• Ballarat Chess Club

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

    Meet Thursdays in the Humffray Room

    $3 – $80
  • In Conversation with Elizabeth Coleman

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

    Elizabeth Coleman Elizabeth Coleman is a renowned screenwriter who has written on every season of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries and Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries. She is also the author of the hit play Secret Bridesmaids’ Business and co-created the much-loved ABC drama Bed of Roses. Her first novel, Losing the Plot, came out through […]

    $10
  • Kadampa Meditation Series | Positive Psychology

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    Weekly classes 7pm Wednesdays 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. Free for Kadampa members […]

    Free
  • In Conversation with Lucas Jordan

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

    ‘The Chipilly Six were extraordinary men in extraordinary times. Lucas Jordan reveals a wider story of Australia’s Great War veterans as they battled a nation forgetting, a bitter Depression, another World War and beyond. This is a remarkable insight into a vanishing world’ — Bill Gammage, Emeritus Professor, Humanities Research Centre, ANU. On 9 August […]

    $10
  • Twilight Talks 2024 | Season 1

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

    Wednesdays, Starting at 5.30pm (bar open at 5pm) | The full program, is coming soon...

    Free
  • In Conversation with Imbi Neeme | This event has now been cancelled

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    Kind of Sort of Maybe... but probably not by Imbi Neeme A charming, nostalgic, quirky, uplifting novel of people young and old finding their tribe, gaining courage to be themselves and perhaps falling in love, too.Kind of Sort of Maybe... but probably notLibrarian Phoebe Cotton lives with misophonia. The sound of other people crunching an […]

    $10
  • Kadampa Meditation Series | Get Your Confidence Back

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    Weekly classes 7pm Wednesdays 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. Free for Kadampa members […]

    Free
  • Ballarat Chess Club

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

    Meet Thursdays in the Humffray Room

    $3 – $80
  • Minerva Social Sunday | St Patrick’s Day Social | Scottish Country Dancing

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

    Ballarat Scottish Country Dancing | St. Patrick's Day Social The Annual Minerva Social in the Minerva Space at the Ballaarat Mechanics Institute, 117-119 Sturt St, Ballarat (at the Melbourne end of Sturt St.) from 2.00pm - 5.30pm.​ But get there early to hear the welcome from our piper in the Edwardian bandstand across the street. […]

    $25