BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Australia/Melbourne BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST DTSTART:20240406T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20241005T160000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST DTSTART:20250405T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20251004T160000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+1100 TZOFFSETTO:+1000 TZNAME:AEST DTSTART:20260404T160000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+1000 TZOFFSETTO:+1100 TZNAME:AEDT DTSTART:20261003T160000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250727T140000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250727T180000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250624T044813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250625T050048Z UID:65825-1753624800-1753639200@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Royal South Street Society | Schimmel Pianoforte Schedule - Celebrating Chopin DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/rsss-pianoforte-schedule-7/ LOCATION:The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Important Dates,Live Music,Royal South Street Society ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/chopin.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250728T093000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250728T173000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250624T052537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250626T063100Z UID:65835-1753695000-1753723800@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Royal South Street Society | Freemasons Vocal Schedule DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/rsss-vocal-schedule-4/ LOCATION:The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Important Dates,Royal South Street Society ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sq-promos3.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250729T093000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250729T163000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250624T054647Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250626T063035Z UID:65841-1753781400-1753806600@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Royal South Street Society | Freemasons Vocal Schedule DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/rsss-vocal-schedule-5/ LOCATION:The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Important Dates,Royal South Street Society ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sq-promos3.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250730T093000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250730T190000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250624T060939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250626T063024Z UID:65852-1753867800-1753902000@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Royal South Street Society | Freemasons Vocal Schedule DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/rsss-vocal-schedule-6/ LOCATION:The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Important Dates,Royal South Street Society ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sq-promos3.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250730T183000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250730T193000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250715T014238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250730T001534Z UID:66248-1753900200-1753903800@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Rare Book Week Melbourne | Rare Books in Mechanics' Institutes: Uncover Hidden Treasures DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/rare-books-mechanics-institutes/ LOCATION:Prahran Mechanics’ Institute Victorian History Library\, 39 Saint Edmonds Road\, Prahran\, Victoria\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:About us,Important Dates,Rare Book Week,The Collection ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/IMG39-BMI-crop.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250730T190000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250730T200000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250408T040007Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250408T041032Z UID:64365-1753902000-1753905600@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Kadampa Meditation Series | How to Love Yourself & Others DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/kadampa-meditation-series-30-july/ LOCATION:Lending Library\, Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, Victoria\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:kadampa ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/How-to-Love-Yourseld-Others-square-promo.webp ORGANIZER;CN="Kadampa Meditation":MAILTO:info@kadampa.org.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250731T100000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250731T160000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250624T062123Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250626T063012Z UID:65855-1753956000-1753977600@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Royal South Street Society | Freemasons Vocal Schedule DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/rsss-vocal-schedule-7/ LOCATION:The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Important Dates,Royal South Street Society ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sq-promos3.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250801T160000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250801T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250624T063047Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250626T063002Z UID:65863-1754064000-1754080200@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Royal South Street Society | Freemasons Vocal Schedule DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/rsss-vocal-schedule-8/ LOCATION:The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Important Dates,Royal South Street Society ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sq-promos3.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250802T093000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250802T210000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250625T043529Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250626T063828Z UID:65954-1754127000-1754168400@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Royal South Street Society | Freemasons Vocal Schedule & Championship Challenge DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/rsss-vocal-schedule-9-2/ LOCATION:The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Important Dates,Live Music,Royal South Street Society ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sq-promos3.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250803T143000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250803T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250624T235217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250626T062854Z UID:65881-1754231400-1754253000@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Royal South Street Society | Herald Sun Aria Heats DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/rsss-aria-heats/ LOCATION:The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Important Dates,Royal South Street Society ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sq-promos.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250804T193000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250804T213000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250625T000219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250722T042831Z UID:65888-1754335800-1754343000@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Royal South Street Society | Herald Sun Aria Semi Final DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/rsss-aria-semi-final/ LOCATION:The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Important Dates,Live Music,Royal South Street Society,Theatre Production ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/sq-promos.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250806T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250806T193000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250527T025831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250616T021316Z UID:65197-1754503200-1754508600@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:In conversation with Chloe Adams & Alli Sinclair DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/chloe-adams-alli-sinclair/ LOCATION:The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Ballarat Winter Festival,Fundraiser,Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/sq-promo-chloe-and-alli-v2.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250806T190000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250806T200000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250408T041052Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250408T041408Z UID:64372-1754506800-1754510400@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Kadampa Meditation Series | How to Love Yourself & Others DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/kadampa-meditation-series-6-august/ LOCATION:Lending Library\, Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, Victoria\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:kadampa ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/How-to-Love-Yourseld-Others-square-promo.webp ORGANIZER;CN="Kadampa Meditation":MAILTO:info@kadampa.org.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250810T140000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250810T160000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250512T035956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250805T061800Z UID:64945-1754834400-1754841600@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:The Little Brass Band | BMI Fundraiser: Cheers\, Raise a Glass to Brass DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/little-brass-band/ LOCATION:The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Fundraiser,Live Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/little-brass-band-square-promo.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250813T190000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250813T200000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250408T041113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250408T041537Z UID:64373-1755111600-1755115200@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Kadampa Meditation Series | How to Love Yourself & Others DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/kadampa-meditation-series-13-august/ LOCATION:Lending Library\, Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, Victoria\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:kadampa ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/How-to-Love-Yourseld-Others-square-promo.webp ORGANIZER;CN="Kadampa Meditation":MAILTO:info@kadampa.org.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250815T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250815T193000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250811T041345Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250811T045630Z UID:66767-1755280800-1755286200@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:The Secret History of Sharks with Professor John Long | National Science Week DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/the-secret-history-of-sharks/ LOCATION:BMI – Minerva Space\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350 CATEGORIES:Festival,Fundraiser,Members,Science Week,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/sq-promo-the-secret-history-of-sharks.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250816T193000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250816T220000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250605T021537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250801T031934Z UID:65518-1755372600-1755381600@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Craig McLachlan Live & Intimate - Six String Stories DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/craig-mc-lachlan/ LOCATION:BMI – Minerva Space\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350 CATEGORIES:BMI Produced Event,Live Music,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CRAIG-MCLACHLAN-SixStringStories_CM_Hero_draft2-Liam-Mudge.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250820T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250820T193000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250522T034400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250813T001437Z UID:65063-1755712800-1755718200@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:In Conversation with Michael Robotham DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/michael-robotham/ LOCATION:BMI – Humffray Room\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Fundraiser,Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/sq-promo-robotham.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250820T190000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250820T200000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250814T001943Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250814T002105Z UID:66976-1755716400-1755720000@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Kadampa Meditation Series | How to Love Yourself & Others DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/kadampa-meditation-series-20-august/ LOCATION:Lending Library\, Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, Victoria\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:kadampa ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/How-to-Love-Yourseld-Others-square-promo.webp ORGANIZER;CN="Kadampa Meditation":MAILTO:info@kadampa.org.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250823T140000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250823T170000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250714T045240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250715T044101Z UID:66222-1755957600-1755968400@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Laura J Fitzwilson\, Book Launch - The Fool DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/laura-j-fitzwilson/ LOCATION:Heritage Reading Room\, Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Author Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/square-promo-laura-l-fitzwilson.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250823T200000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250823T230000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20241204T023112Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260203T025535Z UID:60476-1755979200-1755990000@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Six String Blues - A Tribute To Blues Guitar DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/sex-string-blues/ LOCATION:The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Ballarat Blues Festival,Live Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/square-promo-six-string-blues.webp ORGANIZER;CN="Matt Arthur Music":MAILTO:matt@mattarthurmusic.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250827T190000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250827T200000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250408T041557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250813T042601Z UID:64376-1756321200-1756324800@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Kadampa Meditation Series | Focus: The Power of Concentration DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/kadampa-meditation-series-27-august-25/ LOCATION:Lending Library\, Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, Victoria\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:kadampa ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/square-promo-1.webp ORGANIZER;CN="Kadampa Meditation":MAILTO:info@kadampa.org.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250830T193000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250830T203000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250811T023940Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250812T005435Z UID:66742-1756582200-1756585800@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Melbourne Guitar Quartet DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/melbourne-guitar-quartet/ LOCATION:BMI – Minerva Space\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350 CATEGORIES:Classical Music,Live Music ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/square-promo.webp ORGANIZER;CN="Concerts Australia":MAILTO:michael@concertsaustralia.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250831T130000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250831T140000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250722T023048Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250813T030553Z UID:66327-1756645200-1756648800@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:A Poet's Guide to Love and Loss | A Ballarat Arts Foundation fundraiser featuring tenor Douglas Kelly DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/a-poets-guide-to-love-and-loss/ LOCATION:BMI – Humffray Room\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Live Music,Theatre Production ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/victorian-opera-sq-promo.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250901T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250901T193000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250711T023001Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250813T001637Z UID:66163-1756749600-1756755000@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:In Conversation with Gabriel Bergmoser DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/gabriel-bergmoser/ LOCATION:BMI – Humffray Room\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Fundraiser,Library ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/gabriel-bergmoser-sq-promo.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250903T173000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250903T183000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250728T035749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250826T031406Z UID:66371-1756920600-1756924200@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Twilight Talks 2025\, Season 3\, Spring Season | Ballarat's Henry Lawson\, Unknown facts presented by Hedley Thomson DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/twilight-talks-henry-lawson/ LOCATION:BMI – Humffray Room\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Fundraiser,Important Dates,Members,Talk,Twilight Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/square-promo-2025.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250903T190000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250903T200000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250813T042810Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250813T042930Z UID:66936-1756926000-1756929600@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Kadampa Meditation Series | Focus: The Power of Concentration DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/kadampa-meditation-series-3-september-25/ LOCATION:Lending Library\, Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, Victoria\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:kadampa ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/square-promo-1.webp ORGANIZER;CN="Kadampa Meditation":MAILTO:info@kadampa.org.au END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250904T180000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250904T190000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250603T000019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250826T233613Z UID:64998-1757008800-1757012400@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Tracey Lee Holmes: A Life Through Sport DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/bmi-twc-tracey-lee-holmes/ LOCATION:BMI – Minerva Space\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350 CATEGORIES:Author Talk,Culture,Fundraiser,Important Dates,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/sq-promo-tracey-holmes-v4.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250906T100000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250907T140000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250409T010714Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250805T075721Z UID:64397-1757152800-1757253600@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Spring Book Sale | Reward yourself with loads of Summer reading DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/book-sale-september-2025/ LOCATION:Lending Library\, Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, Victoria\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Culture,Fundraiser,Members ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/book-sale-square-spring-2025.webp END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250910T170000 DTEND;TZID=Australia/Melbourne:20250910T193000 DTSTAMP:20260416T193621 CREATED:20250801T001930Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250828T003001Z UID:66551-1757523600-1757532600@ballaratmi.org.au SUMMARY:Crafting Conversation: The Jewellers Edition DESCRIPTION:May 15\n\n \n\n @ \n\n\n6:00 pm\n\n \n\n\n\n \n - \n\n7:00 pm\n\n\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n$8 – $12 \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n THIS EVENT HAS NOW BEEN CANCELLED This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat\, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895\, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute\, meaning many had their first ever experience of ‘moving pictures’ in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then\, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations\, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year’s Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer\, the former candy bar of the cinema\, before the talk.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n The BMI’s Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001\, check out our website for upcoming talks.  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Not the Last Picture Show: City of Chaos and Hope \n \n Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of our imagination\, the life that goes on inside provides the colour\, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film\, particularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take us on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. \nThis session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall\, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories\, social history gives us an understanding of who we are as people\, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Speaker: Erin McCuskey | Film Artist \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema\, multilayered film using archival\, found and captured moving image. She uses screen language of the half-dark\, overlay and blur to reflect her long-sightedness (hyperopia). Working at the intersection of cinema and art\, she explores themes of feminisms\, memory and death. Known for her use of muses\, she explores the idea that joy is resistance and that expressing culture through dance is a way to protect our hard won freedoms. McCuskey’s love of the moving image grew from lounge-room screenings of family films created by her father. The youngest girl of a large Irish immigrant family\, she studies the once prohibited Gaeilge (Irish language) and Irish mythology to understand concepts of home and belonging. “Film artist Erin M McCuskey’s work is indeed one of Australia’s great ‘unknown pleasures’… fusing analogue film (created and archival)\, music\, dance\, literature\, theatre and a visual artist’s perspective into digital cinematic works that are firstly sensual and delightful\, and secondly resonantly poetic and deep.” (Bill Mousoulis – Unknown Pleasures). \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Erin McCuskey | Film Artist\n \n \n \n More about Erin \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Yum Studio \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Event starting at 6pm (bar open at 5.30pm)\, close 7pm. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Cost: $12 general admission | $8 BMI members \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Bookings \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2024 Twilight Talks\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Thanks to the support of Community Bank Buninyong \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Follow Community Bank Buninyong socials: \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n More Twilight Talks \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n BMI news \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n ANZAC Day | Ballarat Arch of Victory & Avenue of Honour\n ANZAC Day Feel the Spirits  The Arch of Victory Avenue... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n 2026 BMI Appeal | Give now\n A message from the President Support the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Rosemary’s Book of the Week\n The Drowning Fiona Lowe Don’t miss Fiona at the BMI... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Ballarat National Theatre | Ballarat Times by Evie Lamb\n Lots to dig about The Dog Logs by Evie Lamb\,... \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Load More URL:https://ballaratmi.org.au/event/crafting-conversation-jewellers/ LOCATION:The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute\, 117-119 Sturt Street\, Ballarat Central\, VIC\, 3350\, Australia CATEGORIES:Art programs ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/webp:https://ballaratmi.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/square-promo-mgth.webp ORGANIZER;CN="Make Good Things Happen":MAILTO:angela@daltonbaker.com.au END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR