Dining Festivals, Night Markets, Next-Level Art: 18 of the Best Things to Do in Brisbane this Month

It’s well and truly winter, but we’re making the most of the milder weather by hitting the town. It’s a great month of events across Queensland and the Northern Rivers.

Here are the 18 best things to do in Queensland this month – and all the food news you need to know.

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Festivals and events in June 2026

It’s a bumper year for events. Head here to check out our 2026 festival and events wrap – or keep reading to find out about this month’s best.

• Scenic Rim Eat Local Month, June 1–30: Head to the Beaudesert region for this paddock-to-plate food festival. Just an hour’s drive from Brisbane, the Scenic Rim is home to some of Queensland’s most vibrant farms, pubs and wineries. Throughout June, they host long lunches, tours, workshops and degustation dinners, all with a focus on local produce. It’s a perfect opportunity to try one-off menus from destination restaurants like Blume in Boonah. If you prefer to take a more hands-on approach to your food, you can learn how to make cheese, harvest honey and brew beer. Bring the kids along for camel rides and campfire cooking.

• Dine Bne, June 1–30: Dine Bne is back for another year with 80 venues on board, including Donna Chang, Central, The Fifty Six and Sokyo. The program runs from morning to midnight with breakfast sessions including $1 hashbrowns, $15 breakfast burgers, and indulgent brunch plates; lunches at some of the city’s best venues from between $20 to $40; and late-night supper clubs.

• Hota Hawker Night Markets, June 13, 4pm–9pm: Over 150 stalls will come to Hota on the Gold Coast for a flavour-packed evening, including Ka Bao, the Pad Thai Lady, yakitori stall Get to Bird, and more. There will also be fire performers, a flying dragon and live music. Head here for more information.

• What the Farm x Clarence Collaboration Dinner, June 18: One of the biggest strengths of Clarence is its connection to local farmers. To celebrate the people who do the hard work to cultivate the ingredients that land on our plates, Clarence is hosting a one-off five-course dinner. Throughout the evening, farmers and producers will share a bit about their work. Half of the ticket price from the dinner will go directly back to farmers. Tickets are $100 per person.

• Upstate Wellness Morning, June 19: Winter is often when our wellness goals from the year begin to slip away. Upstate – which recently opened a West End studio – is here to help. Upstate’s wellness morning includes a 30-minute signature mat Pilates class as well as a breakfast and a panel discussion. Attendees will also be gifted an outfit from Upstate Sport. Tickets are $45 per person.

• Festival of the Stone, June 20: Stone & Wood’s winter festival returns to its Byron Bay brewery, bringing music, community and beer together for its 12th instalment. This year’s event is headlined by Pacific Avenue and Ruby Fields. It also marks the tapping of the brewery’s much-loved Stone Beer, a woodfired porter made the traditional way: stones are heated over a wood fire and dropped straight into the brew. 

• Attimi and C’est Bon Chefs’ Table Series, June 24: After their first collaborative dinner in May, Dario Manca will reunite with C’est Bon chef Andy Ashby to create a set menu including a duck beignet, French onion meringue, truffle and lemon thyme arancino, and more. The courses are paired with French and Italian wines. $195 per person.

• Wynnum Fringe, June 25 – July 12: More than 200 performances will ignite the bayside festival hub during the Wynnum Fringe festival. Everything including comedy, music, circus and cabaret will be represented. Headliners include Matt Okine, Mel Buttle, Arj Barker and Luke McGregor.

• Sunnybank Food Trail, June 27: Back for a 12th year, the Sunnybank Food Trail is welcoming 53 restaurants and vendors serving up a combined 188 menu items, starting at just $2. Expect barbeque pork buns, dumplings, bubble tea and noodles.

• Fried Chicken Tuesdays at Supernormal: Winter calls for comfort food. Enter Supernormal’s Korean fried chicken which is fried to perfection and served crisp and golden with house ferments and sauces including green chilli ranch and kombu hot sauce.

• Wednesday Steak Nights at Marlowe: The team at Marlowe has introduced a new midweek special. Each Wednesday, the menu now features a 220-gram Rivervine sirloin with skin-on fries for $38. There’s the option to include a paired wine or beer with your steak for $49 – or if you’re going all out for hump day, you can turn the whole thing into a surf and turf. Reservations are available online.

• Supernormal Weekday Ramen Special: Summer is over, which means we’re slowly sliding towards ramen weather. Supernormal is welcoming the cooler weather with a new menu item: ramen. On weekdays from 11.30am, the riverside restaurant will serve a rich double chicken stock, which slowly simmers overnight and is then infused with dried shiitake, kombu and white miso to create a rich and layered flavour. Piping hot broth is then poured over noodles. The ramen is topped with grilled chicken, dumplings, and a soy-marinated egg.

Theatre in June 2026

Brisbane’s 2026 theatre calendar is packed with musicals, adaptations and Australian premieres. Here’s what to catch this month.

•Macbeth: The Scottish play gets a thoroughly modern update from Shake and Stir Theatre Company, who have reimagined Shakespeare’s tragic general as a rising war hero of contemporary times. He’s a public figure in the age of clickbait and doomscrolling, and his ruthlessly ambitious partner is poised and polished in the knowledge that perception is power. But, as we all know from year 9 English, that power can be short-lived. 

Macbeth runs from June 6 to 21 at Playhouse, Queensland Performing Arts Centre. Tickets are on sale now.

• Beetlejuice The Musical: Shake, shake, shake, Senora and get your body in line for a riotous time with Eddie Perfect, who plays the lovable demon Betelgeuse in this musical adaptation of Tim Burton’s 1988 film. It’s loyal to the original with striped suits, crude jokes and a ghoulish set. Perfect wrote the music and lyrics, and his performance has been celebrated for being even more vulgar than Michael Keaton’s. Those two calypso songs, Banana Boat Song (Day-O) and Jump in the Line (Shake, Senora), are guaranteed, as is a suitably sulky teenage Lydia, played by Karis Oka. 

Beetlejuice The Musical runs from June 7 to July 19 at Lyric Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre. Tickets are on sale now.

Art exhibitions in June 2026

Art lovers must be exhausted. This year is jam-packed with exhibitions. Here are five you can see this month.

• Leonard Brown – Painting the Celestial, Ipswich Art Gallery: Artist Leonard Brown is a local legend working with contemporary abstraction and Byzantine religious iconography. His works range from two-toned minimalistic canvases to golden-beaming depictions of John the Baptist. Painting the Celestial is the first comprehensive retrospective of his work, spanning more than five decades. Ipswich Art Gallery has even created a golden “sanctuary” to hang the artist’s more sublime pieces. Until June 14. Free. 

• A Bigger View, Hota: Explore a selection of monumental landscape works from the National Gallery of Australia in this large-scale exhibition. Take in David Hockney’s A Bigger Grand Canyon and Imants Tillers’s Mount Analogue, alongside pieces by other revered figures such as Bridget Riley and Australians Sally Gabori and William Robinson. This Gold Coast show presents diverse approaches to landscape painting, offering a fresh perspective on the cornerstone genre that has shaped Australian art history. Until June 21, 2026. Free.

• Olafur Eliasson: Presence, QAGOMA: Icelandic Danish artist Olafur Eliasson is known for his installations that draw on elements of water, light and air temperature to transport viewers to a new realm. This Brisbane-exclusive exhibition delivers a multi-sensory journey that celebrates his three-decade career. Visit to see, feel, hear and touch two much-loved QAGOMA works, including Riverbed – wear comfortable shoes to explore the rocky landscape and running water – and The Cubic Structural Evolution Project, an all-white Lego city perpetually built and rebuilt by visitors. Until July 12, 2026. $14 to $33.

• This Moment: Highlights from the White Rabbit Collection of Chinese Contemporary Art, Hota: White Rabbit Gallery in Sydney showcases the private collection of philanthropist Judith Neilson, whose focus is experimental and political art from 21st-century China. Neilson’s collection rarely travels beyond Sydney – until now. In a Queensland-exclusive, visitors to Hota will get to see 40 artworks from White Rabbit, including some by ceramicist Geng Xue, multimedia artist Xu Zhen and video and installation artist Zhang Peili. Expect mind-bending pieces such as a 3D-printed Noah’s Ark, twisted and appearing to melt to the ground; neon and LED sculptures; and a haunting chorus of wooden chairs with mechanical arms. Until October 11. Free.

Food news and new openings

What we’ve covered recently:

• Sunnyside Sandwiches opened its biggest ever outpost in East Brisbane.

• Two hot new venues will land in Brisbane later this year. San Telmo, Melbourne’s fiery Argentinian steakhouse, will open a CBD location later this month. Ex-Otto chef Will Cowper will open Pici, a casual pasta spot in New Farm, later this year.

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• Top chefs from across Queensland share their favourite bakeries, their go-to long lunch spots, and the underrated restaurants they think deserve more love.

Reporting by Alice Jeffrey, Emma Joyce and Kit Kriewaldt.

Editor's note: This article was originally published on February 12, 2026. It is updated every month with new events and inclusions. The most recent update was June 12, 2026