Talks

A BMI Fundraising Public Talk | The world in 2025 and beyond with Professor Geoffrey Blainey AC

March 5 @ 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm Bar Open from 5:30pm $35 – $110 Humffray Room Get tickets The world in 2025 and beyond : What is the good news? What is the not-so-good news? Speaker: Professor Geoffrey Blainey AC Now in his mid nineties, Professor Geoffrey Blainey – Australia’s most significant and popular […]

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Twilight Talks 2025, Season 2, Special Event | The Life of Walter Withers

April 30 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Bar open at 5pm $9 – $13 Humffray Room Get tickets The Life of Walter Withers Until now there has been no family history of Walter Withers (1854-1914), a notable but underestimated Australian landscape artist of the Heidelberg school. For nearly 200 years his Birmingham ancestors had

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Twilight Talks 2025, Season 1, Special Event | Dancers on the Sea by Gabrielle Samson

February 26 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Bar open at 5pm $9 – $13 Humffray Room Get tickets Dancers on the Sea: Stories from Atauro Island, Timor-Leste 1994-2002 Speaker: Gabrielle Samson, Author Gabrielle Samson Gabrielle, a writer of fiction and memoir, has won national prizes for her short stories and has co-written a radio

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Twilight Talks 2025, Season 2 | Connections to War from a Ballarat Perspective: War Grieving – Chaplain’s Perspective

April 16 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Bar open at 5pm $9 – $13 Humffray Room Get tickets War Grieving from a Chaplain’s Perspective Speaker: Catie Indes-Ogden Details being finalised… This event is proudly supported by Community Bank Buninyong Community Bank Buninyong & District not only gives you access to award-winning financial products and

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Twilight Talks 2025, Season 2 | Connections to War from a Ballarat Perspective: Stories of the Somme

April 23 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Bar open at 5pm $9 – $13 Humffray Room Get tickets Stories of the Somme Speakers: Rene Degryse, Garry Snowden & Marion Snowden Details being finalised… This event is proudly supported by Community Bank Buninyong Community Bank Buninyong & District not only gives you access to award-winning

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Twilight Talks 2025, Season 2 | Connections to War from a Ballarat Perspective: War Grieving – Doctor’s Perspective

April 9 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Bar open at 5pm $9 – $13 Humffray Room Get tickets War Grieving from a Doctor’s Perspective Speaker: Dr Jean Douglas Details being finalised… This event is proudly supported by Community Bank Buninyong Community Bank Buninyong & District not only gives you access to award-winning financial products

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Twilight Talks 2025, Season 2 | Connections to War from a Ballarat Perspective: Dr Hardy

April 2 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Bar open at 5pm $9 – $13 Humffray Room Get tickets Dr Hardy and St Paul’s Anglican Church WWI Participants Speaker: Neil Leckie – Co-Cordinator Twilight Talks Details being finalised… This event is proudly supported by Community Bank Buninyong Community Bank Buninyong & District not only gives

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Twilight Talks 2025, Season 1 | Ballarat’s Changing Scene – Changes to the Canadian Corridor

March 26 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Bar open at 5pm $9 – $13 Humffray Room Get tickets Changes to the Canadian Corridor Speaker: Jeff Rootes Details being finalised… This event is proudly supported by Community Bank Buninyong Community Bank Buninyong & District not only gives you access to award-winning financial products and services,

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Twilight Talks 2025, Season 1 | Ballarat’s Changing Scene – Change in Ballarat’s Car Industry

March 19 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Bar open at 5pm $9 – $13 Humffray Room Get tickets Changes in Ballarat’s Car Industry Panel Discussion: Chair, Phil Roberts OAM, Twilight Talks Coordinator. Details being finalised… This event is proudly supported by Community Bank Buninyong Community Bank Buninyong & District not only gives you access

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Twilight Talks 2025, Season 1 | Ballarat’s Changing Scene – Ballarat’s Growth: Infrastructure Pressures

March 12 @ 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm Bar open at 5pm $9 – $13 Humffray Room Get tickets Ballarat’s Growth – Infrastructure Pressures Panel Discussion: Chair, Paula Nicholson, BMI President Details being finalised… This event is proudly supported by Community Bank Buninyong Community Bank Buninyong & District not only gives you access to award-winning

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Christmas Holiday Closures | Library

Monday 23 December – Sunday 5 January

Devonshire Tea & Fashion Parade

Bubbly on arrival & Featuring quality items from our Vintage Shop | $60

The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute 2025 Calendar

Featuring the BMI Image Collection | Now $20

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BMI Fundraiser

Featuring:
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The Harmonies &
Surf Shadows. 

2 course dinner & lots
of dancing