Bright Autumn Festival @ Bright (28 April – 6 May) – Rainbow Bright kicks leaves at My Little Pony and punches a Cabbage Patch Kid in the face.
Dunkeld Festival of Music @ Dunks (28 – 30 Apr) – a slam-dunk-a-thon to Kriss Kross tracks
Koroit Irish Festival @ Koroit (29 – 30 Apr) – Ed Sheeran makes out with a fiddle player, writes a song about it and makes a few million #sundayseshes.
Melbourne Winter Masterpieces – Van Gogh and the Seasons @ NGV (28 April – 9 July) – singing all their greatest hits.
Daylesford Macedon Ranges Open Studios @ DMR (29 Apr – 13 May) – paint.
Victorian Rollerski/Skike Championships @ Lake Mountain (29 – 30 Apr) – the least kewl looking people on earth do the least kewl looking thing I have ever seen. Like ever.
Cursed – Zombie Outbreak @ Kryal Castle (28 Apr) – where do you go to buy zombies? The monSTORE
ART / POLITICS / ACTION – an Artist-led symposium @ Centre for Everything (30 April – 6 May 2017) – people throw paint at Dan Andrews.
Peking Duk to Karova’s Carpark with Special Guest Ivan Ooxze @ Ballarat (29 April) – translates to STREET PARTY
Every Brilliant Eye: Australian Art of the 1990s @ NGV (2 June – 1 Oct) – sponsored by OPSM
Strategem Bendigo Winemakers Festival @ Bendigo (29 April 2017) – After a job goes wrong, Mi5 agent Benjamin Kelly (Jason Strathem) retires himself from duty to become a winemaker in country Victoria. He accidentally insults the neighbours. Hilarity ensues.