Ballarat Chess Club
BMI - Humffray Room 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, AustraliaMeet Thursdays in the Humffray Room
$3 – $80
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BMI165th Birthday Devonshire Tea Party
BMI - Humffray Room 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, AustraliaMay 26 @ 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm $15 As the Institute is 165 years old this year, we will take the opportunity to celebrate during the festival, by including a heritage-style Devonshire Tea as an afternoon Birthday Party, the first of many celebratory events for 2024. This will be on offered as a ticketed […]
$15
Day Tours of the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute | Series
Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, AustraliaA colourful history of the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute and it’s people. By appointment only, (to organise a volunteer guide we require 24hrs notice). Group Tours: Group tours can also be accommodated on other days.
$10
In Conversation with Pam Swanborough
Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, AustraliaMay 28 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 Red Gifts in the Garden of Stones by Pam Swanborough Suspiciously long-lived matriarch Lizzie Coombe expects her one hundredth birthday to be memorable, But what comes after will never be forgotten by anyone in this close-knit Welsh community. Lizzie and her daughter Myfanway only remember old […]
$10
Twilight Talks 2024, Season 2, Session 6: History of Hoyts
BMI - Humffray Room 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, AustraliaMay 29 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm $8 – $12 This 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, […]
$8 – $12
Kadampa Meditation Series | How to Love Yourself & Others
Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, AustraliaMay 22 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm These classes offer simple, practical methods to improve the quality of our life and develop inner peace through meditation and Buddhist teachings. Classes consist of two guided meditations and a teaching to help us solve our daily problems and find the lasting happiness we seek. Beginners welcome. […]
Ballart Pride Month Launch Morning Tea
BMI - Humffray Room 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, AustraliaJune 1 @ 10:00 am - 11:00 am Join us for a glorious morning high tea and speeches to launch our first official Ballarat Pride Month! Dress in something that makes you feel fabulous! Pride Month (June) is the month where we celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer and asexual people. We take the time to […]
Free
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Winter Book Sale | Stockpile your reading pleasure
The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, AustraliaJune 1 @ 10:00 am - June 2 @ 2:00 pm Free Books priced from $1 - more for collectable items. Image, artist impression only | Photo by | helloiamtugce Don't miss our book sale this weekend. Admission and parking are free. There are hundreds of books - some of which are in gently used […]
Free
Ballart Pride Market
BMI - Minerva Space 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VICJune 2 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Come help us celebrate the opening weekend of Pride Month with the Pride Month Market at the Ballaarat Mechanic's Institute. With art and craft stalls, trash and treasure and second hand goods stalls as well as the awesome Trans And Gender Diverse Clothing Swap and A Queer […]
Free
In Conversation with Paula Gleeson
Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, AustraliaJune 4 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 Original Twin by Paula Gleeson Two sisters May and June couldn’t be more different. May is quiet, self-conscious withdrawn; June is boisterous, beautiful, magnetic...and missing. It’s been a year since June disappeared, a year of May waiting for her to turn up with an explanation of […]
$10
Kadampa Meditation Series | How to Love Yourself & Others
Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, AustraliaMay 22 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm These classes offer simple, practical methods to improve the quality of our life and develop inner peace through meditation and Buddhist teachings. Classes consist of two guided meditations and a teaching to help us solve our daily problems and find the lasting happiness we seek. Beginners welcome. […]
Ballarat Chess Club
BMI - Humffray Room 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, AustraliaMeet Thursdays in the Humffray Room
$3 – $80
