19/11/2021 @ 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm $44 Discover the secrets of sparkling wine with a tasting workshop at the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute with Amie Brûlée, Doctor of Wine. We’ll take you and your taste buds through a range of sparkling wines - including Champagne, Cava, Prosecco, and Australian sparkling - explaining the difference between the styles. You’ll learn about the history, production…
20/11/2021 @ 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Come along and experience our Spring Maker & Community Market: Meet our makers & stallholders - More > Live music with the talented kids from Ballarat Centre of Music & the Arts (BCMA) - More > Free entry Visit our library as will will be hosting a BMI Fundraising BOOK SALE Our VINTAGE & COLLECTABLES …
30/11/2021 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm The Reading Room (2pm in the Library for a start @ 2.30pm - 4pm) 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…
05/12/2021 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm $15 Enjoy a feast of local creative talent with music from Shadow Feet, FLOC and deborahN; poetry from Sarah Hart and Sean M Whelan; film from Ramas McRae and a special premiere screening of ‘Intimacy in Isolation’ a pandemic collaboration from Bronwyn Blaiklock, Erin M McCuskey and Lily Paskas. We will also launch Gather Threads – one-off clothing…
11/12/2021 @ 12:30 pm - 10:30 pm $20 Welcome to SoundCheck Studio’s highlight event for 2021! SoundCheck are incredibly excited to welcome their artists to the stage after a year of off and on again zoom lessons and cancelled performances. Their students have worked hard to bring you a MASSIVE show of sweet turned and dance-floor vibes. Both the intermediate & senior shows…
18/12/2021 @ 7:00 pm - 11:00 pm $25 – $30 Live music is back, just in time for the holiday season! The BMI presents: A Very Motown Christmas. Dance your way into Christmas with the sound of Motown and Soul. Motor City Sounds will be playing their biggest gig since 2020 here in the heart of Ballarat! This is the perfect event for your work…
22/01/2022 @ 9:00 am - 2:00 pm Come along and experience to our annual Book Sale FundraiserBooks from $5 plusThese books have been generously donated by Our MembersFree entryIf you would like to donate books to this fundraiser please contact Rosemary. Books can be delivered at any time during regular business hours
22/01/2022 @ 7:30 pm - 10:00 pm $23.50 Charlie Wilde embarks to Regional Victoria and beyond celebrating the release of his acclaimed debut EP 'Allihies, with special guest Benjamin Trillado. "Despite his relative youth, Charlie Wilde's music bursts to life with a cinematic feel that will leave you entranced, the raw beauty of his compositions similar to '90s indie heroes Mercury Rev and…
25/01/2022 @ 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm The Reading Room (2pm in the Library for a start @ 2.30pm - 4pm) 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…
30/01/2022 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm $20 – $35 The Ballarat Italian Association presents three great voices singing the most noted songs of the century from the ever-popular operatic arias to English, Spanish & Italian Classics & also modern songs & ballads loved by all. The Three Tenors Show, without doubt, performs the most versatile, sophisticated, heartfelt repertoire that any show could present. Also…
10/02/2022 @ 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm We begin with a comedy to start the year on a happy note. Set in 2001, when Argentina was at a low point economically, retired soccer star Fermin joins with other locals to finance a grain co-operative that falls prey to a deceptive banker. Consequently, they band together to steal back the money. Revenge has never felt so…
13/02/2022 @ 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm $20 The Push is bringing the All-Ages Tour back on the road this year, bigger and better than ever before! Taking in the sights and scenery throughout 20 regional and outer-suburban locations across Victoria this September and October, the All-Ages Tour will bring thousands of young music fans to locations across the state, in what are…
Minerva's Secrets Night Tours
Tue 19 May with special visit to Lantern Vaults
Tour 1 at 7pm – Tour 2 at 9pm.
Linen & Lace Exhbition
Includes Devonshire Tea | $20
Sat & Sun 22, 23 Oct
10am-4pm
Remembrance Day:
A Surgeon Commander & A Leading Cook - Recent War Memoribilia
Wed 29 Oct & 5 Nov, 5.30pm.
Coming soon…
Rozzi Bazzani. Stella Day Out: Katia Ariel & Samah Sabawi, Rachael Johns
Coming soon…
Dianne Dempsey, Chrissie Bellbrae, Paula Gleeson, Rozzi Bazzani.
Coming in November…
Stella Day Out, Ballarat, Rachael Johns & Margaret Hickey
Australian Heritage Festival
Minerva's Secrets
25 April – Tour 1 at 7.30pm – fully booked
Tour 2 at 9.30pm – still tickets.
Spring Season, History Talks:
Ballarat's Henry Lawson - The Dragon's Den - Gold! Gold! Gold!
Wed 3, 17 & 24 September, 5.30pm.
Bubbly on arrival & Featuring quality items from our Vintage Shop | $60
The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute 2026 Calendar
Featuring illustrations from our Heritage Book Collection $40
Your gift will be tax-deductible this financial year if you make it before June 30.
Like many organisations the BMI faces significant funding challenges.
2 course dinner & lots
of dancing
