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A cornucopia of culcha!

Ben Laycock pastel on paper 40x70cm 1975

The Guildford Family Hotel      Northern Arts Hotel      The Kangaroo Hotel

The Red Hill Hotel                 Palais Hepburn                   Main FM gig guide  

What’s on around Bendigo      Mt.Alexander Shire Economy & Culture E – News

Wesley Hill Market    – every Saturday, 9am-1pm

                          Maldon Market     – 2nd Sunday of the month, 9am-2pm

 Castlemaine Artists Market        – 4th Sunday of the month, 9am-2pm

 Castlemaine Farmers Market    – 1st Sunday of the month, 8am-1pm

                                                   & every Wednesday 2.30pm-5pm

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3 Chord Club – Open Mike Concert

2 o’clock – 3rd Sunday of the month

Maurocco Bar at the Midland Hotel (opposite the train station)

johnhannah45@outlook.com

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Craters

Exclusive café – all exclusive people welcome!

Craters is a groovey new hickster, woke, bespoke, steam-punky, funky, artisanal,

beatnick, bohemian pop-up cafe, slap bang in the middle of our Arts Precinct.

The seating is minimalist, in the Nordic Noir tradition.

Dress down: Thongs are fine. T shirts – de rigueur. Clothes – optional.

Balmy Alley – off Mostyn St, Castlemaine Open Fridays 10 – 12 noon only

We now have a brazeré, that we can light to keep warm

C U there!

Check out the new menu  

Sorry, Craters will be closed for maintenance until it is a bit warmer

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  • MONDAY  OCTOBER  3

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    Singing a Polaroid: A photographic approach to writing songs

     
    ‘On Polaroid’ is James Marples recently released EP of alt-country music, inspired by portrait photography. His talk will focus on overlaps between the ‘song’ form and the Polaroid photographic medium

    at 7 o’clock in the evening

    Northern Arts Hotel

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    • Wednesday  October 5

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      Self Reflection Conversations for Allies- Djaara Country

        • To become good allies to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, to be a part of making real change in this space, the first thing white people need to do is look hard at ourselves and our culture. Listening to and learning from First Nations peoples and people of colour is important, and our culture is the one that needs to Change.
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        • + Wed Morning Series – 9.30-11.30am – Oct 5th, 12th, 19th and 26th
          + Weekend Intensive -10am-4pm – November 12th + 13th – Castlemaine
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Friday  October 7

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3 Reasons to Dwell

Melissa Proposch

Opening celebration 5 o’clock in the evening

Show starts on Wensday October 6 and runs until Sunday 30 October

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  • SATURDAY 8 OCTOBER

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    Book Launch: When All Hope Is Lost by Alyce Elmore

    Book 1 of the trilogy Angels Have Dreads, The story begins in the year 2049

    There will be music and entertainment by Dean Richards and friends

    from 5.30 – 7 o’clock at night
    Northern Arts Hotel
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        SUNDAY 9 OCTOBER
         
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        Gusto Gusto

        at 3 o’clock in the afternoon

        The Bridge Hotel – Walker St. Castlemaine too)
        This is a 7 piece very contemporary 'klesma' band 

        (You can see them all in this photo. 
        The one scratching his head is in the band too)

        I saw them at The Red Hill a couple of weeks ago.

        Even the oldies couldn't stay in their seats! 
        Highly recommended - Ed.
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        FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER
         
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        Neo Kodaimoji, My Ikigai Exhibition

        Isabelle Kawai Vincent

        Isabelle shares her artistic experiences, including a live painting demonstration,
        from her 5 years living in Japan.
        Ancient Japanese calligraphy,
        & Sumi-e paintings’
        + Music by a Japanese band, Kashiko, composed by Shigeyuki Konita

        Opening at 7 o’clockin the evening

        Dudley House, View St. Bendigo

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            SATURDAY 15 OCTOBER
             
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            ‘Paint the Town Red’

            Castlemaine Community House Spring Ball

            8 o’clock – Castlemaine Town Hall

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            Lot19 Spring Sculpture Prize

            Opening Saturday October 15th at 2 o’clock

            gallery open on weekends from 11 -5

            this show will be on show until October 30

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            — until  October 16

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            Orbit: Mark Dober – The Edge of Town

            Castle Art Museum

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            • – until October 23

            • Subjective/Objectivity

                  David Bradtke                  Marcus Hotblack 
            Weekends  10-4

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            • ( I forget where this is on, could someone let me know? Ta, Ed.)
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            • until Saturday October 29 
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            • Tamara Marrington

              Tamara Marrington

              curated by Karl Haliday

            • Caspa Gallery
            • above Stonemans Bookroom
            • Cnr Mostyn & Hargraves Sts Castlemaine

              Beamers brings together a selection of Tamara Marrington’s recent explorations in painting as she wades further through the muddied waters that flow between the figurative and the formless. Each painting presents a portal, giving vision to a fragmentary world of restless transformations, pictures in motion, ever mutating in search of sudden synchronicities and momentary revelations. Amidst this cosmic forest of possibilities, Beamers hands you the torch and illuminates the way.
              “A beamer is a ray of sunlight. A beamer can range from soft orange morning illumination to more focussed blinding-white circles in the late afternoon. Beamer! is a catchprase you can exclaim to yourself and others when you notice the sunlight showing itself. A beamer is a fleeting manifestation of trust and anticipation, a glimmer of realisation dawning on you, the little door in the painting opening to a pathway after a long while of being shut. By the time these paintings reach you it’ll be spring… the sun will continue to shine on Earth for billions of years to come.”

              This show will be on show every day 11 – 4  –  Disabiity access

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            • – Until October 29

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            • FOREST KEEGEL/AMANDA KING

            • Orchestra of Extinction - A contemporary interpretation of a Cabinet of Curiosities that highlights extinction and the vulnerability of threatened species. Conceived in 2014 by Forest Keegel and Amanda King as a decade long project, in which they do annual residencies in threatened species habitat. Where they record sound and video to emanate from old radiogram cabinets that are encrusted with residues of habitat, such as varnish made from plant saps and local beeswax. Each of these cabinets become an archive for a particular species forming a record of what King and Keegel have learnt about them through research, time walking and recording in their habitat and speaking with scientists and local experts. They never imagined koala would be added to the list or that the perils and threats to the biosphere would become so severe so rapidly. This showing of work in development at Edge Galleries is and the first time the ensemble of cabinets has been exhibited.
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              ‘CONFLUENCE’

              FOREST KEEGEL AMANDA KING  SIMON DOW
              EDGE Gallery – Maldon

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– until 30 October

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Man in Hat with Woman flying past below,
pastel, charcoal and ink on paper

James Clayden winner 2022

Special Guest Prize 2022

Bendigo Art Gallery

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– till 30 October

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Vera Möller: Liquidaquarium 

Shep Art Gall

The (b)ald Collective

Opening at 2 o’clock in the afternoon

Donna Anderson, Jennifer Barnett, Maggie Fooke, Craig Gaston,

Marysia Jarosinka, Carol Jensen, Milton Moss, Margaret Naughton,

Michael Rayner, Leslie Thornton, Frank Veldze and Ian Wilson.

Lot 19

runs until 27th November

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-until November 13

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Have You Eaten?

Have You Eaten? is a collaborative exhibition by ceramicist Vipoo Srivilasa and

mixed media artist Sai-Wai Foo, celebrating food, friendship, and cultural identity.

Bendigo Art Gallery

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SATURDAY 19 NOVEMBER
 
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Kavisha Mazzella Trio live at the Coolroom

7.30 o’clock
Northern Arts Hotel
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  • – until February 19 2023
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  • Guan Wei, ‘Water View No. 15’, (detail) 2011, synthetic polymer paint on canvas.

  • In Our Own Sweet Time

  • Four decades of art from China and beyond – the Geoff Raby Collection
  • Bendigo Art Gallery
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    — until 12 February 2023

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  • Liz Williamson: Weaving Eucalypts Project

  • Castle Arty Museum
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  • – until February 19 2023
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  • Treasures of Dai Gum San

    Bendigo Art Gallery

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  • — until 5 March 2023

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  • ( amazing painting, the fish look like they are swimming in water -Ed.)

    There is a certain Slant of light

    Castle Arty Museum

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