The dark web: a foray into fungal realms with Dr Alison Pouliot
2025-05-01 18:00 - 19:30 (Australia/Sydney) | 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

Junior Detective School Holiday Activities - Free
2025-05-02 09:00 - 17:00 | 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!

Exhibition Tours // Tina Havelock Stevens: Now is a Beginning
2025-05-03 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-05-10 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.

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.

Sunday Sketch Sessions // Tina Havelock Stevens: Now is a Beginning
2025-05-04 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-05-11 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.

Fleabag -
2025-05-04 13:00 - 14:30 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Live On ScreenWritten and performed by Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag, Killing Eve) and directed by Vicky Jones, Fleabag is a rip-roaring look at some sort of woman living her sort of life. Following a box-office record-breaking run in cinemas in 2019, the one-woman show returns to cinemas to the big screen this summer. Fleabag may seem oversexed, emotionally unfiltered and self-obsessed, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg. With family and friendships under strain and a guinea pig café struggling to keep afloat, Fleabag suddenly finds herself with nothing to lose.

MUSICAL BINGO
2025-05-07 19:00 - 21:00, 2025-05-14 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)

Exhibition Tours // Tina Havelock Stevens: Now is a Beginning
2025-05-08 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-05-15 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.

Mother's Day Night Markets
2025-05-09 17:00 - 20:00 | The Greens on William, 29 William Street, Bathurst, NSW, 2795
Join us for a magical evening showcasing talented local artists and small businesses. Explore a curated selection of plants, flowers, jewelry, art, candles, pottery, edible treats, and so much more!

Find the perfect gift for the special moms in your life while supporting our incredible community of creators.

Free Entry for All Shoppers!

Jekyll & Hyde
2025-05-09 19:30 - 21:00, 2025-05-10 19:30 - 21:00 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
BMEC audiences are in for a treat when we welcome A Slightly Isolated Dog back to our venue in 2025! For those who came along to The Trojan War earlier in 2024 – you know that this company knows how to put on show! Five hilarious performers tell the terrifying (yet still exceptionally sexy) tale of Jekyll & Hyde. Thrilling, charming, shockingly good comedy, we make you laugh until it hurts. An 80 minute, guaranteed feel-good night, expect plenty of laughs in the company of your mates, and some of the sassiest performers in town. Meet the most delightfully evil man alive, Mr Hyde. This ridiculous rendition of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel, Jekyll and Hyde is retold by a team of charmingly ‘French’ performers with the help of the audience.

BMEC Member Adult $36Non-Member Adult $42Groups of 4+ $30 Each

Waste 2 Art
2025-05-10 10:00 - 15:00, 2025-05-11 10:00 - 2025-05-12 15:00, 2025-05-12 10:00 - 2025-05-13 15:00, 2025-05-13 10:00 - 2025-05-14 15:00, 2025-05-14 10:00 - 2025-05-15 15:00 | Bathurst Regional Council, 158 Russell Street, 2795
You are invited to the Waste 2 Art Exhibition displaying all the creative works of art made from toy waste.

Mums, Mimosas & Masterpieces
2025-05-10 13:00 - 16:00 | NSW
Spoil Mum This Mother’s Day!

Looking for the perfect way to celebrate Mum? Join us for Mums, Mimosas & Masterpieces – a special Paint & Sip event just for her!

Saturday, 10th May 1:00 PM $85 per ticket (Includes painting session, hot finger food & a mimosa!)

Treat Mum to an afternoon of creativity, laughter, and quality time.

The Spooky Men's Chorale
2025-05-10 18:30 | KeyStone 1889, 99 Keppel St, Bathurst, 2795
The Spooky Men’s Chorale is a magnificent, many-headed beast that has revolutionised the world of men’s singing. Bypassing well trodden avenues, they carve out new territories of mighty sounds, exquisite tenderness, and charming stupidity to both celebrate masculinity andmock it.

Formed in Australia in 2001, the Spooks have become rock-solid festival and theatre favourites in Australia, UK and Europe, with seven albums and 900 gigs under their belts.

The show evokes musical worlds far beyond that suggested by their unassuming, casually hatted, black-clad appearance. They are just a bunch of blokes, but where they take you will blow your mind

LIVE MUSIC | Whiskey Serenade
2025-05-10 19:30 - 20:30 | Panthers Bathurst, 132 Piper Street, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia
Whiskey Serenade brings a fresh take on country music – mixing the best of old and new country with a splash of rock, a dash of soul, and a few timeless classics thrown in for good measure. Whether you’re tapping your feet or hitting the dancefloor, Whiskey Serenade delivers a feel-good soundtrack for every kind of crowd.
And now, they’re coming to Panthers Bathurst! Don’t miss your chance to catch Whiskey Serenade live – bringing the energy, the tunes, and the good times. Round up your crew, grab a drink, and get ready for a night of country hits and classic favourites.

Mother's Day Lunch @ The Rockley Pub
2025-05-11 12:00 | The Rockley Pub, 2 Budden Street, Rockley, NSW, 2795
This Mother’s Day, give Mum the afternoon she really wants great food, relaxed vibes, and quality time.

Join us at The Rockley Pub on Sunday, 11th May from 12pm for a deliciously long lunch designed to spoil the most important woman in your life.

We’re putting on a 4-course shared-style feast packed with flavour, good times, and a special gift just for mum.

Mother’s Day Lunch $75 per person

Includes the full menu + a gift for Mum

https://www.therockleypub.com.au/mothers-day

Mothers Day Raffle
2025-05-11 15:00 - 17:00 | Panthers Bathurst, 132 Piper Street, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia
Spoil Mum this Mother’s Day with the chance to win something she’ll truly love!
Join us at the Panthers Bathurst on Sunday 11 May for our special Mother’s Day Raffle, packed with thoughtful and indulgent prizes designed to make her day extra special.
Whether you’re treating your own mum, a loved one, or simply looking to get involved in the fun, there’s something for everyone in this members-only giveaway.
Prizes include:
Luxurious spa vouchers
Decadent chocolates
Premium bottles of wine
Relaxing candles
Club vouchers
And plenty more surprises!
Key Times:
Tickets on sale from 3:00pm
First draw at 4:30pm
This special raffle event replaces our regular Sunday raffles for the day, so make sure you’re here to be part of it.
T&Cs apply. Must be a member to participate.

Talks & Tea with BRAG // Tina Havelock Stevens: Now is a Beginning
2025-05-14 10:30 - 12:00 | Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
TALKS & TEA // Tina Havelock Stevens: Now is a Beginning
Join Bathurst Regional Art Gallery (BRAG) Volunteer Guides for a spotlight talk and walk through of exhibition Now is a Beginning, by Tina Havelock Stevens.
Held on the second Wednesday of each month, 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 7 May & Wednesday 11 June
10:30am – 12pm
FREE, refreshments provided by donation online or at gallery reception

Author Talk - Matt Murphy
2025-05-14 14:00 - 15:30 | Bathurst Library, 70 -78 Keppel Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Bookings essential: 6333 6281
Copies of the book will be for sale on the day.
Join author Matt Murphy for a deep dive into the true history behind the discovery of gold in Australia in his new book Gold.
About the book
Ask Google ‘who discovered gold in Australia?’ and you’ll promptly get ‘Edward Hammond Hargraves’. For decades Hargraves has received fame, fortune and adulation from all corners of the country, but did he earn it?
What about the two diggers he met on the Californian goldfields who told him where to look when he returned to Australia?
What about the guys who led him to where they’d heard gold had been found before?
What about the pioneers whose discoveries had been documented years earlier?
Gold is the story of an oversized layabout who received years of accolades and free lunches, despite lumbering from one embarrassment to the next, and of those who spent decades trying to expose him and seek their share of the glory.
About the author
As a school student, Matt Murphy failed English and couldn’t see the point of history. He became a firie and has been serving in Sydney’s inner city for 33 years. He is now also a part-time historian and teacher, tolerating the attitudes of kids towards history that he used to share.
He has written three books: Weight of Evidence, about what was the longest civil court case in New South Wales; Rum, about the formative influence of grog on the country; and Gold.
Matt’s younger self would be aghast that he is now writing history books but be consoled by the absurdist voice old Matt has achieved. Matt also can’t believe he has to write his own bio.

Ella Hooper - Live
2025-05-16 18:00 - 22:00 | Little Alberts – The Victoria Hotel, 3 Keppel Street, Bathurst, 2795
The Victoria Bathurst is proud to present Ella Hooper Live in Little AlbertsElla Hooper 8 pm

Ella Hooper burst onto the Australian music scene in the late 90’s as the technicolour teen front woman of Killing Heidi, a band who went on to explode the naughties, claiming pop rock dominion over the turn of the millenium. She scored her first number one single and released the fastest selling Australian album of all time in the year 2000. Ella was the first ever woman and youngest person to be awarded APRA’s Songwriter of the Year Award.

After spending her ‘uni years’ touring the world in a wildly successful rock band, she embarked on the first of a series of unexpected sidequests, putting the band on extended haitus and pivoting to media, hosting multiple TV and radio shows, including ABC’s beloved music trivia show Spicks And Specks, making her more than just a pop singer in her native Aus.

2010 saw Hooper return to music under the moniker ‘The Verses’, showcasing her love of Americana and classic West Coast harmonies. Produced by music legend Mitchell Froome, it caught the ear of Fleetwood Mac and scored her the support slot on their 9 date Australian tour. Inspired by a conversation with Stevie Nicks, Ella made her first official solo record in 2013 – the darkly energetic ‘In Tongues’ and now has three full length solo releases to her name, traversing synth pop to dream folk and her most recent, exploring the Americana genre once again, Small Town Temple.

Written in her hometown of Violet Town Victoria, in a period where both of her beloved parents tragically passed away from cancer within two weeks of each other, Small Town Temple has been widely praised for its deeply personal songwriting and its unique ‘Australiana’ perspective. The album debuted at No. 1 on the Australian Country chart, number 7 vinyl sales and was nominated for the prestigious Australian Music Prize. Firmly in her country era and carrying enough highs and lows to really do the genre justice, Ella is now collaborating with Grammy Award winning stalwarts like Jim Lauderdale, Steve Poltz and Melody Walker on the next record. Recorded in Nashville TN, it’s set to be heavier on the twang, more immediate in tone, rich in stories from the past few years of chaos, but as always – full of heart and enthusiasm.

Bx Thrift Market
2025-05-17 09:00 - 15:00 | NSW
