Features
Tropical Takeover
Imagine art on a grand scale – colourful botanical and animal inspired installations twining themselves over shop fronts, walkways and trees. Not your usual canvas and gallery experience, this is...
Saltwater Reggae Festival
Hot music, delicious food and a chance to dance the night away under the stars – these are just some of the things to look forward to at the Saltwater...
Darwin Symphony Orchestra: Kakadu
Join the Darwin Symphony Orchestra (DSO) this October as they continue their exploration of the music of Dmitri Shostakovich and welcome back regular guest soloist, pianist Michael Kieran Harvey. Described...
Chess in concert
Darwin Chorale is excited to be performing the highly acclaimed musical Chess this October. With music by Bjorn Ulvaeus and Benny Andersson of ABBA fame and lyrics by Sir Tim...
At the Dakota
Following the release of their debut EP Melt earlier this year, and an NT Song of the Year nomination for the infectious ‘Arrow Holder’, At the Dakota are busting to...
Tennyson King
He describes his music as rock and roll infused with earthy roots and blues, laced with psychedelic ear candy. Canada’s Tennyson King spoke to Off the Leash about his current...
MusicNT presents: Shana Ray
Palmerston based singer songwriter and Saltwater Diva Shana Ray recently performed to a crowd of 2000 music lovers at Bush Bands Bash. Music NT caught up with Ray to find...
Art & About – Sister, Mother, Daughter
Sister, mother and daughter team Felicity, Elizabeth and Sarah Martin hold their third family show this month. Off The Leash caught up with Sarah ahead of their exhibition. Where do...
The Last 5 Years
Darwin performance artists Stuart Fong and Andi Egan discovered they had a shared passion for musical theatre and, noticing a gap in the Darwin scene, got their own ball rolling...
Bedroom Farce
Four couples, three bedrooms, one night and a hilarious evening of theatre where nobody gets any sex and hardly anybody gets any sleep. This is British playwright Alan Ayckbourn’s comedy...
Diary of a Wombat
There wouldn’t be many Aussie kids born after 2002 that haven’t read this classic picture book. Now the true story of Mothball the very cheeky wombat comes to laughter-filled life...
Q&A with Arj Barker
Australia’s favourite American comedian is bringing his latest show Organic, brimming with free-range hilarity, to Darwin audiences this month. Off The Leash caught up with Barker ahead of his visit...
Review – Man Made
I have been working with Tracks Dance for the past 13 years over four Darwin Festival shows and six Milpirri performances in the remote Indigenous community of Lajamanu. Man Made...
Comics' Corner – Humanely Hilarious: the Ethics of Comedy
I was recently asked in an interview how comedians can make jokes about tragic or serious things and live with themselves? Tough opening question, but while the late Joan Rivers...
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...
Growing Up Troppo – October
Did you know that LEGO comes from Denmark – the happiest country in the world, according to the UN World Happiness Report. So, you’d figure then that the original Legoland...
Make A Dance in a Week
Tangle. Untangle. If you were outdoors, what would you like to discover? These simple concepts form the beginning of Make A Dance in a Week, Tracks Dance’s youth-driven choreography program...
Profile – Saranya Rajkumar
Darwin’s Midnight Basketball has a devoted following among high school students. But when you find yourself finishing school, do you have to give it up? Not so for Saranya Rajkumar...
Profile – Earth Phothong
As the NT’s only rep at the 2017 YMCA Skate Park Leagues’ national finals in Melbourne, Earrth Phothong has done the rounds of Darwin’s and Katherine's skate parks. Not content...
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...
