What's on in Melbourne on Friday 30 October 2026
Friday 30 October 2026 in Melbourne: 312 things on, 73 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
Friday 30 October
From $26Environmental Film Festival
From $38Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) Tour
From $99Yarra River Waterbike Tour
From $50Fitzroy True Crime Walking 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 $229.50Wilsons Prom Whale Cruise
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From $199Kooyang Yana Full Day Tour - Budj Bim
From $120Melbourne Sports Experience + Free Australian Sports Museum entry
From $170Small-Group Grampians Great Wilderness Escape Day Trip with Hiking
From $179Taste of Melbourne
From $56Melbourne Museum: Home of Dinosaurs Guided Tour
Marvel Stadium Tour
From $95Vego Toastie Hunt
From $199Mornington Peninsula Food & Wine Taste Trail
From $5Yarrunga Walkers 2026
From $15Zumba Gold (Term 4)
Keen pickFrom $175Yarra Valley: Winery Tour with Lunch + Transport from Melbourne
From $125Decoupage Seashell Wind Chime Workshop
FreeGet Active – Families Creative Movement
From $10Encore!
FreeGerman Week
FreeFuture Dreaming
FreeAndrew Browne: Lux Sublimata
From $22Ashcombe Maze & Lavender Gardens: Entry Ticket
FreeTwenty Melbourne Painters Society 108th Annual Exhibition
FreeLoose Fit: Contemporary Architecture Projects from East Asia
FreeExhibition: Obang 오방
From $20A Taste Of Christmas
FreeMaria Radun: In the Moment
FreeMahjong Fridays at Altona Library
FreeA world of stories with Anna Manuel (Story Time)
Genevieve Gadd-Carolan: Always A Student
From $6MENA Casual Walking Netball
FreeStory Time (Laverton)
FreeStory Time (Altona North)
FreeFriday morning tech class: understanding 'fake news' (media literacy)
FreeGet Active – Women's Introduction to Self Defence
FreeSongbirds
FreeStompers
FreeFrench Club
From $160Jungle Body - Get Low
Freea/part: Hoda Afshar
From $47SENSAS Melbourne - A Unique Multi-Sensory Experience
FreeBiennale of Colour and Light
FreeThe God In Small Things: Group Exhibition
FreeAnnika Romeyn: Flux
From $46.90123Boom! Melbourne - An Explosive Real-Life Arcade Game Experience
FreeLean In
FreeBiennale of Colour and Light 2026
FreeA world of stories with Anna Manuel (Baby Time)
FreeBaby Time (Altona North)
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
Meet U There
FreeStep Back In Time - Williamstown Guided Walking Tour
From $90Jazz and Shiraz
FreeSuzanne .k. Franklin: Slivers of Time
From $25The Giving Closet
FreeDorothy Lipmann: Slipping Sideways
FreeCamille Laddawan & Kokoro Kimura (JP): Aura
FreeKINGS Artist-Run: October Exhibitions
From $5Line Dancing
From $55The Possession
From $47.95IceBar Melbourne Admission
From $75Spirit of Melbourne Lunch Cruise
Stirling Caiulo: There’s No Hiding From the Blood Moon
From $42Escape Games Melbourne
FreeGet Active – Come and Try Ice Skating
From $15Art of Style: Seniors Festival Tours
From $45Magic University
From $5518+Asylum
From $5518+Meat Grinder
From $55Pirate Island
From $12Matinees at ACMI Cinemas
From $39Saboteurs: Crewmates and Impostors - Original Map
FreeWith One Voice Community Choir
From $139Melbourne Foodie Experience: Walking Tour
From $55Zombie Apocalypse
From $32Saboteurs: Crewmates and Impostors - Dark Map
From $55Pirates
From $55Van Helsing
From $85Mosaic Lamp Workshop - Melbourne
From $139Resin Art Class in Melbourne
From $25Journal and Connect Café Session
FreeSTEAM Club
FreeAll About Art
FreeTGIF! with Charlie Pickering
FreeHalloween Extravaganza
Oktoberfest at Hofbrauhaus
From $48.96THE SNS SOCIAL CLUB: Friday Knock-Offs
FreePlant-Based Baking
From $31.20Saboteurs: Crewmates and Impostors - Happy Hours
From $25Halloween Roller Disco Spooktacular (4–10 years)
Weekly Fencing Classes – Fencity Fencing Club
From $25Melbourne's - True Crime Tour
From $89Melbourne Hidden Bars Walking Tour
From $99Champagne Masterclass with G.H.Mumm at Le Méridien Melbourne ($99pp)
Tom Waits for No Man
From $25Halloween at the Museum: Family Event
From $70.03Effie - Frigid to Feral LIVE at Olympic Hotel! SHOW 2 ADDED BY HIGH DEMAND
FreeFriday Night Social: Radio Climate
FreeRAHU presents: Landlord Special Exhibition Opening
FreeSpooky Silent Reading Party
FreeGet Active – Social Tennis
From $37Fijian Flying Circus Presented by Fiji Airways - Melbourne
From $29.50Candlelight: The Best of Hans Zimmer
18+La Ronde
From $36Candlelight: Mozart's Requiem
From $49Fijian Flying Circus
From $110Spring Sunset Cocktails at Walsh Street
From $38.37Club Astra ― Halloween Boat Party
From $35GLAMOWEEN: SPOOKY SEASON, BUT MAKE IT GLAM.
From $55Coffee and Create: Paint Your Own Cup
From $1518+Melbourne Weekly Bar Crawl OTR
From $65Alcotraz: Melbourne's First Prison-Themed Cocktail Bar
The Australian Ballet: The Nutcracker
The Shark Is Broken
18+Rick Beato Live
From $27.50Sidekicks by Stephen Vagg
From $2018+Hardcore Halloween Party w/ Outright // Timepeace // Ilan Kaapan // La Famiglia
From $2518+FAIRTRADE NARCOTICS
From $4018+NOCTURNA
From $28.50A Twist of Fate: Halloween Special
From $1318+Midnight Revelry : A Night of Live Music & Immortal Desires
From $11.90Toby Mobbs National Tour BENDIGO w/Steph Bitter
From $11.7218+Halloween @ 303
From $27.78HALADENE's HALLOWEEN
From $74.94Paradosiako Glendi Live
From $27.78Graveyard Goth Drag
From $11.90Mates & Dates Mixer
From $40.50Melbourne CBD Christian Singles Mixer | Emerald Peacock | 30th October.
Edward Scissorhands in Concert
From $65.0318+FIA (USA) - The Love Me Tour
From $30Battle Championship Wrestling 73
From $3Ice Hockey Victoria Premier A Grand Finals Series
From $11.90Comedy On Tap, St Luja, St Kilda - Friday 30th October
From $16.99The Fright Crawl | Melbourne Hottest Halloween Bar Crawl 2026 | Fri, Oct 30
From $11.90ACCESS GRANTED 5 HALLOWEEN PARTY
From $200Melbourne: Spirit of Melbourne 4-Course Dinner Cruise + Drinks
From $22Comedy at the Coopers Inn
From $3518+BOY SODA ‘SOULSTAR' World Tour
From $28Basement Comedy Club: Weekend Showcase
FreeOutlawed Comedy
From $27Dirty Rotten Scoundrels by by Jeffrey Lane and David Yazbek
From $27.06Halloween Bar Crawl PT.01 → Melbourne 2026 → FRIDAY OCTOBER 30
From $16.99Melbourne's Haunted Hop 2026: Halloween Bar Crawl (Friday, Oct 30)
From $35Halloween Boat Party - Oct 30 & 31
The House Soiree at Pipers Playhouse (18+ Event)
From $24Gays of Our Lives
From $35.50Candlelight: Queen vs. ABBA
Free18+BOTH / HARRIET WRAITH / THE MISCHIEVIOUS INSOMNIAC
From $16.99Melbourne Halloween Bar Crawl — Halloween Friday, Fri, Oct 30
From $75.04Afrobesque First Australian Tour
From $47.57Halloweenfest Melbourne 2026 → NIGHT 1 → FRIDAY OCT 30
From $22.49Club Astra: Halloween — Haunted Mansion
From $10DEATHBATS HALLOWEEN SPECIAL
From $16.97MANGO CLUB | 30.10.26 | MANGOWEEN
From $22.87Melbourne's Biggest Halloween Party
From $27.78FINAL DESTINATION: CTRL EVENTS
From $13Halloween Havoc
From $27.78Michael Jackson Halloween Party — The Thriller Experience
From $17.19THE TRACKSUIT PARTY!
From $22.26Bollywood Club Presents AAO KABHI HAVELI PE at Crown, Melbourne
From $2518+FABULOUS Fridays | Best in RNB - Halloween Party
From $12.87Nightmare on Russell Street: Halloween Rave
18+Latin Halloween Takeover with Magic Juan
From $33.98Halloween Party Melbourne 2026 | Ms Collins Fridays - 30 October
From $17.19Diwali Melbourne 2026
From $1018+Spooky Island Halloween Party
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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 100 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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