Bathurst Region Tourism

Sunday Sketch & Make Sessions // ESSSENSSSE
2025-07-06 10:00 - 14:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Sunday Sketch Sessions // ESSSENSSSE
Head to BRAG each Sunday during ESSSENSSSE for a self-guided Sunday Sketch & Make Session!

Sundays, 10am-2pm
FREE, all welcome, materials supplied

About the Exhibition:
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) presents ESSSENSSSE, a joyful work about healing and new beginnings by acclaimed contemporary artist HOSSEI (NSW), guest curated by Tesha Malott.
ESSSENSSSE is an aquatic ecosystem that explores the tenacity of the human spirit, stripping away corporeal human qualities and revealing what’s underneath. ESSSENSSSE follows HOSSEI’s exploration of creating costumes that ‘heal’. Featuring a cast of 16 other-worldly sea creatures, ESSSENSSSE transitions from a series of dynamic and joyful performances into a sensory, large-scale installation, in which visitors are surrounded by a playful, 100% tactile landscape.
A Verge Gallery exhibition, touring in partnership with Museums & Galleries of NSW, supported by the University of Sydney and proudly funded by the NSW Government. Verge Gallery is supported by the University of Sydney Union.

Image: HOSSEI, ESSSENSSSE, 2023. Performer Lauren Booker. Dimensions variable. Photography by Jacquie Manning.

Talks & Tea // ESSSENSSSE
2025-07-09 10:30 - 12:00 | Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
TALKS & TEA // ESSSENSSSE
Join Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) Volunteer Guides for a spotlight talk and walk through of exhibition ESSSENSSSE!
This is a social series for visitors to learn more about the current exhibitions, Bathurst’s vibrant art scene, and to meet like-minded locals!
Wednesday 9 July and 13 August
10:30am – 12pm
FREE, refreshments provided by donation online or at gallery reception
About the exhibition:
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) presents ESSSENSSSE, a joyful work about healing and new beginnings by acclaimed contemporary artist HOSSEI (NSW), guest curated by Tesha Malott.
ESSSENSSSE is an aquatic ecosystem that explores the tenacity of the human spirit, stripping away corporeal human qualities and revealing what’s underneath. ESSSENSSSE follows HOSSEI’s exploration of creating costumes that ‘heal’. Featuring a cast of 16 other-worldly sea creatures, ESSSENSSSE transitions from a series of dynamic and joyful performances into a sensory, large-scale installation, in which visitors are surrounded by a playful, 100% tactile landscape.
ESSSENSSSE began when HOSSEI became fascinated by the sand dollar sea creatures— their shape, features, and how in mediaeval times it was truly believed that sand dollars were mermaid currency. When looking at the sand dollar, HOSSEI realised that if you were to remove the physical characteristics of a human body, you would be left with a mouth and an anus, just like the sand dollar. It is this idea that compelled HOSSEI to make the sand dollar an emblem of the show. An entry point and an exit, not just with food, but in the sense of discerning which energies come through and nourish the insides, and which are let out. ESSSENSSSE is about letting go and being one with the spirit and embracing its purity and vulnerability.
A Verge Gallery exhibition, touring in partnership with Museums & Galleries of NSW, supported by the University of Sydney and proudly funded by the NSW Government. Verge Gallery is supported by the University of Sydney Union.
Image: HOSSEI, ESSSENSSSE, 2023. Performer Lauren Booker. Dimensions variable. Photography by Jacquie Manning.

School Holidays Workshop // Sew your own plush toy!
2025-07-10 10:30 - 12:00 | Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
School Holiday Workshop // Sew Your Own Plush Toy!
Join this creative School Holiday workshop and learn how to sew your own unique aquatic creature!
Thursday 10 July, 10:30am-12:00pm
Ages 6-17
$10 members, $15 non-members, RSVP essential
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) presents ESSSENSSSE, a joyful work about healing and new beginnings by acclaimed contemporary artist HOSSEI (NSW), guest curated by Tesha Malott.
ESSSENSSSE is an aquatic ecosystem that explores the tenacity of the human spirit, stripping away corporeal human qualities and revealing what’s underneath. ESSSENSSSE follows HOSSEI’s exploration of creating costumes that ‘heal’. Featuring a cast of 16 other-worldly sea creatures, ESSSENSSSE transitions from a series of dynamic and joyful performances into a sensory, large-scale installation, in which visitors are surrounded by a playful, 100% tactile landscape.
A Verge Gallery exhibition, touring in partnership with Museums & Galleries of NSW, supported by the University of Sydney and proudly funded by the NSW Government. Verge Gallery is supported by the University of Sydney Union.

Girrawaa Art Exhibition & Art Sale
2025-07-12 09:00 - 14:00 | Girrawaa Creative Arts Centre, Entry via Blayney Road, Bathurst, 2795
Bathurst Correctional Centre – Girrawaa Arts Centre will be open to the public for an Exhibition and Art Sale.
We have over 20 inmates who are exhibiting their artwork for this event.
All art is created by First Nations artists within Bathurst Correctional Centre and is part of our NAIDOC Week Celebrations.

Girrawaa Art Exhibition and Sale
2025-07-12 09:00 - 14:00 | Bathurst Correctional Centre
To celebrate NAIDOC Week the Girrawaa Creative Centre at Bathurst Correctional Centre will be opening our doors on Saturday 12th July.
We have both traditional and Contemporary art painted by First Nations Artists currently incarcerated in Bathurst Correctional Centre.
Girrawaa provides a connection to Culture and Healing for our artists.

ARTIST TALK // Mystery of Missing Westerlies
2025-07-12 11:00 - 12:00 | Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
ARTIST TALK // Mystery of Missing Westerlies
Saturday 12 July, 11am
Hear from Ecological Gyre Theory’s Chantelle Mitchell (VIC) and Jaxon Waterhouse (NT) on BRAG Foyer Space Exhibition, Mystery of Missing Westerlies
Please note: this event will be live streamed at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery.
FREE, all welcome, RSVP essential
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) presents Mystery of Missing Westerlies by Chantelle Mitchell and Jaxon Waterhouse (Ecological Gyre Theory).
Mystery of Missing Westerlies is a body of work emerging in response to a news article from April 7, 1950 which details “extraordinary weather”; a local manifestation of global atmospheric change, being the disappearance of westerly winds across New South Wales in response to planetary changes sweeping the northern hemisphere. Working across installation, video and intervention, Mystery of Missing Westerlies considers pasts, presents and futures in an interconnected planetary atmospheric frame.
The disappearance of the westerly winds is itself both a historical anomaly and a planetary omen. We treat this climatic rupture as an atmospheric case file, a study in atmospheric disappearance, inviting consideration of the interplay between absence, evidence, and the forces shaping our world. Here, wind becomes both subject and metaphor—an invisible actor whose movements carry sediments, shape deserts, and drive oceanic currents, but also a narrative force whose disappearance tells of shifting global patterns. Embedded within this body of work are material traces of evidence and investigation, material clues in a wider investigation of climate, memory, and time.

Winter Festival Art
2025-07-15 10:00 - 12:00 | New South Wales
Here at Bee Sting Arts, we love to create. Creating is great for growing, exploring and learning!Come and enjoy some Winter Art! Painting in watercolour, acrylic, glitter and some drawing as well! All paints, paper. brushes and tools provided. Please bring along your own morning tea and an old shirt!We can’t wait to create with you.
Cost: 1 x $50 Creative Kids Voucher

School Holiday Workshop // Make Your Own Sea Slime!
2025-07-16 10:30 - 12:00 | Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
School Holiday Workshop // Make Your Own Sea Slime!
Join this creative School Holiday workshop and learn how to make aquatic themed slime!
Wednesday 16 July, 10:30am-12:00pm
Ages 6-17
$10 members, $15 non-members, RSVP essential
About the Exhibition:
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) presents ESSSENSSSE, a joyful work about healing and new beginnings by acclaimed contemporary artist HOSSEI (NSW), guest curated by Tesha Malott.
ESSSENSSSE is an aquatic ecosystem that explores the tenacity of the human spirit, stripping away corporeal human qualities and revealing what’s underneath. ESSSENSSSE follows HOSSEI’s exploration of creating costumes that ‘heal’. Featuring a cast of 16 other-worldly sea creatures, ESSSENSSSE transitions from a series of dynamic and joyful performances into a sensory, large-scale installation, in which visitors are surrounded by a playful, 100% tactile landscape.
A Verge Gallery exhibition, touring in partnership with Museums & Galleries of NSW, supported by the University of Sydney and proudly funded by the NSW Government. Verge Gallery is supported by the University of Sydney Union.

Exhibition Tours // ESSSENSSSE
2025-07-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Exhibition Tours // ESSSENSSSE
Join a FREE, guided exhibition tour by BRAG staff on Saturdays at 11am!
Free, all welcome, RSVP online or at gallery reception.
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) presents ESSSENSSSE, a joyful work about healing and new beginnings by acclaimed contemporary artist HOSSEI (NSW), guest curated by Tesha Malott.
ESSSENSSSE is an aquatic ecosystem that explores the tenacity of the human spirit, stripping away corporeal human qualities and revealing what’s underneath. ESSSENSSSE follows HOSSEI’s exploration of creating costumes that ‘heal’. Featuring a cast of 16 other-worldly sea creatures, ESSSENSSSE transitions from a series of dynamic and joyful performances into a sensory, large-scale installation, in which visitors are surrounded by a playful, 100% tactile landscape.
ESSSENSSSE began when HOSSEI became fascinated by the sand dollar sea creatures— their shape, features, and how in mediaeval times it was truly believed that sand dollars were mermaid currency. When looking at the sand dollar, HOSSEI realised that if you were to remove the physical characteristics of a human body, you would be left with a mouth and an anus, just like the sand dollar. It is this idea that compelled HOSSEI to make the sand dollar an emblem of the show. An entry point and an exit, not just with food, but in the sense of discerning which energies come through and nourish the insides, and which are let out. ESSSENSSSE is about letting go and being one with the spirit and embracing its purity and vulnerability.
A Verge Gallery exhibition, touring in partnership with Museums & Galleries of NSW, supported by the University of Sydney and proudly funded by the NSW Government. Verge Gallery is supported by the University of Sydney Union.
Image: HOSSEI, ESSSENSSSE, 2023. Performer Lauren Booker. Dimensions variable. Photography by Jacquie Manning.

Archibald Day Tour
2025-07-30 08:30 | New South Wales
Love Art? Let’s Go to The Archibalds!

Join Bathurst Tours for a cultural day out to the Art Gallery of NSW to experience The Archibald Prize – Australia’s most iconic portrait exhibition!

Return transport from Bathurst

Gallery entry included

Guided tour of the exhibition

Free time to explore or grab a coffee

Whether you’re an art lover or just looking for a unique day out, this trip is the perfect blend of creativity, conversation, and inspiration.

Limited seats available – book now and don’t miss your chance to see the faces of Australia through a new lens!

Call 1300 728 321 Book online at https://bathursttours.com.au/archibald-day-tour/

Still Life Workshop @ BRAG
2025-08-21 18:00 - 20:00 | Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
ESSSENSSSE // Still Life Workshop
Learn new techniques to capture colour, shape, and texture with local artist Rachel Pinel.
This workshop will be held within current exhibition ‘ESSSENSSSE’ by HOSSEI, offering a contemporary perspective to classical techniques.

• Thursday 21 August 2025, 6-8pm
• No experience necessary, Ages: 18+, Limited Tickets
• $35 members, $40 non-members, RSVP essential

Rachel Pinel is a figurative realist painter based in the Central West of New South Wales, Australia. She completed her academic training in drawing and painting at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, building on earlier studies at the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney and the I. Repin St. Petersburg State Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Russia.
Working within the traditions of classical realism, Pinel’s paintings explore light, atmosphere, and the quiet poetry of everyday subjects. Her work has been recognised in several prestigious art prizes, including selection as a finalist in both the Lethbridge 2000 Small Scale Art Award and the AME Bale Art Prize.

About the Exhibition
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) presents ESSSENSSSE, a joyful work about healing and new beginnings by acclaimed contemporary artist HOSSEI (NSW), guest curated by Tesha Malott.
ESSSENSSSE is an aquatic ecosystem that explores the tenacity of the human spirit, stripping away corporeal human qualities and revealing what’s underneath. ESSSENSSSE follows HOSSEI’s exploration of creating costumes that ‘heal’. Featuring a cast of 16 other-worldly sea creatures, ESSSENSSSE transitions from a series of dynamic and joyful performances into a sensory, large-scale installation, in which visitors are surrounded by a playful, 100% tactile landscape.
A Verge Gallery exhibition, touring in partnership with Museums & Galleries of NSW, supported by the University of Sydney and proudly funded by the NSW Government. Verge Gallery is supported by the University of Sydney Union.

Tipsy Tuesday | Life Drawing @ The Victoria Bathurst
2025-08-26 18:00 | The Victoria Bathurst, 3 Keppel Street, Bathurst, 2795
Curious about life drawing? Been sketching for years? Just after a fun night out with friends? The Tipsy Sketching Club has it all! Set within Bathurst’s favourite CBD pub, join The Tipsy Sketching Club for an evening of sipping, snacking, and sketching with some fun and frivolity thrown in for good measure! The event runs for approximately 2-hours with a range of timed poses from 2-25 minutes, with breaks for drinks, food, sharing and laughing. Drawing materials can be supplied however if you have them, bring them! All mediums and artistic abilities welcome!

PRIMAVERA - BRAGS Black Tie Gala Dinner and Art Auction
2025-08-30 17:30 - 23:30 | BoxGrove, 119 Duramana Road, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia
Inspired by the landscape of Bathurst and the concept of people coming together to support the growth of the gallery, this theme celebrates the art of the landscape, combining lush greenery, twinkling lights and understated luxury, with a touch of arty fun. Sophisticated and fresh, this event connects to the Gallery’s place in the region’s cultural and environmental heart.

Dress code: Black Tie with a botanical touch

Enjoy a warm welcome entertained by live music and a dinner served with local award-winning wines. On offer will be a cocktail created especially for this event by The Grange Distillery.

There will be several artworks available for auction by a well-regarded auctioneer from Elders Emms Mooney Real Estate. A selection of artworks provided by artists from our Region will be auctioned on the night. Display of art available to view from 5.30pm.

We encourage you to bring your family and friends to this premier night of Botanical Elegance.

Courtesy bus will depart The Courthouse in Russell Street from 5pm. Return bus departs from 10.30pm.

Purchase tickets here.

Exhibition Tours
2025-09-27 11:00 - 2025-11-08 12:00 | Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, 2795
Join us at the gallery each Saturday during our current exhibitions, for a free guided tour!
Saturdays, 11am
FREE, all welcome, RSVP online or at BRAG reception
Our current suite of exhibitions includes:
A Tear in the Fabric presents new and existing works from nine Asian and Asian Australian artists who embrace distortion as a mode of disruption. In partnership with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, the exhibition revolves around notions of aesthetic, material and conceptual interventions integrated into established forms of creative practice. Picking at the seams to make space for new narratives and artistic approaches, we see exploratory excursions into concepts of place, materiality, memory, identity and perception, manifesting in a diverse range of mediums.
Tea Ceremony in the Celestial Garden, is reminiscent of the famous Japanese food display ‘shokuhin sampuru’ or French pastries display in Paris, the cakes are mouth-watering, but not for consumption. The construction of the cakes in ceramics is labour-intensive, down to each sprinkle of hundreds and thousands. Their imaginary forms conjure a colourful, dream-like world. This project was created during a 2025 artist residency at the PumpHouse Albury.
Landscapes of Imagination: From the Collection, bringing together works from the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Collection that reflect the enduring artistic allure of Hill End. This historic village has captured the imaginations of artists drawn to its layered histories, dramatic terrain, and evocative sense of place.
Image: Jayanto Tan, Berries Cream Tarts, 2025, ceramic, 9 x 26 x 26 x 26 cm. Courtesy the artist.

School Holidays // Cakes and Clay!
2025-10-04 10:30 - 12:30 | Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Join Indonesian artist Jayanto Tan for a fun workshop for children and parents/guardians!

Taste a variety of cakes and then recreate them in air dry clay! Inspired by Jayanto’s exhibition, Tea Ceremony in the Celestial Garden, get creative as a family and take home your own air-dry clay sculpture.

Date & Time: Saturday 4 October, 10:30am-12:30pm

Ages: Children 6-17 + Parent/Guardian

Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) presents Tea Ceremony in the Celestial Garden by Jayanto Tan.

Colourfully crafted confections tantalise the viewer from inside glass cabinets in Tea Ceremony in the Celestial Garden. Reminiscent of the famous Japanese food display ‘shokuhin sampuru’ or French pastries display in Paris, the cakes are mouth-watering, but not for consumption. The construction of the cakes in ceramics is labour-intensive, down to each sprinkle of hundreds and thousands. Their imaginary forms conjure a colourful, dream-like world. This project was created during a 2025 artist residency at the PumpHouse Albury.

Growing up in a large farming family in Indonesia, the artist has many memories of gatherings in the kitchen, cooking, sharing stories, laughing, singing, and drinking tea. Cake was a luxury even for formal occasions like birthday parties, baby showers, weddings, and funerals. Tan reflects on those bittersweet memories. Even though the family may not have been able to afford cakes like these, they are offered here with humour and love.

The mystery of cake, fake or real, lies under the heavy icing and elaborate decoration. The cakes are pretty to look at but carry weight underneath. Each glass cabinet is securely locked, and the objects can’t be touched. For the artist, looking through the glass exposes the fragility of raw human material covered in makeup, like late-night performers.

The garden that the artist has created, to honour family and friends who have deceased, explores Tan’s personal narrative of identity, longing, queerness, lost family, memorial, and self-destruction, here portrayed through alienation, fantasy, and desire in a peaceful dreamland.Tea Ceremony in the Celestial Garden is a space where friends and family from the past, and Gallery visitors in the present, can mingle to envision the future.

This exhibition is dedicated to my beautiful mother. – Jayanto Tan

Image: Jayanto Tan, Berries Cream Tarts, 2025, ceramic, 9 x 26 x 26 x 26 cm. Courtesy the artist.

Sunday Sketch & Make Sessions
2025-10-05 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-10-12 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-10-19 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-10-26 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-11-02 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-11-09 10:00 - 14:00 | Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Head to BRAG each Sunday during our suite of exhibitions for a self-guided Sunday Sketch & Make Session!

Free – all welcome, materials supplied.

Current suite of exhibitions includes:

A Tear in the Fabric presents new and existing works from nine Asian and Asian Australian artists who embrace distortion as a mode of disruption. In partnership with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, the exhibition revolves around notions of aesthetic, material and conceptual interventions integrated into established forms of creative practice. Picking at the seams to make space for new narratives and artistic approaches, we see exploratory excursions into concepts of place, materiality, memory, identity and perception, manifesting in a diverse range of mediums.

Tea Ceremony in the Celestial Garden, is reminiscent of the famous Japanese food display ‘shokuhin sampuru’ or French pastries display in Paris, the cakes are mouth-watering, but not for consumption. The construction of the cakes in ceramics is labour-intensive, down to each sprinkle of hundreds and thousands. Their imaginary forms conjure a colourful, dream-like world. This project was created during a 2025 artist residency at the PumpHouse Albury.

Landscapes of Imagination: From the Collection, bringing together works from the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Collection that reflect the enduring artistic allure of Hill End. This historic village has captured the imaginations of artists drawn to its layered histories, dramatic terrain, and evocative sense of place.

Talks & Tea
2025-10-08 10:30 - 12:00 | Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70-78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, 2795
Join Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) Volunteer Guides for a spotlight talk and walk through of our current exhibitions!

Wednesday 8 October, 10:30am-12:00pm
Tour of exhibition
Morning tea by donation, RSVP essential

Our current suite of exhibitions includes:
A Tear in the Fabric presents new and existing works from nine Asian and Asian Australian artists who embrace distortion as a mode of disruption. In partnership with 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, the exhibition revolves around notions of aesthetic, material and conceptual interventions integrated into established forms of creative practice. Picking at the seams to make space for new narratives and artistic approaches, we see exploratory excursions into concepts of place, materiality, memory, identity and perception, manifesting in a diverse range of mediums.

Tea Ceremony in the Celestial Garden, is reminiscent of the famous Japanese food display ‘shokuhin sampuru’ or French pastries display in Paris, the cakes are mouth-watering, but not for consumption. The construction of the cakes in ceramics is labour-intensive, down to each sprinkle of hundreds and thousands. Their imaginary forms conjure a colourful, dream-like world. This project was created during a 2025 artist residency at the PumpHouse Albury.

Landscapes of Imagination: From the Collection, bringing together works from the Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Collection that reflect the enduring artistic allure of Hill End. This historic village has captured the imaginations of artists drawn to its layered histories, dramatic terrain, and evocative sense of place.

Image: Jayanto Tan, Berries Cream Tarts, 2025, ceramic, 9 x 26 x 26 x 26 cm. Courtesy the artist.

SCULPTURE DOWN THE LACHLAN
2025-10-16 07:00 - 16:30 | Forbes Sculptures down the Lachlan, Sculpture down the Lachlan, Forbes
Enjoy a day of art, culture, and country charm on our Sculptures Down the Lachlan Day Trip! Join BRAGS and Bathurst Tours for a relaxing and inspiring experience exploring one of Australia’s most unique outdoor art trails, combined with time to enjoy Forbes’ hospitality.
Depart: 7.15am from McDonald’s Bathurst car park. Return around 4.30pm
Cost: $65 per person | BRAGS Member 10% discount.
Includes return 1-20 seat coacher transport and guided sculpture tour. Morning tea and lunch at own expense.

SCULPTURE IN THE GARDENS AND FARMERS MARKETS
2025-10-18 09:00 - 17:00 | New South Wales
Enjoy a Day of Art, Flavour, and Scenic Charm on Our Mudgee Day Trip.
Join BRAGS and Bathurst Tours for a relaxing and inspiring day exploring the best of Mudgee. Start with the vibrant Farmers Market showcasing a celebration of local produce held in beautiful Robertson Park, and finish with the stunning Sculptures in the Garden exhibition at Rosby Wines. This outdoor exhibition features over 250 sculptures by leading and emerging artists. It’s a perfect blend of creativity and natural beauty.
This tour offers a perfect mix of culture, nature and relaxation.
Depart: 9.15am from McDonald’s Bathurst car park.
Cost: BRAGS Member $72 | $80 Non-Member
Includes return 1-20 seat coacher transport and entry to Sculptures in the Garden. Food and drink at own expense (at Markets and cellar door).
Registration: Daniel Briant on 1300 728 321
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MICHELANGELO’S SISTINE CHAPEL: THE EXHIBITION
2025-10-26 08:00 - 17:00 | New South Wales
Step Into Renaissance Mastery on Our Sistine Chapel Exhibition Day Trip
Join BRAGS and Bathurst Tours for a cultural escape to Sydney Olympic Park to experience Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition. This immersive showcase brings the ceiling frescoes of the Vatican to eye level, offering a rare and breathtaking perspective on one of history’s greatest artistic achievements. This world-renowned exhibition features 34 of Michelangelo’s iconic frescoes, including The Creation of Adam and The Last Judgment, reproduced in stunning detail using high-definition photography and special printing techniques.
Audio guides available.
Whether you’re an art lover, history buff or simply curious, this exhibition offers a powerful and intimate encounter with Renaissance genius—no passport required.
Depart: 8.00 am from McDonald’s Bathurst car park. Return around 5.00pm
Cost: BRAGS Member $103.50 | $115 Non-Member
Includes return 1-20 seat coacher transport and entry to Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel: The Exhibition. Food and drink at own expense.
Registration: Daniel Briant on 1300 728 321

Peel Jam 2025
2025-11-01 12:00 - 20:00 | Peel Recreation Reserve, 8 West Street, PEEL, 2795
Join the Peel community for the annual fundraiser for the Peel Recreation Reserve at the 14th Peel Jam for a laid back afternoon in the grounds of the old school hall. 2025 will see more than 50 musicians, two fabulous local artists (all artworks for sale), artisan stallholders, Renzaglias Wines and Cosmo Brewing, Robi’s Kitchen and the Peel RFS, taking their catering to new heights in 2025. $10 per person, $20 per family (two adults and children under 18). Family friendly event just 15 minutes north of Bathurst. This is a pet-free event. The grounds themselves are fully accessible, and there is an accessible toilet on the grounds. The old school hall (circa 1856) unfortunately pre-dates access so the art exhibition might be tricky for those in chairs.

Peter Wilson Ceramics Studio
2025-11-08 10:00 - 16:00 | New South Wales
Open Weekend

Rockley Gardens & Art Festival
2025-11-08 10:00 - 16:00, 2025-11-09 10:00 - 16:00 | The Village of Rockley
Experience the charm of Rockley and its open gardens in their full spring glory. To keep the kids entertained they can participate in the Alice in Wonderland themed scavenger hunt and go in the draw to win some prizes. Our art exhibition will feature our talented creative local artists and equally talented invited artists.
There will be live music while enjoying a bite to eat or a freshly brewed coffee plus there will also be market stalls at the Rockley Public School.
While you are here, stroll around the village and view our historic buildings. This event is staged to raise funds to maintain and renovate The School of Arts Hall (1890), the historic building is in dire need of repairs. Restorations commenced in 2023 with the facade getting a facelift.
Tickets are $15 for both days and will be available on the day/s at the School of Art Hall, 28 Hill St. or online via our website ticketing page closer to the date.
We look forward to having you visit our wonderful village.

Hill End Analogue 2025
2025-11-14 10:00 - 2025-11-16 18:00 | Hill End NSW, 5 Beyers Avenue, Hill End, 2850, Australia
Hill End Analogue is an analogue photographic art festival by the Hill End Arts Council Inc in the Central West NSW village of Hill End. It will showcase, celebrate and connect Contemporary analogue photographic artists from regional, rural, remote and metropolitan Australia. Comprising exhibitions and workshops, the festival will promote community awareness, appreciation and engagement in analogue photography. It will serve as a discussion about the past, present and future of analogue arts.
