The Great Moscow Circus Benalla
Australia’s favourite circus! Experience the ultimate adrenaline rush with Australia’s top BMX and scooter riders, electrifying trampolinists, and the heart-stopping Russian swing! Witness the world’s best daredevil motorcycle cage riders defy gravity in a spectacle that will leave you on the edge of your seat. This is more than a circus—it’s an adventure you won’t…
Read MoreFlame Fest
FlameFest returns for 2024 at Benalla Racing Club. So get fired up with a packed program of red-hot fire installations, fire performers, live music, mesmerising fire shows, kids activities, pop-up foodies feast, fully stocked bar, and more. FlameFest will feature many performers, from musicians, stunt performers, roving performers, magicians to fire-breathers and fire-twirlers. What’s on:…
Read MoreBenalla Art Gallery – Ruth Johnstone and Lesley Duxbury: Embrace the Eucalypt
The ubiquitous eucalypt has come to mean many things to us. It is honoured when it survives to a great age, yet its size and materiality has caused it to be felled for human needs, and of course it is renowned for fuelling raging bushfires. Utilising paper based media and contemporary art approaches, Ruth Johnstone…
Read MoreBenalla Art Gallery – Mimi Leung: Growing Up With You
The title of the show refers to both Leung’s relationship with her art practice, and with her children – reflecting on how her attitudes to art and her own practice have changed as she has grown up and had kids. Starting with a selection of works from early in her illustration career, this exhibition broadly…
Read MoreBenalla Art Gallery – Claire Beausein: Smells Like Rain
Smells Like Rain encapsulates the promise of renewal and transformation. The exhibition showcases a recent collection of assemblage and mixed-media works on washi paper, all engaging the theme of metamorphosis. Growing up in the Warby Ranges close to nature has left an indelible mark on Claire Beausein’s artistic sensibilities, and the subdued palette and intricacies…
Read MoreBenalla Art Gallery – Light Shines, Shadow Falls
Drawn from the Benalla Art Gallery Collection, Light Shines, Shadow Falls presents a selection of landscapes by two of Australia’s finest watercolourists, Hans Heysen and Matthew James MacNally. The exhibition is a celebration of both artists’ mastery in rendering the Australian countryside, and the atmospheric shifts across the day as the sun rises and sets,…
Read MoreBenalla Festival
Mark your calendars for 2024 Benalla Festival. The Benalla Festival is a celebration of the Benalla Rural City’s lifestyle, its community, country living and community spirit. The Festival is a result of community collaboration to design events that celebrate and embrace all that is great about the region through art, music, dance, history, sport, family…
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