Features
Junk Sculpture Festival
A trip to Chernobyl has given last year’s Junk Sculpture Festival winner inspiration for his latest creation. By Tamara Howie Mechanic and minister Patrick Bauer won the gong last year...
Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival
The Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival is expanding its wings from a single day breezing along the foreshore, to two full weeks of festive fun. Over the last few years the crew...
Garrmalang
Darwin's own Indigenous arts and cultural festival is fast becoming a must-do activity for locals and visitors. Garrmalang celebrates the talents and knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people...
Wide Open Space 2018
There are no festivals nestled in the heart of the country quite like Wide Open Space. Each year more than 1500 people get dusty, and quite often glittery, at the...
Elijah's Kitchen
The stories of food and indigenous culture are at the forefront of Darwin’s newest ‘commercial kitchen on wheels’. By Tamara Howie After the success of chef Zach Green’s pop-up restaurant...
A Taste of Kakadu
As a young kid Clayton Donovan was a rat-bag, a self-confessed “obnoxious, naughty boy”. By Tamara Howie But giving his mum grief as a four-year-old set him on a path...
Community Cook - May
Connecting people, plants and place. By Emma Lupin Although edible sea creatures and fish are probably more widely known, the colourful treasures of edible native fruits and hidden roots are...
Launch Night Series
Midnight Basketball has had a makeover for 2018 as the LAUNCH Night Series takes over the popular basketball tournament. The tournament for 12-18 year olds pairs basketball with workshops covering...
Sounds @ Sunset
Five young darwinites are set to transform the nightcliff foreshore throughout the dry this year. Andre Price-Quinter, 17, is one of five young producers being mentored in event management by...
Growing Up Troppo - May
Reviews, tips and advice for travelling the world with kids. By Libby Larsen The beginning of the dry heralds so many things I love about life in the top end...
Clean Living In The Tropics - May
Clean living is being mindful of what you put in your body, mindful of keeping a healthy home and work environment, and mindful of your environmental footprint. By Lina Paselli...
Comics' Corner - May
The Mechanics of Comedy – Part 4. Having previously explored various subgenres of comedy including Misanthropes, Character Assassins and Surrealists, I cast my eyes to the ever-popular comedy movement, the...
Flickerfest
The best local and international short films are heading to Darwin with Territory filmmakers once again demonstrating their skills on the national stage. Alice Spring’s filmmaker Dylan River’s Coat Of...
Green Day's American Idiot
When you hear Phil Jamieson’s name, it’s not often associated with musical theatre. But the Grinspoon front man has proven he’s got the chops playing the role of St Jimmy...
Creature
Top End bush babies are in for a treat with a new theatre show hitting the Darwin Entertainment Centre. The children’s show, Creature, is based on the 1899 classic Dot...
The 78-Storey Treehouse
The tallest tree house to hit the Darwin Entertainment Centre stage is on its way. The 78 Story Treehouse, a stage adaptation of the Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton book...
Art & About - May
Nomad Art Gallery has been a stalwart of the Parap arts community for the past 13 years but this month that journey draws to a close as owners Rose and...
Unpeeling Perceptions Reflection
Lisa Waup looks back on her time in Darwin during her residency at Accomplice. I first met Weniki Hensch three years ago through a dear mutual friend. We shared several...
Vera Blue - BASSINTHEGRASS
The last time Vera Blue played in Darwin she was on a national tour and didn’t have much time to look around. Joining this year’s lineup for BASSINTHEGRASS, the former...
Songs from the Parisian Belle Époque
In the first of the Darwin Entertainment Centre’s 2018 Concert Series, French soprano Laetitia Grimaldi and South African/Israeli pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz offer a program of romantic French songs, presented in...
