What's on in Melbourne on Saturday 3 October 2026
423 things on around Melbourne on Saturday 3 October 2026.
78 of them are free. Top of the list: Freeform Festival 2026 at Sidney Myer Music Bowl, Melbourne (2pm), BINGO LOCO at 170 RUSSELL, MELBOURNE (5:30pm) and Bottomless Brunch Afloat in Melbourne at Southbank Promenade, Melbourne.
Updated Thu 1 Oct 2026 · we look for new events every night
Saturday 3 October
Keen pickFrom $135Bottomless Brunch Afloat in Melbourne
From $99Yarra River Waterbike Tour
From $75Hidden Bars & Creepy Tales: Melbourne Walking Tour
From $65Magic Men Cabaret Ladies Night
FreeFree Fun Run Time Trial at The Tan
FreeRun the Tan: Run Club
FreeAurora parkrun
From $29SceneScape
From $99Queen Victoria Market's Ultimate Foodie Tour
From $56Melbourne Museum: Home of Dinosaurs Guided Tour
From $12Spring School Holidays at Melbourne Museum
Marvel Stadium Tour
From $22.49Battle of Nations 3.0
From $27Melbourne Royal Show
From $19MonsterFest
From $10Encore!
FreeFashion Thrift Society Melbourne | October 3
From $18We Like Laika
FreeMelbourne International Games Week
Melbourne Kids Book Fest
From $29Royal Exhibition Building: Guided Dome Promenade Tour
FreeThe Art of Botanical Illustration
FreeHarvest Home Market
From $46.90123Boom! Melbourne - An Explosive Real-Life Arcade Game Experience
Creative Lab: Rise of the Gladiators
Billie B Brown and the Case of the Missing Treasure
From $80Mosaic Lamp Workshop - Melbourne
FreeGames Week Showcase
From $22Ashcombe Maze & Lavender Gardens: Entry Ticket
FreeSalsa Dancing Classes
From $4.50Fitzroy Gardens Wonder and Whimsy
FreeExhibition: Obang 오방
Stirling Caiulo: There’s No Hiding From the Blood Moon
FreeCommunity Games Library
FreeEmergency Services Expo - Blessing of the Emergency Services Fleet
From $6.61Deaf Children Australia "We belong" Art Exhibition 2026
From $18.69Singles Coffee Mixer Melbourne (ages 25 - 35) | Brunswick East, Melbourne
From $42Escape Games Melbourne
From $47SENSAS Melbourne - A Unique Multi-Sensory Experience
TAB Turnbull Stakes Day - General Admission
FreeRMIT City North Shared Futures Festival
From $12Matinees at ACMI Cinemas
FreeIneffable
From $35Walsh Street Guided Tour
FreeEMERGENCE[Y]
FreeRebecca Hastings: Witches' Flight
FreeRESET: A Festival for Grounding and Growing
From $65Shrek Afternoon Tea
FreeLean In
FreeWild Faaji x StreetSouk: Melbourne Streetwear Marketplace [FREE RSVP]
From $180Laneways Mystery Picnic with Beginner Cocktail Masterclass
From $35Design X Nature Workshop: Nature Journaling in the Drylands
FreeEllsworth Overton: 50 Years With VAS
FreeShaynell Barboza: Essence
FreeTest Garden Open Day: Birds in the Big City
From $25Pigments of the Past: For Kids
From $222026 - Ratio Cocoa Roasters behind the scenes chocolate factory tour
FreeYianni John and Sammi Edney: That Little Something Xtra
FreeVictorian Artists Society: Maritime Exhibition
FreeGregory Ladner: Garden of Eden
The Magic Pyjama Party
From $55The Possession
From $26Indonesian Horror Film Festival
From $5518+Meat Grinder
From $20Melbourne International Street Dance Experience
From $10The Enormous Radio
Circus The Show
Oktoberfest at Hofbrauhaus
FreeFour Seasons of Creativity
From $49High Tea at the Stamford Plaza
FreeKate Murdoch: Cosmic Forms
FreeKINGS Artist-Run: September Exhibitions
From $85Picnic High Tea
From $55Pirates
From $64.85Monster Jam
From $49Afternoon Tea at InterContinental Melbourne The Rialto
FreeGeorgia Spain: Everything Everyone's Told You is True
From $4918+OLIVIA "IF NOT FOR YOU" - FEATURING TOTTIE GOLDSMITH
FreeRecurring Echoes: Liliana Barbieri
FreeCreatives x Creatives
From $135Spirit of Melbourne Bottomless Brunch
From $25Welcoming Spring: Tea Served in Antique Vessels
FreeThe Activity Hub
FreePocket House
From $16Focus on Frederick Wiseman
The Glow Squad
From $116.6118+Freeform Festival 2026
From $60Dracula: Ballet at its Darkest
The Homecoming
From $72.0218+Morning After 10th Birthday Party
Spamalot
From $6518+★ S.A.S.H Melbourne x No Way Back x One Percent ★ Slapfunk 15th Anniversary ★ Open Air Location ★ Saturday 3rd Oct ★
From $25Get Real
From $25Exhibit
From $150Domaine Auguste Clape Wine Tasting
From $71.74★ S.A.S.H Melbourne x No Way Back x One Percent ★ Slapfunk 15th Anniversary
From $118Putt and Sip Melbourne
From $99State v State: WA v SA Wine Showdown
Silvers Circus
From $100Play and Sip Melbourne
From $27Twinky Twinky Little Star
From $15Till the Day I Die
Dark Fae Fantasy Market
From $13.74Bingo Bananza
From $25Trash Wizard
From $10Registrations: Hidden Door Journal Issue 3
Briefs: The Works
Free18+DEAR BUFFALO / JEMIMA MADDER
From $17.19Zumba Pink Party
From $35Lankan Tucker Laughs
From $45.78VIPER ROOM - Day to Night: DJ KAT IS BACK, SATURDAY 03.10.26
From $21.48Cabaret Ridiculous
From $80Kokedama Workshop
Keen pickFrom $4418+BINGO LOCO
From $32Back to Me
From $25Melbourne's - True Crime Tour
From $34Brown Women Poetry
From $30Autonomy of Flo(w)
18+YOUNG JONN LIVE IN MELBOURNE
From $22NBL: Melbourne United v Cairns Taipans
Rick Price: Call on Me Tour
From $20QFWFQ
Tina's Rooftop Piano Bar
From $34Lost in Translation
From $22.50The Boards Above Her Face
From $32.97Melbourne Speed Dating Event 34–55years Singles Night | Speed Dating Social
From $25Anti-Smoking Super Show
In Between Worlds
From $5518+Feel The Magic: Magic Men Live - Melbourne
From $139Resin Art Class in Melbourne
From $62.20Paint And Sip: Painting Partners | Melbourne Painting Class
From $55Zombie Apocalypse
From $33.1218+ELLA HOOPER: THE OVERNIGHT SUCCESS TOUR
From $16Focus on Lynne Ramsay
From $65Sip n Paint in Melbourne: Bob Ross' Sunset Landscape
From $58.64Magic Men Melbourne - Crown Casino
From $99.90Conan Gray
From $45Gugu Dindi Gunyah
From $6018+Princess Chelsea
From $33.08ilan Bluestone
From $26Only Bones: Daniel Nodder
From $35Kings of Comedy: Underground, Uncensored, Unrivalled
From $40Sonya Lifschitz: Duet for One
From $24Welcome to Hell
From $25Jane Austen Improvised
From $1518+Rocktober
From $89Traitors Experience - Live Game & Murder Mystery Dinner
From $180Dark Fae Masquerade Ball
From $43.1318+SAARAL SYNDICATE · Take It Easy Urvasi
From $30How Dare You?
From $24.51Kings of Comedy's Melbourne Comedy Club
From $17.19Post Oblivion @ The Graveyard
From $17.19Aura Lounge
From $20SUPER SATURDAY - Hotel Spencer Bar and Grill + Club Retro w/DAN - 2km
From $4The Music of Elton: 40 Years of MSO x Elton John
From $55Melbourne United vs Cairns Taipans
Jerry Springtime Show
From $2518+9lives with Kaizo, Lucy Lamb, Polaxi, Pink Krosses, brandonaga
From $20The Ex Files: A Comedy True Crime Tour
From $19.99Dune But Worse
From $212.02Cup of Joe's Stardust Melbourne Australia Tour 2026
From $69.0518+TYLER BRADEN (USA) - Wild At Heart Tour
Geelong Comedy Festival- Preview Pop Up
FreeCongress
From $27Happy Birthday Taylah Whelan
From $22Comedy at the Coopers Inn
From $28Basement Comedy Club: Weekend Showcase
From $42.61Qawali by NIZAMI BANDHU
From $38.01Johnny Jukebox - John Standley LIVE in Bendigo!
From $17.19Asian LGBT+ Social Night DJ KARAOKE KPOP (enter by 8.30) NON-ASIAN WELCOME
From $2018+Bruno Disco presents… Dad Romance
From $24.99Bollywood Garage Melbourne ft. BeatCrush
From $32.04Melbourne Bar Crawl | #1 Saturday Night Out
From $15Spawn!
From $30Philosophy of the World
From $23.75Jenna Suffern: Lobster In A Glass
From $29Mrs Lovett's Famous Meat Pies Grand Reopening Extravaganza
From $24Glimpses of Heaven
From $39Hidden Melbourne: Ghosts, Murder and Mystery
From $2018+DAISY KILBOURNE / RUBY JONES
From $25The Master and His Dogs
From $29Ghostware
From $21.59CHARLI XCX VS THE 1975 MELBOURNE
From $19.15Wild Faaji Streetsouk : Freedom Melbourne | Afro Rave, Afrobeats & Amapiano
From $16.93POOF DOOF - Sat 3rd October - Presale Ticket
Slugs
Vaudeville Smash'd
IKEA Wars
From $25Nosebleeds
From $28Marketing Man
From $26Spring!
From $21.5018+ELECTRIC DREAMS: 13th Year Birthday Celebration
From $16.6118+ELECTRIC DREAMS: RnB - HipHop & Commercial CLUB
From $25Blake Everett: Tight Five
From $38.37DJ Mahsa x Arabian & R&B Night!
From $17.19VOYAGE @ My Aeon
From $16.97Stamina Melbourne 2026
FreeBollywood Night - FREE ENTRY!
18+Chris Luno — Melbourne 2026
From $6.14DIVORCED DAD ROCK NIGHT MELBOURNE
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Keen pickFrom $38.50Melbourne Museum: ROME - Empire, Power, People Exhibition
Keen pickFrom $15Scienceworks Melbourne: Entry Ticket
Keen pickFrom $33.90Bubble Planet: An Immersive Experience in Melbourne
Keen pickFrom $99Night Bites — Experience Melbourne’s best street eats
From $119.90Tame Impala
Melbourne Fringe Festival
From $19Melbourne Winter Masterpieces: CARTIER
From $15Rome: Empire, Power, People
From $17Margaret Preston
Monty Python's Spamalot
From $11Ragnar Kjartansson: Mercy
FreeWorld of the Book
FreeFeng Mengbo: Long March Restart
FreeThe Story of the Moving Image
From $19Body Worlds: The Anatomy of Happiness
FreeNEW26
From $65Alcotraz: Melbourne's First Prison-Themed Cocktail Bar
FreePlant Life: The Nature of Design
From $10Divine Thresholds: Icons and the Orthodox Christian World
From $39State Library Victoria Unlocked
From $52.25Melbourne Skydeck & Edge Experience: Panoramic Views 285 Metres Up
From $38Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) Tour
FreeRebel Heart: Love Letters and Other Declarations
FreeMaking Memoir of a Snail
From $12Home is Football: Belonging in Australian Soccer
Eliza
FreeSmithsonian Starstruck: An Immersive Experience
Punting on the Lake
FreeChildren's Play: Ragnar Kjartansson
From $85Coffee Culture Tour
FreeDesign X Nature
FreeDhandha/Campfire
From $58Melbourne Zoo: Entry Ticket
From $27.78Flipout 2026
From $21.95MCG Tour & Australian Sports Museum
FreeMaking Modern Melbourne
FreeHERstory: Remembering Australia’s Military Women
FreeTreaty
FreeSparks in the Dark: 260 Weeks of Resilience
From $18Reawakening Deep Water Knowledge
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