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Pilates
Bookings essential. Pilates helps you strengthen and stretch simultaneously through core-based exercises. Join anytime. 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.
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.
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.
Free guided tour - Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha
Take a free volunteer guided walk to learn about the plants and features at Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha. Our volunteer guides all have a love for Brisbane’s Botanic Gardens and a desire to share their passion and knowledge with visitors. Walking tours for individuals and small groups (up to ten people) are free and do not require a booking. Have a larger group? Find out more about booking walks for groups 10 or more in size. Meeting point: Meet at the Mt Coot-tha Visitor Information Centre. Note: Walks may be subject to environmental conditions and guide capacity on the day.
Free guided tour - City Botanic Gardens
Take a free volunteer guided walk to learn about the plants and features at the City Botanic Gardens. Our volunteer guides all have a love for Brisbane’s Botanic Gardens and a desire to share their passion and knowledge with visitors. The walks are taken at a gentle pace for about one hour. Walking tours for individuals or small groups (no more than ten people) are free and do not require a booking. Have a larger group? Find out more about booking walks for groups 10 or more in size. Location: Meet at the City Botanic Gardens Information Kiosk (next to the Queensland University of Technology’s Main Drive pathway). Note: Walks may be subject to environmental conditions and guide capacity on the day.
Gentle fitness and Tai-chair
Bookings essential. Focus on aerobic fitness, strengthening with light weights, flexibility, coordination and balance followed by relaxation with gentle exercises. The session is performed either seated on a chair or standing while holding onto a chair for stability and support. No floor work. This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.
Zumba Gold®
Bookings essential. 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.
Gentle fitness and Tai-chair
Bookings essential. Focus on aerobic fitness, strengthening with light weights, flexibility, coordination and balance followed by relaxation with gentle exercises. The session is performed either seated on a chair or standing while holding onto a chair for stability and support. No floor work. This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.
Free guided tour - Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha
Take a free volunteer guided walk to learn about the plants and features at Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha. Our volunteer guides all have a love for Brisbane’s Botanic Gardens and a desire to share their passion and knowledge with visitors. Walking tours for individuals and small groups (up to ten people) are free and do not require a booking. Have a larger group? Find out more about booking walks for groups 10 or more in size. Meeting point: Meet at the Mt Coot-tha Visitor Information Centre. Note: Walks may be subject to environmental conditions and guide capacity on the day.
Chair fitness
Bookings essential. Enjoy a fun and effective body conditioning class from the comfort of a chair. It aims for graceful ageing, strong core, toning, balance and coordination. Work at your own pace. Bring an exercise band if you have one. This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.
Free guided tour - City Botanic Gardens
Take a free volunteer guided walk to learn about the plants and features at the City Botanic Gardens. Our volunteer guides all have a love for Brisbane’s Botanic Gardens and a desire to share their passion and knowledge with visitors. The walks are taken at a gentle pace for about one hour. Walking tours for individuals or small groups (no more than ten people) are free and do not require a booking. Have a larger group? Find out more about booking walks for groups 10 or more in size. Location: Meet at the City Botanic Gardens Information Kiosk (next to the Queensland University of Technology’s Main Drive pathway). Note: Walks may be subject to environmental conditions and guide capacity on the day.
Kids sports
Fun park games for the whole family to enjoy.
Talk to a Planner
Talk to a Planner sessions help residents, business owners, community groups and industry professionals understand Brisbane City Plan 2014 (City Plan) and how it relates to their building and construction plans. Talk to a Planner is available all year round, with additional sessions held regularly across the city for your convenience. During these free sessions you can speak face-to-face with a planning specialist, giving you the opportunity to ask any questions you may have about how City Plan relates to your property. Council also has a team of dedicated officers who can answer simple questions about your development application over the phone during business hours (9am-4pm, Monday-Friday). To speak to an officer please phone Council on 07 3403 8888 and ask to speak with a Planning Information Officer.
Beginner line dancing
Beginners line dancing is designed to help you improve your memory while exercising and having fun at the same time. Everyone is welcome and no partner is required.
Yoga
Bookings essential. 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.
Bollywood fitness
Bollywood inspired dance fitness class suitable for all ages and abilities, where we laugh, move and have fun with simple, enjoyable dance steps together.
Pilates
Pilates helps you strengthen and stretch simultaneously through core-based exercises. Join anytime.
Pilates
Pilates helps you strengthen and stretch simultaneously through core-based exercises. Join anytime. Meet by the Arthur Davis Park gazebo.
Tai Chi Qigong
This dynamic activity is invigorating and will help you feel relaxed, refreshed and calm. Rejuvenate your body and learn to create a tranquil mind. Join any week. This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.
HIIT - cardio strength and core
Circuit training, strength, cardio and core. Boost up your heart rate, with this fun active class to improve your cardio and core strength. High intensity interval training, mixed with circuit training and tabata. All ages and abilities welcome.
Pilates
Bookings essential. Pilates helps you strengthen and stretch simultaneously through core-based exercises. Join anytime.
Billy Buddies ball sports
Bookings essential. This program is designed for kids aged 2-7 and serves as the home of Non-Contact Rugby League for children. At Billy Buddies, they celebrate all sports not just Rugby League! Their programs focus on fun, helping kids build social skills while learning the fundamentals of Rugby League and ball sports in general.
Tai Chi Qigong
This dynamic activity is invigorating and will help you feel relaxed, refreshed and calm. 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.
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.
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 in a park
Use your chair to stretch and strengthen your body with both seated and standing poses. This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.
Tai Chi Qigong
This dynamic activity is invigorating and will help you feel relaxed, refreshed and calm. Rejuvenate your body and learn to create a tranquil mind. Join any week. This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.
Billy Buddies ball sports
Bookings essential. This program is designed for kids aged 2-7 and serves as the home of Non-Contact Rugby League for children. At Billy Buddies, they celebrate all sports not just Rugby League! Their programs focus on fun, helping kids build social skills while learning the fundamentals of Rugby League and ball sports in general.