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Rekindling a Love of Local Art
Wagait Arts Festival has come a long way since its grassroots beginning out the back of Wagait Beach Supermarket in 2014. Now a multi-arts event stretching over a whole weekend...
Stretch Yourself
Limber up folks, Darwin Fringe Festival is back and biting! With over 150 innovative, hyper-entertaining shows – expanding your horizons, and imagination, is what it’s all about. By Anna Dowd...
Party with Pride
Don the sequins and glitter, and get set to party with Pride in the gorgeous tropics-meets-the-outback locale of Katherine for the inaugural Katherine Pride Festival. Last year, Top End Pride...
Sneak Peek at DF21
This month, Darwin Festival lets a few cats out of the proverbial bag with a sneaky snippet of the 2021 Festival program. Artistic Director Felix Preval says he’s especially excited...
Take it Breezy
Get set for an epic weekend of art, dance, music, workshops, food and fun, and more, as the much-loved Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival returns to Nightcliff foreshore. In 2020, Seabreeze demonstrated...
This is Garrmalang
What started as a passion project for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander local, and 2021’s Garrmalang Festival Co-Creative Director, Ben Graetz has blossomed into an exciting, culture-rich event on the...
Darwin Pride 2020
IT’S TIME TO get your feathers, sequins and dancing shoes ready – Darwin Pride Festival is here! Over three fun-filled days, you’re invited to celebrate the diversity, creativity and vibrancy...
Arafura Pearl
TOP ENDERS HAVE waited patiently for this one. Originally planned for May, the inaugural Arafura Pearl: A Festival of Women is set to take place in the Brown’s Mart Courtyard...
Darwin Fringe
This time of year, Top Enders would normally be immersing themselves in the wild and wacky world that is Darwin Fringe, but the festival as we know it was postponed...
A Homegrown Festival
The original Darwin Festival – known then as the Bougainvillea Festival – was inspired by Top Ender’s knack for optimism, determination and local love. By Anna Dowd 40 years and...
30 Years of the Nitmiluk Handback
PACK A BAG AND MAKE THE TRIP to Katherine for the inaugural Nitmiluk Festival, an event created to celebrate 30 years since Nitmiluk National Park was handed back to Jawoyn...
The Inaugural Wagait Art Prize
WAGAIT BEACH’S ANNUAL ART EXHIBITION has stepped it up a notch this year, with the introduction of the Wagait Art Prize at the reinvigorated Wagait Art Festival. The theme for...
Pride Party Time
GET OUT AND ABOUT, and loud and proud for the annual Darwin Pride Festival. The party kicks off with the Darwin Pride Awards. The special fundraising night will see the...
Art The Walls
THE DARWIN STREET ART FESTIVAL (DSAF) is back with some of the biggest names yet. There’s even a street party in West Lane for everyone to help celebrate. Local street...
Darwin Festival: 40 Year Bloom
Darwin Festival has grown to be one of the hottest attractions on the national festival calendar, with over 100,000 attendances in 2018. But it all started with humble beginnings as...
Mahbilil Magic
JABIRU’S ANNUAL MAHBILIL FESTIVAL is held during Gurrung season in Kakadu, when the climate is still hot and dry and flocks of magpie geese are out, but the thunderclouds are...
Desert Harmony Festival
HOSTED BY BARKLY REGIONAL ARTS in Tennant Creek, Desert Harmony Festival returns for its thirtieth time to showcase the culture of the Warumungu region. With a healthy combination of locally...
Freedom Day Festival
HELD ON GURINDJI COUNTRY, the birth of Aboriginal Land Rights in Australia, Freedom Day Festival celebrates the spirit of unity and pride. The festival tagline is ‘blackfella, whitefella unite as...
Hot August Nights Are On Their Way
THE MOST MAGICAL TIME of the year is almost upon us – Darwin Festival is so close, we can almost smell the tasty treats being cooked up in Festival Park...
Darwin Fringe Fesitval
If you want to find out what the 2019 Darwin Fringe Festival is all about, don’t miss the Opening Night Party, with banging beats to guide you through the night...