What's on in Melbourne on Monday 5 October 2026
219 things on around Melbourne on Monday 5 October 2026.
53 of them are free. Top of the list: Olivia Dean at Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne (7:30pm), Stellar Nights at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria - Melbourne Gardens (8pm) and We Like Laika at Cinema Nova, Carlton (10am).
Updated Thu 1 Oct 2026 · we look for new events every night
Monday 5 October
From $99Yarra River Waterbike Tour
From $120Melbourne Sports Experience + Free Australian Sports Museum entry
From $199Foodies Bucket List - Walking Tour
From $165Grampians National Park: Day Trip with Transport from Melbourne
From $189Yarra Valley: Gourmet and Wine Day Trip with Transportation from Melbourne
FreeThe Green Bus
Marvel Stadium Tour
From $199Mornington Peninsula Food & Wine Taste Trail
From $2Bush Nomands
FreeStep and Connect: Free social walking group
From $5Exercise classes for people 50+
From $15Mat Pilates on Mondays (Term 4)
FreeMove it to Music
From $18We Like Laika
FreeMelbourne International Games Week
FreeGames Week Showcase
From $22Ashcombe Maze & Lavender Gardens: Entry Ticket
FreeLoose Fit: Contemporary Architecture Projects from East Asia
Stirling Caiulo: There’s No Hiding From the Blood Moon
FreeShaynell Barboza: Essence
FreeCommunity Games Library
FreeMahjong Mondays at Altona North Library
FreeInflatable Planetarium
FreeWalk and talk buddies
From $2The Paper Club
FreeWalking Group 2026
From $6MENA Casual Walking Netball
From $3Walking Football
From $37.31Advanced Jazz Class with Manni Carella
FreeSongbirds
FreeStompers
FreeKorean and English Storytime
FreeSongbirds
From $4RummiKlub 2026
From $16.83Morning Melodies: Bacharach & Beyond | Bannockburn
From $160Seated Yoga
FreeThe Thorne Birds
FreePride Across the North- A Victorian Pride Centre Visit
From $29.89Adult Lyrical & Contemporary Classes
From $215The Q Train - First Class For 2 - Lunch (Departing Drysdale)
FreeBeneath One Moon
FreeSeniors Festival: Indoor carpet bowls
FreeAuslan Storytime
From $4Yarrunga Indoor Bowls 2026
From $165Yarrunga Writers 2026
From $29.89Beginner/Inter Tap Classes
From $56Melbourne Museum: Melbourne History Tour
Chair based Yoga
From $139Melbourne Foodie Experience: Walking Tour
From $29Royal Exhibition Building: Guided Dome Promenade Tour
FreeOur Words, Our Way
From $31Read the Room
From $27.50Second Best Bed
From $25Oliver Pol: Featherbrained
From $16Games Week Film Program
From $35Queer Art Club
From $27The Loch of Love
From $13Line Dancing Classes @ Brunswick Bowling Club
From $25FU*K! I Killed the Director
From $16Focus on Lynne Ramsay
From $5Drawing fundamentals workshops with David Payne
From $5Fundamentals of drawing with David Payne
From $22.49Shopping Night at The Find Preloved Boutique
From $5Soccer social games
From $14.01Comedy at Spleen
From $30Colour Me Stella
From $19.31Life drawing - Unassigned Gallery
From $22.49All Naturale Life Drawing
From $109.90Olivia Dean
Aaron Chen: Technology
From $15Yoga for All
From $28Zoe's Killer Instinct
From $25Stellar Nights
From $17.48Extra Lives: Interactive Video Game Concert at Cherry Bar MON OCT 5
FreeWorking It Out
From $7Scottish Country Dancing
From $25Kauboj
From $28Marketing Man
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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
And 101 more on Keen, with the ones your mates are free for up top. Pick a day above to see everything on that date.
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