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27/05/2024 @ 1:30 pm - 31/03/2025 @ 3:00 pm The Reading Room This volunteer run reading and discussion group meets monthly, the last Monday of the month, in the Heritage Reading Room (subject to availability) . Members will select books to be discussed which will include fiction, non-fiction, poetry and short stories. If you would like to be a part of this group (free… 
28/05/2024 @ 2:00 pm - 29/10/2024 @ 3:00 pm $10 A colourful history of the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute and it’s people. By appointment only, (to organise a volunteer guide we require 24hrs notice). Group Tours: Group tours can also be accommodated on other days.
$10
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17/06/2024 @ 10:00 am - 26/07/2024 @ 3:00 pm Free BALLARAT WINTER FESTIVAL - ART PROJECT | A Fortunate Series of Events: A Projection Installation by Human Designs, Featuring Melinda Muscat.
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03/07/2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Free – $15 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 our daily problems and find the…
Free – $15
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04/07/2024 @ 5:30 pm - 25/07/2024 @ 10:30 pm $3 – $80 Meet Thursdays in the Humffray Room
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10/07/2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Free – $15 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 our daily problems and find the…
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11/07/2024 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm Aboriginal Historical Fantasy The New Boy is set on a remote mission for Aboriginal children in the 1940s run by a renegade nun, Sister Eileen. A new charge is delivered in the dead of night – a boy who appears to have special powers - and so begins the interactions between the mission staff, the… |
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12/07/2024 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 The Homestead in the Eucalypts Léonie Kelsall. Sometimes finding the way forward means retracing your past. When student doctor Taylor Lawrence's city life is turned upside down, she seeks sanctuary on her grandparents' farm in the South Australian countryside. During the lonely nights, she fantasises of a time long-gone; of Anna, who, rising at dawn…
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16/07/2024 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 Humffray Room Edenhope Louise Le Nay. 'A moving story about one woman’s unconditional love, the kindness of strangers, and what’s right as well as what’s wrong with the way we live now.’ Amanda Lohrey, Miles Franklin Award-winning author of 'The Labyrinth' Marnie is sixty-three and downwardly mobile. Her middle-class marriage is long gone, her only…
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17/07/2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Free – $15 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 our daily problems and find the…
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21/07/2024 @ 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm $25 BMI FUNDRAISER | This event is proudly supported by the Fashions In Time Group.
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22/07/2024 @ 10:30 am - 27/07/2024 @ 3:00 pm RARE BOOK WEEK | This Vintage Book Sale will feature a variety of titles including fiction and non-fiction. |
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24/07/2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Free – $15 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 our daily problems and find the…
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26/07/2024 @ 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Free RARE BOOK WEEK | Introduction to the BMI Collection, rare and valuable items.
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29/07/2024 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm $10 Humffray Room Leah Kaminsky Leah is a physician and award-winning writer. Her debut novel, The Waiting Room, won the Voss Literary Prize. The Hollow Bones won both the Literary Fiction and Historical Fiction categories of the 2019 International Book Awards, and the 2019 American Book Fest’s Best Book Award for Literary Fiction. She is the…
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31/07/2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Free – $15 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 our daily problems and find the…
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01/08/2024 @ 5:30 pm - 29/08/2024 @ 10:30 pm $3 – $80 Meet Thursdays in the Humffray Room
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03/08/2024 @ 6:00 pm - 7:45 pm $25 Humffray Room Pianist and composer Spencer Vanderkley presents: An array of Romantic-era piano works, in a recital structured around the tradition of 'character pieces' in the 19th Century. Works by Chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky are brought together to chronicle the development of the prelude, the intermezzo and the nocturne. Program Chopin Preludes, Op. 28: No. 20 in…
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04/08/2024 @ 2:00 pm - 3:45 pm $25 Humffray Room Pianist and composer Spencer Vanderkley presents: An array of Romantic-era piano works, in a recital structured around the tradition of 'character pieces' in the 19th Century. Works by Chopin, Brahms, Tchaikovsky are brought together to chronicle the development of the prelude, the intermezzo and the nocturne. Program Chopin Preludes, Op. 28: No. 20 in…
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Minerva's Secrets Night Tours
Tue 19 May with special visit to Lantern Vaults
Tour 1 at 7pm – Tour 2 at 9pm.
Linen & Lace Exhbition
Includes Devonshire Tea | $20
Sat & Sun 22, 23 Oct
10am-4pm
Remembrance Day:
A Surgeon Commander & A Leading Cook - Recent War Memoribilia
Wed 29 Oct & 5 Nov, 5.30pm.
Coming soon…
Rozzi Bazzani. Stella Day Out: Katia Ariel & Samah Sabawi, Rachael Johns
Coming soon…
Dianne Dempsey, Chrissie Bellbrae, Paula Gleeson, Rozzi Bazzani.
Coming in November…
Stella Day Out, Ballarat, Rachael Johns & Margaret Hickey
Australian Heritage Festival
Minerva's Secrets
25 April – Tour 1 at 7.30pm – fully booked
Tour 2 at 9.30pm – still tickets.
Spring Season, History Talks:
Ballarat's Henry Lawson - The Dragon's Den - Gold! Gold! Gold!
Wed 3, 17 & 24 September, 5.30pm.
Bubbly on arrival & Featuring quality items from our Vintage Shop | $60
The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute 2026 Calendar
Featuring illustrations from our Heritage Book Collection $40
Your gift will be tax-deductible this financial year if you make it before June 30.
Like many organisations the BMI faces significant funding challenges.
2 course dinner & lots
of dancing
