Bathurst Region Tourism

Junior Detective School Holiday Activities - Free
2025-04-23 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-24 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-26 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-27 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-28 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-29 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-30 09:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-01 09:00 - 17:00 (Australia/Sydney) and 1 more date | Books Plus, 157 Howick Street, Bathurst, 2795
Aspiring detectives are invited to investigate a terrible crime spree occurring at BooksPlus, Bathurst during these school holidays! Trixie Serpentine has stolen ten items and hidden them around the window and in-store. Find the items then collect your free activity sheets, bookmarks and fake-ficial Top Investigator ID badge.
The fun is to celebrate the release of Escape from Marigold Manor by local author Rachel Jackson – an interactive whodunit where readers aged 8 years to 12 years follow clues, interview suspects and decipher secret messages to explore thirty-two unique story paths. Readers will need to keep their wits about them to solve the case and escape from Marigold Manor!

MUSICAL BINGO
2025-04-23 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-04-30 19:00 - 21:00 | Family Hotel, Cnr Russell & Bentinck Street, Bathurst, 2795, Australia
Drop Beats Not Balls
This one is for the music lovers! Rock into the #FamBams newest night on the the Bathurst calendar with Musical Trivia every Wednesday from 7pm! Entry is free & you’ll have the chance to win prizes whilst bopping along to tunes over the ages! See how easy it is to play below & the tasty bites & booze on offer.

Wednesday night is Schnitty Night! Enjoy $18 Schnitzel with your choice of $3 topper (parmi, mexican, boscaiola or texan)

Westfund Play Like a Panther Holiday Clinic
2025-04-24 09:00 - 15:00 | Jack Arrow Field, 25 Hereford Street, Bathurst
The Panthers Foundation is excited to be delivering Bathurst a two-day Play Like A Panther Holiday Clinic in the April school holidays.Spots are limited, register now! https://bit.ly/playlikeapanther

School Holidays Workshop at BRAG // Dogs!
2025-04-24 10:30 - 12:00 | Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
School Holidays Workshop: Dogs!
Join this creative School Holidays workshop and learn how to draw Dogs!
We will make a variety of artworks in mixed media all about our beloved furry friends.
Thursday 24 April, 10:30am-12:00pm
Ages 6-17
$10 members, $15 non-members, RSVP essential
Optional: Bring a picture of your pet dog or your favourite breed.

Exhibition Tours // Tina Havelock Stevens: Now is a Beginning
2025-04-24 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-05-01 11:00 - 12:00 | Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Join us at the gallery each Saturday during exhibition Now is a Beginning by Tina Havelock Stevens, for a free guided tour!
Saturdays, 11am
FREE, all welcome, RSVP online or at BRAG reception
About the Exhibition:
A gentle epic, inspired by Bathurst – yet not about Bathurst, Now is a Beginning embraces magical thinking, place(s), architectural space, where you begin, the unknowns, new narratives in a place once familiar, improvisation, social and sensory engagement. Embodying a universal experience of the shifting, contemporary ‘now’, the exhibition offers a gathering point for reflection on the past as well as the current state of play of the world, marked by political urgencies and the ruptures of unforeseen, unpredictable events.
Tina Havelock Stevens presents an existential narrative of connections over time, borne from the adrenaline of riding motorbikes as a ten-year-old on her uncle’s farm, to the metaphysical experience of packing up her late mother’s house. Zones in the gallery, swathed in saturated colour, create charged atmospheres for exploration of light installations, video/film, photography, object-based works, sculpture and sound.
Havelock Stevens has lived multiple lives: her punk-rock ethos developed early across a series of bands, including Plug Uglies and The Titanics with stints in Crow and Chicks on Speed. Currently, as drummer for art rock experimental improv music duo, derived from The Mumps, she recently opened for Kim Gordon (of Sonic Youth fame) at The Tank, Art Gallery of New South Wales. In her undergraduate years she was a student of cultural studies, and film and philosophy classes with luminaries such as Ross Gibson (University of Technology, Sydney) before another year at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, after which she made her own documentaries for television as director and cinematographer. A resilient current of empathy continues to underpin her practice. She was also a youth worker for years in urban refuges, made community television and worked with indigenous communities in Papunya, Kintore and Cape York.
Image: Tina Havelock Stevens, High Fashun (still) single-channel-video with stereo sound, 2025. Camera: Jackie Wolf. Image courtesy the artist.
The project is supported by the New South Wales Government through Create NSW and by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

Are You Lonesome Tonight
2025-04-24 19:30 - 21:15 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Are You Lonesome Tonight is Opera Queensland’s most ambitious regional tour in its 40-year history. Visiting more than 30 communities and travelling some 8,000 kilometres across Queensland in 2021, this show is coming now all the way to Bathurst. With a cast of young Australian singers including  Gabrielle Diaz, Marcus Corowa  and  Jonathan Hickey,  Are You Lonesome Tonight  features arias and songs by composers such as Puccini, Verdi, Slim Dusty and Dolly Parton, to name just a few.

Adult $40Adult BMEC Member $35

Bathurst Thoroughbred Racing
2025-04-25 11:00 - 18:00 | Bathurst Thoroughbred Racing, 55 Eleven Mile Dr, Bathurst, 2795
The Annual Soldiers Saddle Meeting will be held on Anzac Day, 25th April 2025. This event is again proudly sponsored by the Bathurst RSL Club. The meeting will include entertainment by Larry’s Group DJs and live music by Casey McFarlane. Pooka Entertainment will be on track providing balloon art and magic to all cliental. Anne-Louise will provide face painting. We will have several Food Vans on site including the Lions Club, Pete’s Epic Wedges, Trang Hue, Romanian Delights and Little Vintage Blends Coffee van & Leanne’s Coffee Van. There will be several Pop Up bars and better gate entry access. The shuttle bus will run from 12.00pm for the RSL Club and will start returning from 4.30pm to the Courthouse. The RSL will conduct the Ode and the Last Post and two up will also be available during the afternoon. Fashions on the Field will be hosted during the day with a “Pop of Red” being the theme. Great prizes to be won. See you trackside of great racing action culminating with the $36,000 Bathurst RSL Soldiers Saddle for 2025.

Bathurst Anzac Day Races
2025-04-25 12:00 - 17:30 | Tyers Park Racecourse, 55 Eleven Mile Drive, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia
Bathurst’s biggest racing day of the year is our Bathurst RSL Club Soldiers Saddle held on Anzac Day each year.
Gates open from 11am with VIP ticketed areas open from 12pm.
Fashions on the Field is a huge highlight of the day with prize money and gifts all up for grabs with several categories.The Fashions theme is ‘A touch of red’ in line with Anzac Day and the beautiful poppies to represent our fallen soldiers.
FOTF categories and requirements for Autumn fashions can be found on the club website.
We remember those who have fought for our country on Anzac Day with a ceremony and presentation during the day by the Bathurst RSL Club.
2UP is hosted by the Bathurst RSL Club with buses taking guests to and from town but parking is available.We have several bars open, many food vans & live music all available to help celebrate a fabulous day of country racing in Bathurst!
Become a member of the Bathurst Thoroughbred Club for early access to ticket sales.

Emma Memma's
2025-04-26 10:00 - 10:50 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
ARIA award-winning children’s entertainer, Emma Memma, is bringing her brand new show Dance Island Party to Bathurst in April 2025! After dancing in productions around Australia, France, India, Canada, China and New Zealand, Emma joined Australian children’s entertainment group, The Wiggles in 2010, becoming the first female Wiggle in the main line-up. Emma has recently completed her PhD at Macquarie University combining all her passions, focusing on the affective and artistic integrations of sign language, dance and film editing. Currently, Emma is touring the nation and abroad with her new children’s entertainment venture ‘Emma Memma’, winning the ARIA award for Best Children’s Album in 2023. ‘Emma Memma’ features Emma and Deaf dancer and artist, Elvin Lam (Elvin Melvin) highlighting visual language for pre-schoolers and their family network to give them the skills to communicate through sign and gesture

All tickets $35*Children 18months and under are free on parents lap

Exhibition Tours // Tina Havelock Stevens: Now is a Beginning
2025-04-26 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-05-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Exhibition Tours // Tina Havelock Stevens: Now is a Beginning
Join us at the gallery each Saturday during exhibition Now is a Beginning by Tina Havelock Stevens, for a free guided tour!
Saturdays, 11am
FREE, all welcome, RSVP online or at BRAG reception
A gentle epic, inspired by Bathurst – yet not about Bathurst, Now is a Beginning embraces magical thinking, place(s), architectural space, where you begin, the unknowns, new narratives in a place once familiar, improvisation, social and sensory engagement. Embodying a universal experience of the shifting, contemporary ‘now’, the exhibition offers a gathering point for reflection on the past as well as the current state of play of the world, marked by political urgencies and the ruptures of unforeseen, unpredictable events.
Tina Havelock Stevens presents an existential narrative of connections over time, borne from the adrenaline of riding motorbikes as a ten-year-old on her uncle’s farm, to the metaphysical experience of packing up her late mother’s house. Zones in the gallery, swathed in saturated colour, create charged atmospheres for exploration of light installations, video/film, photography, object-based works, sculpture and sound.
Havelock Stevens has lived multiple lives: her punk-rock ethos developed early across a series of bands, including Plug Uglies and The Titanics with stints in Crow and Chicks on Speed. Currently, as drummer for art rock experimental improv music duo, derived from The Mumps, she recently opened for Kim Gordon (of Sonic Youth fame) at The Tank, Art Gallery of New South Wales. In her undergraduate years she was a student of cultural studies, and film and philosophy classes with luminaries such as Ross Gibson (University of Technology, Sydney) before another year at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, after which she made her own documentaries for television as director and cinematographer. A resilient current of empathy continues to underpin her practice. She was also a youth worker for years in urban refuges, made community television and worked with indigenous communities in Papunya, Kintore and Cape York.
Image: Tina Havelock Stevens, High Fashun (still) single-channel-video with stereo sound, 2025. Camera: Jackie Wolf. Image courtesy the artist.
The project is supported by the New South Wales Government through Create NSW and by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

Eagles - Up Close & Intimate
2025-04-26 18:00 | KeyStone 1889, 99 Keppel St, Bathurst, 2795
There are few acts in the modern era who have such a deep and profound legacy and impact than The Eagles. Over 50 years after their debut release, the hits this multi genre band (who managed to crystalise the sound of country before evolving through disco and ultimately classic rock) created continue to spread across generations of listeners of all ages.

The Album Show presents “Eagles – Up Close and Intimate”. This show takes the music of this iconic band and presents it in a contemporary, intimate setting. Featuring a 5 piece band, the show focuses on the roots of these legendary songs, presenting a vocal driven, stripped back, semi acoustic approach. The show allows the audience to be swept away by the timeless harmonies, the top shelf songwriting, and reveal a greater depth to all the greatest hits, plus some selections from their solo careers, in a show that allows the listener to truly appreciate this band’s enduring legacy.

Doors for Dinner + Show: 6pm

Dinner Served: 6.30pm

Show Only Doors: 7pm

April Live Bands at the Family Hotel
2025-04-26 21:00 | Family Hotel, Cnr Russell & Bentinck Street, Bathurst, 2795, Australia
Join us Saturdays from 9pm this April for the best Free, Live & Loud bands in town!

Our April Lineup:

Sat 5 • THUNDERSTRUCK AC/DC TRIBUTE BAND Sat 12 • Men From Marrs Sat 19 • K’noath Sat 26 • Generators

Book Now | thefamilyhotel.com.au

Sunday Sketch Sessions // Tina Havelock Stevens: Now is a Beginning
2025-04-27 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-05-04 10:00 - 14:00 | Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Sunday Sketch Sessions // Tina Havelock Stevens: Now is a Beginning
Head to BRAG each Sunday during Tina Havelock Stevens’ solo exhibition Now is a Beginning for a self-guided Sunday Sketch Session!
Sundays, 10am-2pm
FREE, all welcome, materials supplied
A gentle epic, inspired by Bathurst – yet not about Bathurst, Now is a Beginning embraces magical thinking, place(s), architectural space, where you begin, the unknowns, new narratives in a place once familiar, improvisation, social and sensory engagement. Embodying a universal experience of the shifting, contemporary ‘now’, the exhibition offers a gathering point for reflection on the past as well as the current state of play of the world, marked by political urgencies and the ruptures of unforeseen, unpredictable events.
Tina Havelock Stevens presents an existential narrative of connections over time, borne from the adrenaline of riding motorbikes as a ten-year-old on her uncle’s farm, to the metaphysical experience of packing up her late mother’s house. Zones in the gallery, swathed in saturated colour, create charged atmospheres for exploration of light installations, video/film, photography, object-based works, sculpture and sound.
Havelock Stevens has lived multiple lives: her punk-rock ethos developed early across a series of bands, including Plug Uglies and The Titanics with stints in Crow and Chicks on Speed. Currently, as drummer for art rock experimental improv music duo, derived from The Mumps, she recently opened for Kim Gordon (of Sonic Youth fame) at The Tank, Art Gallery of New South Wales. In her undergraduate years she was a student of cultural studies, and film and philosophy classes with luminaries such as Ross Gibson (University of Technology, Sydney) before another year at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, after which she made her own documentaries for television as director and cinematographer. A resilient current of empathy continues to underpin her practice. She was also a youth worker for years in urban refuges, made community television and worked with indigenous communities in Papunya, Kintore and Cape York.
Image: Tina Havelock Stevens, Cloudage Portal ( after De Maistre) #1 (detail), 2025, gloss fibre inkjet print, pigment paint, 50 x 75 cm. Image courtesy the artist.
The project is supported by the New South Wales Government through Create NSW and by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.

Old Government Cottage
2025-04-27 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.

War’s End – World War One Memorials of Australia
2025-04-29 18:00 - 19:30 | Bathurst Library, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Did you know there are over 4,000 memorials in Australia? Join director Geoffrey Sykes for a film screening about the diversity and function of memorials following WW1.
Bookings are essential: call 6333 6281.
This documentary features over 100 memorials – what can be learnt from them about the impact of war on Australian society? How did the country adjust to peace?
The documentary includes expert discussion on the role of Charles Bean, official historian of the war. Expert speakers include Stephen Garton, Darren Mitchell, Peter Stanley, Peter FitzSimons and Kerrie Anne Christian. It was funded by the Anzac Centenary Fund. It was produced and directed by Geoffrey, who will be available for questions.
The work will be available in an edited format. Run time 65 minutes.

The dark web: a foray into fungal realms with Dr Alison Pouliot
2025-05-01 18:00 - 19:30 | Bathurst Library, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Bookings are essential: call 6333 6281
Join ecologist, mycologist, photographer, Dr Alison Pouliot in an exploration of the dark web beneath our feet.
Like the online dark web, the clandestine workings of fungi in the subterrain are also hidden. Mycologists – scientists who study fungi – are starting to make sense of how they operate, but the detail of their activities and the players involved largely remains a mystery.
Although little known, the roots of almost every plant in the Australian landscape are intimately entwined with fungi. Fungi not only help plants access water and nutrients but also increase their resistance to drought and disease. They build architecture in soils, aerate them, and allow water to gently percolate to deeper horizons.
In this highly interactive seminar, we’ll explore these unruly fungal renegades and how they contravene the frameworks we use to understand life, but also how they might inspire the innovative thinking needed to navigate an uncertain future.
Alison will also share some stories from her adventures during the writing of her new book, Funga Obscura: Photo Journeys Among Fungi.
Copies of Alison’s books will be available for purchase.

Kenny Rogers & Friends
2025-05-02 08:00 - 17:00 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Graham’s tribute to legend Kenny Rogers, no gamble for fans Radio personality, Ray Hadley, believes that Graham Toole is “worthy of a broader audience,” & Frank Ifield gave him the international spur award in 2004. I love performing live, so the more shows the better, we hope to give our audience something they can sing along to, tap their feet & to smile about” he added. Growing up in chilly Oberon he got a taste of the limelight performing as a child at the Local eisteddfods and it brings back wonderful memories.

Prices

BMEC MembersAdult BMEC Member 64.00

Non Members*Adult 68.00Concessions 64.00Junior / Child (18 months+) 58.00Student 58.00

Family of 4 $56 per ticket

Proclamation Day
2025-05-04 10:00 - 11:00 | Flag Staff, Bicentennial Park, Lot 1 Stanley Street, Bathurst, 2795
Proclamation Day acknowledges the shared history of Bathurst with the Wiradjuri people and wider Bathurst community. Australia’s first inland European settlement in 1815. The community is invited to explore the rich history of Bathurst, with a self-guided tour of The Delightful Spot Trail.
