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  • Invention, innovation & environment display

    Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, Australia

    Our Heritage Collections Volunteers Our Collections Volunteers  have a small selection of articles and stories from our heritage book collection that relate to topic of our recent Twilight Talks - Innovators. This display is a must see, (during regular Library operating hours) in the lead up to the September Twilight Talks Series: Innovators: Uncovering some […]

    Free
  • colourful handmade books

    Book-making Workshop with Maggie Dannatt | One space available

    Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, Australia

    Image: Courtesy Maggie Dannatt A workshop in Book-making. I made my first book as a teenager, wanting to save all my favorite Don Martin cartoons from all the Mad magazines I had bought. I later learnt basic bookbinding at art school so that I could bind the books I was illustrating. I have made many […]

    $132.00

  • Ballarat Film Society – Quo Vadis, Aida?

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

    ​Quo Vadis, Aida? is inspired by true events.  In Bosnia, 1995, middle-aged Aida is a United Nations translator located in the small mountain town of Srebrenica when the Serbian army ignores a UN peace ultimatum and begins a series of round-ups. Aida’s translation skills come into action when Aida and her family find themselves among 30,000 […]

  • Chris Hammer | Now cancelled

    BMI - Humffray Room 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, Australia

    Ballarat Libraries in partnership with BMI Join bestselling crime writer Chris Hammer in conversation with 2022 Indie Book Award winner for debut fiction Lyn Yeowart.  Hammer, the multi-award-winning author of Scrublands will be discussing his highly anticipated novel The Tilt. A must attend event for lovers of gripping, homegrown Australian crime writing. Yeowart’s debut novel (The […]

    Free
  • colourful handmade books

    Book-making Workshop with Maggie Dannatt | 20 October 22

    Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, Australia

    Image: Courtesy Maggie Dannatt A workshop in Book-making. I made my first book as a teenager, wanting to save all my favorite Don Martin cartoons from all the Mad magazines I had bought. I later learnt basic bookbinding at art school so that I could bind the books I was illustrating. I have made many […]

    $132.00
  • The Reading Room | NOW CANCELLED

    The Reading Room | NOW CANCELLED

    Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, Australia

    The Reading Room  This volunteer run reading and discussion group meets monthly. It is anticipated that members will read the selected book prior to attendance. If you would like to be a part of this group (free to BMI members) please complete the Expression of Interest. We welcome your feedback through this form as we […]

  • colourful handmade books

    Book-making Workshop with Maggie Dannatt | 27 October 22

    Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, Australia

    Image: Courtesy Maggie Dannatt A workshop in Book-making. I made my first book as a teenager, wanting to save all my favorite Don Martin cartoons from all the Mad magazines I had bought. I later learnt basic bookbinding at art school so that I could bind the books I was illustrating. I have made many […]

    $132.00

  • Current Affairs Dialogue | NOW POSTPONED TO 24 NOVEMBER

    Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, Australia

    Last months Summary: Three members met at the BMI on Thursday 29 September at 1.30 – 3.00 pm for the scheduled CAD session. Several apologies received. Subject was the Ukraine situation. Another stimulating discussion. It covered the centuries-old background to the current Russia-Ukraine conflict, rooted as it is in break-up of past empires, various peace […]

  • colourful handmade books

    Book-making Workshop with Maggie Dannatt | 3 November 22

    Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, Australia

    Image: Courtesy Maggie Dannatt A workshop in Book-making. I made my first book as a teenager, wanting to save all my favorite Don Martin cartoons from all the Mad magazines I had bought. I later learnt basic bookbinding at art school so that I could bind the books I was illustrating. I have made many […]

    $132.00

  • Salon Sessions: The BMI in partnership with Duo Latte

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

    The musicians: John Dods & Dana Czarski: Image Courtesy: John Dods Duo Latte: (Formed in 2020). This classical duo comprises two musicians who live in the Wimmera and began as a direct result of the Covid pandemic.  Unable to continue with the long-established Ballarat Symphony Orchestral weekly rehearsals, 'cellist John Dods soon realised that an opportunity […]

    $38.50

  • Ballarat Film Society – First Cow

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

    With a similar ‘feel’ to McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971), First Cow reveals, surprisingly, an America built on racial and social diversity during the birth of American enterprise. Two travellers on the run in the 1820s dream of striking it rich, relying on a wealthy landowner’s cow which is the first cow to ever reach Oregon. Cookie […]