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Twilight Talks 2025, Season 4, Remembrance Day | A Surgeon Commander & A Leading Cook – Ballarat Connections to HMAS Sydney 2 in 1941

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

October 29 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Bar open at 5pm $9.73 – $13.83 Humffray Room Get tickets A Surgeon Commander & A Leading Cook - Ballarat Connections to HMAS Sydney 2 in 1941 HMAS Sydney 2 Crew, 1934 It is nearly 84 years this November that the mighty pride of the Royal Australian […]

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Twilight Talks 2025, Season 4, Remembrance Day | War Memorabilia

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

November 5 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Bar open at 5pm $9.73 – $13.83 Humffray Room Get tickets Details coming soon ... Speaker: ... ... Community Bank Buninyong & District not only gives you access to award-winning financial products and services, we're also committed to returning profits to our local communities. This event is […]

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In Conversation with Rachael Johns

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

November 6 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm $11.78 Humffray Room Get Tickets The Lucky Sisters Rachael Johns The breakout blockbuster of the year - a deeply moving novel about life, death and the miracles in between, by the award-winning author of The Patterson Girls. The Lucky Sisters...Will their luck run out... What would you do […]

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Ballarat Film Society | ​Hammarskjöld: The Fight for Peace

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

November 13 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Compelling Cold War Political Thriller In 1961, the charismatic Swedish diplomat, economist and implacable idealist Dag Hammarskjöld was in his seventh year as Secretary-General of the United Nations. By some, he was considered the ‘clearest thinker in the room,’ but by others as the victim of a […]

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Twilight Talks 2025, Season 5, Recent Years | Ballarat Arts Foundation – 25 years old

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

November 19 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Bar open at 5pm $9.73 – $13.83 Humffray Room Get tickets Details coming soon ... Speaker: ... ... Community Bank Buninyong & District not only gives you access to award-winning financial products and services, we're also committed to returning profits to our local communities. This event is […]

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Twilight Talks 2025, Season 5, Recent Years | Artificial Intelligence & Associated Issues

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

November 26 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Bar open at 5pm $9.73 – $13.83 Humffray Room Get tickets Details coming soon ... Speaker: Cory Alpert ... Community Bank Buninyong & District not only gives you access to award-winning financial products and services, we're also committed to returning profits to our local communities. This event […]

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Akmal | Live Comedy at the BMI

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

November 28 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm $56.76 – $62.40 Minerva Space Get Tickets AKmal Akmal returns with a smash-hit tour after a spiritual journey to India to find himself. Unfortunately, when he got there, he couldn’t find himself anywhere, after all India is a big place… On his return to Australia, he was […]

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Daniel Muggleton: You Might Be White, I May Be Crazy

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

Presented by A-List Entertainment November 29 @ 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm $36.84 – $39.96 Minerva Space Get Tickets You May Be White, I May Be Crazy Daniel Muggleton is an Australian comedian in a tracksuit. His live shows frequently sell-out at comedy festivals around the world, have earned him numerous five-star reviews and a […]

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Ballarat Film Society | ​Little Richard: I am Everything

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

December 11 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Musical Doco ‘The south is the home of all things queer,’ says scholar Zandria Robinson as we witness the exhilarating jam-packed story of Little Richard’s complex life and musical career, ending only in 2020. Born in 1932 as Richard Wayne Penniman, by 1955 Little Richard was declared […]

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The Little Brass Band BMI Fundraiser

Sun 10 August at 2pm. 

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Australian Heritage Festival

Natasha Lester in conversation

1 May at 6pm. 

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Christmas Holiday Closures | Library

Monday 23 December – Sunday 5 January

Dame Nellie Melba Birthday Celebration

  Performance – 18 May.

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Australian Heritage Festival Events at the BMI

18 April to 18 May. 

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Connections to War from a Ballarat Perspective

Wed 2-30 April, 5.30pm. 

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Ballarat Heritage Festival Events at the BMI

16 to 25 May 

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Dame Nellie Melba Birthday Celebration

  Performance – 18 May.

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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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Tracey Lee Holmes: A Life Through Sport

Thu 4 September at 6pm. 

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Australian Heritage Festival

Natasha Lester in conversation

1 May at 6pm. 

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Ballarat Heritage Festival BMI Day Tours

Two tours  on 20 &  21 May 

 

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with Nicole Alexander

28 May at 6pm. 

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with Gail Holmes

 Wed 4 June at 6pm. 

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Ballart Seniors Festival 

Celebrate at the BMI.

 October 2025. 

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Ballarat Pride Month

Events at BMI

The Month of June 

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Ballarat Winter Festival

Events at BMI

5 July – 27 July 

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 Coming in September…

Gabriel Bergmoser, Tracey Lee Holmes, Chrissie Bellbrae, Paula Gleeson.

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with Michael Robotham

 Wed 20 August at 6pm. 

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BMI Fundraiser

Featuring:
The Hideaways,
The Harmonies &
Surf Shadows. 

2 course dinner & lots
of dancing

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