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The annual Top Arts exhibition provides a platform for emerging artists from across the state to showcase their skills, enthusiasm, and creativity.
This day is a great opportunity for families to walk to school together and have conversations about being a safe road user.
Join in on the fun of National Simultaneous Storytime!
Korea Festival is coming to Federation Square for a two-day celebration of Korean culture, traditions, and delicious food. This free, family-friendly event offers a chance to explore Korea’s vibrant heritage, enjoy live performances, and indulge in authentic Korean cuisine.
Top Arts After Hours is a free invitation for you and your friends to attend the Top Arts 2025 exhibition in the evening after school.
Plans for The Planet: Olaf Breuning for Kids is an exclusive NGV exhibition created by Swiss contemporary artist Olaf Breuning that invites children and families to explore the natural environment and consider their relationship to the world.
When the sun goes down it is time to gather family and friends and venture into Neon Fields. Beauty Park will once again be transformed into a colourful fantasy world where you’re invited to interact and play among the lights.
The three-day-long Buddha’s Day and Multicultural Festival returns to Golden Square Car Park, bringing together arts, culture, and mindfulness in Melbourne's city centre.
At ArtPlay: Discover a world of visual art, music, movement and sensory play at ENOKI’s Wonderland on the Birrarung.
Spark the imagination, generate new ideas, and share thoughts in these lively online sessions about art for children aged 3 – 5 years and their parents and carers.
Kick off the Easter long weekend with a huge day of comedy at Fed Square.
Kids Day Out is bringing the fun back to Melbourne this Easter. Get ready for a whirlwind of joy brought to you by the Good Friday Appeal, raising money for The Royal Children's Hospital.
Celebrate Easter in Carlton with a free Easter Egg hunt for the kids and a visit from the Easter Bunny, plus kids Easter activities.
Get your baskets and bunny ears ready – the NGV’s annual Easter egg hunt is back.
Play Date is a dance party for little people and their families with pop music duo Turtle and Sugar Rush. Come early to enjoy colouring-in activities before the show. Registrations are required – it’s free to register.
Bring the kids along to enjoy a free mini outdoor film festival of Studio Ghibli films, leading up to the Easter weekend.
Come along to Carlton Harmony Day for some free family fun with activities, food and music.
The Turkish Pazar Festival brings all the delights of a traditional Turkish Ramazan Festival to the Queen Victoria Market.
Little Food Festival is bringing together a diverse range of partners to help showcase the magic of food and the role we all play in shaping a sustainable future.
Melbourne Holi Festival’s main objective is to celebrate unity in diversity and bring communities together on the occasion of Holi, the Festival of Colours.
Wyndham City’s FREE light festival, LIT will make its spectacular return to Werribee this Autumn, over 14 magical nights from Thursday – Sunday, 27 March to 13 April.
Come and celebrate at one of the most loved Holi festivals in Melbourne's city.
This vibrant, family-friendly celebration invites you to immerse yourself in Nepal’s rich cultural tapestry, featuring traditional music and dance, contemporary performances, and authentic Nepali cuisines sure to tantalise your taste buds.
Get primed for a massive, all-ages, high-energy pop party as part of Open Air at the Square – three months of free gigs, concerts and outdoor cinema at Fed Square from January till March.
Get ready for a spectacular two-day celebration of love, unity, and vibrant colours at the Holi Festival of Colours.
Moomba Festival returns for its 71st year, taking over the banks of the Yarra River, Birrarung Marr and Alexandra Gardens for another huge, long weekend of family friendly fun. Best of all, entry is free!
Open Air at the Square is Fed Square's mammoth free summer program of live events – with over 56 outdoor concerts, gigs, community festivals, film screenings and arts and cultural events on and open to all.
Get ready for an unforgettable experience and a celebration of Greek culture, food, music, dance and more.
Get ready for a garden party like no other at the Royal Botanic Gardens in a day of music, creativity and sustainability.
This free celebration of Afro-Caribbean music, food, costume and sound-system culture, features performances from three international superstars: Vincentian soca singer Kevin Lyttle, Bajan soca Queen Alison Hinds and the UK's Solo Banton, who will bring the dub, soundsystem and reggae vibes to carnival.
In 1916, activist James Arden made a stand for Gunditjmara people against the missionaries and the station manager who controlled their movement.
Celebrate the traditional Filipino art of communal dining at Melbourne’s first-ever Kamayan Festival.
The MSO has been performing outdoor concerts for more than 90 years, and has presented our annual free concert series at the Sidney Myer Music Bowl since 1959.
Celebrate the Year of the Snake at QV with a life-size snakes and ladders game, lucky red packets, lion dances, exclusive offers and some of the city's most authentic Asian restaurants.
Come down to narrm ngarrgu Library and get some with your very own paper rocket.
At ArtPlay: Dive into the outdoors in the ArtPlay Backyard this summer.
