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The Battle of the School Bands
Established in 2009, Battle of the School Bands is the premier band competition for Northern Territory schools, which sees the winners play alongside national and international acts at the annual...
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Books and Film
Wordstorm
As the Wet season skies clear, word nerds come out to mix and mingle at Wordstorm. The NT Writers' Festival hits the Top End every two years, so clear your...
Deckchair Cinema's Reconciliation Week
While flying from Sydney to Alice Springs, filmmaker and projection artist Naina Sen found herself in exactly the right place at exactly the right time. The result was an epic...
Festivals
Pine Creek Gold Rush Festival
The little town of Pine Creek swells in numbers every yearwith punters testing their skills panning for gold. More than 1000 people are expect-ed to venture up and down the...
Junk Sculpture Festival
A trip to Chernobyl has given last year’s Junk Sculpture Festival winner inspiration for his latest creation. Mechanic and minister Patrick Bauer won the gong last year with a metal...
Food and Drink
Elijah's Kitchen
The stories of food and indigenous culture are at the forefront of Darwin’s newest ‘commercial kitchen on wheels’. After the success of chef Zach Green’s pop-up restaurant Elijah’s Kitchen around...
A Taste of Kakadu
As a young kid Clayton Donovan was a rat-bag, a self-confessed “obnoxious, naughty boy”. But giving his mum grief as a four-year-old set him on a path for his future...
Youth
Launch Night Series
Midnight Basketball has had a makeover for 2018 as the LAUNCH Night Series takes over the popular basketball tournament. The tournament for 12-18 year olds pairs basketball with workshops covering...
Sounds @ Sunset
Five young darwinites are set to transform the nightcliff foreshore throughout the dry this year. Andre Price-Quinter, 17, is one of five young producers being mentored in event management by...
Around Town
Growing Up Troppo - May
Reviews, tips and advice for travelling the world with kids. By Libby Larsen The beginning of the dry heralds so many things I love about life in the top end...
Clean Living In The Tropics - May
Clean living is being mindful of what you put in your body, mindful of keeping a healthy home and work environment, and mindful of your environmental footprint. By Lina Paselli...
Performing Arts
Comics' Corner - May
The Mechanics of Comedy – Part 4. Having previously explored various subgenres of comedy including Misanthropes, Character Assassins and Surrealists, I cast my eyes to the ever-popular comedy movement, the...
Green Day's American Idiot
When you hear Phil Jamieson’s name, it’s not often associated with musical theatre. But the Grinspoon front man has proven he’s got the chops playing the role of St Jimmy...
Visual Arts
Art and About - May
Nomad Art Gallery has been a stalwart of the Parap arts community for the past 13 years but this month that journey draws to a close as owners Rose and...
Unpeeling Perceptions Reflection
Lisa Waup looks back on her timein Darwin during her residency at Accomplice I first met Weniki Hensch three years ago through a dear mutual friend. We shared several parallel...
Music
Vera Blue - BASSINTHEGRASS
The last time Vera Blue played in Darwin she was on a national tour and didn’t have much time to look around. Joining this year’s lineup for BASSINTHEGRASS, the former...
Songs from the Parisian Belle Époque
In the first of the Darwin Entertainment Centre’s 2018 Concert Series, French soprano Laetitia Grimaldi and South African/Israeli pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz offer a program of romantic French songs, presented in...