Our Heritage Festival Lineup
Ballarat Heritage Festival is back, and this year's theme is ENTERTAINMENT, a concept Her Maj has whole-heartedly embraced over her 150-years of shows and events. We've carefully curated a Heritage Program that spans the entire festival, featuring riotous comedy, world-class theatre, exceptional classical music and culminates in a critically acclaimed piece of musical theatre.
You can also enjoy free horse drawn carriage rides outside Her Maj during the festival. No bookings are required - just line up for your turn and take in the sights of historic Ballarat while soaking up the vibrant atmosphere of the festival!
Carriage rides are available on both weekends across the festival period while we are open and we have extended our Box Office hours for the festival.
Australia’s most iconic comedy road trip is back on tour, home delivering laughs from coast to coast and everywhere in between! Featuring top-tier talent from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, this year’s comedy extravaganza is packed with big-name headliners, beloved comedy legends and the hottest new stars on the scene.
The Roadshow welcomes Fadzri Rashid (Singapore) as host, Brett Blake, Jude Perl, Matt Stewart and Rohan Thambar to Ballarat!
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Belvoir St Theatre's latest play is fast, funny, and emotionally charged - this show captures the chaos of our times in bite-sized scenes and has been hailed as theatre for the Tik Tok generation.
With each scene taking on new topics, settings, and characters, all grappling with the joys and demands of the warming world, Scenes from the Climate Era is a beginner’s guide to climate activism, a tough conversation, an evening spent with friends, and a trip down to the water.
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Treat yourself to an evening of classical music with the ACO Collective Quartet. This engaging and intimate performance will feature classical masterworks by Bach, Beethoven and Dvořák, alongside contemporary works by Philip Glass and Caroline Shaw, interspersed with informative introductions that provides deeper meaning to the music.
ACO Collective is the ACO’s critically acclaimed string ensemble that brings together musicians of the ACO with Australia’s most talented emerging professional string players.
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Hailed as a Heritage Festival Highlight, see stories of our tragic convict past set to music and performed by an all-star cast. These bittersweet stories humanise the convicts in a way seldom seen.
Starring Brian Nankervis, Mick Thomas, Tim Rogers, Jeff Lang, Ben Salter, Sal Kimber, Darren Hanlon, Shelley Short, Van Walker and introducing Claire Anne Taylor backed by an all-star band featuring the members of Weddings Parties Anything.
It was a centrepiece of the inaugural DARK MOFO festival in Hobart in 2013, last played at Port Fairy Folk Festival in 2019 and is the subject of a concert album and feature film.
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