Macedon Ranges Arts & Culture

07/09/2026

👉 Kyneton Town Hall 👈 Monica McInerney and friends in Kyneton

🎫 Tickets now on sale! 🎫

🎤 Monica McInerney and friends on stage at Kyneton Town Hall
Internationally bestselling author, Monica McInerney, joins us for a lively conversation about her new novel, When Sullivan Met Lola and is bringing two of her writer friends – Tess Woods and Lorena Carrington - along for the ride!

📚 Expect a warm, honest and funny afternoon of bookish chat with plenty of time for QnA, door prizes, and an opportunity to meet Monica and have your books signed.

👉 Presented by Northern Books
➡ Event: Monica McInerney and friends in Kyneton
📆 Date: Sunday 4 October 2026
⏰ Times: 2pm - 3.30pm
🖋️ Book signing: 3.30pm – 4pm including signing + meet and greet
💰 Cost: Full $35, Concession $32
📍 Venue: Kyneton Town Hall
🎫 Bookings: https://www.mrsc.vic.gov.au/See-Do/Events-and-Awards/Whats-on-around-the-shire/Monica-McInerney

06/09/2026

👉 Kyneton Mechanics Institute Reserve 👈 Creative Kids - Paint What You Hear

🎨 Messy fun for everyone!

🎤 Led by musician Erica Rasmussen and visual artist Zakiya Kurdi, Paint What You Hear incorporates classical and contemporary music with visual art to engage young people in the arts, inviting them to respond to live music using painting and drawing.

🎼 Participants will listen to live musicians and respond to the music exploring lines, shape, colour and their own imagination, learning about the elements of music and how to represent sound through artistic expression.

🎉 A unique and immersive learning opportunity, Paint What You Hear is engaging, fun and best of all – messy!

👉 Please note: Kids to wear old clothes as it is a messy activity.

🎟️ Limited tickets. Don't miss out! Recommended for 6 to 12 years of age.

➡ Event: Creative Kids - Paint What You Hear
📅 Date: Tuesday 29 September 2026
⏰ Times: 11.30am-12.15pm & 2pm-2.45pm
📍 Venue: Kyneton Mechanics Institute Reserve
💰 Cost: Children $15
🎫 Bookings: https://www.mrsc.vic.gov.au/See-Do/Events-and-Awards/Whats-on-around-the-shire/Creative-Kids-Paint-What-You-Hear

05/09/2026

👉 Kyneton Town Hall 👈 Anh Do – Happiest Refugee LIVE!

🎫 Tickets are now on sale! Don't miss out! 🎫
🎉 Back by popular demand!
😂 Anh Do’s best-selling book The Happiest Refugee has made readers
laugh and cry and was described by Russell Crowe as, “the most surprising and
inspiring read I have had in years."
🎤 Anh’s stage show takes it a step further, combining stand-up
comedy with real life stories, photos and filmed pieces to retell his amazing
story.
🤣 When one of Australia’s most talented comedians delves deep into
his own life’s joys and sorrows, the result is an unforgettable night at the
theatre that leaves an audience uplifted and quite simply, happy.

▶️ Rated: PGR 7+, no babes in arms permitted
👉 Presented by A-List Entertainment.

➡️ Event: Anh Do - Happiest Refugee LIVE
📆 Date: Thursday 22 October 2026,
⏰ Times: 7.30pm-9.00pm
📍 Venue: Kyneton Town Hall
💰 Cost: Full $74.90, Seniors $69.90, Concession $69.90 & Groups 10+ $69.90
🎫 Tickets: https://www.mrsc.vic.gov.au/See-Do/Events-and-Awards/Whats-on-around-the-shire/Anh-Do-Happiest-Refugee-Live

04/09/2026

👉 Kyneton Town Hall 👈 Same Like Yesterday: Virlkuthalypila and Other Stories from Our Country

🎫 Tickets are now on sale! 🎫
🎟️ School group bookings available 🎟️

➡ Same Like Yesterday: Virlkuthalypila and Other Stories from Our Country offers a unique opportunity to engage with the rich cultural heritage of the Adnyamathanha people of the Flinders Ranges. 🖤💛❤️

🎞️ Created as a collaborative project between SharingStories Foundation and the Adnyamathanha community, this 30-minute projection-installation takes audiences on an unforgettable journey through Adnyamathanha Country, as six senior Adnyamathanha women and two young women travel through Ikura (the Flinders Ranges) in the footsteps of Virlkuthalypila, the Two Women from the Yura Muda (Dreamtime).

📖 Best described as a giant paper pop-up book, this beautifully animated artwork will captivate adults and children alike with its vibrant illustrations, songs, and immersive Dreamtime storytelling. 🖤💛❤️

🎤 All weekday sessions (excluding 10am) will be followed by a Q&A with members of the Adnyamathanha community and staff from SharingStories Foundation.

📣 “Our country is woven together by an endless thread of stories. They are embedded in the land, the sky, the water, and the mountain. Even the animals hold stories from long time ago. We follow the journey of the two women, sharing and learning many more stories along the way. Stories that teach young ones to stay safe and respect sacred sites, and to help us all gain a greater appreciation of Adnyamathanha history and culture” -Adnyamathanha Artists

➡ Event: Same Like Yesterday: Virlkuthalypila and Other Stories from Our Country
📆 Dates: Friday 6th – Wednesday 11th November 2026
⏰ Times: Multiple sessions per day (See website)
📍 Venue: Kyneton Town Hall
💰 Cost: $5 General Admission
🎫 Tickets: https://www.mrsc.vic.gov.au/See-Do/Events-and-Awards/Whats-on-around-the-shire/Same-Like-Yesterday



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03/09/2026

👉 Bluestone Theatre👈 Dane Simpson: Always was, always will be… funny

🎫 Tonight! Tonight! Tonight!🎫
✌ Fully Denim, Fully Deadly! 🤟
😂🤣 Get ready for a night of guaranteed laughs with one of Australia’s funniest, most loveable comedians. Dane comes from a longline of funny buggers.
🎤 A wisecracking Dad, a cleverly cutting Mum, hilarious grandparents, and generations of jokers, pranksters and yarnspinners. Now Dane is here putting the 'rad' into 'traditional'. For 60,000 years of belly-laughs, book now.

📺 As seen on the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Gala, Have You Been Paying Attention?, Guy Mont-Spelling Bee, Wil Anderson's Question Everything, The Hundred with Andy Lee, and The Amazing Race Celebrity Edition. With a string of sold-out live comedy shows across Australia and in the UK, he’s heading your way with a whole lot of gutbusting jokes and hilarious stories.

👉 ★★★★★ ‘Side splitting down to earth humour… how often do you go to a comedy show where you laugh until your sides hurt?’– Glam Adelaide
👉 ★★★★★ ‘Dane had me laughing so hard I had a hard time holding back tears of joy. Whatever you take from this review, please follow him!’ - Theatre Matter

➡ Event: Dane Simpson: Always was, always will be… funny
📆 Date: Thursday 3 September 2026
⏰ Time: 7.30pm-8.40pm
💰 Cost: Full $35, Concession $32, Group 6+ $30
📍 Venue: Bluestone Theatre
🎫 Bookings: https://www.mrsc.vic.gov.au/See-Do/Events-and-Awards/Whats-on-around-the-shire/Dane-Simpson-Always-was-always-will-be%E2%80%A6-funny

02/09/2026

👉 Kyneton Town Hall 👈 Ross Wilson & The Peaceniks - 50 Years of Hits

➡ Now Listen! We’re Steppin’ Out – 50 Years Of Hits Tour

🎫 Tickets are now on sale! 🎫
🎤 Due to overwhelming popular demand Ross Wilson’s 50 Years of Hits Tour extends into 2027 and to over 277 shows making it the biggest tour of his incredible multi decade career!

🎸 With a performing career spanning a mind boggling seven decades since his first local Melbourne hit single Louie Louie by this first band The Finks in 1965, Wilson and his all-star band The Peaceniks continue touring relentlessly to celebrate over 50 Years of Hits including all the Daddy Cool and Mondo Rock favourites you’d expect along with his latest offerings from an incredible 6 decade career.

🏆 From Daddy Cool to Mondo Rock and as a solo artist with no less than 26 ARIA Top 40 hits to his credit as a singer, songwriter and producer, Ross Wilson is one of Australia’s most awarded, respected and well-known artists! From the legendary band Daddy Cool whose number one anthem Eagle Rock and debut album "Daddy Who?" smashed all previous sales records in Australia an astounding 50 years ago in 1971, to the 1977 formation of Mondo Rock, delivering 80’s hits ‘Cool World’, ‘State of The Heart’, ‘Chemistry’, ‘No Time’, and ‘Come Said The Boy’ and into the 21st century as a solo performer, Wilson has never been out of the limelight.

🥇 Twice inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame and 2025 ACE Awards “Original Music Performer of the Year” Winner, Wilson’s live performances are legendary.

👉 Advisory Content / Warnings: Suitable for Children over 15 years

➡ Event: Ross Wilson & The Peaceniks – 50 Years Of Hits Tour
📆 Date: Friday 26 February 2027
⏰ Time: 8pm – 10pm
📍 Venue: Kyneton Town Hall
💰 Cost: Full $79, Group 6+ $74
🎫 Bookings: https://www.mrsc.vic.gov.au/See-Do/Events-and-Awards/Whats-on-around-the-shire/Ross-Wilson
👉 Presented by Flying Saucer.

01/09/2026

👉 Kyneton Town Hall 👈 Jimpa

🎫 Tickets are On Sale! 🎫
🎥 Filmmaker Hannah (Olivia Colman) takes her trans nonbinary teenager, Frances(Aud Mason-Hyde), to Amsterdam to visit their gay grandfather - lovingly known as “Jimpa” (John Lithgow). When Frances expresses a desire to stay with Jimpa for a year abroad, Hannah is forced to reconsider her parenting beliefs and the stories she has long told about her family.

🌈 Jimpa celebrates LGBTQ+ culture, as it is practised across three generations:
Grandfather Jim faces the challenges of aging as a gay man in a generation that never expected to grow old; non-binary teenager Frances grapples with disillusionment as their heroes fall short of their ideals; and mother Hannah navigates the differing perspectives of her father and child. Surrounding these three is a vibrant family – the family they were born into and the family they continue to create.

➡ Inspired by her own experiences as part of a q***r family, acclaimed filmmaker
Sophie Hyde delivers her most personal story yet. Jimpa is an authentic and intimate film, bursting with compassion for each of its characters.

📣 Presented in association with Council’s community health care provider Omnia Community Health.

👉 “It earns every emotion and then some, breaking the heart open with such breathtaking truthfulness that you get bowled over just before you land softly in its final frames.” THE WRAP

👉“Along with its genuine humor and a frank exploration of the different ways q***r people live today, Jimpa is an emotional experience that feels authentic in a way that can be difficult to capture.” SCREEN RANT
Jimpa is rated: MA15+

➡ Event: Jimpa
📆 Date: Friday 11 September 2026
⏰ Time: 7.30pm-9.20pm (1hour and 53 minutes)
📍 Venue: Kyneton Town Hall
💰 Cost: Full $10, Concession $5
🎫 Bookings: https://www.mrsc.vic.gov.au/See-Do/Events-and-Awards/Whats-on-around-the-shire/Jimpa

01/09/2026

🌻 Autumn Events 🌻 Open Mic at the Shamrock

🎤 Open Mic at the Shamrock is back for the Kyneton Daffodil & Arts Festival 2026! Head to the Shamrock Hotel on Thursday 10th September, 7pm to 10pm, and take the mic or just take a seat. Performers register via our website.
➡ We've got something for the young and upcoming artists too. Bloombox Open Mic runs Saturday 5th September, 2pm to 5pm at Kyneton Mechanics Institute, for local artists aged 12-25, presented by KDAF and supported by MITS. Free entry, registration recommended as MITS events tend to sell out.
👉 Stick around that evening for Flower Power, from 6:30pm. Cronies Events - Tylden bring a night of live music and 70s vibes, with The Corduroys opening for Naarm's, plus local DJs. Jinky's food truck and a full licensed bar on site.
🎫 Tickets and registration details at our website
https://www.kynetondaffodilandartsfestival.com.au/event-list
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➡ The Kyneton Daffodil & Arts Festival
📍 4–13 September 2026
👉 Supported by Major Sponsors Kyneton On Riverside
Visit our website to view all events and sponsors.