The Comma, Castlemaine

28/11/2014

Next Friday night the Comma has their Xmas R***e from 7pm.

http://www.thecomma.net.au/comma-events/a-comic-xmas-revue/

Theatre Sports, Poetry readings, a choir, a blues band and a partridge in a pear tree (the Partridge is only rumoured at this stage)

The Xmas Party is a wicked and slightly fractured look at the Yuletide season. Featuring The Mainesong Choir, The Improvables (Theatresports on a ‘one word’ Xmas Theme., John Flaus reading some excerpts about Xmas from a writer’s perspective , some funny songs from Jane Thompson and James Rigby AND…

28/11/2014

Hooked on Bossa play the Comma Hotel, Castlemaine tonight!

http://www.thecomma.net.au/comma-events/hooked-bossa-2/

Luscious Bossa Nova Hooked on Bossa are an acoustic trio who fell in love with the dreamy summer tones of the Bossa Nova while holidaying in Brazil. Flying back with a bunch of new percussion instruments and some classic Bossa tunes, they have put together an authentic sound. With a Nylon string gui…

29/10/2014

This Sunday 2 November at 2pm the Comma is hosting the Fringe Festival Fundraising auction.
Come along. We have services and artworks for sale.

05/10/2014

Exhibition Opening at the Comma Tonight. 6-8 pm

Qudy Xu-MinYu
Innocence 無邪

Drawings by Qudy.

In my journey I have come across many people living in difficult conditions, particularly children, for many of them the realities of growing up are particularly hard. Yet in the midst of a poor child's experience there is an innocence that shines through. Reminding us that we are all born with a sense of wonder, and that even in the most trying of circumstances there is joy to be found.

02/10/2014

THE COMMA LOUNGE GOES VINYL TONIGHT!

DJ Brad Fl**ge will be delving into his fantastic black plastic collection. Be there from 6pm! Discount lounge-priced wines, beers from 6-7pm. Yowza!

26/09/2014

Rex Watts & Broderick Smith play the Comma tonight. From 7.30
http://www.thecomma.net.au/events/railroad-rex-hapless-brakemen/

Date: September 26, 2014 Time: 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm Railroad Rex and the Hapless Brakemen Rex Watts’ musical career has covered 30 years of country music, He’s a prolific songwriter, in-demand multi-instrumentalist and a mandolin maestro. Unashamedly Australian-both in his gentle demeanour and his…

25/09/2014

Next art opening at Comma, Monday 6 October 6-8 pm
Qudy Xu-MinYu
“Innocence 無邪"”

24/09/2014

In Conversation with Castlemaine Art Gallery Director Jennifer Kalionis. Tonight- 6.30pm at The Comma

http://www.thecomma.net.au/events/conversations-comma-jennifer-kalionis/

Date: September 24, 2014 Time: 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm In Conversation with Jennifer Kalionis Jennifer Kalionis, Director, Castlemaine Art Gallery and Robert Watson, President, Committee of Management, Castlemaine Art Gallery will be talking about galleries in the 21st century and the challenges that o…

20/09/2014

wednesday 24 september
6.30 pm Comma Conversations with the Director of the Castlemaine Art Gallery talking about galleries in the 21st century.
come along!

20/09/2014

Get your Disco on:

Tracey Candy plays R n B, funk & Disco tonight at The Comma Hotel from 8.30pm

11/09/2014

Beautiful exhibition of Miranda Watt's work at the Comma all September.

http://www.thecomma.net.au/art-exhibition/spring-collection-miranda-watts/

Spring Collection, artist Miranda Watts, paintings and collage

07/09/2014

Wednesday 10 September 6,30 pm, Comma Conversations
Zen What? With Emeritus Professor Richard Perry.

Richard is Emeritus Professor of Fine Arts at York University, Toronto, Canada, taught courses in Asian Art History for some thirty years before moving to Australia, where he subsequently gave seminars in Zen Buddhist painting and poetry at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne.