• Melbourne International Comedy Festival | Outta Town – Ballarat

    The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    We’re packing our bags and hitting the road for some weekend getaways! Be a part of the fun as we roll into regional Victoria with some of Australia’s funniest comedians for a series of outta town trips. Featuring some of Australia’s most exciting comedians including Dilruk Jayasinha, star of Celebrity Masterchef and ABC TV’s Utopia, Alex Ward, regular guest on Have You […]

    $25 – $29
  • David Quirk – Astonishing Obscurity

    BMI - Minerva Space 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC

    Melbourne International Comedy Festival proudly presents: David Quirk - Astonishing Obscurity Nominee: 2021 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award for Most Outstanding Show  A truth. A lie. A vendetta. Obsession. Stalking. Inbreeding. Art. My brilliant football brother. My Christmas Island sister and an actual Prince lip sync dance thing that sent my career careering. DQ neva […]

    $25 – $30
  • Joe Avati | 25 Live – Have Some Respect Tour

    The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    The comedian touted as Australia’s answer to Seinfeld is back with a brand new show for 2022 – and with most of us needing a good laugh after the events of the last two years, his tour will be just the ticket. After surviving the world’s longest lockdown in Melbourne, Joe is bursting with new […]

    $49.50
  • LaNCE TV – Live in Concert with Motor City Sounds

    BMI - Minerva Space 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC

    We are excited to bring you a much anticipated live event. Join us in the beautiful Minerva Space at the Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute, for a night of pure entertainment and cheesy disco classics with Ballarat's most notorious television duo Lance DeBoyle and Gabriella Labucci. This event will be broadcast live to community television station C31 […]

    $40 – $50
  • Toying With The Classics – Ballarat Symphony Orchestra

    BMI - Minerva Space 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC

    The Ballarat Symphony presents classical music with a twist. A Toy Symphony with real toys. Beethoven letting the cat out of the bag. Mozart outdoing P.D.Q. Bach. And Haydn being more surprising than the Surprise Symphony. Music by famous composers…with something funny happening! Conductor: Hugh McKelvey Program: - Beethoven: Symphony No.1 - Leopold Mozart: Toy Symphony […]

    $10 – $30
  • Fanny Lumsden’s Deep in the Fallow Tour

    BMI - Minerva Space 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC

    Fanny Lumsden and her band The Pack are bringing fallow out on its last hurrah. After its wobbly start in 2020, to its incredible list of accolades including the ARIA for Best Country Album; five-time CMAA Golden Guitars including Album of the Year and Female Artist of the Year; AIR Country Album of the Year; […]

    $30
  • ‘Mine-Field’ Documentary Screening + QnA

    BMI - Minerva Space 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC

    This engaging, highly informative film is a must-see for communities like Ballarat and Moorabool who are keen to understand the environmental and lifestyle implications of Victoria’s 21st-century mining boom. Filmed over three years, 'Mine-Field' (2022) shows how a farming community in East Gippsland fought a ruthless mining company and won. It reveals the devastating impact […]

    $12
  • Eric Bogle Live

    BMI - Minerva Space 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC

    Eric Bogle is an internationally known and respected songwriter. For nearly 40 years he has toured the world with his music, inflicting his songs on innocent bystanders from outback Australia to the streets of New York and many places in between. During those 40 years he has embarked on eight tours of North America, 11 […]

    $69
  • Kings of the Blues

    BMI - Minerva Space 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC

    Starring Dave Hole, Shane Pacey and Geoff Achison. BB, FREDDIE and ALBERT represent the pinnacle of blues guitar virtuosity.   They used a minimum to create the maximum blues effect, and together they set the standard to which all others aspire. And the KINGS were superb vocalists, ripping into the very soul of the blues. Such […]

    $79
  • Ballarat Film Society 2023

    Ballarat Film Society – La Strada

    BMI - Minerva Space 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC

    Italy, 1954, b/w, 94 min.  Directed by Federico Fellini Fellini Classic Neo-Realism ​Starring Giulietta Masina, Anthony Quinn and Richard Basehart, and produced by Dino De Laurentiis and Carlo Ponti, La Strada was Fellini’s 4th film and ensured his international reputation. Told in a fabulist style with a focus on love and jealousies, it is set […]

  • Class Clowns | Ballarat Heat

    BMI - Minerva Space 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC

    Class Clowns aims to inspire, engage and elevate teens aged 14-18 who are hoping to flex their funny bone and get into comedy. All you need is 3-5 minutes of original comedy material of any genre. Stand-up, sketch, narrative, solo, group, musical, physical – all are welcomed. Heats are held around the country and comprise a […]