Talks & Tea with BRAG // Tina Havelock Stevens: Now is a Beginning
2025-06-11 10:30 - 12:00 (Australia/Sydney) | 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

‘Unearthed - Critical Minerals in The Energy Transition’
2025-06-10 09:00 - 2025-06-11 16:30, 2025-06-09 09:00 - 2025-06-10 16:30, 2025-06-08 09:00 - 2025-06-09 16:30, 2025-06-07 09:00 - 2025-06-08 16:30, 2025-06-06 09:00 - 2025-06-07 16:30, 2025-06-05 09:00 - 2025-06-06 16:30, 2025-06-03 09:00 - 2025-06-04 16:30, 2025-06-02 09:00 - 2025-06-03 16:30 and 3 more dates | Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum, 224 Howick Street, Bathurst, NSW, 2795
Critical minerals may sound like a heavy subject, but they’re vital to our everyday modern life!

This new exhibition features a fantastic periodic table, where you can actually see what so many of these element are used for, along with heaps of information about what critical minerals are, and how they’re used in the home and renewable energy.

Oh, and there is #LEGO

The Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum is open 9am – 4.30pm 6 days a week, closed on Wednesdays.

Entry is free with museum admission.Cost:Adult: $15Concession: $10School Student: $7Family: $37 Under school age: Free

Music Bingo @ The Tattersalls Hotel
2025-06-09 18:30 - 20:00, 2025-06-02 18:30 - 20:00 | Tattersalls Hotel Bathurst, 35 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSW, 2795, Australia

Le Nozze Di Figaro – Met Opera
2025-06-08 13:00 - 16:30 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Mozart’s timeless comedy returns to the Met this season. Conductor Joana Mallwitz, in her Met debut, takes the podium to conduct a stellar ensemble cast including American bass-baritone Michael Sumuel as the clever valet Figaro, Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska as the wily maid Susanna, Canadian baritone Joshua Hopkins as the skirt-chasing Count, Italian soprano Federica Lombardi as his anguished wife, and French mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa as the adolescent page Cherubino.

Prices

BMEC Members Adult $23Non-Members* $25Groups 10+ $15

Sunday Sketch Sessions // Tina Havelock Stevens: Now is a Beginning
2025-06-08 10:00 - 14:00, 2025-06-01 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.

Bathurst Ghost Tour
2025-06-07 20:00 - 22:00, 2025-06-07 17:30 - 19:30 | Miss Traill’s House and Garden, 321 Russell Street (Corner of Russell and Peel Streets), Bathurst, 2795
Bathurst’s Miss Traill’s House. This location has been steeped in mystery and reports of ghostly activity for years and now you can finally get access through Blue Mountain’s Mystery Tours interactive ghost tour.

To give you the best possible chance of experiencing something from the other side this will be an intimate tour of only ten people.

Your host local resident Kim McLaughlin has knowledge of paranormal activity at the museum and will lead you to the scene of legends & ghost stories where the spirits are dying to meet you.

You might even meet the ghost of one of the original residents who is reported to still be on-site. As one of the first people to investigate this site you’ll be supplied with the latest ghost hunting equipment to capture any paranormal activity and possibly make contact with the other side.

Exhibition Tours // Tina Havelock Stevens: Now is a Beginning
2025-06-07 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-05-31 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.

The Most Australian Band Ever
2025-06-05 18:00 | Little Alberts @ The Victoria Bathurst, 3 Keppel Street, Bathurst, NSW, 2795
Enjoy the Hard-Ons movie with a few beers and a meal!Doors open 6pm for 7.30pm screening.With Director Jonathan Sequeira for Q&A after the screening.

Q&A with Director Jonathan Sequeira after the film.Enjoy the film with a beer and a meal at Little Albert’s in Bathurst.

Exhibition Tours // Tina Havelock Stevens: Now is a Beginning
2025-06-05 11:00 - 12:00, 2025-05-29 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.

MUSICAL BINGO
2025-06-04 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)

BIG BAND BLAST GALA CONCERT
2025-05-31 19:30 - 21:00 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Big Band Blast is back in Bathurst for another exciting weekend of the Big Band music. The Gala Concert will feature the prestigious Sydney Conservatorium Jazz Orchestra directed by David Theak, with special performances by the Big Band Blast clinicians – John Morrison (drums), Jacki Cooper (vocals), Eric Dunan (trumpet) and Dan Barnett (trombone).

We invite you to join us in hearing the superb talents of the Syd Con Jazz Orchestra as they play stunning arrangements of modern and classic jazz pieces.

Now in its 11th year, Big Band Blast provides educational and performance opportunities to high school big bands from around Australia. Proudly supported by the Mitchell Conservatorium, Big Band Blast is proud to call Bathurst home.

Black to Back
2025-05-30 19:00 - 21:30 | KeyStone 1889, 99 Keppel St, Bathurst, 2795
This show features two talented African performers, Emilia Nwakpa and Zaga (Kenneth) Obimba, telling their life journey through dance, song, music, rap, making up and story telling. The range of skills, and the colour and pace of the show, is sure to please audiences, who will also learn about the life of newcomers to this country.

The Sydney Symphony Performs Orchestral Favourites
2025-05-29 19:30 - 21:20 | Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra comes to the Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre for one night only, performing a concert of enchanting classical favourites led by Conductor in Residence Benjamin Northey. Music has an extraordinary power to inspire and delight. You will experience it all, from the magic of Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to Ravel’s playful Mother Goose, from Falla’s rousing The Three-Cornered Hat to the simple gift of Copland’s Appalachian Spring. And feel your spirits soar on the wings of Vaughan Williams’ exquisite The Lark Ascending, one of the best-loved pieces of music ever written, expertly performed by Associate Concertmaster Alexandra Osborne as violin soloist.

Central West Comedy - Ellen Briggs & Pete Hellia
2025-05-29 18:30 - 21:30 | Reckless Brewing, 2a Piper Street, Bathurst, New South Wales, 2795, Australia
Pete Helliar (Star of Taskmaster & The Amazing Race) & Ellen Briggs (Star of Kinne & Women Like Us) are coming to BATHURST for ONE NIGHT ONLY!

We promised you a great night out with high profile headliners and it doesn’t get much better than this.

Limited capacity available, tickets are limited. Get your friends together and enjoy a great night out.

Tickets:

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1355147

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61559401457702

Create Art with Alcohol Inks
2025-05-29 13:00 - 16:00 | Perthville Community Hall, 20 Rockley Street, Perthville, NSW
Learn how to create art using alcohol inks. Ink art can be created on paper, mugs, bowls, etc. Come along and learn how you can create.
Cost $15 (members) $20 (non-members).
Pay by direct deposit to:
Bathurst & District Artisans
882-000 10016 3946
Contact Cheryl on 0433 950 079 for booking and material requirements
