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Catch a Ride with Emil & the Detectives
South Australia’s Slingsby Theatre Company returns to Araluen Arts Centre this month, with a magical production about the power of community and finding friends in unlikely places. By Betty Sweetlove...
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A Roaring Roadshow
Melbourne International Comedy Roadshow hits stages in Alice Springs and Darwin this month, an entourage of four comedians in tow for the Roadshow’s 25th year to serve big laughs over...
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A Night at the Museum
This month, Tracks Dance Company presents New Light, a special performance in partnership with the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory (MAGNT) to showcase a choreographic response to...
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Festival Tix Fix
Festival season is well and truly here, and the Territory’s biggest arts and cultural festival is gearing up to deliver almost three weeks of fun and frivolity in August. This...
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Unleash the Beast
Get ready to get weird, Darwin, as the 2023 Darwin Fringe Festival program officially launches this month, and you’re invited! This year’s program reveal takes place at Brown’s Mart, the...
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Beautiful Borroloola
Back in 2013, in the small town of Borroloola located on the McArthur River, locals and visitors gathered to celebrate traditional and contemporary dance, music and cultural practices from the...
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Choirs, Camping & Culture
Daminmin Festival returns for a third year to celebrate the Dry, offering punters the chance to visit Limilngan-Wulna Country just east of Humpty Doo for two days of sharing culture...
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Proud to Party
Every June, the LGBTQIA+ community is celebrated across the country during national Pride Month. And although equality is something to be celebrated every day of the year, it’s a wonderful...
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Funky Junk
Art made of rubbish, garbage fashioned into hats, and sculptures crafted from trash can only mean one thing. It’s Katherine Junk Festival time! K-Town’s trashy night of nights is back...
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Big Day Out in Harmony
The day to celebrate Alice Springs’ vibrant and diverse community has arrived, with the biggest multicultural event of the year, Big Day Out in Harmony. In collaboration with Alice Springs...
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Get Your Comic Con On
Just like Captain Planet and his Planeteers, magic can happen when the right powers combine. This month, the joining of forces between Wild North Comics and comic store Stone Monkey...
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From Little Things, Big Things Grow
At the 1988 Barunga Festival, Prime Minister Bob Hawke was presented with a painted bark containing words in English, surrounded by art symbolic of the mobs in northern and central...
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Burgers & Beers
The riff raff that is Burger Joint returns to the Top End to celebrate their new tune, 'Pub In The Middle of Nowhere'. Former Darwinites G and T-Bone have made...
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Think Global, Play Local
Enjoy a breathtaking concert featuring contemporary masters from an enchanting Alice Springs ensemble, as the Alice Springs World Chamber Orchestra (ASWCO) returns to Araluen Arts Centre with a stunning new...
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A Surprise Sunset Symphony
If you’ve got your hot little hands on a copy of the Darwin Symphony Orchestra (DSO) 2023 program, there’s a fair chance you’ve marked up next month’s Rhythm of the...
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Tasty Tucker & Tunes
While many of us understand the health benefits in stepping away from technology, it’s often not easy to do in today’s ‘always-on’ society. Good news, there’s no excuse not to...
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The Presets Turn up the Bass
It’s no secret we love a good party in Darwin, and we’re also partial to a bit of Dry season action by the beach. So when beach, party and blissful...
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Where Lakes Once had Water
Art meets science meets ancient culture in this thought-provoking video exhibition by Australian artists Sonia Leber and David Chesworth. Where Lakes Once Had Water opened at CDU Art Gallery last...
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Max Relaxo at Yaye's
Housed in the Araluen Cultural Precinct, in the former Connellan Airways mess house, is Yaye’s Café, offering coffee and light refreshments daily to the Precinct’s many welcome visitors. Yaye’s, pronounced...
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Top Territory Texts
Heads up Territory writers and wizards of the written word, it’s time to roll up your sleeves and polish up any unpublished projects, because entries for the 2023 NT Literary...