1 JULY 2021 SATURDAY 26 JUNE - SUNDAY 11 JULY In 2021 the festival theme is 'People and Place'. Through the theme People and Place we will celebrate everything that makes our community and our region special: individuals and groups, diversity, four seasons, heritage, activities, culture, entertainment, resilience and more. Familiar faces and quiet places. Keep an eye out for the unique interpretations of this year's theme as you wander along the Illumination Light Walk and check out the Brighten Up Bathurst locations around town. Fill your winter school holidays with fun family adventures. Celebrate the magic of winter at the annual 16 day Bathurst Winter Festival. Stunning light shows, boutique food events with local wines and craft ales, outdoor ice skating, carnival rides, live music and more. • Ice Skating • Brew & Bite • Illuminations • Kids' Day • Pets' Day • Around Town For more information visit bathurstwinterfestival.com.au 2 UNTIL SUNDAY 25 JULY BATHURST REGIONAL ART GALLERY EXHIBITIONS Location: Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70 - 78 Keppel St Time: Tuesday to Friday 10am - 5pm; Saturday & Sunday 10am - 2pm; Closed Monday Cost: Free entry Contact: 6333 6555 Website: bathurstart.com.au STIRRING THE ASH: EUAN MACLEOD AND ANDREW MERRY Stirring the ash is a collaboration between painter Euan Macleod and photographer Andrew Merry. The series is set in the liminal landscape of Napoleon Reef, near Bathurst. Macleod and Merry’s synergetic collaboration is a many-layered journey not only into the natural world but also into the nature of image-making. The elemental, complex narrative of fire is acknowledged and explored as both a destructive and creative force in the Australian landscape. This multimedia exhibition acts as a portal into the otherworldly imagination of Macleod’s iconic figurative landscapes. Macleod’s paintings are reimagined and transformed, through Merry’s lens, into the medium of photography, video and performance. Macleod becomes an actor in the theatre of Merry’s photographs. The end-result is a combined body of work that is both cataclysmic and quietly reflective, that blazes, flickers and glows. Wellington-based poet Gregory O’Brien—author of the 2010 monograph Euan Macleod— the painter in the painting-- adds another layer to the exhibition with his text Written in ash, which brings together memories of the artist’s studio, landscapes he has travelled through with Macleod, and meditations on both the photographer’s and the painter’s art. A BRAG Exhibition. ANGELA MALONE: WINTER PAINTINGS Over the last ten years, Orange-based artist and poet Angela Malone has been drawn to a friend’s orchard to paint. Her recent paintings are an attempt to coalesce the landscape’s fleeting external reality with her own emotional and inner world by working vigorously and quickly, often abstracting elements of the landscape through the process of reduc- tion. A Bathurst Regional Art Gallery Local Artist Project. CHESTER NEALIE: ETCHED IN FIRE Over six decades, the charismatic New Zealand-born, Gulgong-based master potter Chester Nealie has amassed a wealth of scientific and technical knowledge of the clay and glazes he uses in his pursuit of aesthetics through the making of his woodfired ceramics. This survey charts his career and will show works by Frank Boyden (US); Barry Brickell and Richard Parker (NZ); and Peter Rushforth, Alan Peascod, Owen Rye, Janet Mansfield and Ivan McMeekin (Australia). Nealie is represented in numerous collections, including Musée National de Céramique, Paris; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Christchurch Art Gallery; Te Papa National Museum of New Zealand, Wellington; Art Gallery of Ballarat; and Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. A BRAG Exhibition curated by Jan Irvine-Nealie. 3 UNTIL SATURDAY 10 JULY T.ARTS EXHIBITIONS Location: T.Arts Gallery, 80 George St Time: Monday to Friday 10am - 5pm; Saturday 10am - 2pm Cost: Free entry Contact: 0490 332 699 Website: tartsgallery.com GREG CROSS – 'SEEN IN PASTELS' In this exhibition Greg is portraying some beautiful seascapes, calm horizons and movement of white wandering clouds – as good as being there at some of these locations. When Greg sees something he likes , he tries to capture that moment in his favourite medium, pastels. Greg follows the pastels art world , developing ideas and concepts based sometimes on the work of established American landscape artists. LOUISE RANSHAW – 'REEF' This exhibition draws on Louise’s love of organic materials and objects found in the environment. A visit to Burrendon Arboreatum last year saw her develop ideas and forms from the many seed pods, foliage and bark she observed there. Some of these drawings and early projects crossed boundaries and morphed into forms reminiscent of marine corals and algaes. JULY 'NEW START FOR WINTER' Location: Rankin Cottage Crafts, 117 Rankin St Time: Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 4pm; Closed public holidays, Mother's Day & Father’s Day Cost: Free entry Contact: 0497 015 964 Facebook: facebook.com/rankincottagecrafts Winter is here and Rankin Cottage Crafts are busy making warm handmade items for you and your family. UNTIL SUNDAY 4 JULY FIREFLY FOREST & GLOW Location: Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, 105 William St Time: 10am - 4pm Cost: Free entry Contact: 6333 6161 Website: bmec.com.au Firefly Forest is an immersive magical lighting installation created by Patch Theatre’s Artistic Director, Geoff Cobham, and his longtime collaborator Chris Petridis. This timeless piece, inspired by an unexpected sublime moment in a paddy field under a full moon and next to a volcano, is an inspiration for all ages. The fireflies leave trails of ever changing ember coloured light. Sit beneath them and be transported to another time and place. Glow is an interactive installation that allows playful exploration of light and shadow. Glow will spark your imagination and give you an immersive ‘hands on’ experience you will never forget. Visitors will enter this installation every 20 minutes. Please reserve your visit with the Box Office. 4 UNTIL SUNDAY 11 JULY SCHOOL HOLIDAY ACTIVITY BATHURST FARM EXPERIENCE Location: 1080 Trunkey Rd, Perthville Time: By arrangement Cost: Charges apply - Bookings essential Contact: 0429 337 439 Website: barcoosbarn.com.au Meet the animals, feed lambs, chickens and horses and learn about their uses. Take a ride on a led Shetland pony or draught horse, a sled ride behind a draught horse or even a sulky ride. Lots of fun activities to enjoy. UNTIL SUNDAY 11 JULY SCHOOL HOLIDAY ACTIVITY GOLD PANNING TOURS Location: Hill End area Time: By arrangement - Bookings essential (Closed 25 Dec) Cost: $10 per person (1 hour) Contact: 0421 729 955 Enjoy gold prospecting with an experienced tour guide. Be taught how to pan for gold. Equipment supplied. UNTIL SUNDAY 11 JULY SCHOOL HOLIDAY ACTIVITY HISTORY HILL Location: 3458 Hill End Rd, Hill End Time: 10am – 4pm - open 7 days during school holidays. Normal hours: 10am - 4pm weekends and long weekends Cost: Adult $10; Child $7 Contact: 0428 378 222 Website: historyhill.com.au History Hill has the largest privately owned gold rush collection on display in Australia focusing on the land, the time and the people of Australia's gold rush era. UNTIL SUNDAY 11 JULY SCHOOL HOLIDAY ACTIVITY SOFALA GOLD PROSPECTING Location: Sofala Collective, 23 Denison St Time: 9am – 11am & 1pm - 3pm (arrive 15 mins early prior to panning) Open 7 days during school holidays Cost: Adult $20; Child $10; Under 10yrs $5 Contact: 0400 406 551 Facebook: facebook.com/sofalagoldprospecting Come to Sofala and learn the art of panning for gold. Be taught the correct technique so you can be sure that you are not losing the gold you have worked so hard to find! 5 THURSDAY 1 JULY SCHOOL HOLIDAY ACTIVITY GAME ON Location: Bathurst Library, 70 - 78 Keppel St Time: 10.30am - 1pm Cost: Free - Bookings essential Contact: 6333 6281 Website: bathurst.nsw.gov.au/library.html Games morning at the Library! Are you a Monopoly master, cluey with Cluedo or an Uno champion? If so....get your friends together and bring your boards games or card games and play together in the Library. Some board games will be supplied. BYO snacks and water. Ages 8yrs+. THURSDAY 1 & FRIDAY 2 JULY SCHOOL HOLIDAY ACTIVITY CREATE COLLABORATIVE COLUMNS Location: Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, 70-78 Keppel St Time: 1st 1.30p - 3pm; 2nd 10.30am - 12pm Cost: Free - Bookings essential Contact: 6333 6555 Website: https://bit.ly/3wPaW7L Join in creating an awesome collaborative painting of the poles along the Art Gallery/ Library awning inspired by the artworks on display. Over a series of workshops, participants will paint onto black vinyl their responses to the current exhibitions and artworks on display at BRAG as well as ‘Adaptation’ inflatable by GAS. THURSDAY 1 & FRIDAY 2 JULY NIGHTS @ AUSTRALIAN FOSSIL & MINERAL MUSEUM Location: 224 Howick St Time: Open until 8pm Cost: Adult $15; Concession $10; Child $12; Family $45 Contact: 6331 5511 Website: museumsbathurst.com.au The Australian Fossil and Mineral Museum will be open late to celebrate the Bathurst Winter Festival. Standard Museum admission applies. Show your Bathurst Winter Festival Ice Skating ticket for 10% discount on admission. THURSDAY 1 & FRIDAY 2 JULY WALK-IN SUCCULENT POTS WORKSHOPS Location: Bespoke & Co, 23 Keppel St Time: Between 10am - 4pm Cost: $5 Contact: 6331 5161 Website: facebook.com/bespokeandcobathurst Pop in to Bespoke & Co. Bathurst anytime between 10am and 2pm to make your own Succulent Pot browse around the local crafted items in the warm shop and then make a mess around our workshop space! 6 THURSDAY 1 & FRIDAY 2 JULY MONDAY 5 - FRIDAY 9 JULY SCHOOL HOLIDAY ACTIVITY BATHURST GOLDFIELDS HOLIDAY PANNING Location: 428 Conrod Straight, Mount Panorama Time: 1pm - 3pm Cost: Adult & high school age $20; primary age $10; under 5yrs free. Children must be accompanied by paying adult. Contact: 6332 2022 Website: bathurstgoldfields.com.au Be guided through the museum displays and see the various methods of gold mining, the tools and machinery used, from man and horse power through to steam power.