Program Highlights
Something for everybody.
The Regional Centre for Culture is a once-in-a-lifetime experience - some highlights appear below but there's much MUCH more. Plan Your Own RCC for every day of 2018
This is ... [the RCC!]
April 21 & 22 • Glenlyon & Daylesford
Mornings!
For lovers of markets and performance these are for you! The RCC presents performances at the Glenlyon Village Market (21/4) and Daylesford Sunday Market (22/4). These presentations titled This Is… celebrating culture and community and will be MC'd by Aria Award winner and all 'round amazing singer Kavisha Mazella who will interview stall holders and introduce music, circus and events for kids.
April 21-22 & 28-29 • Central Goldfields
10:00am - 4:00pm throughout
3 historic railway stations, 10 towns, 25 venues & undoubted wonder! Home to many talented artists, buldings, artisans & craftspeople, the Central Goldfields offer an especially wonderful long weekend. Exhibitions include Deborah Halpern works in the Dunolly Court House, nightscape photographer Richard Tatti’s work for the trail; red dog rampant on Broadway; rags to runway sustainable haute couture … & that’s just Dunolly. Throughout the trail fine art galleries abound featuring sculpture, ceramics & the fabulous art of tea cosies in Talbot.
April 29 • Castlemaine
1:30pm - 4:00pm
The largest dance celebration in the world is now hitting Australia. Big Dance 2018 events will be hosted in Sydney, Federation Square (Melbourne) … and in Castlemaine’s Victory Gardens. Dancing kicks off at 1:30pm
Now You See It ...
May 11, 12, 13 • Smeaton
From 6:30pm each night
A Visual Arts focus on Anderson’s Mill . The old mill will be lit up with video projections accompanied by music for the brand-new audio-visual work Now You See It… The mill will also be open for tours throughout the Mother’s Day weekend as part of the Australian Heritage Festival
Enlighten: A Festival of Projection
August 29-31 • Bendigo Town Hall & Surrounds
A public, family-friendly, free event, the festival showcases artists who explore the magic of light and projection with works that can be found amongst the existing nightlife and buzz of Bendigo's CBD.
Enlighten is a City of Greater Bendigo initiative that was developed in 2016 and aims to engage diverse communities across Bendigo and central Victoria.
Photo by Julie Andrews
TrumpitUp and DroneOn:
mass brass and pipe bands concert
September 28 • Jubilee Lake, Daylesford

Rollin' Into Town:
Circus Oz Rolls into Maryborough
October 14, 2018 • Maryborough

Poppet by
ACT Natimuk
October 20, 21 • Rosalind Park Poppet Head Bendigo
The Natimuk team will work in Bendigo over ten months to create a new aerial and projection performance centred on the iconic poppet head in Rosalind Park. The event captures the stories of Bendigo and its people including Dja Dja Wurrung People, the Golden Dragon Museum, Bendigo Historical Society and CreateAbility.
Photo: Michelle McFarlane

Demolish by
RUSSELL : EVANS
October 24- 27 at 8pm • Bendigo
The story of Australia is one of demolition: of ancestral lands turned upside down into goldfields, farms, freeways and houses. DEMOLISH takes us inside the heart of cataclysmic change, shining a new light on progress in our landscape. A moving, theatrical spectacle performed with dancers, musicians, projection artists, visual theatre artists, local community members and heavy machinery.
YAPENYA
November 17 • Rosalind Park, Bendigo
YAPENYA means to dance, to sing; ceremony in Dja Dja Wurrung language.
Through bloodline and kinship, the people belonging to the heart of Victoria are the Dja Dja Wurrung. Their Country is a cultural landscape that is more than just tangible objects; imprinted in it are the Dreaming stories, law, totemic relationships, songs, ceremonies and ancestral spirits, which give it life and value.
YAPENYA is a new performance ceremony presenting new songs and new dances by Dja Dja Wurrung, the Traditional Owners of the heart of Victoria.
Photo: Aunty Linda Ford

Artlands
October 10-14, 2018
Bendigo & Castlemaine
Celebrating twenty years in 2018, Artlands is the biennial event that shines a national spotlight on Australia’s regional arts. Artlands Victoria will be an artistically driven and strategically distributed gathering presented by Regional Arts Victoria, producing art experiences across the state.

Emerge
Ongoing
Bendigo
EMERGE aims to increase opportunities for emerging and refugee communities to participate in and control their own cultural development. The Emerge Cultural Hub in Bendigo is part of Multicultural Arts Victoria’s Emerge Cultural Network that operates within a Community Cultural Development framework. The Emerge program adds a diverse voice to the arts and cultural landscape in Bendigo through creating intercultural arts experiences, increasing participation and opportunities by and for artists and community members from former refugee and Indigenous backgrounds.