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

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

April 16 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm 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 […]

$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

April 16 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free – $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 […]

Free – $12

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

Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

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

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

April 23 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm 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 […]

$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

April 23 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free – $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 […]

Free – $12
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Minerva’s Secrets | Night Tour, Australian Heritage Festival, This Tour is now Fully Booked

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

April 25 @ 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 […]

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

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

April 25 @ 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 […]

$28.69

Beyond Limits | An Evening with Mick Marshall

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

April 26 @ 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 […]

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Ash Grunwald at the BMI

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

April 27 @ 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, […]

$45 – $55

In Conversation with Shelley Burr

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

April 29 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm $11.78 Humffray Room Get Tickets Vanish Shelley Burr. Some Stay. Some Leave. Some Disappear... Author, Shelley Burr | Photo: Yen Eriksen Media People go to the isolated Karpathy farm looking for a new life… and are never seen again. A chilling thriller from the award-winning and bestselling […]

$11.78
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Twilight Talks 2025, Season 2, Special Event | The Life of Walter Withers

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

April 30 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Bar open at 5pm $9.73 – $13.83 Humffray Room Get tickets The Life of Walter Withers Until now there has been no family history of Walter Withers (1854-1914), a notable but underestimated Australian landscape artist of the Heidelberg school. For nearly 200 years his Birmingham ancestors had […]

$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

April 30 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free – $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 […]

Free – $12
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with Nicole Alexander

28 May at 6pm. 

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Ballarat Heritage Festival BMI Day Tours

Two tours  on 20 &  21 May 

 

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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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portrait of author with book cover

Australian Heritage Festival

Natasha Lester in conversation

1 May at 6pm. 

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Dame Nellie Melba Birthday Celebration

  Performance – 18 May.

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Ballarat Heritage Festival Events at the BMI

16 to 25 May 

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Connections to War from a Ballarat Perspective

Wed 2-30 April, 5.30pm. 

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Australian Heritage Festival Events at the BMI

18 April to 18 May. 

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Dame Nellie Melba Birthday Celebration

  Performance – 18 May.

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Christmas Holiday Closures | Library

Monday 23 December – Sunday 5 January

Devonshire Tea & Fashion Parade

Bubbly on arrival & Featuring quality items from our Vintage Shop | $60

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The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute 2025 Calendar

Featuring the BMI Image Collection | Now $20

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