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World Music Festival 2018
Celebrating World Refugee Week, Melaleuca Refugee Centre will host World Music Festival on June 23rd. A community event for all the family, festivities commence at 4pm with a Citizenship Ceremony,...
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Visual Arts
Entries Open For Portrait of a Senior Territorian Art Award
Pull out the palette and paintbrushes and get painting for this year’s Portrait of a Senior Territorian Art Award. The annual portrait competition will this year align with the 40th...
Salon Indigenous Art Projects
Six years ago gallery owners Matt Ward and Paul Johnstone joined forces to create Salon des Refusés – an exhibition to showcase the works rejected by the National Aboriginal and...
Festivals
Darwin Festival Program Launch
The Darwin Festival program is hot off the press and out in the wild. The Festival boasts a huge program with more than 113 events in every genre across the...
Mandorah Ukulele and Folk Festival (MUFF)
What do Neil Armstrong, Marilyn Monroe and Warren Buffett and Darwin local Kirstene Ost all have in common? A love for the ukulele. After Armstrong landed back on Earth from...
Performing Arts
Don Quixote
The Duprada Dance Company is bringing Top End and Centralian dancers together for a one-off performance of Don Quixote in Darwin. It’s the first time since 2014 that the dancers...
A Smoke Social
During WWI top end soldiers were forced to travel interstate to enlist – but they didn’t leave town without a party to say farewell. In those days the parties were...
Around Town
Territory Day artists announced
This year’s Territory Day entertainment line-up has finally been revealed. Darwin revellers will get the chance to see Crowded House’s Neil Finn supported by home-grown hip-hop star Baker Boy, Stevie...
Get It On!
Designers have been working their magic on fabric from Injalak Arts Centre in preparation for the second annual Get It On competition – a celebration of the prints coming from...
Youth
Sounds @ Sunset Volume #2
Jack Buckley will be riding the wave of May’s inaugural Sounds @ Sunset for the second installment of the popular musical arvo. Buckley, 23, recently returned home to Darwin after...
Dishing Up Darwin – Winner
Isabell Luck was crowned the top young cook at NT Youth Week’s Dishing Up Darwin competition last month. She battled it out in four rounds over the weekend and won...
Food and Drink
Pop-up Food Trucks – Darwin Foreshore
The atmosphere is chilled, the sunsets are always glorious and for families there’s oodles of space for kids to play. Whatever the reason – breakfast, lunch or dinner at a...
Pedal to Produce
Dust off your pushy and explore Darwin’s suburbs while learning more about local produce. After a successful trial last year, Pedal to Produce is back with local guides sharing their...
Books and Film
Black Divaz
An award-winning documentary takes you behind the make-up, under the wigs and beneath the sparkles of the glitz and glamour of Australia’s inaugural Miss First Nations Drag Queen Pageant. Black...
Off The Shelf - June
Welcome to my column where each month I’ll take a book from the shelf to share. By Kate Rendell Released late last year, Rain Birds is a novel that has...
Music
Rogue Traders
One of the most successful electro pop-rock bands in recent Australian music history, Rogue Traders, are reprising their hits for one night only at Skycity. Founding member James Ash spoke...
Darwin Symphony Orchestra - Bowie
This is the night when the orchestra and conductor have way too much fun –with the audience hugging every inch of the Amphitheatre lawns and letting their hair down too!...