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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...
FlicNics
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Flickerfest
IT'S TIME TO GRAB the popcorn and pull up a deck chair – Flickerfest is back! Australia’s largest short film festival is making a pitstop at Deckchair Cinema this month...
2020 Chief Minister’s Book Awards: Q&A with Monica Tan
DARWIN-BASED WRITER Monica Tan recently took out the Best Non-Fiction Book for Stranger Country in the 2020 Chief Minister’s Book Awards. OTL caught up with her for a chat. Congrats...
Youth Profile - Hailey Berry
ORIGINALLY FROM LIVERPOOL in the UK, 17-year-old Joel Collins now calls the Top End home. We caught up with Joel to chat about what he’s been up to during lockdown...
Deadly Darwin Comedy: A New Hope
DEADLY DARWIN COMEDY returns to Brown’s Mart theatre this month with their new show, A New Hope. And the plot may seem a little familiar… The year is 2020 and...
