Family Friendly Events for March
Perth is now heading into Autumn, which means (hopefully!) some cooler weather to get out and enjoy our beautiful city. If you’re looking for family-friendly events and activities for the month of March, then Buggybuddys has you covered! The Channel 7 Mandurah Crab Fest is back this year, as is the St Patrick’s Day Festival, for example. Check out our list of fun events around Perth from festivals and community concerts to exhibitions and outdoor markets and much, much more.
Toddlerfest Summer 2024
Get ready to move this Toddlerfest! Get ready to race, climb, jump and crawl in our ‘Little things that move’ festival, with a series of fun activities to help develop muscles, balance and coordination! Find out how plants and animals move in the bush in an interactive puppet show. Unleash your inner wiggle with climbing, soft play, ride-ons and other movement activities to explore. Embark on a cosmic journey of the night sky with your little ones in the Scitech Planetarium, plus there’s plenty more to get you moving! Designed to encourage fundamental movement skills, there’s something to engage and inspire every little body this Toddlerfest. Toddlerfest is FREE for under 4’s! Stay for longer, with doors open from 9am daily (usually 9.30am). Book online for guaranteed entry. www.scitech.org.au/event/toddlerfest-feb-2024/
Jurassic Kingdom
Coogee Live
Join us for an incredible weekend of beachside family fun, arts, music food and discovery at the award-winning Coogee Live! We have started our journey to bring you yet another incredible two-day event that will boast a huge range of activities, fun and games along 1.2km of our gorgeous Coogee coastline.
Hyde Park Festival Presented by Fuel & Go Play
Hyde Park Festival presented by Fuel & Go Play, is back for 2024 and promises to be the best yet!
The Rotary Club of North Perth is pleased to announce the return of Perth’s favourite FREE family event in 2024, the Hyde Park Festival! We can’t wait to spend the Labour Day long weekend with you all!
Bring the whole family down on March 3rd & 4th for a wonderful weekend under the beautiful trees of Hyde Park.
The Hyde Park Festival is proud to be an inclusive FREE family event with so much to see and do:
Show Bags
Live Entertainment
The Favourite Rotary Sausage Sizzle
Free Activities for the Kids
Rides
Multicultural Food
Loads of Stalls
Channel 7 Mandurah Crab Fest
Fresh food, live music, free entertainment, cooking demos, celebrities, fireworks and more! http://www.mandurah.wa.gov.au/explore/whats-on/calendar/major-events/channel-7-mandurah-crab-fest
Market at Maison Saint Honore Caversham
Many stalls with different goods
Free kids activities
Games
Pétanque
And of course our delicious crèpes all afternoon long
Sunday Music at FAC
Every Sunday until 17 March | 2–4pm | Fremantle Arts Centre | FREE Enjoy a carefully curated line-up of WA’s best musicians every Sunday in the beautiful setting of FAC’s Front Garden. Bring a rug and picnic or enjoy wood fired pizzas and drinks from the bar at this family-friendly event. Some chairs are provided.
Nature Play Time – Lakelands
Join us for this weekly storytime, inspiring wonder and curiosity about the natural world. Have fun with activities and games designed to introduce young minds to nature’s beauty and diversity, nurturing a deep love for the great outdoors. Enjoy craft activities using resources from the natural environment, encouraging creativity while connecting with nature’s elements. Learn about the importance of protecting and preserving our world, instilling a sense of appreciation and responsibility towards cherishing our planets wellbeing. Share a different story each week, then enjoy some simple unstructured play with natural elements including water, sand, soil, plants, leaves, twigs, and shells. Expect to get a little messy while having lots of fun.
MT HAWTHORN HAWKERS MARKETS
Bring your friends, bring your family and bring your appetite to the Mt Hawthorn Hawkers Market. Family friendly | Dogs welcome (on lead) | Every Friday 29 September 2023 – 26 April 2024 
Sweets and Beverages Bliss Baking Company Pink Panther Ice Cream Van The Juice Junky Wuyi Bubble Tea Cono Gelato 
Dinner Cucina Artisan Food Dentino’s Kitchen Emily’s Thai Kitchen Hungry Dragon Master Panda Osakaya Okonomiyaki Steam Bun Factory T-Sister The Little Phap Lalicious Pantry Ting’s Rougamo 
Gourmet Black Cockatoo Distillery Miss Cuppity’s Travelling Tea Rooms 
Dogs Nibblz and Dribblz Natural Dog Treats 
Entertainment Busker – Ari Davis Free Kids Zone – Messy Play “around the world” theme, face painting and a colouring in competition
Meet The Trolls Disco
Sorrento Night Market
FOOD TRUCKS, GIFT STALLS, LIVE MUSIC, FREE FACE PAINTING, FAIRY, GOOD VIBES! PET FRIENDLY. EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT AT SEACREST PARK, SORRENTO
Sunset Series: Dreambuilders (PG)
Join us for the City of Kalamunda’s FREE outdoor movie screenings. Bring a blanket or chairs & pull up a patch of grass for this year’s Sunset Series.
NORANDA NIGHT BITES
Get amongst the community, enjoy a selection of delicious cuisine from food trucks and browse market stalls and local businesses each Thursday night at the Hawaiian Noranda Car Park during the summer months. For more information, visit Facebook.
KINGSWAY COMMUNITY MARKET
Weekly Mundaring Garden & Farmers Market
Join us at the Mundaring Garden and Farmers Market where you can indulge in a delightful array of fresh local produce, from prime cuts at our beef butcher to vibrant fruit and veg stalls and tempting artisan foods. Your Saturday brekkie cravings are sorted with our delicious food trucks, creating the perfect morning atmosphere under the trees, accompanied by live music each week. Take your time exploring our foodie artisan stalls and a diverse range of market treasures, showcasing the creativity of wonderful small businesses every week. Let’s celebrate local goodness, community spirit, and the joy of discovering unique treasures together. See you at the market! Well behaved dogs on leashes welcome at the markets. Proudly owned and operated by the Mundaring Chamber of Commerce. Supported by Mundaring Community Bank and Shire of Mundaring.
Urban Rhythms – Joondalup Festival 2024
Urban Rhythms
Check out a cool new pop-up exhibition about the artists behind ARTBEAT, featuring images, sketches and insights into the work that goes into creating large-scale public artworks. Date Saturday 2 March – Saturday 13 April Time During Library opening hours which you can find here Location Joondalup Library This is a FREE event – no bookings required Suitable for all ages For more information please head to joondalupfestival.com.au To view our terms and conditions please click here.
ARTBEAT – Joondalup Festival 2024
ARTBEAT
We’re painting the town red (and blue, and green, and purple, and yellow) Joondalup is set to get a big splash of colour as some of WA’s most talented mural artists descend on the CBD! Come and watch as the steps and paths outside the Joondalup Library and Administration Centre are transformed from mundane to mind-blowing marvellous masterpieces. Loving the new art? Head into the library to check out Urban Rhythms – a free pop-up exhibition with information about each of the artists, including previous work, sketches and insights into just how much work goes into creating large-scale public artworks. Date Saturday 2 March – Monday 4 March Time During Library opening hours which are available here. Location Outside the Joondalup Library and City Of Joondalup Civic Centre This is FREE to attend – no bookings required Suitable for all ages For further information please contact 9400 4000 or head to joondalupfestival.com.au To view our terms and conditions please click here.
Kalamunda Garden Festival – Autumn 2024
EASTER PARTY 2024
Join us for a wonderful morning of nature and sensory EASTER play! with sensory stations, arts and crafts, books and blocks and our wonderful mud kitchen its sure to be a morning to remember! So get hopping and get your tickets now.
Duncraig Night Market
Duncraig Night Market 
Juniper Park, Duncraig Food Trucks, Gift Stalls & Live Music 
4.30 – 8.30pm Saturday nights fortnightly 2 March, 16 March
Electric Kingdom – Joondalup Festival 2024
Electric Kingdom
Get ready for a new breed of outdoor experience! Electric Kingdom is an award-winning, jaw-dropping, public art extravaganza featuring large-scale, illuminated animal installations of epic proportions. Come and be captivated by the colossal creatures roaming, rolling and reacting to the crowds, including the menacing Tiger, the mighty Falcon, the roly-poly Pandas, the towering Giraffes, and Tarutharu the Kaurna Skink. Don’t miss the spectacular Underwater Wonderland, where giant jellies bob above luminous fish and incandescent corals. You might even catch two naughty crabs cheekily scurrying through the crowds. In an exciting commission for Joondalup Festival, a brand-new creature is set to be unleashed! Created in collaboration with Nimunburr Yawuru Ballardong Noongar artist Kambarni, the Snake-Necked Turtle will make its debut in the Electric Kingdom. Known as Yaakan, Booyi or Choonya in Noongar, this ‘near threatened’ little turtle is endemic to the Joondalup region. This electrifying one-of-a-kind event has been brought to life by A Blanck Canvas, the Melbourne production team whose illuminated artworks have awed audiences at industry-leading events like World Expo, Moomba and White Night. Dates Saturday 2 March – Friday 22 March Times Fridays & Saturdays 6pm – 10pm Sundays – Thursdays 6pm – 9pm Tickets FREE – no bookings required. Location Hillary’s Boat Harbour For further information please contact 9400 4000 or head to joondalupfestival.com.au To view our terms and conditions please click here.
Melville Youth Collective Market
Grab some mates and head on down to our first ever Melville Youth Collective Market! 
Featuring DJs, young stallholders, free bubble tea*, free terrarium making** and more, it’s a perfect day to join us. Picnic baskets and blankets are welcome for you to make an arvo of it (just no alcohol please). Applications to host a stall have closed. A quiet space will also be available.
WHO: You! (and a friend or three) WHAT: a market day for young people featuring all the good stuff mentioned above. WHEN: Saturday, March 2, 2024. 11.00 am to 4.00 pm. WHERE: The City of Melville Civic Square, which is behind Booragoon Shopping Centre and next to the Civic Square Library.
See you there!
*** until supplies run out
Play and Learn at the Shops
Play and Learn at the Shops is a fun, play-based weekly program for children aged 3 – 5 years that focuses on the skills children need to develop before heading to school. Children will enjoy play experiences such as, the make it table, stories and music, play dough, and an investigation station, before joining in with a fun mat session at the end.
Shelley Foodtrucks Night
A local night market a Shelley Foreshore fortnightly on a Tuesday 4.30pm – 8.30pm.
Live everyday like a weekend! 
Shelley Foreshore ( Next to playground ) Tuesdays Fortnightly 4.30-8.30pm. .
Girls/Ladies Only Bibra Lake Skateboard Clinic
Beyond Skate are running free Girls/Ladies Only Skateboarding Clinics at Bibra Lake Skatepark this summer. Register now!
Diverse Women’s Friendship Group
Welcome to our free friendship group, where you can learn new skills while making new friends! Our group is open to women from all backgrounds, and we’re here to help you get information on topics that matter to you. From women’s health to parenting, financial counselling, we’ve got you covered plus we’re offering free child care while you learn. And if you require an interpreter or have other access needs, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We’re here to help you learn, grow, and connect with others in a safe and supportive environment. Join us today! Registration is essential, click the register button below to secure your spot. What to bring: Kids snacks, water bottle, change of clothes, sunscreen Refreshments: Light refreshments will be served Register for the Diverse Womens Group
Toddler Yoga
Join us on Wednesday mornings during term time for our FREE Toddler yoga classes with YOGAZOO!
Read with Rosie the Story Dog
Jenny and Story Dog Rosie visit the Library on Monday afternoons from 4pm to 5pm. Come along and pick up a book to read to Rosie – or sometimes, one of Rosie’s friends! Story Dogs provides a non-judgemental setting, where children can read to a friendly, calm dog to help improve their focus, literacy skills, and confidence, and help them become lifelong readers. To find out more about Story Dogs, visit https://www.storydogs.org.au More information
Food Sensations for Children
Parents and carers of children 0-5 years are invited to join us for our free Food Sensations for Children program run by a qualified nutritionist. We provide free creche while you learn how to make cooking for your children quick and easy, what’s healthy and what’s not, get some lunchbox ideas and tips for making meal times more enjoyable. This is a popular program so email or text your interest to secure your place.
Moorditj Kulungar Playgroup
Moorditj Kulungar Playgroup brings children, parents, grandparents and extended kin networks of the local Kwinana and Rockingham Aboriginal communities together to learn about culture and support them through a child’s early years, providing opportunities for families to learn about the first years of a child’s life and help prepare them for school. What’s on at Moorditj Kulungar Playgroup?
- Outdoor play
- Intergenerational activities
- Mat time with songs and stories
- Cultural activities and education
- Morning tea
- Ear heath checks
- Access to other community based agencies
26 Bolton Way, Orelia Tuesdays, weekly during term time – Starting 13 February 9.30am to 12pm Transport is available within the Kwinana area.
Hut building with Educated by Nature
About this event:
This nature-based incursion is designed to connect students (and teachers) with the natural world through play. This creates an internal sense of why it’s important to change our environmental behaviours, and work to find sustainable solutions for our world.
The incursions are designed to empower students through the opportunity to develop skills and find individual and collaborative success in the transformation of natural objects.
Pram People – Joondalup Festival 2024
Pram People
We’re rolling out the red carpet for every pram, big or small. Calling all pram users! Put on your headphones, and follow curious prompts, secret messages, even other participants. In your colourful pram decorations, you’ll weave amongst and around each other as performers delight and intrigue, adding to the fun. Presented by Polyglot Theatre, Pram People offers a playful approach to community participation through movement and connection, using the most universal of vehicles – the pram. This moving performance is an experience made specially for children who ride in prams and the adults who push them, so bring your pram to take part. Other family members and friends are welcome to attend for free as observers, and watch the colourful spectacle unfold.
Market and Movies at Telethon Cinema Burswood
Dinner at Dusk Port Coogee – Summer Edition
FREE Family Community Sports Day Out!
Join us on Saturday 10th March from 8.30am to 11.30am as the excitement roars into Roar Bar and Grill for our FREE Family Sports Day Out!
Experience ‘come and try sessions’ from local sporting Clubs within the City of Cockburn, PLUS, dive into all the family fun with FREE face painting, a cuddly animal farm, prizes, giveaways and much more!
Board Game Group
Feeling board? Join the NEW board game group. Starting 07 March 2024 Are you a board game enthusiast? Or would you like to learn new board games? For anyone who loves to play board games or wants to learn to play. Join NOW! Starts 7 March 2024. Every Thursday (excluding school holidays) P: 9364 0148 OR E: bg.bc@melville.wa.gov.au
The Incredible Years® Baby Program
This program is for young parents or parents to be (under 25 years) who live in Kwinana, who are either expecting a baby in the next three months or have a baby under twelve months of age. The Incredible Years® Baby Program is designed to strengthen your parenting skills and promote your little one’s social, emotional, physical development, and is a wonderful opportunity to meet other new parents of babies. This is a FREE program and a light afternoon tea will be provided. For more information call: 0427 390 795
Bedfordale Bush Market
We’ve been hard at work planning for this year’s markets and can’t wait to see you all there! Here are all the dates and themes so you can put them in your calendars 
. Our markets are held every 2nd Saturday of the month from Mar – Nov PS. If you would like to book a stall (we have some of the most affordable stallholder fees around) all of the info is available here – https://www.bedfordalemarkets.com.au/stallholder….
Teddy Bear Rhymetime
Mills Park Free Skateboard Clinic
Beyond Skate are running free Skateboarding clinics at Mills Park this summer. Register now!
Music on The Green: Ashfield Acoustics
Let’s celebrate raw, local talent and vibe to mesmerising, acoustic melodies!
Alcoa Children’s Festival
Get ready for a day of boundless joy and laughter as the City of Kwinana proudly presents the highly anticipated Alcoa Children’s Festival at Calista Oval on Saturday 9 March. This year’s festival promises a spectacular celebration, for kids under 12, featuring free entertainment, thrilling rides, and engaging activities. From toddlers to pre-teens, everyone is invited to join in the excitement. Step into the vibrant world of the Alcoa Children’s Festival, where educational stalls showcase an range of activities, providing young minds with a unique and enriching experience. Indulge your taste buds with delicious treats from our food vendors, adding to the festive atmosphere of the day. Whether you’re seeking thrills, educational experiences, or simply a tasty bite, the Alcoa Children’s Festival has it all. Sponsored by Alcoa and BP. Follow along on Facebook for all the event details. Children’s Festival Facebook event
Dinner at Dusk Bunbury Koombana Bay – Summer Edition
World on a Plate – Nepalese Culture
Experience Nepalese culture through an evening of dance and music performances with traditional instruments, and taste samples of authentic Nepalese cuisine. Tickets on sale 10am, Thursday 1st February
Family Fun Time at Carawatha Park
Bring along your 0-5 year old and enjoy songs, stories and games together.
Learn some new, playful strategies to help family life go more smoothly.
From tooth brushing to car rides, we’ve got ideas and playful tips to help.
Water Safety for Children
A free presentation on how to prevent drowning and keep your kids safe by Royal Life Saving Society Australia
Talking About Cyber Safety and Digital Wellness
Join the City of Mandurah and Kayelene Kerr, founder of eSafeKids for this community, parent and carer workshop on keeping our kids safe online.
Parenting in the digital age can be complex and challenging. Whilst there are many benefits for our children being online, there are also risks. As the trusted adults in our children’s lives, we can support them to maximise the benefits and minimise the risks. Guidance, education and protection have the potential to empower children to use technology safely, respectfully, responsibly, critically and positively.
You will leave this workshop with conversation starters, practical strategies and resource recommendations to support you.
Parents and Caregivers Support Group | Midland
Join us as we share the experiences of supporting your child with mental health challenges.
Summer of Entertainment – Aquafest
Come and Try BMX
Southside BMX located in Bull Creek is hosting a Come and Try BMX day on the 9th of March. The session will be run by qualified Southside BMX Club Coaches. If you’ve never ridden BMX before this is the perfect opportunity to give it a go!
Kankawa Nagarra + Flooded Palace
Family friendly and free to attend, pack your picnic blanket and tune into the rhythms of summer. Melville Summer Music returns, pack your picnic and get down to your local park for sun-drenched evenings with world class musical performances that surprise, captivate and enchant. We have something special for you in March as we welcome Kankawa Nagarra (Olive Knight), a Walmatjarri Elder, international blues and gospel singer-songwriter, teacher and mentor and human rights advocate to the stage. With an incredible story to tell, Kankawa is a joy to watch. Joining Kankawa is Flooded Palace, the seldom-seen kid of much-lauded and awarded multi-instrumentalist Todd Pickett, who’s played over the past 15 years with such luminaries as The Kill Devil Hills, Abbe May, Kim Salmon, The Southern River Band, and Don Walker from Cold Chisel. His star-studded backing band are from equal prestige. Event Information
Bushcare Begins
Come and enjoy light exercise while we go to different parts of Warwick Bushland. A great way to experience our WA bushland with Friends. We meet every fortnight on a Saturday morning. Care, maintenance and weeding involved. Bring water, hat and gloves if possible. All help appreciated.
Clean up Bicton Baths and Blackwall Reach
A community clean up for anyone to attend! We’ll be tackling our foreshore areas around Bicton Baths and Blackwall Reach – a common place for plastics in the Swan River to wash up. To attend, please register with Clean Up Australia via the link below. Meet at the Bicton Baths jetty at 9.00am to get started. We will provide snacks for attendees, extra water as well as all gear required to help with the clean up. Please wear sunscreen, bring a hat and a water bottle. Register Contact: Oliver Black – Sustainable Resource Recovery Education Officer 08 9364 0711
Make a Native Bee Sanctuary
Make your own bee sanctuary from recycled materials with Green Skills Inc. Suitable for adults and children. Children must be supervised. Cost: $7.50 or free for supervising adults. Tickets are available from Eventbrite. Location: North Fremantle Community Centre, 2 Thompson Rd North Fremantle
Garden Party – Joondalup Festival 2024
Juggling, acrobatics, unicycling, tumbling, stilt walking and dancing, phew! In the newest adventure for Queen Bee and Worker Bee, the two buzzy buddies have found themselves in a sticky situation, but some new tricks and the aid of new friends might help them get unstuck. A vibrant narrative show for children and families, Garden Party brings together the very best of circus, acrobatics, dance, magic and live music to create this engaging high-energy performance. If you loved A Bee Story, don’t miss this show from the circus extroadinaires at Arc Circus Co. Stay for a little while longer after the show to learn more about bees with the Eco Faeries. Date: Sunday 10 March 2024 Time: Doors 9.30am – Show Start 10.30am Tickets
- Adult: $19.00
- Student/Concession: $17.00
- Child: $11.00
Location: St Stephens School Theatre, Duncraig
Rapunzel – Joondalup Festival 2024
Despite being locked away in her tower, Rapunzel is no pathetic heroine waiting to be rescued. She is fierce, sassy and her lovely singing stops a passing Prince in his tracks. Hair as long as Rapunzel’s needs maintenance, so Bertha the witch reluctantly lets the local hairdresser, Figaro, into the tower – and a bold escape plan is hatched! Freeze Frame Opera bring you this classic fairytale about growing up and finding your voice, all with an operatic twist. Date: Saturday 16 March Time: 11.30am and 2.30pm (doors open 1hr prior) Tickets
Purple Walk 4 Epilepsy WA 2024
In My Pocket Workshops
A brand new and unique project, suitable for children aged 9-11 in any educational setting.
Human rights literature, arts & crafts workshops. Presented by the WE ARE HERE! Foundation, this creative and interactive educational program inspires children aged nine to eleven to be upstanders and not bystanders, providing them with the tools for building strengths to deal with our diverse world. Participants will read the uplifting true story by Dorrith Oppenheim Sim, and watch a video about how she fled her homeland on the Kindertransport. They will learn about today’s multicultural communities and displaced people of different backgrounds, with millions of refugees, many of whom are children. The workshop includes a related creative arts & crafts activity. All materials are provided. Participants will take home their own mini copy of In My Pocket. Visit Website
Blokes, Kids and a BBQ (BKB)
A relaxed social event for fathers to meet other dads / male carers, enjoy a free BBQ and play with their children at our family centre.
Swan Holi – Festival of Colors
Community Kids Toys Swap
Have your children outgrown their toys? Is your living room full of toys they no longer use or need? Each year, nearly 27 million toys are thrown away by Australians and end up in landfill. Let’s try to reduce these alarming numbers.. Join us on Saturday 23 March at Atwell’s Toy Library for our Community Toy Swap. All you need to do is bring along “good and playable” condition toys that your kids don’t use anymore and exchange them for toys they will love. Bring whatever you have and take whatever you like, and best of all, it’s FREE. Any left over toys will be donated to our Cockburn Toy Library and charitable organisations.
Yokine Car Boot Sale
Sunset Eats – March
Sunset Eats is back, and better than ever! Food trucks will be returning to Mosman Park Sunday 17 March 2024 at 4:30pm. Relax with an evening of street food and live music as the sun sets on Mossie Park. Come on down to Solomon Street, Mann Oval. There’ll be a variety of food trucks, ambient live music and activities on offer. Sunset Eats aims to bring the neighbourhood together of all ages with a fun and relaxed atmosphere. See website for FAQs.
Perth Upmarket
Perth Upmarket proudly stands as Perth’s premier quarterly design market.
Safe Space by the Bookcase
Weekly meet up for LGBTQIA+ teens and their allies in the Library. Come and join in for fun with crafts, activities, and good conversations.
Every Mon | 3:30-5pm | Free | Fremantle Library
Lego League 2024
Come along and free build, have a go at LEGO Classic build or maybe complete some LEGO challenges based on a monthly theme. The choice is yours as we go crazy for ALL THINGS LEGO! This is a non-competitive, fun, easy going build session for children aged 5- 12yrs. It is requested that parents and carers are in attendance to help build and supervise when necessary. All our LEGO sessions are on the last Monday of the month- school term times. 4.00pm – 5.00pm
Dino Disco!
Moonlight Movies
The City of Mandurah is partnering with local community groups to bring you Moonlight Movies. Get your chairs, beanbags and blankets ready for some magical family friendly movie nights this Summer at your local park! Before the movie starts enjoy fun and interactive games and meet with community groups and clubs from your local area.
Hop into Easter
Get ready to hop into the Easter spirit this weekend and join us for an egg-cellent afternoon of fun and excitement at the brand-new Easter Fair! Our Aubin Grove Twilight Markets will be eggstraordinary, filled with egg-citing vendors and delightful treats. The little ones can enjoy free children’s activities that will have them jumping with joy, while live entertainment will have everyone in high spirits. And of course, don’t forget the rides that will have you spinning with egg-citement! Grab your bunny ears and get ready for an Easter adventure like no other! Our Easter Fair event is carbon neutral! What does that mean? The carbon emissions released by this event (such as attendee travel and food consumed and onsite generators) the City has offset through investing in planting mixed native trees and shrubs in Western Australia and permanently cancelling international carbon credits.
Cockburn comes alive
The Easter Fair is part of the action-packed Cockburn Live line-up for 2023 – 2024.
Easter Twilight Markets
Katanning Harmony Festival
BOOF
Family friendly and free to attend, pack your picnic blanket and tune into the rhythms of summer. Melville Summer Music returns, pack your picnic and get down to your local park for sun-drenched evenings with world class musical performances that surprise, captivate and enchant. Closing out a season of incredible performances, is BOOF – a 5-piece, harmony-driven, swampy, pop, funky wah-wah, tell-ya-ma, bar band, born out of Amsterdam in the late 90s and now based in Melbourne. Featuring the home-grown talent of ex Jam-Tart Jody Bell, returning west to treat us to “songs catchier than a boat full of fisherman”. After their successful tours of Europe and a record deal with Sony Music (Holland), we are thrilled to have BOOF as part of Melville Summer Music, turning it up to 11 for our wonderful community. BOOF will play a bag full of new songs, including their three recent singles off their soon-to-be-released 5th album… BOOF are ready to crank Kadidjiny Park and send us out in style.
Summer of Entertainment – Blues and Folk Live
Holi Festival of Color and the Annual MoMo Festival
Date: March 24, 2024 
Time: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM Location: Sutherland Park, Huntingdale
Free Colors for Everyone 
Family-Friendly Activities 
Momo Tasting & Making Tutorials 
Momo Eating Competition 
Live Music and DJ 
Food and Market Stalls 
Ice Cream and Coffee
Perth Makers Market
Perth Makers Market is WA’s premier handmade artisan market, featuring over 150 stalls.
Purple Lights 4 Epilepsy WA
Twinkle Twins
A monthly group for you and your children to meet and connect with other families with multiple birth children. Share your experiences of all things multiple over a nice cuppa and use this great opportunity to share ideas and pick up tips from other families, maybe even arrange further play dates! Wednesdays, 1.30pm to 3.00pm 28 February & 27 March 2024 Facilitated by Ngala Early Years Community Practitioners For families with multiple birth children from birth to 5 years.
Easter Bunny Disco
Lollipop’s Butler EASTER DISCO
Come and celebrate EASTER this year’s @Lollipops Butler EASTER disco.
Perth’s 1st Banh Mi Festival
Exciting Announcement! 
Save the Date: March 30th, 4 PM – 9 PM 
Join us for a celebration of this venerable Vietnamese dish like never before! 
Note: While we’re all about Banh Mi, we’ve got something for everyone! Various vendors will be joining us, so spread the word! Entertainment Highlights: – Free Face Painting for Kids by Mirror Mirror Face Painting – Lion Dancing by GDPT Chanh Tin Lion Dance Troupe – Banh Mi Seminar by Le Vietnam – Vietnamese Coffee Seminar by FOB Coffee – Hot Banh’s Banh Mi Eating Competition hosted by Bluey Zarzov Hot Sauce – Vietnamese Live Singers all night
Beverages to Suit the Occasion: – Locally brewed craft beer by Fat Bull – Vietnamese Coffee by FOB Coffee Perth’s Best Festival Banh Mi Award: All stalls and trucks making Banh Mi will compete for the FIRST-EVER Perth’s Best Festival Banh Mi Award. Want to be a part of the judging panel? Like, share, and tag your friends to enter the running!
Special Appearance: The EASTER BUNNY will be hopping by for a special appearance!
Find more events on our Events calendar
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