16/11/2024 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Free STELLA DAY OUT: Writing about the Future | Kate Mildenhall in conversation with Van Badham | 16 November 1pm – 2pm | Free
30/10/2024 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm $10 Humffray Room Everyone This Christmas Has A Secret Benjamin Stevenson. Strap yourself in for Christmas hijinks, done the way only Benjamin Stevenson can.’ Hayley Scrivenor An ingenious and hilarious meta-murder mystery. – Sunday Times When a Christmas show takes a dark turn after a magician’s guillotine trick goes awry, who should be in the front
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11/11/2024 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm $10 Humffray Room Get Tickets The Golden Thread Tea Cooper. Intricate threads from the past and the present bind together a yellow silk dress, lost gold and a missing grandmother in a twisty historical mystery from the bestselling author of: The Talented Mrs Greenway. Maitland, 1889When nineteen-year-old Constance Montague wakes one Wednesday she expects the day
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19/09/2024 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm $10 Heritage Reading Room From the Top T.L.W. Robb. From Ballarat to Baghdad – an extraordinary life. Traveller – Outlaw – Producer. A moving and inspiring memoir of a young man and his journey from Ballarat, Australia, to the international stage where he and his partner Luis Moreno, produced showstopping Moulin Rouge and Las Vegas style
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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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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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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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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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01/06/2024 @ 10:00 am – 02/06/2024 @ 2:00 pm Free Books priced from $1 – more for collectable items. Image, artist impression only | Photo by | helloiamtugce Don’t miss our book sale this weekend. Admission and parking are free. There are hundreds of books – some of which are in gently used condition and some in mint condition – and many start at a
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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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Fundraiser for Ballarat RSL & BMI
$33 per person
Minerva's Secrets Night Tours
Tue 19 May with special visit to Lantern Vaults
Tour 1 at 7pm – Tour 2 at 9pm.
Calling for Pre-loved books
These donation assist in our Library Fundraising Activities
We can take delivery during regular Library operating hours. See website footer.
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
Sunday 6 September at 2pm - Cost $65
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.
