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Flix in the Wet
Our friends at Deckchair Cinema have packed away the deckchairs, strung up the lights and battened down the hatches in preparation for their closure over the Wet season. But if...
Youth Profile - Megan Rollings
DARWIN’S YOUNG PEOPLE are a passionate bunch, with lots to say and heaps of wonderful ideas. City of Darwin’s Youth Advisory Committee (aka YAC) is a group of peeps aged...
Youth Profile - Rachel De Kock
17-YEAR-OLD Alice Springs student Rachel De Kock took out the title at this year’s Young Territory Author Awards for her story Spring and His Flower. We asked the talented young...
Comics' Corner - 2020
2020 HAS BEEN a wild ride, but it’s sure seen an explosion of heart-warming comedy in the Top End. Will Crawford writes about the year that was. In March, pre-Rona...
What's Your Brown's Mart Story?
BROWN’S MART THEATRE is gearing up to turn the big 5-0 in 2022, so they’re spending the next year compiling your fond memories to roll out a nine-month celebration when...
Twelfth Night
Darwin Theatre Company has joined forces with Tainted Theatre Company to present Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, Twelfth Night, at Brown’s Mart Theatre. Shipwrecked identical twins, Viola and Sebastian, each believe the...
The Bright Side of the Tracks
LOCAL FAVOURITE TRACKS Dance has done well to roll with the punches in 2020. With all of the risk assessments worked through at length in strategic planning sessions past, a...
A Year on DEC
There’s no denying it – 2020 has thrown us all one heck of a curve ball. The performing arts industry has been impacted significantly by the pandemic, with the sudden...
Christmas at the Top
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Time to whip out the tinsel, flick on your twinkly lights and make the most of precious time with family and friends...
A Silver Legacy
The Northern Territory is a creative powerhouse of story, song, dance and visual art. For 25 years, Artback NT has been on a mission to nurture and share this richness...
Down The Track - November
EVERY NOVEMBER, Watch This Space gets a bit Lofty. This year is no exception. By Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts Named in honour of Pamela Lofts, one of the founding members of Watch...
The Desert Sessions
SEVEN SONGWRITERS, a pig with an identity crisis and Scruffycoco the Scottish deerhound… No, it’s not the beginning of a distasteful joke – it’s The Desert Sessions! Presented by MusicNT...
The Soldier's Tale
CRUNCHY TANGOS, WALTZES, rags and a deal with the devil… Get the kids hooked on live music in this classic tale with a tropical twist! By Anna Dowd Darwin Symphony...
Mary of the North
CAITI BAKER’S STUNNING second solo album, Mary of the North, is an odyssey and an ode to the landscapes and stories of the Territory she loves. By Anna Dowd This...
Chamber Music for Optimism
POSTPONED FROM MARCH and set in a new location at Darwin Entertainment Centre, Arafura Music Collective’s upcoming performance, Times of Change, centres on the effect of humanity on the natural...
Season's Greetings from Darwin Chorale
IT’S THE MOST WONDERFUL time of the year! Well, almost. As we power towards the end of what can most certainly be described as an unexpected year, the imminent arrival...
An Evening with Wendy Matthews
When Wendy Matthews was four-years-old, she saved up all her pocket money to buy her first record. The year was 1964, the album, A Hard Day’s Night by the Beatles...
Comics' Corner - Richard Fejo
LOCAL COMEDIAN, MC and Larrakia man Richard Fejo is responsible for some of the newest comic initiatives popping up in Darwin. Will Crawford caught up with him to shoot the...
SLIDE into this Double Bill
SLIDE YOUTH DANCE Theatre’s Dancers Co-Op and Company Two return to Darwin Entertainment Centre this month to present, not one, but two huge stage productions to round out 2020. In...
Youth Profile - Tyrone Reynolds
18-YEAR-OLD Tyrone Reynolds, who grew up in Kalkarinji and now calls Darwin home, has loved every minute of being involved in the LAUNCH Night Series. So much so, he’s gone...
