OPEN STUDIOS & EXHIBITONS
Over 90 open studios, exhibitions and workshops present a rare opportunity to visit artists in their natural habitat.
THE DISTANCE BETWEEN YOU AND ME
The Distance Between You and Me is a self-navigated walking tour through the historical township of Vaughan.
UNSETTLED
Set in the grounds of the historic Pennyweight Flat Children’s Cemetery, Unsettled is a site-specific sound and light installation
SALOOP
A large-scale installation that references nature and our ever-changing environment
MAIA TAKES FLIGHT: A STORY ABOUT FINDING COURAGE IN UNEXPECTED PLACES
AT THE EDGES OF MEANING
Pioneering avant-garde filmmakers Arthur and Corinne Cantrill consider their 50 years of filmmaking collaboration, including their influences, the various film genres they explored, and the meanings behind their work.
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
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’.
#WANDERINGCLOUD
a captivating multi-artform performance that pays homage to those affected by flood in Central Victoria.
GOING THROUGH: A COMIC ROAD-MOVIE OF A PLAY ON THE TOPIC OF INCARCERATION
George Fairfax New Theatre Award Presentation
KEKKAI : BEYOND FIXED BOUNDARIES
Kekkai delves into the spaces between and delivers us from sublime meditation to richly textural sight and sound, nestled within the historic former Castlemaine Woolen Mills.
IN PLAN – MICHELLE HEAVEN
An investigation into above, below and beyond with a portal through time and place, an escapee and a cunning plan
DALL’ITALIA ALL’AUSTRALIA
Kavisha Mazzella, Irini Vela, David De Santi and Mark Holder-Keeping
QUEEN CANNIBALI AND THE SKULL ISLAND ORCHESTRA
GURRONG — NEW TREASURES IN AN OLD LAND
Castlemaine Millennium Chorus and Band, with special feature artists
2015 DOMINIQUE SEGAN EMERGING ARTIST MENTORSHIP CONCERT
Castlemaine Secondary College Orchestra & Cuban artists El Son Entero
SULLE ALI DI CANZONI (ON WINGS OF SONG) : A NIGHT OF FOOD, SONG AND FRIENDSHIP
To celebrate its rich Italian roots, the Castlemaine State Festival brings together three exceptional Italian artists and artisans
THE IMPOSSIBLE ORCHESTRA
In celebration of the 40th Anniversary of the Castlemaine State Festival we honour Berek Segan, the Festival’s Founding Patron
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.
THE GIFT
Primary Schools Program
BILARNI
When storyteller-musician Jan Wositzky first heard Bill Harney on the radio, it was a voice that set a new path in his life.
THE FREDA EXPERIENCE
An evocative journey following in the footsteps of Freda Du Faur; a young and adventurous early 20th century Australian mountaineer who smashed the glass ceiling of convention.
PURGATORIO
From the pen of renowned author Ariel Dorfman (Death and The Maiden), comes Purgatorio, an intimate duet.
THE VERANDAH
Songs of Casey Bennetto
THE ART AND BEAUTY OF DEEP LISTENING
Steve Sedergreen, Ron Murray and Michael Jordan
LOS HERMANOS DEL ARPA (Brothers of the Harp)
Los Hermanos del Arpa (Brothers of the Harp) showcases the national instrument of Paraguay, the diatonic (seven pitches) Paraguayan harp
BRODERICK SMITH
Broderick Smith is one of Australia’s most admired and respected singer-songwriters, and just happens to be a long-time Castlemaine local. From 70s bbq beach hits through to more recent soulful songs, all accompanied by eminent soul, blues, swing and funk keyboardist Richard Tankard.
TRIO AVIUM – BIRDSONG
This concert brings together the sounds of local box ironbark birds together with European birdsongs from Couperin to William Williams, from the troubadour Ventadorn to Monteclair.
