Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute

Book-making Workshop with Maggie Dannatt | One space available
2022-10-13 10:00 - 13:00 (Australia/Melbourne) | Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up, 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, 3350, Australia
Ballarat Film Society | Flow

February 12

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9:00 pm

Minerva Room

Animated Animal Ecofable

We begin 2026 with a beautiful animated film about a wide-eyed curious cat and other animals seeking refuge on a boat as their human-free world of eerie buildings and enormous statues is inexplicably and rapidly flooded. As the waters carry them along, they traverse magical, submerged landscapes, and are exposed to dangerous elemental forces. The film, which does not anthropomorphise the animals by giving them human speech or names, nonetheless shows them as having distinct personalities: a sleepy capybara, a jolly labrador retriever, a narcissistic ring-tailed lemur, and a majestic white secretary bird, brought together by the dangers they encounter to use their various skills to survive as a group. Sound designer Gurwal Coïc-Gallas used real animal sounds for each character – in particular his own cat Miut. A mysterious fable for our times, Flow has become the most attended film in Latvia’s history and won the 2025 Golden Globe for Best Animated Feature. Madman

Latvia, 2024, 85 min. Directed, written and produced by Gints Zilbalodi

Ballarat Film Society

Membership 12 months – Feb-December: $60Feb-July: $35 – July-Dec: $30 To join or renew your membership, please e-mail or phone Angus McLachlan (5374 2474), or come with cash on the night. Membership can be paid by bank transfer or with cash. For film enquiries, phone Sue Nunn: 5341 2266 or visit the Ballarat Film Society website All films are subject to availability. If there is no next film shown below it means the BFS is working on next season’s programme.

Ballarat Film Society - Quo Vadis, Aida?
2022-10-13 19:00 - 21:30 | BMI – Minerva Space, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350

Chris Hammer | Now cancelled
2022-10-18 11:00 - 12:00 | BMI – Humffray Room, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350, Australia

Book-making Workshop with Maggie Dannatt | 20 October 22
2022-10-20 10:00 - 13:00 | Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up, 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, 3350, Australia

The Reading Room | NOW CANCELLED
2022-09-27 10:30 - 12:00 | Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up, 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, 3350, Australia

Book-making Workshop with Maggie Dannatt | 27 October 22
2022-10-27 10:00 - 13:00 | Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up, 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, 3350, Australia

Current Affairs Dialogue | NOW POSTPONED TO 24 NOVEMBER
2022-10-27 13:30 - 15:00 | Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up, 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, 3350, Australia

Twilight Talks 2022 | Season 3 | Now Postponed to February 2023
2022-11-02 17:00 - 19:00 | The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350, Australia

Book-making Workshop with Maggie Dannatt | 3 November 22
2022-11-03 10:00 - 13:00 | Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up, 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, 3350, Australia

Salon Sessions: The BMI in partnership with Duo Latte
2022-11-06 14:00 - 15:30 | The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350, Australia

Ballarat Film Society - First Cow
2022-11-08 19:00 - 21:30 | BMI – Minerva Space, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350

Eric Bogle Live
2022-11-11 19:30 - 21:00 | BMI – Minerva Space, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350

Kings of the Blues
2022-11-12 20:00 - 21:30 | BMI – Minerva Space, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350

In conversation with Fleur McDonald
2022-11-16 18:00 - 19:30 | BMI – Humffray Room, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350, Australia

Current Affairs Dialogue | Discussion Group | NOW POSTPONED
2022-09-29 13:00 - 15:00 | Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up, 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, 3350, Australia

Meet the Author | Once Were Wild by Leslie Scott
2022-12-06 17:30 - 19:30 | Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up, 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, 3350, Australia

Ballarat Film Society - Beyond the Wasteland
2022-12-08 19:00 - 21:30 | BMI – Minerva Space, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350

Exhibition of works | A TUK - Nyibol Deng
2022-12-09 10:00 - 2022-12-23 15:00 | Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up, 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, 3350, Australia

BMI Book Sale
2022-12-17 09:00 - 14:00 | Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up, 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, 3350, Australia

BMI Christmas Maker Market and Book Sale
2022-12-18 09:00 - 14:00 | Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up, 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, 3350, Australia

Choose Happiness | A Public Talk, Buddhist Monk, Gen Kelsang Dornying
2023-02-01 19:30 - 21:00 | The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350, Australia

Twilight Talks 2023 | Season 1
2023-02-08 17:30 - 19:00, 2023-03-01 17:30 - 19:00, 2023-03-08 17:30 - 19:00 | BMI – Humffray Room, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350, Australia

Ballarat Film Society - La Strada
2023-02-09 19:30 - 21:00 | BMI – Minerva Space, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350

Twilight Talks 2023 | Season 1 | More tickets released
2023-02-15 17:30 - 19:00 | BMI – Minerva Space, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350

Twilight Talks 2023 | Season 1 | Now moved to Minerva Space Level 3
2023-02-22 17:30 - 19:00 | BMI – Minerva Space, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350

Class Clowns | Ballarat Heat
2023-02-24 19:00 - 20:30 | BMI – Minerva Space, 117-119 Sturt Street, Ballarat Central, VIC, 3350

Embrace the Begonia Festival Workshop | Location now changed
2023-03-04 10:00 - 12:00 | Soldiers Hill CBD | Pop-up, 512 Macarthur Street, Soldiers Hill, Victoria, 3350, Australia
