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Twilight Talks 2024, Season 2, Session 4 | Not the Last Picture Show | Australian Heritage Festival

Special Edition Twilight Talks This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers and film based presentations highlighting the history of cinema and performance spaces in Ballarat and Melbourne titled, Not the Last Picture Show. The full program is still being finalised. The final session will be presented as part of the […]

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Twilight Talks 2024, Season 2, Session 3 | Not the Last Picture Show | Australian Heritage Festival

Special Edition Twilight Talks This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers and film based presentations highlighting the history of cinema and performance spaces in Ballarat and Melbourne titled, Not the Last Picture Show. The full program is still being finalised. The final session will be presented as part of the

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Twilight Talks 2024, Season 2, Session 2 | Lost City of Melbourne | Australian Heritage Festival

Special Edition Twilight Talks This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers and film based presentations highlighting the history of cinema and performance spaces in Ballarat and Melbourne titled, Not the Last Picture Show. The full program is still being finalised. The final session will be presented as part of the

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Twilight Talks 2024, Season 2, Session 1 | Not the Last Picture Show | Australian Heritage Festival

Special Edition Twilight Talks This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers and film based presentations highlighting the history of cinema and performance spaces in Ballarat and Melbourne titled, Not the Last Picture Show. The full program is still being finalised. The final session will be presented as part of the

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Exhibition | Not the Last Picture Show: From the Archives | Ballarat Heritage Festival

This Heritage Reading Room (the original Mining Exchange in Ballarat) houses a fascinating and authentic representation of a Mechanics’ Institute library from early last century, and visitors will be delighted at the opportunity to touch, feel and read some of more than 16,000 historic books and other publications that make up the registered collection, for

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Exhibition | Not the Last Picture Show | Ballarat Heritage Festival

Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895, the first screenings of this new technology of ‘moving pictures’ were held at the Mechanics’ Institute. By the 1970’s, cinema’s death was being heralded after the devastating impact of television and the attraction of the drive-in, making the BMI’s Vegas 70 for a

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Twilight Talks 2024, Season 2, Session 5 | Not the Last Picture Show | Ballarat Heritage Festival

Special Edition Twilight Talks This special edition of our regular Twilight Talks series will feature speakers discussing the history of cinema in Ballarat, complimenting our free exhibition. Just a year after the Lumière brothers invented the cinematograph in 1895, the first screenings were held at the Mechanics’ Institute, meaning many had their first ever experience

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BMI Fundraiser

Featuring:
The Hideaways,
The Harmonies &
Surf Shadows. 

2 course dinner & lots
of dancing