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Pageant and Pandemonium - Opening
Pageant & Pandemonium – Opening Night
The 2011 Castlemaine State Festival sweeps into Castlemaine’s Mostyn Street with Pageant & Pandemonium — a free opening night dance pageant — fo . . .
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Children's Day
Childrens Day
Children’s Day will be a large, free community celebration for children, friends and families. It will feature cultural stories and music about bird . . .
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Musical Instrument Making and Community Jams
Musical Instrument Making and Community Jams
Join us over four days, as renowned instrument makers Andy Rigby and John Madin conduct musical instrument-making workshops for children and adults in . . .
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Schools Program
Schools Program
In 2009 the Castlemaine State Festival conducted the inaugural Schools Program, which brought together more than 1500 primary school students in the M . . .
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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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Don KRC Global Gardens
Don KRC Global Gardens
The final Festival day in the Castlemaine Botanical Gardens has become a tradition of communal picnic feasting, buying unique works from the fabulous . . .
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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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Remote Sense
Remote Sense
Punctum and Aphids-mentored artist Antoinette J. Citizen invites you to the screening of three new video works featuring science fiction interventions . . .
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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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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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