In 1948 Pablo Neruda was the most famous literary figure in Chile, and a vocal Communist politician who was expelled from his country’s Senate when the Chilean government made communism...
Émile Zola's 19th Century novel Thérèse Raquin comes to the Darwin stage this month in a critically acclaimed play by Melbourne’s Dirty Pretty Theatre. The play follows a young woman...
The swagman has appeared under many guises: hero, sheep thief, martyr. Now Darwin playwright Levin Diatschenko offers another version of the fabled itinerant: a travelling mystic who delivers justice and...
If you've noticed a roving patch of Astroturf set up in Nightcliff, the CBD or East Point Reserve in the last month, you may have already come across The Green...
Joined by some of Australia’s finest rock musicians and singers for an evening celebrating the music of one of the biggest rock bands in history, the Darwin Symphony Orchestra (DSO)...
As the former singer and guitarist of English band Gomez, Ben Ottewell has been carving a solid solo career for himself over the past few years. Ottewell kicks off his...
Winters are cold in Alice Springs – but that only partly explains the incredible popularity and inventive loopiness of the Alice Springs Beanie Festival Around seven thousand beanies have been...
This intimate three-day Indigenous culture festival returns in July, with a stellar music line-up including David Bridie and Papuan Songman George Telek. This is something of a musical coup for...
Our beloved Mindil Beach Sunset Market is turning 30 years young. In 1987, six Darwin entrepreneurs brought to life a collective vision to share a taste of Asia’s night markets...
“If you’re wasting your long weekend watching the footy, you should be at Barunga instead,” declares festival director Mark Grosse. He makes a damn fine point. The annual three-day festival...
Situated in the creative hub that is Darwin Community Arts, the Free Space Studio (FSS) was established in 2013 by Amina McConvell and Brenda Logan, creating a much needed and...
Darwin's Foodbank distributed 240,000 meals last year, yet the number of people who still go hungry in the NT is sobering – one in six NT schoolchildren don’t have breakfast,...
Sambal – that fresh, hot, chilli staple of southern and Southeast Asian cooking. You might expect a sambal-making workshop to be strictly culinary, but that would ignore all the storied...
For many Rapid Creek Market shoppers, Karunika Pemarathne's mouthwatering Sri Lankan hoppers are the anticipated end to a crowded Sunday Grocery shop. Toiling over four gas burners, the home-style cook,...
Midnight Basketball sees teenagers get together, have dinner, play competitive basketball, get coached and stay up late. Sounds like a pretty fun way to spend Saturday night. The program started...
Now that major sports clubs like the Adelaide Crows are buying professional eSports teams, you can be sure competitive video gaming is “becoming very, very big,” says David Moore, founder...
The year's Heads Up Youth Forum aims to get young people thinking about the future. In a bold way. The theme of ‘using your strengths and unleashing the entrepreneur’ features...
National Reconciliation Week kicks off this month with a free screening of Stone Bros at the Deckchair Cinema. In this road tripping comedy, city-based Eddie sets off to reconnect with...
Droll humour, direct dialogue and high style – French film is proving popular in Darwin, at Alliance Française's French film nights. The monthly Wednesday film screening takes place alongside glasses...
The death of John Clarke last April left a gaping hole in Australian satire. Since then, many have revisited Clarke’s witty sketches and pointed comedy. The Deckchair Cinema grants us...