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Festival Theme

Dressed up performers.

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

The theme for 2024 will be announced soon.

Previous festival themes include:

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

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