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Upcoming Events in Brisbane

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

Clock Tower Tour
Monday, 12 May 2025, 10:15am - 4:45pm

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.

Children’s storytime in the park - 7th Brigade Park, Chermside
Monday, 12 May 2025, 10:30 - 11am

Children’s storytime in the park - 7th Brigade Park, Chermside

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. Location: Kidspace Playground, Murphy Road, Chermside

Fitness 4 seniors
Monday, 12 May 2025, 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.

Music beat kids groups
Monday, 12 May 2025, 10:45 - 11:15am

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
Monday, 12 May 2025, 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.

Beginners line dancing
Monday, 12 May 2025, 11am - 12pm

Beginners line dancing

Bookings essential. Beginners line dancing is designed to help you improve your memory while exercising and having fun as well as meeting new friends along the way. Everyone is welcome and no partner is required.

Free guided tour - Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha
Monday, 12 May 2025, 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.

Music beat kids groups
Monday, 12 May 2025, 11:15 - 11:45am

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.

Aqua aerobics
Monday, 12 May 2025, 11:30am - 12:30pm

Aqua aerobics

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

Taiso
Monday, 12 May 2025, 11:45am - 12:45pm

Taiso

Taiso is a Japanese word for exercise or calisthenics. Improve your balance and movement at this fun class that is suitable for all levels of fitness. This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.

Aqua yoga
Monday, 12 May 2025, 12 - 1pm

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.

Community Immunisation Clinic - New Farm
Monday, 12 May 2025, 12:30 - 2:30pm

Community Immunisation Clinic - New Farm

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 the National Health Medical Research Council vaccination schedule for advice about when you should be vaccinated. Providing a free immunisation service is another way Council is helping deliver our Brisbane Vision.

Free guided tour - Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha
Monday, 12 May 2025, 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
Monday, 12 May 2025, 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.

Aqua aerobics
Monday, 12 May 2025, 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 movements, participants will develop strength, mobility and movement in a fun environment. This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.

Chair yoga
Monday, 12 May 2025, 1:30 - 2:30pm

Chair yoga

Bookings essential. Enjoy being supported by the chair as you stretch and strengthen your body with both seated and standing poses. This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.

Yoga
Monday, 12 May 2025, 2 - 3pm

Yoga

Bookings essential. Focus on a range of movements for active, healthy ageing and 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.

Cardio and strength
Monday, 12 May 2025, 5:30 - 6:30pm

Cardio and strength

Enjoy a low and high impact body weight strength and cardio session in the park. A session that you will be supported and find like minded people to share more than fitness goals but laughter too as you smash out a good workout.

Alignment flow yoga
Monday, 12 May 2025, 5:30 - 6:30pm

Alignment flow yoga

Bookings essential. Try this yoga class to strengthen your body, increase your flexibility and regulate your stress responses. Includes seated, standing and lying yoga postures.

Aqua fitness
Monday, 12 May 2025, 5:30 - 6:30pm

Aqua fitness

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

Beginners line dancing
Monday, 12 May 2025, 5:30 - 6:30pm

Beginners line dancing

Bookings essential. Beginners line dancing is designed to help you improve your memory while exercising and having fun as well as meeting new friends along the way. Everyone is welcome and no partner is required.

Pilates
Monday, 12 May 2025, 5:30 - 6:30pm

Pilates

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

X-Stacy
Monday, 12 May 2025, 6:30 - 8pm

X-Stacy

Celebrate La Boite’s 100-year history with La Boite Encores, a captivating play-reading series that brings 10 iconic Australian fan favourites from the La Boite archives to life. X-Stacy One of Australia’s seminal plays for young people studied in high schools and universities across the nation, X-Stacy is a raw and gripping exploration of teenage life, love, and loss. Drawn to the pulse of the rave scene, Ben watches over his sister Stacy as she drops her first ecstasy pill. But when tragedy strikes, their lives spiral. The truth of that night will change everything. First performed in 1998, this La Boite production captured the youth market with its timely themes of dance parties and designer drugs. As relevant as ever, it dives into youth, family, and identity complexities in a powerful, unflinching story that continues to resonate today. La Boite Encores series is perfect for theatre lovers, reunites original cast members and directors along with emerging Brisbane talent, offering an intimate journey through La Boite’s rich history. Find out more at the La Boite Theatre website.

Tai Chi Qigong
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 7 - 8am

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.

Pilates
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 7 - 8am

Pilates

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

Volunteer Bushcare Working Bee - Perrin Creek & Seven Hills Bushland Rehabilitation Group
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 7:30 - 10am

Volunteer Bushcare Working Bee - Perrin Creek & Seven Hills Bushland Rehabilitation Group

Join other like-minded volunteers to help protect and restore Brisbane’s unique biodiversity through our Habitat Brisbane program. Whatever your skill level and motivation, joining your local Habitat Brisbane group is a great way to connect to nature and be active and healthy, all while meeting new people, developing new skills and making a difference to your local environment. With 160 groups across the city there’s bound to be one near you! Habitat Brisbane volunteers undertake a variety of activities including: managing environmental weeds revegetating with local native plants creating habitat for native wildlife citizen science projects.The Perrin Creek & Seven Hills Bushland Rehabilitation Group meet every Tuesday and every Friday, and the second Saturday of the month 7.30-10am. Location: Seven Hills Bushland Reserve, 508 Darcy Road, Seven Hills.

Functional fitness
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 8 - 9am

Functional fitness

Bookings essential. Movement is fundamental for enjoying an active, fun and healthy life. This program will focus on improving your balance, stability, co-ordination, strength and cardio fitness for healthy ageing. This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.

Yogalates
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 8 - 9am

Yogalates

Exercises with a strong pilates foundation to improve your core strength and yoga elements for improved flexibility and breathing technique. Feel refreshed by toning up in the great outdoors. This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.

Zumba Gold®
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 8 - 9am

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.

Tai Chi Qigong
Tuesday, 13 May 2025, 8 - 9am

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.