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Pub Cinemas Presents: ‘In The Shadow of the Gallows’ & short film ‘Vendetta 19’

March 2 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm $21.00 Minerva Space Get Tickets Presented by Pub Cinemas: In the Shadow of the Gallows In 1873 a frail figure was walked to the gallows at the Adelaide Gaol. She had been convicted of murdering her husband, and there would be no reprise. The hanging of Elizabeth Woolcock has gone on in Australian true crime history…

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Spaceballs – a FightMND fundraiser

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04/10/2025 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm $18 Minerva Theatre Get tickets Join us at 7pm on October 4th for a screening of the cult classic Spaceballs to raise much needed funds for FightMND. In 2013, we lost my dad, Ian, from MND. In his memory, we are raising funds and participating in this year’s FightMND Daniher’s Drive to raise funds and awareness

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Beyond Limits | An Evening with Mick Marshall

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26/04/2025 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm Minerva Space Get Tickets An Evening with Mick Marshall About the Screening Advanced screening of the uncut version of the documentary Beyond Limits, telling the remarkable true story of Mick Marshall’s fight to run again. The audience will have the opportunity to not only watch the yet to be completed documentary, but also potentially appear

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The Vegas 70 returns to Ballarat | Ballarat Heritage Festival | Mary Poppins

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24/05/2025 @ 10:00 am – 12:20 pm $23.05 Get tickets Returning for one morning only The Vegas 70 was once the most popular cinema in Ballarat. The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute and Showbiz Cinemas have collaborated to bring back the Vegas for the Ballarat Heritage Festival. The first moving pictures (called cinematograph) in Ballarat were shown at the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute in 1896! In

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The Vegas 70 returns to Ballarat | Ballarat Heritage Festival | Chinatown

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23/05/2025 @ 8:30 pm – 10:45 pm $23.05 Get tickets Returning for one night only The Vegas 70 was once the most popular cinema in Ballarat. The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute and Showbiz Cinemas have collaborated to bring back the Vegas for the Ballarat Heritage Festival. The first moving pictures (called cinematograph) in Ballarat were shown at the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute in 1896! In

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The Vegas 70 returns to Ballarat | Ballarat Heritage Festival | Blazing Saddles

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23/05/2025 @ 6:30 pm – 8:15 pm $23.05 Get tickets Returning for one night only The Vegas 70 was once the most popular cinema in Ballarat. The Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute and Showbiz Cinemas have collaborated to bring back the Vegas for the Ballarat Heritage Festival. The first moving pictures (called cinematograph) in Ballarat were shown at the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute in 1896! In

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Ballarat Film Society | To Thank the Room

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09/10/2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Award Winning Australian Documentary Best Melbourne Documentary 2024 at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, To Thank the Room is about the last 100 days of the iconic Brooklyn Arts Hotel in Fitzroy. This heart-warming and inspiring documentary is an intimate portrait of Maggie Fooke, the creator of the hotel, as she navigates the final days of this

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Ballarat Film Society | Little Richard: I am Everything

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11/12/2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Musical Doco ‘The south is the home of all things queer,’ says scholar Zandria Robinson as we witness the exhilarating jam-packed story of Little Richard’s complex life and musical career, ending only in 2020. Born in 1932 as Richard Wayne Penniman, by 1955 Little Richard was declared a world rock ‘n’ roll star with his

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Ballarat Film Society | Hammarskjöld: The Fight for Peace

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13/11/2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Compelling Cold War Political Thriller In 1961, the charismatic Swedish diplomat, economist and implacable idealist Dag Hammarskjöld was in his seventh year as Secretary-General of the United Nations. By some, he was considered the ‘clearest thinker in the room,’ but by others as the victim of a ‘saviour complex’ (Cineuropa). Torn between his personal life

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Ballarat Film Society | Sweet As

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10/07/2025 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm Indigenous Coming of Age Story Filmed in the stunning Pilbara over five weeks, Nyul Nyul/Yawuru woman Jub Clerc’s debut feature film is the first Western Australian film by a First Nation’s director. 16-year-old Murra, whose abandonment by her drug-fuelled mother puts her at risk of being sent into the Child Protection system, instead finds herself

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