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SALON17
For the fifth successive year Matt Ward of Outstation - art from art centres and Paul Johnstone Gallery present an exhibition drawing on the original French idea of exhibiting works...
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Performing Arts
Q&A with Penny Arcade
Off The Leash was rather thrilled to correspond with legendary New York performer Penny Arcade in the lead-up to her show Longing Lasts Longer, a hilarious and biting satire of...
Between Tiny Cities
It sounds like the plot of the best dance movie you’ve never seen – two b-boys from different cities and utterly different walks of life, face off in a breakdance...
Books and Film
Q&A with journalist and author Alanna Mitchell
Award winning Canadian journalist Alanna Mitchell spent three years on the high seas with scientists to write her book about the crisis happening to our oceans. Off The Leash caught...
Words & Ideas
This year's words and ideas component of Darwin Festival includes an interesting mix of local storytelling, history and science. A favourite on the festival program, Darwin’s live storytelling night SPUN...
Around Town
National Science Week
A world without midges or a world without chocolate – which would you choose? Yes, of course this is a trick question! Midges are pollinators and essential to fertilising South...
Growing Up Troppo – August
Festival frenzy is well underway in the Top End and nothing signals the great vibe of Darwin more than the Darwin Festival – and it’s not just the grown-ups who...
Visual Arts
SALON17
Australians do love a cheeky renegade – so when the idea for an exhibition of works rejected from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards (NATSIAA) was born, it...
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair
Get your finger directly on the pulse of Indigenous arts at the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF). Now in its 11th year, this three-day bonanza of visual arts, workshops, film...
Food and Drink
Coffee Cups: Choose to Reuse
Take a look at all the cafes springing up in Darwin and think about this – in 20 years, pretty much every single one of their paper take away cups...
Tropical Kitchen
Jamie Lewis leads guided tours of Darwin's Parap and Rapid Creek markets as part of Darwin Festival this month, followed by a cooking class and plenty of good conversation over...
Festivals
Darwin Festival
18 days and nights of Festival fun is coming your way. This month’s Darwin Festival sees a hot line-up of cabaret, comedy and music, plus some of Australia’s best theatre...
Mahbilil Festival
Jabiru’s annual Mahbilil Festival comes during Gurrung season in Kakadu, when the climate is still hot and dry and flocks of magpie geese are out, but the thunderclouds are building...
Youth
Garment Workshops
In just four lessons, Dixi Bankier can teach someone how to sketch a fashion design, cut it out, sew it and be model-ready for the runway – all from scratch...
Krista Walker – Makeup Artist
Krista Walker's Instagram feed features so much of her elaborate artwork, it's hard to believe the 17-year-old finds the time to produce it, especially as she has to wash it...
Music
B2M
Local RnB legends B2M are back at this year's Darwin Festival, supporting celebrated rockers You Am I. It’s another big gong for the group, following an overseas tour and ahead...
Leah Flanagan
With a suite of new creations, local soul singer Leah Flanagan returns home this August to play stages big and small. You released your beautiful album Saudades last year –...