Meat Market

The legendary Workshop 3 at Meat Market is looking for new occupants!

This is an adaptable bluestone basement and a brilliant piece of history, with Melbourne Electronic Sound Studio having the most recent licence for over 8 years. There is space here for plenty of desks, workbenches, easels and practical arts tools. It's fully accessible with large doorways and washup spaces, and you'd be entering an on-site creative community with writers, arts orgs, musicians, festivals, visual artists and designers.
Please sign up for a walkthrough! We must show you the space in person before you are able to submit an application. These are occurring on:

🔸Tuesday 31st March at 2:30pm
🔸Wednesday 8th April at 5:30pm

For full details, enquiries and to book a walkthrough, please follow the link in our bio.

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈Midsumma is taking over Meat Market!🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

We are thrilled to be hosting a bold, beautiful lineup of Midsumma Festival events this January – transforming the venue into a vibrant hub of q***r performance, art, sound, and celebration.

From Amplio Rocks!, a Deaf club and dance party with floor-vibrating beats, Auslan, captions, and interactive music experiences 🎶, to GARABARI by Joel Bray, an immersive First Nations contemporary gathering pulsing with techno, song and collective movement 👯 – there is so much to experience!

‼️Don’t miss out on…
~ Beasties – a wild burlesque-ritual performance and free exhibition of q***r chimera trash creatures
~ PiaNu-Metal – nu-metal classics reimagined by a classically-trained pianist
~ Hot & Heavy by The Ironing Maidens – part installation, part performance, part dance floor uprising, a high-energy critique of domesticity and capitalism
~ Magical Prescriptions – intimate one-on-one ritual encounters with “Dr” Jessica Ngaio Smith
~ Reflections of a Decaying World – photographic installation a top deconstructed discoballs
~ Q***r Sound Exchange – a free networking session for q***r sound makers
~ State of Play – an interactive performance-lecture exploring q***r disability

📅 Join us at Meat Market from 22 to 31 January for a celebration of q***r creativity, performance, and community.

🎟️Get your tickets and access the full program via https://meatmarket.org.au/whats-on/🔗

Wishing our wonderful community a safe, joyful and peaceful end to the year!

We’ll be closed from Friday 19 December until Monday 5 January.

For venue hire enquiries during the break you can still email us at [email protected]

See you in 2026!

Get your skates on and book your tickets to 'Mama Does Derby'.
Meat Market licensee Luke Smiles has created the sound design for 'Mama Does Derby' an exciting new production premiering at the Sydney Festival in January 2026, followed by a run at the Adelaide Festival from February to March 2026.

Windmill Production Company
Co-created by Clare Watson and Virginia Gay

Mama Does Derby
sydneyfestival.org.au
adelaidefestival.com.au

Join Grand Koala productions for a night of debauchery and a gaze upon the portrait that holds the soul of Dorian Gray in this stage adaptation of Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel.

“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself…”

Experience the magic live at Meat Market Stables
The Picture of Dorian Gray
4–6 December

A rare opportunity to join the Meat Market licensees!

Available now for ongoing/long-term lease, Studio 1 is a self-contained studio space with private entrance and street-frontage at the heritage-listed Meat Market.

Part of the Meat Market Studio Program, this multi-level flexible space has high ceilings, a light filled front office and would be suited to independent artists and arts organisations or other creative practitioners.

Subsidised cost: $1,250 per month ex GST

To find out more and to register your interest visit: ow.ly/7nzB50XyrWj

Our friends at ILBIJERRI Theatre Company are bringing two captivating shows to Malthouse this month.

Scar Trees
A passionate story about complex family dynamics adapted by ILBIJERRI from an original play by Decland Furber Gillick, Scar Trees explores resilience, hope and unconditional love.

📅26-28 November
📍Beckett Theatre, Malthouse

Goodbye Aunty Flo
Everyone's favourite Tidda, Aunty Flo, is back and ready to talk about all things women's business! Based on the real-life experience of First Nations women, Goodbye Aunty Flo by Nazeree Dickerson takes you through the ups and downs of the most natural stage of anyone who bleeds life: menopause.

📅28–29 November
📍Beckett Theatre, Malthouse

Visit 🔗in bio to book your tickets now!

Image 1: 📷 Jacinta Keefe
Image 2: 📷 Tiff Garvey

Fringe @ Meat Market is still raging🔥 Serving up a spicy cocktail of drag, dance, theatre, cabaret — and yes, even adult bubble magic.
Pick your flavour, book your night out.

🔗 in bio, you know what to do.

All happening now as part of

Fringe at Meat Market is still raging!

Serving up a spicy cocktail of drag, dance, theatre, cabaret — and yes, even adult bubble magic.

Pick your flavour and book your night out.

🔗 in bio, you know what to do.

All happening as part of .

Get your glam on and behold Tassel Events Mx Burlesque Victoria 2025 finalists as they battle it out for the crown in Australia’s most prestigious burlesque competition.

Don’t miss your chance to witness the sparkle live – expect glitz, glamour, and jaw-dropping performances. This is Victorian burlesque at its finest – and most fiercely competitive!

Contains adult themes and implied nudity.

📅 Saturday 13 September
📍 Cobblestone Pavilion, Meat Market
🎟️ Tickets via link in bio

Classical music, cocktails and conversation – what more could you ask for?

'Meet at the Market' for a one-hour performance featuring highlights from Orchestra Victoria's Southbank Series.

Arrive early and stay late to mingle with the musicians in the relaxed and intimate atmosphere of Meat Market's Blackwood Box.

Meet at the Market
📅 Friday 12 September
🕖 7pm–9pm

You’re Invited to Fashion Sale 2025!

Get ready for a day of creativity, culture and community.

20+ emerging designers will showcase their unique creations. Find handmade treasures, limited-edition pieces, live music, food, interactive workshops, live radio and immersive cultural experiences – including catwalk shows for kids and adults.

Head to the What's On page on our website for more.

🕙 10am–5pm
📅 Saturday 6 September
📍 Cobblestone Pavilion,