Events
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IMPORTANT EVENT UPDATE
Academy Award nominated filmmaker Feras Fayyad will not attend the 2018 Castlemaine Documentary Film Festival screening of his film Last Men in Aleppo due to visa administration issues. Instead, he will join the audience live by Skype after the special screening of his film at the Theatre Royal Castlemaine on Saturday at 7.30pm, for an…
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Letters from the inside
Insights into life on the inside is at the heart of a unique live production being staged at the Old Castlemaine Gaol this Friday. Letters from the Inside is a spoken word performance of letters written by men and women serving sentences in central Victorian prisons – Tarrengower, Middleton and Loddon. The project’s creator is…
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Riders raring to race
Harcourt’s new mountain bike park hosts its first major competitive mountain biking event this Sunday. The Goldfields Winter Series is expected to bring up to 140 riders to the scenic La Larr Ba Gauwa Park for the competition. The competitive series is a new initiative of the Castlemaine Rocky Riders Mountain Bike Club and the…
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Fiesta de Salsa!
Castlemaine may be a long way from Colombia but for local salsa dance instructor Camila Serrano that’s no reason to leave the rhythms of her Latin birthplace behind. Camila’s passion for salsa dancing is catching on with an increasing number of locals keen to acquire the smooth moves and racy repetitions that is salsa. In…
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Two Mad Italians – And a dinner at Braemar College
Back by popular demand, and with the support of the Italian Institute of Culture, accordionist Pietro Roffi and violinist Davide Monti return to Australia for one performance only together at the Woodend Winter Arts Festival. There will be one other chance to see Roffi: He will be the feature artist at the Festival Finale Dinner…
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Colour, movement and Middle Eastern spin
With the (musical) flavour of the Middle East presented by an ARIA award-winning artist, and the chance to watch an award-winning Australian poet and spoken word performer weave an evocative web of words, two ‘one night only’ performances at this year’s Woodend Winter Arts Festival are set to give audiences a whole new perspective of…
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Gillies showcase Mad King Ferdinand and other political leaders
The elastic features and sharp wit of the fabulous Max Gillies will be showcased at this year’s Woodend Winter Arts Festival as he switches between a performance as Spain’s mad King Ferdinand VI and sifting through his archive of scripts to portray some of the most notable leaders of our times. Max told the Midland…
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Homegrown jazz debut
Castlemaine’s own Goldfields Jazz Orchestra is a testament to people power – and to the zest of the region’s homegrown music talent. Inspired after catching some of the big sounds at last year’s Castlemaine Jazz Festival, Castlemaine Secondary College music coordinator Kirsten Boerema and instrumental teacher Michael Timcke thought – why can’t we do that?…
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Music and movement
This weekend Woodend will be bursting with colour, music and movement as the Woodend Winter Arts Festival launches with the much-loved free fireworks on Friday night. It will be the biggest Friday night for entertainment in Woodend for the year as the town is set to triple its population with visitors from Melbourne, interstate and…
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A joyous experience
The storm-shattered Friday May 11 had me drive a three-and-a-half-hour trip from Apollo Bay to Malmsbury in central Victoria. I drove this potentially hazardous journey clutching a coveted ticket to an amateur theatre show in Kyneton. I usually avoid amateur theatre, but I had a rare opportunity to see Ms Tiffany Speight in the role…
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Art in unusual places
Art installations have popped up at unusual sites all over Kyneton this week. It’s all part of the inaugural Kyneton Contemporary Art Triennial, which was launched last Friday and continues until Sunday. KCAT2018 is a celebration of contemporary art and an exploration of the energies that resonate in place and community. Artists have engaged with…
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Classic musical thriller comes to Castlemaine
Local theatre troupe Three’s A Crowd are in the thick of rehearsals as they prepare to present Stephen Sondheim’s musical masterpiece Sweeney Todd – The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Castlemaine’s Phee Broadway Theatre. The musical classic opens on April 20, running through to April 28, with both evening and matinee performances. The two…