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.
Between 8 and 9 is an immersive contemporary performance work that includes voices, electronics and instruments. A collaboration between Melbourne’s Chamber Made Opera and artists from Chengdu’s Sichuan Conservatory of Music.
7 @ 11 will give new insight into the work of artists already featured in this year’s Castlemaine State Festival, together with our best and brightest raconteurs, thinkers and authors.
Curated especially for the 2017 Castlemaine State Festival, periSCOPE is a compilation of videos and moving image works from across the Philippine archipelago
Singing from Country brings together members of the Dja Dja Wurrung community and field naturalists with some of Australia’s finest writers to compose powerful and moving original songs for choirs.
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
Have you ever felt concerned that your contribution to the world might be too small to make a difference? Join others in a playful virtual gardening exercise
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.
