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  • Minerva’s Secrets | Night Tour

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

    April 24 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm $27.50 Meet at the BMI entrance  Get Tickets Explore tales of the weird and supernatural – the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute at night. Looking for a unique way to explore Ballarat’s rich history and culture? Look no further than the Ballaarat Mechanics Institute’s Night Tours! This beautiful heritage building dates back to the 1860s and boasts a…

    $27.50
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    Minerva’s Secrets | Night Tour

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

    April 24 @ 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm $27.50 Meet at the BMI entrance  Get Tickets Explore tales of the weird and supernatural – the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute at night. Looking for a unique way to explore Ballarat’s rich history and culture? Look no further than the Ballaarat Mechanics Institute’s Night Tours! This beautiful heritage building dates back to the 1860s and boasts a…

    $27.50

  • Twilight Talks: Focus on Ballarat – Nostalgic memories of Stawell & Ballarat – 1950s and 1960s

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

    April 29 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm $9 – $13 Humffray Room Get Tickets Dickie Larsen's Pumpkin & Other Stories Speaker: Geoff Carr, author Spike is a young boy in 1950s Australia, surrounded by sprawling landscapesand a menagerie of animals. Together with his friends Leany and Riddy, they do what all young boys in the bush do: make their own fun. From chooks in outhouses,…

    $9 – $13

  • Kadampa Meditation Series | Love Changes Everything: How to Transform Yourself & the World Around You

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    April 29 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free – $12 – $12 Lending Library, ground floor These classes offer simple, practical methods to improve the quality of our life and develop inner peace through meditation and Buddhist teachings. The in-person setting fosters a supportive community and offers real-time interaction with the teacher for personalized guidance. Classes include guided meditations and teachings to help us solve…

    Free – $12
  • Author Anna Johnston promotional image with book cover

    In Conversation with Anna Johnston

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

    April 30 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm $11.78 Humffray Room Get Tickets When lemons give you life Anna Johnston 'Smart, authentic and full of heart' - Graeme Simsion From the author of The Borrowed Life of Frederick Fife Redemption is a dish best served warm... Retired Michelin-star chef Griff Barlow has lost his appetite for life. Widowed, grieving and living in an aged care…

    $11.78

  • Twilight Talks: Focus on Ballarat – What We Watched Before Cinema: ‘Entertainments’ at the Mechanics’ Hall, 1863–1919

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

    May 6 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm $9 – $13 Humffray Room Get Tickets What We Watched Before Cinema: ‘Entertainments’ at the Mechanics’ Hall, 1863–1919 Speaker: Ellen Becker When the Mechanics’ Hall opened in 1863, the people of Ballarat flocked to see some strange and spectacular contemporary entertainments — mesmerists, automata, waxworks, human curiosities, and the magic of the first moving image technologies. Join Curator Ellen…

    $9 – $13

  • Kadampa Meditation Series | Love Changes Everything: How to Transform Yourself & the World Around You

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    May 6 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Free – $12 – $12 Lending Library, ground floor These classes offer simple, practical methods to improve the quality of our life and develop inner peace through meditation and Buddhist teachings. The in-person setting fosters a supportive community and offers real-time interaction with the teacher for personalized guidance. Classes include guided meditations and teachings to help us solve…

    Free – $12

  • One Tease Rules Them All: Fellowship of the G-String – The Burlesque Parody

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

    May 8 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm $48.79 Minerva Space Get Tickets An epic burlesque fantasy parody where Middle-earth is reimagined through glitter, glamour, and glorious mischief. One Tease to Rule Them All is a theatrical burlesque revue inspired by legendary fantasy worlds and the archetypes we know and love, hobbits, heroes, wizards, warriors, and shadowy foes. Nine incredible performers gather to bring…

    $48.79

  • Teeny Tiny Stevies – Brain Fart Tour

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

    May 9 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am $35 Minerva Space Get Tickets The ultimate live gig experience for young families. Adult friendly kids music played live on stage by real musicians? We got you!! The ABC Kids TV favourites and ARIA winners will entertain the whole family with the most wholesome live gig there is. Funny stuff for parents, heaps of engagement for…

    $35

  • One Tease Rules Them All: Fellowship of the G-String – The Burlesque Parody

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

    May 9 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm $48.79 Minerva Space Get Tickets An epic burlesque fantasy parody where Middle-earth is reimagined through glitter, glamour, and glorious mischief. One Tease to Rule Them All is a theatrical burlesque revue inspired by legendary fantasy worlds and the archetypes we know and love, hobbits, heroes, wizards, warriors, and shadowy foes. Nine incredible performers gather to bring…

    $48.79

  • In Conversation with Victoria Purman

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

    May 11 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm $11.78 Humffray Room Get Tickets The Marriage Trap Victoria Purman In 1960s Australia, the scent of freedom is in the air... From bestselling Australian author, comes the story of a mother and her two daughters, set in the tumultuous extraordinary decade of the 1960s. A time of great change; the effects of the pill, rebellion and…

    $11.78

  • In Conversation with Kerri Rogan

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

    May 13 @ 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm $11.78 Humffray Room Get Tickets After the Noise Kerri Rogan Lee squinted in the sunlight and patted around her. It felt like a mattress and a dog. For the first time in months, she had slept in a bed. Oh, dear. Moose. She had fed her a bottle before she had come to bed last night…

    $11.78