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Salon des Refusés 2020
The Salon des Refusés has grown in strength with many collectors and institutions awaiting the exhibition each year. As a companion event to NATISAA, the Salon allows the viewer a...
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Books and Film
Short Film Festival: Champions for our Coasts
IF YOU’RE PASSIONATE about keeping our Top End coasts healthy, this free short film festival is a must do, must see, must hear. Held in the iconic seaside location of...
Visual Arts
Salon Indigenous Arts Projects
Returning for a third year, complementing the Salon des Refusés, Salon Indigenous Art Projects presents six exhibitions by both emerging and established artists representing art centres across Australia. Salon des...
Art & About: Botanicals
Trans-disciplinary artist Matthew van Roden presents Botanicals as part of DF20 Homegrown – a video installation set to light up various part of town, curated by ACCOMPLICE’S Britt Guy. OTL...
Around Town
Down The Track - August
AMONGST A CHAOTIC YEAR, August in the Centre presents a chance to reflect on time, space and place. By Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts We dive in on the first with a solely...
Vote for the Arts
AHEAD OF THIS MONTH’S ELECTION, the Creative Industries sector encourages you to ask your local candidates how they will advance the arts, at both a policy level and through practical...
Music
Streets of Darwin
THE EPIC LOCAL LOVE-IN that is the 2020 Darwin Festival has a new live soundtrack. By Anna Dowd The Festival has rallied Darwin’s most talented musicians to each write a...
Settle Down Sisters
THE SETTLE DOWN SISTERS are a group of powerhouse women that have formed Darwin’s own all-female super group, featuring Caiti Baker, Stevie Jean, Serina Pech, Phoebe Wear, DJ Emily Rose...
Performing Arts
Comics' Corner - Shalom Kaa
SHALOM KAA IS A well-known force in the Top End entertainment scene, regularly gracing the stage as an actor or belting out a tune or two with Darwin Chorale. Now,...
North of Centre
STEP BACKSTAGE AT Darwin Entertainment Centre’s Playhouse and immerse yourself in three new dynamic dance pieces, exploring the places dance comes from in our bodies. By Anna Dowd Over three...
Youth
Yes Way, Cosplay!
WHETHER YOU’RE NEW to cosplay or getting ready for your next con, the Cosplay Meet Up group at Casuarina Library is for you! Cosplay literally means costume play, where participants...
Youth Profile - Andre Price-Quintner
19-YEAR-OLD Andre Price-Quintner is this year’s Event Producer of the Sounds @ Mindil program, where local young musos take to the stage to strum a tune for market goers at...
Food and Drink
Wine and Dine Time
Top End food and wine aficionados rejoice! You’re invited to Hilton Darwin’s brand-new restaurant, PepperBerry, for a special Shaw + Smith wine and dine experience. Shaw + Smith’s Sauvignon Blanc...
Festival Feeds
Cucina sotto le Stelle This giant pizza oven on wheels is a true Darwin favourite, and Benjamin and his team are making the move from the Nightcliff foreshore to Festival...
Festivals
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...