Makers' Immersion Weekend
2020-02-15 11:00 - 2020-02-16 16:00 UTC | Buda Historic Home and Garden, 42 Hunter St, CASTLEMAINE, VIC, 3450, Australia
In partnership with Craft Victoria and the Theatre Royal
and supported by the Mount Alexander Shire Council Events Grants Program.
Buda Castlemaine Presents The Makers’ Immersion Weekend

BREAKING NEWS – GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR ARTISTS AND MAKERS
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Saturday 15thFebruary
Venue:The Garden Room at Buda
Session 1: iPhonography & Styling Tips
Session 2: Driving Instagram
Two 1.5 hours sessions interspersed with lunch Minimum requirements: participants must already have an active Instagram account and their own smartphone.
Presenters: Anthea Riskas (Full Tilt Mumma) & Sarah Weston (Craft Victoria).
Join us for an Instagram Intensive designed for makers, crafters and artists covering iPhoneography, styling tips, hashtagging, meaningful community connection, keeping your messaging on brand, “The Algorithm”, honest storytelling and understanding the behind the scenes analytics of Instagram, as well as trends and new innovations.
Please bring your
smartphone
charger
notebook
and 1-2 art/craft objects smaller than 30 x 30cm
Session 1: 11am-12.30pm
Lunch: 12.30pm-1.30pm Boxed/Picnic lunch available $15 (Booking required) Or BYO
Session 2: 1.30pm-3pm at Buda
Participants: Limit of 15 (total of 30). Double session with switch over of participants after lunch.
Venue: The Garden Room, Buda (See map)
Cost: $65 per person (includes both sessions)
(Option to book lunch will show when you book online)
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Sunday 16thFebruary
Morning Session: Real to Reel– UK Craft Film Festival. 32 short films featured in two sessions back-to-back
Craft Victoria and BUDA are proud to host the Victorian regional premiere of the Real to Reel Film Festival, 32 short films celebrating craft and makers from around the world.
The Real to Reel Film Festival presents 32 short films on extraordinary craftsmanship showcasing the passion and skill of makers from around the world.
Witness scrap metal being transformed into astonishing eyewear, a portrait of one of the oldest potteries in Japan and the vibrant tradition of making dance masks and costumes in Mexico.
Three films in the international selection are from Australia. The renowned Tjanpi Desert Weavers have created two animations about life in remote Central and Western desert camps and the role that dogs play. Gifted West Australian wood artisan Neil Turner features in a short film about the passion which drove him to give up farming and pursue woodturning, leading to a highly rewarding life creating beautiful pieces from native Australian timbers.
The Real to Reel medley of films will be presented in two back to back screenings at Castlemaine’s historic Theatre Royal on Sunday 16 February.
Session 1: 10am-11.10am
Interval: 20 minutes
Session 2: 11.30am-12.35pm
Venue:Castlemaine Theatre Royal, 30 Hargraves Street Castlemaine
Cost:Single session $24 per person / Double session $40 per person
Ticket Sales: Click below or Theatre Royal box office on the day
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Sunday 16thFebruary
Afternoon Session: Is the Price Right– Conversation circle with panel
With Abby Seymour & Sarah Weston (Craft Victoria) and Bridget Farmer(Local artist/printmaker).
Join us in an open conversation about the complexities of pricing artwork and crafts pieces for sale.
Across so many contexts, we hear
“How much is this worth?”
“What should I charge for this?”
“Why does that cost so much?”
Craftspeople and artists routinely undersell themselves and their work. So how to make a living?
Come together and talk money, market-value, worth, commodification and making a living.
How do we balance the demands of the market,
the labour intensive quality of how artists and craftspeople work and the bottom line of selling work? How do we match all of this with a narrative and education about why the handmade matters? How much is a lifetime of skill worth in comparison to skill-less non-craft that looks like craft?
How does function impact on worthiness?
Who gets how much of a cut and how does that affect the maker?

Session: 1.30-4.00pm
Venue: The Garden Room, Buda (See map)
Cost: $22 per person (includes afternoon tea)
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Traditional Arts Fair Workshop - Happy Day Felt
2020-06-27 10:30 - 13:00
Our new series of Traditional Arts workshops
In this workshop, participants will learn to make a Happy Day felt bird with Andrea McKey
Andrea will help you use very simple embroidery techniques to make a colourful and joyous bird to take home and brighten up your day.
Andrea will provide:

Her handmade wool felt in a variety of colours and designs
Bright wool felt for wings
Her handmade wool felt cords for beaks and legs
Buttons, embroidery cottons, stuffing, needles and scissors

This workshop will be held in our Garden Room and will allow a maximum of 8 people to allow for social distancing.
There is also an option to join the cooking class for their meal at 1.30pm. The cooking class are creating a 4 course Thai meal and they will be cooking extra for other workshop participants who would like to join them. 4 course Thai meal is $50 and you can read all about it here> If you choose this option you will be served a light snack, served with homemade kombucha on arrival.
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Traditional Arts Fair Workshop – Duang's Classic Thai Cooking
2020-06-27 10:30 - 14:30
Our new series of Traditional Arts Fair Workshops
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I love to cook and share my love of cooking. It is an experience of the heart, mind and senses.
After sixty years of fine tuning how to make food taste as good as it can be, I concluded that good food comes from good ingredients. Nothing can be better than fresh, local, seasonal and, whenever possible, organic foods.
All classes will be partially hands on and partially show and tell. In order to maximise your experience, classes are limited to a maximum of eight participants. This creates a class environment that is friendly, casual, interactive and intimate.
This workshop will be held in our Garden Room kitchen and will allow a maximum of 8 people to allow for social distancing.

A Complete Thai Dinner: My intention for this class is to provide tools and tricks for everyone to feel confident in understanding and creating a Complete Thai Dinner for family or guests. I will show and explain the basic essentials of a Thai pantry, where to get them and how to use them. Then together we will make an appetiser, at least three main dishes: curry starting with making the paste, another method of cooking protein, and a vegetable dish which may be a salad or a cooked vegetable. Cooking perfect rice is also essential in this class. Of course, no meal is complete without dessert.
Possible dishes include (but may change if ingredients are not available)

Thai fish cakes with sauce
Red curry paste for steamed custard curry
Som Tum salad using seasonal Australian vegetables and fruit
Vermicelli salad
Jasmine and rice medley

Dessert

Tub Tim Krob (crunchy ruby) in sweet coconut sauce

​Produce used:
Most of the ingredients will be from surrounding farms, local, seasonal and fresh. We use organic produce whenever possible. Some ingredients will be from the garden less than 10 metres away from the kitchen.
Class Hours and Sharing of food and beverages:
All classes start at 10:30am and typically runs for 4 to 4 ½ hours. A light snack is served with homemade kombucha on arrival.
After class, we will sit down and enjoy lunch together with your beverage of choice: wine, beer or homemade kombucha.
Class and Booking Policy:​

Maximum number of participants = eight.

If too few participants have registered, the class will be cancelled with a full refund offered.

If you need to cancel, please do so up to one week prior to the class date; otherwise a refund will not be available.

Other information:

Wear comfortable clothing with toe covered shoes.

Aprons and knives are provided in class. If you have your favourites, please bring these along.

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Traditional Arts Fair Workshop - Growing Perennials
2020-07-25 10:30 - 13:00
Our new series of Traditional Arts workshops
July’s workshops will take place in the Garden room and/or outside with plenty of space for physical distancing, Covid safe hygiene protocols in place and a limit of 8 people per workshop.
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In this workshop, participants will learn how to get years of supply with a few simple seasonal procedures
with Stan Smith

Have you ever wondered why your ornamental perennials look great for a few years and then go downhill?
Beautiful Heritage goldfield perennials – the tough and terrific.
Consider using Indigenous perennials.
How to have excellent Hellebores year after year and peonies to flower well every year.
A great time to plan and action for spring summer.

Stan Smith has a Landscape Design and Concept business, is a lecturer in horticulture at Bendigo Tafe and has lectured at Polytechnic in Melbourne. He also escorts people on garden Tours of New Zealand and does a biweekly talk about gardening on ABC Central Vic. Stan is a regular at Buda, demonstrating pruning, hedging and topiary with his own students and for us all at the Traditional Arts Fair. His commitment to greener gardening practices and the application of the principals of bio-diversity extends and enriches the experience of the garden, creating year round sensory interest. His gardening workshops are accessible, easy to understand and easily implemented.
The presentation will consist of a series of Colourful Power Points Stories of success/failure, share and tell of yours, and hands on workshopping.
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Traditional Arts Fair Workshop - Strudel Making
2020-07-25 13:30 - 15:30
Our new series of Traditional Arts workshops
July’s workshops will take place in the Garden room and/or outside with plenty of space for physical distancing, Covid safe hygiene protocols in place and a limit of 8 people per workshop.
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In this workshop, participants will learn how to make the perfect strudel with our resident expert Peter Lukaitis
Always a hit at our Traditional Arts Fair, Peter Lukaitis will expand on his demonstration to take you through the whole process of strudel making.
With more than a nod to Buda’s Hungarian roots, Apple strudel is a traditional Viennese strudel, a popular pastry in Austria, Northern Italy and in many other countries in Europe that once belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Peter will demonstrate all the processes for making the perfect strudel then while they are in the oven you will be treated to a strudel afternoon tea handmade by Peter. You’ll also get to take some hot strudel home straight from the oven along with Peter’s own recipe.
Peter Lukaitis moved to Castlemaine in 1990, lives in an old 1860’s house and appreciates the history, intactness and beauty of Buda.
“I’m a great supporter of preserve and conserve.
I have been making deserts since we lived on a farm at Sutton Grange. I like being a little bit creative and seeing others enjoy the result. I tend to be averse to change and I like doing something well, so I suppose I have been making strudels for maybe 15 years! You can have them hot or cold, they keep in the fridge and with some Greek yoghurt, heaven!”
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Traditional Arts Fair Workshop - Copper and coloured pencil Earrings
2020-07-26 10:30 - 13:00
Our new series of Traditional Arts workshops
July’s workshops will take place in the Garden room and/or outside with plenty of space for physical distancing, Covid safe hygiene protocols in place and a limit of 8 people per workshop.
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Create colourful earrings using copper and coloured pencils with Andrea McKey
Andrea Mckey is a compulsive maker of bright, fun, decorative and functional pieces in glass, polymer clay, felt and mixed media. Art is Andrea’s soul food. It gives her the opportunity to create, relax, dream and explore. Andrea gets much joy making, giving away and selling her work and loves seeing pieces going to good homes. In 2009 Andrea was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for 2009/10 in order to participate in some advanced kiln fired glass technique workshops and bring that knowledge back to the Northern Territory to benefit the community. In 2016, Andrea relocated to Victoria after more than 30 years in the Northern Territory where she was a founding member of the Darwin Art Trail.
Andrea will supply a variety of prepared copper shapes, coloured pencils, silver or surgical steel ear wires and jump rings.
You can make 2 pairs of earrings to take home and wear proudly.
The blank copper shapes are made in advance. After you book, you will be sent a link to choose the 2 shapes that you would like to work with if you would like one of the specific shapes shown, or you can just pick from a variety on the day.
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Traditional Arts Fair Workshops - Fermenting with Nikki Valentini
2020-10-17 10:30 - 15:30
Our new series of Traditional Arts workshops
October’s workshops will take place in the Garden room and/or outside with plenty of space for physical distancing, Covid safe hygiene protocols in place and a limit of 8 people per workshop.

The Local Foodivore – Lacto-fermentation techniques workshops Buda Castlemaine
Are you curious about learning the art of fermentation?
Buda’s Traditional Arts Fair, with Nikki Valentini is presenting two fermentation workshops exploring vegetable fermentation and its many health benefits, PLUS, an optional amazing fermented food lunch.
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Sauerkraut and quick fermented carrots Workshop: 10.30am – 12.30pm $100
This workshop will explore the history, benefits and tricks needed to make your own delicious sauerkraut at home.
We will sample some krauts as well as making quick lacto-fermented carrots to add to your repertoire. The workshop will include a discussion on the benefits of fermented food.
Please bring 2 700ml – 1L clean, wide mouthed jars, chopping board and knife as well as tall jar for fermenting carrots. Does not need to be very wide.
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Kimchi workshop: 1.30pm – 3.30pm $100
Kimchi, a traditional Korean cabbage ferment, has made a name for itself all over the world! It is a delicious condiment to add to many meals and has many health benefits. Join Nikki Valentini for an exploration into making kimchi! We will explore ways to make these delicious foods without having to buy any expensive equipment.
Please bring a 700ml – 1L clean, wide mouthed jar, chopping board and knife
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Fermented food Lunch: 12.30pm – 1.30pm $50
There are many types of fermented foods that we eat regularly (cheese, wine) and others that are not so common. Join us for a lunch showcasing many fermented foods from many different cultures! Included in the lunch will be a few courses combining the amazing flavours that fermented foods offer.
Fermented food tasting lunch:
Miso soup – small bowl of traditional homemade chickpea miso
Korean style kimchi pancakes
House-made Tempeh ‘chips’ with zingy dipping sauces
Bibimbap – a brown rice based dish with a selection of vegetable ferments
This dish includes a fermented, plant-based ‘cheese’ and a kefir based dressing
Kefir Parfait – includes a sweet, naturally fermented kefir milk with seasonal fruit compote

Nikki has worked for over 10 years as a chef for health retreats as well as running workshops on food preservation, fermentation, foraging and healthy eating. Balancing food with the seasons, individual lifestyles and life stages is central to her health practice. Nikki has spoken at conferences, as well as her own workshops exploring healthy eating habits, tuning in to your own body, hormones and the science of gut health drawing from current research, Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese medicine perspectives.
She is currently undertaking a Bachelor of Nutritional Medicine and is passionate about the connection between food as medicine, movement for health and connection to self to enhance quality of life.
These workshops will explore the techniques as well as many benefits to health that fermented food can offer in a fun and informative way. You will go home with the confidence to ferment vegetables at home with equipment you already have.
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Traditional Arts Fair Workshop - Designing a Goldfields Garden
2020-10-24 10:30 - 13:00
Our series of Traditional Arts workshops
October’s workshops will take place in the Garden room and/or outside with plenty of space for physical distancing, Covid safe hygiene protocols in place and a limit of 8 people per workshop.

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Ever wanted to design a garden in Central Victoria that uses the right plants in the right place? You’ll be in good hands with Stan Smith

Stan is a Qualified Horticulture Teacher, Gardener & Landscape Designer. Have all your questions answered in this informative workshop.
Stan Smith has a Landscape Design and Concept business, is a lecturer in horticulture at Bendigo Tafe and has lectured at Polytechnic in Melbourne. He also creates and leads garden tours in Victoria, Tasmania and New Zealand and does a biweekly talk about gardening on ABC Central Vic. Stan is a regular at Buda, demonstrating pruning, hedging and topiary with his own students and for us all at the Traditional Arts Fair. His commitment to greener gardening practices and the application of the principals of bio-diversity extends and enriches the experience of the garden, creating year round sensory interest. His gardening workshops are accessible, easy to understand and easily implemented.
This workshop will be onsite at Buda. What to bring / wear.

Suitable clothes for outdoor work (if cold warm coats and beanies)
Sturdy footwear
Gardening gloves

The workshop will be conducted with extra precautions around distancing and cleaning practices in order to comply with guidelines provided by the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Traditional Arts Fair Workshop - Wet Felt making with Andrea McKey
2020-10-25 10:30 - 12:30
Our new series of Traditional Arts workshops
October’s workshops will take place in the Garden room and/or outside with plenty of space for physical distancing, Covid safe hygiene protocols in place and a limit of 8 people per workshop.

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Learn how to make a lovely piece of felt using merino wool tops, soapy water and elbow grease.
Andrea Mckey is a compulsive maker of bright, fun, decorative and functional pieces in glass, polymer clay, felt and mixed media. Art is Andrea’s soul food. It gives her the opportunity to create, relax, dream and explore. Andrea gets much joy making, giving away and selling her work and loves seeing pieces going to good homes. In 2009 Andrea was awarded a Churchill Fellowship for 2009/10 in order to participate in some advanced kiln fired glass technique workshops and bring that knowledge back to the Northern Territory to benefit the community. In 2016, Andrea relocated to Victoria after more than 30 years in the Northern Territory where she was a founding member of the Darwin Art Trail.
In this workshop, you will learn how to make a wet felt piece (about 30 x 40 cm) and get to take it home with you! All materials supplied.
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Buda's Secret Garden
2021-03-19 - 2021-04-18 | Buda Historic Home and Garden, 42 Hunter St, CASTLEMAINE, VIC, 3450, Australia
Buda’s Secret Garden
Discover the ‘Secret’ delights of the garden with a pot-pourri of exhibitions and site specific artworks, a treasury of literary talks and a cornucopia of hands on workshops and kids activities.
Buda Historic Home and Garden have created the Secret Garden, a haven of curiosity for all ages. In recent years, Buda has held a Traditional Arts Fair, and for the festival it will explore the themes of traditional, horticultural and culinary arts. At set times throughout the festival, the Secret Garden will host exhibitions, hands-on workshops, talks and site-specific artworks, as well as a treasure hunt to encourage foragers of all ages to wander around the garden and discover hidden delights.

General Admission Program

Lorena Carrington House Exhibition More info>
Andrea McKey Secret Garden vignettes More info>
Nancye Canobie outdoor Trees of Buda print installation and entrance windows of the Garden Room More info>

Daily 12 – 5pm
Ticketed events
Susannah Fullerton – Literary lectures – Vita Sackville-West and Sissinghurst – Includes Wine and Cheese More info>
Lorena Carrington Literary Talk – Fairy Tales and Secret Gardens More info>
Lorena Carrington – Cyanotype workshops More info>
Andrea McKey – Felt Garden Workshop More info>

Lorena Carrington - Fairy Tales and Secret Gardens
2021-03-19 - 2021-04-18 | Buda Historic Home and Garden, 42 Hunter St, CASTLEMAINE, VIC, 3450, Australia
Buda’s Secret Garden
Discover the ‘Secret’ delights of the garden with a pot-pourri of exhibitions and site specific artworks, a treasury of literary talks and a cornucopia of hands on workshops and kids activities.

Lorena Carrington – Fairy Tales and Secret Gardens
Lorena Carrington is a photographic artist and published illustrator who will hold a photographic exhibition in the Historic House that responds to the ‘Secret Garden’ theme and two literary talks. Lorena exhibits regularly, contributes creative work to arts and literary festivals, and her works are held in Australian and International collections. She is the recipient of the Australian Fairy Tale Society Award for 2020. Her illustrations are created from many photographs montaged together (up to 100 in each image), to create works that are rich with light and edged with darkness. Her work has a magical, ethereal and secret quality perfectly suited to the ‘Secret Garden’ theme and also speaks to the Historic House’s rich heritage of creative women and their roles in telling the artistic story to the broader community.
Daily 12 – 5pm
General admission

Lorena Carrington – Beauty and the Beast

Lorena Carrington – Golden Bird

Andrea McKey – Secret Garden Vignettes
2021-03-19 - 2021-04-18 | Buda Historic Home and Garden, 42 Hunter St, CASTLEMAINE, VIC, 3450, Australia
Buda’s Secret Garden
Discover the ‘Secret’ delights of the garden with a pot-pourri of exhibitions and site specific artworks, a treasury of literary talks and a cornucopia of hands on workshops and kids activities.

Andrea McKey – Secret Garden Vignettes
Andrea McKey is a maker of functional and decorative glassware, glass and polymer clay works, jewellery, mixed media mosaics, mixed media vignettes and handmade embroidered felt pieces that embrace the ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement that Buda is renowned for. Andrea will create a series of ‘peek into’ mixed media ‘Secret Garden’ vignettes, discoverable through the front bay windows of the Historic home. Running several of our Traditional Arts Fair workshops, Andrea keeps Buda connected to the community just as the Leviny women did in the troubled time post Spanish flu and war times. She believes in the joy of dreams, ideas and materials, the teaching, the learning, the making, the giving and receiving, perfect for our Covid anxious times.
Daily 12 – 5pm
General admission

Secret Garden

Vignette

Nancye Canobie – Trees of the Secret Garden
2021-03-19 - 2021-04-18 | Buda Historic Home and Garden, 42 Hunter St, CASTLEMAINE, VIC, 3450, Australia
Buda’s Secret Garden
Discover the ‘Secret’ delights of the garden with a pot-pourri of exhibitions and site specific artworks, a treasury of literary talks and a cornucopia of hands on workshops and kids activities.

Nancye Canobie – Trees of the Secret Garden
Nancye Canobie will be creating large works on drafting film referencing the trees of the Buda Garden and exhibiting etchings in the Garden room. This installation is informed by a pervasive energy – (spirit) within nature. This spirit is expressed in her work in her relationship with the Australian bush and in particular to the sculptural dynamics of certain trees.
The dead tree is her signifier of the degradation of much of our natural environment.
Daily 12 – 5pm
General admission

Nancye Canobie

Nancye Canobie – Trees

Lorena Carrington – Cyanotype Workshop for kids
2021-03-20 10:00 - 11:30 | Buda Historic Home and Garden, 42 Hunter St, CASTLEMAINE, VIC, 3450, Australia
Buda’s Secret Garden
Discover the ‘Secret’ delights of the garden with a pot-pourri of exhibitions and site specific artworks, a treasury of literary talks and a cornucopia of hands on workshops and kids activities.

Lorena Carrington – Cyanotype Workshops
Lorena Carrington is a photographic illustrator and artist who has worked with some of Australia’s best-loved authors. Her cyanotype workshop is much loved by artists and writers, children and adults. Participants explore their local surroundings and use found objects, and the cyanotype process (one of the earliest forms of photographic printing), to create their own montaged creatures and landscapes. In these workshops, we will explore the Buda garden to find inspiration for our own artworks. Paint your background and make a bird from leaves, a house from sticks, or a secret garden from flowers and feathers. These are workshops for all ages and abilities, as the montage technique is an opportunity for stress-free creative play, and pleasure in the environment.
Children’s Workshop Sat 20 March, 10am
Teenager’s Workshop Sat 20 March 1pm
Adults Workshop Sat 27 March, 2pm
$30 Kids and Teenager workshop
$50, $45 Conc Adult Workshop
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Lorena Carrington
Cyanotype Workshop
About Lorena

Cyanotype Workshop
Cyanotype Workshop

Lorena Carrington – Cyanotype Workshop for teenagers
2021-03-20 13:00 - 14:30 | Buda Historic Home and Garden, 42 Hunter St, CASTLEMAINE, VIC, 3450, Australia

Susannah Fullerton – Vita Sackville-West and Sissinghurst
2021-03-21 17:00 - 18:30 | Buda Historic Home and Garden, 42 Hunter St, CASTLEMAINE, VIC, 3450, Australia
Buda’s Secret Garden
Discover the ‘Secret’ delights of the garden with a pot-pourri of exhibitions and site specific artworks, a treasury of literary talks and a cornucopia of hands on workshops and kids activities.

Susannah Fullerton – Vita Sackville-West and Sissinghurst
Susannah Fullerton is Sydney’s best-known speaker on well-known authors and their works.
She breathes life into great literature and an author’s life. Her talks are partly to instruct, but also to entertain, so she tells people all the juicy details about the life of the writer and how a particular incident in their lives might have affected what they wrote.
She gives her audience the experience of having known an author personally and her meticulously researched talks vividly describe the life and times of an era and bring her subjects to lives to life. People come along who just want to learn more about great literature.
Including wine and cheese in the fully airconditioned Garden Room at Buda, Susannah will present a captivating insight into Vita-Sackville-West and the Sissinghurst garden.
UPDATE
Due to the uncertainty of border closures from both governments, Susannah is no longer able to be with us. This event will now be live streamed into our Garden Room venue. Susannah is very experienced in giving her talks online, and is highly entertaining. Buda will still make your evening special, so please encourage your friends to book also, mingle, wander the gardens and make an evening of it.
BREAKING NEWS
We will now be offering a behind the scenes exclusive twilight tour of the Buda grounds complete with intriguing stories of the life after dark in this very special place and the surrounding goldfields. The tour will commence when Susannah has finished her talk.
$45 Full, $42 Concession and Friends of Buda.
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Susannah Fullerton
About Susannah

Sissinghurst

Andrea McKey – Felt Garden Workshop
2021-03-23 17:00 - 19:00 | Buda Historic Home and Garden, 42 Hunter St, CASTLEMAINE, VIC, 3450, Australia
Buda’s Secret Garden
Discover the ‘Secret’ delights of the garden with a pot-pourri of exhibitions and site specific artworks, a treasury of literary talks and a cornucopia of hands on workshops and kids activities.

Andrea McKey – Felt Garden Workshop
Master of Buda Traditional Arts workshops, Andrea McKey will help you use very simple sewing, cutting and embroidery techniques to make colourful and joyous garden elements similar to those seen in her Buda Secret Garden vignettes, to take home and brighten up your day.
Andrea will provide:

Her handmade wool felt in a variety of colours and designs
Bits and bobs, beads, buttons, embroidery cottons, wood, sculptural pieces, stuffing, needles and scissors

Andrea is passionate about art, colour, patterns and the joy it brings to her life every day. She believes in the joy of dreams, ideas and materials, the teaching, the learning, the making, the giving and receiving. Art is such a giver of joy, first to the maker, then the buyer and/or the receiver.
Snacks and drinks will be provided as part of the workshop.
$50 Full, $45 Concession or Friends of Buda.
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Felt Workshop

Felt Workshop

Lorena Carrington - Fairy Tales and Secret Gardens Literary Talk Session 1
2021-03-24 16:00 - 17:00 | Buda Historic Home and Garden, 42 Hunter St, CASTLEMAINE, VIC, 3450, Australia
Buda’s Secret Garden
Discover the ‘Secret’ delights of the garden with a pot-pourri of exhibitions and site specific artworks, a treasury of literary talks and a cornucopia of hands on workshops and kids activities.

Lorena Carrington – Fairy Tales and Secret Gardens Literary Talk
Join photographic artist and illustrator Lorena Carrington as she takes you on a tour of her artworks via her books in the Garden Room at Buda, and also on a tour of the landscapes within them. From the backyards and bush of Castlemaine, to the gardens, forests and windswept shores of France and Ireland, hear how Lorena weaves the natural world into strange and fantastical fairy tale illustrations. Lorena Carrington is published in Australia with Serenity Press, and internationally with Kane Miller (US) and Wydawnictwo Tadam (Poland). Her books include the Long Lost Fairy Tales Collection with Kate Forsyth and French Fairy Tales with Sophie Masson. Lorena exhibits regularly in galleries including the Stephen McLaughlan Gallery in Melbourne, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery in Sydney and The Art Vault in Mildura. She presents at literary and arts festivals around Australia, and visits schools and libraries to give talks and hold workshops on illustration, books and story. She is the recipient of the 2020 Australian Fairy Tale Society award, for her “outstanding contribution to the field of Australian Fairy Tales.”
$15 full or $12 Concession, Kids and Friends of Buda
March 24th and 25th 4pm
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Lorena Carrington
About Lorena

French Fairy Tales

Snow White Rose Red

Lorena Carrington - Fairy Tales and Secret Gardens Literary Talk Session 2
2021-03-25 16:00 - 17:00 | Buda Historic Home and Garden, 42 Hunter St, CASTLEMAINE, VIC, 3450, Australia

Lorena Carrington – Cyanotype Workshop for families
2021-03-27 14:00 - 15:30 | Buda Historic Home and Garden, 42 Hunter St, CASTLEMAINE, VIC, 3450, Australia

Drawing Workshop - Catherine Pilgrim
2021-04-04 10:30 - 2021-04-06 16:30
Drawing Workshop at Buda Historic Home and Garden
Sunday 4th to 6th April 2021
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Enjoy three days of observational drawing in a fully supported environment. Draw to hone skills in observation, concentration and patience. Come and allow structured time to draw, the basis of all visual artwork. ​Fully catered with all materials supplied.
This three day workshop will take you on an intensive and exploratory journey into more observational and patient drawing. Build skills that will compliment and strengthen your visual arts interests, be it professional or less experienced. This special workshop will be held with a mutually supportive small group at Buda Historic Home and Garden in lovely Castlemaine, Central Victoria.
Two sessions of drawing each of the three days, punctuated with morning and afternoon teas as well a delicious light lunch.
Strictly limited to seven participants. Cost $550 also includes materials, delicious lunch, morning and afternoon tea.
COVID safety
We will be very well spaced. When necessary, masks are to be worn and sanitiser used according to government regulations.
Catherine Pilgrim’s 3 day workshop was everything I needed to catalyse me into action after a long break from creative enterprise. Catherine is encouraging, warm and generous in her approach. As well as being an inspiring artist, she is a great teacher. She nurtures your creativity and skill development gently and the wonderful meals and homemade cakes were a fabulous bonus. Hannah
Please email or phone Catherine to register or for further details.
cp@catherinepilgrim.com
​0412 550100

Buda After Dark
2021-04-17 18:00 - 20:00
A twilight tour presented by Kerry Anderson with wine and cheese on Saturday 17thApril, giving a fascinating insight into evening-life in the olden days with candles and gas lamps.
“November 1900 Dorothy writes in her diary: “Last Monday was bonfire night, we had a bonfire between the tennis court and mangle room…”
$25/$22
Friends of Buda $20
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Stories of Buda. A series of specially themed tours and after dark exclusive events exploring the life and times of the extraordinary Leviny family through 118 years of makers and collectors, Arts and Crafts and creative family life
The Australian Heritage Festival is bringing people together from across the country, from all walks of life, and for those who have enjoyed discovering heritage for a long time or are just taking their first steps to do so. Join us. Celebrate heritage and culture through ceremony, song and dance, performance art, talks and tours.

NATIONAL TRUST HERITAGE FESTIVAL Themed Tours
2021-04-17 18:00 - 2021-05-23 18:00
Buda’s specialist tour guides will bring to life the story of the remarkable Leviny family with a series of specially designed themed tours that will present anecdotes of gold, family life, the Arts and Crafts movement and Buda’s Australian Arts collection.
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Named after Budapest by its Hungarian owner, Ernest Leviny, Buda was home to the creative family for 118 years. Following in his footsteps, five of his daughters were extraordinarily artistic and Buda houses their significant intact collection of furniture, art works and personal belongings. Themed tours will explore their works, their lives and influences and the collection. A special after dark Lamplight Tour will give a fascinating insight into evenings spent by candles and gas lamps, and tours will also tell the story of goldsmith Ernest Leviny and life on the goldfields. Play the Buda Garden Treasure Hunt app for kids and finally a Twilight Jazz event will make for a special evening in Buda’s Garden room and formal garden.

DateTimeTour/EventPresenter

Saturday 17th April 6pmBuda After Dark / Wine and CheeseKerry Anderson

Sunday 18th April11amA Golden Opportunity: Ernest Leviny’s Story Chris Wheat

Saturday 24th April11amMakers and Collectors
The Arts and Crafts Movement and the influence on the Leviny DaughtersHouse Curator Lauretta Zilles

Saturday 1st May11amA Happy Family:
Childhood memories growing up at Buda (Through the eyes of the Leviny Children)Margaret Callister

Saturday 1st May5pmTwilight Jazz with barThe Chonk Trio

Sunday 2nd May11amLevinys and Gold: Living amongst the MinesClive Willman

Sunday 23rd May11amArt Influences and Influencers: A Focus on the Buda Art CollectionChris Lloyd

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Stories of Buda. A series of specially themed tours and after dark exclusive events exploring the life and times of the extraordinary Leviny family through 118 years of makers and collectors, Arts and Crafts and creative family life
The Australian Heritage Festival is bringing people together from across the country, from all walks of life, and for those who have enjoyed discovering heritage for a long time or are just taking their first steps to do so. Join us. Celebrate heritage and culture through ceremony, song and dance, performance art, talks and tours.

Twilight Jazz
2021-05-01 17:00 - 19:00
Twilight Jazz

Buda is delighted to present a special twilight evening with the incomparable CHONK trio on Saturday 1st May at 5pm.
Chonk is one of Melbourne‘s hottest swing outfits specialising in the music of Count Basie and the Benny Goodman sextet. They bring an energy and authenticity to their music that excites both the ears and the feet. Combining the talents of some of Melbourne’s most established musicians, Chonk captures the fervour and passion of swing in the 1940‘s along with the creativity and edge of early Bebop. Whether you want to dance to stomping rhythms or sit and listen to romantic melodies, Chonk will have you grinning ear to ear.
Doors open 4.30 and there will be a bar and snacks available. Autumn twilight in the Garden Room will be an absolute delight.
Single Tickets $30
Concession $28
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Growing herbs for the kitchen with Carol Henderson
2021-11-04 17:30 - 19:30 | Buda Historic Home and Garden, 42 Hunter St, CASTLEMAINE, VIC, 3450, Australia
Our series of Traditional Arts Fair Workshops 2021. Workshops will take place in the Garden room and/or outside with plenty of space for physical distancing, Covid safe hygiene protocols in place and strict attendance limits.
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Everything you need to become confident growing a range of culinary herbs at home. Learn the best herbs for sunny or shady spots, which grow well pots and what to grow when. Discover rules of thumb to know which herbs you can take cuttings from and which grow best from seed, and enjoy tasting herbal tea made with fresh leaves from the Buda garden.

Buda’s own Garden Curator, Carol Henderson is a horticulturist, permaculture designer and teacher. Passionate about urban food production, she finds all plants and gardens fascinating and regularly runs workshops for CERES, schools and local councils. Working with children, youth and adults from all walks of life, Carol tailors each session to suit the needs and interests of each group. Her style is friendly and highly interactive so you won’t be sitting still for long!
Price includes supper and herbal teas from the garden.

What to bring
Note pad and pen
COVID safety

This workshop will take place in the Garden Room, under Covid safe distancing requirements and strict limitation on numbers.
See our Covid Safe plan here
Should we have to cancel the workshop due to Government changes relating to COVD-19, we will let you know as soon as possible. A full refund will be made to the payment method you used to purchase tickets.
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Traditional Arts Fair Workshop – Duang's Wrap and Roll
2021-11-05 17:30 - 19:00
Our series of Traditional Arts Fair Workshops 2021. Workshops will take place in the Garden room and/or outside with plenty of space for physical distancing, Covid safe hygiene protocols in place and strict attendance limits.
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Duang’s Rice Paper Rolls
Learn to make Rice Paper Rolls with Duang Tengtrirat and share the meal afterwards.
I love to cook and share my love of cooking. It is an experience of the heart, mind and senses.
After sixty years of fine tuning how to make food taste as good as it can be, I concluded that good food comes from good ingredients. Nothing can be better than fresh, local, seasonal and, whenever possible, organic foods.
All classes will be partially hands on and partially show and tell.
During the classes discussion and exploration of the cultural implications on the ethnic groups who originally developed the dishes will be explored

​Produce used:
Most of the ingredients will be from surrounding farms, local, seasonal and fresh. We use organic produce whenever possible. Some ingredients will be from the garden less than 10 metres away from the kitchen.
Class Hours and Sharing of food and beverages:
The classes will start at 5.30pm and runs for about 1 1/2 hrs.
After class, we will enjoy what we made.
There will be leftovers to take home.
Other information:

Wear comfortable clothing with toe covered shoes.

Aprons and knives are provided in class. If you have your favourites, please bring these along.

COVID safety

This workshop will take place in the Garden Room, under Covid safe distancing requirements and strict limitation on numbers.
See our Covid Safe plan here
Should we have to cancel the workshop due to Government changes relating to COVD-19, we will let you know as soon as possible. A full refund will be made to the payment method you used to purchase tickets.
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Gardening in Small Spaces with Carol Henderson
2021-11-06 10:00 - 15:00 | Buda Historic Home and Garden, 42 Hunter St, CASTLEMAINE, VIC, 3450, Australia
Our series of Traditional Arts Fair Workshops 2021. Workshops will take place in the Garden room and/or outside with plenty of space for physical distancing, Covid safe hygiene protocols in place and strict attendance limits.
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Create an abundance of vegetables, fruit and herbs in even the smallest of patches. This hands on workshop covers everything you need to get your garden pumping, including growing in pots. Suitable for beginner gardeners or those who are new to growing food.

Buda’s own Garden Curator, Carol Henderson is a horticulturist, permaculture designer and teacher. Passionate about urban food production, she finds all plants and gardens fascinating and regularly runs workshops for CERES, schools and local councils. Working with children, youth and adults from all walks of life, Carol tailors each session to suit the needs and interests of each group. Her style is friendly and highly interactive so you won’t be sitting still for long!
This hands on all day workshop includes refreshments and a special Buda picnic lunch.

What to bring
Note pad and pen
What to wear
Comfortable, weather-appropriate clothing and sturdy footwear
COVID safety

Our workshops will take place outdoors with weather shelter provided, under Covid safe distancing requirements and strict limitation on numbers.
See our Covid Safe plan here
Should we have to cancel the workshop due to Government changes relating to COVD-19, we will let you know as soon as possible. A full refund will be made to the payment method you used to purchase tickets.
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Mastering cuttings with Carol Henderson
2021-11-07 13:00 - 16:00 | Buda Historic Home and Garden, 42 Hunter St, CASTLEMAINE, VIC, 3450, Australia
Our series of Traditional Arts Fair Workshops 2021. Workshops will take place in the Garden room and/or outside with plenty of space for physical distancing, Covid safe hygiene protocols in place and strict attendance limits.
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Make new plants from old ones in this hands on workshop. Learn the theory and put it into practice by propagating some of Buda’s historic plants to take home. Suitable for beginners as well as those who want to take their propagation skills to the next level.

Buda’s own Garden Curator, Carol Henderson is a horticulturist, permaculture designer and teacher. Passionate about urban food production, she finds all plants and gardens fascinating and regularly runs workshops for CERES, schools and local councils. Working with children, youth and adults from all walks of life, Carol tailors each session to suit the needs and interests of each group. Her style is friendly and highly interactive so you won’t be sitting still for long!
Price includes refreshments.

What to bring
Note pad and pen
What to wear
Comfortable, weather-appropriate clothing and sturdy footwear
COVID safety

This workshop will take place in the Garden Room, under Covid safe distancing requirements and strict limitation on numbers.
See our Covid Safe plan here
Should we have to cancel the workshop due to Government changes relating to COVD-19, we will let you know as soon as possible. A full refund will be made to the payment method you used to purchase tickets.
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Traditional Arts Fair Workshop - Strudel Making
2021-11-10 17:30 - 19:30
Our Traditional Arts Fair workshops 2021
Our series of Traditional Arts Fair Workshops 2021. Workshops will take place in the Garden room and/or outside with plenty of space for physical distancing, Covid safe hygiene protocols in place and strict attendance limits.
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In this workshop, participants will learn how to make the perfect strudel with our resident expert Peter Lukaitis
Always a hit at our Traditional Arts Fair, Peter Lukaitis will expand on his demonstration to take you through the whole process of strudel making.
With more than a nod to Buda’s Hungarian roots, Apple strudel is a traditional Viennese strudel, a popular pastry in Austria, Northern Italy and in many other countries in Europe that once belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Peter will demonstrate all the processes for making the perfect strudel then while they are in the oven you will be treated to a strudel afternoon tea handmade by Peter. You’ll also get to take some hot strudel home straight from the oven along with Peter’s own recipe.
Peter Lukaitis moved to Castlemaine in 1990, lives in an old 1860’s house and appreciates the history, intactness and beauty of Buda.
“I’m a great supporter of preserve and conserve.
I have been making desserts since we lived on a farm at Sutton Grange. I like being a little bit creative and seeing others enjoy the result. I tend to be averse to change and I like doing something well, so I suppose I have been making strudels for maybe 15 years! You can have them hot or cold, they keep in the fridge and with some Greek yoghurt, heaven!”
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COVID safety

This workshop will take place in the Garden Room, under Covid safe distancing requirements and strict limitation on numbers.
See our Covid Safe plan here
Should we have to cancel the workshop due to Government changes relating to COVD-19, we will let you know as soon as possible. A full refund will be made to the payment method you used to purchase tickets.

Lorena Carrington – Cyanotype Workshop for kids
2021-11-11 16:00 - 17:30 | Buda Historic Home and Garden, 42 Hunter St, CASTLEMAINE, VIC, 3450, Australia
Our series of Traditional Arts Fair Workshops 2021. Workshops will take place in the Garden room and/or outside with plenty of space for physical distancing, Covid safe hygiene protocols in place and strict attendance limits.
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Lorena Carrington – Cyanotype Workshops
Lorena Carrington is a photographic illustrator and artist who has worked with some of Australia’s best-loved authors. Her cyanotype workshop is much loved by artists and writers, children and adults. Participants explore their local surroundings and use found objects, and the cyanotype process (one of the earliest forms of photographic printing), to create their own montaged creatures and landscapes. In these workshops, we will explore the Buda garden to find inspiration for our own artworks. Paint your background and make a bird from leaves, a house from sticks, or a secret garden from flowers and feathers. These are workshops for all ages and abilities, as the montage technique is an opportunity for stress-free creative play, and pleasure in the environment.

COVID safety

This workshop will take place in an outside shelter, under Covid safe distancing requirements and strict limitation on numbers.
See our Covid Safe plan here
Should we have to cancel the workshop due to Government changes relating to COVD-19, we will let you know as soon as possible. A full refund will be made to the payment method you used to purchase tickets.
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Lorena Carrington
Cyanotype Workshop

Cyanotype Workshop
Cyanotype Workshop
