Your Guide To What’s On In Perth This Weekend
Maddie Wallman
Contributor | Urban List
Ready to kickstart your weekend? We've tracked down your weekly heaping of good times in Perth/Boorloo.
Festivals, cheap eats, markets, and more are all ripe for the filling of that social calendar, and your stomach. The real question is how many of these can you fit into one week? Here are some of the best things to do this weekend in Perth.
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What's On Thursday
What's On Friday
What's On Saturday
What's On Sunday
What's On All Weekend
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What's On Thursday 5 February:
PICA After Hours Opening Night
Art, music and yep, free drinks. PICA After Hours is kicking off this Thursday, turning the gallery into a jazzy jungle of art, antics and balcony tunes courtesy of local alt-jazz crew jade//vision. Meander through Bunuru season’s latest exhibition and let the music guide you from canvas to cocktail. The first 100 drinks are on the house, so be sure to come early and stay for the party.
Tessa MacKay Social Realism Opening Exhibition at Lawson Flats
Step into a time capsule of awkward angles, early filters and pre-curated selfies at the opening of Tessa MacKay’s Social Realism. The Freo-based photorealism whiz has turned those mid-2000s Facebook shots and turned them into hyper-detailed, oddly captivating works of art. Red-eye, pixelation and cringe-worthy charm of the early digital life are celebrated here, so sip a vino, saunter around the space, and soak up the nostalgia.
Thursday Set Menu at Si Paradiso
Si Paradiso just became the place to be on a Thursday night, with a very enticing midweek offer—a three-course set menu featuring some of Chef Larissa Goncalves best, all for just $40 a pop, perfect for lingering and grazing the night away.
Unlike your classic set menu, the Si team has built this one to be flexible. Kick things off with scallop and blood orange crudo and a lobster crespelle, before moving on to your choice of succulent pork spiedini with kimchi butter sauce or market fish spiedini with limoncello butter sauce, accompanied by either green goddess salad or a honey mustard insalata mix. Cap it off with your choice of pizza, and you’ve got the makings of a seriously good Thursday night. Want to kick things up a notch? Opt into the extras, like a dozen oysters or a scoop of Si Paradiso’s classic tiramisu for dessert.
Speaking of kicking things up a notch, they’re also flinging the cellar doors wide open and offering up their cellar list at 40% (and there’s some great chardys in there to get into). If you’ve been looking for an excuse to spend your Thursday over good food and great vino, this is it.
What's On Friday 30 January:
Tradie Fridays at the Woodbridge Hotel
Tools down—Guildford’s old-school Woodbridge Hotel has a new end-of-week feast built for big appetites. Every Friday from 1pm-5pm, you can snag a cold beer and towering burger for just $25. Choose from three meaty monsters: The Work is your classic Aussie burg with beef, bacon, pineapple and all the trimmings; the Stack slaps fried chicken and spicy slaw; and The Diesel Deluxe combines beef and brisket for a flavour pile-up you’ll need both hands to tackle.
What's On Saturday 31 January:
Hello, Lovebirds – Fremantle Wedding Showcase 2026
Going to the chapel in the near future, or hoping for a ring on your finger before the end of the year? Swing by the Fremantle Wedding Showcase to swoon over the set-ups and plan your big day with the pros. Here, you’ll be able to get exclusive deals, sample tasty treats and chat to local vendors without any pressure, stress or spreadsheets. It’s all under one stylish roof, reading and waiting for you to say ‘I do’ this weekend in Freo.
Yacht Rock Presents Landslide: A Fleetwood Mac Tribute at Hotel Rottnest
We all know that thunder only happens when it's raining, but this Saturday’s forecast is a sizzling 30 degrees with a high chance of cathartic singalongs in the sun. From 11am-8pm, the tribute band Landslide will be delivering a full-day of Fleetwood Mac magic on Rottnest Island, belting out all of the hits you know and love from Stevie Nicks, with soaring harmonies, high-octane riffs and flawless sound. Entry is free, and when the last note fades, a 9pm ferry will whisk you back to Freo.
Bottomless Seafood Brunch By The Swan at West Kitchen & Bar
Set sail on a seafood adventure at West Kitchen & Bar, where the river views are almost as good as the feast itself. From chilled prawns and oysters to piping-hot seafood hits and crisp salads, head chef Zhaosik Ooi is serving up a tide-to-table spread that’s guaranteed to reel you in. You can make as many trips to the buffet as you can handle—no one’s judging.
Strange Creatures Family Day at Brewdog
The school holidays may be over but the fun isn’t stopping at Brewdog. This Saturday, the inner-city taproom will be crawling (and swimming, and scuttling) with the weird and wonderful—glowing deep-sea fish, microscopic superheroes that refuse to quit, colour-changing chameleons and even the legendary dodo. From 2pm-5pm, kids can get hands-on with workshops and face painting dedicated to the strange creatures of the world. Strange, silly and spectacularly boredom-busting, it’s an afternoon where the weird wins, imagination runs wild, and live music from 7pm keeps the whole family grooving.
Poetic Futures at Lawson Flats
Three First Nations poets are taking the mic at Lawson Flats this Saturday, spinning joy, queer futures, ancient knowledge and unexpected belonging into verses that inspire, soothe and shake the room. Doors swing open at 6pm, with a post-poetry DJ on the decks until 9.30pm. Tickets are just $25 via Perth Festival, with an Auslan interpreter joining the show.
What's On Sunday 1 February:
Long Table Dinner Series: Chinese-Inspired at Bright Tank Brewing
Pull up a seat and get ready to share, swipe and slurp your way through Luna New Year with Brown Street Grill and Bright Tank’s Chinese Long Table Dinner. From smoky duck packages and plump shao mai to charred tiger prawns and XO fried rice, this $65 per person feast is all about fire, flavour, family and friends. Book now, seats to this table are disappearing faster than dumplings at dinner time.
Ducks, Shucks & Nibs at Baillie Hill
Shuck yeah, oyster lovers! Pearly pleasures await at the pop-up shucking station at Milly’s Courtyard within the brand spankin’ Baillie Hill. From 4pm-7pm this Sunday and next, Tom from Shucks & Nibs will be shucking, cracking and bantering his way through buckets of Leeuwin Coast Albany Rock oysters, delivering fresh bivalve bliss with a side of immaculate energies. Shell out in Vic Park for a Sunday well spent.
Rugby SVNS
Time to pull together an outrageous costume—HSBC SVNS is back this weekend, bringing two full days of sevens rugby, sun, dancing and dress-ups to HBF Arena. Fast, furious and ridiculously fun, you don’t need to know a scrum from a sprint to enjoy the action on and off the field. While the world's best players blitz across the pitch in 14-minute matches, live bands, DJs, multiple bars, epic eats and roaming performers keep the party rolling. It’s two days of tries, tunes and total chaos that’ll convert even the most casual bystander into a full-blown rugby fanatic.
Fringe
There’s just over one week left of the wild, weird and wonderfully unhinged world of Fringe Festival 2026, and if you haven’t yet made it to a show, consider this your sequined sign. This year’s line-up is a riotous rollercoaster of sparkle, sass, stunts and stand-up: swing into NonnaMia’s nostalgic Italian classic jazzed up for singer Etta D’Elia with side-splitting comedy by James Loitta, or buckle up for a hilariously heartbreaking ride through adulting with the one-woman show Playworn. Get booking now before the final curtain call on February 15.
Perth Festival
As if we weren’t already spoiled with shows and sunshine in February! From February 6, Perth Festival will be back to its old tricks, turning the city into a four-week hub of music, art, dance, film, performance and culture. Expect ARIA-winning acts like Baker Boy and Sudan Archives at the East Perth Power Station, intimate jazz and cabaret at The Embassy, world-class cinema screenings under the pine trees at UWA Somerville, and much, much more all month long.
Kaleidoscope at The Quay
Kaleidoscope is a free, all-ages extravaganza that turns Elizabeth Quay into a neon wonderland of light, music and movement. Stroll under six towering arches that pulse with colour and sound, shimmy through the glowing footbridge’s silent disco, and dodge acrobats and colourful characters popping up around every corner. While parents soak up the tunes from the floating stage, kids can hang out with real-life mermaids*, cool off in the waterpark, and dive into crazy interactive shows.
*Mermaids may or may not be humans who can hold their breath for suspiciously long amounts of time.
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