Ever wonder how Minerva got her groove back? Buildings are made of their imagination, the life that goes on inside provides the colour, life and culture that is legacy for this beautiful city. And it is people who bring buildings to life. Join filmmaker Erin M McCuskey as she shares some of those stories through film, partcularly the buildings that housed cinemas. She will take you on a journey into the cinemas of Ballarat and the people who made it happen. This session will include screenings in the beautiful Minerva Space of footage from the Jack Anderson archive and the film City of Chaos and Hope (2014) which tells the tales of three iconic Ballarat buildings from the inside. The Ballarat Town Hall, the Ballaarat Mechanics’ Institute, and the Ballarat Railway Station. The small stories add up to big stories, social history gives you an understanding of who they are as people, set in three of Ballarat’s finest buildings. Speaker: Erin McCuskey McCuskey’s art is cinema, multilayered film using archival, found and captured moving image. This event is part of the Australian Heritage Festival. The bar will be open from 5.30pm