Festival Theme

Dressed up performers.

Each year we share a theme for the festival that shapes the decorations, illuminations and activities.

The theme for 2023 is:

Connections.

Connections to people and place.

Connections to each other and our region.

The concept of universal connection: 

Nothing in the world stands by itself. Every object is a link in an endless chain and is thus connected with all the other links. And this chain of the universe has never been broken; it unites all objects and processes in a single whole and thus has a universal character. We cannot move so much as our little finger without “disturbing” the whole universe. The life of the universe, its history lies in an infinite web of connections.

Previous festival themes include:

LED hoola hooper performers posing for the camera with their lit up hoops.

2022 | Creative Lives

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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

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Drive in cinema at the back of the Mount Panorama pit complex.

2020 | Experience Differently

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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

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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

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Children sitting around a table for a Mad Hatters Tea Party with a performers dressed as Alice in Wonderland characters.

2017 | Weird and Wonderful

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Bathurst Courthouse illuminated with a projection of fire burning.

2016 | Fire and Ice

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