Features
Darwin International Film Festival (DIFF)
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...
Darwin Symphony Orchestra: Wolf Totem
Chinese composer and conductor Tan Dun is best known for scoring the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, as well as composing the music for the medal ceremonies at the Beijing...
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 Penny Arcade
Off The Leash was rather thrilled to correspond with legendary New York performer Penny Arcade in the lead-up to her show Longing Lasts Longer, a hilarious and biting satire of...
Between Tiny Cities
It sounds like the plot of the best dance movie you’ve never seen – two b-boys from different cities and utterly different walks of life, face off in a breakdance...
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...
National Science Week
A world without midges or a world without chocolate – which would you choose? Yes, of course this is a trick question! Midges are pollinators and essential to fertilising South...
SALON17
Australians do love a cheeky renegade – so when the idea for an exhibition of works rejected from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards (NATSIAA) was born, it...
Coffee Cups: Choose to Reuse
Take a look at all the cafes springing up in Darwin and think about this – in 20 years, pretty much every single one of their paper take away cups...
Darwin Festival
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...
Tropical Kitchen
Jamie Lewis leads guided tours of Darwin's Parap and Rapid Creek markets as part of Darwin Festival this month, followed by a cooking class and plenty of good conversation over...
Rapid Creek Market: spaghetti squash
Spaghetti squash appears at Rapid Creek Market throughout the Wet and Dry, but has periods of absence. It has a fairly long growing period and when it does re-appear at...
Review – Fringe Art and Vikings
Darwin – what happened? When I agreed to bring my hills-hoist and grindhouse cabaret up to the Darwin Fringe, little did I know I was going to experience one of...
Bamboo Moon (The Tale of Princess Kaguya)
Staged at twilight in the leafy Botanic Gardens, Bamboo Moon is based on the ancient Japanese story The Tale of Princess Kaguya and stars a youthful cast from Darwin’s Corrugated...
Garment Workshops
In just four lessons, Dixi Bankier can teach someone how to sketch a fashion design, cut it out, sew it and be model-ready for the runway – all from scratch...
Q&A with Kuah Jenhan
Comedian Kuah Jenhan's show Like This Like Dad was inspired by his very traditional Chinese father. Off The Leash caught up with the sought-after Malaysian comedian ahead of his Darwin...
Krista Walker – Makeup Artist
Krista Walker's Instagram feed features so much of her elaborate artwork, it's hard to believe the 17-year-old finds the time to produce it, especially as she has to wash it...
