# Christmas Events, Markets & Things to Do in Bendigo

- **Subtitle**: Celebrate Christmas 2026 in Bendigo with festive markets, holiday parties, Christmas dinners, family activities, Santa experiences, Christmas lights, live shows, brunches, concerts, and seasonal events. Discover the best things to do and book your tickets online.
- **Category**: Christmas
- **Display Name**: Christmas events
- **Type**: other

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## About

Celebrate Christmas [YEAR] in Bendigo with festive markets, Christmas Eve parties, holiday dinners, Santa meet-and-greets, Christmas lights, concerts, carol performances, family-friendly activities, brunches, winter festivals, and seasonal attractions. Whether you're planning a cozy family outing or a festive night out, discover the best Christmas events and things to do in Bendigo.

## Christmas Events in Bendigo

- **Event Name**: M5 McCullochs Engineers Bendigo Pro Rodeo 2026
  - **Description**: 🎄 Saddle up, Bendigo — something different is coming this December! 🤠

The M5 Bendigo Pro Rodeo is rolling into town on December 5th, bringing big energy, live music, and one unforgettable Christmas party atmosphere!

🔥 What’s on:
• Australia’s best bucki
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  - **Date**: Sat Dec 05 2026 at 03:00 pm (+11:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bendigo/m5-mccullochs-engineers-bendigo-pro-rodeo-2026/200030028753204
  - **Venue**: Bendigo Jockey Club
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  - **Categories**: rodeo, music, entertainment, kids, live-music, parties, art, fine-arts, christmas
- **Event Name**: Community Christmas Festival 2026
  - **Description**: 🎄✨ The countdown to Christmas is on! ✨🎄

The Community Christmas Festival is back, featuring incredible live performances, festive music, and holiday fun perfect for all ages

🗓️ WHEN: Saturday 5th December
📍 WHERE: Garden For The Future, White Hills
🎟️ C
  - **Date**: Sat Dec 05 2026 at 05:00 pm – Sat Dec 05 2026 at 08:00 pm (+11:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bendigo/community-christmas-festival-2026/200030733511601
  - **Venue**: Garden for the Future, White Hills
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  - **Categories**: Festivals, food-drinks, Kids
- **Event Name**: The Rotary Christmas Market
  - **Description**: Get ready for a day of festive fun at our Christmas Market! 

Explore more than 60 unique stalls featuring locally crafted gifts, delicious food, home decor, jewellery, art, clothing, pet accessories, flowers, drinkware, Christmas decorations, and more.
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  - **Date**: Sun Nov 29 2026 at 10:00 am – Sun Nov 29 2026 at 03:00 pm (+11:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bendigo/the-rotary-christmas-market/200029986492333
  - **Venue**: Mandurang Valley Wines
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  - **Categories**: music, art, christmas, christmas-markets-and-fairs, live-music, food-drinks, entertainment, nonprofit, wine-tasting, christmas-lights, christmas-wreath-workshops, dog
- **Event Name**: SHREKMAS Trivia [BENDIGO] at The Sporting Globe
  - **Description**: It's a massive trivia event!About this EventJoin us for an evening of amazing food, great drinks, games, and trivia! The questions are fun - not hard - and will take you back through all
  - **Date**: Wed Dec 09 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed Dec 09 2026 at 09:00 pm (+11:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bendigo/shrekmas-trivia-bendigo-at-the-sporting-globe/100001992099136142
  - **Venue**: The Sporting Globe Bar & Grill Bendigo
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  - **Price**: Free
  - **Categories**: fitness
- **Event Name**: A Capital Christmas - 40th Anniversary Show | Midweek Matinees
  - **Description**: Celebrate the spirit of Christmas in 2026 with Australian Tenor Roy Best, perennial favourite funnyman Christopher McKenna, and international Soprano Alison Jones, in a show loaded with laughs and packed with all your Christmas favourites.

https://www.be
  - **Date**: Tue Dec 01 2026 at 11:00 am (+11:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bendigo/a-capital-christmas-40th-anniversary-show-midweek-matinees/200030648875610
  - **Venue**: 50 View St, Bendigo, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3550
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- **Event Name**: St. Kilian’s Christmas Fair
  - **Description**: 🎄 St Kilian’s Twilight Christmas Party 🎄

Save the date! Our Twilight Christmas Party is coming up, and we’re looking forward to bringing our St Kilian’s community together for a wonderful evening to celebrate Christmas and the end of another school year!
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  - **Date**: Fri Nov 20 2026 at 05:00 pm – Fri Nov 20 2026 at 07:30 pm (+11:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bendigo/st-kilians-christmas-fair/200030791871733
  - **Venue**: 2 Havelock Street, Bendigo, VIC, Australia
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  - **Categories**: christmas, christmas-markets-and-fairs, parties, entertainment, calendar
- **Event Name**: CHRISTMAS DRAG BINGO @ ALL SEASONS - BENDIGO
  - **Description**: 🎉Join us for Drag Bingo at All Seasons Resort Hotel – Bendigo! 🎉

Get ready we’re bringing you a spectacular night of Drag Bingo at the All Seasons Resort Hotel, Bendigo. Hosted by the incredibly talented Gabriella Labucci, finalist from Drag Race Down Un
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  - **Date**: Sat Dec 12 2026 at 05:30 pm (+11:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bendigo/christmas-drag-bingo-all-seasons-bendigo/200030821517859
  - **Venue**: All Seasons Hotel Bendigo
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  - **Categories**: bingo, sports
- **Event Name**: Christmas Buffet Luncheon
  - **Description**: ✨ Celebrate the Festive Season in Style ✨
Gather your loved ones and indulge in a spectacular Festive Hot & Cold Buffet, created to capture all the joy and abundance of the season.

Enjoy an irresistible selection of fresh seafood, succulent roast and
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  - **Date**: Fri Dec 25 2026 at 11:30 pm (+11:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bendigo/christmas-buffet-luncheon/200030791821155
  - **Venue**: 171-183 McIvor Hwy, Strathdale, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3550
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  - **Categories**: christmas
- **Event Name**: Christmas Scrim with DCRD
  - **Description**: DCRD are BACK hosting our annual Christmas scrimmage on Sunday 6 December! Clear your calendars and join us for a holly jolly day of skating! 🎄🛼

Juniors Modified Contact (Open Gender)
Adults Modified Contact (Open Gender)
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  - **Date**: Sun Dec 06 2026 at 09:00 am (+11:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bendigo/christmas-scrim-with-dcrd/200030403134757
  - **Venue**: Bendigo Showground
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- **Event Name**: Bendigo Whovians Christmas Party
  - **Description**: Bendigo Whovians — the TARDIS is heading your way! ✨🛸

Join Greg and the gang for a fantastic day of wibbly-wobbly fun, fandom, games, conversation, and community in the heart of Bendigo!

Whether you love Classic Who, NuWho, Big Finish, cosplay, collecti
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  - **Date**: Sun Dec 20 2026 at 01:00 pm – Sun Dec 20 2026 at 04:00 pm (+11:00)
  - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/bendigo/bendigo-whovians-christmas-party/200030229932023
  - **Venue**: 17 Vine St, Bendigo VIC 3550, Australia
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## Trending Events in Bendigo

- **Event Name**: Gallery of Laughs
  - **Description**: Pick-up a book and read during afterhours at the La Trobe Art Institute, Bendigo.We'll bring a selection of humour writers, and other recommendations, and there'll be a gallery of art to enjoy.Bring your own book
  - **Venue**: La Trobe Art Institute
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- **Event Name**: Guy Sebastian in Bendigo
  - **Description**: 🎶 The Ultimate Guy Sebastian Experience LIVE at Ulumbarra Theatre—This Thursday, October 29, 2026! 🎶
It's that time of the year where everyone wants to have a musical breath! Your favorite, Guy Sebastian is hitting
  - **Venue**: Ulumbarra Theatre
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- **Event Name**: ULUMBARRA THEATRE BENDIGO | KATE CEBERANO - AUSTRALIAN MADE TOUR 2026
  - **Description**: After captivating audiences across the country with a sell‑out national tour and a critically acclaimed live album, Kate Ceberano returns to the stage with Australian Made Tour 2026. A heartfelt tribute to the soundtrack of Australia. This is an encore se
  - **Venue**: Ulumbarra Theatre Bendigo
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- **Event Name**: FunLoong Fun Day!
  - **Description**: Join us to celebrate Children’s Week with a range of FREE fun activities and live entertainment for children and families to enjoy 😊

FunLoong Fun Day will have plenty of fun activities and live entertainment, including animals, carnival rides, face paint
  - **Venue**: Hargreaves Mall and Williamson Street
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- **Event Name**: Songs of Farnham - Australia's Premier Tribute to the Music of John Farnham
  - **Description**: Get ready to belt out the classics and relive the magic of an Aussie music legend! 

Welcome to Songs of Farnham – a high-energy tribute to the one and only John Farnham, the voice that defined generations. From humble beginnings as a Melbourne plumber to
  - **Venue**: 22 Park Street, Bendigo, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3550
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- **Event Name**: Granny Bingo (Bendigo)
  - **Description**: Get ready to shout BINGO and have a laugh-filled night with the sassiest grannies around!About this EventJoin the hilarity as the old dames of drag bingo bring their signature sass to the funniest evening of bingo you’ve
  - **Venue**: The Sporting Globe Bar & Grill Bendigo
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- **Event Name**: Graeme Connors @ The Capital Bendigo
  - **Description**: 🎟️🎟️ ON SALE 10AM 5th MAY !

DOORS: 7PM, SHOW: 7:30PM

Graeme Connors keeps moving… forwards, backwards, sideways… there’s always something new on his horizon… songwriting, recording, touring… you’re never sure where he’ll take you next… but you can be su
  - **Venue**: The Capital Bendigo
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- **Event Name**: Bell Shakespeare’s Macbeth
  - **Description**: Following a bloody battle, Macbeth and his comrade Banquo are met by three Weird Sisters who prophesy Macbeth will one day be king. 

Unable to shake the thought, Macbeth tells his wife, Lady Macbeth. Driven by an insatiable hunger for power, posterity an
  - **Venue**: 10 Gaol Road, Bendigo, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3550
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- **Event Name**: STATIC RITUAL
  - **Description**: Raise a little hell. Spread a little heresy.

This Halloween, Succubus Entity and Heretic Frequency join forces to unleash 𝕾𝖙𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖈 𝕽𝖎𝖙𝖚𝖆𝖑 - a full day of heavy music, costumes, chaos and community in the heart of Bendigo.

On Saturday 31st October, Lets Ch
  - **Venue**: Let’s Chat Park Bendigo
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## FAQs

- **Q**: What are the top Christmas events in Bendigo?
  - **A:** M5 McCullochs Engineers Bendigo Pro Rodeo 2026 (Sat Dec 05 2026 at 03:00 pm at Bendigo Jockey Club), Community Christmas Festival 2026 (Sat Dec 05 2026 at 05:00 pm at Garden for the Future, White Hills), The Rotary Christmas Market (Sun Nov 29 2026 at 10:00 am at Mandurang Valley Wines), SHREKMAS Trivia [BENDIGO] at The Sporting Globe (Wed Dec 09 2026 at 07:00 pm at The Sporting Globe Bar & Grill Bendigo), A Capital Christmas - 40th Anniversary Show | Midweek Matinees (Tue Dec 01 2026 at 11:00 am at 50 View St, Bendigo, VIC, Australia, Victoria 3550).
- **Q**: What are the top free Christmas events in Bendigo?
  - **A:** SHREKMAS Trivia [BENDIGO] at The Sporting Globe (Wed Dec 09 2026 at 07:00 pm at The Sporting Globe Bar & Grill Bendigo).
- **Q**: How can I find Christmas events in Bendigo?
  - **A:** You can discover upcoming Christmas events in Bendigo on AllEvents.in. Browse by date, venue, or price to find events that match your interests.
- **Q**: How do I buy tickets for Christmas events in Bendigo?
  - **A:** You can buy tickets directly through AllEvents.in. Many events offer online booking with options for free, paid, and early-bird tickets.
- **Q**: What are the popular venues for Christmas events in Bendigo?
  - **A:** Some popular venues hosting Christmas events in Bendigo include Bendigo Jockey Club, Garden for the Future, White Hills, Mandurang Valley Wines.
- **Q**: Who are the top organizers for Christmas events in Bendigo?
  - **A:** Popular organizers hosting Christmas events in Bendigo include M5Rodeo Promotions, Community Christmas Festival - White Hills, Bendigo Rotary Market.
- **Q**: Are there any online Christmas events available?
  - **A:** Yes, many Christmas events are available online. You can filter for virtual events on AllEvents.in to attend from anywhere.
- **Q**: How can I get notified about new Christmas events in Bendigo?
  - **A:** Follow the Christmas category on AllEvents.in to get notified when new Christmas events are listed in Bendigo.

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