A welcoming community hub
The Old Church on the Hill is a vibrant, volunteer-run community hub that supports people to come together, connect, learn, cook, garden, dance and much more! We actively support inclusion of newly arrived community members and cross-cultural connections. We are supported and auspiced by not-for-profit Neighbourhood Collective Australia.
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Doniya Behter Carnival
6-9pm Saturday 20th June 2026
Join us to celebrate Refugee Week! Doniya Behter Carnival mixes multicultural music, dance, food, art and craft, all on a mid-winter night! Doniya Behter is a free event with food and drinks at carnival prices.
Bec Sykes Pepperpot Magic Tour
Saturday 25th July
(Doors 7pm, support 7.30pm)
Rising Naarm/Melbourne-based dream
folk singer/songwriter Bec Sykes
(she/her) is playing her first-ever Bendigo
show as part of the Pepperpot Magic
Tour. An intimate performance featuring
piano, Sykes’ honeyed vocals and Ronan
Nicholson on pedal steel guitar, the duo
will perform songs from her Australian
Music Prize-nominated debut album
Pepperpot Magic, and preview the new
music she’s been creating since its
release.
https://events.humanitix.com/bec-sykes-
bendigo
Dignified Anger: Stories for a Perilous Now
Fri 22nd May 2026 7.00pm (doors open)
Dignified Anger: Stories for a Perilous Now is the premiere collaboration of renowned storyteller/musician Jan ‘Yarn’ Wositzky and actor/musician Penny Glass, performers who bring a wealth of personal and professional experience to this dramatic, uplifting and comical piece of storytelling theatre.
Tickets: $30
http://www.trybooking.com/DKHIQ
Skyscraper Stan and Oskar Herbig
Sat 9th May 2026 7 pm.
Skyscraper Stan and long time musical collaborator Oskar Herbig combine intricate lyrics, baritone vocals and whirling guitar lines in this journey through three studio albums and unreleased tracks. After a decade and a half of performing and recording together, the cousins are touring their unique duo show around Victoria. For the uninitiated, expect world class song writing, weaving guitars, tight harmony and plenty of laughs.
Tickets $20
https://events.humanitix.com/skyscraper-stan-and-oskar-herbig
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