Top 10 things to do in Bunbury

1. Carols night

The annual Carols by Candlelight will be held at the Graham Bricknell Music Shell on Sunday. Entertainment will start from 5pm before carols start at 7pm. Go along to listen and sing along with all your favourite Christmas carols.

2. Art show

Tevor Woodward exhibits Dinosaurs’ Picnic, his second retrospective at the Bunbury Regional Art Galleries from Friday. Work in the exhibition imagines the future if humanity does not change its ways soon to save the world from becoming something unrecognisable. The works will show at the Chapel Gallery until January 27 and will be open from 10am-4pm daily.

3. Tijuana Cartel

Hailing from the Gold Coast, Tijuana Cartel will play at the Prince of Wales Hotel this Thursday from 9pm. Their tunes have a mixture of flamenco guitar, trumpet, vocals and Afro-Cuban percussion mixed with some hardened electronica.

4. Rail open day

The Leschenault Lady and other locomotives will be on display at the South West Rail and heritage Centre open day on Sunday from 10am-2pm. Other attractions include farm machinery from the horse-drawn era through to the 1960s. The Men in Sheds will do restoration projects and the centre’s new picnic van will be available. The open day will be located at the centre on Turner Street, Boyanup. Entry is by donation.

5. Retrospective

The artwork of a Balingup artist who died of cancer will be presented at Whitespace Studio Gallery on South Western Highway, Mullalyup, until Sunday. The exhibition features paintings and drawings from Michela Johnson’s career, as well as sketchbooks that provide an insight into her life as an artist. Her works feature reoccurring themes such as sexism, racism and fundamentalism.

6. Twilight racing

The Bunbury Turf Club will host their first twilight race meet this Friday, with gates opening at noon. There will be a live band and the bar will be open until 8pm. The first race will be run at about 2pm. Entry costs $5 for adults, $4 for concessions. Contact the club on 9721 3444 for more information.

7. Speedway

The Bunbury Speedway will hold a Bunbury Car Club race meeting on Saturday night with racing from 6pm. Divisions to face the starter include all-star juniors, top-star juniors, street stocks, productions, limited sprintcars and wingless sprints. Entry costs $20 for adults, $10 concessions, $5 children 6-17 or $45 for a family. Visit www.bunburycarclub.com.au for more information.

8. Classic tunes

GT & The Falcons will play at the Eaton Tavern from 8pm on Friday. They play classic party songs from the 50s to 70s, including songs from the Beatles, Neil Diamond, Monkeys, Elvis and Buddy Holly.

9. Christmas Shop

The Christmas Shop exhibition in the lower gallery of Bunbury Regional Art Galleries is open daily from 10am-4pm until January 20. The exhibition showcases the contribution of artists, craft workers and designers to the South West. More than 30 artists have been chosen from this year’s exhibition, showing a range of ceramics, painting, photography, jewellery and works on paper.

10. Heroes rise

The Tooth Fairy (Isla Fisher), the Sand Man and the Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman) are put in danger when Pitch the Bogeyman (Jude Law) uses fear to erase children’s belief in them in the animated movie Rise of the Guardians. They call in Jack Frost (Chris Pine), who is resentful children don’t believe in him. They work to stop Pitch before children everywhere stop believing in the Guardians. It opens at Grand Cinemas this Thursday.