All ‘Thursday April 7th’ events.

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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La Musique of Jacques Brel
La Musique of Jacques Brel
Renowned for her spell-binding stage presence and emotional expression, Belgian chanteuse Micheline inhabits the poetry and passion of Jacques Brel’ . . .
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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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Thompsons Foundry Brass Band
Thompsons Foundry Brass Band
Renowned not only for their cornets, euphoniums, tubas and trombones, but also for their storytelling and 'dubious' jokes, Thompsons Foundry Band has . . .
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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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Ashley Macisaac with Quinn Bachand
Ashley MacIsaac with Quinn Bachand (Canada)
Ashley MacIsaac, fiddling virtuoso from Nova Scotia Canada, learnt to play the fiddle the Cape Breton working-class, pub-stomping way; fast and furiou . . .
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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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La Compania
La Compañia
Formed in 1997, La Compañia performs music of the Renaissance and early Baroque. Directed by Danny Lucin, the ensemble brings together Australia’s . . .
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Benjamin Martin
Benjamin Martin
Melbourne pianist/composer Benjamin Martin regularly captivates listeners in Australia and internationally. Identified by The Australian as ‘the bes . . .
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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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