What's on in Melbourne on Wednesday 28 October 2026
Wednesday 28 October 2026 in Melbourne: 258 things on, 83 of them free. Pick one, then see which of your mates are free.
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Updated Thu 22 Oct 2026 · we look for new events every night
Picks for Melbourne
Wednesday 28 October
From $26Environmental Film Festival
From $38Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) Tour
From $99Yarra River Waterbike Tour
From $50Fitzroy True Crime Walking Tour
From $89Tae Rak (Lake Condah) 2-Hour Cultural Walk
From $229.50Wilsons Prom Whale Cruise
From $159Tungatt Mirring, Stone Country Half Day Tour - Budj Bim
From $199Kooyang Yana Full Day Tour - Budj Bim
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From $120Melbourne Sports Experience + Free Australian Sports Museum entry
From $170Small-Group Grampians Great Wilderness Escape Day Trip with Hiking
From $199Foodies Bucket List - Walking Tour
From $38.37C U R V E S - Life Drawing
From $165Grampians National Park: Day Trip with Transport from Melbourne
FreeThe Green Bus
From $56Melbourne Museum: Home of Dinosaurs Guided Tour
Marvel Stadium Tour
FreeMy Canvas My Art (MCMA)
From $199Mornington Peninsula Food & Wine Taste Trail
From $125Decoupage Seashell Wind Chime Workshop
From $10Encore!
FreeGerman Week
FreeFuture Dreaming
FreeAndrew Browne: Lux Sublimata
FreeTwenty Melbourne Painters Society 108th Annual Exhibition
Stirling Caiulo: There’s No Hiding From the Blood Moon
FreeLoose Fit: Contemporary Architecture Projects from East Asia
FreeMaria Radun: In the Moment
FreeDino Days
From $2Coffee & Craft
FreeChildren’s Week Plenty Valley Village Spectacular
From $12Drawing & Painting
Genevieve Gadd-Carolan: Always A Student
From $60Aqua Sculpt Floating Pilates
FreeStory Time (Seabrook)
FreeStory Time (Newport)
FreeBreast Screen Information Session
FreeMorning Movie Club
FreeSongbirds
FreeStompers
FreeSongbirds
FreeSongbirds
FreeBiennale of Colour and Light
FreeThe God In Small Things: Group Exhibition
FreeAnnika Romeyn: Flux
FreeRecovering Art
FreeLean In
FreeBiennale of Colour and Light 2026
FreeBooks and Biscuits
FreeBaby Time (Newport)
From $7518+Yarra Valley Mystery Picnic Date: Self-Guided Foodie Adventure
From $7518+Yarra Valley Mystery Picnic with Friends: Self Guided Foodie Adventure
FreeSuzanne .k. Franklin: Slivers of Time
FreeDorothy Lipmann: Slipping Sideways
FreeConnections Art Exhibition
From $47SENSAS Melbourne - A Unique Multi-Sensory Experience
The Shark Is Broken
From $55The Possession
From $42Escape Games Melbourne
Adult Creators Club
From $82Carpentry Intermediate - Wednesday (Ladies PM)
From $45Magic University
From $5518+Asylum
From $5518+Meat Grinder
From $55Pirate Island
From $39Saboteurs: Crewmates and Impostors - Original Map
FreeRingwood East Talking Cafe
From $139Melbourne Foodie Experience: Walking Tour
From $55Zombie Apocalypse
From $32Saboteurs: Crewmates and Impostors - Dark Map
From $55Pirates
From $55Van Helsing
From $46.90123Boom! Melbourne - An Explosive Real-Life Arcade Game Experience
From $85Mosaic Lamp Workshop - Melbourne
FreeBackstage tour of Malvern Theatre Company
From $80Guitar With Dom
FreeThe Other Film Festival Program Launch
FreeLearn it, make it: woven drink coasters
FreeSTEAM After School at narrm ngarrgu Library
From $31.20Saboteurs: Crewmates and Impostors - Happy Hours
FreeLa Trobe Classics in the City
FreeRuby Allegra x Unassigned Gallery - JOURNALLING WORKSHOP
From $89Melbourne Hidden Bars Walking Tour
FreeNew to Melbourne Language Exchange
From $145Natives In The Garden
FreeBats, urban wildlife & net swap: protecting pollinators in Hobsons Bay
From $5Art Jam Session (Dress Up)
FreeCommunity Safety Forum
From $37Fijian Flying Circus Presented by Fiji Airways - Melbourne
From $15Wax Quizzical: Live
From $39.9918+GENERATION WOMEN - Choosing Hope: Stories of what got us through
From $49Fijian Flying Circus
FreeIndonesian Translation Slam
FreePrinces Park Touch: Pre-season Program
FreeThe Listening Room - A new kind of Open Mic
The Australian Ballet: The Nutcracker
18+La Ronde
FreeWednesday Trivia at Springrock
From $27.50Sidekicks by Stephen Vagg
From $19.50Kim Beazley on the American Moment
Free18+THE TOFF MAMBO
From $30Life Drawing at Harlow Gallery
FreeArtists’ Take on AI and the Environment
From $9Mellowdias Thump
From $5Asian-Friendly International Social Meetup in Melbourne Lounge Asia
From $20.37Trivia Night Fundraiser
From $65Alcotraz: Melbourne's First Prison-Themed Cocktail Bar
Keen pickConstellation Cup
From $109.90Lily Allen
Sir Stephen Hough in Recital
FreeA Séance at State Library Victoria with Lawrence Leung
FreeDamn Fine Laughs
FreeTimon of Athens
From $22.49CHECKMATE
From $119.90Distinguished Gentlemen's Dinner Club #5
FreeSeniors Festival: Willin Wimmin - Come Sing with Us
From $27Dirty Rotten Scoundrels by by Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek
FreeOff Leash: Monthly Live Comedy Show
From $2.36Comedy Therapy
FreeFeminine Wiles a WIP stand up comedy show
FreePresenting - A Queer Comedy Showcase
FreeGet Active – QSA Reformer Pilates
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Keen pickFrom $33.90Bubble Planet: An Immersive Experience in Melbourne
Keen pickFrom $15Scienceworks Melbourne: Entry Ticket
Keen pickFrom $99Night Bites — Experience Melbourne’s best street eats
From $15Rome: Empire, Power, People
From $17Margaret Preston
FreeWorld of the Book
FreeFeng Mengbo: Long March Restart
From $20Japanese Film Festival
FreeThe Story of the Moving Image
From $19Body Worlds: The Anatomy of Happiness
FreeNEW26
FreePassage: The Art of Atong Atem
From $12On Country: Photography from Australia
FreePlant Life: The Nature of Design
From $10Divine Thresholds: Icons and the Orthodox Christian World
From $52.25Melbourne Skydeck & Edge Experience: Panoramic Views 285 Metres Up
From $39State Library Victoria Unlocked
FreeRebel Heart: Love Letters and Other Declarations
From $43.50Smithsonian Starstruck: An Immersive Experience
Howden Victoria Derby Day + TAB Champions Stakes Day (SATURDAY PASS)
FreeMaking Memoir of a Snail
From $12Home is Football: Belonging in Australian Soccer
Eliza
From $58Melbourne Zoo: Entry Ticket
From $21.95MCG Tour & Australian Sports Museum
Punting on the Lake
From $85Coffee Culture Tour
From $55Virtual Room Melbourne: An Immersive 3D Team Experience
From $38Old Melbourne Gaol visit
From $55Entermission Melbourne: Virtual Reality Escape Room
FreeMaking Modern Melbourne
FreeHERstory: Remembering Australia’s Military Women
FreeSparks in the Dark: 260 Weeks of Resilience
From $18Reawakening Deep Water Knowledge
From $10The Enormous Radio
From $46.50Machu Picchu: Journey to the Lost City
From $18Melbourne Museum: Entry Ticket
From $15Rippon Lea Estate: Entry ticket
From $30Best VR Escape Room Melbourne: Fun for the Whole Family
From $89.95Architecture Tour of Melbourne: From the 1850s to the Present Day
And 97 more on Keen, with the ones your mates are free for up top. Pick a day above to see everything on that date.
1,313 events from the councils, Eventbrite, Fever, Moshtix, Ticketmaster and 1 more source, checked overnight.
Going with mates?
Keen shows you which of your mates are free for anything on in Melbourne, and keeps your saves on your phone.
Every Thursday
Melbourne’s weekend, sorted
The best of it in one email. No app needed.
Your vibes? Pick up to three and the picks lean your way. Skip it and you get the lot.
One email a week. We never share your address.
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