What's on in Melbourne on Friday 9 October 2026
336 things on around Melbourne on Friday 9 October 2026.
70 of them are free. Top of the list: Post Malone's BIG ASS World Tour - With Don Toliver at Marvel Stadium, Docklands (7pm), Carl Barron: Just Wondering Why at Palais Theatre, St Kilda (8pm) and The Stuttgart Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty at Regent Theatre, Melbourne (7:30pm).
Updated Thu 1 Oct 2026 · we look for new events every night
Friday 9 October
From $50Fitzroy True Crime Walking Tour
From $99Yarra River Waterbike Tour
From $35Melbourne Magic Show: Impossible Occurrences Ticket
From $50Alices Journeys Walking Tours of Daylesford 1.45pm FRI 9.45am SAT
From $89Tae Rak (Lake Condah) 2-Hour Cultural Walk
From $159Tungatt Mirring, Stone Country Half Day Tour - Budj Bim
From $169Hidden Bars of Melbourne
From $199Kooyang Yana Full Day Tour - Budj Bim
FreeNick Crawford: Avenues
FreeThe Green Bus
From $56Melbourne Museum: Home of Dinosaurs Guided Tour
Marvel Stadium Tour
From $95Vego Toastie Hunt
FreeMy Canvas My Art (MCMA)
From $5Yarrunga Walkers 2026
From $15Zumba Gold (Term 4)
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
FreeShaynell Barboza: Essence
FreeCommunity Games Library
FreeDesign X Nature Artist-in-Residence: Pastures
FreeMahjong Fridays at Altona Library
FreeChanging Perspectives
From $90Family history: creative inspiration, research tips & writing strategies
Free5th Annual U3A Art Exhibition
From $6MENA Casual Walking Netball
FreeRead, Play and Connect (Thomastown)
FreeFriday morning tech class: shopping safely online
FreeSongbirds
FreeStompers
From $160Jungle Body - Get Low
FreeIneffable
From $47SENSAS Melbourne - A Unique Multi-Sensory Experience
FreeRebecca Hastings: Witches' Flight
FreeRecovering Art
From $46.90123Boom! Melbourne - An Explosive Real-Life Arcade Game Experience
FreeLean In
From $180Laneways Mystery Picnic with Beginner Cocktail Masterclass
FreeGregory Ladner: Garden of Eden
From $20Outfit Out Loud: customised clothing workshop
Meet U There
FreeStep Back In Time - Williamstown Guided Walking Tour
From $10The Enormous Radio
FreeBeneath One Moon
From $149.55OneTribe October 2026
FreeKaijern Koo and Natalie Trofimiuk: The Seasons Reversed
From $5Line Dancing
FreeThe Community Art Card Project
From $55The Possession
FreeCreatives x Creatives
From $75Spirit of Melbourne Lunch Cruise
Stirling Caiulo: There’s No Hiding From the Blood Moon
From $42Escape Games Melbourne
FreeTry lawn bowls
FreeSocial Scrabble
From $45Magic University
From $5518+Asylum
From $5518+Meat Grinder
From $55Pirate Island
From $12Matinees at ACMI Cinemas
FreeWith One Voice Community Choir
FreeSeniors Film Festival
From $6.61Creative Watercolour Workshop
From $55Zombie Apocalypse
From $55Pirates
From $29Royal Exhibition Building: Guided Dome Promenade Tour
From $25Journal and Connect Café Session
FreeStrummingbird Ballarat | 2026 | CAMPING & PARKING
FreeAll About Art
Oktoberfest at Hofbrauhaus
From $31.20Saboteurs: Crewmates and Impostors - Happy Hours
Weekly Fencing Classes – Fencity Fencing Club
From $31Read the Room
From $25Melbourne's - True Crime Tour
From $30Gill Cordiner
From $27.50Second Best Bed
FreeHousewarming
From $28Campervan: An Ozploitation Horror Musical
From $70.14JACK JONES - "HITS & STORIES" - AN INTIMATE CONCERT SERIES
From $25Oliver Pol: Featherbrained
From $28The Manager is Me
From $34Lost in Translation
From $25Anti-Smoking Super Show
From $139Resin Art Class in Melbourne
From $39Oct 9 | Melbourne Singles Night 35–55 | Friday Drinks at La Di Da
FreeBlue. Strap. Sit.
From $27The Loch of Love
From $25FU*K! I Killed the Director
From $35.50Candlelight: Tribute to Pink Floyd
From $3518+CARLA GENEVE 'GUARD DOG' TOUR
From $110Spring Sunset Cocktails at Walsh Street
From $51.08Sharul Channa Live In Melbourne
FreeBook Launch: A Midsummer Party, by Antoni Jach
From $22.49Graveyard Shred 2026
From $45.78Cosmic Rest
From $1518+Melbourne Weekly Bar Crawl OTR
From $40Hangman's Night Tour
Roisin McAlinden: Fairytale Ending
Post Malone's BIG ASS World Tour - With Don Toliver
Briefs: The Works
From $60Dracula: Ballet at its Darkest
From $129Elissa
From $32.24Laugh Louder Comedy Night with Dave Thornton- Oct 9th, LOEV Moorabbin
Williamstown International Jazz Festival - Spring Series 2026
From $28Tegan Higginbotham: Follow That Turtle!
From $26Only Bones: Daniel Nodder
From $25Jane Austen Improvised
From $55.3118+Cuban Fire!
From $35The History of Concrete: Q&A
From $2518+Sarah Catania’s Once You’ve Gone Country EP Launch
From $1518+Postures 'Together, Slowly' album launch
From $25Kozo Kaos: Juggling Rocks
From $1518+Groove Vultures Hurricane Release Show
From $40Melbourne | Greek Singles Mixer | Emerald Peacock | Friday 9th October
From $14Work in Progress
Western Bulldogs v Essendon - 2026 NAB AFLW Season 11
From $27.50Krilling Me Softly
The Stuttgart Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty
From $149The Rose: Rosetopia World Tour
The Rose - Rosetopia Australia Tour 2026
Spamalot
From $25Bitch Boxer
Manifesto of Silences
From $5018+HOUSE OF SIN
From $5018+SAFIA - Internal 10 Year Anniversary Tour
Comedy Fridays at Piper's Playhouse
From $20The Ex Files: A Comedy True Crime Tour
From $25Rama Nicholas in Fairy Smut
From $1518+daezy at The Night Cat
From $19.99Dune But Worse
Tony & Gaga
From $1218+The Dropkicks
From $25Parasocial
From $25Toto's Song
From $19.84Clue: On Stage at JCH !!
From $38.06Wild Creature Mind - Steve Biddulph
From $28Zoe's Killer Instinct
Carl Barron: Just Wondering Why
The High Kings: The Rocky Road Tour
From $22Comedy at the Coopers Inn
From $28Basement Comedy Club: Weekend Showcase
Melbourne Alternative Comics Expo
FreeOutlawed Comedy
From $15Speaking to Pictures
From $18Don't Screw the Kru
UNSEEN
From $48.96Let the games begin
From $27.78Speed Dating - Ages 40+
Murder in the Market: A Murder Village Improvised Whodunnit
From $26Yellow Fever: An Original Musical Cabaret
From $25Kauboj
From $39Hidden Melbourne: Ghosts, Murder and Mystery
From $30Adore Händel’s Birthday Party
From $22Best of Fringe Magic
From $35.50Candlelight: Queen vs. ABBA
From $1018+LIRA LAVIX / PEACEWORLD / INFINITE SKIES
From $22The Year There Were No Monsters
From $29Ghostware
From $24.99BASS BOTANICA X HANGOUT SOUNDS - Melbourne
From $18.54Nothin But Old School RNB at Shoppingtown Hotel!
From $29.70[MELBOURNE KPOP PARTY] BIG BANG TRIBUTE x KPOP PARTY | FRI 9 OCT
From $22.26Mango Club 2026
FreeYours Truly – Every Friday @ The Emerson
Slugs
From $25Nosebleeds
Boots N' Cats
From $28Marketing Man
From $2518+FABULOUS Fridays | Best in RNB
Club Fringe: Club Blaq
From $27.78EMO NEVER SLEEPS X GROG: UNOFFICIAL PAX AFTERPARTY
From $11.90Sacred Trancefusion 12
From $20SUPERSONIC FRIDAYS 015
From $2518+DIGI: Hyperpop, Digicore, Cloud Rap Club Night - Melbourne
Free18+TOFF CLUB with ASH LEE
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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 116 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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