What's on in Sydney on Friday 9 October 2026
367 things on around Sydney on Friday 9 October 2026.
85 of them are free. Top of the list: All-Star Circus at The Entertainment Quarter, Moore Park (3pm), Disney Presents The Lion King (Australia) at Capitol Theatre, Sydney, Haymarket (7:30pm) and SIX the Musical at Theatre Royal Sydney (7:30pm).
Updated Thu 1 Oct 2026 · we look for new events every night
Friday 9 October
From $49Wild Things International Kids Festival
FreeAustralian Life Exhibition
From $39.2018+Big Night Out Pub Crawl
From $35Behind The Scenes: Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) Guided Walking Tour
FreeHoori Handmade
From $80Flying Fox Experience, Thousands of Australia's Largest Bat
From $49Sydney Festival of Magic
FreeBarangaroo HIIT
From $71.55School holiday swim intensives program - Ultimo
From $71.55School holiday swim intensives program - Zetland
From $71.55School holiday swim intensives program - Sydney CBD
From $15Fringe kids
FreeFelicity Schrader Exhibition 'I Fell In Love' at Art2Muse
From $129Tech & Creative Holiday Camps for ages 5–12
From $389School Holiday Pony Camp at Centennial Equestrian
From $24Ballet Class: Dance With Me 1.5-3 yrs (Glebe)
From $35Spring School Holidays at the Maritime Museum
From $38044505Ensemble Theatre: Spring School Holiday Drama Workshops
FreeFamily fun day at NSW Parliament
From $25Reimagined Toy, Share Joy!
From $9.25Minis Family Movie Sessions: Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie
From $29Ballet Class: Little Ballet 3-5 years (Glebe)
From $5Shipwreck Odyssey
FreeJordan Gower: Does the moon know the well?
FreeHeather B. Swann: The Forests of Symbols
FreeRemy Faint: A Site of Unfolding
FreeAnd Still I Rise
FreeHanako Murakami: Radiant Force
From $20School holiday activities with Museums of History NSW
FreeKeeper – a Brooch Club exhibition
FreeArtisan Crafts: Archival Woodblock Prints Reimagined
FreeCeramic Business District
FreeFarm Animals: Meet your furry friends
From $35Craft Circle for Craft Week
FreeConversations Through Jewellery
FreeSt Helen's community clothes swap
FreeInsideOutside art exhibition
FreeMarket Studio Workshops & Airr Made Ceramics Open Studio
FreeOpen Studio: Noc Noc Workshop
From $5Acting class
FreeNorthcott fitness workout
From $7Tai Chi
From $5.70Yoga at KGV
From $60Aqua Sculpt Floating Pilates
Tinkerbell and the Dream Fairies Sydney
From $25Season Squad The Musical
FreeSally Smart AM | The Space of Inventory
From $49Discover Bondi Beach: Walking Tour
From $43.50Luna, A Journey to the Moon
From $22Aboriginal Bush Tucker Tour
FreeAlana Hunt: To the Owner
FreeZi Xin solo exhibition
From $64Turkish Mosaic Series Workshop
From $220999 Silver Clay Jewellery Making Class
FreeGAS SYD presents The NXT1
FreePine Street printmakers 10th annual exhibition
From $168Chinese Cloisonne Coaster DIY Workshop
From $38DIY Beading Workshop: Decorating Pens
From $38DIY Beading Bracelet Workshop
From $139Cream Glue Workshop: Make Your Own Storage Box
From $89Food Miniature Building Workshop
From $103Cream Glue Workshop: Make Your Own Notebook
From $77Cream Glue Workshop: Make your own DIY phone
From $129Doll Bouquets DIY Workshop
FreeCrafting in Stitches
From $172Cream Glue Workshop: Make Your Own Money Box
From $35Kids Pizza Masterclass – Enzo’s Cucina Panania
From $70Tour & High Tea at Parliament House
From $48.95Sydney Harbour Top Deck Lunch Cruise
Free'Natural Connections' – a group show
FreeIntertwined
Freeme you we us
FreeMade by Hand
From $128Cream Glue DIY Workshop-Water Bottle
From $100Rikota Craft Week workshops
From $59The Dunny: An Outback Outhouse Escape
From $24Sydney Observatory Family Tours
From $59Magic School: Awaken your magic, defend the realm
From $59Entombed: The Pharaoh Awakens
From $21Aboriginal Harbour Heritage Tour
From $149Leather Journal Making Workshop in Sydney
FreeOnce upon a time... en español
From $5Singing class: body and soul
FreeSocial knitting group: Glebe Library
From $2025This Show is a Joke
FreeKaolin Clay Studios
From $23Irish Film Festival 2026
FreeSchool holidays: Library labyrinth re-loaned (8-12 years)
From $25Kids recycling session
Keen pickFrom $29All-Star Circus
From $25Typo (Clockwork Circus) at Fringe Kids
From $16018+Future Series - The Bush Banquet At Dingo Festival
From $48.9518+Sydney Harbour Sunset Dinner Cruise
From $139Resin Art Class in Sydney
From $5Casual pickleball at Ultimo Community Centre
From $35Happy Endings Comedy Club Fridays
Harry Potter: The Exhibition
From $22.502026 Sydney Science Fiction Film Festival
From $68.61Polish Oktoberfest Beer Hall Party
From $1518+DJ Fett Burger B2B Telephones + Sezz77
From $2818+JAM IN A JAR CHARITY CONCERT 2026
FreeFridays R&B at Hay St
FreeOpening Night: Ancestor Spirits & In the Half Light
FreeThe Chaser: The Final Edition
From $6618+Serial Killer Speakeasy - Sydney
From $59Neon Paint and Sip Workshop
From $15Speed Dating Event | 45-65 Years | Hideout Bar -Neutral Bay | Singles Night
From $15Redfern Roman Cancel
Free18+MARLY FRIDAYS | OCT 9TH
FreeTerrible Ideas Hackathon!
From $41Candlelight: Tribute to Michael Jackson
From $56.1818+Dave Warner's From the Suburbs - 50 Years Strong
From $45Candlelight: The Best of Hans Zimmer
From $59AUSTRALIA VS THE WORLD 2 | A Wine Tasting
From $28.95Sunset and Sparkle Sydney Harbour Cruise
From $27.75Pyrmont Professionals Singles Mixer | Terminus Hotel | 9th Oct | 20s & 30s
Olivia Dean
From $69Cirque Alice
The Shark Is Broken
From $4518+Epicure - Evenings In Honduras (album launch)
Cirque Alice
Free18+CURRENTS W/ FIFTH VALLEY // RHODES // CONTRA
From $18Sydney Final Australian Poetry Slam 2026
From $3518+iD Comedy Club - Friday & Saturday Nights
From $7018+Merrick Watts: An Idiot's Guide to Wine: Volume 3 - Sydney
From $20Deep. Funny. Piano. Gay.
From $80.48From Ashes To New Australian Tour
From $32.80Riversdale Twilight Tours
From $63.9618+Geordie Kieffer
FreeChapel Row Jazz
From $11.78Gimme Gimme Disco at CULT
From $74.37Friday Night Speed Dating in Crows Nest | Cityswoon | Ages 45-57
From $56Echoform
From $29Nudenight Life Drawing at Doodler
From $64.9518+Sydney Harbour Dinner Cruise
From $95.55Woodford Academy Ghost Tour
From $69.07"New Moon Sound Journey" with Suntara - Sydney
From $64.84Christian Singles Dinner (20s & 30s)
From $54.95The Gentleman Magician’s Magical Soirée
From $55Champagne Cabaret
Disney Presents The Lion King (Australia)
From $69.50SIX the Musical
From $46The Elevator
My Fair Lady (Australia)
From $79PACA Production's Mamma Mia! The Musical
From $33Captain Corelli's Mandolin
Lassù Gosford
From $25Razor Gangs True Crime Tour
From $52.20THE FLOWER SHOP X RNB BINGO - PENRTIH
From $119Sydney Harbour Retro Boat Party
From $30Trial by Jury and The Savoyards (Double Bill)
From $3018+Queenie
From $25Sydney's - True Crime Tour
From $32.75Big Night Out Pub Crawl | RODEO PARTY | Friday 9 October | Sydney
From $13.9618+Good Music Fridays
From $20Stocktake at Belvoir 25A
From $7WILDLAND COMEDY OPEN MIC
From $51.20f5ve + THE DEEP: f4n m33t australia
From $17.6218+Drag Race Down South - Season 4 - Round 4: Makeovers
From $35Rodeo Pub Crawl
From $55Stargazing at Centennial Park
From $35Burlesque Nights - dinner & show
From $49Thieving Bastards - Card Cheats Exposed
Free18+BARE FOOT BEAT The Return Of A Classic Ft. Elli Altenberger - Free entry!
From $35It’s Gatsby Darling – cabaret show & dinner
From $79Phantom Pursuit: Sydney Investigation Tour
From $12.4618+King Machete Single Launch: Feed The Cult
Free18+AFTER DARK W/ THE DUKE OF RANDWICK + HYPOXIA + DUDE´S TAKEN MUSIC
From $35Sydney Bar Crawl
From $44.50Candlelight: Best of Cantonese Pop
From $44Candlelight: 90s Unplugged
From $2518+NOTTY Friday Fiji Day Party
From $77Dlala Thukzin Live in Sydney
From $33.3318+INFEKT presents Organic Dubstep // Sydney
From $1518+Albion Fridays ft. B2B Night
From $18.4218+FRI 09 OCT - DJ HAZARD @ WAO SUPERCLUB
From $6918+Late Night Vice - Sydney
From $42.50華語金曲派對 5.0 放課多重宇宙 (雪梨場)
From $17.19Baseline Vol 002
From $35f5ve + THE DEEP - Official Afterparty ♡
From $2018+Simona Castricum + Perfect Actress
From $3518+ALAN FITZPATRICK — SYDNEY
From $11.78Emo Night Brooklyn at CULT
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Keen pickFrom $6518+Alcotraz: Sydney's First Prison-Themed Cocktail Bar
FreeDefinitive Dupain
From $20Connections: MCA x Tate
From $46The Year in Tatters
From $30Nolan: Origins
From $20Tony Albert: Not a Souvenir
From $10Avatar: Forms of Vishnu
From $20Treasures of the Viking Age - The Galloway Hoard
From $20Hany Armanious: The Planets
FreeAustralian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year
From $46‘The Elevator’ by Eloise Snape
From $37BODY WORLDS: The Anatomy of Happiness
From $20Bloodsuckers: Nature's Vampires
FreeMargaret Olley: Australian Intimiste
FreeLorrie Graham: Photojournalist
FreeAlchemy of a Rainforest exhibition
FreeJohn and Jacqui Mullen Collection
From $31Copa on The Rocks
From $20Nell, Holding Both, 2026
Free200th anniversary exhibitions
18+Rugby League - The Musical
FreeMervyn Bishop: Close Up
From $45Return of the Godz
FreeCelebrate Mid-Autumn Festival at Market City
FreeAi Weiwei, Mushrooms, 2026
From $69We Are The Tigers
From $30Museum of Illusions Sydney
FreeArtExpress
FreeWhen the dust settled
From $50The Official Sydney Opera House Guided Tour
FreeThe Infinite Look: A History of Gazing Skyward
FreeThe Centenary Exhibition
FreeTreasures of the Anzac Memorial
From $70Whale watching cruises
FreeBarani / Barrabugu (Yesterday / Tomorrow)
From $83Taronga Zoo Sydney: Entry Ticket + Return Ferry
From $100Escape Hunt Sydney - Exhilarating Escape Rooms
From $43.50Titanic: A Voyage Through Time
From $5518+Asylum: It's all in your head...
From $30Catch a Killer: An Immersive Murder Mystery Experience in Sydney
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