Features
Kirsty and Amy: The Comedy Road Trip
Comedians Amy Hetherington and Kirsty Webeck first met at this year’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF), where they were playing at the same venue. It wasn’t long before they were...
Pride Festival
The rainbow flag will be flying high this month as Darwin pride festival kicks off and the Pride March relaunches itself after a hiatus of more than 10 years. Music...
Disability Awareness Festival
The Disability Awareness Festival promotes access to all kinds of community activities, educates about disability and empowers people to know their rights and roles in the community. This year the...
Desert Mob
The Top End has the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair, but the Centre has Desert Mob, a three-day feast of desert art, featuring work from some of the most remote art...
Argentine Tango workshop
A supremely elegant dance, tango is formal in style and fashion, but humble in its origins. Northern Tango, Darwin’s small but dedicated dance community, was born 13 years ago by...
GeeCon
For some, Darwin's first ever GeeCon (preferred pronunciation 'Geek-on') has been a long time coming. The festival of anime, manga, cosplay and video games is expected to attract upward of...
Q&A with Alankrita Shrivastava
DIFF'S opening night film is Alankrita Shrivastava's hit feminist black comedy Lipstick Under My Burkha. The film was so shocking to some in India that it was threatened with non-classification...
Q&A with David Wenham
The last time David Wenham was in Darwin was to shoot Baz Luhrman’s blockbuster Australia. This month the actor presents his film Ellipsis – and it couldn’t be more different...
Darwin International Film Festival (DIFF)
The organisers of the 2017 Darwin International Film Festival (DIFF) have scoured the world to bring us this year’s program, from the grand old Hong Kong International Film Festival, to...
Darwin Symphony Orchestra: Wolf Totem
Chinese composer and conductor Tan Dun is best known for scoring the film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, as well as composing the music for the medal ceremonies at the Beijing...
DIFF Program Launch
The hotly anticipated program for September's Darwin International Film Festival (DIFF) will be launched with Warwick Thornton’s irrepressible new doco We Don’t Need A Map. The very personal film-essay examines...
Assault Your Ears – August Podcast Review
Welcome to Assault Your Ears, a monthly column dedicated to podcasts. By Jess Ong. Do you remember the other stories from your day when you heard Nelson Mandela was released...
Q&A with Penny Arcade
Off The Leash was rather thrilled to correspond with legendary New York performer Penny Arcade in the lead-up to her show Longing Lasts Longer, a hilarious and biting satire of...
Between Tiny Cities
It sounds like the plot of the best dance movie you’ve never seen – two b-boys from different cities and utterly different walks of life, face off in a breakdance...
Q&A with journalist and author Alanna Mitchell
Award winning Canadian journalist Alanna Mitchell spent three years on the high seas with scientists to write her book about the crisis happening to our oceans. Off The Leash caught...
Words & Ideas
This year's words and ideas component of Darwin Festival includes an interesting mix of local storytelling, history and science. A favourite on the festival program, Darwin’s live storytelling night SPUN...
National Science Week
A world without midges or a world without chocolate – which would you choose? Yes, of course this is a trick question! Midges are pollinators and essential to fertilising South...
SALON17
Australians do love a cheeky renegade – so when the idea for an exhibition of works rejected from the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards (NATSIAA) was born, it...
Coffee Cups: Choose to Reuse
Take a look at all the cafes springing up in Darwin and think about this – in 20 years, pretty much every single one of their paper take away cups...
