Upcoming Events in Brisbane
Discover what's happening in Brisbane with our curated selection of upcoming events, festivals, and activities.
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.
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.
Brisbane City Markets - Reddacliff Place
The original of the Brisbane City Markets inner-city markets, Wednesday at Reddacliff Place is a favourite for city workers, local residents and tourists alike. With amazing stalls each week, you’ll never be short for choice - whether it be lunch, groceries, provisions, gifts or more. Find out more on the Brisbane City Markets website. Reddacliff Place is located at the very top of Queen Street Mall.
Yoga
Focus on a range of movements designed 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.
Chair yoga
Enjoy stretching, strengthening and breathing techniques combined with relaxation. Perfect for people who have difficulty getting up and down from the ground. 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.
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.
Yoga for mobility
A gentle movement class blended with yoga to improve your strength, balance and posture. No floor work included. Suitable for all fitness levels. An exercise band is required. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bollywood fitness
Bollywood-inspired dance fitness class suitable for all abilities, where we laugh, move and have fun with simple, enjoyable dance steps. This is a GOLD event suitable for seniors.
Fun soccer for 2-5 years
Bookings essential. Kickstart the fun! Our fun soccer sessions for 2-5 year-olds are all about play, laughter, and learning. Little ones will boost their confidence, coordination, and teamwork while discovering the joy of soccer. Session times will vary by age group. Come join the fun!
Mums and bubs babywearing fitness
Bookings essential. This is a safe postnatal mums and bubs workout. Combining core, cardio and strength based exercises while your baby is happy in a baby carrier. Suitable for all abilities.
Pilates
Pilates helps you strengthen and stretch simultaneously through core-based exercises. Join anytime.
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.
Earth Kids Homeschool Program - Wednesday mornings
Children aged 6 to 12 learn from nature, explore permaculture, ecoarts, and bushcraft, and develop social and emotional skills at our 6-session Earth Kids homeschool program, running during the Queensland school term. Earth Kids is about supporting children in learning from and with the natural world in a fun, interactive, and inclusive environment. Parents can choose to drop off their children or stay with the group. Activities The activities differ according to the season and may include: Gardening – planting, harvesting, composting, learning about bush tucker and seasonal changes; exploring what's flowering or fruiting at the farm (and tasting what is fruiting!) Earth connection – expanding the senses, wandering, nature journaling and doing other activities to support understanding of the web of life and the elements that all life is made of. Indigenous understanding – storytelling, and cultural sharing. Bushcraft - building shelters, making string, making campfires. Ecoarts – creativity using natural materials.And more - including cooking from food harvested from the farm, games, and unstructured play. Term 3, 2025 - Dates and times: Wednesday mornings, from 23 July to 3 September 2025 (EKKA break 13 August) From 9.30am to 12.30pm each day (drop off/arrival from 9.15 am and pick up until 12.45 pm).Pricing (GST incl): Early bird fees (until June 30th): $250 (general) | $190 (low-income). Full fees (until July 20th): $300 (general) | $240 (low-income). For every additional child, there is a $30 discount. One-day tickets (available for most sessions): $50 (general) | $45 (part-scholarship price) A limited number of Part-scholarship places at $160 (full-term) and $45 (day tickets) are available for First Nations people, Health Care Card holders, and Parents volunteering during the program. Contact Cristyan at [email protected] if you are interested in these options.
Mums and bubs yoga
Bookings essential. Come along and join us under the trees in the park. Join our friendly group of mums practising yoga with bubs. Focused on therapeutic movement and breath and a little me time for mums to move around.
Springboard diving
Bookings essential. Get on board and learn how to dive off a springboard and/or platform. Enjoy specifically designed sessions to increase fitness and maintain health in a social environment. Gentle warm ups and instruction on the basics of springboard diving at your own pace. Dare to be different! Participants must be confident in deep water.
Community Immunisation Clinic - Everton Park
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.
Hot hula
Bookings essential. Inspired by dances of the Pacific Islands, Hot Hula fitness provides a total body workout. Core focused, easy to follow moves, suitable for all ages and fitness levels. No special equipment needed.
MoveFit
Bookings essential. Maintain or increase your fitness with exercises; improve strength, mobility, flexibility and balance in a fun, welcoming 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.
Strength, agility and balance
Bookings essential. Participate in a low impact body conditioning program designed to target strength and improve overall endurance and fitness. All fitness levels are welcome. 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.
Yoga
Bookings essential. Focus on a range of movements designed 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.
Children’s storytime in the park - Wynnum Wading Pool Park, Wynnum
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: This session is held in Whale Park, near the Wynnum Jetty (around 137 Wynnum Esplanade). On-street and park parking is available nearby.
RQAS Abstraction Exhibition
Back by popular demand is the RQAS Abstraction exhibition! For this exhibition artists were invited to submit artworks in their own media and style, showing us their interpretation of an Abstract or Abstracted Artwork. This includes art that has recognisable forms, as well as more expressive styles and pure abstraction, with inspiration from movements such as Fauvism, Dadaism or Cubism. The Royal Queensland Art Society is proudly supported by Brisbane City Council. For more information, please visit the RQAS website.
Around the world in 90 minutes! - Guided walk - City Botanic Garden
Brisbane City Botanic Gardens is home to many rare and unusual botanic species from around the world, as well as from Australia. Some of the oldest trees in these Gardens were the earliest of their species to be planted in Australia, both for their beauty and for their potential commercial value to the new state of Queensland. Today, the City Botanic Gardens has trees which are not only native to exotic countries but are also celebrated as the National Tree of those countries. Take a tour around the World within the magic of the City Botanic Gardens. Guided walks are led by City Botanic Gardens Volunteer Guides. Requirements: This walk includes moderate physical activity, including walking slightly longer distances, up gentle slopes and stairs or walking on some uneven surfaces. Some standing periods for guide explanations but no sitting. Please wear a hat, enclosed walking shoes, and be sure to bring a water bottle and sunscreen. Meeting point: Meet at the Visitor 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.