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Twilight Talks 2024, Season 2, Session 1 | At Play in the Fields of the past: Roleplaying, gaming and local heritage
April 24 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
$8 – $12This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre.
Since then, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer, the former candy bar of the cinema, before the talk.
The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001, check out our website for upcoming talks.
At Play in the Fields of the past: Roleplaying, gaming and local heritage | Dr David Waldron
Speaker: David Waldron | Folklorist & Historian
Dr David Waldron is a Senior Lecturer in History at Federation University Australia with a research focus on folklore and community heritage. He is the author of Sign of the Witch: Modernity and the Pagan Revival (Carolina Academic Press 2008), Shock! The Black Dog of Bungay – a Case Study in Local Folklore (Hidden Press 2010) and Snarls from the Tea-Tree: Victoria’s Big Cat Folklore (Australian Scholarly Publishing 2013), editor/contributor of Goldfields and the Gothic: a Hidden Heritage and Folklore (Australian Scholarly Publishing 2016) and author of Aradale: the Making of a Haunted Asylum (Australian Scholarly Publishing 2020).
He is regularly involved in public engagements, festivals and multi-media displays, including the Ballarat Heritage Festival, and is the co-writer and researcher for the National Trust of Australia People’s Choice award historical pod cast series Tales from Rat City. He is also active in developing history and heritage tours including the NTAV Public Heritage award nominated Ballarat Old Gaol Tour and the Portsea Quarantine Station night tours.
Starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm), close 7pm.
Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members
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Details
- Date:
- April 24
- Time:
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6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- Cost:
- $8 – $12
- Event Categories:
- Australian Heritage Festival, Twilight Talks, Twilight Talks Heritage Festivals
- Event Tags:
- culture, Discussion, local stories, Talks, twilight talks
Organiser
Venue
- BMI – Humffray Room
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117-119 Sturt Street
Ballarat Central, VIC 3350 Australia + Google Map - Phone
- (03) 5331 3042
- View Venue Website
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