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

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    09/04/2025 @ 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 | Red Rocket

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

    10/04/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Indie Texas Trash Sean Baker is well known for his caustic social observation of the frenetic lives of American marginalised people, especially migrants and sex orkers.  After a 17-year absence, energetically delusional hustler Mikey "Saber" Davies returns to his home town of Texas City after spending years as a washed-porn star in L.A.  Set in…

  • Day Tours of the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute | Series

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    15/04/2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm $11.78 A 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.

    $11.78

  • Twilight Talks 2025, Season 2 | Connections to War from a Ballarat Perspective: Medals and Memorabilia

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

    16/04/2025 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm $9.73 – $13.83 Bar open at 5pm $9.73 – $13.83 Humffray Room Get tickets Medals and Memorabilia David will talk about Australian medals from the Sudan in 1885, The Boer War 1899-1905, WW1, WW2 and the other conflicts where Australians were awarded medals. He will also talk about the correct wearing and care of medals, about the various…

    $9.73 – $13.83

  • Kadampa Meditation Series | Find Your Flow: A Buddhist Guide to an Effortless Life

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    16/04/2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free – $12 – $12 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 – $12

  • Day Tours of the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute | Australian Heritage Festival

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    22/04/2025 @ 2:00 pm - 13/05/2025 @ 3:00 pm $11.78 A 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.

    $11.78

  • Twilight Talks 2025, Season 2 | Connections to War from a Ballarat Perspective: Feeling the Battlefield Spirits

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

    23/04/2025 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm $9.73 – $13.83 Bar open at 5pm $9.73 – $13.83 Humffray Room Get tickets Feeling the Battlefield Spirits Speakers: Rene Degryse, Garry Snowden & Marion Snowden Feeling the Battlefield Spirits Sometimes in life, a seemingly inconsequential event can, without us realising it, nudge our life along a new and exciting pathway. This talk will look at how such…

    $9.73 – $13.83

  • Kadampa Meditation Series | Find Your Flow: A Buddhist Guide to an Effortless Life

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    23/04/2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free – $12 – $12 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 – $12

  • Minerva’s Secrets | Night Tour, Australian Heritage Festival, This Tour is now Fully Booked

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

    25/04/2025 @ 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm $28.69 Get Tickets Explore tales of the weird and supernatural – the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute at night. Looking for a unique way to explore Ballarat’s rich history and culture? Look no further than the Ballaarat Mechanics Institute’s Night Tours! This beautiful heritage building dates back to the 1860s and boasts a fascinating history that is just…

    $28.69
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    Minerva’s Secrets | Night Tour, Australian Heritage Festival, Tour 2

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

    25/04/2025 @ 9:30 pm - 10:30 pm $28.69 Get Tickets Explore tales of the weird and supernatural – the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute at night. Looking for a unique way to explore Ballarat’s rich history and culture? Look no further than the Ballaarat Mechanics Institute’s Night Tours! This beautiful heritage building dates back to the 1860s and boasts a fascinating history that is just…

    $28.69

  • Beyond Limits | An Evening with Mick Marshall

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

    26/04/2025 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm Minerva Space Get Tickets An Evening with Mick Marshall About the Screening Advanced screening of the uncut version of the documentary Beyond Limits, telling the remarkable true story of Mick Marshall’s fight to run again. The audience will have the opportunity to not only watch the yet to be completed documentary, but also potentially appear…

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    Ash Grunwald at the BMI

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

    27/04/2025 @ 4:00 pm - 8:00 pm $45 – $55 Get Tickets Ash Grunwald - Feeling Better - out now. Renowned for his electrifying live shows, Ash Grunwald has inspired a generation to hit the road in an old van to ‘surf by day jam by night’. The festival favourite brings a high energy, vibrant live show with stacks of guitars and foot stomping blues.…

    $45 – $55