Events at the old church in the bush
To enquire about using our space for an upcoming event or performance please go to our performers page.
1. THE SPACE BETWEEN- AN AFTERNOON OF LUTE MUSIC
Sunday April 6th, 2025
Time: 3.00pm
Where: Yandoit Uniting Church , Uniting Church Rd, off High St
Suggested Donation: $20/15 Support our musicians and the continuation of Yandoit Cultural
Description:
Rosemary Hodgson, one of Australia’s finest lute players, presents a magical afternoon of lute music in the excellent acoustics of Yandoit Cultural. The lute, an instrument of quiet contemplation, explores both sound and silence in this charming program. The concert will feature works by Philip Rosseter, Robert Johnson and John Dowland.
Australian lutenist, Rosemary Hodgson maintains a vibrant career as soloist and chamber musician. She has established an international reputation for outstanding concert presentations and solo lute recordings of captivating subtlety. A graduate of Melbourne University studying with John Griffiths, Rosemary completed her post graduate studies at the Royal College of Music London, with Jakob Lindberg. With a strong passion for music education, in 2019, Rosemary curated the inaugural Four Winds Lute School in Bermagui NSW, and in 2024 launched the Melbourne international Lute Festival in her hometown. She is a founding member of world-renowned period instrument ensemble La Compania & teaches lute at the University of Melbourne, Conservatorium of Music.
BARRY GOLDING SHARES STORIES ABOUT HIS BOOK: ' SIX PEAKS SPEAK'
Saturday April 26th, 2025
Time: 4.00pm
Where: Yandoit Cultural- the old church in the bush, Uniting Church Rd, off High St, Yandoit.
Description:
Kingston resident and author, Barry Golding, will share stories about his compelling journey in southern Dja Dja Wurrung Country through the eyes of six iconic mountains in central Victoria. The featured mountains are today called Mt Kooroocheang [near Smeaton], Mt Beckworth [near Clunes], Mt Greenock [near Talbot], Mt Tarrengower [near Maldon], Mt Alexander [near Castlemaine] and Mt Franklin [near Daylesford]. Six Peaks Speak is an interdisciplinary and intercultural story across time, cultures, contested histories and unsettled relationships, uniquely traversing First Nations and unsettler, history, geology, ecology, anthropology and reserve management. Barry will focus on some of the lesser known legacies in his book associated with Lalkambuk /Mt Franklin, with reference also to Gurutjanga / Mt Kooroocheang and Liyanganuk / Mt Alexander’ . Rodney Carter, Dja Dja Wurrung Chief Executive Officer, says of the book: ‘The deep and painstaking research undertaken to bring this book together is significant and impressive. The narrative style, interweaving history of the locations with geology make this book unique, quite beautiful and accessible to a broader audience. It involves a discussion about deeply unsettling legacies, highly relevant today in Australia. It is indeed powerful and disquieting at the same time.’ Cost: Suggested donation- $10.00/8.00. |
Yandoit Sacred
Saturday February 22nd, 2025
Time: 2.00pm
Where: Yandoit Uniting Church , Uniting Church Rd, off High St
Description:
Join us this coming Saturday February 22nd at 2.00pm for our first Yandoit Sacred gathering for the year.
We’ll start with a meditation, led by Karina, a way to ‘clear the space’, to encourage deep focus, to pay attention to what’s arising in each of us and then to share that with others present.
For 2025, we envisage building on what’s been emerging over the past year, being guided by this ‘place’, and creating a community of deep listening into the sacred.
We plan to meet regularly every 6 weeks, on Saturday afternoons and sometimes on weekday evenings (outside and around a fire when possible). We’re developing a calendar of gathering dates so watch this space or subscribe to Yandoit Sacred‘s email list (on this website) for more updates.
About Yandoit Cultural
Yandoit Cultural is located at Yandoit’s historic Uniting Church - Uniting Church Rd (off High St), Yandoit, 3461, Central Victoria. This old church in the bush is an intimate space seating approximately 100, with excellent acoustics.
Yandoit Cultural provides an arts and cultural space for the communities of Yandoit, Clydesdale and Franklinford, as well as surrounding townships in central Victoria. We encourage local, acoustic, quality and innovative performances with a diverse, inclusive program of music, story, song, poetry, film, visual arts and local history. In addition, Yandoit Cultural is available for wedding hire, musical recordings and more.
Yandoit Cultural celebrates the retention of our community’s much-loved and historical Uniting (ex-Methodist) church. Over the years many churches across central Victoria, and throughout Australia, have been decommissioned and subsequently sold. Once vital community hubs and commons, these buildings shift from public to private. The communities of Yandoit, Clydesdale and Franklinford are committed to retaining our precious church in community hands and to exploring ways the church can continue as a community gathering place, as local cultural centre, and as a venue for an emerging faith community.
Yandoit Cultural is committed to arts and culture being accessible to everyone. In most instances entry is by donation. We offer country hospitality with afternoon tea/supper provided at each event. Yandoit Cultural is a project of the Yandoit Clydesdale and Franklinford Community Planning Group.
If you’re interested in performing at Yandoit Cultural complete our expression of interest form.
