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Are you a Pink Floyd fan? Then you’ll be in your element at Australia’s largest scale Pink Floyd concept act when it lands in town as part of a touring. The prog rock outfit has a lasting legacy that spans generations, with this show charting the 1960s to 1990s. The Bathurst Academy of Dance choir will make a guest appearance. Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, May 15 from 8pm. Tickets $75 adults, $70 concession and $45 children under 17 at bmec.com.au. In celebration and recognition of World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, The Neighbourhood Centre is promoting the Festival of Friendship on May 16. Bring the family and a picnic blanket, and enjoy the colours, flavours and sounds of the day. Live performances, stalls and activities, smoking ceremony, children’s activities, food or BYO picnic. Abercrombie House, 10am to 2pm, free entry. Call 6332 4866 for information. Held on the third Sunday of the month, Blayney Rotary Market features a range of stalls boasting seasonal fruit, vegetables, local produce, plants, flowers, jewellery, craft, accessories, candles, beauty products and more. The next markets will be held on Sunday, May 16 from 8.30am to noon at CentrePoint. The mushrooms are out and the hunt is on. Yum! You can try and spot them in the wild yourself (be careful you don’t pick out something deadly) or take part in a tour that starts from Hampton. Tickets include a barbecue lunch (with ‘shrooms on the menus, of course) and tips on finding, preparing and preserving the fungi. To book a spot go to eventbrite.com.au. Come and join our friendly Craft, Cuppa and Chat Group. Bring your own projects to work on or join in sewing, knitting, crochet, embroidery, cross stitch, learn something new, or just come for the cuppa and a chat. However, a unanimous decision by those who attend has been made to change the day. The Craft, Cuppa and Chat Group will now be held on the Tuesdays from 10am to 1pm … except on the first Tuesday of each month, which is for Millthorpe CWA branch meetings. Held at the newly refurbished Millthorpe CWA Hall, 21 Pym Street. $2.50 There will some treats and a good cause to support at the Cancer Council Biggest Morning Tea at Tallwood Hall on Wednesday, May 19 at 2pm. Please advise if you plan to attend. Phone Jenny Wright 0409 157 380 or Maureen Coleman 0428 665 905. The Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase will bring the crème de la crème of the 2021 Festival to Bathurst on June 5. Featuring some of the Festival’s hottest acts live on stage for an incredible two hours of hard-hitting laughter. Bathurst Memorial Entertaiment Centre, 8pm to 10pm. Tickets $25-$35 through www.bmec.com.au. Musical mavericks, Ensemble Offspring, will perform at the Orange Regional Conservatorium on May 30, bringing together some of the most innovative instrumentalists in Australia. The performance will revisit classics from the ’90s alongside five new commissions, as well as using video. Tickets www.eventbrite.com.au. This unique workshop will combine teaching astrophotography with learning about the night sky through Indigenous Dreamtime storytelling. It’s aimed at beginners to intermediate on the photography skill scale. After you’ve snapped the Milky Way and beyond you can warm up with some bush tucker. July 10, August 7, September 4, 7pm – 10pm. Cost $325. Bookings at www.littleimageco.com.au. Orange.
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Echoes of Pink Floyd
Last chance
Are you a Pink Floyd fan? Then you’ll be in your element at Australia’s largest scale Pink Floyd concept act when it lands in town as part of a touring. The prog rock outfit has a lasting legacy that spans generations, with this show charting the 1960s to 1990s. The Bathurst Academy of Dance choir will make a guest appearance. Bathurst Memorial Entertainment Centre, May 15 from 8pm. Tickets $75 adults, $70 concession and $45 children under 17 at bmec.com.au.
Friendship Festival
This weekend
In celebration and recognition of World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, The Neighbourhood Centre is promoting the Festival of Friendship on May 16. Bring the family and a picnic blanket, and enjoy the colours, flavours and sounds of the day. Live performances, stalls and activities, smoking ceremony, children’s activities, food or BYO picnic. Abercrombie House, 10am to 2pm, free entry. Call 6332 4866 for information.
Blayney Rotary Markets
This weekend
Held on the third Sunday of the month, Blayney Rotary Market features a range of stalls boasting seasonal fruit, vegetables, local produce, plants, flowers, jewellery, craft, accessories, candles, beauty products and more. The next markets will be held on Sunday, May 16 from 8.30am to noon at CentrePoint.
Mushroom hunt
Road trip
The mushrooms are out and the hunt is on. Yum! You can try and spot them in the wild yourself (be careful you don’t pick out something deadly) or take part in a tour that starts from Hampton. Tickets include a barbecue lunch (with ‘shrooms on the menus, of course) and tips on finding, preparing and preserving the fungi. To book a spot go to eventbrite.com.au.
Cup of tea?: Craft, cuppa and a chat, and a Biggest Morning Tea event
Craft & Cuppa
Join in
Come and join our friendly Craft, Cuppa and Chat Group. Bring your own projects to work on or join in sewing, knitting, crochet, embroidery, cross stitch, learn something new, or just come for the cuppa and a chat. However, a unanimous decision by those who attend has been made to change the day. The Craft, Cuppa and Chat Group will now be held on the Tuesdays from 10am to 1pm … except on the first Tuesday of each month, which is for Millthorpe CWA branch meetings. Held at the newly refurbished Millthorpe CWA Hall, 21 Pym Street. $2.50
Morning Tea
Will you attend?
There will some treats and a good cause to support at the Cancer Council Biggest Morning Tea at Tallwood Hall on Wednesday, May 19 at 2pm. Please advise if you plan to attend. Phone Jenny Wright 0409 157 380 or Maureen Coleman 0428 665 905.
Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase: Tickle that funny bone.
Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase
In the diary
The Sydney Comedy Festival Showcase will bring the crème de la crème of the 2021 Festival to Bathurst on June 5. Featuring some of the Festival’s hottest acts live on stage for an incredible two hours of hard-hitting laughter. Bathurst Memorial Entertaiment Centre, 8pm to 10pm. Tickets $25-$35 through www.bmec.com.au.
Ensemble Offspring
Musical performance
Musical mavericks, Ensemble Offspring, will perform at the Orange Regional Conservatorium on May 30, bringing together some of the most innovative instrumentalists in Australia. The performance will revisit classics from the ’90s alongside five new commissions, as well as using video. Tickets www.eventbrite.com.au.
ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY: Book now for this mix of snapping and Dreamtime storytelling.
Astro + Dreamtime
In the calendar
This unique workshop will combine teaching astrophotography with learning about the night sky through Indigenous Dreamtime storytelling. It’s aimed at beginners to intermediate on the photography skill scale. After you’ve snapped the Milky Way and beyond you can warm up with some bush tucker. July 10, August 7, September 4, 7pm – 10pm. Cost $325. Bookings at www.littleimageco.com.au. Orange.
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