The Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival is expanding its wings from a single day breezing along the foreshore, to two full weeks of festive fun. Over the last few years the crew...
Darwin's own Indigenous arts and cultural festival is fast becoming a must-do activity for locals and visitors. Garrmalang celebrates the talents and knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people...
There are no festivals nestled in the heart of the country quite like Wide Open Space. Each year more than 1500 people get dusty, and quite often glittery, at the...
It couldn’t come at a better time. The Build Up might be underway but, although the Deckchair Cinema is closed, there’s still a chance to get your fill of foreign...
The rainbow flag will be flying high this month as Darwin pride festival kicks off and the Pride March relaunches itself after a hiatus of more than 10 years. Music,...
The Disability Awareness Festival promotes access to all kinds of community activities, educates about disability and empowers people to know their rights and roles in the community. This year the...
The Top End has the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, but the Centre has Desert Mob, a three-day feast of desert art, featuring work from some of the most remote art...
The organisers of the 2017 Darwin International Film Festival (DIFF) have scoured the world to bring us this year’s program, from the grand old Hong Kong International Film Festival, to...
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...
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...
Darwin's WWII Oil Storage Tunnels were built during the war to protect oil stored in Darwin from Japanese bombing. By the time the tunnels were completed the risk from bombing...
Darwin Festival is almost upon us and anticipation is running high. For three weeks in August, Darwin is abuzz with some of the hottest music, theatre, comedy and cabaret –...
Rosellas have proven a popular drawcard for this festival in Adelaide River, where the wild, red hibiscus is plentiful and locals make handmade goods year-round. “We do a lot of...
David Bridie and Papuan music star George Telek have been working together for decades, ever since they made their hit album Tabaran, with Bridie’s band Not Drowning Waving. Now the...
Brilliant, hilarious, lo-fi, surreal, or green as an unripe mango, Darwin Fringe is your chance to experience the best new theatre, art, music and dance as it explodes into the...
The environmentally friendly Transitions Film Festival returns, this year as part of Darwin Fringe Festival, to inform, shock and importantly galvanise us into action. In a rapidly industrialised and globalised...
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...
“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...
Spaghetti eating contests, Italian popstars, medieval flag throwing and food, lots of food – is there any wonder 20,000 Darwinites have been known to turn up for this day of...