This year, Castlemaine’s grand dame – the Theatre Royal – is the location for the Festival Club, and is the venue for a range of free and ticketed events.
The Garden Party is a much-loved festival tradition bringing together the entire community for an entertaining day awash with puppets and poetry, laughter and song, tumblers and tricks, cheeky acts and acrobats.
Bhupalam Raga (India Dawn) is a form of pentatonic northern Indian music customarily played at dawn. This uniquely exquisite welcome to the day is designed to awaken the senses with the meditative and spiritual sounds of Mohan veena (slide guitar), sitar, Indian flute and tabla.
Curated especially for the 2017 Castlemaine State Festival, periSCOPE is a compilation of videos and moving image works from across the Philippine archipelago
Taking mining as a metaphor, artists (from places as geographically and culturally diverse as Yirrkala, Castlemaine, New Guinea and North Queensland) will explore themes implicit in the act of mineral exploration and exploitation.
This celebratory exhibition takes the viewer on a visual journey championing the creative energies of Yirrkala Print Space, at the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Art Centre, northeast Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory
Feast of the Senses is an adventurous progressive dinner held in the bush at three different locations between Guildford Vineyard & Cellar and Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park
For the 2017 Castlemaine State Festival, Leeroy is creating a temporary sculptural installation, La Puerta Del Laberinto, for the exterior of the Castlemaine Art Museum.
The Little House Project is a delightful art installation created in conjunction with ceramicist Ann Ferguson, under the Festival’s ASCEND education program.
