivarovich @poppynivarovich ⚡Ben Burton @eqqism ⚡Goldman Xu @goldman.xu   Congratulations to all the exhibiting Top Arts artists!   You can check out the free exhibition now at NGV Australia.   📅 Open daily until 19 July, 10am–5pm 📍 NGV Australia, Fed Square 🎫 Free   @ngvmelbourne

Thanks to everyone who joined us last Saturday for a beautiful evening of Music in the City, for Mousiqa Bil Madina 💞 There was music, dancing, market stalls, delicious food, all coming together for a very special community gathering and sharing of Arabic and SWANA diaspora culture here in Melbourne. Here are a selection of some of our fave moments, with snaps by @casimaria 😍 A big thanks to Habibi Hafla, MzRizk and all the incredible musicians, performers, workshop organisers and food and arts market stallholders 💖 🎶💃🏽@baytsaleh @hawraakash @jacinta.marie_ @kaza_band @lailashouha @mzrizk @sawamusicband YALLATEEF DABKE with @mjhelal (Majd), ZAFFE by @camille_musician 🧵🎨 @aymankaake @dukkana.hardingst @fouadberzghalart @hennabylamiaxx @tawle_in_naarm @wyredbyrahaf @arabinstitute.au 😋 @a1bakery @afiouni_cocktail @MamasGozleme @officialkanafani @okahve_brunswick Mousiqa Bil Madina presented by Fed Square and @habibihafla , curated by the one-and-only @mzrizk .

From Times Square to Fed Square – just announced! 💙 To mark the opening of RISING – Cannupa Hanska Luger’s 𝙈𝙞𝙙é𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙖𝙙𝙞 will transform the Square into an open-air canvas over three nights.   Warm up by the fire pits to experience the multi-channel video piece, as you sip hot chocolate and enjoy a reimagined sausage sizzle thanks to @killarafoundation , celebrating First Nations flavours.   Relax into a beanbag or deckchair, and connect with something greater – 𝙈𝙞𝙙é𝙚𝙜𝙖𝙖𝙙𝙞 considers ways First Peoples globally interconnect through dance and new media which honours Ancestral knowledge.   Also in the Square for RISING’s opening weekend, @ACMIonline is open late for 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙑𝙞𝙣𝙮𝙡 𝙁𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮: 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙗 with $10 tickets available after 5pm. Make a night of it, and move between the exhibition and the Fed Square takeover at your own pace.   💙 𝙁𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙡 𝙊𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙦𝙪𝙖𝙧𝙚 📅 28 May–30 May, 6pm–9pm 📍Fed Square 🎫 Free, just show up 🎫 $10 tix for 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙑𝙞𝙣𝙮𝙡 𝙁𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮: 𝙍𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙗 at ACMI   Presented by Fed Square and @rising.melbourne

Bon appétit! 🫕🧀💖 Fondue Chalet opens this week at Fed Square 😋 Enjoy this authentic French alpine experience with friends, including: 🏡Your own private timber chalet 🍷 mulled wine on arrival 🫕Your choice of melted cheese: crusty bread dipped in melted cheese (Savoyard fondue) or grilled cheese on potatoes and charcuterie (raclette) 🔥Your own crackling fire pit to roast marshmallows 📅14 May–28 Jun 📍 Skyline Car Park 🎫Book online, from $79 pp See you there, fromage-lovers! 🫕🧀💖 @fonduechalet

Happy Mother’s Day, mums and mother-figures! We hope you’re having a great day 💞 Here are some of snaps of mums just being awesome at Fed Square 😍 📷 1+5. Afro Caribbean Carnival, 2026. Photo: @casimaria 2. RESET, 2025. Photo: @jameshenryphotos 3. Nepal Festival, 2025. Photo: @tobiastitzphotography 4. Nongkrong – Pasar Senja during Open Air at the Square, 2026. Photo: @tobiastitzphotography 6. Silent Cinema with Live Scores, for Open Air 2026. Photo: @carmenzammit

Need some inspo for ways to show your mum or a mother-figure how truly awesome she is this Mother’s Day? We’re here to help! 💞 Scroll ➡️ for some of our top ideas, for creative gifts and quality time, including:   💡A free exhibition exploring motherhood at NGV Australia (@ngvmelbourne ) 💡Jewellery by local First Peoples artist Bronwyn David, from shopKHT (Upper Square) 💡Cute and creative gifts from ACMI Shop (@acmionline ) 💡Wearables and homewares featuring native botanical illustrations, from the @ngvdesignstore 💡A delicious Mother’s Day lunch at @taxikitchenmelbourne   And check out the full gift guide online 🙌🏽   1+2. Installation view of MOTHER: Stories from the NGV Collection, on display until 12 July 2026 at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Melbourne. Photo: @PhoebePowellphoto 10. Photo: @tomross.xyz

Happy May the Fourth, friends! 💫 This Star Wars Day, @MESS_ltd co-founder Byron Scullin is here to show you around the ARP 2600 – the synthesiser that sound designer Ben Burtt used to create the voice of R2D2. 🌟 bonus fun fact, Ben Burtt also created the voice of Wall-E 🤖 If you’re interested in checking out more of MESS’s (Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio) collection of rare and vintage electronic instruments, they run tours and workshops – and you can also join as a MESS member to have ongoing access to their amazing collection 🙌🏼 🎥 image of Ben Burtt credit: Lucasfilm. Footage credits: Star Wars, Wall-E and Ben Burtt interview credit: Roadtrip Nation

Tonight, for World Press Freedom Day, we’re screening the 1976 political thriller 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙣 on the Big Screen 🎬   Starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman with a screenplay written by William Goldman, the film is based on the 1974 non-fiction book by Washington Post reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward about their investigation of the Watergate Scandal – a scandal which ultimately brought down Nixon’s presidency.   “𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦-𝘰𝘧-𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘸𝘴𝘳𝘰𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘷𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 1970𝘴 – 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦, 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵.   “𝘖𝘯 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮 𝘋𝘢𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘤𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳.”   – Ben McCarthy, Fed Square’s Film Producer   The deckchairs will be out, so bring along a cinema-loving buddy to enjoy the free screening 🙌🏽   🎬𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙣 (1976) 📅 Sunday 3 May, 8pm 📍Big Screen, Fed Square   ℹ️ Dir: Alan J. Pakula | USA  | Running time: 138 mins  ℹ️ Classification: M – Moderate coarse language Presented by Fed Square. 📷 1+5. @casimaria  (the first image has been digitally altered to include footage from 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙣) 2-4. Stills from 𝘼𝙡𝙡 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙩’𝙨 𝙈𝙚𝙣 (1976)

🫕Mes amis! Fondue Chalet is back this winter at Fed Square! ❄️ And we’re giving away 3 x fondue or raclette experiences for 6 to celebrate 🥳   🏔️Enjoy this special immersive dining experience, where you’ll feel like you’ve been whisked away to a charming French Alpine village   Enjoy: 🏡Your own private timber chalet 🍷 mulled wine on arrival 🫕Your choice of melted cheese: crusty bread dipped in melted cheese (Savoyard fondue) or grilled cheese on potatoes and charcuterie (raclette) 🔥Your own crackling fire pit to roast marshmallows    📅14 May–28 Jun 📍 Skyline Car Park 🎫Book online, from $79 pp   ℹ️ Enter via our biolink – and we’ll draw a new winner each week for 3 weeks, starting 14 May ℹ️ Or, jump online to book now to secure your own slice of the French Alps in Melbourne this winter.   Bon appétit!

💫 𝙈𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙦𝙖 𝘽𝙞𝙡 𝙈𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙖 is coming up next Saturday 9 May! 🎶 Let us introduce you to the line-up of local legends who will be performing at Fed Square.   💫Stage line-up 💫   𝘽𝙖𝙮𝙩 𝙎𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙝 – 𝘼𝙗𝙤𝙪 𝙎𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙝 @baytsaleh This creative duo is dedicated to reviving the past through cultural expression and artistic experiences.   𝙈𝘾 – 𝙃𝙖𝙬𝙧𝙖𝙖𝙆𝙖𝙨𝙝 @hawraakash Lebanese Australian spoken word poet and writer and MC. Demanding to be heard, Hawraa uses her poetry and writing to create her own platform and provide a safe space for others.   𝙅𝙖𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙖 𝙀𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙮 @jacinta.marie_  will be singing Arabic classics alongside long-time collaborator MzRizk, performing over a DJ set that bridges live vocals with the dancefloor. They have performed together alongside Tarabeat at festivals including Womadelaide, and Strawberry Fields.   𝙆𝙖𝙯𝙖𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙 @kaza_band Rooted in Arabic musical traditions, this ensemble draws on influences from jazz, funk and contemporary global music. 𝙇𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙖 𝙎𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙝𝙖 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙮𝙙𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚 @lailashouha  performer and teacher of Raqs Sharqi (classical Egyptian bellydance), her performances are characterised by joyful improvisation and sensitive interpretation of the music. 𝙈𝙯𝙍𝙞𝙯𝙠 @MzRizk Lebanese-Australian DJ, broadcaster, cultural curator and programmer, MzRizk’s genre-blending style seamlessly weaves house, disco, hip-hop, jazz, soul and Arabic rhythms, curating sets that are electric and unpredictable.   𝙎𝙖𝙬𝙖 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝘽𝙖𝙣𝙙 @sawamusicband  This ensemble is dedicated to reviving classic Arabic songs through detailed musicianship and contemporary arrangements.  𝙔𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙚𝙛 𝘿𝙖𝙗𝙠𝙚 Dabke dance collective dedicated to celebrating and sharing the rich cultural tradition of Levantine folk dance.   𝙕𝙖𝙛𝙛𝙚 A traditional zaffe live at Fed Square. Led by Camille El Feghali, with traditional drummers Rosco, Rawdrum and Taal, this roaming performance brings the sound and energy of an Arabic wedding procession – minus the newlyweds – into the heart of the city.

Please, enjoy a minute of Melbourne sounds on a quiet Tuesday evening at Fed Square 🔉✨❤️