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Jimeoin

Concert or Performance

8 Jun 2024

Distance from: 24.9 kms | Price from: Not Available

Jimeoin, who's your man? Presented by A-list Entertainment.Ever wondered why dogs get so excited around 6pm? Or what the point...

Aunty Jacks

Taste the Taps at Aunty Jacks

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

3 May 2024 to 6 Jul 2024

Distance from: 24.8 kms | Price from: $30.00

Discover the history of brewing in Ballarat with a beer paddle and a tour of the Aunty Jacks Brewery.Immerse yourself...

Sy=targazing November 2023

Star Gazing in Paddock Creek Reserve

Community Event

18 May 2024 to 15 Jun 2024

Distance from: 16.5 kms | Price from: Free

Friends of Paddock Creek (FoPC) are holding a series of stargazing event in the first half of 2024. Paddock Creek...

Kite flying in sky

Hand-built Kites Workshop at the Rare Trades Centre

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

4 May 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: Not Available

For thousands of years, kites have allowed human beings to possess the sky. People throughout the world have used their...

Hands splicing rope

Traditional Rope Splicing Workshop at the Rare Trades Centre

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

11 May 2024 to 19 Oct 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: $160.00

Learn to splice a rope with Laura Goodin.If a rope breaks when you’re out at sea, up in a bell...

Prawn cocktail

Sip and Savour at RJM’s

Food and Wine

5 May 2024 to 30 Jun 2024

Distance from: 24.0 kms | Price from: $60.00

Sip and Savour is the perfect way to spend your Sunday afternoon at RJM’s.Sit back and relax, enjoying five (60...

Tattoo artist tattooing a man

Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency

Exhibition and Shows

3 May 2024 to 2 Jun 2024

Distance from: 24.6 kms | Price from: Free

The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a defining artwork of the 1980s. Nan Goldin’s extended photographic study of her chosen...

Embroidered piece

Chinese Silk and Gold Embroidery Workshop at Rare Trades Centre

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

26 Oct 2024 to 27 Oct 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: $350.00

Learn the art of embroidery with award-winning artist, Alison Cole.In this two-day workshop, you will be working on an embroidery...

Gin School

Distill Your Own Gin at Kilderkin Distillery

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

11 May 2024 to 15 Jun 2024

Distance from: 23.9 kms | Price from: $190.00

The session will take you into the world of gin, learning about the different botanicals and how they harmonise to...

Close up of bust of gold 1850s dress with historical clock in background

Back of House Collections Tour: Fashion and Textiles

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

3 May 2024 to 31 Jul 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: $20.00

Go behind the scenes with Sovereign Hill's expert guides and explore their vaults of hidden treasures.See some of their most...

Meredith Team Photo 1910

A Different Game

Exhibition and Shows

4 May 2024 to 5 May 2024

Distance from: 13.9 kms | Price from: Not Available

A unique look into the early history of Australian football in Meredith and it’s surrounding areas, and it’s immersion and...

miss von ruby

Vintage Vibes Weekend

Markets

25 May 2024 to 26 May 2024

Distance from: 24.8 kms | Price from: Free

Vintage Vibes Weekend held during the Ballarat Heritage Festival!Including stalls, and vintage cars and on the Saturday night, enjoy Jake...

Wooden carvings of a sheep, dog and frog

3D Wood Animal Carving Workshop at the Rare Trades Centre

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

18 May 2024 to 3 Aug 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: $375.00

This a day-long class where you will hand carve your own three-dimensional wooden animal, full of character and charm from...

Embroidered pieces

Beginners Embroidery Workshop at the Rare Trades Centre

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

7 Jul 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: $205.00

Learn the art of Blackwork Embroidery with award-winning artist, Alison Cole.In this workshop, students will be working on an embroidery...

Silver leaf pendant

Forge Your Own Leaf Pendant Workshop at the Rare Trades Centre

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

4 May 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: $225.00

Learn to make a pendant in this beginner’s forging workshop with Rob Hayes.In this half-day workshop, you will learn to...

Man with drum

Frame Drum Making Workshop at the Rare Trades Centre

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

14 Jun 2024 to 16 Jun 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: $1195.00

Handcraft your own Zilli-Tar frame drum with instrument maker Matt Stonehouse.Over three days, you will use traditional hand tools and...

Pint & a Plate

Hop Temple Pint and a Plate

Food and Wine

8 May 2024 to 29 May 2024

Distance from: 24.7 kms | Price from: Not Available

Hump day pint and a plate at Hop TempleWhy cook on a Wednesday when you can head to Hop Temple...

Kaze Karaoke at The Sporting Globe ballarat - Thursday Nights from 7pm

Thursday Night Karaoke at The Sporting Globe Ballarat

Community Event

9 May 2024 to 27 Jun 2024

Distance from: 24.7 kms | Price from: Free

Kaze Karaoke is at The Sporting Globe Ballarat on Thursday Nights!Have you ever dreamed of being the next Mariah? Do...

Close up of hands making locksmith on a work bench

Locksmithing Workshop at the Rare Trades Centre

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

9 Nov 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: $390.00

Learn the ancient art of locksmithing with locksmith Aaron Smith.In this full-day workshop, you will make your own brass padlock...

man with bowler hat standing on public transport

Ballarat Film Society – Army of Shadows

Community Event

8 Aug 2024

Distance from: 24.4 kms | Price from: $30.00

Jean-Pierre Melville is the ultimate cult auteur in the French cinema, acknowledged as a key influence on directors such as...

Blues at Hop Temple

Hop Temple Heritage Week – Blues, Brews and Barbecue

Food and Wine

5 May 2024 to 26 May 2024

Distance from: 24.7 kms | Price from: Not Available

Every Sunday at Hop you can join in for Blues, Brews and Barbecue!Each week a favourite blues artists will take...

Wednesday Games Night includes games such as Pictionary, Uno, Shaky Shark, Line Up 4

BLC Games Night

Community Event

8 May 2024 to 26 Jun 2024

Distance from: 24.1 kms | Price from: $0.00

Every Wednesday night at Ballarat Leagues Club you can come and have a laugh with friends and family (or even...

Masons

The Real Builders of Ballarat: A Masonic Tour of the Ballarat CBD

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

18 May 2024

Distance from: 24.7 kms | Price from: Not Available

Freemasons were on the Goldfields from the very beginning and quickly became a contributing force in the fledging city of...

Hands holding fibres dyed in indigo

Introduction to Indigo Workshop at the Rare Trades Centre

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

17 Aug 2024 to 17 Nov 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: Not Available

Give the gift of time spent together in this Mother’s Day workshop with natural dyer Jude Craig.In this full-day workshop,...

Coloured cloth

Natural Dye Workshop at the Rare Trades Centre

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

3 Aug 2024 to 4 Aug 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: $510.00

Learn to create a world of colour using natural dyes with Churchill Fellow, Heather Thomas!In this two-day workshop, you will...

Mother and daughter

Ballarat Film Society – Shayda, Iranian-Australian Family Story

Community Event

9 May 2024

Distance from: 24.4 kms | Price from: $30.00

Opening the 2022 Melbourne International Film Festival, Niasari ‘s debut film Shayda was selected by Australia to enter the Best...

8 people seated with glasses

Itinerant Spirits The Explorer Masterclass

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

4 May 2024 to 27 Jul 2025

Distance from: 24.8 kms | Price from: $70.00

At Itinerant Spirits, they’re about the journey as much as the destination. They refer to their masterclass as ‘explorer sessions’...

Woman sewing on sewing machine

Beginner Sewing Workshop at the Rare Trades Centre

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

11 Aug 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: $285.00

This one day class is perfect for the beginner sewer. Students will be introduced to sewing and pressing equipment and...

Side view of Chinese processional dragon

Back of House Collections Tour: Chinese Cultural Collections

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

10 May 2024 to 19 Jul 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: $20.00

Go behind the scenes with Sovereign Hill's expert guides and explore their vaults of hidden treasures. On this tour, you...

heritage exhibition

Craft Lab 24

Markets

18 May 2024 to 26 May 2024

Distance from: 24.6 kms | Price from: Free

Returning to the Ballarat Mining Exchange over two weekends, Craft Lab 24 marks traditional artisanal skills matched with contemporary treatment....

image of an Indigenous boy in a field of long grass

Ballarat Film Society – The New Boy

Community Event

11 Jul 2024

Distance from: 24.4 kms | Price from: $30.00

The New Boy is set on a remote mission for Aboriginal children in the 1940s run by a renegade nun,...

Lights projected on United States Hotel and Victoria Theatre building

Winter Wonderlights

Festivals and Celebrations

28 Jun 2024 to 21 Jul 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: $19.00

Experience the sound, lights and wintry delights at Sovereign Hill's Winter Wonderlights.With a dazzling light show, full theatre program, hands-on...

Spinning yarn on wheel

Learn to Spin at the Rare Trades Centre

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

14 Sep 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: Not Available

Learn to spin fleece into yarn with spinner and weaver Dawn Lim.In this introductory full-day workshop, you will learn the...

two purple cresents facing each other against a red background

Festival of Australian Queer Theatre

Festivals and Celebrations

22 Aug 2024 to 25 Aug 2024

Distance from: 24.4 kms | Price from: Not Available

Australian Theatre has a celebrated and relatively recent history of queer theatre. From censorship furors over The Boys in the...

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Beer and Bread by Aunty Jacks

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

3 May 2024 to 5 Jul 2024

Distance from: 24.8 kms | Price from: $45.00

Immerse yourself in a beer experience like no other as you familiarize yourself with a range of craft and accessible...

5-meter-long traditional Chinese Scroll drawing

Journeys We Are On

Exhibition and Shows

17 May 2024 to 20 May 2024

Distance from: 24.5 kms | Price from: Free

Long ago, ancestors roamed and prayed for a bright future. Hundreds of years later, they found their place here –...

Battle scene in AURA sound and light show

AURA Sound and Light Show at Sovereign Hill

Exhibition and Shows

3 May 2024 to 21 Jul 2025

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: Not Available

From a place you know comes a story you don’t — AURA immerses you in the story of gold in...

Singer at the microphone

Ballarat Film Society – Stop Making Sense

Community Event

12 Sep 2024

Distance from: 24.4 kms | Price from: $30.00

Viewing a filmed music concert has been a tradition of the BFS, so this year we are fortunate to have...

Kaze Karaoke

Cocktails and Karaoke at JD’s Bar & Lounge

Community Event

3 May 2024 to 28 Jun 2024

Distance from: 24.6 kms | Price from: Free

Cocktails and karaoke!Kaze Karaoke is now at JD'S Bar & Lounge on Friday Nights. Release your inner Rockstar on JD's...

Musical Bingo

Hop Temple Musical Bingo

Food and Wine

9 May 2024 to 26 Dec 2024

Distance from: 24.7 kms | Price from: Not Available

Every Thursday night at Hop Temple it's Bingo with a twist- Musical Bingo!Instead of your standard old bingo numbers, they...

portrait of actor playing the artist

Ballarat Film Society – L’Ombra di Caravaggio

Community Event

10 Oct 2024

Distance from: 24.4 kms | Price from: $30.00

The famous 17th century Italian artist Caravaggio is well known for his intense realism and use of strong contrasts of...

Painting showing scene from the Eureka Stockade

Back of House Collections Tour: Treasures from the Collection

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

8 May 2024 to 24 Jul 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: $20.00

From proud Wadawurrung Elder Marlene Gilson’s artwork to Eureka rebel Peter Lalor’s chair, discover some of the most intriguing, significant...

Injured smiley

Ballarat Film Society – Smiley

Community Event

12 Dec 2024

Distance from: 24.4 kms | Price from: $30.00

To conclude this year marking their 70-year existence, watch a 1956 Australian film classic about an imaginative young boy who...

image from movie, children driving a car

Ballarat Film Society – Alcarràs

Community Event

13 Jun 2024

Distance from: 24.4 kms | Price from: $30.00

The Soles are peach farmers who have occupied their land for generations on the basis of a handshake deal with...

Back of corset on a woman

Corset Making Workshop at the Rare Trades Centre

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

31 May 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: $1195.00

Learn to make an underbust corset with Catherine Irving of Crystal Pegasus Costumes.In this three-day workshop, you will learn to...

Victorian Opera

Parrwang Lifts the Sky Victorian Opera

Concert or Performance

24 May 2024 to 25 May 2024

Distance from: 24.9 kms | Price from: $16.00

Among the highlights of this year’s Ballarat Heritage Festival is the vibrant performance of Parrwang Lifts the Sky, making its...

Hand printing and gilding tools

Gilded Ink

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

19 May 2024 to 21 May 2024

Distance from: 24.3 kms | Price from: $80.00

Enter an art gallery, learn ink stamp printing with gorgeous heritage imagery, then gild your prints with pure gold leaf....

Ballarat civic hall

The Sunshine Club

Concert or Performance

14 Jun 2024

Distance from: 24.9 kms | Price from: Not Available

Hit Productions is proud to be presenting this important Australian work all around the country to metropolitan, regional and remote...

The Mind Field

Arj Barker, The Mind Field

Concert or Performance

4 May 2024

Distance from: 24.9 kms | Price from: Not Available

All of reality, as you can ever possibly know it, exists exclusively in your minds.Armed with this knowledge, Arj sets...

Zoo Keeper teaching children about a snake

Junior Keeper Program

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

3 May 2024 to 30 Sep 2024

Distance from: 21.8 kms | Price from: Not Available

The Ballarat Wildlife Park’s ‘Junior Keeper Program’ is an incredible three-hour experience hosted by some of the Wildlife Park’s experienced...

Close up of hand painting a sign

Traditional Signwriting Workshop at the Rare Trades Centre

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

23 Aug 2024 to 25 Aug 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: Not Available

Paint your own property sign with signwriter Greg Chandler.This three-day workshop is an introduction to the theory and practice of...

Woven basket

Basket Weaving Workshop at the Rare Trades Centre

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

19 Oct 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: $240.00

Learn the art of Random Weaving with Jodie Goldring.In this full-day workshop, you will learn how to create a basket...

MSO

Melbourne Symphony Orchestra

Concert or Performance

20 Sep 2024

Distance from: 24.9 kms | Price from: Not Available

Australian Chamber Orchestra’s Satu Vänskä joins QSO Chief Conductor Umberto Clerici for a wonderful program that sees the MSO performing...

Castlemaine Drill Hall and Post Office

Victorian Goldfields World Heritage Bid Roadshow information booth

Community Event

18 May 2024 to 26 May 2024

Distance from: 24.6 kms | Price from: Free

Join the Victorian Goldfields World Heritage bid team as part of the Victorian Goldfields World Heritage Roadshow. Their in-person roadshow...

Ballarat

An evening with Vika & Linda

Concert or Performance

11 May 2024

Distance from: 24.9 kms | Price from: Not Available

Vika & Linda are the most loved vocal duo of their generation – admired and respected by fans and fellow...

Donkey

Ballarat Film Society – EO

Community Event

14 Nov 2024

Distance from: 24.4 kms | Price from: $30.00

Described by critics as a ‘sensuous reimagining of Robert Bresson’s Au hazard Balthazar’ (1966), EO is the name of a...

Three women seated at looms with instructor looking over

Saori Weaving Workshop at the Rare Trades Centre

Classes, Lessons, Workshops and Talks

22 Jun 2024 to 31 Aug 2024

Distance from: 23.4 kms | Price from: $405.00

Find your Zen at the loom.Join Prue Simmons, one of only three accredited Saori weaving teachers in Australia and discover...

Ballarat Civic Hall

Bohemian Rhapsody – Ballarat

Concert or Performance

21 Jun 2024

Distance from: 24.9 kms | Price from: Not Available

Staring Thomas Crane on the 2024 "Made in Heaven" tour. Direct from sell-out theatres, Australia’s longest-running Queen Tribute since 1993,...

wine selection

Autumn Local Wine Tasting Experience at RJM’s

Food and Wine

5 May 2024 to 26 May 2024

Distance from: 24.0 kms | Price from: $25.00

Spend a relaxing afternoon sampling local wines on Sunday afternoons during autumn at RJMs. Enjoy an experience of alfresco wine...

Ballarat civic hall

John Williamson in Concert

Concert or Performance

29 Nov 2024

Distance from: 24.9 kms | Price from: Not Available

Back by popular demand, John Williamson will again return to the stage at the Civic Hall Ballarat for one show...

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