2026 Festival Cancelled

The Bathurst Winter Festival, organised and delivered by Bathurst Regional Council is cancelled for 2026. For information on the winter event being staged at the Bathurst Showground please search 'Bathurst Showgrounds Winter Festival' on Facebook and for other events happening in Bathurst this Winter visit www.bathurstregion.com.au/events/.

Bathurst Winter Festival Themes

Family walking through the immersive light experience in the fernery. — 2024 | Memory.jpg

Bathurst Courthouse illuminated with words symbolising connections.. — 2023 | Connections.jpg

LED hoola hooper performers posing for the camera with their lit up hoops. — 2022 | Creative Lives

Dance group performing at night and dressed as different significant Bathurst personalities including a race car driver, explorer, nurse, train driver and farmer. — 2021 | People and Place

Drive in cinema at the back of the Mount Panorama pit complex. — 2020 | Experience Differently

Couple having the picture taken in front of the 2019 Bathurst Winter Festival photo wall which is a painting of a bright yellow UFO with the words 2019 Bathurst Winter Festival written on it. — 2019 | Cosmic Paradise

Girl having her picture taken with a giant lit up whale placed in the park which looks like it is swimming out of the ground. — 2018 | Into the Wild

Children sitting around a table for a Mad Hatters Tea Party with a performers dressed as Alice in Wonderland characters. — 2017 | Weird and Wonderful

Bathurst Courthouse illuminated with a projection of fire burning. — 2016 | Fire and Ice

Giant 200 numbers in a balloon arch with illuminated Carillon in the background. — 2015 | Bathurst Bicentenary.jpg

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