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Festivals

Throughout the year there are several excellent family friendly festivals and events on. In fact, if youโ€™re looking at whatโ€™s happening locally this weekend, no doubt youโ€™ll find a family friendly event somewhere in the city that you could take the kids to.

The Best Family Friendly Festivals and Events Guide

While there are many festivals on that are designed especially for families and their kids, many that arenโ€™t (like Oktoberfest Brisbane) are still super family friendly.

In our local festivals guide, we include popular events such as Riverfire Brisbane, a range of different food festivals, Bookfest, cultural events such as the French and Greek festival, Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers and many more. Honestly, there are so many different festivals in our list that you could go to one every weekend!

So if youโ€™re looking for something to do next weekend, why not check out our list to see what upcoming festivals are on offer. No doubt there will be something perfect that the entire family will enjoy.

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