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Jun
A Smoke Social
In Darwin during WWI, ‘smoke social’ parties were staged to farewell enlisting soldiers. A Smoke Social, re-creates one of these parties, inviting audiences to participate as they did a hundred...
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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...
Visual Arts
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...
Art & About – Who We Are
Artists from Darwin’s Free Space Studio (FSS) are taking over the Live Darwin Hub and exploring identity in their latest exhibition Who We Are. Darwin’s FSS was set up in...
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...
Performing Arts
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...
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Sydney Dance Company - ab [intra]
Sydney Dance Company's latest production explores the depth of human impulse in ab [intra]. In the initial development, ab [intra] , which means ‘from within’ in Latin, began with a...
Festivals
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...
Alice Springs Beanie Festival
If you’re missing winter fashion and need a chilly get-away, the Alice Springs Beanie Festival has got you covered. Walking into the Araluen Arts Centre to see more than 7000...
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!...