Macquarie Male Singers meet every Tuesday from 7.30pm at the Assumption School Hall in Mitre Street. Contact John Kendall, 0427 410 625.

Bathurst mah jong group plays at the Bathurst Bridge Club in lower Mitre Street each Tuesday at 9.15am. Contact Carol, 0423 685 293.

Social bridge will be played at the Bathurst Bridge Club in lower Mitre Street at 9.15am. Cost: $2. Call Bob, 6331 8414, for more information.

Meditation classes: 12.15pm and 6.15pm. Call Danielle of Divine Connections, 0466 065 348.

Leadlighting at Oz Art Glass Studio at 87 Stewart Street: 10am-1pm, 2-5pm and 6-8pm. Call 6334 3493.

Exercise programs at Bathurst RSL Club: Flex It for over 50s at 9.15am, 10.30am and 11.45am; tai chi at 1pm; Seat Flex It at 3.30pm and weights at 4.30pm. Call Liz Schembri, 0438 430 082.

February

Bathurst U3A has courses for the mind, body and spirit. Contact Lindsay Cox, 0429 916 618, or visit bathurstu3a.com

Bathurst Arts Trail offers free entry to artists’ studios on the first full weekend of each month. The next trail will be held from 10am-4pm this Saturday, February 3 and Sunday, February 4. Check www.bathurstartstrail.com or Bathurst Visitor Information Centre.

Friday, February 9

Harrie Fasher: The Last Charge exhibition will open at 6pm at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery. Fasher’s monumental sculpture captures the raw emotion of the last charge of the Light Horse at the Battle of Beersheba on October 31, 1917. The exhibition will be opened by Professor Amanda Lawson, executive dean of the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts at the University of Wollongong. Visit www.bathurstart.com.au or call 6333 6555.

Thursday, February 15 

Bathurst District Historical Society Monthly Muster will feature Keith Painter, renowned researcher and writer, talking about the history and mystique behind Hassans Walls. Hassans Walls once boasted a convict stockade, a base where convicts lived while constructing sections of Surveyor Mitchell’s Road 4 south of Lithgow.