Bathurst Region Tourism

Distinguished Gentleman's Drive - Bathurst
2025-09-28 08:00 (Australia/Sydney) | Abercrombie House, 311 Ophir Road, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Prepare your machines, press your tweed, and partake in the world’s biggest and most stylish drive! Bathurst is officially taking part in the fifth annual Distinguished Gentleman’s Drive.

All around the world, well-dressed gentlefolk will drive together in classic vehicles for men’s health, raising funds on behalf of charity partner, Movember.

To join in the drive, register at www.gentlemansdrive.com.

Important Information:– The event is strictly for cars 40 years or older– Registration is required for participation– Drive details are available on the website to registered drivers– Local drive details are to remain confidential, do not share them– Dress in-theme to suit your classic vehicle– Follow the official Gentleman’s Drive pages on Facebook and Instagram (@gentlemansdrive)

Stay updated and register at www.gentlemansdrive.com.

Drive safely and dress dapper, for the world’s most stylish classic motoring event!

Charity Bike & Car Show
2025-09-28 09:00 | O’Connell Hotel, 2408 O'Connell Road, O'Connell, New South Wales, 2795

Evans Arts Council Annual Craft Show and Sale
2025-09-28 10:00 - 16:00 | Panthers Bathurst, 132 Piper Street, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia
Over $4,500 in prizes will be awarded in the following categories: oils, watercolours, acrylics, pastels, drawings, mixed media, miniature art and junior art. Two extra categories include digital art and fibre art. Highly acclaimed artist, Grahame Martin, will be the guest artist demonstrating and displaying his traditional Australian landscapes that have won many awards.

Miss Traill's House and Garden
2025-09-28 12:00 - 15:30 | Miss Traill’s House and Garden, 321 Russell Street (Corner of Russell and Peel Streets), Bathurst, 2795
Tours of Miss Traill’s House and Garden.

The home Ida bequeathed to the National Trust (1976) is today an elegant house museum containing Ida Traill’s significant collection of artifacts including furniture, intriguing horse racing memorabilia, paintings and ceramics – all linked to Miss Traill’s and her ancestors and the early history of Bathurst.

House Tour – per person:

National Trust members – FREE (excludes exhibitions)

Adult – $12

Concession* – $10

Family – $34

Child (under 5 years) – FREE

*Concession applies for full-time students, seniors, pensioners and children aged 5-15 years.

Book your tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/miss-traills-house-general-entry-tickets

https://www.facebook.com/misstraillshouse

Old Government Cottage
2025-09-28 12:00 - 16:00 | Old Government Cottage, 16 Stanley Street, Bathurst, NSW, 2795
Old Government Cottage located at 16 Stanley Street (near the low-level bridge), is a fine example of early domestic
Australian architecture. The building has operated as a museum since 1965 and houses an exhibition on the
development of Bathurst, artworks and a display of early local domestic objects. The garden contains many
heritage plants, farm equipment and an original baker’s oven.

Blayney Public School Presents Childhood Favourites
2025-09-28 12:30 - 13:45, 2025-09-29 12:30 - 13:45, 2025-09-30 12:30 - 13:45, 2025-10-01 12:30 - 13:45, 2025-10-02 12:30 - 13:45, 2025-10-03 12:30 - 13:45, 2025-10-04 12:30 - 13:45 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Blayney Public School students present their performance
“Childhood Favourites“.
Each class from K-6 will perform a musical number from a favourite childhood movie.
We look forward to seeing you at BMEC!
The audience can purchase tickets to attend the dress rehearsal at 10:15am, or the performance at 12:30pm.

Music Bingo @ The Tattersalls Hotel
2025-09-29 18:30 - 20:00 | Tattersalls Hotel Bathurst, 35 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia

Kids Bingo
2025-09-30 10:30 | Bathurst RSL Club, 114 Rankin Street, Bathurst, 2795, Australia
Kids Bingo is back on Tuesday the 30th of September at 10.30am. It’s just $4 for the kids to play and there’s loads of prizes up for grabs! There’s no need to book – just come in early to secure your spot.

Open Mic Night
2025-09-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Panthers Bathurst, 132 Piper Street, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia
🎤 Are you ready to unleash your inner rockstar?
Get ready to shine under the spotlight at Panthers Bathurst’s Monthly Open Mic Night! Held on the last Tuesday of every month in our vibrant Sports Bar, the musical extravaganza kicks off at 6pm sharp. Our Open Mic Night is the ultimate stage where talents collide and melodies soar, creating an atmosphere filled with energy, passion, and pure musical magic.
Whether you’re a seasoned performer or a first-time strummer, our Open Mic Night welcomes all with open arms and open ears. Bring along your trusty guitar, your soulful voice, or any instrument that speaks to your heart – because at Panthers Bathurst, we believe that music is the universal language that brings us all together.
It’s not just about the performance; it’s about the shared experience of expressing yourself through the power of music. And hey, if you prefer to be in the audience soaking in the vibes, we’ve got a spot reserved just for you.

Thunderbirds F.A.B. Facts & Fun!
2025-09-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum, 224 Howick Street, Bathurst, NSW, 2795
Get in the groove in a night of all things Thunderbirds to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the original series.

The F.A.B. night includes Thunderbirds trivia, 1960s nostalgia and an episode from the original series.

Put a trivia team together, get decked out in your hippest 1960s mod threads and go-go boots or Thunderbirds costume. You can even grab a retro groovy eats or pink sweets box to chow down on!

All entry $15. Members receive a complimentary vino or brewski voucher. Book your tickets before they sell out!

Bathurst Dances, Old Time and New Vogue Dance
2025-10-01 14:00 - 17:00 | Walshaw Hall, 9 Church Street, Bathurst, 2795
Dancing the old fashioned way, with a another in your arms. Waltzes, Tangos, Saunters, Jive and Swing in a sequenced way. Short demos before many dances, but nothing beats, standing up and simply giving it a go, then having a laugh or giggle at your own attempts, the way it was done in the old days, still the cheapest way to learn.

Musical Bingo @ The Family Hotel
2025-10-01 19:00 - 21:00 | Family Hotel, Cnr Russell & Bentinck Street, Bathurst, 2795, Australia
This one is for the music lovers! Rock into the #FamBams for Musical Trivia every Wednesday from 7pm! Entry is free and you’ll have the chance to win prizes whilst bopping along to tunes over the ages!
Wednesday night is $20 schnitty night!

Coffee and Cranes and Bunnings Cafe
2025-10-02 12:00 - 19:00 | Bunnings Kelso, 21 Great Western Highway, Bathurst, 2795, Australia
Help us create a Selfie Station –
School holiday activity or anyone wanting to come and have a chat and a cuppa with us and learn how to make Paper Cranes. We are aiming to make 1000 paper cranes for our Selfie Station by 25th October. Help us send healing messages to those who need it.
Free coffee or Tea to anyone participating.

Book Launch - Suzanne Patterson Children's Author
2025-10-02 18:00 - 19:30 | Bathurst Library, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Join Bathurst writer Suzanne Pattterson for the launch of her debut Children’s Book ‘Mooshy Crackerjack’s Big Day’.

Suzanne will be in conversation with local creative Catherine McNamara. Hear Suzanne speak about her inspiration and journey to publication. Why did she want to write for kids? How did she pull the book together? Find out more on the night!

Light refreshments provided, and copies of the book will be available for purchase on the night.

The Fishing Shed Carp Blitz
2025-10-03 09:30 - 2025-10-06 16:00 | Berry Park, Lions Club Drive, Kelso, NSW, 2795, Australia
Simple, remove as many carp as you can, and yes Bow Fishing for Carp is allowed. Carp are one of the biggest threat to Native species.

Contact: 0410 104 768

Bathurst Grange Distillery Tour & Tasting
2025-10-03 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-10-04 11:00 - 17:00 | Bathurst Grange Distillery, Bathurst Grange Distillery, 3249 O'Connell Rd, Bathurst, Bathurst, 2795, Australia
Friday Tour Time: 4pm

Saturday Tour Times: 11am, 2pm, 3pm & 4pm

Book tours here http://bit.ly/4o2mTBx

Join a tour at the Bathurst Grange Distillery and see surrounding gardens and farmland on the heritage property, The Grange, established in 1823.

Share the passion for distilling Whisky and Gin as they explain the techniques and craft of making the premium spirits.

​Learn the art of distillation.

Taste premium small batch spirits

See farmland & friendly animals

Discover the history of the region

Cost : $20 per person

Bathurst Grange Distillery

Bathurst Grange Distillery, 3249 O’Connell Rd, Bathurst02 7228 79130413 632 643www.bathurstgrange.com.au

Meg Washington: Live In Little Alberts
2025-10-03 18:00 - 22:00 | Little Alberts – The Victoria Hotel, 3 Keppel Street, Bathurst, 2795
The Victoria Bathurst and Craft Music are proud to present Meg Washington Live in Little Alberts.Meg Washington is a platinum-selling, award-winning, and genre-defying singer-songwriter who fluently weaves the worlds of jazz, pop, folk and musical theatre together.Solo, Meg’s shows are an intimate, captivating spell. Alone at the piano, the soaring melodies and lyrical poetry of her songwriting are laid bare, as Meg makes her way through a selection of songs from her impressive five-album catalog. Each night is truly unique, with a setlist often chosen according to the special, connected moment that is shared between artist and audience.A rare opportunity to hear Meg’s electrifying voice up close and to experience one of Australia’s best musicians in a never-to-be repeated live performance.

Purchase your tickets here!

Cirque Nouvelle
2025-10-04 08:00 - 21:30 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Cameo Rascale Entertainment presents ‘Cirque Nouvelle’ – a new evolution of circus.
After sell out shows in 2024 this internationally acclaimed all-star cast are back and ready to present a truly unique and versatile production.
This multitalented line up of circus performers, each world class in their own right, have combined their acrobatic, juggling, aerial and balancing talents together to create a show like no other. This outstanding cast are led by a quirky ringmaster struggling with a fear common among us all… change.
Cirque Nouvelle explores the elemental theme of old versus new and how circus has changed over the years from the classic ‘Big Top’ featuring performing animals to the now modern day circus’ headlining in state of the art theatres around the world with extravagant technology, lighting and costuming.
It is with great honour we invite you to embark on this heart-warming journey which is sure to thrill, captivate and amaze the whole family.

2025-10-04 09:00 - 14:00 | Bathurst Showground, Lot 1 Kendall Avenue, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia
Back! Bigger and better, with even more pre-loved goodness.

The next BX Thrift Market is officially locked in: Saturday October 4th, 2025 Bathurst Showgrounds 9am–2pm Gold coin entry

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.

Exhibition Tours
2025-10-04 11:00 - 2025-11-15 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.

In Conversation - Megan White
2025-10-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Bathurst Library, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Central West fantasy author Megan White will be in conversation for the Bathurst launch of her new book ‘The Anatomy of Gods’.
The Anatomy of Gods is the second book in The Anatomy Duet and follows main character Kasira Severen who has been bestowed the Songs of both Life and Death, curing ailments during the day, but when the sun sets, she becomes the city’s most notorious assassin.
Megan White is a physiotherapist and sheep farmer based in rural New South Wales. With a deep love of literature and a fascination with human anatomy, her creative work often explores the intersection of body and art—sometimes with a delightfully morbid twist. Megan studied with the Australian Writers’ Centre before penning her debut book, The Anatomy of Songs.
Copies of the book will be available for sale on the day.

Bathurst War Memorial Carillon Recital
2025-10-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Bathurst War Memorial Carillon, 3 Church Street, Bathurst, 2795
Bathurst War Memorial Carillon Spring Recital Series continues on Saturday 4 October @1pm, with the return of Senior Carillonist from Canberra Peter Bray. Peter has curated a gorgeous program of popular show tunes, light classics, and even a bit of Abba and Queen!Please join us in the beautiful gardens of King’s Parade, for this free public recital, and enjoy the music from the Bathurst War Memorial Carillon bells and our talented visiting carillonist.
