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Upcoming Events in Brisbane

Discover what's happening in Brisbane with our curated selection of upcoming events, festivals, and activities.

Gumtree Kids Messy Play New Farm Park - Disney theme (babies only)
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 10:30am - 12pm

Gumtree Kids Messy Play New Farm Park - Disney theme (babies only)

Join us for a messy, fun and creative themed messy play experience! At Gumtree Kids, little hands are encouraged to explore, create and play freely through thoughtfully designed sensory stations and open-ended play. Each session is themed, hands-on and full of textures, colours and imagination - all set up for children to enjoy at their own pace. Perfect for curious babies, toddlers and preschoolers, our sessions are suitable for ages 6 months to early walkers, with a relaxed, welcoming environment for families to connect, play and make memories together. Come along, get messy, and let the creativity flow.

Music beat kids groups
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 10:30 - 11am

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
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 10:30 - 11:30am

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.

Pilates
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 10:30 - 11:30am

Pilates

Bookings essential. Pilates helps you strengthen and stretch simultaneously through core-based exercises. Join anytime. This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.

Children’s storytime in the park - Pallara Park, Pallara
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 10:30 - 11am

Children’s storytime in the park - Pallara Park, Pallara

Experience the magic of storytime with your child during a First 5 Forever storytime session in the park at the Pop-up Library. This interactive session includes stories and songs for young children. Ideal for children from birth to five years and their parents or carers. First 5 Forever is an initiative of the Queensland Government, coordinated by State Library of Queensland and delivered in partnership with local government.

Stretch and mobility
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 10:35 - 11:35am

Stretch and mobility

Bookings essential. Increase your flexibility, mobility, balance and range of movement. This class will include stretching and activation exercises designed to lengthen and strengthen your body and posture in a relaxed group setting. Specifically targeted to suit active older adults and those just starting their journey to a fit and healthy lifestyle. This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.

Music beat kids groups
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 11 - 11:30am

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 - City Botanic Gardens
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 11am - 12pm

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.

Free guided tour - Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 11am - 12pm

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.

Gentle fitness and  Tai-chair
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 11:15am - 12:15pm

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®
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 11:30am - 12:30pm

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.

Community Immunisation Clinic - Carindale
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 12:15 - 5:45pm

Community Immunisation Clinic - Carindale

Brisbane City Council provides free vaccinations to eligible residents (aged from 6 weeks and above) through our community immunisation clinics. Immunisation helps protect people against diseases such as influenza, measles, whooping cough, polio and tetanus. Take a look at Immunisation Schedule Queensland for advice about when you should be vaccinated. Providing a free immunisation service is another way Council is helping deliver Brisbane Vision 2031.

Aqua yoga
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 1 - 2pm

Aqua yoga

This is a low impact form of exercise that supports the body while still providing function and movement. Many yoga poses that you do in a class can be adapted for the pool, sometimes using the pool walls as if it were the studio floor. This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.

Free guided tour - Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 1 - 2pm

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
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 1 - 2pm

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.

Chair fitness
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 1 - 2pm

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.

Gentle fitness and  Tai-chair
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 1 - 2pm

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.

Aqua aerobics
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 1:30 - 2:30pm

Aqua aerobics

Experience an excellent, low-impact cross-training workout in the water. Feel the benefits of exercise without the pain. Using minimum-impact movement, participants will develop strength, mobility and movement in a fun environment.

Passport to the Universe
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 2 - 2:45pm

Passport to the Universe

Get your passport for a thrilling journey through the Solar System, out of the Milky Way Galaxy and to the edge of the observable universe, returning home via a black hole. Narrated by Tom Hanks. Session concludes with a virtual tour of the Brisbane night sky. Passport to the Universe was developed by the American Museum of Natural History, New York in collaboration with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Major support for new version provided by the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco.

Kids sports
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 4 - 5pm

Kids sports

Fun park games for the whole family to enjoy.

Sky Martial Arts Academy
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 4 - 5:30pm

Sky Martial Arts Academy

Discipline for Taekwondo & Korean Sword Art. Tae Kwon Do is one of the most systematic and powerful Korean Martial Arts. It uses offence and defence techniques with all parts of the human body while hands and feet play key roles in the techniques. It is a discipline that shows a way of enhancing one's spirit and life through mental and physical training. Today it is a global martial art that has an international reputation and stands proudly among official games in the Olympics.

Yoga
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 4 - 5pm

Yoga

Focus on a range of movements to relax the mind and body. Stretching, breathing, strength and balance exercises are included by incorporating mat work into the session.

Bollywood fitness
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 4:30 - 5:30pm

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.

Yoga
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 4:30 - 5:30pm

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.

Pilates
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 5:30 - 6:30pm

Pilates

Pilates helps you strengthen and stretch simultaneously through core-based exercises. Join anytime.

Seido Karate Classes for Children
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 5:30 - 6:30pm

Seido Karate Classes for Children

Our children’s program has classes at 5.30pm, three times per week (Monday, Thursday & Friday). The majority of students in our children’s program are 6-12 years old, but we have some children start as young as 4 or 5 and some parents who join in the class with their child(ren). Our classes are suitable for beginners through to advanced students. On Monday and Thursday, an advanced class is run simultaneously for our advanced yellow, green, and brown belt students. Children learn discipline, focus, confidence, strength and humility as well as being active and learning to socialise and work with other children of various ages, abilities and backgrounds.

Kids karate classes
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 5:30 - 6:15pm

Kids karate classes

Kids karate classes for primary school aged children. Play On vouchers accepted.

Zen Do Kai karate classes
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 6:15 - 7:10pm

Zen Do Kai karate classes

Family oriented, reality based self-defence classes.

Seido Karate Classes for Adults & Teens
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 6:30 - 7:30pm

Seido Karate Classes for Adults & Teens

Our adult program offers classes at 6.30pm, three times a week (Monday, Wednesday & Thursday). Our adult program includes students as young as 10 through to students as mature as 80+! The adult syllabus starts from 15 years old, with students learning the junior (children’s) syllabus up until this age. Our classes are suitable for beginners through to advanced students. On Monday and Thursday, an advanced class is run simultaneously for our green, brown and black belt students. Black belt classes are also run at 7.30pm on Monday and Thursday. Adults and teenagers learn discipline, focus, confidence, strength and humility as well as being active and having the opportunity to socialise, meet and work out with like-minded individuals of various ages, abilities and backgrounds.

Krav Maga Self Defence & Fitness Classes
Thursday, 30 April 2026, 7 - 8pm

Krav Maga Self Defence & Fitness Classes

Want to up your fitness and self defence skills, book your introductory Krav Maga Class now.