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Ferny Grove Festival 2026
Join us for the Ferny Grove Festival 2026 - a vibrant community celebration for all ages!Enjoy a fun-filled afternoon and evening featuring delicious food trucks, market stalls, live entertainment, community performances, children's rides and activities, games, and a spectacular fireworks finale. Whether you're catching up with friends, spending quality time with family, or simply looking for a great day out, there's something for everyone.Entry is free, and everyone is welcome. You don't need to be part of Ferny Grove State School to join the fun.Location: Ferny Grove State School, McGinn Rd, Ferny GroveProudly presented by the Ferny Grove State School P&C Association, the festival raises funds to support programs and facilities that benefit students at Ferny Grove State School.This event is proudly supported by Brisbane City Council. For more information, please visit the Ferny Grove Festival Facebook.
Brisbane German Week
Brisbane German Week is an 18 day celebration of German culture, ideas and connections across Brisbane.From film, fashion and food to business, science and tradition, the festival offers something for everyone and showcases the many links between Brisbane and Germany.Discover a side of Germany you may not expect, meet new people and choose your Germany.Please note: This festival takes place over multiple days and across a variety of venues. For more information please visit Brisbane German Week Website.This event is proudly supported by Brisbane City Council.
HIIT body conditioning
Bookings essential. Take your training to the next level and get better results in less time. High Intensity Interval Training to improve your cardiovascular fitness and strength.
Brisbane Sculpture Festival 2026
Explore the captivating world of sculpture through Sculptors Queensland's dynamic exhibitions, showcasing the mastery of local artists. Our curated displays unveil the diverse expressions of form, material, and concept, offering a visual feast for art enthusiasts.Join us on a journey of discovery and appreciation, as we celebrate the power of sculpture to inspire, provoke thought, and elevate the human experience.Sculptors Queensland, Brisbane Sculpture Festival is open during Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha opening hours.
Tai Chi Qigong
Feel relaxed, refreshed and calm after this dynamic exercise. Rejuvenate your body and learn to create a tranquil mind. Join any week.This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.
Music beat kids groups
Come and enjoy the great outdoors with your little ones while you move and make music together. You will share a special time with other parents, while helping your little ones learn and grow through musical play and movement. Take home tips for how to keep grooving and creating musical moments at home provided.
Pilates
Pilates helps you strengthen and stretch simultaneously through core-based exercises. Join anytime. Bring an exercise band if you have one.
Social tennis with a qualified coach
Bookings essential. This is a social and fun coaching lesson with qualified tennis coaches, for all abilities and ages. Come along and re-ignite your passion for tennis.
Strength, mobility and balance
Bookings essential. Come and build your strength, stamina, mobility, balance and coordination in a fun and challenging way. Suitable for all fitness levels.This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.
Zumba Gold®
Perfect for active older adults who are looking for a modified Zumba class that recreates the original moves you love at a lower intensity. Learn easy-to-follow choreography that focuses on balance, range of motion and coordination.This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.
Yoga
Focus on a range of movements to relax the mind and body. Stretching, breathing, strength and balance exercises are included by incorporating standing poses and mat work into the session.
Chair yoga dance
Feel better, reduce pain, increase mobility and become happier! Using the chair as a prop we combine traditional yoga postures with dance and music. Classes aim to strengthen and stretch the body and lift your spirits.This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.
Writing Mondays
Writing Mondays is a free, volunteer-led program for writers at all levels. Come and finish your story, while connecting with other writers in your community. Inspired by Queensland Writers Centre's successful Writing Friday program, these sessions follow the Pomodoro Technique of 25-minute blocks and 5-minute breaks. Every third 'Pomodoro', we take a 15-minute break to relax and recharge. The idea behind the method is to train the mind into working effectively to reach smaller targets, improving the overall writing time and productivity.
First 5 Forever toddler time
Meet other parents and toddlers for a fun session of singing, clapping and dancing. Learn action rhymes and songs which will help your child's pre-literacy, communication, language and social skills. Ideal for babies and toddlers aged 1-2 years.No bookings are required, but places are limited. If the session becomes too full, we may need to close entry to ensure a safe and comfortable experience for everyone.First 5 Forever is an initiative of the Queensland Government, coordinated by State Library of Queensland and delivered in partnership with local government
Mums and bubs fitness
Let us help you get back to pre-baby fitness with a dynamic combination of cardio and toning exercises.
Music beat kids groups
Come and enjoy the great outdoors with your little ones while you move and make music together. You will share a special time with other parents, while helping your little ones learn and grow through musical play and movement. Take home tips for how to keep grooving and creating musical moments at home provided.
Tai Chi Qigong
Feel relaxed, refreshed and calm after this dynamic exercise. Rejuvenate your body and learn to create a tranquil mind. Join any week.This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.
Zumba Gold®
Perfect for active older adults who are looking for a modified Zumba class that recreates the original moves you love at a lower intensity. Learn easy-to-follow choreography that focuses on balance, range of motion and coordination.This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.
Salsation
Bookings essential. Salsation is here to make you sweat to the hot beats of Latino music. Salsation is fitness meets salsa and is a popular dance originating in the Caribbean commonly used at social events. With worldwide fame, this rhythm will make you move your feet and hips while you get fit. Suitable for all ages and even those with two left feet.
Swiss ball fitness
Bookings essential. Enjoy a low intensity, easy workout that includes a mixture of strength, balance and mat based exercises using a Swiss/fit ball.This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.
Yoga
Focus on a range of movements to relax the mind and body. Stretching, breathing, strength and balance exercises are included by incorporating standing poses and mat work into the session.This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.
Seniors Speak workshops
Seniors Speak has been shaped by what older people have shared about their experiences, challenges and hopes for their community. It offers a welcoming space to come together, exchange ideas and take part in shaping conversations about what an age friendly Brisbane looks like.Together, participants will:share stories and ideaswork with others to shape a short performancetake part in a community event where audiences are invited into the conversation.A rich and inclusive experience where audience members are part of sharing ideas to generate change on the issues explored in the performance.Join us at the 50 & Better Neighbourhood Centre, 29 Chardean Street, Acacia Ridge. Map.If you would like more information, send an email.
Artist in Residence: Renee Kire
Step inside an exciting new residency project that invites you to experience art in unexpected ways.Artist in Residence Renee Kire takes over Museum of Brisbane's entryway, transforming these spaces with a vibrant and dynamic mix of striking vinyl graphics and sculptural timber elements. These features create an immersive pathway that stretches across walls and ceilings, guiding you into the heart of the Museum.Drawing inspiration from Minimalism while reinterpreting the movement through a contemporary feminist lens, Kire brings fresh attention to the often-overlooked contributions of women in the field. Bright, colourful and welcoming for all visitors, the artwork is both joyful and thought-provoking.Responding directly to the architecture of the Museum, City Hall and the Brisbane cityscape, Kire's design reveals unexpected connections between the built environment and abstract form. Repetition, rhythm and thoughtful details invite you to slow down, look closely and discover new perspectives.MoB's Artist in Residence program is supported by Tim Fairfax AC.Museum of Brisbane is Brisbane City Council's leading history and art museum where you can experience our city's vibrant culture.
Little Artist's Eye Spy
Polish your peepers! You never know what you might spot.There is plenty for little eyes to spy with this free MoB Kids activity sheet. Transform your Museum visit into an exciting game of Eye Spy and discover details you might otherwise have missed.Can you spot the flowers? This playful Museum experience will immerse you in all manners of local art, history and culture, encompassing five different exhibitions.Ask our friendly staff at MoB reception when you arrive. We have activity sheets for children and their parents or carers.Museum of Brisbane is Brisbane City Council's leading history and art museum where you can experience our city's vibrant culture. For more information, visit the MoB website.
Lord Mayor's Photographic Awards 2026 exhibition
Brisbane through the lens of local photographers.The winners exhibition of the 2026 Lord Mayor's Photographic Awards brings together striking photographic works that capture the city's spirit - from familiar streets and riverside scenes to the fleeting moments, routines and characters that make Brisbane feel like home.New this year, the Brisbane Postcards Collection category invites photographers to showcase Brisbane's charm and energy through images that locals recognise, and visitors instantly fall in love with. Selected winning works will be available as collectible postcards at MoB Shop.Open to anyone who lives, works or studies in Brisbane, the 2026 Awards celebrate what makes our city unique through this year's theme, Everyday Brisbane.Museum of Brisbane is Brisbane City Council's leading history and art museum where you can experience our city's vibrant culture.
Bollywood fitness
Booking essential. Come along to a Bollywood inspired dance fitness class suitable for all abilities. Have a laugh, move and have fun with simple, enjoyable dance steps together. This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.
Warrajamba
Follow the mermaid in the bay. Dive into story, culture and hands-on creativity with our latest Artist in Residence, Quandamooka artist Delvene Cockatoo-Collins.Journey alongside Delvene to the shores of Minjerribah and discover the ancestral story of Warrajamba, the mermaid, a living cultural legacy that Delvene continues to explore as she searches for its lost ending.Get hands-on and create your own mermaid or dugong using artist-designed stamps, connecting with the stories of Warrajamba and Yungong, the dugong. Discover Delvene's powerful sculptural work made from materials gathered from Country - yungair/yungaire (freshwater reed), talwalpin (beach hibiscus cotton tree), and quampie shell.Come and be immersed in a space that celebrates care for land, sea and story.MoB's Artist in Residence program is supported by Tim Fairfax AC.The Creative Space is proudly supported by Major Partner Brisbane Airport and generously supported by Ian and Cass George, and Holly and John Livingstone.Warrajamba is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland.Museum of Brisbane is Brisbane City Council's leading history and art museum where you can experience our city's vibrant culture.
Brisbane Greeters - Greeter's Choice guided walk
Join one of our welcoming and experienced Brisbane Greeters as they share their knowledge and passion for Brisbane on this guided walking tour.Explore our booking site to discover a Brisbane Greeters walk to suit you, whether it be in the CBD or one of our most historically significant suburbs. For locals and visitors alike.
Clock Tower Tour
Discover the hidden secrets of your heritage-listed City Hall building with a guided tour of Brisbane's iconic Clock Tower.The Clock Tower Tour is a "must do" while in Brisbane!For many years, City Hall's Clock Tower elevated the building to Brisbane's tallest, offering visitors a magnificent 360 degree view of the city around them. Whilst the view has changed significantly over the last 90 years, the time-honoured tradition of "taking a trip up the tower" happily continues at Museum of Brisbane.The Clock Tower Tour includes a ride in one of Brisbane's oldest working cage lifts, a look behind Australia's largest analogue clock faces and time to explore the observation platform that shares a unique perspective of your city. See if you can catch a glimpse of the bells!Make a booking online today to secure your spot! Spaces are limited and fill up quickly.Date & Time 10:15am - 4:45pm Daily, every 15 minutes Please arrive 15 minutes before your tour.
Fitness 4 seniors
A combination of cardio, strength and stretching exercises designed to help you increase or maintain your fitness.This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.