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We've got a variety of Council and community events and activities on the Northern Beaches to suit everyone. Take a look at the calendar or select a category for upcoming events. 

There's also a range of activities you can do online - join a webinar, watch a live stream, or view a recorded video in our digital library.

Check out other courses & activities at your local Community Centre or our Hello Manly website.

Submit your event

We encourage local not-for-profit community groups to publicise their events here too (conditions apply). Please note: listing here does not mean Council endorses the event or the organiser's products.

Please note: Our event calendar is not intended to advertise regular programs or classes. If they are held in one of our Community Centres, please submit to include in our Course and Activity Directory

Fri 9 Aug
Sun 11 Aug
BEaches FILm FEstival

Beaches Young Filmmakers Comp

Calling aspiring filmmakers! Create a seven-minute short film. $3000 prize pool, plus industry prizes with finalists films screened at Hoyts.
Art and Culture, Children and Families, Council Events, Youth
Sat 10 Aug
12.00 PM - 1.00 PM
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Science week: Superstars of STEM talk

Curious about STEM? Celebrate Science Week at Manly Library where guest speakers from The Superstars of STEM will focus on our backyard helpers, lady beetles. School years 3-6.
Manly Library, 1 Market Ln Manly
Children and Families, Council Events, Education and Learning, Environment and Sustainability
Sat 10 Aug
2.00 PM - 3.00 PM
Alex Wisser, Mine

Meet the Artists: 2024 Environmental Art & Design Prize

A fast-moving opportunity to engage with the artists as you move around the gallery freely, listening to
stories of inspiration and the creative process.
Manly Art Gallery & Museum, 1a West Esplanade Manly
Art and Culture, Collective for Environmental Art & Design, Council Events, MAG&M Talks and Events
Sat 10 Aug
5.30 PM - 9.00 PM
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Stargazing

Join us for Stargazing, hosted by the Australasian Dark Sky Alliance, an enchanting evening celebrating the beauty of our night skies. This charity event aims to raise funds and awareness for light pollution – the world's fastest-growing pollutant, which we are committed to addressing!

After Dark offers community stargazing, engaging talks, and immersive planetarium experiences for all to enjoy.
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Sun 11 Aug
12.00 PM - 4.00 PM
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Surf Swap and Repair Market

Soak up the vibes and swap, buy, sell, repair or repurpose your surf gear at this sustainable coastal market.
Surfrider Gardens 50 Ocean St Narrabeen
Waste Reduction Events
Tue 13 Aug
2.00 PM - 3.30 PM
Family History Workshops

Family History Workshop at Warringah Mall

Curious about your family history but not sure where to start? Join the Local History team as we celebrate Family History Month for an introductory workshop.
Warringah Mall Library, 145 Old Pittwater Rd Brookvale
Council Events, Education and Learning, Seniors
Tue 13 Aug
3.30 PM - 4.30 PM
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STEM Corner at Glen Street

Drop in to the library and explore the range of STEM activities.
Glen Street Library, Cnr Glen Street and Blackbutts Rd Frenchs Forest
Children and Families, Council Events, Education and Learning
Wed 14 Aug
4.00 PM - 5.30 PM
Paper circuit materials

Paper Circuits at Manly

Join us at the Library this science week to create your very own LED light up paper circuit!
Manly Library, 1 Market Ln Manly
Children and Families, Council Events, Education and Learning
Wed 14 Aug
6.30 PM - 7.30 PM
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Jade and Emerald with Michelle See-Tho

Join Penguin Literary Prize winner Michelle See-Tho in conversation with James McKenzie Watson to discuss her debut fiction, Jade and Emerald.
Warringah Mall Library, Level 2 Westfield /145 Old Pittwater Road Brookvale
Council Events, Authors Talk
Thu 15 Aug
9.30 AM - 11.30 AM

Create & Connect

Explore art making, creative expression and relaxation in our open studio art therapy workshop.
Avalon Creative Space 32 Old Barrenjoey Road Avalon Beach
Art and Culture, Avalon Creative Space
Thu 15 Aug
11.00 AM - 11.30 AM
Colourful Tibetan flags and sunset in the summit of a Himalayan mountain

བོད་སྐད་ནང་སྒྲུང་ཤོད་པའི་དུས་ཚོད་ (Tibetan Story Time)

སྒྲུང་དང་། གཞས་སྣ། སྒྲ་མཚུངས་སྙན་རྩོམ། རྩེད་མོ་ལོངས་སུ་སྤྱད་དེ་བོད་ཀྱི་སྐད་ཡིག་དང་འབྲི་ཀློག་ཤེས་ཡོན་ལ་རྒྱབ་སྐྱོར་གནང་རོགས།
ཕྲུ་གུ་ལོ་ 0 - 5 བར་དང་ཁོང་ཚོའི་ཕ་མ་དང་ལྟ་སྐྱོང་བྱེད་མཁན་ཚོའི་ཆེད་དུ་དམིགས་ཡོད།
ཌི་ལྦཡེ་དཔེ་མཛོད་ཁང་། (Dee Why Library) 725 Pittwater Road Dee Why
Children and Families, Council Events, Education and Learning
Thu 15 Aug
1.00 PM - 2.00 PM
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The End of the Morning with Nadia Wheatley

Join author Nadia Wheatley as she discusses, The End of the Morning, the never-before-published novel by Charmian Clift, which Nadia has recently edited.
Manly Library, 1 Market Place Manly
Council Events, Authors Talk
Thu 15 Aug
1.30 PM - 3.30 PM
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Child Care Subsidy གནས་ཚུལ་ཚོགས་ཐུན།

བོད་སྐད་ནང་ཕྲུ་གུ་ལྟ་སྐྱོང་གི་ཞབས་ཞུ་དང་སྣོན་གསབ་ཁག་གི་སྐོར་ལ་ཨོའོ་སི་ཀྲོ་ལི་ཡའི་ཞབས་ཞུ་ཁང་ (Services Australia) མཉམ་དུ་སྦྱོངས།
Dee Why Library 725 Pittwater Rd Dee Why
Children and Families, Council Events, Education and Learning, Library Services Australia Series
Thu 15 Aug
4.00 PM - 5.30 PM
Paper circuit materials

Paper Circuits at Dee Why

Join us at the Library this science week to create your very own LED light up paper circuit!
Dee Why Library, 725 Pittwater Rd Dee Why
Children and Families, Council Events, Education and Learning
Thu 15 Aug
6.00 PM - 7.30 PM
Winner 2023 - Interdisciplinary collab - Kandos School of Cultural Adaptation Land Studio

Collective Action: CEAD Panel Discussion

You are invited to join MAG&M’s Collective for Environmental Art & Design (CEAD) at the first panel discussion of this new initiative.
Manly Art Gallery & Museum 1a West Esplanade, Manly
Art and Culture, Collective for Environmental Art & Design, Council Events, MAG&M Talks and Events
Sat 17 Aug
2.00 PM - 3.00 PM
Claudia Padman, The Salvaging

Meet the Young Artists/Designers: 2024 Environmental Art & Design Prize

A fast-moving opportunity to engage with the young artists and designers as you move around the gallery
freely, listening to stories of inspiration and the creative process.
Mona Vale Creative Space Gallery 1 Park Street Mona Vale
Art and Culture, Collective for Environmental Art & Design, Council Events, MAG&M Talks and Events
Sun 18 Aug
1.30 PM - 3.30 PM
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Australian Poetry Slam: Workshop

Writers get inspired with a spoken word workshop led by a professional slam artist.
Manly Library, 1 Market Place Manly
Art and Culture, Council Events, Education and Learning, Youth