Student events and activities

From career fairs to creative classes, find out what's on around campus and online.

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Public Art Trail 2026

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 01 Feb 2022 - 31 Dec 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Melbourne City

Get involved in a series of fun, participatory, student-created artworks on campus.

RMIT students and staff at the 2025 Midsumma Pride March

RMIT X Midsumma Festival

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 18 Jan 2026 - 08 Feb 2026

RMIT University is proudly a Major Partner of Midsumma Festival, with the partnership secured through to 2028. This multiyear partnership reflects RMIT's longstanding commitment to supporting LGBTIQA+ communities, by increasing visibility, championing change, uplifting LGBTIQA+ voices and celebrating queer creativity. The 2026 festival runs from 18 January to 8 February.

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Monthly RMIT Games Day 2026

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 25 Jan 2026 - 14 Dec 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. RMIT City campus

RMIT are back for RMIT Games Day 2026 tournaments!

RMIT students and staff at the 2025 Midsumma Pride March

RMIT x Midsumma March 2026

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 01 Feb 2026

Come together, meet new friends and amplify the power of community and culture at the 30th anniversary of Midsumma Pride March.

University students walk in front of promotional signage.

Semester 1 O Week Events

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 02 Feb 2026 - 27 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Brunswick, Bundoora, Melbourne City, Carlton

Join us for some fun on-campus entertainment and activities Orientation Week (O Week)!

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Carlton Library orientation: I've got a question for you!

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 04 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. RMIT City campus

Take the Library Concierge challenge – solve a mystery question and enter to win a $100 JB Hi-Fi voucher.

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Library orientation tours

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 05 Feb 2026 - 25 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Brunswick, Bundoora, Melbourne City, Carlton

Tour the Library’s spaces, learn how our collections and services can help you succeed in your studies and improve your assignments. No registration needed.

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Card games corner at Carlton Library

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 05 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. RMIT City campus

Drop by our pop-up games corner at Carlton Library during VE Orientation Week and unwind with classic card games.

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1oo Years of Broadcast TV Symposium: The impact and future of broadcast TV in Australia

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 06 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Melbourne

RMIT University's Streaming Industries and Genres Network (SIGN) proudly present the '100 Years of Broadcast TV Symposium', which reflects on the impact of the broadcast signal across media and communication industries in Australia.

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Designing with Wool: The Australian Wool Board's Global Fashion Impact

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 18 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. RMIT City campus

Join us for an insightful panel discussion about how fashion designers and manufacturers have championed Australian wool locally and on the global stage.

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Swanston Library orientation: I've got a question for you!

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 23 Feb 2026 - 27 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. RMIT City campus

Take the Library Concierge challenge – solve a mystery question and enter to win a $100 JB Hi-Fi voucher.

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Elevate your assessments with Adobe

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 23 Feb 2026 - 25 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. RMIT City campus

Visit the Adobe Hub during RMIT Orientation Week, meet the Adobe Coaches and see how Adobe Express can elevate your assessments with standout presentations, videos and graphics.

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Card games corner at Swanston Library

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 24 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. RMIT City campus

Drop by our pop-up games corner at Swanston Library during Orientation Week and unwind with classic card games.

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Swanston Library morning tea

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 25 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. RMIT City campus

Come for the cake – stay for the grades! Meet the team from the Library in the Swanston Study Support Hub who can help you succeed at RMIT while enjoying free food.

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Draw in 3D at Makerspace

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 25 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. RMIT City campus

Draw in 3D and bring your ideas to life. Drop in for a hands-on play with 3D pens and create your own mini sculpture. See what’s possible in the Makerspace and take home your own creation.

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The Best Films You've Never Seen: JAWS (M), 1975

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 25 Feb 2026

Join us to celebrate the film that launched the blockbuster era, as ‘Jaws’ returns to the big screen at The Capitol - RMIT.

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Free Food on Campus

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 02 Mar 2026 - 23 Oct 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Brunswick, Point Cook, Bundoora, Melbourne City, Carlton

Discover delicious, no-cost options to keep you fuelled and focused on campus. Courtesy of RMIT and the RMIT University Student Union (RUSU).

Hiranga, RMIT Plus Ambassador at a stall during O Week

Introductory workshop – RMIT Plus

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 03 Mar 2026

Come and learn more about RMIT Plus and how it can help you build essential life and work skills to make the most of your time at university!

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Campus Fest

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 04 Mar 2026 - 05 Mar 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Melbourne City

Meet RMIT clubs, make friends, join activities, and experience the best of campus life at this two-day festival.

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Provocations: Why are we still talking about gender equality?

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 04 Mar 2026

Join us as we celebrate International Women's Day 2026 and its theme, 'Balancing The Scales', with a powerful panel of gender equity advocates.

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A. C. Grayling: Fighting Authoritarianism, Saving Democracy

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 07 Mar 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. The Capitol

RMIT University and The Wheeler Centre proudly present preeminent philosopher A. C. Grayling discussing one of the most urgent issues of our time: the decline of democracy.

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Confident Communicator workshops – RMIT Plus

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 10 Mar 2026 - 14 Apr 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Melbourne City

RMIT Plus is a free, self-paced, co-curricular skills recognition program designed to help you build your life and work skills. Our workshops and events throughout the year are here to support you in setting and achieving your goals by getting experience beyond the classroom.

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Mental health and wellbeing webinars

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 12 Mar 2026 - 04 May 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Online, Melbourne City

Discover the tools, practices and knowledge that can support you to take better care of yourself with the latest webinars from RMIT Counselling & Psychological Services.

RMIT students sit together at the RMIT Plus end of year celebration

Goal Setting workshops – RMIT Plus

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 12 Mar 2026 - 25 Mar 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Melbourne City

This friendly, hands-on goal-setting setting workshop will introduce you to RMIT Plus and SMART goals. Whether you're thinking about personal development, your career, or anything else, you'll leave with an actionable plan to achieve what you want.

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Man with a Movie Camera + Live Score by Underground Lovers

Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. The Capitol

RMIT University proudly supports a special Castlemaine Documentary Festival film screening at RMIT's The Capitol. See Dziga Vertov's iconic 'Man With A Movie Camera' like never before, with a live score from Melbourne's legendary Underground Lovers.

Students engage with employers at the 2025 Industry Insight Sessions

Career Connect - Industry Insights

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 16 Mar 2026 - 18 Mar 2026

Industry Insight Sessions are a series of interactive events where RMIT students connect with employers and industry professionals and gain insider tips ahead of The Big Meet, Australia’s top career fair for undergraduate and graduate students.

Students connect Australia's top employers at The Big Meet

The Big Meet

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 19 Mar 2026

Connect with Australia's top employers at Melbourne's top graduate careers fair, for free!

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Provocations: What will we eat in the future?

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 01 Apr 2026

As climate change, population growth, and ecological collapse reshape how we produce and consume food, we need to think outside the (lunch) box to find solutions.

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Provocations: Is It Too Late to Save the Internet?

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 06 May 2026

Trolls. Scams. Misinformation. Harassment. Can the internet still be a force for good?

Hiranga, RMIT Plus Ambassador at a stall during O Week

Introductory workshop – RMIT Plus

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 03 Mar 2026

Come and learn more about RMIT Plus and how it can help you build essential life and work skills to make the most of your time at university!

Person addressing cinema audience

Confident Communicator workshops – RMIT Plus

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 10 Mar 2026 - 14 Apr 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Melbourne City

RMIT Plus is a free, self-paced, co-curricular skills recognition program designed to help you build your life and work skills. Our workshops and events throughout the year are here to support you in setting and achieving your goals by getting experience beyond the classroom.

RMIT students sit together at the RMIT Plus end of year celebration

Goal Setting workshops – RMIT Plus

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 12 Mar 2026 - 25 Mar 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Melbourne City

This friendly, hands-on goal-setting setting workshop will introduce you to RMIT Plus and SMART goals. Whether you're thinking about personal development, your career, or anything else, you'll leave with an actionable plan to achieve what you want.

Students engage with employers at the 2025 Industry Insight Sessions

Career Connect - Industry Insights

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 16 Mar 2026 - 18 Mar 2026

Industry Insight Sessions are a series of interactive events where RMIT students connect with employers and industry professionals and gain insider tips ahead of The Big Meet, Australia’s top career fair for undergraduate and graduate students.

Students connect Australia's top employers at The Big Meet

The Big Meet

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 19 Mar 2026

Connect with Australia's top employers at Melbourne's top graduate careers fair, for free!

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Carlton Library orientation: I've got a question for you!

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 04 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. RMIT City campus

Take the Library Concierge challenge – solve a mystery question and enter to win a $100 JB Hi-Fi voucher.

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Library orientation tours

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 05 Feb 2026 - 25 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Brunswick, Bundoora, Melbourne City, Carlton

Tour the Library’s spaces, learn how our collections and services can help you succeed in your studies and improve your assignments. No registration needed.

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Swanston Library orientation: I've got a question for you!

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 23 Feb 2026 - 27 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. RMIT City campus

Take the Library Concierge challenge – solve a mystery question and enter to win a $100 JB Hi-Fi voucher.

Decorative image.

Elevate your assessments with Adobe

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 23 Feb 2026 - 25 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. RMIT City campus

Visit the Adobe Hub during RMIT Orientation Week, meet the Adobe Coaches and see how Adobe Express can elevate your assessments with standout presentations, videos and graphics.

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Public Art Trail 2026

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 01 Feb 2022 - 31 Dec 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Melbourne City

Get involved in a series of fun, participatory, student-created artworks on campus.

University students walk in front of promotional signage.

Semester 1 O Week Events

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 02 Feb 2026 - 27 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Brunswick, Bundoora, Melbourne City, Carlton

Join us for some fun on-campus entertainment and activities Orientation Week (O Week)!

Two people hold up a card hand

Card games corner at Carlton Library

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 05 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. RMIT City campus

Drop by our pop-up games corner at Carlton Library during VE Orientation Week and unwind with classic card games.

Two people hold up a card hand

Card games corner at Swanston Library

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 24 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. RMIT City campus

Drop by our pop-up games corner at Swanston Library during Orientation Week and unwind with classic card games.

Decorative image.

Swanston Library morning tea

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 25 Feb 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. RMIT City campus

Come for the cake – stay for the grades! Meet the team from the Library in the Swanston Study Support Hub who can help you succeed at RMIT while enjoying free food.

Two students smiling and holding vegan sausages

Free Food on Campus

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 02 Mar 2026 - 23 Oct 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Brunswick, Point Cook, Bundoora, Melbourne City, Carlton

Discover delicious, no-cost options to keep you fuelled and focused on campus. Courtesy of RMIT and the RMIT University Student Union (RUSU).

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Campus Fest

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 04 Mar 2026 - 05 Mar 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Melbourne City

Meet RMIT clubs, make friends, join activities, and experience the best of campus life at this two-day festival.

Smiley face painted on pavement

Mental health and wellbeing webinars

Icon / Small / Calendar Created with Sketch. 12 Mar 2026 - 04 May 2026
Icon / Small / Location Created with Sketch. Online, Melbourne City

Discover the tools, practices and knowledge that can support you to take better care of yourself with the latest webinars from RMIT Counselling & Psychological Services.

More ways to get involved

This service receives funding from SSAF

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Acknowledgement of Country

RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.

Learn more about our commitment to Indigenous cultures