PAST PROGRAMS

Dr Bill Garner explores the history of Mount Pleasant as Ballarat’s first residential suburb and how its distinctive history underpins community identity.

LOOBY: A DOCUMENTARY runs for 80 minutes, followed by Q&A with the filmmakers.

A full day that is packed full of art, craft and imagination. 

Dr Lorinda Cramer's talk will explore the way in which sewing on the diggings crossed gender lines and was a key part of daily life for diggers.

A morning of discussion celebrating the African-Australian contribution to Ballarat.

Gordon Monro is an artist who makes images from data. He has used data about the 1854 Eureka Stockade to generate imagery from the mathematical fragmentation of an eight-pointed Eureka star.

'Vision and Re-vision: rethinking and remodelling women artists' contribution to public and national memory in Australian settler culture', a talk by Juliette Peers.

Craig Barrett’s paintings explore The Berry Consols – a series of abandoned gold mines, just north of Creswick and capture the subtle shifts in colour of the mullock heaps that dominate the area.

In this livestreamed event, we welcome David Bannear to deliver the 2020 Peter Tobin Oration on the 166th anniversary of the Eureka Stockade.