Exhibition | Not the Last Picture Show | Ballarat Heritage Festival

Hugh Williamson Foyer, Level 1

May 17 @ 10:30 am - May 30 @ 4:00 pm Free Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895, the first screenings of this new technology of 'moving pictures' were held at the Mechanics' Institute. By the 1970's, cinema's death was being heralded after the devastating impact of television and […]

Free

Exhibition | Not the Last Picture Show: From the Archives | Ballarat Heritage Festival

Heritage Reading Room 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

May 17 @ 10:30 am - May 30 @ 4:00 pm Free – $5 This Heritage Reading Room (the original Mining Exchange in Ballarat) houses a fascinating and authentic representation of a Mechanics’ Institute library from early last century, and visitors will be delighted at the opportunity to touch, feel and read some of more […]

Free – $5

BMI Fundraiser

Featuring:
The Hideaways,
The Harmonies &
Surf Shadows. 

2 course dinner & lots
of dancing