OPEN STUDIOS & EXHIBITONS
Over 90 open studios, exhibitions and workshops present a rare opportunity to visit artists in their natural habitat.
5@5 – Mark Penzac and Eliza Gilchrist
5 Conversations over 5 days, in 5 locations at 5pm
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND ME
The Distance Between You and Me is a self-navigated walking tour through the historical township of Vaughan.
FUTURE HINDSIGHT > RESPOND TO THIS
Lot19 Group Show created especially for the Castlemaine State Festival.
UNSETTLED
Set in the grounds of the historic Pennyweight Flat Children’s Cemetery, Unsettled is a site-specific sound and light installation
SOLAR MINING
Solar Mining is an ecological installation that draws on the unique cultural heritage of the ‘Castlemaine Diggings’
SALOOP
A large-scale installation that references nature and our ever-changing environment
MOUNT RENOUF – A Truly Unbelievable History
Mount Renouf is a trans-media mock museum exhibition, presenting the fanciful and comedic history of a quintessential small Australian country town
1nspirED TECH: exhibitions of visual and performing arts, hospitality and horticulture
In 2015, Castlemaine Continuing Education celebrates 40 years of providing accredited and general interest courses for residents of Castlemaine and surrounds. There will be displays from keynote courses and special activities during the Festival
THE MUSEUM OF HOLES
Conjuring up a surprising range of meanings, from the cave to the grave, wishing wells and open-cut mines, portals and punctures, burrows and beehives...
TERRAINS OF MEMORY
A half-day visual arts symposium
VISUAL ARTS PROGRAM
Provocative, playful and probing, the 2015 Castlemaine State Festival’s Visual Arts Program (VAP) features new work by local, national and international artists who have responded boldly to the Festival theme, ‘Before and Beyond’.
ANONYMOUS
Jessica Ledwich
RKM
Helen Bodycomb, Ulrike Barbara von Radichevich, Jilli Rose, Davide Michielin
GARDEN PARTY
On the final day of the Festival celebrate with abandon amongst one of Central Victoria's most precious jewels, the Castlemaine Botanical Gardens.
CARNIVAL OF COMMUNITY
Carnival of Community is nestled within the leafy surrounds of Castlemaine’s Victory Park and will celebrate and highlight a dazzling smorgasbord of locally produced performance and spectacle.
BIG BANG
Happy Boom Day. We're turning 40! Dig out your party mask, don your hoopla hat, pile up a plate to share and gather up your festive friends for our Festival blast off which begins with a Big Bang.
IN THE DARK
A group of people gathers in an auditorium to listen, in the dark.
