What's on in Melbourne on Thursday 29 October 2026
Thursday 29 October 2026 in Melbourne: 294 things on, 85 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
Thursday 29 October
From $26Environmental Film Festival
From $38Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) Tour
From $99Yarra River Waterbike Tour
From $50Fitzroy True Crime Walking Tour
From $75Hidden Bars & Creepy Tales: Melbourne 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
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From $199Kooyang Yana Full Day Tour - Budj Bim
From $120Melbourne Sports Experience + Free Australian Sports Museum entry
From $199Foodies Bucket List - Walking Tour
From $189Yarra Valley: Gourmet and Wine Day Trip with Transportation from Melbourne
From $199Around the Bay: Sightseeing & Cruise Day Tour in Melbourne
Marvel Stadium Tour
From $99Mornington Peninsula: Bay Cruise & Sightseeing from Melbourne
From $125Decoupage Seashell Wind Chime Workshop
FreeOlder adults walk-a-thon
FreeMove it to Music
From $10Encore!
FreeGerman Week
FreeFuture Dreaming
FreeAndrew Browne: Lux Sublimata
From $22Ashcombe Maze & Lavender Gardens: Entry Ticket
FreeTwenty Melbourne Painters Society 108th Annual Exhibition
From $30Dressing in the Time of Jane Austen with Lise Rodgers
Stirling Caiulo: There’s No Hiding From the Blood Moon
FreeLoose Fit: Contemporary Architecture Projects from East Asia
FreeExhibition: Obang 오방
FreeMaria Radun: In the Moment
FreeWalk and talk buddies
FreeAuslan story time with David Grant
FreeChildren's Week play and create
Genevieve Gadd-Carolan: Always A Student
From $216Watercolour
FreeChildren's Week Sensory Play Session
FreeStory Time (Altona Meadows)
FreeGet Active – Body Balance
FreeStompers
FreeStompers
FreeSongbirds
From $10Home Cooking 101
FreePreschool Storytime
FreeBiennale of Colour and Light
FreeThe God In Small Things: Group Exhibition
FreeAnnika Romeyn: Flux
From $35The Good Stuff: Social Enterprise and Circularity Experience
FreeLean In
FreeBiennale of Colour and Light 2026
From $13.90Seniors Festival: The melodies of musical greats
FreeBaby Time (Altona Meadows)
From $7518+Yarra Valley Mystery Picnic Date: Self-Guided Foodie Adventure
From $7518+Yarra Valley Mystery Picnic with Friends: Self Guided Foodie Adventure
From $7518+Melbourne Mystery Picnic with Friends: Self Guided Foodie Adventure
From $64Bubble Planet Fun Pass: Your 6-Month Unlimited Access to Bubble Planet Melbourne
FreeSuzanne .k. Franklin: Slivers of Time
FreeDorothy Lipmann: Slipping Sideways
FreeCamille Laddawan & Kokoro Kimura (JP): Aura
FreeKINGS Artist-Run: October Exhibitions
FreeConnections Art Exhibition
Meet U There
From $216Abstract Art
From $47SENSAS Melbourne - A Unique Multi-Sensory Experience
FreeTjanabi friendly meet up
From $55The Possession
FreeSt Michael's Organ Recital
From $42Escape Games Melbourne
From $45Magic University
From $5518+Asylum
From $5518+Meat Grinder
From $56Melbourne Museum: Melbourne History Tour
From $39Saboteurs: Crewmates and Impostors - Original Map
FreeFree Session - Falls Prevention and Balance
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
Glenferrie heritage trail
From $139Resin Art Class in Melbourne
From $82Woodwork Level 1 - Thursday (Public PM)
FreestARTalking Creative Workshops
FreeIntergenerational Mother Goose
FreeStory Time
From $55Pirate Island
FreeHalloween Spooktacular at Pinewood Shopping Village
FreeBavarian Sunset Market
FreeAllpress x HARIO V60 Championships '26
FreeHalloween Extravaganza
Oktoberfest at Hofbrauhaus
From $31.20Saboteurs: Crewmates and Impostors - Happy Hours
From $27.78Dog Life drawing at Unassigned Gallery
Coady Green
From $120Victoria University Charity Dinner, October 2026
From $135Make Your Own Jewellery Workshop
FreePlace and Chinese Identity in Regional Victoria
FreeBread, Birds and Herbs
From $89Melbourne Hidden Bars Walking Tour
FreeThursday Trivia at Bonnibel
FreeShaun Micallef's Going for Broke community screening
Thursday Trivia
From $53.54Nick Daicos Brownlow Medallist Show LIVE at Yarraville Club!
From $5.60Thursday Linguas Melbourne Language Exchange and Social
FreeDesert Island Books with Claire G. Coleman
FreeStrum and Sing
FreeMelbourne Heritage Interiors
From $15In Fragments: Art-Making with Sherds
FreeGet Active – Stamina
From $37Fijian Flying Circus Presented by Fiji Airways - Melbourne
From $39Haunted Library Tour
From $91.31Dia de los Muertos and Rare Mezcal Master Class 29th October 2026
From $49Fijian Flying Circus
From $10The Best Films You've Never Seen: Possession
From $19.50Josh Silver: Fruit Fly
David The Medium's The Way Back Home Tour
From $22.49Drag Bingo Fundraiser for Humane Animal Rescue
From $10Anima Film Club - Barbarian
From $15Capoeira Angola: Ecamar
From $24.49Singles Speed Board Games Night Melbourne | Brunswick (ages 30 - 45)
From $38.37HALLOWEEN ☠️ HAUNTED BOAT PARTY
From $20Chess Speed Dating (21 - 29 | Straight) @ Little Homey Cafe
From $11.65Girls Only Quiz Night | Melbourne Working Holiday Girls
FreeIl Baule: Carrying Stories of Distance
From $20Capoeira Angola
FreeSwitch: Strengthen Women in Touch Football
FreeScream for Halloween (18-25 years)
The Australian Ballet: The Nutcracker
18+La Ronde
The Shark Is Broken
From $3318+STERLING DRAKE (USA)
From $27.50Sidekicks by Stephen Vagg
From $1518+BALLROOM BANGERS: 4 HR PARKING, SUGARGUM, CHARLOTTE BRIDIE, CHLO
From $28.50A Twist of Fate: Halloween Special
From $50Sondheim's Women
From $2018+Winfield Road Experiment Residency
FreeSea Shanties and Folk Songs
From $26.60YETI FILM TOUR 2026 - MELBOURNE
From $74.3750+ Speed Dating in Collingwood | Cityswoon | Ages 50-65
FreeExploring the backside of television with Mitch McTaggart
From $40.50Port Melbourne | Singles Mixer | Connollys | Thursday 29th October | 45-60
From $46.81Melbourne Singles Mixer For Ages 26-44 by Cheeky Events Australia
From $38.37Fated Singles - Ages 30 to 45
Out to See
From $65Alcotraz: Melbourne's First Prison-Themed Cocktail Bar
Fatai & Friends
From $37Schubert Octet
FreeJazz Thursdays at McAdams Wine Bar
From $16.99The Fright Crawl | Melbourne Halloween Bar Crawl 2026 | Thurs, October 29
From $17.19An Pobail
From $17Good Music Presents: Headsend
From $200Melbourne: Spirit of Melbourne 4-Course Dinner Cruise + Drinks
From $33.08RAY O'LEARY headlines Ovolo Comedy, South Yarra! Thurs, October 29
From $27Dirty Rotten Scoundrels by by Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek
From $25.4318+BoyToyz: Halloween Edition
FreeEltham copper butterfly larvae count
The House Soiree at Pipers Playhouse (18+ Event)
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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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