Features
Assault Your Ears – October Podcast Review
Welcome to Assault Your Ears, a monthly column dedicated to podcasts. By Jess Ong. Maria James was a mother of two young children, Mark and Adam. She owned a second-hand...
Community Writing and Publishing Forum
JK Rowling’s Harry Potter was turned down 12 times before it was picked up by a publisher, and Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With The Wind was dealt 38 rejections. For most...
The Go-Betweens: Right Here
When I hear you saying / that we stood no chance / I would dive for your memory / we stood that chance sang the Go-Betweens in 1988. Although they...
Eurovisions
Three strikingly different contemporary stories from the Continent come to the Deckie this month – from a bright Spanish rom-com to Romanian tragedy and French-themed escapism featuring exquisite food. Starting...
Assault Your Ears – September Podcast Review
Welcome to Assault Your Ears, a monthly column dedicated to podcasts. By Jess Ong. The Messenger is a podcast that makes for uncomfortable listening. Produced by The Wheeler Centre and...
Writing Group Online with Sandra Thibodeaux
“Be brief and say everything,” said the poet Charles Simic. That’s one skill poet and playwright Sandra Thibodeaux wants to impart to those joining her writing group, which will cover...
Write Here
On a Saturday afternoon,⨠in a quiet backstreet of Coconut Grove, a dozen writers tap away at work they’ve put aside two hours of precious time for. Running from the...
Q&A with Alankrita Shrivastava
DIFF'S opening night film is Alankrita Shrivastava's hit feminist black comedy Lipstick Under My Burkha. The film was so shocking to some in India that it was threatened with non-classification...
Q&A with David Wenham
The last time David Wenham was in Darwin was to shoot Baz Luhrman’s blockbuster Australia. This month the actor presents his film Ellipsis – and it couldn’t be more different...
DIFF Program Launch
The hotly anticipated program for September's Darwin International Film Festival (DIFF) will be launched with Warwick Thornton’s irrepressible new doco We Don’t Need A Map. The very personal film-essay examines...
Assault Your Ears – August Podcast Review
Welcome to Assault Your Ears, a monthly column dedicated to podcasts. By Jess Ong. Do you remember the other stories from your day when you heard Nelson Mandela was released...
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...
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair Foundation Film Gala
Years after he died, Albert Namitjira's copyright was sold by the Northern Territory public trustee for just $8,500, and is now privately owned by a Sydney family. The story of...
Cambodia's Golden Era of Rock n Roll
Cambodia's 'golden era' of rock n roll lasted for little more than a decade before it was tragically snuffed out by war and the murderous Khmer Rouge regime, but its...
MUSIC on the Big Screen
When the Darwin Entertainment Centre turned 30 last year, the management’s attention turned to the venue’s projector room, which was built but never commissioned, lying dormant and film-less. “So for...
Assault Your Ears – July Podcast Review
Welcome to Assault Your Ears, a monthly column dedicated to podcasts. By Jess Ong. If there’s one thing you need to wrap your ears around, it’s Ear Hustle – a...
Book Club Trivia
Have you ever been at a trivia night marred by dull sport and geography questions? Or glib 90s hits whose lines you’ve long forgotten? The NT Writers’ Centre’s literary trivia...
NAIDOC Week and Beatles Doubles
Deckchair screens two innovative, and at times surreal, indie trailblazers this month as part of double feature celebrations. In recognition of NAIDOC Week, a screening of Tracey Moffat’s beDevil takes...
Neruda
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...
