Comedy For A Cause will be held at the Lyonville Hall on Saturday, August 1 with doors open from 6.30pm and the show starting at 7pm. The hall fundraiser features world-class comedians from across Australia in an adults-only event. Tickets are $30. Link: www.comedyforacause.net

Throughout August, the streets of Daylesford and Hepburn Springs will come alive with spontaneous art, literary intervention and interactive moments in the lead up to Words in Winter from August 26 to 30. Through the festival’s Around the Town program, art is stepping out of traditional venues and directly into public spaces, turning everyday streets […]

Daylesford Dialysis – delivering more than treatment For Daylesford resident Peter Smith, the dialysis team at Daylesford Health is more than a group of healthcare professionals. They are family. For the past six years, Peter, a resident at Lumeah Lodge, has attended dialysis treatment at Daylesford Hospital three days a week, spending four hours at […]

Lise Heymer is an experience designer who spent more than two decades creating digital experiences before turning her focus to physical places, with a single mission – helping people gain clarity before making significant decisions about place. Based in Coomoora, she recently founded Heymer Design Studio, a place-based design practice. “One service that I’m creating […]

After she turned 90 last year, Eileen Quinlan decided it was time to move on her own terms – and chose Hepburn House. And she loves it. Formerly Eileen Egan, it’s not far from her first home of Eganstown, named after John Egan her great-grandfather. Eileen grew up on a farm there – where two […]

Sports Central and FedUni WestVic Academy of Sport have launched the Central Highlands Coaches Collective. The launch was held at Federation University’s Mount Helen Campus on July 22 with the collective bringing together 95 current and aspiring coaches and leaders from the Central Highlands region. Keynote speakers at the event included Hannah Every-Hall OLY, GM […]

When Komatsu’s Nigel Howard found out that his friend and mentor, forest industry icon Col McCulloch had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease, it didn’t take him long to realise that being frustrated couldn’t help. The best thing he could do was to get on his bike and do something useful. Next month, Nigel will […]

The heritage-listed Media Arts Studio (Old Courthouse) at Federation University’s Arts Academy Ballarat is the setting for a Month of Sundays Season 2. In 2026, the program highlights the beauty and diversity of the human voice, from the sublime solo soprano of Kate MacFarlane to the emotive, soaring singing of Gelareh Pour (ZÖJ) and The […]

One of Australia’s most respected and internationally acclaimed writers, Richard Flanagan will talk about his latest collection, Heresies, and his writing career with Astrid Edwards in Castlemaine next month. From Manus to MONA to birds and the Black Summer, from the destruction of our natural world to the hope offered by Indigenous Australia to the […]

After-Light, a dramatic prog-rock opera by composer/director Zac Vanstone and musical director Tom Foster is the Mount Players’ third show for 2026. Players president Karen Hunt said it was a production to “excite, provoke and entertain”. “A seven-piece rock band will perform live on stage, in full view of the audience, as singers tell the […]

No sooner has Hugh Jackman entertained us by reading a book to his sheep, than he pops up as Robin Hood. This is, however, no jolly romp for Robin, Friar Tuck and the Band of Merry Men versus the Sheriff of Nottingham Forest. In The Death of Robin Hood (Monday, July 27, 2pm), at Daylesford’s […]

The inaugural Golden Wellness Festival is an immersive day, exploring ancient and modern wellbeing practices woven with today’s understanding of mind, body and spirit. The community gathering will take place at The Sunken Oval in Castlemaine on Saturday, October 31, a green space on Djaara Country next to Victoria’s oldest regional botanic gardens, and flora […]