20/06/2025 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm $10 – $25 Minerva Space Get Tickets Thursday 19 June, Friday 20 June & Saturday 21 June at 7pm Saturday 21 June & Sunday 22 June at 2pm A Tony Award Nominated Play by Geoffry Nauffts Directed by Matthew Henderson Nominated for the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Next Fall…
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11/07/2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm $35.50 Minerva Space Get Tickets ‘One to watch.’ NSW Police ‘Knack for a ripping anecdote.’ ★★★★ The Age ‘Fascinating and unique.’ Chortle (UK) ‘A compelling and utterly hysterical night of comedy’ ★★★★★ ArtsHub Nominee – Best Newcomer Award, 2023 Melbourne International Comedy Festival In 2021, Andrew Hamilton spent four months in two of Sydney’s maximum-security prisons
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19/06/2025 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm $10 – $25 Minerva Space Get Tickets Thursday 19 June, Friday 20 June & Saturday 21 June at 7pm Saturday 21 June & Sunday 22 June at 2pm A Tony Award Nominated Play by Geoffry Nauffts Directed by Matthew Henderson Nominated for the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Play. Next Fall
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29/05/2025 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm $35.50 – $38.50 Minerva Space Get Tickets Winner Best Comedy Weekly Award 2017 – Adelaide Fringe Nominee 2021 Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award for Most OUtstanding Show! The Maracas from Caracas is back with the best jokes he’s ever told! After a decade of making Aussies laugh, Ivan has picked the cream of the crop from his all-star
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28/11/2025 @ 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm $56.76 – $62.40 Minerva Space Get Tickets AKmal Akmal returns with a smash-hit tour after a spiritual journey to India to find himself. Unfortunately, when he got there, he couldn’t find himself anywhere, after all India is a big place… On his return to Australia, he was pleased to discover he had been here the entire time. This
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06/04/2025 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm $5 – $12 Humffray Room Get Tickets A Ballarat National Theatre Production Friday 4 April at 7pm & Sunday 6 April at 2pm This is the Way the World Ends is a series of thematically connected short plays, songs, character monologues and interludes. The common theme, through line is that a lack of empathy, a lack of meaning,
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04/04/2025 @ 7:00 pm – 10:00 pm $5 – $12 Humffray Room Get Tickets A Ballarat National Theatre Production Friday 4 April at 7pm & Sunday 6 April at 2pm This is the Way the World Ends is a series of thematically connected short plays, songs, character monologues and interludes. The common theme, through line is that a lack of empathy, a lack of meaning,
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02/11/2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm $30.75 Minerva Space Grogan These are the tribulations of someone just trying to stay alive until he’s dead, while attempting to remain a man of the people. The people aren’t really honouring their end of the bargain. Besides nothing, the crushing majority of people don’t know anything. In fact, most of them are heading in the
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09/08/2024 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm $30.00 Minerva Space The 2024 Show It’s 2024, you see that Daniel has a new show. You don’t mind the sound of that so you let your mate/lover know. You organise a night out, dinner, and Daniel’s show. At work the next day you recount Daniel’s tales about yucky couples, and Cody from Footlocker. Your colleagues
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19/04/2024 @ 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm $46.00 A show where Kinne shares too much information about all of the things wrong with him. And when you’re in your mid 40s dating someone in their 30s, those things wrong with you are going to become slightly more apparent. But hey, if it means you get to walk away from the show feeling better
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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.
