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Twilight Talks 2025, Season 1 | Ballarat’s Changing Scene – Ballarat’s Growth: Infrastructure Pressures

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

March 12 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Bar open at 5pm $9.73 – $13.83 Humffray Room Get tickets Ballarat's Growth - Infrastructure Pressures Panel Discussion: Chair, Paula Nicholson, BMI President Paula Nicholson | Chair, Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute Panel Members Terry Natt, Strategic Planning Manager, City of Ballarat Terry has been an urban planner in […]

$9.73 – $13.83

Kadampa Meditation Series | The Path of Peace: Three Ways to a Simpler Life

Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

February 26 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Free – $15 Lending Library These classes offer simple, practical methods to improve the quality of our life and develop inner peace through meditation and Buddhist teachings. The in-person setting fosters a supportive community and offers real-time interaction with the teacher for personalized guidance. Classes include guided […]

Free – $15
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Ballarat Film Society | The Movie Teller

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

March 13 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Cinephile Comedy-drama This film, adapted from Chilean writer Hernan Rivera Letelier’s 2009 novel of the same name, is set in 1969 in the Atacama Desert, where saltpeter miners and their families work and live in precarious conditions. Far from their world, the rest of Chile is experiencing […]

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Twilight Talks 2025, Season 1 | Ballarat’s Changing Scene – Change in Ballarat’s Car Industry

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

March 19 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Bar open at 5pm $9.73 – $13.83 Humffray Room Get tickets Changes in Ballarat's Car Industry Panel Discussion: Chair, Phil Roberts OAM, Patron & Twilight Talks Coordinator. Dr Phil Roberts OAM Phil Roberts is the co-ordinator of the BMI Twilight Talks and BMI Patron. He is a former […]

$9.73 – $13.83

Kadampa Meditation Series | Calm Amidst Chaos: How to Deal with Difficult People

Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

March 19 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Free – $15 Lending Library These classes offer simple, practical methods to improve the quality of our life and develop inner peace through meditation and Buddhist teachings. The in-person setting fosters a supportive community and offers real-time interaction with the teacher for personalized guidance. Classes include guided […]

Free – $15
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Broadway to Ballarat: The Haunted Theatre

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

March 19 @ 7:00 pm - March 23 @ 10:00 pm $25 – $35 Venue Get Tickets The Ballarat Pack Inc. Join us for Broadway to Ballarat: The Haunted Theatre, an original musical revue showcasing the best that Broadway and Ballarat have to offer. Set in a rundown theatre inhabited by a motley collection of […]

$25 – $35

In Conversation with Charlotte McConaghy

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

March 24 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm $11.78 Humffray Room Get Tickets Wild Dark Shore Charlotte McConaghy. New York Times Best Selling Author From the New York Times bestselling author of Migrations and Once There Were Wolves, a novel about a family living alone on a remote island, when a mysterious woman washes up on shore. At once a […]

$11.78
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Twilight Talks 2025, Season 1 | Ballarat’s Changing Scene – Changes to the Canadian Corridor

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

March 26 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Bar open at 5pm $9.73 – $13.83 Humffray Room Get tickets The Changing Face of the Canadian Corridor This talk will outline the impact of the goldrush and forestry on the corridor's native vegetation and waterways. Featuring the long gone Bunny Railway, mining water races, mining infrastructure, […]

$9.73 – $13.83

Kadampa Meditation Series | Calm Amidst Chaos: How to Deal with Difficult People

Lending Library Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, Victoria, Australia

March 26 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Free – $15 Lending Library These classes offer simple, practical methods to improve the quality of our life and develop inner peace through meditation and Buddhist teachings. The in-person setting fosters a supportive community and offers real-time interaction with the teacher for personalized guidance. Classes include guided […]

Free – $15

70th Anniversary Minerva Social | Scottish Country Dancing

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

March 30 @ 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm $10 – $30 Venue - Minerva Space Ballarat Scottish Country Dancing | Warm up your dance shoes, it's going to be a gooden! The Annual Minerva Social in the Minerva Space at the Ballaarat Mechanics Institute, 117-119 Sturt St, Ballarat (at the Melbourne end of Sturt St.) […]

$10 – $30

In Conversation with Mark Smith

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

April 1 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm $11.78 Humffray Room Get Tickets Three Boys Gone Mark Smith. Complex and Compelling in all the right ways - Jane Harper... Mark Smith presents the ultimate moral dilemma in a breathtaking psychological thriller. Would you try to save them? 'First rule of rescue: don't create another casualty.' […]

$11.78
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Twilight Talks 2025, Season 2 | Connections to War from a Ballarat Perspective: Dr Hardy

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

April 2 @ 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Bar open at 5pm $9.73 – $13.83 Humffray Room Get tickets Dr Hardy and the Men of St Paul's Anglican Church WWI Participants Speaker: Neil Leckie - Co-Cordinator Twilight Talks Neil Leckie is a BMI Member with many years of military service and an interest in The […]

$9.73 – $13.83
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with Nicole Alexander

28 May at 6pm. 

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Ballarat Heritage Festival BMI Day Tours

Two tours  on 20 &  21 May 

 

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Australian Heritage Festival

Natasha Lester in conversation

1 May at 6pm. 

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Australian Heritage Festival

Minerva's Secrets

25 April – Tour 1 at 7.30pm – fully booked
Tour 2 at 9.30pm – still tickets. 

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portrait of author with book cover

Australian Heritage Festival

Natasha Lester in conversation

1 May at 6pm. 

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Dame Nellie Melba Birthday Celebration

  Performance – 18 May.

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Ballarat Heritage Festival Events at the BMI

16 to 25 May 

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Connections to War from a Ballarat Perspective

Wed 2-30 April, 5.30pm. 

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Australian Heritage Festival Events at the BMI

18 April to 18 May. 

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Dame Nellie Melba Birthday Celebration

  Performance – 18 May.

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Christmas Holiday Closures | Library

Monday 23 December – Sunday 5 January

Devonshire Tea & Fashion Parade

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

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The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute 2025 Calendar

Featuring the BMI Image Collection | Now $20

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