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Off The Leash - Statement on COVID-19
UPDATE: Tue 26 May, 2020 To our wonderful readers, I just wanted to slide into your email with an exciting update... Off The Leash is returning to print for the...
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Food and Drink
Takeaway but not as you know it
10 GRAB AND GO IDEAS IN DARWIN Pubs, restaurants and cafés deserve a gold star for the way they’ve been able to roll with the punches. And while we can’t...
Community Cook
YANNI GREW UP ON a farm in Bali and has always been familiar with edible tropical plants. She’s spent time learning more about native plants and people in the Top...
Music
How to Support Acts
With everything going on at the moment, we thought we'd get some tips on how to best support the live music and entertainment industry from MusicNT's Executive Director Mark Smith...
Music NT Presents: Ripple Effect Band
IT'S NOT OFTEN YOU HEAR of an all-female rock band hailing from a remote Arnhem Land community, but Ripple Effect Band is just that. MusicNT spoke to band member Rona...
Visual Arts
A Hypothetical Darwin
My creative in residence at the NT Archives started with the intention of looking at plans envisioned for Darwin that never happened. I then used these past decisions – or...
PRESSplay
AMELIA LUSCOMBE AND JOCELYN TRIBE open their studio doors this month to share behind-the-scenes developments of their artist in residence at Tactile Arts. OTL caught up with them for a...
Books and Film
When the Tides Turn
2020 IS DARWIN'S TURN to host the annual NT Writers’ Festival, an annual celebration of the written word, which is also held in Alice Springs every second year. The newly...
Brother Moon
Preserving the stories of Elders, Brother Moon is a new children’s book by local author Maree McCarthy Yoelu and illustrator Samantha Fry, published by Magabala Books. A gentle but powerful...
Performing Arts
Comics' Corner
SHOWCASING TOP END COMICS AND LOCAL STAND-UP PERFORMERS LAST MONTH, KELLY GULLIVER competed against other budding Territory comedians for a chance to represent the NT in the national Raw Comedy...
Robert in Crisis
AFTER RAVE REVIEWS that lead to the Best Performance Award at the 2019 Darwin Fringe Festival, Scott Gooding returns to the Brown’s Mart stage with his one-man dark comedy, Robert...
Around Town
Tactile Arts Callout
ARE YOU PASSIONATE about arts and crafts? Want to get involved in the wonderful world of the Top End arts scene? Throw your name in the hat to join the...
Witladla
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY ARTIST, Larrakia Elder and contemporary storyteller, Aunty June Mills has big plans to bring her unique show, Witladla, to the Top End. The performance, which is currently being adapted...
Youth
Q&A with filmmaker Max Conaghan
WHEN 19-YEAR-OLD Max Conaghan isn’t studying for his film degree or hitting up the freelance scene, he’s usually making short films with his mates. So Max, what inspired you to...
Q&A with artist Leila Heinrich
The work of 2019’s Year 12 students from across the NT was scheduled to exhibit at the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in Exit Art this month...
Festivals
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...