Saplings
2026-08-20 11:00 - 12:30 (Australia/Sydney) | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Stories from the law and justice system
“I wasn’t there ‘cause I wanted to be, I was there ‘cause I had to be, okay? If Josh hadn’t eaten my noodles, I wouldn’t be here.”
Would you risk breaking bail for a packet of Mi Goreng? Would you snitch on a mate to save your own skin? Around here, ordinary days can turn on you so fast you’ve still got a smile on your face as your hopes die in your hands.
Yani wants to go to the Easter Show, Kai wants a sense of home, Shanika wants her Mum back, and Lachlan…well, he just wants his bowl of noodles. But when the justice system is all that stands between these young people and what they want, it raises an important question—how do young people grow when the system keeps cutting them down?
After premiering at The Rebel Theatre for the Sydney Festival in 2024 and winning Sydney Theatre Award’s Best Production for Young People, Yuwaalaray playwright Hannah Belanszky and Kalkadoon director Abbie-lee Lewis bring Saplings to the stage once again, a collection of hilarious and heartbreaking stories born from workshops with young people experiencing the youth justice system from Marrickville to Moree. Four talented young actors take on multiple roles in this poetic, personal, and unexpected production that will leave you asking who’s really to blame.
Set to a soundtrack of rap and hip-hop music made by young people in the youth justice system, Saplings gives an honest, raw look into the adult consequences faced by some of our most vulnerable. Join us at BMEC for a show full of laughter, tears, and celebration of the survival instincts of young people.

Regional Songwriting Contest 2026
2026-08-22 19:00 - 22:00 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Want to come and watch and support amazing local talent? The 2026 Finalist Showcase of the Regional Songwriting Contest is now on sale.
Experience the next wave of local talent as our competition finalists hit the stage with their brand-new original songs. Each performance is amplified by a top-tier band of local musicians, bringing depth, energy, and serious vibe to every moment.
Don’t miss this celebration of creativity, community, and the thrill of live music. Grab your friends, lock in your tickets, and meet us in the Showroom for an unforgettable night!
Want to Enter your own song? Find out more.
The Regional Songwriting Contest is an opportunity for songwriters from across the Central West and surrounding regions to share their original music on a professional stage.
Open to emerging and established songwriters alike, the contest celebrates original voices, storytelling, and the diversity of music being created in our region. Finalists will be selected to perform their songs live at BMEC, supported by professional musicians and technical production, giving artists the chance to present their work in a high-quality performance environment.
The contest is designed to nurture local talent, build confidence, and create meaningful pathways for regional artists to develop and showcase their work. Whether you write folk, pop, country, rock, or something entirely your own, BMEC encourages you to apply and be part of a vibrant celebration of regional creativity.

Bathurst Swap Meet - Bathurst Historic Car Club
2026-08-23 06:00 - 15:00 | Mount Panorama, Mountain Straight, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia
The 37th Annual Swap Meet being held at the Paddock camping area at Mount Panorama, entry via Mountain Straight.
Swap meeting, display of vintage and classic cars and motorbikes.

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PUBlic Choir
2026-09-01 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-10-06 19:00 - 21:00, 2026-11-03 19:00 - 21:00 | Little Alberts @ The Victoria Bathurst, 3 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSW, 2795
You know the drill!
It’s time to get the gang back together for another round of PUBlic Choir at Little Alberts.No sheet music, no stress, and definitely no judgment—just the usual recipe of great drinks, great food, great company, and a massive singalong.
Whether you’re a seasoned regular or finally ready to see what the fuss is about, come along for a great night!The Details:Venue: Little Alberts (The Victoria)Doors open: From 6:00 PMHarmony happens: 7:00 PMBring your mates, your “singing voice” and let’s sing together. 🍻✨

Bathurst Caravan, Camping and Leisure Roadshow
2026-09-04 09:00 - 16:00, 2026-09-05 09:00 - 16:00, 2026-09-06 09:00 - 16:00 | Bathurst Showground, Lot 1 Kendall Avenue, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia
For further information visit caravanroadshows.com.au

Evans Arts Council Art Show
2026-09-11 16:00 - 18:00 | NSW
More information coming soon . . .

Bluey’s Big Play The Stage Show
2026-09-16 09:30 - 10:30, 2026-09-16 12:30 - 13:30 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
The return of the hit stage show! From New York’s Madison Square Garden to London’s Royal Festival Hall, Bluey’s Big Play has delighted fans across the globe – and now it returns home to Australia for an encore tour.
Bluey’s Big Play will go on sale on 13 November 2025 at 10am.

Wines of Bathurst: Meet the Growers
2026-09-19 09:15 - 17:00, 2026-10-17 09:15 - 17:00 | NSW
Spend eight hours exploring boutique cellar doors at Winburndale Wines, Rock Forest Vineyard, Vale Creek Wines and Renzaglia Wines, meeting the growers and winemakers who are shaping Bathurst’s emerging wine region. You’ll enjoy relaxed tastings, stunning countryside views and plenty of time to chat about the stories behind each vineyard and vintage. A lunch stop at Norma Joan lets you sample fresh local produce, making this one of the most delicious things to do in Bathurst on a weekend escape or NSW country road trip.

Karisha and The FunKaars
2026-09-19 19:30 - 21:00 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Karisha and The FunKaars, a world music band hailing from Canberra, offers a unique blend of Eastern and Western musical traditions.
A live and interactive show, the band showcases a diverse range of instruments and multilingual vocals. Through their fusion music, they aim to share the richness of Indian subcontinent culture and spirituality with their audience. FunKaars, meaning ‘Artists’ फनकार in Indian language, create an exciting experience of fusing Indian classical cultural spiritual folk music based on Hindustani Indian ragas with jazz mash-ups and the flavour of Bollywood.
Karisha was raised in Mumbai, India where she received her training in Indian classical vocals. Growing up, Karisha’s musical influences ranged from Classical Indian, Folk, Bollywood, to English rock and American Jazz music. Karisha performed at various venues in Mumbai but spent most of her adult life in the USA where she won the Voice of Florida singing contest in 2008. She recorded her first single in 2014 in California.
Since her move to Australia in 2019, Karisha has released 4 new singles and continues to record new music with her band, FunKaars. The music video for one of her singles was nominated for the Canberra Short Film Festival 2024.
Lyrics in English, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Farsi and Marwadi are translated by Karisha on stage adding to the audience’s cultural experience and insights.
Karisha & The FunKaars have been actively performing in the Canberra community since they were formed in 2023. They have headlined at many festivals and have begun touring across Australia.
To learn more about the artist, go to KarishaAndTheFunKaars.com.au.

Bombshells
2026-09-27 14:00 - 15:30 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
With singing, dancing, comedy and the joys of sheer honesty, Joanna Murray-Smith’s acclaimed play Bombshells is a journey from crisis to hilarity, via the thoughts of a group of women all linked by more than just their proximity to the edge; a nervous bride-to-be, an exhausted young mother, a widow with a yearning for the unexpected, a broken-hearted cactus lover, and a feisty teenage talent-quest competitor.
Joy, drama, crisis, fear, revelation – there are times where you have to remain cool and calm on the outside. The inside, meanwhile, is a flailing monologue of personal pep talks, perish-the-thoughts and perpetual panic. Bombshells strips back the masks we wear to reveal the things that sometimes we’d just love to say out loud.

The Farmy Farm
2026-10-01 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-10-01 13:00 - 14:00 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
The Farmy Farm has more going on than a chook in a worm farm!
Set in their favourite part of Australia, Legend Farms, join Kenny & Jenny for a day in the life of getting their jobs done with a tractor-load of circus and farming tomfoolery. It’s “The Castle” meets “Babe” with jaw-dropping acrobatics on tall towers of hay, giant juggling carrots, fair dinkum high flying farmers and loads of laughs for everyone!
Created by the team that brought you Children Are Stinky in collaboration with Stunned Mullet Circus, this show has award-winning roots. Performed by Josie Wardrope (By A Thread) and Sam Aldham (Circus Oz), you can expect big tricks and even bigger laughs. With jaw-dropping acrobatics, highflying carrots, 3-meter balancing bales of hay, and so much more.
It’s all in a day’s work for our dead set legends and all round larrikins Kenny & Jenny – they’ve been doing this for years, still, you never know if they might need you to lend a hand!

ROCKARIA THE ELO EXPERIENCE
2026-10-23 19:30 - 22:00 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
ROCKARIA – THE ELO EXPERIENCE

A tribute to the unforgettable sound of Jeff Lynne’s THE ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA.

Evil Woman, Rock and Roll is King, Don’t Bring me Down, Xanadu, Living Thing, Telephone Line, Turn to Stone and also featuring music from Jeff Lynne’s Traveling Wilburys. So many hit songs you will not want this night to finish.

In Their Own Words – Rachael Beck
2026-10-24 19:30 - 20:40 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
In Their Own Words celebrates the songs and stories of twenty trailblazing Australian women; some whom are recognised, many whom are not.
Rachael weaves verbatim words and anecdotes collected from women including Ita Buttrose, Tanya Plibersek, Marcia Langton and Carlotta, with the music of famous Australian songwriters such as Missy Higgins, Kate Miller-Heidke, Kate Ceberano, and Dami Im, to create a powerful tapestry of female strength and achievement. From artists to scientists, politicians to humanitarians, these are stories of triumph, resilience, and breakthrough – mostly never before heard on stage.
Developed with writer James Millar, directed by Miranda Middleton, In Their Own Words is a moving musical tribute to some of the extraordinary Australian women who have defined and made their mark on our culture.
With contributions from visual artists, architects, scientists, writers, songwriters, conservationists, politicians, athletes, entertainers and humanitarians, In Their Own Words celebrates the life, times and epiphanies of Australian women who have achieved incredible things… and overcome incredible trials.

Mount Panorama Punish
2026-10-25 08:00 - 09:00 | Mount Panorama, Mountain Straight, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia
This Mount Panorama Punish returns for 2026!

The Mount Panorama Punish is ‘one hot lap’ of the iconic motor racing circuit… with a difference. It’s your legs that will provide the horsepower and your lungs that will burn. With 174m of elevation gain over the 6.2km track, Mount Panorama Punish is a running race with no peer. Re-established in its current format in 2017, the 9th Punish will take place at 8am on Sunday 25 October 2026.

Whether you’re chasing a personal best or just want to conquer the Mount, this is your year to Punish the Panorama.

Entries, camping, merchandise and pre-punish dinner tickets now on sale.

Millthorpe Garden Ramble
2026-10-31 10:00 - 2026-11-01 16:00 | NSW
Be inspired and gather ideas from open gardens in and around the delightful historic village of Millthorpe.

Wolf
2026-10-31 19:30 - 21:00 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Clad in designer Libby McDonnell’s form-hugging costumes and set to DJ Ori Lichtik’s relentless primal rhythms, the cast of ten extraordinary Circa artists grasp, tear, climb, leap and balance with fierce abandon.
For Director Yaron Lifschitz, the wolf is a symbol of our untameable selves: liberating, anarchic and savage. In two contrasting acts, the wolves evolve from disruptive forces of chaos into a ferocious pack whose intense choreographies overflow with raw energy and astounding physicality.

BMEC ON- SCREEN All My Sons National Theatre Live
2026-11-01 13:00 - 16:15 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
All My Sons by Arthur Miller, directed by Ivo Van Hove, design by Jan Versweyveld.
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s classic play, from visionary director Ivo Van Hove (A View from the Bridge).
One family, the heart of the American dream. When wartime delivers profits for Joe, it comes at a price when his partner is charged with criminal manufacturing deals, and his eldest son goes missing in action. Will peacetime bring peace of mind, or will he be confronted by the consequence of his actions?
Filmed live from the West End, Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You), Tom Glynn-Carney (House of the Dragon), and Hayley Squires (I, Daniel Blake) also feature in this disturbingly prescient play.

Queenie Van De Zandt – Choose Your Own Musical Theatre Adventure
2026-11-07 19:30 - 21:00 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Stand by for a showstopper! The incomparable Queenie van de Zandt, multi-award-winning musical theatre star and one of the country’s most celebrated voices, steps into the spotlight with a riotously fun and completely original celebration of all things Broadway.
In Choose Your Own MUSICAL THEATRE Adventure, Queenie throws open the stage door and invites you into her world of show-stopping, musical theatre bangers, hilarious showbiz anecdotes and Broadway inspired antics that will delight newcomers and superfans alike.
But this is no ordinary musical theatre concert. Using nothing but your smartphone you will help create a showtune extravaganza. You’ll shape, cast, and direct the night’s antics – choosing which songs are belted, which stories are spilled, and what musical mischief comes to life.
This daring diva is putting her musical fate in your hands. So, take a seat, whip out your phone and get ready to take control of how the show unfolds.

Dane Ballinger Memorial Truck Show
2026-11-14 08:00 - 15:00 | Bathurst Showground, Lot 1 Kendall Avenue, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia
The 2026 Dane Ballinger Memorial Truck Show is happening on Saturday, 14 November 2026 at the Bathurst Showground. This event brings together truck lovers, families, and the local community to remember Dane Ballinger and celebrate the trucking industry he loved.

There’ll be a huge range of trucks on display, from old classics to custom rigs plus food stalls, live music, kids’ activities, a charity auction, and awards for the best trucks. It’s a fun day out for all ages and supports a great cause.

Everyone’s welcome! whether you’re part of the transport world or just love a good community event. Come along, enjoy the day, and help us keep Dane’s memory rolling strong.

Bathurst Outdoor Expo & Christmas Markets brought to you by Clancy Motors
2026-11-14 08:00 - 15:00, 2026-11-15 08:00 - 15:00 | Bathurst Showground, Lot 1 Kendall Avenue, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia
Bathurst’s Outdoor Expo and Christmas Markets is an annual event which has been running for over 20 years, with the aim to bring a wide variety of exhibitors together for one event.
We have diversified the event over the years to incorporate many aspects. We pack all of the three beautiful pavilions with a variety of stalls including jewellery, home wares, gift wares, toys, books, crafts, beauty products, clothing and much more.
Outside we aim to create a festival atmosphere with a variety of food and market stalls, entertainment and children’s rides. We also cater for the outdoor enthusiast with camping, boating, 4WD accessories, fishing, camper trailers, caravans plus much more

Peel Jam
2026-11-14 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 15th Peel Jam — a relaxed afternoon set in the grounds of the historic old school hall. Enjoy live music, talented local artists with artworks available for purchase, artisan stallholders, local wines and craft beer, delicious food vendors, and the Peel RFS serving up their much-loved catering once again in 2026.
Entry is $10 per person or $20 per family (two adults and children under 18). This family-friendly event is held just 15 minutes north of Bathurst.
Please note this is a pet-free event. The grounds are fully accessible and include an accessible toilet. The old school hall (circa 1856) unfortunately predates accessibility standards, so access to the art exhibition inside the hall may be difficult for wheelchair users

Swap Meet, Car and Bike Show
2026-11-15 08:00 - 15:00 | Bathurst Showground, Lot 1 Kendall Avenue, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia
The Annual Bathurst’s Biggest Expo and Christmas Markets incorporates a Swap Meet, Car & Bike Show. This is a family oriented event with over 200 market stalls, kids rides, food and drink stalls. A fun day out for all the family!

Price: Gate entry to the Expo (which includes the Swap Meet, Car and Bike Show) is only $5with children under 10 free.
