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Yes Way, Cosplay!
WHETHER YOU’RE NEW to cosplay or getting ready for your next con, the Cosplay Meet Up group at Casuarina Library is for you! Cosplay literally means costume play, where participants...
Youth Profile - Andre Price-Quintner
19-YEAR-OLD Andre Price-Quintner is this year’s Event Producer of the Sounds @ Mindil program, where local young musos take to the stage to strum a tune for market goers at...
Wine and Dine Time
Top End food and wine aficionados rejoice! You’re invited to Hilton Darwin’s brand-new restaurant, PepperBerry, for a special Shaw + Smith wine and dine experience. Shaw + Smith’s Sauvignon Blanc...
Festival Feeds
Cucina sotto le Stelleâ This giant pizza oven on wheels is a true Darwin favourite, and Benjamin and his team are making the move from the Nightcliff foreshore to Festival...
Henbury on Aralia
The northern suburb of Nightcliff has earned itself the reputation of being a hot spot for a good cuppa, with baristas and baked goods popping up in bricks and mortar...
Vote for the Arts
AHEAD OF THIS MONTH’S ELECTION, the Creative Industries sector encourages you to ask your local candidates how they will advance the arts, at both a policy level and through practical...
Get Creative in Palmerston
City of Palmerston’s Creative Palmerston initiative has teamed up with Tactile Arts to present a huge creative workshop program, packed to the brim with creative activities for all. Over the...
Avoidable Perils
A TANK FULL OF SHARKS, a deadly laser beam, a vat of acid – bad things are happening and our heroes are at risk! But will you help save them...
Art & About: Botanicals
Trans-disciplinary artist Matthew van Roden presents Botanicals as part of DF20 Homegrown – a video installation set to light up various part of town, curated by ACCOMPLICE’S Britt Guy. OTL...
Taking Territory to the Globe
Supporting Indigenous owned Art Centres is what the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF) is all about. A silver lining during the global pandemic means the world has access – for...
Down The Track - July
AS WE JOURNEY towards whatever “new normal” may be, the Central Oz arts community remains nourished and connected. By Zoya Godoroja-Prieckaerts We’ve already seen creatives of all kinds sparkling with...
MusicNT presents DRAFTDAY
DESPITE LOCKDOWNS AND GLOBAL PANDEMICS, Darwin group DRAFTDAY is having a strong start to 2020. MusicNT spoke to the band’s vocalist, Arran Barker, hot on the heels of an EP...
Darwin Symphony Orchestra
THE SOUND OF DARWIN Symphony Orchestra’s classical music will once again fill our ears this month, after a short, forced hiatus. Their March concert at Darwin Entertainment Centre, Around The...
Top Territory Tunes
By Liz Trevaskis When I moved to Darwin over a decade ago, I couldn’t believe that once a year we were allowed to blow our hardearned cash on blowing stuff...
Darwin Fringe
This time of year, Top Enders would normally be immersing themselves in the wild and wacky world that is Darwin Fringe, but the festival as we know it was postponed...
A Homegrown Festival
The original Darwin Festival – known then as the Bougainvillea Festival – was inspired by Top Ender’s knack for optimism, determination and local love. By Anna Dowd 40 years and...
Save the Date, and Celebrate
INTERNATIONALLY CELEBRATED AS a world-class event, the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair (DAAF) has announced its intentions to move online in 2020, with a ground-breaking new ‘virtual fair’ format to be...
Art & About: POLITIKANT
POLITIKANT IS THE provocative new exhibition showing at Darwin Visual Arts – a creative response from an ensemble of Top End artists, who want to put art front and centre...
PepperBerry
BEHIND THE CLOSED doors of Hilton Darwin, the team have been busy working away on something special. Their in-house restaurant, Mitchell’s, has been marked for renovation for a long time...
Taste of the Territory
Being encouraged to stay at home when possible during the pandemic meant we turned to our tellies more than usual for both entertainment and a sense of connectedness. And once...