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  • Twilight Talks 2025, Season 1, Special Event | Dancers on the Sea by Gabrielle Samson

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

    26/02/2025 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm $9 – $13 Bar open at 5pm $9 – $13 Humffray Room Get tickets Dancers on the Sea: Stories from Atauro Island, Timor-Leste 1994-2002 Speaker: Gabrielle Samson, Author Gabrielle SamsonGabrielle, a writer of fiction and memoir, has won national prizes for her short stories and has co-written a radio play produced by the ABC. She has lived and…

    $9 – $13

  • Kadampa Meditation Series | The Path of Peace: Three Ways to a Simpler Life

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    26/02/2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Free – $15 – $15 Lending Library 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 us solve our daily…

    Free – $15

  • A BMI Fundraising Public Talk | The world in 2025 and beyond with Professor Geoffrey Blainey AC

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    05/03/2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm $35 – $110 Bar Open from 5:30pm $35 – $110 Humffray Room Get tickets The world in 2025 and beyond : What is the good news? What is the not-so-good news? Brought to you by Nicolson Construction Speaker: Professor Geoffrey Blainey AC Now in his mid nineties, Professor Geoffrey Blainey – Australia’s most significant and popular historian is…

    $35 – $110

  • Kadampa Meditation Series | The Path of Peace: Three Ways to a Simpler Life

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    05/03/2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Free – $15 – $15 Lending Library 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 us solve our daily…

    Free – $15

  • Twilight Talks 2025, Season 1 | Ballarat’s Changing Scene – Ballarat’s Growth: Infrastructure Pressures

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

    12/03/2025 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm $9.73 – $13.83 Bar open at 5pm $9.73 – $13.83 Humffray Room Get tickets Ballarat's Growth - Infrastructure Pressures Panel Discussion: Chair, Paula Nicholson, BMI President Paula Nicholson | Chair, Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute Panel Members Terry Natt, Strategic Planning Manager, City of Ballarat Terry has been an urban planner in Ballarat, Sydney, Melbourne and London where he has…

    $9.73 – $13.83

  • Kadampa Meditation Series | The Path of Peace: Three Ways to a Simpler Life

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    12/03/2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Free – $15 – $15 Lending Library 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 us solve our daily…

    Free – $15

  • Ballarat Film Society | The Movie Teller

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

    13/03/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Cinephile Comedy-drama This film, adapted from Chilean writer Hernan Rivera Letelier’s 2009 novel of the same name, is set in 1969 in the Atacama Desert, where saltpeter miners and their families work and live in precarious conditions. Far from their world, the rest of Chile is experiencing the death of Allende and the sudden military…

  • Twilight Talks 2025, Season 1 | Ballarat’s Changing Scene – Change in Ballarat’s Car Industry

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

    19/03/2025 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm $9.73 – $13.83 Bar open at 5pm $9.73 – $13.83 Humffray Room Get tickets Changes in Ballarat's Car Industry Panel Discussion: Chair, Phil Roberts OAM, Patron & Twilight Talks Coordinator. Dr Phil Roberts OAM Phil Roberts is the co-ordinator of the BMI Twilight Talks and BMI Patron. He is a former secondary school history teacher and school principal and…

    $9.73 – $13.83

  • Kadampa Meditation Series | Calm Amidst Chaos: How to Deal with Difficult People

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    19/03/2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Free – $15 – $15 Lending Library 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 us solve our daily…

    Free – $15

  • Broadway to Ballarat: The Haunted Theatre

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

    19/03/2025 @ 7:00 pm - 23/03/2025 @ 10:00 pm $25 – $35 Venue Get Tickets The Ballarat Pack Inc. Join us for Broadway to Ballarat: The Haunted Theatre, an original musical revue showcasing the best that Broadway and Ballarat have to offer. Set in a rundown theatre inhabited by a motley collection of ghosts, this musical tells the story of what happens when the ghosts meet Mabel,…

    $25 – $35

  • In Conversation with Charlotte McConaghy

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

    24/03/2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm $11.78 Humffray Room Get Tickets Wild Dark Shore Charlotte McConaghy. New York Times Best Selling Author From the New York Times bestselling author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves, a novel about a family living alone on a remote island, when a mysterious woman washes up on shore. At once a gripping mystery, an exquisitely written ode to the natural…

    $11.78

  • Twilight Talks 2025, Season 1 | Ballarat’s Changing Scene – Changes to the Canadian Corridor

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

    26/03/2025 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm $9.73 – $13.83 Bar open at 5pm $9.73 – $13.83 Humffray Room Get tickets The Changing Face of the Canadian Corridor This talk will outline the impact of the goldrush and forestry on the corridor's native vegetation and waterways. Featuring the long gone Bunny Railway, mining water races, mining infrastructure, forestry and rifle ranges. And focussing on the…

    $9.73 – $13.83