What's on in Melbourne on Thursday 8 October 2026
309 things on around Melbourne on Thursday 8 October 2026.
80 of them are free. Top of the list: THE SMITH STREET BAND with Slim Krusty & The Pernicious at HOWLER, MELBOURNE, Brunswick (7:30pm), Briefs: The Works at Spiegel Haus Melbourne (7pm) and Dracula: Ballet at its Darkest at Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne (7pm).
Updated Thu 1 Oct 2026 · we look for new events every night
Thursday 8 October
From $50Fitzroy True Crime Walking Tour
From $99Yarra River Waterbike Tour
From $75Hidden Bars & Creepy Tales: Melbourne Walking Tour
From $89Tae Rak (Lake Condah) 2-Hour Cultural Walk
From $215The Q Train - First Class For 2 - Lunch (Departing Drysdale)
From $159Tungatt Mirring, Stone Country Half Day Tour - Budj Bim
From $199Kooyang Yana Full Day Tour - Budj Bim
From $120Melbourne Sports Experience + Free Australian Sports Museum entry
FreeNick Crawford: Avenues
From $189Yarra Valley: Gourmet and Wine Day Trip with Transportation from Melbourne
FreeThe Green Bus
Marvel Stadium Tour
FreeMy Canvas My Art (MCMA)
From $5Exercise classes for people 50+
FreeMove it to Music
From $19MonsterFest
From $10Encore!
FreeMelbourne International Games Week
FreeRecurring Echoes: Liliana Barbieri
FreeGames Week Showcase
From $22Ashcombe Maze & Lavender Gardens: Entry Ticket
FreeLoose Fit: Contemporary Architecture Projects from East Asia
FreeExhibition: Obang 오방
Stirling Caiulo: There’s No Hiding From the Blood Moon
FreeShaynell Barboza: Essence
FreeCommunity Games Library
From $25Magical Moroccan Gardens Talk
FreeChanging Perspectives
FreeWalk and talk buddies
FreeGuided nature walk through Damper Creek Conservation Reserve.
Free5th Annual U3A Art Exhibition
FreeAcross Generations
From $216Watercolour
From $4OM:NI (Older Men, New Ideas) 2026
From $10Relaxed Performances at Melbourne Recital Centre
FreeStompers
FreeStompers
FreeSongbirds
From $30Maria Callas: Her Life, Jewels & Great Opera Stages
From $10Home Cooking 101
FreeSeniors Film Festival
FreeVictoria Police information session: be aware of your surroundings
FreeIneffable
From $35The Good Stuff: Social Enterprise and Circularity Experience
FreeRebecca Hastings: Witches' Flight
FreeRecovering Art
FreeLean In
FreeGregory Ladner: Garden of Eden
From $25Harp Meditations
From $10The Enormous Radio
FreeBeneath One Moon
FreeKaijern Koo and Natalie Trofimiuk: The Seasons Reversed
FreeConnections Art Exhibition
FreeThe Community Art Card Project
Meet U There
From $216Abstract Art
From $47SENSAS Melbourne - A Unique Multi-Sensory Experience
FreeSpotlight On: Time-travel and Turtles
FreeTjanabi friendly meet up
From $55The Possession
FreeCreatives x Creatives
FreeSt Michael's Organ Recital
From $42Escape Games Melbourne
From $15Art of Style: Seniors Festival Tours
From $45Magic University
From $5518+Meat Grinder
From $55Pirate Island
From $56Melbourne Museum: Melbourne History Tour
FreeStay Safe, Stay Informed: Consumer Rights and Scam Awareness
From $55Zombie Apocalypse
From $55Pirates
From $29Royal Exhibition Building: Guided Dome Promenade Tour
From $46.90123Boom! Melbourne - An Explosive Real-Life Arcade Game Experience
From $82Woodwork Level 1 - Thursday (Public PM)
FreestARTalking Creative Workshops
From $11.90PAX Thursday Pre-Party | Bartronica
FreeLibrary Cinema at narrm ngarrgu
FreeOcker
Oktoberfest at Hofbrauhaus
From $31.20Saboteurs: Crewmates and Impostors - Happy Hours
From $225Flavours of Melbourne Night Trail
From $31Read the Room
From $30LIFE DRAWING AT KYNETON RIDGE
From $65CYBERPUNK TCG - Night City Beta Event - Gameology BRUNSWICK - 08/10/26
FreeLearn to Vibe Code Your First App
From $27.50Second Best Bed
FreeThursday Trivia at Bonnibel
From $28Campervan: An Ozploitation Horror Musical
From $48Piano Four Hands: Beethoven's Fifth
From $25Oliver Pol: Featherbrained
Thursday Trivia
Jack Earle
From $28The Manager is Me
From $34Lost in Translation
From $5.60Thursday Linguas Melbourne Language Exchange and Social
From $25Anti-Smoking Super Show
From $120Home Barista Workshop
FreeStrum and Sing
From $25Spring Styling Event
From $22.49[VIC] AusTubers PAX Pre-Party: After Dark 2026
FreeBlue. Strap. Sit.
From $27The Loch of Love
From $25FU*K! I Killed the Director
From $39Haunted Library Tour
From $15Madeleine Simson Solo Exhibition
From $16Games Week Film Program
From $24.49Singles Party with Icebreakers (ages 20 - 35) | The Aviary, Abbotsford
From $15Capoeira Angola: Ecamar
From $22.49Copy of Curated Designer Pre-loved Shopping Night
FreeThe Island Classic
From $20Capoeira Angola
FreeSwitch: Strengthen Women in Touch Football
From $40Ghosts? What Ghosts! Night Tour
Roisin McAlinden: Fairytale Ending
Briefs: The Works
From $60Dracula: Ballet at its Darkest
From $71.7018+Home Brew
From $26Only Bones: Daniel Nodder
From $24Welcome to Hell
From $53.2518+Mietze Conte
FreeShaun Micallef in conversation with Mary McGillivray
From $25Jane Austen Improvised
From $2018+Winfield Road Experiment Residency
FreeSea Shanties and Folk Songs
From $25Kozo Kaos: Juggling Rocks
Parallels 2026
From $33.08Eaglemont Music Club: Formidable Vegetable w/ Mal Webb & Kylie Morrigan
From $22.49Singles Game Night
From $14Work in Progress
FreeCome and try choir night
From $40Extra Lives: Video Game Concert
From $27.50Krilling Me Softly
From $5018+THE SMITH STREET BAND with Slim Krusty & The Pernicious
Giselle
Spamalot
From $25Bitch Boxer
From $20Za Górami Live
FreeYoung Frankenstein
From $20The Ex Files: A Comedy True Crime Tour
From $25Rama Nicholas in Fairy Smut
From $19.99Dune But Worse
FreeJazz Thursdays at McAdams Wine Bar
From $25Parasocial
From $818+HEALS and friends
From $25Toto's Song
From $210Melbourne: Spirit of Melbourne 4-Course Dinner Cruise + Drinks
From $28Zoe's Killer Instinct
From $18Don't Screw the Kru
FreeEltham copper butterfly larvae count
Murder in the Market: A Murder Village Improvised Whodunnit
From $26Yellow Fever: An Original Musical Cabaret
From $23.75Jenna Suffern: Lobster In A Glass
From $25Kauboj
From $30Adore Händel’s Birthday Party
From $22Best of Fringe Magic
From $1518+RUFOUS WHISTLER / RYAN MARTIN JOHN
From $22The Year There Were No Monsters
From $29Ghostware
Slugs
From $25Nosebleeds
From $28Marketing Man
From $26Spring!
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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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