BMI Twilight Talks 2024, Season 2 - Not the Last Picture Show | Ballarat Heritage Festival
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Twilight Talks: Not the Last Picture Show | Ballarat Heritage Festival
Twilight Talks have been held at the BMI since 2001, providing a great opportunity to hear some fantastic speakers and meet up with friends over drinks.
Guests can arrive at the Humffray Room from 5.30pm for drinks and conversation for a 6pm start (this is a change from our regular Twilight Talks starting time), followed by a 60-minute talk. The event on May 1 will run until 8pm and will include a film.
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 of 'moving pictures' in our beautiful Minerva Theatre. Since then, thousands of movies have been screened in the theatre through its many iterations, including at the Vegas 70 theatre which is being reactivated for this year's Heritage Week. Come along from 5.30pm to grab a drink and wander through the exhibition in the Williamson Foyer, the former candy bar of the cinema, before the talk.
The BMI's Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001, check out our website for upcoming talks.
The BMI's Twilight Talks series has been a forum for sharing fascinating history and radical futures since 2001, check out our website for upcoming talks.
The full speaking schedule for this series of Twilight Talks can be found on the BMI website.
This event is a part of the Australian Heritage Festival, Ballarat Heritage Festival and proudly support by Community Bank Buninyong
This event takes place on Wadawurrung Country. The Ballaarat Mechanics' Institute acknowledges the Wadawurrung People of the Kulin Nation as the first inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we work, learn and create. Always Was, Always Will Be, Aboriginal Land.