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Kadampa Meditation Series | Happiness, Success & the Law of Karma

Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

June 12 @ 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. The in-person setting fosters a supportive community and offers real-time interaction with the teacher for personalized guidance. Classes include guided meditations and teachings to help […]

Free – $15

In Conversation with Leah Kaminsky & Jacinta Halloran

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

July 29 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 Humffray Room Leah Kaminsky Leah is a physician and award-winning writer. Her debut novel, The Waiting Room, won the Voss Literary Prize. The Hollow Bones won both the Literary Fiction and Historical Fiction categories of the 2019 International Book Awards, and the 2019 American Book Fest’s […]

$10

Kadampa Meditation Series | Happiness, Success & the Law of Karma

Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

June 12 @ 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. The in-person setting fosters a supportive community and offers real-time interaction with the teacher for personalized guidance. Classes include guided meditations and teachings to help […]

Free – $15

Preludes, Intermezzi and Nocturnes

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

August 3 @ 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm $25 Humffray Room Pianist and composer Spencer Vanderkley presents: An array of Romantic-era piano works, in a recital structured around the tradition of 'character pieces' in the 19th Century. Works by Chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky are brought together to chronicle the development of the prelude, the intermezzo and […]

$25

Preludes, Intermezzi and Nocturnes | Program 2

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

August 3 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm $25 Humffray Room Pianist and composer Spencer Vanderkley presents: An array of Romantic-era piano works, in a recital structured around the tradition of 'character pieces' in the 19th Century. Works by Chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky are brought together to chronicle the development of the prelude, the intermezzo and […]

$25
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ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Particle Physics | Public Talk

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

NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK | Researchers from across Australia are working at an underground lab in Stawell to uncover one of the great mysteries of the universe – the nature of dark matter.

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Kadampa Meditation Series | Happiness, Success & the Law of Karma

Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

June 12 @ 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. The in-person setting fosters a supportive community and offers real-time interaction with the teacher for personalized guidance. Classes include guided meditations and teachings to help […]

Free – $15

In Conversation with Margaret Hickey

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

August 8 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 The Creeper by Margaret Hickey. The chilling new mystery novel from the award-winning author of bestsellers Cutters End, Stone Town and Broken Bay. Victim ... or killer? For the last decade, the small mountain town of Edenville in Victoria’s high country has been haunted by the horrific murders of five […]

$10
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Ballarat Film Society | Army of Shadows

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

August 8 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Existential Thriller Classic Jean-Pierre Melville is the ultimate cult auteur in the French cinema, acknowledged as a key influence on directors such as Godard, Scorsese, and Tarantino. With Army of Shadows, the master of the philosophical, gangster film, drops the metaphor of the criminal underworld and deals […]

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Daniel Connell – Little Aussie Battler

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

August 9 @ 8:00 pm - 9:00 pm $30.00 Minerva Space The 2024 Show It's 2024, you see that Daniel has a new show. You don't mind the sound of that so you let your mate/lover know. You organise a night out, dinner, and Daniel's show.  At work the next day you recount Daniel's tales […]

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Christmas Holiday Closures | Library

Monday 23 December – Sunday 5 January

Dame Nellie Melba Birthday Celebration

  Performance – 18 May.

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Australian Heritage Festival Events at the BMI

18 April to 18 May. 

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Connections to War from a Ballarat Perspective

Wed 2-30 April, 5.30pm. 

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Dame Nellie Melba Birthday Celebration

  Performance – 18 May.

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Ballarat Pride Month

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portrait of author with book cover

Australian Heritage Festival

Natasha Lester in conversation

1 May at 6pm. 

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Australian Heritage Festival

Minerva's Secrets

25 April – Tour 1 at 7.30pm – fully booked
Tour 2 at 9.30pm – still tickets. 

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Australian Heritage Festival

Natasha Lester in conversation

1 May at 6pm. 

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Ballarat Heritage Festival BMI Day Tours

Two tours  on 20 &  21 May 

 

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with Nicole Alexander

28 May at 6pm. 

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with Gail Holmes

 Wed 4 June at 6pm. 

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with Kylie Ladd

 Wed 25 June at 6pm. 

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BMI Fundraiser

Featuring:
The Hideaways,
The Harmonies &
Surf Shadows. 

2 course dinner & lots
of dancing

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