Features
DSO Kids' Classics – Musical Magic
Designed specifically for younger audiences, the Darwin Symphony Orchestra (DSO) continues their series of kids’ classics concerts this month. On a magical musical journey, you'll explore how music can change...
An Evening With Tex, Don and Charlie
Three of Australia’s most esteemed rock musicians, Tex Perkins, Don Walker and Charlie Owen, return to Darwin this month playing music from their latest album You Don’t Know Lonely. Pianist...
The Fast Five – Ella Hooper
Killing Heidi formed in the Victorian country town of Violet Town in 1996, winning triple j Unearthed later that year for their tune ‘Kettle’. Two decades later, they are still...
Q&A with Stevie Jean
At the age of just 17, Darwin singer-songwriter Stevie Jean has had a hectic couple of months. Having recently topped the triple j Unearthed charts, and been named as one...
Ted Egan – 100 Years of Territory Songs
Ted Egan came to live in the NT when he was 17. He turned 85 last birthday and is still here, still going strong. Over his career he has written...
Dr G Yunupingu
1970 – 2017 It is almost impossible to fathom that 10 years ago, the world did not yet know Dr G Yunupingu. Before the release of his debut album he...
10 Years At The Top
In July 2007 Off The Leash was launched onto the Darwin arts scene, a timely what’s-on-guide to the Top End full of art, music, theatre, film and community events, all...
Comics' Corner – September
The curtains have fallen on the Darwin Festival and Hanuman has cleaned off the last ghee splatter from its bamboo kitchen but, like a phoenix rising from the ashes of...
Assault Your Ears – September Podcast Review
Welcome to Assault Your Ears, a monthly column dedicated to podcasts. By Jess Ong. The Messenger is a podcast that makes for uncomfortable listening. Produced by The Wheeler Centre and...
Q&A with Matt Hammond
Ever wanted to make a set of Spartan armour – or a Viking’s get-up? Matt Hammond will no doubt inspire you with his larger-than-life cosplay heroes. Off The Leash caught...
Maker Cafe
What kind of fabulous work- space combines robotics, halo-halo ice desserts, special FX make up and 3D printing? The Maker CafeÌ at GeeCon combines all the skills of STEM (science...
NTeen Fashion Festival
Socks will be knocked off! Wonder will be struck! So says founder Jo-anna Egart of this year’s NTeen Fashion Festival, where young designers and makers show off their skills to...
Writing Group Online with Sandra Thibodeaux
“Be brief and say everything,” said the poet Charles Simic. That’s one skill poet and playwright Sandra Thibodeaux wants to impart to those joining her writing group, which will cover...
Write Here
On a Saturday afternoon,⨠in a quiet backstreet of Coconut Grove, a dozen writers tap away at work they’ve put aside two hours of precious time for. Running from the...
Rapid Creek Market: green mangoes
They're green but perfectly ripe, sweet but sour – or just plain sweet. It’s the season for green mangoes, before the big yellow Kensington Pride and blushing R2E2 dominate the...
Darwin Food Diary
During my 10-day workshop residency at Accomplice I cooked a lot and shared dinners with many, many people. Any chance to eat out, I took it – and looked forward...
Zach Green – chef
Zach Green has been a chef for most of his working life, but it was a personal tragedy that led him to delve deeper into food, cooking and his Aboriginal...
The Beat Festival
It's where countless Territorians have got their musical start – including Jessica Mauboy, whose appearances at The Beat Festival included a featured solo performance. The annual Beat Festival began in...
The Merchant of Venice
Bell Shakespeare’s adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice takes the play’s action from 16th century Venice to a contemporary setting, and the themes of religious prejudice, forgiveness and...
In Between Two
When Joel ma was a kid, the matriarch of his family was his Chinese-Australian grandmother Edith. A born-again Christian, she would hold him close before their ritual family yumcha and...
