TONIGHT: Australia’s premiere comedy bash stops off at Ararat Town Hall! 🤩
Guaranteed to be an all-night knee-slapper, the finest comedians from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival are slated to perform right on our doorstep!
Featuring SBS Food’s Good Tucker's Suren Jayemanne alongside award-winning Butchulla, Mununjali and Woppaburra woman Janty Blair, Australia’s Got Talent contestant He Huang, actor David Quirk (of critically acclaimed Oz shows Please Like Me and Problems), and comedy fest stalwart Zack Dyer.
Gather your mates, secure your tickets, and get ready for a well-deserved barrel of laughs when the 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival skids up to Ararat Town Hall on May 22. Head to our website to grab your tickets!
https://ararattownhall.com.au/event/melbourne-international-comedy-festival-roadshow-2/
This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
#MICF #MICFRoadshow
Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow
THIS WEEK: Australia’s premiere comedy bash stops off at Ararat Town Hall! 🤩
Guaranteed to be an all-night knee-slapper, the finest comedians from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival are slated to perform right on our doorstep!
Featuring Australia’s Got Talent contestant He Huang alongside actor David Quirk (of critically acclaimed Oz shows Please Like Me and Problems), comedy fest stalwart Zack Dyer, award-winning Butchulla, Mununjali and Woppaburra woman Janty Blair, and SBS Food’s Good Tucker's Suren Jayemanne.
Gather your mates, secure your tickets, and get ready for a well-deserved barrel of laughs when the 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival skids up to Ararat Town Hall on May 22. Head to our website to grab your tickets!
https://ararattownhall.com.au/event/melbourne-international-comedy-festival-roadshow-2/
This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
#MICF #MICFRoadshow
Less than 10 days left until Australia’s premiere comedy bash stops off at Ararat Town Hall!
Guaranteed to be an all-night knee-slapper, the finest comedians from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival are slated to perform right on our doorstep!
Actor David Quirk (of critically acclaimed Oz shows Please Like Me and Problems) will bring his magnificent stand-up chops, alongside comedy fest stalwart Zack Dyer, award-winning Butchulla, Mununjali and Woppaburra woman Janty Blair, Australia’s Got Talent contestant He Huang and SBS Food’s Good Tucker's Suren Jayemanne.
Gather your mates, secure your tickets, and get ready for a well-deserved barrel of laughs when the 2024 Melbourne International Comedy Festival skids up to Ararat Town Hall on May 22. Head to our website to grab your tickets!
https://www.ararattownhall.com.au/event/melbourne-international-comedy-festival-roadshow-2/
This project is supported by the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
#MICF #MICFRoadshow
The Gallery Piano Bar returns in April with award winning vocalist Emma Pask! Emma has firmly established herself as one of Australia’s favourite voices in Jazz. Her effortless, honest stage presence combined with her powerful vocal ability, leaves audiences spellbound and inspired whenever she takes to the stage. Emma will be accompanied by a pianist, on the Town Hall's beautiful baby grand piano.
These evenings are an intimate experience with limited tickets available for each performance, seated amongst some key artworks from the Ararat Gallery TAMA Collection.
Ticket holders are invited to join us for drinks in the Ararat Town Hall foyer bar from 4.30pm.
Please note: Drinks from the bar are allowed within the performance space, however food is not permitted. Please plan accordingly.
→ Emma Pask
→ Sunday 28th April 2024, 4.45pm - 6.30pm
→ Limited seats available. Book tickets here: https://www.ararattownhall.com.au/event/emma-pask/
The World of Musicals cast is rehearsing in Dublin before they make their way to Ararat on 16 May. It's going to be a spectacular show with iconic tunes from 'The Phantom of the Opera', 'Les Misérables', 'Chicago', 'Boy from Oz' and more. Get your tickets here: https://ow.ly/BM8T50R1Nee
The World of Musicals in Concert
16 May 2024, 7:30-9:30pm
Ararat Town Hall
High Brow Toilet Humour For Kids
Due to popular demand, your favourite Adelaide Fringe show is back! ‘Children are Stinky’ is a multi-award winning, 5 star, world-wide sell out sensation.
Expect high calibre circus, a rocking soundtrack, and genuine belly laughs, which have propelled these stinkers to rave reviews and winners of best children’s show in Adelaide, Perth and Edinburgh.
Tuesday 2nd April 2024
11.00am - 11.50am
Book Now!
www.ararattownhall.com.au/event/children-are-stinky-2/
Phone 1800 657 158
You've seen him on Fisk, The Project and Spicks and Specks, now see one of Australia's best comedians Dave O'Neil at the Ararat Town Hall perform his stand-up show, Overweight Lightweight. Bonus laughs will be provided by his friend Brad Oakes plus a meet and greet after the show!
Friday 16 February, 2024 - 8.00 - 10.00pm
Tickets - https://www.ararattownhall.com.au/event/overweight-lightweight/
You've seen him on Fisk, The Project and Spicks and Specks, now see one of Australia's best comedians Dave O'Neil at the Ararat Town Hall perform his stand-up show, Overweight Lightweight. Bonus laughs will be provided by his friend Brad Oakes plus a meet and greet after the show!
Acclaimed guitarists Slava & Leonard Grigoryan have expanded their creative output by crafting and recording the soundtrack to the award-winning movie ‘A Boy Called Sailboat’.
This heart-warming movie, written and developed by Melbourne-based creative team Cameron Nugent and Andrew Curry was filmed in New Mexico and stars Academy Award® winning actor J.K Simmons, Noel G, Elizabeth De Razzo, Jake Busey, Lew Temple and Julian Atocani Sanchez in the title role.
The Latin-themed soundtrack is a key element to the movie and provides an opportunity for audiences to hear the Grigoryan Brothers like never before.
90 min film screening with live soundtrack performed live by the Grigoryan Brothers, followed by a 20 min Q & A with the film’s writer/director Cameron Nugent.
⛵'A Boy Called Sailboat'
📅Thurs Oct 19, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm
📍 Ararat Town Hall
➡️ Tickets - www.ararattownhall.com.au/event/a-boy-called-sailboat/
Join Joe Camilleri and The Black Sorrows for a very special night at Ararat Town Hall on Fri, 31 March.
One of Australia’s most prolific and enduringly popular bands, The Black Sorrows, are renowned for their high-energy live shows, musicianship and infectious, roots-soaked blues rock.
They’ve sold more than two million albums to date and won an ARIA Award for Best Group.
Do not miss your chance to see The Black Sorrows! Book your tickets 👉https://www.ararattownhall.com.au/event/the-black-sorrows/
2021 Adelaide Fridge Winner 'The Alphabet of Awesome Science' is coming to Ararat on Friday 24 March (11am).
Join two comical professors, Lexi Con and Noel Edge (the Word Nerd and the Science Freak), for a thrilling voyage through the alphabet — where sesquipedalian words inspire mind-blowing scientific surprises!
It's a tongue-twisting race from A to Z that's equal parts explosive, messy, hilarious, fascinating and gross.
Brace yourself for an hour of carefully crafted alphabetical, scientifical (award-winning!) chaos — that floats, flies, squirts, sprays, ignites and erupts!
For ages 5 -12 years.
Get your tickets https://www.ararattownhall.com.au/event/the-alphabet-of-awesome-science/
The Science Gang
Happy Lunar New Year! 🐇
Ararat Town Hall is celebrating with TING LIM (MICF RAW - National Finalist, 2018) and offering discounted tickets for a limited time to the Multicultural Comedy Gala.
Ting will be performing alongside comedy legends Dilruk Jayasinha, Ivan Aristeguieta, Tahir, Jeff Green, Nickyboy, Dora Smith and Ben Lomas in an unmissable night of stand-up.
⭐THE OFFER – $22 tickets available for today only! Head over to our website and select 'Lunar New Year Promo' to secure the best seats in the house.
To book, visit www.ararattownhall.com.au/event/multicultural-comedy-gala/
*This show is produced with the support of the Commonwealth RISE Fund and is supported by the Victorian Multicultural Commission as part of 2023 Cultural Diversity Week. Recommended 15+
Gigs incoming! Multicultural Comedy Gala (21 March 2023)
The Multicultural Comedy Gala is a side-splitting celebration of Australia’s rich cultural diversity, by a world-class selection of the most acclaimed and celebrated comedians in the nation.
This star-studded lineup will poke fun at everything that makes us different, but so much the same.
So, do your soul a favour and treat it to a night of laughter you’ll never forget!
FEATURING…
⭐DILRUK JAYASINHA (RECIPIENT – Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent, 2018)
⭐IVAN ARISTEGUIETA (NOMINEE – Most Outstanding Show, MICF 2021)
⭐TAHIR (NOMINEE – Logie Award for Most Popular Comedy Program, 2018)
⭐JEFF GREEN (SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - The A-Z of Living Together)
⭐BEN LOMAS (INVITEE – Just For Laughs, 2021)
⭐TING LIM (NATIONAL FINALIST – MICF RAW 2018)
⭐NICKYBOY (WINNER – Russell Gilbert Choice Comedian Award)
Coming to Ararat Town Hall on Tuesday 21 March 2023.
Grab your tickets now- https://www.ararattownhall.com.au/event/multicultural-comedy-gala/
'Something to enthrall all' ★★★★★ Time Out
The legendary Finucane & Smith’s Travelling Dance Hall barnstorms the nation packed to the rafters with global talent, irresistible music, disco, go-go, torch songs, hot moves, festoons, fan
dancing, velvet drapes, satin covered tables and
local stars lighting up the stage!
Dust off your COVID cobwebs, dress yourself up and grab your friends! Dance Hall is coming to Ararat Town Hall Saturday, 29 October.
Tickets: $30 Adults, $21 concession. To book, visit www.ararattownhall.com.au/event/finucane-smiths-travelling-dance-hall/
Finucane & Smith
ABC Kids' The Listies are coming to Ararat this Saturday, 23 July.
A bonkers sketch comedy extravaganza of epic proportions, made just for kids! Jam-packed with magically stupid stuff like toilet paper cannons, a real-life cowasaurus, and the kind of madness that only the award-winning maestros of kidault comedy can make.
Be prepared, The Listies may just have you rolling on the floor laughing!
Save your spot and purchase your tickets at the Ararat Visitor Information Centre or online via our website -https://www.ararattownhall.com.au/.../rofl-rolling-on.../
$18 Adults, $12 Concession, $10 Student & $40 Family Ticket (good for 4). Doors open at 9.40am, show starts at 10am.
Peaceful Piano - Nat Bartsch & Luke Howard
“Listening to Bartsch’s music is akin to feeling a reassuring hand resting on one’s shoulder.” – Jessica Nicholas, The Age
Peaceful Piano is coming to Ararat Town Hall on 23 June at 7.30pm.
Find out more via www.ararattownhall.com.au/event/peaceful-piano/ or visit the Ararat Visitor Information Centre.
Nat Bartsch Luke Howard Regional Arts Victoria Creative Victoria
