AutumnFest this weekend celebrates the best musical talent in regional NSW all in spectacular surroundings.
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Enjoy some great music while exploring Mayfield’s beautiful world-class 36 acre garden from 11am-4pm on Saturday.
Performing this year are Josh Maynard, Wicked Whiskey, Smith & Jones and Friends, plus Mickey Pye and his talented trio.
There’ll be local fine food & beverage vendors (no BYO). Mayfield Cafe will be open and woodfired pizza available. Bring chairs and blankets, sit on the grass and enjoy the show.
All this with the fabulous backdrop of Mayfield’s signature Obelisk & Pond.
Entry is adult $55, concession/student $40, child $15 and kids under 6 free.
Bus transfers to Mayfield are also available for an extra $20 from the Oberon Information Centre at 10.30am; an extra $25 from Bathurst Court House at 10am; or an extra $30 from Orange Information Centre at 9.30am. Buses will leave Mayfield by 4.30pm.
For more information visit http://mayfieldgarden.com.au/whatson/
New shows to open at BRAG
FIVE new exhibitions will open at Bathurst Region Art Gallery on Friday. All ill run until Juen 3.
White Dogs, Hoarfrost, Silver + Gold is by David Serisier, one of Australia's finest minimal colour field painters. White Dogs, Hoarfrost, Silver + Gold comprises new works from David Serisier’s studio in Summer Hill on the outskirts of Orange.
Mark Dober and Elizabeth Nelson participated in the Hill End Artists in Residence Program in 2017. The resulting work, Edge of the Studio, contrasts and connects the sense of light and space the artists experienced in Hill End.
Landscape as the Shaping Force by Cathe Stack comes from the idea it is the landscape of Australia, in its sheer physicality, that is the shaper of our cultures and artefacts: it comes first and all else follows.
With climate change and habitat loss some bird species adapt and flourish while others diminish. Gracious Adaptation by Noelene Lucas records, through video and sound, the adjustments Australian native birds have made in order to survive in the altered, post-industrial landscape of Hill End.
And Stephen Little’s Red Planet, 2016 is a high definition digital video depicting recorded footage from the mission of Opportunity, a NASA Mars Exploration Rover (MER). Red Planet shows a translation of transmitted raw data recordings via visuals and sounds.