Woodend Winter Arts Festival 2025

June 8 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am

Australia’s Energy Transformation in the Regions: Dietmar Tourbier & Peter McTaggart

Woodend Community Centre High & Forest St, Woodend

As Australia moves towards a net-zero emissions energy future, debates continue about the right pathway, technologies, costs, electricity prices, and the role of regions.

June 8 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm

Spanish Connections: Ken Murray

St Ambrose Hall Templeton Road, Woodend, VIC

Spanish Connections highlights some of the diverse influences which have defined the Spanish guitar over the past century. In the early 20th century, guitarists Miguel…

June 8 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Fearless Beatrice Faust: Sex, Feminism & Body Politics: Judith Brett

Woodend Community Centre High & Forest St, Woodend

Fearless Beatrice Faust celebrates, explains and questions her struggle to change both herself and her world. Judith is joined by Sally Warhaft in this discussion.

June 8 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Handel Concertos, including concertos for harp and organ: Accademia Arcadia

St Ambrose Church Templeton St, Woodend

This program opens with the Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, in essence a one-movement concerto for two oboes, and includes a concerto for harp, another…

June 8 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm

Vortex: Rodney Hall & John Scott

Woodend Community Centre High & Forest St, Woodend

A magisterial novel resonant with contemporary concerns, by one of Australia’s foremost authors writing at the height of his ambition.

June 8 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Variations on a theme: works by Brahms, Mozart, Chopin & Scriabin: Berta Brozgul

St Ambrose Hall Templeton Road, Woodend, VIC

A spectacular program of the finest works for solo piano by Mozart, Chopin, Scriabin, and Brahms.

June 8 @ 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

A Garden and a Library: what more could you need?: Michael McCoy

Woodend Community Centre High & Forest St, Woodend

TV host and garden writer Michael McCoy will look back over evocative references to gardens in fiction, the literary quality of early garden writing, and…

June 8 @ 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm

Purcell, Ode on St Cecilia’s Day (1692): Ensemble Gombert and Accademia Arcadia

St Ambrose Church Templeton St, Woodend

In Purcell’s day, St Cecilia, patron saint of music, was celebrated in London with a new work commissioned annually. Perhaps the greatest of all these…