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    Arresting the Ephemeral: The Beautiful Usefulness of a Victorian Herbarium

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

    July 24 @ 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Free Humffray Room Get Tickets The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute is custodian of the most intact surviving set of the Educational Collections of Victorian Plants (1874–1876). A herbarium and series of books compiled by the first Chief Botanist of the Colony of Victoria, Baron Sir Ferdinand von Mueller. This presentation reveals the history and significance of this remarkable collection,…

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  • God of Carnage, A Ballarat National Theatre Production

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

    July 24 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm $10 – $30 Minerva Space The Tony Award Winning Play by Yasmina Reza Directed by Ruby Abbott After the event of school yard bullying, four parents differing views may have just created cause for another round; adults edition. God of Carnage is a one act black comedy play. It won best comedy at the 2009 Tony Awards and the 2009…

    $10 – $30

  • God of Carnage, A Ballarat National Theatre Production

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

    July 25 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm $10 – $30 Minerva Space The Tony Award Winning Play by Yasmina Reza Directed by Ruby Abbott After the event of school yard bullying, four parents differing views may have just created cause for another round; adults edition. God of Carnage is a one act black comedy play. It won best comedy at the 2009 Tony Awards and the 2009…

    $10 – $30

  • God of Carnage, A Ballarat National Theatre Production

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

    July 25 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm $10 – $30 Minerva Space The Tony Award Winning Play by Yasmina Reza Directed by Ruby Abbott After the event of school yard bullying, four parents differing views may have just created cause for another round; adults edition. God of Carnage is a one act black comedy play. It won best comedy at the 2009 Tony Awards and the 2009…

    $10 – $30
  • Author Phillipa Nefri Clark promotional event poster

    In Conversation with Phillipa Nefri Clark

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

    July 29 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm $11.78 Humffray Room Get Tickets Lest Angels Weep Phillipa Nefri Clark Phillipa will be in conversation with local actor Kate Atkinson The new case is cold. Stone cold. Until another murder with striking similarities rocks a remote outback town. Detective Liz Moorland is desperate to get out of Melbourne. Away from the aftermath of shocking events…

    $11.78

  • Smiling woman at Anything for a Mate charity ball event

    Anything for a Mate: Charity Ball

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

    August 1 @ 7:00 pm - 11:50 pm $150 Get Tickets The Anything for a Mate (AFAM) Charity Ball is on again. The AFAM Ball was an idea from a group of friends who wanted to do something to help a mate. What it evolved into was the biggest non-corporate donation made to The NBCF in 2026. In memory of our dearly loved daughter,…

    $150
  • Margaret Hickey author event promoting Cold River book

    In Conversation with Margaret Hickey

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

    August 3 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm $11.00 Humffray Room Get Tickets Cold River Margaret Hickey Margaret will be in conversation with author Gregory Flood Deep in the mountains, secrets grow deadly... Detective Constable Sally White knows how easily hikers can go missing in Victoria’s high country. But there’s something about the disappearance of Louis Taylor, a young man lost up Mount Viking,…

    $11.00
  • Pressed dried flowering plant specimen with roots on paper

    150 Years of Botanical Communication

    Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

    August 7 @ 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm $15 Get Tickets Before digital databases and photography, how did we learn about the natural world? This Biodiversity Week, discover the BMI’s rare set of Ferdinand von Mueller’s Educational Collections of Victorian Plants (1874–1876). Designed to “diffuse information on the native vegetation” across Victoria, this historic herbarium and book collection reveals how early scientific communication cultivated…

    $15

  • Blake Pavey: A Bit Scared

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

    August 7 @ 7:30 pm - 8:40 pm $44.90 Minerva Space Presented by KEG Touring Get Tickets A Bit Scared Blake Pavey rose to online fame at just 17 years old through his character based sketch comedy on TikTok. Since then, he has amassed over 1 Million followers across social media. He's now converted his online presence onto the stage with some absolutely killer…

    $44.90
  • Middle-aged man with quizzical expression scratching his head

    Lawrence Mooney and Friends

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

    August 9 @ 12:30 pm - 3:30 pm $42 – $47 Minerva Space Doors open 12.30pm | 1.30pm show-time Get Tickets Lawrence Mooney Lawrence Mooney is one of Australia’s most popular and best known Comedians and recently he has appeared as the man behind all of those wonderful characters on The Front Bar.This veteran of stage, radio and television is at the Ballarat Mechanics Institute for one…

    $42 – $47

  • In Conversation with Sophie Green

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

    August 12 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm $11.78 Humffray Room Get Tickets The Frock Shop Sophie Green Sophie will be in conversation with radio presenter Jane Nield Meet the Ladies of The Frock Shop Where clothes are just the start of the story Australian bestseller Sophie Green returns with a sparkling story about the beauty of the second-hand, the power of second chances, and becoming…

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  • Ballarat Film Society | The Blue Trail

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

    August 13 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Minerva Room Brazilian Dystopian Sci-fi The Blue Trail depicts a dystopian world, one that functions as a wry social critique rather than containing any lasting sense of terror or gloom.  In a futuristic Brazil, retirement has questionable consequences. 77-year-old Tereza is hailed as a ‘national living heritage’, yet she will soon be forced to live in a…