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In Her Footsteps
TO CELEBRATE INTERNATIONAL Women’s Day, Arafura Music Collective invites you to take in the gorgeous surrounds of the George Brown Botanical Gardens as you are delighted, engaged and moved by...
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Into The Wild
DARWIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA (DSO) is preparing for a wild adventure into the animal kingdom for its first show of the year, A Carnival of Animals. The enchanting concert is a...
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Tiwi Strong Women’s Group: Yoi! Ngarukuruwala
By Tamara Howie YOUNG AND OLD join forces when the Tiwi Strong Women’s Group heads to Darwin to share song, dance and culture in Yoi! Ngarukuruwala. It’s the first time...
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Kate Ceberano’s Sweet Inspiration
Despite the events of 2020, ARIA award winning singer Kate Ceberano created her 28th album, Sweet Inspiration, released last month. After a year of reimagined (aka streamed) performances, plus a...
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Comics' Corner - Local Comedy Form Guide
A COMEDY RENAISSANCE is taking place in the Top End, and 2021 is shaping up to be an exciting time to catch comedy. Will Crawford’s put together this handy form...
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The G.O at Corro: Meet Zoe!
LEADING ONE OF Australia’s premier youth arts organisations is a huge undertaking, but luckily Corrugated Iron Youth Arts (CIYA) has found the perfect person. Introducing new Executive Producer, Zoe Scrogings...
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Highway of Lost Hearts
A WOMAN. A DOG. A CAMPERVAN. And 4,500km of wide-open road. Mot wakes up one morning to find that her heart is missing from her chest. She can breathe –...
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Searching for Spirits
By Tamara Howie “IN THE MOST basic sense, I speak to dead people,” says psychic medium, author and speaker, Peter Williams, admitting it’s a bit of a crude way to...
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Go Gourmet
THERE’S NO DENYING the foodie scene in the Top End has upped the ante over the past few years, with cafés, restaurants and food trucks popping up about the place...
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Beach. Brekkie. Brunch.
TREATING YOURSELF TO a fancy breakfast is one of life’s greatest joys. The bacon, the eggs, the cooked veggies – the coffee! There’s nothing quite like starting your weekend with...
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Intermingle
SINCE JULY LAST year, Darwin Community Arts (DCA) has run the Intermingle workshop program, organised by Georgia Glen and facilitated by a variety of Darwin artists. In line with DCA’s...
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Eleanor Hogan
ELEANOR HOGAN IS a literary non-fiction writer who draws on her experience of living and working in Central Australia. Her latest book, Into the Loneliness: The Unholy Alliance of Ernestine...
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Get Your Flix Fix
March is your last chance to catch some cinematic gems programmed by the Darwin Film Society on the big screen at Darwin Entertainment Centre. High Ground Set against the stunning...
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Twice the Luck of the Irish
THE TIME HAS COME to don your green threads, drink dark ale and get merry with the Top End’s thriving Irish community with not one, but two fun days of...
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Yes Way, Staycay
AH, TRAVEL. Put your hand up if you miss being able to jump on a plane to lands far away? Yep, us too. But if there’s been one silver lining...
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John Mawurndjul
“The old ways of doing things have changed into the new ways. The new generation does things differently. But me, I have two ways. I am the old and the...
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From the Editor - Dec 20/Jan 21
Well, folks, you’ve made it to December. This is the last edition in what has been a very interesting year. But I’ll talk to that a little bit later. Gracing...
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Down The Track - Elbow Workshop
Each year, Elbow Workshop releases a new summer collection inspired by the special, often complex, place of Mparntwe/Alice Springs. This year, there’s heart and critical awareness all wrapped up in...
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Family Proms
DARWIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’S Family Proms music program offers the perfect introduction to classical music for young and old alike. December’s performance showcases the unique sounds of each individual instrument and...
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Where I Roam
IN A PRE-PANDEMIC world, the Darwin Symphony Orchestra and NT Dance Company hatched a plan to work together. And although we’re in a time where physical roaming has some restrictions...