All ‘Friday April 8th’ events.

Saltbush
Saltbush
Saltbush is an exquisite interactive journey through the culture and landscape of Aboriginal Australia, celebrated through live dance, music, song and . . .
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The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik
The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer
The seas have risen, the human race is on the brink of destruction and only one man can save the world. Now science and humanity are turning to the oc . . .
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Car-Cophony
Car-cophony
Car-cophony is a stereo-symphonic expression of our obsession with automobiles. In acknowledgement of Castlemaine’s reputation as street rod capital . . .
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Disagreeable Object
Disagreeable Object
Enter the unique world of one of Australia’s most intriguing dancers and independent choreographers, Michelle Heaven. . . .
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Phoenix Vixen Crinoline
Phoenix Vixen Crinoline
She — a widow, a seamstress, a liar and a sly grog seller. He — a celestial traveller, poet, prospector, herbalist and grower of cardoons. . . .
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Living Stories of the Victorian Goldfields
Living Stories of the Victorian Goldfields
Living Stories of the Victorian Goldfields is a series of entertaining, heartfelt and musically rich audio tours of the history and landscape around C . . .
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It Happened to Me
It Happened to Me
Funny, mesmerising, poignant, inspiring, unexpected — four nights of brilliant storytelling from people it really did happen to. Guests include cele . . .
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The Pearly Shells
The Pearly Shells
Famous for their swingin’ back beat sound, Hollywood style and luminescent clam-shell stands, The Pearly Shells have been providing atmospheric soun . . .
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FReeZa Fever
FReeZa FEVER
The Mount Alexander Shire Council and the Mount Alexander Youth Affairs Network, as part of National Youth Week, present FReeZa FEVER, youth festival . . .
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Couch Recovered
couch recovered
COUCH is back! Originally created by Barking Owl Theatre, Movement Zone, unqualified, People Pictures and loads of local young people, COUCH went off . . .
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Goldfields Youth Orchestra
Goldfields Youth Orchestra (Premiere)
This inaugural performance of the newly created Goldfields Youth Orchestra is the result of the 2011 Dominique Segan Emerging Artist Mentorship — a . . .
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Bendigo Chamber Choir
Bendigo Chamber Choir
Bendigo Chamber Choir includes 35 of central Victoria’s finest voices and is renowned for performing high-quality and diverse classical choral conce . . .
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Lagoon
Lagoon
Lagoon is a dance performance created especially for the Castlemaine State Festival by one of Victoria’s hottest cross-cultural contemporary dance c . . .
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beyond-capricorn
Beyond Capricorn
Beyond Capricorn features limited edition prints produced by Australian Print Workshop in collaboration with Indigenous artists from communities locat . . .
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figuring
Figuring the Earth
Figuring the Earth brings a focused integration of works of Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian artists whose images and sculptural objects attes . . .
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The Artists Room
The Artists Room
The Artists Rooms are a series of site-response works. Local and international visual artists stretch the contemporary art boundaries through performa . . .
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William Kentridge
William Kentridge
Kentridge delves into political events using powerful poetic allegory. His drawings, prints, performance and animation have inspired generations — o . . .
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The Heri Dono Project
The Heri Dono Project
Indonesian-born Heri Dono is one of South-East Asia’s most innovative and prominent artists, with a multi disciplinary practice, including performan . . .
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JEFF MAKIN Great Western Tiers II 2007 Etching
Pressing Issues – The Exhibition
Printmakers and visual artists from the region have responded to the call to investigate the theme Pressing Issues in a series of satellite exhibition . . .
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Rose Nolan
Rose Nolan
A thought provoking point of entry to Festival theatrical performance between acts, Rose Nolan's grand scale striking red and white banners drop from . . .
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The Boddford Terrace Folio
The Bodfford Terrace Folio
The Union Studio is proud to present an exhibition of lithographs by some of Australia’s best known artists in this new gallery in the heart of Cast . . .
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Meet The Press
Meet the Press
In years gone by, printmakers’ apprentices were considered black imps, often working in secret, travelling and printing propaganda material, and bri . . .
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Cause & Effect
Cause & Effect
Exploring notions of merit, fear, desire, responsibility, privilege, greed, sacrifice, contribution, self-esteem, belonging, pressure, places of value . . .
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