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Warrnambool Storytelling Festival 2025

Seventeen days of diverse performing arts and literary events for all ages, celebrated on Gunditjmara & Eastern Maar Country each winter.
What's your story?

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Warrnambool Storytelling Festival Launch
27 Jun 2025
7:30 - 9:30pm
Lighthouse Theatre, Timor Street, Warrnambool
The salty sounds of The Southern Ocean Sea Band will signal the official launch of the Warrnambool Storytelling Festival for 2025!
- Upcoming
  
  27 Jun 2025

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Stella Day Out Warrnambool
28 Jun 2025
11:00am - 4:00pm
Lighthouse Theatre, Timor Street, Warrnambool
Stella Day Out is coming to town as part of the launch weekend of Warrnambool Storytelling Festival!
- Sat, Jun 28 2025, 11am - 4pm

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Dave Thornton - Nothing's Unpossible
28 Jun 2025
8:00 - 10:00pm
Mozart Hall, 2 Gilles Street, Warrnambool
Dave Thornton is taking his smash-hit 2024 festival show on a road trip to you in 2025! Dave's coming to Warrnambool's Home of Comedy - Dirty Angel Comedy!
- Sat, Jun 28 2025, 8 - 10pm

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All You Can Eat Storytelling
29 Jun 2025
12:30 - 4:00pm
Emmanuel Centre, Botanic Road, Warrnambool
An afternoon's tasting plate of activities for the whole family to help start off the festival, featuring:
'LET'S TALK' Human Library
- Sun, Jun 29 2025, 12:30 - 4pm

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Songwriter's Concert
29 Jun 2025
7:30 - 9:30pm
Mozart Hall, 2 Gilles Street, Warrnambool
Matt Neal and Jackson McLaren are two of the finest songwriters to emerge from south-west Victoria in recent decades.
- Sun, Jun 29 2025, 7:30 - 9:30pm

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Warrnambool: Something to Sing About
2 Jul 2025
7:30 - 8:30pm
Mozart Hall, 2 Gilles Street, Warrnambool
Warrnambool has a rich and varied musical history and the city has been celebrated in song and dance.
- Wed, Jul 2 2025, 7:30 - 8:30pm

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The Big Male Chinwag
3 Jul 2025
6:30 - 7:30pm
City Memorial Bowls Club, Cramer Street, Warrnambool
The men from LET'S TALK Warrnambool would like to invite you to join for a meal, meet new mates, and share some stories, creating a safe space for the males of Warrnambool to have conversations aro
- Thu, Jul 3 2025, 6:30 - 7:30pm

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Get Published! Panel Discussion
4 Jul 2025
7:30 - 9:30pm
Mozart Hall, 2 Gilles Street, Warrnambool
So you have an idea for a book or a manuscript and you want to get published!
Come and hear from a panel of people who can help you explore the options. Books will also be on sale.
- Fri, Jul 4 2025, 7:30 - 9:30pm

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Storybool
5 Jul 2025
10:00am - 3:00pm
Warrnambool Library, 8 Kepler Street, Warrnambool
Storybool is a day filled with stories, songs, adventure and fun, presented by the Warrnambool Library and Learning Centre in partnership with Deakin University.
- Sat, Jul 5 2025, 10am - 3pm

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The Daze of Her Life
5 Jul 2025
8:00 - 10:00pm
Mozart Hall, 2 Gilles Street, Warrnambool
The Daze of Her Life is our annual contribution to Radio Theatre, performed and recorded before an on-edge audience for 3 WAY FM.
- Sat, Jul 5 2025, 8 - 10pm

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The Way of Walkers
6 Jul 2025
2:00 - 3:00pm
Warrnambool RSL, 1 Artillery Crescent, Warrnambool
Follow in the steps of Robert Louis Stevenson’s donkey through the Cévennes.
Follow a dog along a trail on the Amalfi coast.
Follow a horse route in Bhutan.
- Sun, Jul 6 2025, 2 - 3pm

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Heavy Lifting: Live Music Memorabilia Exhibition Launch
6 Jul 2025
7:00 - 9:00pm
Warrnambool Masonic Centre
A storied exhibition of original vintage rock t-shirts and memorabilia drawn from the collection of Adrian Anderson, original roadie producer and co-founder of ARCA – The Australian Road Crew Assoc
- Sun, Jul 6 2025, 7 - 9pm

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Birth Stories
9 Jul 2025
6:30 - 8:30pm
Tilly Divine, 174 Liebig Street, Warrnambool
Join us for drinks and supper at 'Tilly Divine' as our panelists share their many and varied experiences of birth. Guests will also be welcome to take the mic and share their own stories!
- Wed, Jul 9 2025, 6:30 - 8:30pm

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Writing Workshop - Adapting a true story
11 Jul 2025
All day

Explores the challenges of writing about real events and people. Can you claim ownership of your own story?
- Fri, Jul 11 2025, All day

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The Passion of St Nicholas featuring Geraldine Quinn
11 Jul 2025
7:30 - 8:30pm
Lighthouse Theatre, Timor Street, Warrnambool
Ever since the 1991 St John’s College, Dandenong, Talent Quest, Geraldine and her
- Fri, Jul 11 2025, 7:30 - 8:30pm

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Love is Stronger Than Death
12 Jul 2025
7:30 - 9:30pm
Mozart Hall, 2 Gilles Street, Warrnambool
From the heartache of young love, to the contentedness of sharing old age.
- Sat, Jul 12 2025, 7:30 - 9:30pm

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Squishface Studios
13 Jul 2025
10:00 - 11:30am
Collins Booksellers
Join us for some Squishbookin'!
- Sun, Jul 13 2025, 10 - 11:30am

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WSF - Open Mic
13 Jul 2025
2:00 - 4:00pm
Warrnambool RSL, 1 Artillery Crescent, Warrnambool
Calling all poets, singers, performers and storytellers. If you have a poem to read, a song to sing, a story to tell in any medium, this event is for you. Original material particularly welcomed.
- Sun, Jul 13 2025, 2 - 4pm

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Don Cowling & Friends
13 Jul 2025
7:30 - 9:30pm
Mozart Hall, 2 Gilles Street, Warrnambool
Don will perform a selection of his prize-winning ballads along with some classic covers.
- Sun, Jul 13 2025, 7:30 - 9:30pm