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arwin International Airport is getting a tropical makeover with a dedicated arts venue inside the terminal. Blending old Darwin vibes reminiscent of the original Green Room at Hotel Darwin, with the festoon lighting of Festival Park, the mini oasis is set to showcase Territory arts and culture – see page 4.

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From lounge room cabaret to a 10-minute show in a public toilet, the Darwin Fringe Festival is back with an impressive mix of eclectic events. Pick up some healthy habits at the Health and Wellness Festival – see Festivals. Sick of staring at the baked beans in your cyclone kit? Learn about which fruit and veggies can withstand cyclonic winds and how to create a living cyclone kit at Cyclone Survival Food. Science at Sunset takes a look at sustainable seafood in a program designed to inspire social change through food. Stock up on jams and chutneys at the Rosella Festival – see Food & Drink.

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Looking to upskill during the school holidays? Check out Get That Job or Park Skating 101. The next wave of Top End producers have joined forces for Sounds @ Sunset in Nightcliff and Sanctuary Sessions in Palmerston. We had a chat with DJ Tjung – see Youth.

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July kicks off with a stellar line-up of local and national artists performing as part of Territory Day celebrations. Businesses run by Indigenous Top Enders are in the spotlight during NAIDOC Week. The Royal Darwin Show returns with fun for the whole family. If you haven’t witnessed the Top End traditions that are the Beer Can Regatta or the Viking Funeral, here is your chance – see Around Town.

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A screening of Gurrumul raises funds for one of the acclaimed musician’s greatest legacies. Write a book in a day at a Fringe Festival workshop or check out the Top End zine scene. Man’s best friend is the focus at the Top Dog Film Festival – see Books & Film.

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There’s a plethora of performing arts this month. Be transported to Dublin in Almost Face to Face or take a trip down south in Frankghanistan. Tracks Dance treads new ground in Fresh Tracks, while Corrugated Iron stage two very different shows – see Performing Arts. It’s your last chance to enter the 43rd Katherine Prize. Art Educators NT celebrates 40 years. THE//WORD//BECOMES//FLESH sees the culmination of 18 months of research by local artist Matthew Van Roden – see Visual Arts.

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Full marks to local music lover Terry Cleary – he’s hosting musos in his backyard. Sing up a storm at Sing the Camino or Pub Choir, or get those toes tapping at Fiesta Latina. Tropical Jam celebrates local music. Darwin’s first Blues and Roots Festival kicks off – see Music.

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Clockwise from top left: Xavia, Darwin Festival; image by Micah Barnes. In Your Blood, Tracks Dance; image by Mark Marcelis. Netanela Mizrahi, Darwin Symphony Orchestra; image by Tim Nicol. ATMOS: Big Weather; image by Justin Kennedy.

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The departures lounge at Darwin International Airport is getting a tropical makeover and will transform into a pop-up venue, channelling vibes from Darwin Festival’s Festival Park and the original Hotel Darwin. Patrons in the original Green Room, Hotel Darwin

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he Green Room will turn the airport lounge into a mini oasis, complete with tropical entertainment on stage from Top End arts organisations. Project manager Claire Punch says the move to create a dedicated arts venue inside the airport was possibly an Australian first. “Brisbane Airport has some interesting art installations, while Melbourne has a pop-up bar in its terminal, but we are looking to create a pop-up space that specifically showcases NT arts. We aren’t aware of anything else to the scale and quality we’re creating,” she says. The Airport is working with its partner arts organisations, including Tracks Dance, Brown’s Mart Theatre, the Darwin Symphony Orchestra, SPUN, Darwin Festival, the NT Travelling Film Festival and Darwin International Film Festival, to program events through August and September to showcase NT arts and culture.

Above left: Bert Wiedemann, ‘Hotel Darwin’; PH0730/1969, Northern Territory Government Photographer Slide Collection, Northern Territory Library

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The Green Room was originally a working title for the space before the creators realised the former bar of the same name at Hotel Darwin would be the perfect theme.

Punch says there is still a strong sense of nostalgia for the old bar within the community.

for passengers, but also for locals dropping off family and friends,” he says.

general manager Kate Stephens says travellers will be treated to a performance by a string quartet.

“When you start talking to people who were living here when the original Green Room was around, they have fond memories of it as a venue,” she says.

Tracks Dance director Adelaide Wood says Top End travellers will get a teaser of their Darwin Festival show, In Your Blood, on August 3 at the airport.

“We’re looking to provide a variety of styles,” she says.

“It had all those qualities we love about Darwin – a relaxed atmosphere and loungey environment in somewhere that was built for the tropics.

“The Festival show this year is performed on an area 26 meters long, so we’re resizing it to fit on a six metre stage and will perform a section of it at the airport,” she says.

“There was cane furniture, lush tropical pot plants, hanging lights and louvred windows. There were many beautiful design elements we can draw on today.”

“It’s about things that are in your blood – your bloodlines, your family and things you’re passionate about, like sport,” Wood says.

The fit-out will pay homage to the original space, with a modern twist. Performances on stage and across digital screens will pop up at peak times.

Wood says it’s exciting to see the airport used in a unique way.

NT Airports’ CEO and Chair of Darwin Festival, Ian Kew, is keen to see the space come to life.

“It’s great to think Darwin Airport is having this initiative that no other airport has had.”

“We want to create an environment that is reminiscent of old Darwin, the original Green Room and Festival Park – lively, engaging and entertaining. It needs to reflect our unique Territorian story, not only

“I think it’s going to really take passengers by surprise and they’re not going to expect the level of production that’s going to happen.”

“It’s a really fascinating concept,” she says.

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“For this space it’s important that we engage with a number of genres to keep different audiences engaged, and we like to be playful with our repertoire.” Stephens says the DSO is very excited about the opening of The Green Room. “It introduces the unique local flavour that we have in the Territory and it’s a terrific opportunity to showcase the local talent we have here.” Producer Amy Hetherington has been busy organising live music for every Friday lunchtime, and special shows through August and September across spoken word, dance, classical music and film. Alice Springs-based live-looping cellist Xavia will bring her modernfolk tunes to the airport for Darwin Festival. Plan for your next airport visit at The Green Room Facebook page.

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INDIGENOUS MODELS WILL BE TRANSFORMED AS PART OF NAIDOC WEEK CELEBRATIONS THIS MONTH. Aboriginal Bush Traders (ABT) has teamed up with DMKM Beauty Studio to bring their ‘Transformation Tuesdays’ to the venue, with a focus on makeup for all skin-tones and shades. DMKM owner and Arrernte woman Mena Fenney says models from the DMKM Indigenous Model Initiative will score a makeover from their style guru, Teddy Suphannabutt, and get dolled up in accessories and clothes from ABT to celebrate Indigenous beauty.

“It’s going to be amazing,” she says. “We can cater to every skin type and shade. Teddy starts off with the basics of how to prepare your skin and then goes through all the tools he’s using and how he’s doing everything – the brushes for blending, the eye shadow and foundation and how to contour your face, which is a big thing in the makeup industry at the moment.” The live make-up and styling tutorial is just one of the NAIDOC Week workshops being run by ABT. ABT marketing coordinator Matthew Van Roden says it’s a great opportunity to highlight businesses run by Aboriginal Top Enders.

“We thinks it’s a good opportunity to promote the very thing that Aboriginal Bush Traders is about – supporting grassroots and Aboriginal owned and run micro enterprises. It also promotes a dialogue in the community about supporting these businesses,” he says. “All the activities are supporting Indigenous artists who may not be involved with the infrastructure of arts centres in the Top End and awesome local Indigenous owned and run business doing great things like DMKM.” AT

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Ripper says the dog show is a great event for the whole family. “The whole premise of the Darwin Show is that there are things that families can enjoy that are free – it’s not just about sideshow alley and the show bags – there are events people can come and enjoy that don’t cost money, and the dogs are part of that.” Show chief executive Cherry Court says a different theme is selected each year to highlight a different area of the show.

TOP END HIP-HOP STAR BAKER BOY CAN’T WAIT TO DITCH THE WINTER WOOLLIES and perform to his home crowd in Darwin for Territory Day.

How the theme is used in other areas is up to the creativity of show goers and entrants. “People can use their creativity with cooking or scarecrows – you can use the theme to build a concept, but it’s really up to the individual to think outside the square and be creative,” Court says. Chances are if you’re not a dog person you’re a cat person, and this year the Cat Association NT (CANT) is celebrating 50 years. But CANT president Heather Havens says it doesn’t have to be one or the other. “There are plenty of dogs and pussy cats that live together very well,” she says. “Quite often, families will get a puppy and a kitten at the same time, and even older dogs have settled with cats quite well.”

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PEDIGREE POOCHES ARE IN THE SPOTLIGHT AT THE DARWIN SHOW as this year’s theme has gone to the dogs. Dog show organiser Susie Ripper says that there’s a special award for best Asian breed, in celebration of the Chinese Year of the Dog and the show’s theme.

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The cat and dog shows are part of a huge program of events. Court says the show is an annual highlight on the NT calendar because it gives people a chance to get involved and see the best of the agricultural industry. “More and more people spend so much time on their phones, and looking at a screen, and what we’re doing here is a community celebration – it’s a tactile experience you can touch and see and participate in,” she says. “Where else do you go to have all those experiences where little people can pick up a little duck or pat a cow and see the best stud cattle in the NT?”

“I haven’t been home in so long! Too keen to be back up in the heat and see all my family,” he says. Baker will join Neil Finn, Stevie Jean and Rachel Rachel on the line-up for the Darwin concert. He says it’s a special day to be coming back home, and he’ll be letting his hair down with his crew. “It means a lot to me because NT is my home and where my life and career all kicked off and I’ll be forever grateful the lessons I’ve learned, and continue to learn, as a person and musician,” he says. “It’s been a long leg of touring and festivals so far so I owe it to my crew and myself to let off a few fireworks and have fun in the heat before we go back to very cold Melbourne.” Katherine residents can catch poptwins The Veronicas supported by Caiti Baker and Craig Phillips.

Territory Day Baker says she’ll perform a special set with producer James Mangohig in K-town. “We’ve got a duo hip-hop set that hasn’t been done in a very long time and it seems appropriate we do it together on Territory Day,” she says. Baker says Territory Day is an opportunity to reflect on the lifestyle and appreciate those around us in the NT. “Being a Territorian is special in that life here is unique to the rest of the country,” she says. “We have a more laid back approach to life and we have a different perspective to the rest of the world. “We live in a special place in the country and we should hold that close to our hearts.” WHEN AT COST INFO

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Hills Hoist Studios IT’S HAD FORMER LIVES AS A SECOND-HAND SHOP, a brothel and a boarding house, but now the property adjoining Mayfair Gallery will be a home for local and visiting artists.

Newly created Hills Hoist Studios – a collaboration between David Collins from Mayfair Gallery and Britt Guy from Accomplice – offers studio space and a venue for Top End arts events inside an old-school high-set Darwin house, close to the centre of the city. “There aren’t many art spaces left in the city that have that old Darwin vibe, with indoor-outdoor space,” Collins says. “If I was to bring artists up from Melbourne to do a residency, I don’t want to offer them a warehouse-style concrete box. I want them to look out the louvred

window and see frangipani trees. I want them to have the full Darwin experience.”

For locals, it also offers the opportunity to be around other artists, with access to the outdoor area and gallery space. Collins and Guy came up with the name after Accomplice held a cooking workshop in the garden area. “There was this diverse bunch of men cooking around a barbecue and they were all nerding out on this vintage Hills Hoist in the yard,” Collins explains. “They wanted to dig it up and relocate it. But I’m quite attached to it and the name for the studio came to us from that. A Hills Hoist holds different things and is Aussie without being patriotic.”

A diverse range of artists already occupy the space, with Accomplice, Mayfair, paint and mural business Proper Creative, and Larrakeyah artist Shaun Lee all calling it home. Guy says the studio space is open to any independent artist working outside of an organised structure, and is available for hire or as part of a residency program. “It’s about fostering the talent of independent artists,” she says. Hills Hoist Studios has hosted cooking workshops, textiles workshops and the launch of the Darwin Fringe Festival. It will hold workshops and events involving food throughout the Fringe. WHEN LAUNCH WED 4 JUL | 5PM AT 95 GARDENS RD, DARWIN INFO facebook.com/ hillshoiststudios

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Regatta BEER CAN REGATTA BATTLERS HAVE BEEN WARNED – the Laser Electrical team is coming to reclaim their title. After losing their crown last year, the team will be pulling out all the stops to steal back the Battle of Mindil title. The battle is the main event of the day, with teams vying for glory by collecting a piece of treasure in the water and returning it to officials. Media coordinator Sacha King says it’s always the highlight of the day. “There’re no rules in the Battle of Mindil, so it’s always exciting,” King says. “You can take flour bombs and eggs, attack each other’s boat and even if you don’t find the treasure it doesn’t matter – it’s only the person who hands it over to officials that wins, so there’s always a mad tackle race at the end.” Laser Electrical captain Trent Fowler says the no-rules race will live up to its name, but they’ll go a bit easier on opponents this year in their 2000-can boat.

“We’ve toned it down so there will be no eggs this year, but we’ll have tomatoes and flour and maybe some perfume water that makes them stink.”

“It might take some cheating at the end – we’ll find out who’s (got the treasure) and we’ll mug them.” Fowler says the team has competed every year since 2009 and has a trophy room full of their accolades, including multiple wins for best boat and Battle of Mindil. “We do it for team building,” he says. “We’ll do a few Friday sessions and glue a few cans together, and we’ll put the boat together on a few Saturdays over a few beers and a BBQ.”

Viking Funeral

King says organisers are expecting a huge turn out this year and encouraged everyone to register their boats early.

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“We had low numbers last year because it fell on the same weekend as the V8s but we’re expecting more this year,” she says.

Pretty fun, according to Top End Bowhunters vice president Troy Wright.

“If we can get 10-15 boats it makes for a really good Battle of Mindil.” All the profits raised will go to the Asthma Foundation NT.

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It’s a special honour each year, with only six bowhunters entrusted to not only do the job safely, but to put on a good show. “It’s good fun. We’ve got a few set people who shoot with traditional bows all the time, so they’ll be our key people, but we’ll also get some people in there who look like Vikings,” Wright laughs. Wright says the amateur Vikings

have a few tricks up their sleeve to keep the crowd entertained. “We’re going to do some different coloured flames this year,” he says. “We’re going to mix some salts in so you’ll get some red, green and blue flames flying across, and we’ll keep the spectacle going for a bit longer, too.” In the lead up the expert bow-shooters make about 60 arrows ready to say a farewell to those lost at sea. The festivities this year include all the usual – a performance by the Darwin Pipe Band, a feast of pig on the spit, and a best-dressed competition for Vikings.

Dinah Beach Cruising Yacht Association general manager Wendy McCallum says the best-dressed winner needs more than a great costume. “It’s all about the attitude,” she says. “Costume goes a long way, but it’s how you wear it – you need lots of confidence and lots of character and a good, fun attitude.”

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LISTINGS

ATMOS: The One That Got Away The latest ATMOS listening party will take story lovers down a familiar path – that moment where you glimpse a treasure, a love, a giant fish... the one you’ve been dreaming of. Set among the lures and rods at Fishing and Outdoor World in Darwin city, fisherman and radio presenter, Joel Spry explores the one that got away and how it’s changed the way he sees the world. WHEN AT COST INFO

Celebrate Territory Day Celebrate Territory Day with 360-degree views of the fireworks across Mindil Beach and beyond. Feast on a full buffet dinner and rock the night away with The Mystics. WHEN SUN 1 JUL | 4-10PM AT RAMADA SUITES ZEN QUARTER COST $80 | BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL INFO facebook.com/zenquarter

Dry Season School Holiday Fun Crack a whip, build a Lego empire, or give circus, soccer or hockey workshops a go. No bookings required. WHEN AT COST INFO

MON 2 – FRI 20 JUL | WEEKDAYS, 10AM-12PM DARWIN WATERFRONT FREE waterfront.nt.gov.au

Toadbusting Join the toadbusters and help protect our unique native wildlife. WHEN TUE 3 JUL | 6.30-9PM AT MARRARA GOLF COURSE COST FREE | BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL INFO conservationvolunteers. com.au

McMinns Lagoon Habitat Restoration Take in the view of the beautiful McMinns Lagoon while carrying out local flora and fauna surveys and removing invasive plants. WHEN WED 4, WED 11 & THU 26 JUL | 7.50AM-2PM AT CONSERVATION VOLUNTEERS, DARWIN COST FREE | BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL INFO conservationvolunteers. com.au

First Thursday GLAMR Social Group GLAMR: Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Records Management. 21st century technology is changing our professional information industry. Gather with colleagues each month to collaborate and discuss. WHEN AT COST INFO

THU 5 JUL | 5-7PM RORKES BEER WINE FOOD FREE | REFRESHMENTS AT OWN COST 0419 844 603

Spark NT Symposium Ever wondered what a curator actually does? Or how an exhibition

TUE 24 JUL | 7-9PM FISHING AND OUTDOOR WORLD, DARWIN $15 storyprojects.com.au

comes together? Responding to an identified need for NT curatorial pathways, this symposium gathers leading curators from around the country with artists and arts practitioners to consider the role of the curator, share experiences and expand networks. WHEN AT COST INFO

SAT 7 JUL | 10AM-8PM GYRACC, KATHERINE FREE artbacknt.com.au

Canapes & Constellations Enjoy a magical evening as you join an astronomer for an unforgettable tour of the night sky. Kick off with a spectacular sunset and enjoy canapés and beverages throughout the night. WHEN FRI 20 & SAT 21 JUL | 6PM AT RAMADA SUITES ZEN QUARTER COST $85 | $65 CHILD INFO zenquarter.com/stars

Fearless – A Meditation Day Course Discover simple, creative and positive ways to respond to adversity while exploring inner causes of fear and a journey towards mental freedom. WHEN AT COST INFO

SAT 21 JUL | 10AM-4.30PM CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY, CASUARINA $75 meditateindarwin.org

Kendo Beginners’ Course Learn the Japanese martial art of Kendo at this 12-week course. Based on traditional swordsmanship, Kendo provides an opportunity for character development through discipline and respect. WHEN EVERY MON & WED | 6.30-7.30PM AT DARWIN SQUASH CENTRE COST $300 INFO darwinkendo.com

Our Common Threads Want to improve your sewing skills or learn from scratch? Head along to these community sessions for some female only craft time. WHEN EVERY TUE | 10AM-1PM AT THE HEIGHTS DURACK COMMUNITY CENTRE COST FREE | MATERIALS PROVIDED INFO darwincommunityarts. org.au

Social Tennis Do you enjoy a hit of tennis but don’t want the pressure or commitment of a serious comp? Learn to play or advance your skills in a social setting. WHEN AT COST INFO

EVERY TUE | 7-8.30PM TENNIS PALMERSTON $15 tennispalmerston.com

Mindil Beach Sunset Market As the sun dips into the Arafura Sea feast upon Thai, Sri Lankan, Indian and Greek food – to name just a few options – take a wander through the palm lined boulevards for some unique gifts or soak up the sunset and entertainment. WHEN EVERY THU & SUN | 4-9PM AT MINDIL BEACH, DARWIN INFO mindil.com.au

Malak Marketplace Enjoy fresh produce at this local organic farmers’ market, or grab a bite to eat from the delicious food stalls. WHEN EVERY SAT | 4-9PM AT CHAMBERS CRESCENT CARPARK, MALAK INFO malakmarketplace.org.au

Aqua Zumba Join the Zumba pool party for a cool calorie-burning dance fitness session at Darwin’s Wave Lagoon. WHEN AT COST INFO

EVERY SUN | 9AM DARWIN WATERFRONT $12 | $8 U15 waterfront.nt.gov.au

LET’S DANCE No Lights No Lycra A weekly dance jam in the dark – no teacher, no steps to learn, no alcohol, no talking – no worries! Just dancing and great tunes. Perfect for all ages, shapes and sizes. No need to book, just turn up when you’re in the mood for a boogie. WHEN AT COST INFO

EVERY WED | 6-7PM HAPPY YESS THEATRE, BROWN’S MART $7 nolightsnolycra.com

Argentine Tango Tango is a fun, social activity that can be danced by anyone, regardless of age or physical ability. It’s

an improvised dance, and one that will exercise your mind as well as your body. WHEN EVERY THU | 7-9PM AT COCONUT GROVE HALL COST $12 | $15 TWO CONSECUTIVE CLASSES INFO facebook.com/nthntango

Grey Panthers A unique seniors dance group of Territory women and men over the age of 60. Want to be part of the fun? Join in weekly to learn new dances and rehearse for special performances. WHEN AT COST INFO

EVERY FRI | 9.30-11AM TRACKS DANCE STUDIO $5 tracksdance.com.au

Movement Medicine – Conscious Dance This guided free-form dance class explores using movement as medicine. WHEN EVERY SUN | 10-11.30AM AT NIGHTCLIFF COMMUNITY CENTRE COST $15 | $10 CONC INFO 0431 929 145

Argentine Tango Practica Join fellow tango dancers to practice, refine technique, build musical skill, inspire each other and talk tango. WHEN AT COST INFO

EVERY SUN | 4.30-6.30PM STUDIO 13, COCONUT GROVE $5 facebook.com/nthntango

Milonga Join the Northern Tango community for a night of social Argentine Tango dancing. WHEN AT COST INFO

FRI 27 JUL | 8-11PM COCONUT GROVE HALL $5 facebook.com/nthntango

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Lego Club Hone your building skills with fortnightly activities and challenges. Create your own masterpiece and display it in the library. Suitable for ages five to 12 years. WHEN EVERY TUE | 3.30-4.30PM

Gadgets & Games Club For kids five to 12 years who like hands-on, problem based learning activities. Gadgets and Games is based around STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics) learning activities and the equation that learning plus games equals fun. WHEN EVERY WED | 3.30-4.30PM

Storytime Say goodbye to quiet libraries! 1-5 year olds and their caregivers will love singing, dancing, listening to stories and engaging with puppets in these fun, interactive sessions. WHEN EVERY TUE & THU | 10-10.45AM COST FREE

Drop-in Youth Zone Chill with friends after school. Check out the PS4 elimination games for your chance to win prizes or BYO board games or cards to share. Suitable for ages 12 plus. WHEN COST

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Nursery Time You’re never too young to enjoy reading. Treat your baby to songs, puppets, nursery rhymes and movement. Suitable for 0-1 year olds. WHEN COST

EVERY WED | 10-10.45AM FREE

palmerston.nt.gov.au/library School Holiday Program Let your imagination go wild with book-based arts and crafts – make Goosebumps slime, a magic rainbow fairy house or a Harry Potter monster book. WHEN TUE, WED, THU | 3 – 19 JUL | 10-11AM

Code Club Coding is an awesome skill to help kids live in the digital age. Part of a nationwide network of volunteer-led creative coding clubs for kids aged nine to 12 years. WHEN EVERY SAT | 10AM–1PM COST FREE | BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL

FESTIVALS WHEN THU 9 – SUN 26 AUG INFO darwinfestival.org.au

HOT AUGUST DARWIN NIGHTS FESTIVAL The countdown is on until Darwin Festival strings up the fairy lights and rolls out three weeks of dazzling entertainment. This year’s program is as hot as ever with thoughtprovoking theatre, side-splitting comedy and music to boogie to. There are shows celebrating 40 years of self-governance plus a huge opening weekend of Indigenous art and music. The festivities aren’t limited to Festival Park, with the return of The Aurora Spiegletent taking over part of The Esplanade with its own pop-up bar and food by Darwin favourite, Little Miss Korea.

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Split Award-winning dance production Split sees two women – one clothed, one naked – move in synchronicity while tension escalates and the dance space shrinks. Dancers Melanie Lane and Lilian Steiner dance in unison, physically limiting their performance space with white tape.

of Green Room and Helpmann awards and nominations. Split revels in director and choreographer Lucy Guerin’s sharp, elegant choreographic investigations, reflecting the dilemmas of negotiating with oneself and others in a world of increased pressure and reduced resources.

Following its 2017 debut at Dance Massive in Melbourne, the production toured Brisbane and Adelaide to critical acclaim, bagging a bundle

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JODEE MUNDY GREW UP HEARING IN A DEAF FAMILY, but it was only when she was five-years-old that she really began to understand what it meant to be Deaf.

She told her Mum they had called for her. It was only then she realised what it meant to be Deaf – her parents and two older brothers couldn’t hear.

Mundy was lost at Kmart when staff paged her family over the loud-speaker. No one showed up, so they called again. More time passed and her mother finally arrived, frantically signing at her in Auslan, asking where she had been.

In her production Personal, Mundy delves into the contradictions of inhabiting two worlds – living in a Deaf family, where using sign language is natural, and living in a society that sees only the family’s disability with voyeuristic curiosity.

Personal is a fascinating, touching and deeply personal story exploring dis/ability and how we perceive one another, presented through a captivating blend of performance, storytelling, multimedia and animation, performed in Auslan and English.

How is Darwin Festival celebrating the NT’s big 4-0? We’ve got three fantastic works celebrating 40 years of self-governance, including Congress by All The Queens Men – a beautiful project where eight local citizens are paired with eight local wordsmiths to present a series of imagined first speeches in Parliament exploring the politics of identity and place. We also have a large-scale projection work made my local artist Naina Sen called Face To Face, a video portrait work of 40 Darwin faces. We also have a large-scale installation called Pivot, which sees three semi-intelligent seesaws installed in Festival Park that you can ride on and talk to – talking to a seesaw

is a pretty surreal thing to do, and they’re programmed to be quite philosophical, so we hope people will come to Festival Park ready to ask big questions to our big colourful seesaws. The Aurora Spiegeltent is back – tell us what’s new this year? The Spiegeltent will have a new home on The Esplanade, but this year there will be a pop-up bar and food by Little Miss Korea. This year’s show LIMBO is my personal favourite work by Strut & Fret Production House. It’s really theatrically rich, has a wild live music score and an incredible front man and cast, including phenomenal Heather Holliday who is a sword swallower, fire

The hardest part is planning what to see. Struggling? Here are two shows to move to the top of your list. Image by Elise Derwin for Darwin Festival

Personal

WHEN TUE 21 – SUN 26 AUG, 6PM | SAT 25 AUG, 1PM & 6PM AT BROWN’S MART THEATRE COST $36 | $32 CONC | $30.60 FRIENDS

Image by Bryony Jackson

Q&A Felix Preval

with artistic director

Tell us about some of the themes behind this year’s program. One that rises to the surface is unearthing forgotten histories. We explore forgotten Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories with fantastic projects like Buried Country, our wonderful opening night concert, and in Jessie Lloyd’s beautiful Mission Songs Project – 1957 Palm Island Strike. Territory histories get turned over in theatre works like Letters To Lindy and in our Words and Ideas program. It’s a really diverse program, and one full of surprises. We love to get people thinking and talking, but mostly we want to give people great reasons to come together and make the most of the beautiful month of August.

breather and contortionist. It will blow your mind. Top three shows not to be missed? RPM vs Bad Apples. Mish Grigor’s, The Talk. Helen Gillet. You’ve been involved with DFest since 2016 and are at the helm until 2020, what are your visions for the future? We’re looking at a range of exciting projects for 2019 and 2020, which will see more local participation and more avenues for access for all members of society – and two more phenomenal Festivals, of course!

Health & Wellness Festival THE 2018 HEALTH AND WELLNESS FESTIVAL IS ALL ABOUT FINDING YOUR PATHWAY TO A HEALTHIER LIFE. More than 50 exhibits, activities and speakers will transform the Darwin Waterfront into a healthy hub for the return of the annual festival. Organiser from Helping People Achieve John McNeur says it’s a great opportunity to kick start a new health and well-being journey. “Our core message this year is, ‘what is going to be your pathway

to health and wellness in 2018?’,” he says. “The festival is a vast menu of opportunity for people to explore and experience activities all looking at what we put in, and how we look after, our bodies and minds. “I think most of the exhibitors and speakers will talk to that – it might be optometrist Helen Sommers talking about looking after your eyes, or the Naturally Cheeky girls talking about the advantage of apple cider vinegar, or community groups like Volunteers NT talking about the personal value of making

a contribution to society.” Among the exhibits will be a chillout area to enjoy the Waterfront, and a safe place for the kids to run around. “The event has an undeniable energy about it,” McNeur says. “It’s a safe, healthy, vibrant, energetic festival which allows people to dip in and out of things they want to explore.” WHEN AT COST INFO

SAT 14 JUL | 9AM-3PM DARWIN WATERFRONT FREE waterfront.nt.gov.au

Mr Snot Bottom

NEW HORIZONS

A new world and a new beginning for Darwin Symphony Orchestra. The must-see inaugural concert of DSO’s new Artistic Director/Chief Conductor Jonathan Tooby.

Darwin

Fringe

Festival

FROM LOUNGE ROOM CABARET TO A 10-MINUTE SHOW IN A PUBLIC TOILET, THE 2018 DARWIN FRINGE FESTIVAL WILL COVER A LOT OF GROUND.

This year’s line-up is an impressive 80 distinct events showcasing the work of 300 artists and, according to festival director CJ Fraser-Bell, that makes the Top End community arts festival almost as big as the Edinburgh Fringe per capita.

Christa Hughes

theatre, dance, circus, spoken word, cabaret, music, comedy and visual arts. She says the Fringe is not just important for local audiences, it’s also vital for local creatives as a way of sharing their work and connecting with visiting artists. “It’s a real stepping stone for artists to develop and try out new ideas.”

“Darwin arts are really different and interesting, and the work we do is just as good as anywhere else.”

Venues are sprinkled across Darwin and this year include the intimate Brown’s Mart Attic and local lounge rooms in the suburbs, where you can catch Darwin act The Neo or acclaimed cabaret artist Christa Hughes.

Fraser-Bell says the Fringe consulted the community to put together an eclectic mix of events across every genre you can think of (and a few they made up), including

Hughes will also be performing as part of the children’s program, which also brings two circus acts and kids comedian Mr Snot Bottom to town.

“Darwin really punches above its weight,” she says.

Darwin Fringe Festival 2017

by Kylie Stevenson Civic Park will be transformed to create Interstitial Space where events will be held each evening, including the quirky Buttstuff, a bite-sized show that explores toilet humour in public lavatories.

Saturday 25 August 7.30pm Darwin Convention Centre

PROGRAM Márquez Danzón No.2 Mozart Violin Concerto No. 4 in D major Dvořák Symphony No.9 ‘From the New World’

Presented by Darwin Symphony Orchestra in association with Darwin Festival.

dso.org.au | 8946 6214

Fraser-Bell urges festival-goers to book tickets early as many events sell out, particularly comedy, cabaret and the much-celebrated opening party. This year the Opening Night Party will feature Maningrida all-girl rock outfit Ripple Effect; Darwin’s premier underground lounge-countrypop-hardcore act So Called Friends; and the launch of James Mangohig’s solo project From The D.O.T.S.

WHEN AT COST INFO

FRI 6 – SUN 15 JUL VARIOUS LOCATIONS VARIOUS darwinfringe.org.au

FOOD

DRINK

Image by Emma Lupin

away but you’ve still got the root. “There’s also a lot of fruits that people think you need to harvest when they’re ripe, but actually you can use them when they’re less than ripe.

CYCLONE SURVIVAL FOOD delicious dinners from the debris DON’T RUSH TO THE SUPERMARKET NEXT CYCLONE SEASON – ditch the baked beans and learn how to create a living cyclone kit. Inspired by the damage from Tropical Cyclone Marcus, local foodie Emma Lupin is sharing her knowledge for a cyclone survival kit workshop this month. “People pack their cyclone kit full of bad food – it’s always the same stuff – but there’s all these plants you can hoe into and eat before you start on your tinned stuff,” she says. “The workshop is all about how you

can be creative and imaginative from fruit that has fallen and plants that you’ve planted and grown yourself.” Lupin will teach participants which fruit and veggies can withstand cyclonic winds, what you can salvage from fallen trees, and how to collect water safely.

“So we’ll be looking at how you can salvage things that have fallen down in the wind like bananas and jackfruit.” The hands-on workshop will be run with a post-cyclone set up with just a camp stove and the basic utensils you’d pack in your kit. There’s also a deeper message rooted in the workshop about society’s reliance on major organisations when a disaster hits. “People are used to things being provided for them – like power and water and food,” Lupin says.

“You can grow foods which are really great to harvest when the winds come, a lot of Pacific Islands do this,” she says.

“Part of the take-home message from this workshop is about learning where all these things come from and how to be selfreliant.”

“You’re mainly looking at root veggies like cassava and taro where the top half can completely blow

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so nothing is really coming out of a packet – our chefs are making everything from scratch.”

“But we certainly don’t shy away from the big breakfast style meal either.”

The 15-foot smoker has proven to be a popular attraction for hungry Top Enders since it was unveiled on Australia Day.

Dunne says it’s an exciting time at the venue with a lot more still to come.

Rosella Festival THE TOP END LANDSCAPE IS DOTTED WITH THE BRIGHT RED FRUITS OF THE ROSELLA PLANT.

These tart fruits are plucked from the bushes and turned into a whole variety of different foods and condiments for the annual Rosella Festival in Adelaide River. There are plenty of locals who grow their own paddocks of bushes to make their special recipes of jams, chutneys, roll-ups and cordials. Festival organiser Annette Woodbridge says thousands of people head to Adelaide River for the festival every year because of their love of the unique fruit, which often comes with a lot of memories. “The Rosella Festival is all about your handmade jams and chutney –

anything made with rosellas,” she says.

“It’s something different you can’t buy in the shops and there’s definitely a nostalgia factor for a lot of people. “I can remember my Aunty Joy making rosella jam for us kids back when I was a child.” The festivities begin with a poets’ breakfast where local wordsmiths will share their work, markets throughout the day, plus jumping castles to keep the kids entertained.

WHEN FRI 27 JUL | 8.30AM AT ADELAIDE RIVER INN COST FREE INFO facebook.com/ adelaiderivermarkets

SUN 15 JUL | 9AM-2.30PM ACCOMPLICE $155 creativeaccomplice.com.au

Beachfront

Breakfast IF YOU’VE HAD A BIG NIGHT AT THE BEACHFRONT HOTEL you can now head back in the morning to wash away the aftermath with a big breakfast. The newly refurbished Beachfront Hotel has a hot new breakfast menu to match its hot new decor. The facelift has allowed the chefs to be more creative with their menu, and the hotel now offers breakfast with selections for the health conscious and for those in need of some greasy goodness. General manager Guy Dunne says the chefs can now make more products in their flash new kitchen and smoker, even curing and smoking their own bacon. “We make a lot of products inhouse,” he says.

“We make our own hash browns, we smoke and cure our own bacon,

“We take our smoker down to Mindil Market each week, cooking crocodiles, and that’s proven to be an extremely popular attraction,” Dunne says. “It’s a real beast of a BBQ and there’s not another one like it in Darwin, so it’s going to feature quite strongly in the new venue.”

“It’s really a new beginning for us,” he says. “After many years of good service from the old pub we’ve brought in a more modern and contemporary style venue and opened the place up to create a real open-plan space.”

But it’s not all crocs on the ‘que. There are plenty of healthy options too.

Dunne says there is even more in the pipeline, with a new family and pet friendly area yet to be unveiled, and plenty of live music planned for the year.

“People are very health conscious these days, so we’ve been trying to focus on a lot of healthy options for people,” Dunne says.

WHEN DAILY | 7AM-3PM AT BEACHFRONT HOTEL COST VARIOUS INFO facebook.com/ beachfronthotel

ROSELLA JAM 1 kg rosellas 1 kg sugar Juice of 1 lemon Place the whole fruit (with seeds and pods) into a saucepan and just cover with water. Bring to the boil and gently simmer to bring all the goodness, colour and pectin from the fruit. Strain the mixture and add sugar and lemon juice. Return to the saucepan and stir over a gentle heat until the sugar is completely dissolved, then bring to the boil. As the jam reaches setting point it is likely to stick and burn, so pay close attention and stir often. Test for setting by putting a saucer in the freezer to chill, then put a teaspoonful of jam on the saucer. Wait for it to cool slightly and push the top of it with your finger. If it crinkles it is cooked. Bottle the jam into clean, hot jars and seal immediately.

By Kylie Stevenson

Science FEMINISM AND SUSTAINABLE SEAFOOD ARE ON THE MENU AT THIS YEAR’S FRINGE FESTIVAL, with Tropical Kitchen aiming to satisfy both the body and the brain. Producer Britt Guy says the program will dish up tasty talks, facilitated by anthropologist Jill Pope, and fascinating food from international chefs at two Science at Sunset sessions. Lia Pa’apa’a from Plant Based Native in Cairns, will be in conversation with Greening Australia and Darwin’s Burmese horticulturalists for In The Hands of a Woman, which will explore women’s roles in food and food production. Pa’apa’a, who has Mexican and Samoan heritage, will also discuss what being vegan looks like in her cultures and will hit the kitchen to keep the audience fed during the event. The second session, Catch, Cook and Experiment with Sustainable

Sunset

Seafood, will bring together leaders in the NT sustainable seafood industry, with Singaporean chef Sameer Chablani and Mike Hilburger from Shank Brothers. The conversation will take a deep dive into the industry, the best ways to embrace the seasons from your boat and how to enhance local tastes. Hilburger will also be behind the barbecue to show the audience what’s possible with their next catch. Guy says the program is designed to inspire social change through food – and Darwin is the perfect place to do that. “The way we eat in Darwin is highly multicultural, across the breadth of people,” she says. “You go to the markets and everyone is there. Food is such a big part of our lives.” Pa’apa’a and Singaporean chef

Jamie Lewis will be in residence over the week of the Fringe, and will spend their time at local markets and restaurants with the aim of creating a daily menu based on the food conversations they’re having in Darwin. Food will be available at Hills Hoist Studios each evening so festivalgoers can grab a bite to eat before a show.

In the Hands of a Woman WHEN AT COST INFO

SUN 8 JUL | 4.30-6PM HILLS HOIST STUDIOS $5 darwinfringe.org.au

Catch, Cook and Experiment with Sustainable Seafood WHEN AT COST INFO

SUN 15 JUL | 4.30-6PM HILLS HOIST STUDIOS $5 darwinfringe.org.au

Darwin

Co-organiser Leisa Govan says it’s great to be able to tap into their new neighbours. “I’m so excited to have the dinner there,” she says.

There will be a variety of entertainment, including music, theatre and spoken word. WHEN MON 30 JUL | 6-8PM AT BAGOT COMMUNITY HALL COST DONATION | FREE, VOLUNTEERS INFO darwincommunityarts.org.au

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The food will be provided by My Sisters’ Kitchen with some local traditional food expected to be added to the menu.

Since Darwin Community Arts (DCA) moved from Malak to Coconut Grove the monthly dinners have been on hiatus, but a special collaboration with Bagot means they will have a unique venue in the hall this month.

one that

“Since we moved from Malak we have been wanting to have community dinners in different places.”

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DARWIN COMMUNITY DINNERS HAVE A NEW VENUE for their July event – Bagot Community Hall.

Community Dinners A T M O S listening parties for story lovers

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7pm, Tuesday July 24

7pm,

at Fishing and Outdoor World, Cavenagh St, Darwin tickets $15

storypro

@ storyprojects.com.au/atmos

This project received grant funding from the Australian Government

YOUTH

Get That Job! IF YOU’RE KEEN TO TRY YOUR HAND IN THE MAKEUP INDUSTRY, or work in events and festivals, Launch Darwin has got you covered with their Get That Job! panels and tutorials.

“I have a lot of girls who apply for jobs without realising you need qualifications to work in the industry,” she says. “You need to look at doing some courses in whatever field you’re interested in – makeup, beauty therapy, lashes.”

Jack-of-all-trades legend Amy Hetherington will host a panel discussion with Darwin-based events staff to find out how to get into the industry.

Tezaris says she’ll also have a practical workshop on how to present yourself for a job interview.

“There’s going to be a lot of chats about what jobs are around and how to become qualified and whether qualifications are relevant,” she says.

Sanctuary Sessions THE PICTURESQUE SCENERY AT SANCTUARY LAKES has become the backdrop to the newest free gig in Palmerston.

“It’s for anyone that wants some basic knowledge and makeup skills on how to present themselves,” she says.

Sanctuary Sessions is an initiative of the Palmerston Young Producer’s Team, a group of young people aged 13-23, who organise the chilled-out, family friendly events each month.

“It gives you a confidence boost – if you look pretty, you feel pretty.”

“We’ll also look at how to make a sustainable living, because a lot of events happen just in the Dry, so where do people go when there aren’t festivals? And how did they get started and what kind of career journey did they go on?”

Get that Job! – Festivals and Events WHEN AT COST INFO

Beauty of Tatum owner Kani Tezaris will give job seekers the low-down on what’s needed to get into the beauty industry.

MON 9 JUL | 10.30AM-12PM CASUARINA LIBRARY FREE | BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL launchdarwin.com.au

Palmerston arts and culture officer Leah Sanderson says the last event was a perfect Saturday afternoon.

Get that Job! – Makeup Artist

MON 16 JUL | 10AM-12PM CASUARINA LIBRARY FREE | BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL launchdarwin.com.au

“It was the easiest way to spend an afternoon for anyone who was there,” she says.

“There were groups of teenagers and older people chilling on picnic blankets.” This month’s gig will feature tunes from Acid City, Serina Pech and Snapchat Regret.

WHEN AT COST INFO

SAT 14 JUL | 4-7PM  SANCTUARY LAKES, GUNN   FREE facebook.com/palmerstonnt

Q&A

with DJ

Joseph Tjung

JOSEPH TJUNG, AKA DJ TJUNG, IS JUST 17 YEARS OLD BUT HE’S ALREADY RUBBED SHOULDERS with some of the biggest DJs and musicians touring through Darwin. This year alone he’s got the crowds pumping at two of the Top End’s biggest festivals – BASSINTHEGRASS and Summer Session. Off The Leash caught up with DJ Tjung to have a chat about his journey. When did you start DJing and what was your first gig? I started back in 2014 just as a hobby. I had my first gig at my grade nine formal. I didn’t really have a clue what to do, I was just winging it, but everyone enjoyed it and I liked playing to a crowd, so I

Image by Jeremy Lung

Image by Hannah Illingworth

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“It was a safe environment for families where kids could run around and roll down the grassy slopes while parents could sit back and have a chat.

DJ Tjung

thought I’d actually start doing gigs as a mobile DJ. Where did you learn? I started because my cousin is a DJ so I asked him how he learned and he said it’s something you figure out yourself. That was great advice and I learned about DJing and how to learn things by yourself. It’s just about trial and error. You’ve recently played BASSINTHEGRASS and Summer Session – what’s it like playing on such a big stage. It was crazy – I’ve never played on a stage that big before and to fill that space and create the atmosphere was amazing.

What advice do you have for other young people? Don’t be scared to put yourself out there and don’t give up on your dreams. If you’re passionate just go for it, don’t let anything stop you. Just do what you want to do and be proud of it.

Sounds @ Sunset CHILL OUT AND WATCH THE SUNSET AT THE THIRD GIG FROM YOUNG PRODUCERS IN DARWIN.

What are your other passions? I do the Chung Wah Society Lion Dance. They’re like another family to me. It’s really cool and the same feeling as DJing – performing in front of a crowd.

Producer Natalea Stone, 18, says she’s going for a laid-back vibe with her line-up for Sounds @ Sunset Volume #3.

What position are you in the lion? I’m usually the head because I’m small and skinny and light (laughs).

“I wanted to create a space where people can rock up after work and just relax to some good local Darwin music with their friends and family,” she says.

facebook.com/djtjung | @dj_tjung

On the bill for the third instalment of the Launch Darwin event are Helen Wallace, Joy Greer and Ron Moala. “Helen Wallace is very stripped back with a very soft but powerful voice,” Stone says. “I love her voice and thought it would be great for the theme I was going for.” WHEN AT COST INFO

FRI 13 JUL | 5-7.30PM NIGHTCLIFF FORESHORE FREE launchdarwin.com.au

LISTINGS Park Skating 101 Always wanted to try skating in the park? Keen to work on your ramp skills in a supportive environment? This school holidays, City of Darwin and City of Palmerston want you to get outside and hit the skate park. Aimed at shredders aged 12-25 who are just starting out, this two-hour introductory workshop aims to leave you feeling comfortable in the skate park, with a demonstration around ramp types and discussions on skating etiquette. TUE 3 JUL | 10AM-12PM | JINGILI SKATE PARK TUE 10 JUL | 10AM-12PM | PALMERSTON SKATE PARK TUE 17 JUL | 10AM-12PM | LEANYER SKATE PARK INFO

launchdarwin.com.au BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL

Skate Nights Make Wednesday your motivator for getting in that weekly workout. Tunes and extra safety gear is provided and new skaters, regular shredders and spectators are invited to head along. Send your name and phone number to youthprojects@darwin.nt.gov.au to receive weekly text updates. WHEN AT COST INFO

WED 4, 11 & 18 JUL | 6-8PM JINGILI SKATE PARK FREE | BYO SKATES launchdarwin.com.au

Image Credit: The Greedy Emu by Duane Preston

NORTHERN TERRITORY WRITERS’ CENTRE

Fringe Festival The LAUNCH team is heading to the Fringe and they don’t want you to miss out. From reviews to things they’re getting excited about, follow @launchdarwin to bite in. WHEN FRI 6 – SUN 15 JUL FOLLOW @launchdarwin

8941 2651 ntwriters.com.au executive@ntwriters.com.au Workshops | Monthly Events | Opportunities 13

17 Tue

Mon

7 School Holiday Fun 7 Storytime 7 Our Common Threads 7 Social Tennis 7 School Holiday Program 7 Lego Club 7 Drop-in Youth Zone 13 Park Skating 101 19 Yellow Submarine 27 Darwin City Brass Band Rehearsals

23 19 Capricornia Film Awards – late entries close

27 Monday Jam Nights

See Around Town 5

5 Royal Darwin Show

18 Wed

Sat

7 School Holiday Fun 7 No Lights No Lycra 7 School Holiday Program 7 Gadgets & Games Club 7 Nursery Time 13 Skate Night 27 Acoustic Jam Session

See See Around Books &Town Film619

Miranda Tapsell

7 Malak Marketplace 19 FlicNics 22 Artists of Yuendumu (last chance) 24 Papunya Tula Artists Visual Rhythm II (last chance) 24 Light Becomes Sand (last chance) 27 Tropical Jam 27 James Damien 27 Have Fun With Brass

19 Thu

Tue

7 School Holiday Fun 7 Storytime 7 Mindil Beach Sunset Market 7 Argentine Tango 7 School Holiday Program 27 Neil Murray 27 Mall Tunes 27 Rachel Rachel

24 7 ATMOS: The One That Got Away

Sun

7 Storytime 7 Our Common Threads 7 Social Tennis 7 Lego Club 7 Drop-in Youth Zone 27 Darwin City Brass Band Rehearsals

27 Live In The Square 7 Mindil Beach Sunset Market 7 Aqua Zumba 7 Movement Medicine 7 Argentine Tango Practica 19 Wild Words 23 Marnie Jay 27 Live at the Lagoon 27 Sunday Beat Train 27 Shawn Morrow

20 Fri

7 School Holiday Fun 7 Canapes & Constellations 7 Grey Panthers 25 Pub Choir 26 Sam Carmody 26 Fiesta Latina 27 Loud at the Library 27 NT News Live on Fridays 27 Glen Forner

See Around Town 7

See Music 27

Melanie Gray

See Visual Arts 24

24 NAIDOC Celebration Larrakia Artists (last chance)

Wed

7 Canapes & Constellations 7 Meditation Day Course 7 Malak Marketplace 7 Code Club 19 NT Travelling Film Festival (FlicNics) 23 Yidumduma Bill Harney Bush Professor (last chance)

Mon

7 No Lights No Lycra 7 Gadgets & Games Club 7 Nursery Time

11 Darwin Community Dinners 27 Monday Jam Nights

Sat

Thu

23 Marnie Jay 23 Fecund: Fertile Worlds (last chance) 25 Unlocking the potential of your voice 26 Darwin Blues & Roots Festival 27 Bloody Marys, Epic Phannies, Gored Matadores & The World’s Fear 27 James Damien 27 Have Fun With Brass

Tue

5 Royal Darwin Show 7 Storytime 7 Habitat Restoration 7 Mindil Beach Sunset Market 7 Argentine Tango 23 43rd Katherine Prize (opening) 24 Art Educators NT (opening) 27 Mall Tunes 27 Rachel Rachel

7 Storytime 7 Our Common Threads 7 Social Tennis 7 Lego Club 7 Drop-in Youth Zone 27 Darwin City Brass Band Rehearsals

Sun

6 Beer Can Regatta

7 Mindil Beach Sunset Market 7 Aqua Zumba 7 Movement Medicine 7 Argentine Tango Practica 23 Marnie Jay 25 Sing The Camino 27 Live at the Lagoon 27 Shawn Morrow

See Food & Drink 10

See Around Town 6

Fri

10 Rosella Festival

5 Royal Darwin Show 7 Grey Panthers 7 Milonga 27 Loud at the Library 27 NT News Live on Fridays 27 Neil Murray 27 Glen Forner 27 Acoustic Jam Sessions

AROUND TOWn Books & fILM Performing Arts YOUTH Visual Arts Word on the STREET Food & Drink Music FESTIVALS

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Although all care is taken to ensure information in Off The Leash is correct, it is subject to change. Not all events can be listed on this calendar, so we recommend checking offtheleash.net.au for updates.

5 Territory Day

Sun

Thu

5 NAIDOC Week workshops 7 School Holiday Fun 7 Mindil Beach Sunset Market 7 Argentine Tango 7 School Holiday Program 20 Almost Face to Face 20 Frankghanistan 21 Train Lines 21 Whiplash 21 Corrosion 21 Big Tops & Tiny Tots 23 EDONT Online Auction (ends) 27 Mall Tunes

7 Aqua Zumba 7 Mindil Beach Sunset Market 7 Movement Medicine 7 Argentine Tango Practica 11 Science at Sunset 19 Black Panther 23 Marnie Jay 25 Jack & Gus at Terry’s Place 27 Live at the Lagoon 27 Mr Alford 27 Shawn Morrow

Caiti Baker

Around Town 5

Calendar

1 7 Celebrate Territory Day 7 Mindil Beach Sunset Market 7 Aqua Zumba 7 Movement Medicine 7 Argentine Tango Practica 27 Mandorah Ukulele & Folk Festival 27 Live at the Lagoon 27 Live In The Square 27 First Sunday Blues

Wed

20 Fresh Tracks

See Performing Arts 20

11 5 NAIDOC Week workshops 7 School Holiday Fun 7 No Lights No Lycra 7 School Holiday Program 13 Skate Night 18 Top Dog Film Festival 19 Zine Workshop 20 Almost Face to Face 20 Frankghanistan 21 Train Lines 21 Big Tops & Tiny Tots

2 Mon

Fri

7 School Holiday Fun 7 Kendo Beginners’ Course (commences) 19 Capricornia Film Awards – submissions due 27 Monday Jam Nights

5 NAIDOC Week workshops 7 School Holiday Fun 12 Sounds @ Sunset 20 Almost Face to Face 20 Frankghanistan 21 Train Lines 21 Whiplash 21 Corrosion 21 Big Tops & Tiny Tots 27 Loud at the Library 27 NT News Live on Fridays 27 Queens Porter Stomp

3 Tue

7 School Holiday Fun 7 Storytime 7 Toadbusting 7 Our Common Threads 7 Social Tennis 7 School Holiday Program 7 Lego Club 7 Drop-in Youth Zone 13 Park Skating 101 27 Darwin City Brass Band Rehearsals

Wed

6 Hills Hoist – Launch 7 School Holiday Fun 7 McMinns Lagoon Habitat Restoration 7 No Lights No Lycra 7 School Holiday Program 7 Gadgets & Games Club 7 Nursery Time 13 Skate Night 19 French Film Night 22 Artists of Yuendumu (commences) 27 Acoustic Jam Sessions

Sat

12 Sanctuary Sessions 19 FlicNics 20 Almost Face to Face 20 Frankghanistan 21 Whiplash 21 Corrosion 21 Big Tops & Tiny Tots 23 Marnie Jay 27 One Tropical Day 27 Alice Sky & Emily Wurramara

JUL See Performing Arts 21

21 Train Lines

6 Viking Funeral 7 Code Club 7 Malak Marketplace 9 Health & Wellness Festival

Thu

Sun

See Visual Arts 23

7 School Holiday Fun 7 Storytime 7 First Thursday GLAMR Social Group 7 Mindil Beach Sunset Market 7 Argentine Tango 7 School Holiday Program 21 First Thursday Comedy 27 Mall Tunes 27 Rachel Rachel

7 Mindil Beach Sunset Market 7 Movement Medicine 7 Argentine Tango Practica 10 Cyclone Survival Food 11 Science at Sunset 18 Gurrumul 19 Zine Fair 22 THE//WORD//BECOMES// FLESH (last chance) 23 A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever (last chance) 23 Darwin Art Trail 23 Marnie Jay

DARWIN FRINGE FESTIVAL

Sat

Fri

Tue

7 Code Club 7 Spark NT Symposium 7 Malak Marketplace 18 Write A Book In A Day 19 Moana 19 FlicNics 21 Charles vs Darwin 22 THE//WORD//BECOMES// FLESH (opening) 23 Marnie Jay 24 Mind The Gap (artist talk) 24 Light Becomes Sand (opens) 27 Vika and Linda 27 Butterfingers 27 Have Fun With Brass

Mon

7 School Holiday Fun 12 Get That Job Makeup Artist 27 Monday Jam Nights

5 NAIDOC Week workshops 7 School Holiday Fun 7 Storytime 7 School Holiday Program 7 Lego Club 7 Drop-in Youth Zone 13 Park Skating 101 20 Almost Face to Face 21 Train Lines 23 43rd Katherine Prize (entries close) 27 Darwin City Brass Band

7 School Holiday Fun 9 Darwin Fringe Festival (commences) 22 THE//WORD//BECOMES// FLESH (opens) 24 Mind The Gap (opening) 24 NAIDOC Celebration Larrakia Artists (opening) 24 Papunya Tula Artists Visual Rhythm II (opening) 27 Loud at the Library 27 NT News Live on Fridays 27 Garden of Gin – MisS Possum Beats 27 Glen Forner Lured

5 NAIDOC Week workshops 7 School Holiday Fun 12 Get That Job! Festivals & Events 27 Monday Jam Nights

9 Darwin Fringe Festival (concludes)

27 Live at the Lagoon 27 Live In The Square 27 Queen Porter Stomp 27 Shawn Morrow

July Events Dry Season School Holiday Fun Monday 2 July to Friday 20 July 10am to 12pm (midday) | Free There will be loads of fun with free activities on each weekday for the school holidays. Enjoy lego workshops, hockey, circus workshops, MiniRoos Holiday Program, and more. Free Movie Under The Stars Moana (PG) Saturday 7 July | from 7pm Experience the magic of the moonlight cinema at the Darwin Waterfront every month during the dry season. Health and Wellness Festival Saturday 14 July | 9am to 3pm Coordinated by Helping People Achieve, the festival will include a number of exhibitors, interactive workshops, motivational speakers and demonstrations of many products and services. Sundays Live at the Lagoon Every Sunday | 12pm to 4pm | free Pack a picnic or enjoy offerings from local retailers as you sit and unwind to the sounds of a different musician each week. All events are alcohol and glass free. waterfront.nt.gov.au

HEALTH & WELLNESS DARWIN WATERFRONT

JULY 14

We’re back!

NOW OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS The Capricornia Film Awards recognise excellence in the NT screen industry. We are now taking submissions for content completed after September 2016 in the following categories:

★ SHORT FILM ★ MUSIC VIDEO ★ DOCUMENTARY

★ CORPORATE ★ WEB / NEW MEDIA ★ FEATURE FILM

2 July Regular Deadline (Late fees apply after) Submit via filmfreeway.com

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DISCOVER, LOVE, SHARE 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. The “tsunami” effect of ditching plastic straws is in full force at the moment – and from a clean living perspective, it’s truly wonderful to see happening locally, too!

customers to change their not-soenvironmentally-friendly habits, alerting customers that they will not be purchasing any more plastic straws in the future. Laneway Café in Parap is using biodegradable straws and Malak Marketplace is making their own gluten-free pasta straws. So, why pasta straws? We all know that plastic straws are terrible for the environment. We also know that paper straws can be flimsy. They also take up to 60 days to decompose and may contain various waxes, glues and toxins.

Not only are big supermarket chains trying to become more environmentally friendly by eliminating plastic straws from their shelves, so are many cafes around Darwin.

Pasta straws might just be the perfect solution. They hold their strength and shape in drinks and will decompose within one day of being discarded. It’s a win-win-win for the customer, merchant and environment!

Ruby G’s Canteen and Bakery in Coconut Grove is preparing their

We all want to protect our earth, save our oceans and safeguard

the marine and wildlife that lives within it. Slowly, we are all becoming aware of just how much waste we create and then need to dispose of. Changing ingrained habits is the next step. When you order your next drink, remember to say, “without a straw please”. It’s that simple. Inspiring others – our friends, family and community – by setting an example can have a huge impact on our environment, one straw at a time! Say no more to straws – #plasticsucks.

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REVIEWS, TIPS AND ADVICE FOR TRAVELLING THE WORLD WITH KIDS It’s that time of year again, the school holidays. Where are you headed? Anyone going to Broome? Broome is the kind of place that gets under your skin and makes you want to return again and again. Famous for its pearling history and multicultural population, Broome encapsulates a chilled lifestyle with its low key, welcoming vibe – and with white sandy beaches and dazzling clear blue water, it’s handsdown one of the most stunning parts of the Top End. Make sure you head out of town for a few days to the spectacular Dampier Peninsula. There’s a swag of Aboriginal cultural experiences on offer and lots of unique places to stay.

Being a Bardi Jawi ranger sounds like the ultimate ranger gig. Protecting endangered sea turtles and dugongs, wildlife surveys, managing feral animals and patrolling the coastline are all part of a day’s work for the Bardi Jawi rangers. In what seems like a lifetime ago – pre-kids – I met up with these rangers for work and it’s great to see how much they’ve achieved since then. You can hear all about what these guys do at one

CORNER SHOWCASING TOP END COMICS AND LOCAL STAND-UP PERFORMERS

The Darwin Fringe Festival is upon us and, for the comedy connoisseur, a comic smorgasbord awaits.

engaging in the most awkward dinner party/group counselling session ever witnessed.

My salivary glands are working overtime in readiness for the taster plate of comic talent at Brown’s Mart that is the Darwin Fringe Comedy Showcase.

Blind Date is my dark horse. Featuring Mon Cherie, this will be full of naughty double-entendres, even cheekier banter – and you might even walk out with a date…

Amy Hetherington’s and Danielle Andrews’s Life Advice with Amy and Danielle promises to be full of embarrassing observations from two of Darwin’s most endearing and daring comedians. Also check out their solo shows, Nailed It and Obnoxiously Talented for a second helping of whimsy.

Vaudeville Knockout is equal parts classic show tunes, Peter O’Toole raffish stand up and anarchic silent comedy, all taking aim at the world of high art. Pop on down for some old-school comic laughs.

Nicole Stevens was the surprise hit of last year’s Fringe. If you like your one-liners spicy and your truth grenades hidden in ironic comic songs, then the humbly titled Not as Crap as Last Year may once again be one of the picks of the festival.

Lina Paselli is the joint owner of Clean Living in the Tropics, an online publisher dedicated to championing clean living individuals and businesses in the Top End. Lina is also the co-founder and General Manager of award-winning Malak Marketplace, Darwin’s premier organic, sustainable farmers’ market and eco-tourist destination. She also owns Paleo in the Tropics.

If sampling seasonal bush foods and learning about local Bardi Aboriginal culture and customs sounds like the kind of experience you’re after, check out Brian Lee’s Hunters Creek Tagalong Tours. Brian’s pretty well known in these parts and will show you his country, teach you about masterful traditional fishing and crabbing techniques and you’ll finish up by cooking the catch on the fire – yummy! Brian’s tours leave from Kooljaman, Cape Leveque.

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of their chit-chats at Kooljaman. Bundy of Bundy’s Cultural Tours also runs a family friendly bush tucker tour and a spear making tour where you’ll get the opportunity to hone your skills at spear fishing. There are some cool Aboriginalowned camping spots and accommodation options on the Dampier Peninsula. Kooljaman, an award-winning Aboriginal owned eco retreat, is the most well known. I love this place. From totally rustic beach shacks overlooking the beach to simple cabins and glamping, there’s a range of options. For other, less well-known options check out Banana Well Getaway, Goombaragin Eco Retreat and Gnylmarung Retreat. Top tip – make sure you download the chilled tunes of the local Pigram Brothers for your road trip.

Libby Larsen Travel is, and has always been, Libby’s passion and she believes that this shouldn’t stop when you have kids. Libby knows that the best travel advice and tips come from other parents and so she started Growing up Troppo. It has loads of inspiration about hip places to stay, play and eat with kids that, importantly, parents love too.

The Recurring Adventures of Prince Pout III: Pout Planet showcases Roland Bull’s charismatic and slightly cheeky storytelling, simultaneously delighting and shocking audiences as he entices them down his garden path of misadventure. If you like your comedy quick, uncompromising, garnished with tight one-liners and braised with a marinade of devil-may-care indifference, then Justin Brown’s 50 Shades of Brown is another show to lock in. An Open Letter to My Son sees the triumphant return of 2017 NT Raw Comedy winner, and new father, Jason Williams, dish out some strange life advice. Fringe debutant, and youngest Fringe performer, Benjamin Jones is a freakish musical comedy talent and should enthral audiences in the very difficult to book and keep a straight face show, I Can’t Remember What It Was Called But It Was OK. Awkwards Anonymous features 2018 NT Raw Comedy champ, Ryan McArthur, and several friends

Of the imported comedy treats, my tip is the award-winning Wank Bank Master Class by Adam Seymour, aka Rural Ranga, who tells the story of how, short on money in New York, he moonlighted as a Taoist erotic masseuse. The show then descends into an interactive and playful masterclass in handling your partner’s – or your own – member for maximum pleasure (and laughter) using garden vegetables. Alice Spring comedian Chris Little is coming to town with The Point of this Exercise. Chris is the NT’s most original and hilarious comic talent and needs to be seen before he hits the big time. My interstate dark horse is Sydney based improvisational and standup comic Steve Meagher’s Chairman Steve. A Google search accidentally took me to the inventor of the ergonomic chair for every occasion, but this Steve Meagher will have you glued to your chair, losing your proverbial innards, but with adequate spinal support. Canadian raconteur Gillian English’s Giant and Angry is a feisty, fierce and fast-paced show that reflects on her father handing down Kung Fu scissor-kick self-defence tips and other family heirlooms. 2016 National Raw Comedy finalist, Lewis Garnhem is another one to watch. The Smartest Idiot You’ll Ever Meet received positive reviews and the grapevine whispers of a warm hearted but cynical social commentary for those that like your politics with extra chilli.

Will Crawford is an up-andcrawling comic. He moonlights as a land rights lawyer and policy activist.

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Top Dog Film Festival

Gurrumul

The screening of Gurrumul at the Deckchair Cinema will raise funds for one of the acclaimed musician’s greatest legacies – an investment in the next generation of Indigenous artists. The impact of his death in July 2017 was felt across the globe, but before his passing Gurrumul Yunupingu established the Gurrumul Yunupingu Foundation to give kids in the bush the same opportunities that were afforded to him. Foundation chair and Gurrumul’s close friend Mark Grose says the money raised from the film screening will go to into programs set up to educate and empower young Indigenous artists. “The foundation was set up at the insistence of Gurrumul who asked both Michael (Hohnen) and I how we can help young Indigenous kids from the bush have the same opportunities and support that he’d had,” he says. “The foundation’s aim is to set up long term programs in remote communities around arts and sport.”

MAN’S BEST FRIEND WILL BE THE CENTER OF ATTENTION at BCC Cinemas when the inaugural Top Dog Film Festival heads to Darwin.

Festival director and self-confessed dog adorer Jemima Robinson tells us all about what’s in the program and why the festival has been such a hit. How did the film festival come about? It all started from one film called Dog Power. It was such a great film and I really loved it, but it only went for 30 minutes. I knew it wasn’t going to get a wide release but thought people really needed to see this film. It made me wonder what other great films about dogs were out there, so we put a call out to filmmakers and dog lovers around

the globe. What was the response from filmmakers? There were more than 200 entries. The hardest part of the job was choosing which films to put in. There are nine in the festival, including a late entry that we just had to squeeze in. Dogs are called ‘man’s best friend’ for a good reason – is that evident in the films shown? We’ve put together a lovely program of films about dogs that really highlight the connection that people have with them and the positive impact they have on us. It’s all about celebration and love because the connection between people and dogs is so emotional.

What other themes emerged from the films entered? What’s interesting is you find out about the different kind of jobs dogs have. In the films you see there are avalanche rescue dogs, assistance dogs and working dogs like huskies and there’s also a lovely film about wild wolves. You’ve put the call out for entries for the next festival – what are you hoping for the future? The response from last year was so good – and now the word is out there we’re getting more and more entries. We do get lots of requests for people to bring their dogs along – so that’s the dream! WHEN AT COST INFO

WED 11 JUL | 7-9PM BCC CINEMAS, DARWIN $28 | $18.50 CHILD topdogfilmfestival.com

These include music programs in Galiwin’ku, Kalkarindji and the Katherine region. The film premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2017 and received international praise.

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“The success of the film has been phenomenal,” Grose says. “It is a film that affects people deeply – you can both laugh and cry in it. “I think the key to the film is it’s a genuine story of his life and musical journey and there are no clichés about Indigenous musicians or life – it’s just an honest look at the journey he went on.” Grose says Gurrumul broke down the barrier between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians in a way that had never been done before. “What shocked people when they first discovered him was there was this phenomenal beauty in Indigenous culture that no one had really seen before,” he says. “I think his legacy is exactly that – he’s shown the world that there is a real depth of beauty of traditional Indigenous culture. It’s not all doom and gloom and ugliness, there’s a deep artistic cultural and intellectual depth to Indigenous culture which we generally don’t see, particularly in Northern Australia where we get so many negative images. “We don’t appreciate how important that traditional cultural content is to all of us. “He opened the door to a world that is beautiful and Aboriginal people are saying, this is part of everyone’s Australia and we want you to share and be part of it.”

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SUN 15 JUL | 7.30PM DECKCHAIR CINEMA $16 | $12 CONC | $8 CHILD | $35 FAM deckchaircinema.com

Write a Book in a Day ASPIRING AUTHORS NEED NOT SPEND YEARS TOILING AWAY ON A NOVEL – at this year’s Fringe Festival, writers will be joining forces to write a book in 12 hours.

The Write A Book In A Day (WABIAD) workshop will see a team of 10 people locked down for the day to produce a young adult novel under the direction of writer and teacher Lyndal Carbery. Carbery has completed eight WABIAD challenges with Katherine School of the Air and Katherine Region of Writers and is passionate about collaborative writing. “Writing can be very isolating, this experience is the opposite,” she says. “I grew up with dance and drama and enjoyed improvisation the most. To me, this is the improvisation of writing. You get parameters and then you come

together and the ideas flow and inspire everyone.” The team will receive a unique set of guidelines on the morning of the challenge around characters, setting and an issue, and will be assigned five random words that must appear in the text. The 800010,000-word story, aimed at an audience aged between six and 10, includes an illustrated front and back cover, with further illustrations throughout. Carbery says it’s a great way to hone your writing skills and learn from other writers. “Every idea is accepted and entwined into the narrative. Sometimes things don’t work and need changing or remoulding, however no-one minds because there is such acceptance between each writer and the end goal of a cohesive, entertaining story is understood.”

Although the timeframe is a challenge, Carbery says overall it’s an excellent experience, which is why she keeps coming back for more. “You get to collaborate with a bunch of like-minded people in a different context,” she says. “It’s exhausting but great fun!” And best of all, completed books are donated to children in hospitals all across Australia. “It’s one day of your life, you get to write something for kids who need a little imagination and escape for a while.”

WHEN SAT 7 JUL | 8AM-8PM AT NT WRITERS’ CENTRE, DARWIN COST $20 | $10 NTWC MEMB INFO darwinfringe.org.au

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Zine Fair THE TOP END ZINE SCENE IS SET FOR A REVIVAL at this year’s Darwin Fringe Festival – and anyone with ideas for a DIY mag is encouraged to join in.

Fringe Festival associate producer and zine fiend Tamara Howie says a Zine Fair will celebrate the culture of zines and give people a chance to get creative and share their work. “Darwin has been missing a zine scene for a while,” she says. “There are people out there doing it on their own, but it’s nice to have a community and we hope the Zine Fair will promote that.” Howie says zines cover everything from art to short stories and everything in between. “They are really diverse – they can be visual or words or a combination of the two. They don’t need to have

REVIEWS FOR READERS

Welcome to my column where each month I’ll take a book from the shelf to share. After a run of NT focused reviews, this month I turn further afield to a debut work of non-fiction by American/Australian writer Sarah

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French Film Night Enjoy the French movie, La loi de la jungle, along with French cheese and wine at this monthly Alliance Française de Darwin event. WHEN AT COST INFO

a narrative – they are unlimited except by your imagination. “They’re accessible, budget-friendly and easy to do – you just need an idea.” Those ideas can be brought along to the one-night-only workshop at the Northern Territory Library, where creators will be given the resources to cut, paste, write, draw and photocopy their zines for the fair. Howie hopes other Fringe Festival workshops, including Write a Book in a Day and Tactile Short Stories, will also encourage more people to give zines a go. The Zine Fair will bring it all together, showcasing what’s on offer in the Top End and giving creators and readers the opportunity to buy, trade and swap zines. Howie has been hard at work on her

Krasnostein. Winning a number of recent awards, Krasnostein’s The Trauma Cleaner is making waves across the literary scene.

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documentary, corporate, web/new media and feature film.

Listed variously under Biography/ Crime and Thriller/Health, The Trauma Cleaner defies simple categorisation. It is a biography. Yet its protagonist is not famous, nor does she occupy a profession that is usually afforded biographical treatment. Rather, Sandra Pankhurst is a forensic cleaner whose everyday work takes her into isolated or abandoned spaces marked by death, decay and despair. In writing of Sandra’s cleaning work and the people she meets along the way, Krasnostein uncovers a world that is usually out of sight – veiled by taboo and grief. Through stories of suicide, murder and hoarding, The Trauma Cleaner explores the extreme limits of who we are.

own zine, which will pull together interesting quotes she has been collecting for years. “We hope people will be inspired to keep making them and that this event will revive something in Darwin,” she says. A copy of each of the zines created will be donated to the Northern Territory Library’s collection, ensuring the work will go down in NT history. Zine Workshop WHEN WED 11 JUL | 5-7.30PM AT NORTHERN TERRITORY LIBRARY COST FREE INFO darwinfringe.org.au

WED 4 JUL | 6.30PM MUSEUM & ART GALLERY OF THE NT $20 | $14 MEMB, STUDENT afdarwin.org

Moana An adventurous teenager sails out on a daring mission to save her people in this computer animated, musical adventure. WHEN AT COST INFO

SAT 7 JUL | 7-9PM DARWIN WATERFRONT FREE waterfront.nt.gov.au

Black Panther King T’Challa rises to the throne in the isolated, technologically advanced African nation of Wakanda – but his claim is challenged by a vengeful outsider. A fundraiser for the Environmental Defenders Office NT. WHEN AT COST INFO

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SUN 15 JUL | 11AM-1PM INTERSTITIAL SPACE, CIVIC PARK FREE darwinfringe.org.au

Writing without judgement and with compassion, Krasnostein also reveals that such states are not so extreme after all – this could be any one of us. Indeed Sandra herself is a figure marked by trauma and her complex past looms large in the book. Before she was a trauma cleaner, she was a husband and father, sex reassignment patient and sex worker, and in writing Sandra’s own story, Krasnostein has to grapple with complexities of memory and the damage left in the wake of abuse. I was incredibly moved and surprised by this remarkable book – it is fast paced, propelled by impressive writing and layered story. At its conclusion however, I was also left feeling a little uneasy. The ‘magnificent’ Sandra is indeed

Yellow Submarine Celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ film Yellow Submarine with a free screening. It will be first in best dressed for the flick, which first hit the big screen at the London Pavilion in 1968. WHEN AT COST INFO

TUE 17 JUL | 7.30PM | GATES 6PM DECKCHAIR CINEMA FREE deckchaircinema.com

NT Travelling Film Festival Celebrating the outstanding short film, television and video production from the NT, this travelling film fest captures the stories, culture and landscape of our iconic region and the people who call it home. WHEN SAT 21 JUL | 7-9.30PM AT GOYDER SQUARE, PALMERSTON COST FREE INFO palmerston.nt.gov.au

Wild Words Here’s your chance to try out a new poem, rant or rave in front of a friendly live audience. WHEN AT COST INFO

SUN 29 JUL | 3-5PM RAILWAY CLUB $5 | FREE FOR PERFORMERS, CHILD, NTWC MEMB ntwriters.com.au

FlicNics Pack a picnic, chair, beanbag or rug and enjoy free movies under the stars every Saturday night.

Capricornia Film Awards – Entries Open Recognising excellence in the NT screen industry, categories include short film, music video,

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extraordinary and she really cares about the marginalised people she works with. But she is also an unwieldy character and unreliable witness. Krasnostein writes that her book is a ‘love letter’ to Sandra and this positioning at times teeters on the edge of sentimentalism. Despite Krasnostein’s best efforts and my true admiration of Sandra’s resilience, I was less enamoured than deeply saddened by Sandra.

Ultimately though, The Trauma Cleaner is a fascinating work of nonfiction that left me thinking deeply about the complex, often tragic, lives that many people endure – often out of sight and mind.

Similarly, the fascination with people’s state of crises felt at times voyeuristic – particularly in the case of hoarders, whose homes are intricately and intimately exposed in the book. While reading the truly putrid descriptions of these scenes, I was left with many questions about the psychological context of hoarding and the services and supports available. Somehow simply exposing these spaces didn’t quite seem enough.

Kate Rendell works as a Communications Manager in the arts. She is also a freelance writer and researcher. First and foremost though she is a reader.

PERFORMING ARTS by Kylie Stevenson

Almost Face to Face AUDIENCES WILL BE TRANSPORTED FROM A DARKENED DARWIN theatre to Dublin’s underbelly in an intimate one-man monologue that explores the fringes of society.

Award-winning playwright and actor Stephen House is bringing his powerful performance Almost Face to Face to this year’s Darwin Fringe Festival. Described as risky, honest, brutal and human, the monologue follows a writer’s creative process and his journey into the underworld of Dublin, where he encounters the homeless, drug dealers, sex workers and other people on the outer.

“It’s fiction but is quite affected by things I’ve done in my own life,” says House, who was inspired to write the piece during an Australia Council Irish Literature Residency.

theatrical form and I’ve learnt something new through each performance. It’s become slicker, tighter, more emotional and more immediate.”

“I’m attracted to the world we don’t often hear about or write about, as an artist and as a human being.”

Monologue is House’s favourite form of theatre, as it allows him to draw together all the elements of theatre he loves – poetry, spoken word, acting and storytelling.

House was nominated for a Green Room Best Actor award for Almost Face to Face in 2014 and has been performing the show around the country and internationally for more than three years. “The performance has grown over time,” he says.

Almost Face to Face is part of a trilogy of unconnected monologues. It follows the award-winning Appalling Behaviour set in the streets of Paris. The third piece in the series takes place in New Delhi and is still being drafted.

“Monologue is such an intense

Of the more than 20 plays he’s

written, House says Almost Face to Face is the work he’s proudest of. “Even though it goes to risky and dark places, it still has hope and humour,” he says. “I find glimmers of light that exist in the shadows.” Audiences attending the Darwin show will also receive a place in House’s workshop, which explores writing and performing your own work. WHEN TUE 10 – SAT 14 JUL | 7.15PM | WORKSHOP SAT 14 JUL, 11.30AM-1PM AT BROWN’S MART ATTIC COST $25 | $15 CONC INFO darwinfringe.org.au

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TRACKS DANCE PRESENTS

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FROM A YOUNG EMERGING HIP-HOP ARTIST to a seniors dance troupe, Tracks Dance Company is staging a diverse show at the Darwin Fringe Festival.

Now in its third year, Fresh Tracks showcases the talent of local emerging choreographers, and resident dance animateur Kelly Beneforti says this year’s performance will bring four very different acts to the stage. Beneforti led a seven-week intensive course in which Darwin dancers Will Nery, Felicity Wardle and Sheila Rose developed new works for the show. Recent Casuarina Senior College graduate, Nery, will use dance to represent young men in Darwin through hip-hop and break dance; experienced circus and physical theatre artist, Wardle, brings her recent Indonesian dance studies in masks and puppetry to the stage; and local Indigenous woman, Rose, will perform powerful stories to a Black Arm Band medley. Each will choreograph a 10-15-minute act performed by local dancers and the show will be rounded out by seniors dance troupe the Grey Panthers.

“The local and independent dance community in Darwin is small but is dealing with a diverse and interesting range of issues and

these pieces reflect that,” Beneforti says. “We are treading new ground and committed to making contemporary, thought-provoking work of now.” She encourages everyone to come along, especially if they haven’t experienced a dance performance before. “Dance is more powerful than any other platform because audiences can have their own interpretation of what the piece is about or what the choreographer is trying to say,” she says.

Frankghanistan ego Noel – a mulleted, high-viswearing fan of Cold Chisel, sausages and his hometown.

“A lot of people worry that they’re not going to ‘get’ dance, but you don’t have to in order to watch and enjoy dance.

A SHOW DESCRIBED AS “STORYTELLING THROUGH PERFORMANCE ART, SPOKEN WORD, DOCUMENTARY, CABARET AND NEO-BURLESQUE VIGNETTES” is a little difficult to imagine, but that’s what Nel Da Silva is bringing to this year’s Fringe.

“Once people realise this and let go and give themselves permission to draw from it what they like, it is an amazing space for an audience.

Frankghanistan is a tribute to her experience growing up in Frankston, a low socio-economic suburb about an hour out of Melbourne.

“Being such a physical art form and really visceral, it draws an empathetic response from the audience.”

While that might seem worlds away from the Top End, Da Silva says the show will hit closer to home than you might think.

The popular Tracks show has just two performances at the intimate Brown’s Mart Theatre.

“There’s a Frankston for everyone,” she says.

However, it wasn’t until she premiered Frankghanistan at the Melbourne Fringe Festival in 2017 that she realised it was funny, which saw her take it to the Melbourne Comedy Festival earlier this year. She’s also performed it in NSW, and each time she’s had audience members from all over the country – and the world – approaching her, saying they recognise bits of Frankston in their own suburbs.

Da Silva appears as both herself – a product of Pakistani-born, Chinese, Anglo-Indian, Portuguese parents growing up in a mostly white and fairly racist place, and as her alter-

Although part-comedy, Frankghanistan doesn’t shy away from heavy topics, with misogyny, racism, sexual identity and violence against women all tackled head on.

WHEN SUN 8 JUL | 12.30PM & 2.15PM AT BROWN’S MART THEATRE COST $15 | $10 CONC INFO darwinfringe.org.au

She hits the streets of Frankston as Noel and interviews the locals – and the results have had audiences laughing, crying and laughing again.

Da Silva, who in the show’s promotional material poses naked draped in a sausage noose, admits there is “uncomfortability” in the show. “I stand naked in front of the audience, literally,” she says. But ultimately, it’s a self-love story in which Da Silva takes a critical and humorous look at the bogan in her – Noel. “It took me 40 years to even admit I was from Frankston,” she says. “If people asked where I was from, I’d just say the Mornington Peninsula or Bayside area. But really, it’s a gift that I’ve been raised in that environment.” WHEN AT COST INFO

WED 11 – SAT 14 JUL | 8PM LOLA’S PERGOLA, CULLEN BAY $30 | $25 CONC darwinfringe.org.au

TRAIN LINES “You think ‘oh, that person was so nice, I hope they get to that suburb to visit their aunt’,” he says. “But what if we’d had more of a chance to connect? Small conversations can mean so much.”

OU MIGHT THINK A PERSON WHO ONCE SPENT 18 HOURS ON TRAINS to get to an acting class would be sick of them, but writer and actor Tremayne Gordon has turned his experiences on public transport into a play set to hit the stage for the Darwin Fringe Festival.

Train Lines tells the story of Ash and Rose, two strangers who meet at a train station. Unbeknownst to them, the pair is connected by a mutual

friend and have a lot in common. Gordon says the idea for the play came to him when he spent a lot of time travelling from the Sunshine Coast to Brisbane to attend acting classes – and on the epic 18-hour journey from Sydney to Brisbane. He would often cross paths with people briefly, waiting for a train or helping someone find the right platform, and was left with a lingering feeling of what would have happened if they’d had more time to connect.

At just 22-years-old, Gordon has several plays, a short film and a music video under his belt. He wrote, produced and acts in Train Lines, but says being on stage is his first love. “I love the liveness of theatre,” he says. “It’s so organic. The adrenalin of being in the same room as the audience is something you just can’t get from film. It’s so immersive. “A really good story on stage is something you’ll remember forever.”

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First Thursdays Comedy This month’s theme is ‘Trivial Pursuit: your place or mine’.

Train Lines was first staged in Sydney in 2016 as part of the Short+Sweet Film Festival and Gordon hopes to tour the show more widely after bringing it to the Darwin Fringe.

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He says the underlying message in the play is that everyone you meet has a story and it serves as a reminder for people to be kind to one another.

Charles vs Darwin Meet, greet and grill the next Australian Head of State at this bold and irreverent confrontation featuring Charles, Ali Mills, Fred Vant Sand, Kathy Mills, Kevin McCarthy and Nate Jabarrda plus special guests.

“I hope it reminds people of all the times they’ve fallen in love with a stranger on a train and let their imagination run away with them,” he says.

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TUE 10 – SAT 14 JUL | 7.30PM BROWN’S MART THEATRE $15 | $10 CONC darwinfringe.org.au

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SAT 7 JUL | 3-4PM & 7-8PM BROWN’S MART THEATRE $15 darwinfringe.org.au

Big Tops & Tiny Tots Circus Show Roll up, roll up! Run away to the circus in this special show, made especially for 3-6 year olds. WHEN WED 11 – SAT 14 JUL | 10.30-11.30AM AT BROWN’S MART THEATRE COST $15 INFO darwinfringe.org.au

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Corrosion & Whiplash Theatre

CORRUGATED IRON’S CONTRIBUTION TO THIS YEAR’S FRINGE FESTIVAL will be a bit of a juggling act, with the Top End youth arts organisation staging two very different shows.

Corrosion sets circus skills to a dystopian tale, while Whiplash Theatre presents a medley of monologues and skits. Executive producer Jane Tonkin says both performances will put young local talent centre stage to thrill audiences with their diverse skills. “It gives young, local theatre-makers the chance to explore their art forms,” she says. Set at a train station where everyone is on a journey to the end of the world, Corrosion is a visual spectacular of choreographed circus pieces including acrobatics, acrobalance, juggling, diablo, aerial, trapeze and barrel-rolling.

Members of Corrugated Iron’s ensembles, Cyclone Circus and Flying Gypsies, have joined forces with Circus Monoxide, from Wollongong in NSW, to create the show, which Tonkin says was a remarkable feat of its own.

“The Fringe will be the first coming together of both troupes,” she says.

other short works, some scripted by the performers and others performing scripts they love. Tonkin says the audience can digest it “like a package of short films”. “There is an enormous variety and it will keep the audience on their toes,” she says.

“The style of the show has made it possible for individual groups to work on individual sections, but we will have three or four days to all perform together before the Fringe.”

“There is something in there for everyone.”

The collaboration inspired the narrative about how big Australia is and what can happen when strangers meet.

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Whiplash Theatre is a series of individual short performances that was designed to enable young artists to perform and experiment. It includes monologues, skits and

Corrosion THU 12 – SAT 14 JUL | 7.30PM CORRUGATED IRON PERFORMANCE SPACE $20 | $15 CONC | $10 CHILD darwinfringe.org.au

Whiplash Theatre WHEN AT COST INFO

THU 12 – SAT 14 JUL | 6PM BROWN’S MART THEATRE $15 | $8 CONC darwinfringe.org.au

VISUAL ARTS Art U&T

ABO

Matthew Van Roden, ‘Work in progress’, 2018, plaster, wax, wooden panel and digital projection

with artist

Matthew Van Roden

QUEER ARTIST MATTHEW VAN RODEN HAD A STRICT RELIGIOUS UPBRINGING – a factor that still emerges in his multi-disciplinary art practice. Van Roden is in the midst of a visual arts research masters at Charles Darwin University and will be sharing a look at what he’s been working on with his show THE// WORD//BECOMES//FLESH as part of the Darwin Fringe Festival. Tell us about the elements you’re researching in the show. The exhibition brings together all of my material pleasures – wax, text and flesh. I see their Trinitarian interrelation much the same as the holy Godhead of the Bible; three in one, one in three. I feel they all speak in differing ways to notions of embodiment. Why has text played such a big role in your artistic practice? I have always been a child of ‘The Text’, and for me as an artist there is no creative force without a text in mind and in action. So my practice is

very much a discursive one. Although it relies on that which is seen, it must ultimately be read. Also, if by some miracle the force of it is sufficiently imbued, to cause a re-reading of one’s own self; it’s suspicions and possibilities; yourself as a text? Lordy aspirations I know, but a girl can dream. What text inspired this body of work? The specific text I refer to in this exhibition is found in the Gospel of St. John, where it is said that ‘The Word became flesh… and dwelt among us’ (John 1: 1-14ish). I take the peculiarity of this text, this singular triumphant statement, and apply its miracle creatively to other possibilities. What happens when words become flesh? What kinds of flesh can be created? And what, that I can identify as fleshly in myself, came from which texts? What’s the importance of wax in your work? Wax is so important to this triangular approach for its visible flesh like qualities and its loaded history of human simulacrum. In this work, I have created an encaustic (wax) flesh

field. It contains words stenciled in scar-like wax, “THE WORD BECOMES FLESH, THE FLESH BECOMES TEXT”. This visceral, flesh-like, ‘porky’ screen gives way to the stilted, shifting, forming, fleshy and exposed movement of my naked body. Of course, conceptually it is nothing original, informed entirely by those mummies and daddies of queer theory that have nursed me at their collective milky appendages. What will this visually look like? There is a nine-panel grid of encaustic wax with stencilled text inlayed and a projection of a performance piece with audio. It’s very immersive and you either can’t turn your eyes away or want to run out of the building. What do you hope people will get out of your show? I hope if you are queer, you might find a home amongst the folds of this work. I hope if you are gay, you will find a space to smile. I hope that anyone else will find a feast for the eyes and for the ears, and perhaps leave with a suspicion of the possible.

THE//WORD//BECOMES//FLESH WHEN FRI 6 – SUN 15 JUL | OFFICIAL OPENING SAT 7 JUL, 4-6PM AT NAN GIESE GALLERY, CDU INFO darwinfringe.org.au | matthewvanroden.com

SALON INDIGENOUS ART PROJECTS

Hermannsburg Potters IT’S RARE TO SEE ARTISTS AT WORK. I’M TALKING ABOUT MIDBRUSH STROKE, mid-decision. What colour, what form is needed in that dormant space on the canvas? While on a travelling artist residency at Watch This Space in Mparntwe Alice Springs, I had the great privilege to visit the Hermannsburg Potters in their communal studio in Ntaria Hermannsburg, a western Arrernte community. There, I found myself immersed in the creative flow of no less than 10 women artists. I am an artist myself with a studio practice founded in ceramics. I find silence and solitude the best conditions to work in, and I don’t tend to invite visitors into my studio. So I was humbled to be invited into the Hermannsburg Potters studio space. Sensitive, also, to the fact that I don’t speak Western Arrernte .

But I was warmly welcomed by senior artist Hayley Coulthard Panangka, who gave me a tour of the newly renovated building which included a gallery, store-room and kiln room. Each space offered up a comprehensive view of the making process – coil built and burnished pots painted with vibrant scenes of traditional Country, associated

Dreaming and life in Ntaria that the Hermannsburg Potters have come to be celebrated for. At some point Hayley returned to what she had been working on when I arrived – a pot disappearing under a flurry of brush strokes of different shades and tones of green, maybe a garden. I got chatting to Beth Inkamala Mbitjana, an emerging artist. I took pleasure in our mutual love of orange, and we traded photos on our phones of glowing orange sunset skies from out this way. I was also drawn to her pairing of orange with blue and her use of sgraffito on stacked modular forms. I imagined these have been thrown in sections on a potter’s wheel, and later joined by hand off the wheel, in a departure from the style and technique of traditional Hermannsburg vessels. My relationship to tradition and convention in my own practice is somewhat antagonistic. I suppose I am more compelled by the unknown, for clays potential for new forms of expression. In light of this Beth’s exploration of new forms and techniques appeared important and logical, the sign of a vibrant and robust creative dialogue occurring in the Hermannsburg Potters’ studio.

ARTIST

Reflection

9/41 Cavenagh St, Darwin 8981 4822 or 8941 2220

WED–FRI 10AM-5PM | SAT 10AM-2PM

Reflecting on the studio visit now, I think about how layers of personal history and experience seem to converge comfortably on ceramic objects so that they become points of connection, linking disparate cultural spaces across past, present and future time. I felt and feel connected to this studio of artists through our shared language of clay, a language that they speak deftly, and with an expressiveness that delighted and inspired me.

Holly Macdonald is a ceramics artist undertaking a travelling residency with ACCOMPLICE, spending a month at Watch This Space, Katherine Regional Arts and ACCOMPLICE.

Murdie Nampijinpa Morris, ‘Malikijarra Jukurrpa (Two Dogs Dreaming)’, acrylic on canvas, 91 x 76cm; photograph by Fiona Morrison

Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendumu

Hailing from central Australia, artists from Warlukurlangu art centre are known for painting gloriously coloured artworks. Contemporary depictions of country, animals and law help share elements of Walpiri culture. Warlukurlangu means ‘belonging to fire’ in Walpiri, and is named after a fire dreaming site near Yuendumu, in the Tanami Desert. WHEN WED 4 – SAT 28 JUL

ABORIGINAL BUSH TRADERS Lyons Cottage, 74 The Esplanade, Darwin | 8942 4023 | aboriginalbushtraders.com

CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY Building Orange 12, CDU Casuarina Campus | 8946 6621 | cdu.edu.au/artgallery WED–FRI 10AM-4PM | SAT 10AM-2PM

MON–FRI 9AM-4PM | SAT & SUN 9AM-3PM

Get It On

2018

Yidumduma Bill Harney – Bush Professor This retrospective celebrates the life work of Yidumduma Bill Harney, one of the last fully initiated men of the Wardaman people from the Northern Territory. WHEN UNTIL SAT 21 JUL Image courtesy of Injalak Arts, Gunbalanya

This showcase brings together Australian Aboriginal fabric design, designers and sewers to promote Indigenous hand-printed fabric. Encouraging the wearing of handmade clothing and slow fashion, it provides a platform for emerging designers.

Yidumduma Bill Harney, ‘Barragbarrag Kidney Fat Man’, 2002, natural pigments on canvas, 119 x 113cm; courtesy Hugh and Hilary Cairns

GYRACC

WHEN UNTIL SUN 19 AUG

Godinymayin Yijard Rivers Arts and Culture Centre Stuart Highway, Katherine East | 8972 3751 | gyracc.org.au | TUE–FRI 10AM-5PM | SAT 10AM–3PM

TACTILE ARTS

19 Conacher Street, Fannie Bay | 8981 6616 | tactilearts.org.au TUE–FRI 10AM-4PM | SAT & SUN 10AM-4PM

Geraldeen Deutrom, ‘Alice’, 2018, acrylic on canvas

Fecund: Fertile Worlds This exhibition showcases artists from the NT and across Australia whose work addresses the deep relationship between humans and the natural world. Fecund, meaning highly fertile or abundant new growth, presents a collection of contemporary works that inspire conversation and contemplation about our capacity for renewal. Presented by Artback NT.

A Thing of Beauty is a Joy Forever Geraldeen Deutrom’s interest in exploring the art of portraiture began with a study of two of the great masters of portrait painting – Leonardo da Vinci and Johannes Vermeer. Deutrom’s copies of three of their works appear in this exhibition.

WHEN UNTIL SAT 21 JUL

43rd Katherine Prize The annual Katherine Prize encourages Indigenous and non-Indigenous residents of the Northern Territory to develop their art practice and showcase their skill to the region. The non-acquisitive awards include the $5,000 Brian and Jeanette Lambert Award, $2000 Katherine Town Council Award, the Godinymayin Youth Award and the People’s Choice Award. WHEN

THU 26 JUL – SAT 1 SEP | OPENING THU 26 JUL, 6-8PM | ENTRIES CLOSE TUE 10 JUL

Sue Carmody, ‘Waterlillies in Bloom’ (detail), 2017, acrylic on canvas

POP-UP EXHIBITIONS Various locations

WHEN UNTIL SUN 15 JUL

Marnie Jay

DARWIN ART TRAIL

Various locations | darwinarttrail.com.au

Marnie Jay with Neddy

Environmental Defenders Office NT - Online Auction Now in its fourth year, the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) NT art auction showcases works from seven remote Aboriginal art centres. Prominent Territory artists have donated the works and money raised goes to support the EDO NT.

Past the Berrimah line, is a horse called Neddy. Kids excitedly wave and call out to him as they pass by. Some escape the clutches of their parents and rush over to cuddle and feed him hay. Nestled behind him is the art that instigated Neddy, including cards, magnets, prints and original acrylic paintings.

WHEN UNTIL THU 12 JUL, 9PM BID art4edont.com

WHEN EVERY SAT & SUN | 10AM-2PM AT COOLALINGA CENTRAL INFO marniejay.com

Mickey Jampijinpa Singleton, ‘Ngapa Jukurrpa (Water dreaming) – Puyurru’, acrylic on Belgium linen, 107 x 107cm

Showcasing local artists in their private studios, the Darwin Art Trail provides an opportunity to talk with, and purchase artworks directly from, the artists. See where the magic happens! Necklace by Debra Senjuschenko

WHEN SUN 15 JUL | 10AM-4PM

DVAA

NCCA

Darwin Visual Arts Association Woods Street, Darwin | 8981 9351 | dvaa.net.au

Northern Centre for Contemporary Art Vimy Lane, Parap | 8981 5368 | 0402 379 630 | nccart.com.au

TUE–FRI 12-5PM | SAT 10AM-3PM

WED-FRI 10AM-4PM, SAT 9AM-2PM, OR BY APPOINTMENT

Kristian Laemmle-Ruff, ‘Pine Gap (a photograph of the centre of Australia)’, 1 of 5, 2014, Duratran print in Blackwood light-box, 128 x 37 x 18.5cm; image courtesy the artist

Mind The Gap

Mind the Gap by Kristian Laemmle-Ruff is a somewhat dark and politically charged meditation on the gap between Australian cultures. It is not asking us to close the gap, to homogenise or assimilate; rather it asks us to acknowledge the gap, nurture the gap, celebrate the diversity rather than deny its existence. It encourages us to question and hold ourselves accountable for our actions as global citizens. WHEN FRI 6 JUL – SAT 7 AUG | OPENING FRI 6 JUL, 6PM | ARTIST TALK SAT 7 JUL, 11AM

OUTSTATION

2/3 Parap Place, Darwin | 8981 4822 | outstation.com.au TUE & SAT 10AM-2PM | WED–FRI 10AM-5PM

Art Educators NT An exciting collection of artworks from Darwin’s very own Art Educators NT. Help the NT’s talented art educators celebrate their 40 year anniversary.

Inyani Mantakutu

Light Becomes Sand Kalipinypa is a sacred site north-east of the remote Aboriginal community of Kintore on the NT/WA border. Many of the artists from Papunya Tjupi paint the important story of the rain and hail making ceremony at the site of Kalipinypa in wonderfully varied ways. The title of this exhibition is a reference to the way that the artist, Charlotte Phillipus Napurrula, interprets this story – lightening flashes, showing her the way through her country, and then turns into sand.

WHEN THU 26 JUL – SAT 11 AUG | OPENING THU 26 JUL, 6PM

WHEN SAT 7 – SAT 28 JUL

NAIDOC Celebration – Larrakia Artists

Charlotte Phillipus Napurrula, ‘Kalipinypa’ (detail), 2018, 122 x 46cm

A selection of talented Larrakia Nation artists exhibit work in celebration of NAIDOC week. WHEN FRI 6 – SAT 21 JUL | OPENING FRI 6 JUL, 6PM

MAGNT

Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory 19 Conacher Street, The Gardens | 8999 8264 | magnt.net.au |

Eddie Kitching, ‘The Message Sticks’, acrylic on canvas, 76 x 38cm

MON–FRI 9AM-5PM | SAT & SUN 10AM-5PM

Out of the Dark Comprising over 400,000 natural science specimens from terrestrial and marine ecosystems and 21,000 history and culture objects and artworks, MAGNT’s collections are nationally and internationally significant.

PAUL JOHNSTONE GALLERY

Harriet Place, Darwin | 8941 2220 | pauljohnstonegallery.com.au | TUE–FRI 10AM-5PM | SAT 10AM-2PM

By dissolving barriers between disciplines and promoting the interplay of unusual juxtapositions across collections, this exhibition aims to inspire curiosity in the world and lead to deeper and more integrated understandings of past and present. Unknown maker, Headdress 20th century, Abelam cultural area, East Sepik Province Cassowary feathers

Unruly Days

Territory life 1911 – 1921 The Northern Territory has always been an impossible land to master. From its monsoonal Top End to its arid centre, it promises bountiful resources, but almost every attempt to exploit them has failed. It is too immense, too remote, its resources too inaccessible.

WHEN UNTIL 17 MAY ‘20

Edward Reichenbach, ‘Buffalo hunting party’ (detail); MAGNT 2017.026.001

WHEN UNTIL SUN 17 FEB ‘19

Defying Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial

Adam Gibbs TjapaltjarrI, Untitled, acrylic on linen, 91 x 46cm

Papunya Tula Artists – Visual Rhythm II

A survey of Australian Contemporary art by 30 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists through a diversity of works that respond to the Triennial theme; the 50th Anniversary of the 1967 Referendum. A National Gallery of Australia exhibition.

Papunya Tula Artists have become synonymous with producing distinctive renditions of ancestral stories. Repeating motifs reflect traditional forms and narratives while the spaces or intervals between the motifs encourage our eye to drift from one element to the next. Patterns of brush stroke, color and shape are similar to the patterns of sound over timed intervals. This powerful and distinct form of visual rhythm has captured the attention of institutions and collectors the world over.

WHEN UNTIL SUN 15 JUL

WHEN FRI 6 – SAT 28 JUL | OPENING FRI 6 JUL, 5PM

MUSIC

PUB CHOIR

Jack Carty and Gus Gardiner

Jack g Gus at Terry’s Place

In December last year, Darwin music lover Terry Cleary somehow managed to talk London based singer Emily Barker into playing at his Rapid Creek backyard. A long-term fan of her music, thanks to the TV series, Wallander, Cleary encouraged Barker to visit Darwin on her way home to Bridgetown, WA.

immediately named another Australian living in England, Jack Carty.”

“We had a fantastic Wet season Thursday night with about 60 people gathering to hear Emily,” says Cleary.

Carty responded almost immediately, asking if the Darwin backyard gig was a serious offer.

So when Carty recently announced his Australian tour dates, Cleary was disappointed that Darwin wasn’t included. He immediately posted a question to Barker – “Didn’t you tell him about my awesome Darwin backyard?” – to which she replied instantly – “Don’t you worry a jot, I’ll tell him”.

“My daughter Elli Belle and local singer Serina Pech opened for her, and following the show we headed to Kakadu for two days before putting Emily back on the plane to Perth.”

And so it’s happening! Carty and his musical partner Gus Gardiner (Papa vs Pretty) are playing at Terry’s Place this month – and the two day trip to Kakadu, at Barker’s recommendation, has also been added to the tour.

“When we were on the road with Emily, we asked about some of the other singers she was singing with, or worth listening to. She

Neither of the musicians has been to Darwin before, and say the decision to add the Top End to the tour was an easy one.

Sing the

Camino

“I’ve been trying to get up to Darwin to play for ages, but it’s never worked out in the past – I’m excited to finally be making the trip” says Carty. “We were both really appreciative that someone would be up for having us at their place and to be supporting independent live music in such a big way,” says Gardiner. So, if you too love supporting independent live music – get to Terry’s Place this July. Feed not only your love of music with an entrée once more from Elli Belle, but also satisfy your tum with a delicious Nepalese feed, available as well. Tickets are available online, with address revealed with ticket purchase. Pack a rug and your esky.

WHEN SUN 8 JUL | 6PM AT TERRY’S PLACE, RAPID CREEK | ADDRESS PROVIDED WITH BOOKING COST $30 INFO jackcarty.com | clearyt@ bigpond.net.au

IF SINGING UP A STORM IS YOUR IDEA OF A GREAT SUNDAY MORNING, set aside July 22 for a sumptuous singing session with choir director extraordinaire Jessie Vintila. Journey in song through the rolling green hills of north western Spain, get a bit tiddly with some rollicking Galician drinking songs and raise your voice in classic gospel, folk and bluegrass. It’s a great opportunity to sample the musical aspect of Sing the Camino, the singing-walking adventure which Vintila leads every year – a filledto-the-brim bucket list experience on the ancient pilgrimage trails in Northern Spain and Portugal. Sing the Camino is the brainchild of Vintila and her partner Emma Royle, whose shared love of travel, hiking, food, wine and song inspired the unique idea when they were touring Europe with their band, The Lucky Wonders, back in 2013. No Spanish language or singing experience is needed, all are welcome. WHEN AT COST INFO

SUN 22 JUL | 10AM-1PM CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY THEATRE $35 | $30 ONLINE singthecamino.com

IT’S THE SINGING PHENOMENON THAT’S TAKEN BRISBANE BY STORM and Darwin won’t be missing out, when Pub Choir arrives for a most spectacular seaside sing-along at the Ski Club this July. Beer loving choirmaster Astrid Jorgenson spoke to Off The Leash about how this unique singing event came to be. What is Pub Choir – and how did it all begin? Pub Choir is basically what it says on the box – choir in the pub! There’s no sheet music, no auditions, no pressure... no worries! Singing feels good, and does amazing things for our mental health, so the aim is to get more people to experience the joy of singing in a group. When did you realise you were on to something pretty special? It was special even from the first night when 70 people rocked up to a tiny bar, The Bearded Lady, in West End, Brisbane. The electric feeling that sparks across the crowd when the song actually comes together in three-part harmony after 90 minutes is amazing. Do you have a standout gig? It was unforgettably awesome to sing the Powderfinger song, ‘My Happiness’, with John Collins from Powderfinger actually onstage accompanying the crowd on guitar. But I think weirdly my favourite gig was just recently in Brisbane, where 650 people sang ‘Tubthumping (I Get Knocked Down)’ by Chumbawamba. On face value it would’ve been a really standard night, but the crowd was joyful beyond compare, and the night had the most positive feel of any Pub Choir night yet. Brisbane is home to Pub Choir, so we’re thrilled you’re bringing it to Darwin. Are you planning to take it around Australia? Around the world?! We do have a few fun places booked around Australia, including Adelaide and Hobart. I’d love to make it to the west coast sometime

soon as well... I’ve never been very far out west, but I hear it’s beautiful. I don’t know if I have any worldwide domination plans... I reckon I could be an old woman before I’ve explored even half of the places in Australia! How do you choose the songs that you teach at Pub Choir – and can you reveal the song that you’ve chosen to perform in Darwin? I agonise over song choices – I want them to be achievable, easy, and well known, with some uplifting element in the lyrics so that it feels good to yell it with hundreds of others. I only reveal Pub Choir songs one or two days before the event. Something I’ve learned over the life of Pub Choir is that if I focus too much on the song, or announce it too early, people will often start to focus on the song as the most important part of the evening – but it most definitely is not! Pub Choir is all about the joyful experience of making art with strangers over the course of 90 minutes, and the song is kind of secondary to that. There is no song in the world that everybody will like, so I’d rather people come for the new experience. But... I am looking at a really great Aussie tune for the Darwin show. Anything else we need to know to prepare ourselves for our first Pub Choir experience? Just come with a willingness to try new things and to listen to the instructions. The nights that always work best are those where the crowd is happy to learn something new, rather than just sing the song exactly the way they always have. Pub Choir WHEN AT COST INFO

FRI 20 JUL | 7-9PM DARWIN SKI CLUB $15 creativeaccomplice.com.au

Workshop – Unlocking the potential of your voice With Astrid Jorgensen. WHEN AT COST INFO

SAT 21 JUL | 9AM-4PM ACCOMPLICE $165 creativeaccomplice.com.au

Sam Carmody

arwin based songwriter Sam Carmody is a double-threat wordsmith. The NT Song of the Year finalist is also a highly acclaimed

novelist – but it’s his musical stylings that will be celebrated this month when he joins the line-up for Live on Fridays. Carmody spoke to Off The Leash about how he stokes both literary fires.

Can you tell us a bit about the style of music you play? To be dramatic about it, which I’m prone to, music for me occupies a kind of emotional flood plain. I tend to write about everything that I’m overwhelmed by, the things I fret about, the things that can’t easily be intellectualised or contained by neat sentences, or even really by words themselves. I don’t tend to write music when I’m clear-headed and have something coherent to say, I go to my guitar when I’m literally lost for words. So I guess it’s a pretty emotive style of folk music. Yearning. Looking for answers. Trying to make sense of things. Who are the musicians you grew up listening to? Have they had an influence on your musical journey? In our house there was a lot of folk music – Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell. All were certainly huge influences on me. Then Mum and Dad went through that classical phase in the 90s that a lot of boomers did, listening to Pavarotti. I became obsessed with these big, operatic arias that were all about love as matters of life and death. ‘Nessun Dorma’ was my favourite

tune – which probably explains a lot about why my songs are as emotional as they are. When you’re not writing songs, you’re writing critically acclaimed novels. The Windy Season won the 2017 Readings Prize for new literature, judged by Australian author Christos Tsiolkas. What’s it been like to have such a wonderful reception to your work? I was elated by the response from Tsiolkas because he is a hero of mine. But I’ve also tried my best not to get too attached to praise or criticism, as hard as that is – both can be fatal. The worst thing is for a writer to write towards praise, or to write in an attempt to avoid criticism. I think an artist’s obligations are primarily to truth – being true to themselves and to how they experience the world, without fear about how that will be received by others. Do you have a first love when it comes to writing? Song writing or writing fiction? And how do you make sure you tend to both of these creative outlets? When I was younger, I always wanted to be a painter. I think

music does something very similar. Its language is more emotional than intellectual. It detects light and shadow and colour. I think I’m more emotional than logical by nature, which makes music come more easily. When something tragic happens, our instinct isn’t to rush to analyse how the situation arose, but first to emotionally respond to it. To cry or rage – which is music, I think. And when we are truly at our limits, emotionally speaking, it can be impossible to digest words on a page. Sometimes the only thing we can understand in that kind of moment is a song. As for tending to both writing and song writing, that happens at very different times of the day. I write first thing in the morning when my mind is clear and empty. And I’ll pick up the guitar towards the end of the day, when the brain and heart is heavy and overfilled and when the banks have burst again.

WHEN AT COST INFO

FRI 20 JUL | 5-7PM BROWN’S MART COURTYARD FREE samcarmody.com.au

Darwin Chorale presents

Fiesta Latina

The

Faste Fiv

SHAUN KIRK FEATURING ICONIC LATINO SONGS, ELECTRIFYING FLAMENCO GUITAR AND AN EXPLOSION OF SEQUINS AND FEATHERS, Darwin Chorale presents the spectacular Fiesta Latina. Curated by former Chorale music director Nora Lewis, the program will feature ‘Blame it on the Bossa Nova’, ‘El Cumbanchero’, ‘El Condor Pasa’, ‘Bailamos’, ‘How High the Moon’, ‘Guantanamera’ and ‘It Had Better Be Tonight’. These well-loved tunes have been arranged especially for choir and will be sung by the full 50-voice Chorale, who will also perform

beautiful sacred pieces in the jazz/ Latin style. “I am not the Chorale’s Music Director any more, but it was agreed that I could conduct a concert from time to time, with repertoire of my choice. I have always liked this genre of music and wanted to have some fun with it,” explains Lewis. The choir will be accompanied by an instrumental combo consisting of a standard rhythm section – piano, guitar, bass and drums – as well as two trumpets, tenor sax and trombone, plus an array of Latin percussion to – in Lewis’ words – “zizz everything up”.

Shalom Kaa will perform the popular ‘Despacito’, with the Chorale and the audience joining in. The Chorale’s guitarist Francis Diatschenko is also a soloist in his own right and will be playing a couple of solos showcasing his affinity with flamenco/gypsy music. Also helping with the ‘zizz’ will be guest dancers from Samba Darwin, livening up several of the songs with salsa, cha cha, samba and tango – wearing typical carnival costume… feathers, sequins – and not much else! WHEN FRI 20 JUL | 7.30PM AT SANDERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL COST $35 | $30 CONC | $15 CHILD INFO darwinchorale.org.au

WHILE SILVERCHAIR MIGHT HAVE BEEN HIS FIRST LOVE – IT’S BLUES THAT HAS HIS HEART FOREVER. And this month Shaun Kirk will rock the stage at Darwin’s first ever Blues and Roots Festival this month. He answered The Fast Five for Off The Leash. What’s the first album you ever bought? Silverchair’s Frogstomp on cassette! I can’t remember what the shop was called, but I remember it was at my old local shopping centre, Knox City. If you could see any artist or band – living or dead – this weekend, who would it be? Howlin’ Wolf! He was an absolute giant both musically and physically and, going from videos I’ve seen and stories I’ve read, had such a commanding stage presence. It would have been amazing to stand in the same room as him.

Whose posters did you have stuck to the wall as a teenager? Once again, it was Silverchair. Unfortunately I don’t have the posters anymore – totally should have kept them! What song would you like played at your funeral? Not something I’ve really thought about, but the first song that comes to mind right now is Tom Waits’ ‘Hold On’. Finish this sentence. The thing people would be surprised to know about me… is that I’m so scared of mushrooms that I often tell waiters and waitresses at restaurants that I’m allergic to them so that they don’t end up on my plate! Darwin Blues and Roots Festival WHEN SAT 21 JUL | 2PM AT PINT CLUB, MARRARA COST $68.50 | $47.50 CONC INFO stickytickets.com.au | shaunkirk.com

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Dylan Podsiadly, At The Dakota

Tropical Jam PINT Sporting and Social Club proudly presents Tropical Jam – the sweet filling between the festivals, and one of Darwin’s newest events. Celebrating local music, a great local venue and the best of what the Dry season has to offer, the night features At The Dakota, Ben Evolent, Clockwork Riot, Casey Jane plus an after party DJ set with James Mangohig. There’s time for sleep in the Wet season. WHEN AT COST INFO

SAT 28 JUL | 6-11.30PM PINT CLUB, MARRARA $20 DOOR | $15 ONLINE facebook.com/onetropicalday

WHEN THU 19 JUL | 6.30PM AT FINCH CAFE, KATHERINE COST $25 INFO facebook.com/thefinch cafekatherine

Live at the Lagoon

Darwin Chorale – Fiesta Latina

Live in the Square

WHEN FRI 20 JUL | 7.30PM AT SANDERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL COST $35 | $30 CONC | $15 CHILD INFO darwinchorale.org.au

Mandorah Ukulele and Folk Festival Featuring Ali Mills, AJ Leonard, Dave Garnham, Ben Evolent, Serina Pech, Stevie Jean and Jigsaw Collective. WHEN AT COST INFO

SAT 30 JUN – SUN 1 JUL COX COUNTRY CLUB, WAGAIT BEACH FREE coxcountryclub.com.au

Vika and Linda WHEN SAT 7 JUL | 7.30PM AT DARWIN ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE COST $55 | $49 MEMB INFO yourcentre.com.au

Jack Carty and Gus Gardiner With Elli Belle. WHEN SUN 8 JUL | 6PM AT TERRY’S PLACE, NIGHTCLIFF | ADDRESS PROVIDED WITH BOOKING COST $30 INFO jackcarty.com | clearyt@bigpond.net.au

Sounds @ Sunset WHEN AT COST INFO

FRI 13 JUL | 5-7.30PM NIGHTCLIFF FORESHORE FREE launchdarwin.com.au

One Tropical Day Featuring John Farnham, Daryl Braithwaite, The Black Sorrows and Taxiride. WHEN SAT 14 JUL | 2PM-12AM AT DARWIN BOTANIC GARDENS AMPHITHEATRE COST $98 INFO facebook.com/ onetropicalday

Sanctuary Sessions WHEN SAT 14 JUL | 4-7PM AT SACTUARY LAKES, GUNN COST FREE INFO facebook.com/ palmerstonnt

Neil Murray Maverick song man, Neil Murray, returns to Katherine, armed with a set list of landmark songs.

Darwin Blues and Roots Festival Featuring rocking and blistering blues-boogie from the legendary Kevin Borich Express, as well Shaun Kirk, Dan Dinnen, The Governors, Bernie Bremond’s Lost & Found Band and The Hole Tones. WHEN AT COST INFO

SAT 21 JUL | 2PM PINT CLUB, MARRARA $68.50 | $47.50 CONC stickytickets.com.au

Mall Tunes Enjoy free live music in the Smith Street Mall every Thursday lunchtime throughout the Dry season. WHEN AT COST 5 JUL 12 JUL 19 JUL 26 JUL

EVERY THU | 12-1PM RAINTREE PARK FREE MR ALFORD COUNTRY SCOTT MURPHY KEVIN MCCARTHY NO PERFORMANCE

Loud at the Library Enjoy free live music at your local library every Friday lunchtime. WHEN EVERY FRI | 12-1PM COST FREE INFO darwin.nt.gov.au/libraries CASUARINA LIBRARY 6 JUL MIKE FOLEY 13 JUL PHILIP SPENCER 20 JUL ANNA BOUSTEAD 27 JUL LIBRARY CLOSED CITY LIBRARY 6 JUL TRACEY BUNN 13 JUL MR ALFORD COUNTRY 20 JUL CHARLES POWLING 27 JUL LIBRARY CLOSED

NT News Live on Fridays WHEN AT COST INFO

EVERY FRI | 5-7PM | BAR 4.30PM BROWN’S MART COURTYARD FREE brownsmart.com.au

6 JUL 13 JUL 20 JUL 27 JUL

JEREMIAH JOHNSON STEVIE JEAN SAM CARMODY LEASH & THE DUSTY BOOTS

WHEN AT COST INFO

EVERY SUN | 12-4PM DARWIN WATERFRONT FREE waterfront.nt.gov.au

Includes Territory Day fireworks display on Sun 1 July. WHEN SUN 1, 15, 29 JUL | 5-7.30PM AT GOYDER SQUARE, PALMERSTON COST FREE INFO palmerston.nt.gov.au 1 JUL 15 JUL 29 JUL

WICKED SMILE, ANGIE SUBLIME & KENNY BHO THE GOVERNERS MELANIE GRAY

RAILWAY CLUB

17 Somerville Gardens, Parap 8981 4171 | darwinrailwayclub.org Garden of Gin – MisS Possum Beats With Phoebe Jacobs and DJ Yesss. WHEN FRI 6 JUL | 5PM COST FREE

soiree of hip-hop, soul, funk, reggae and bass beats from across the world. Sip on silky gin cocktails and munch on wood fired pizza with great tunes out on the deck – the perfect Dry season Sunday sesh! WHEN SUN 29 JUL | 5-9PM COST FREE

DINAH BEACH CRUSING YACHT ASSOCIATION

68 Frances Bay Drive, Darwin 8981 7816 | dbcya.com.au Mr Alford – Bluegrass & Country of the South Fresh faced from Nashville, Mr Alford brings his diverse set of original tunes embracing traditional through to modern bluegrass. WHEN SUN 8 JUL | 5-8PM COST FREE

Swampgrass Jazz with Queen Porter Stomp

WHEN SAT 7 JUL | 8PM COST $35

Raised in the swamps of Sydney’s inner west, and bred in the traditions of New Orleans’ finest music, Queen Porter Stomp feature a wicked mix of ukulele, lush vocals, banjo, horns and drums.

Queens Porter Stomp

WHEN SUN 15 JUL | 5-8PM COST FREE

Butterfingers With support from Black Bird and Northern Versifiers.

WHEN FRI 13 JUL | 7PM COST $15

Alice Sky and Emily Wurramara Celebrating the release of their respective debut albums, two powerhouse Indigenous artists, Wannadilyakwa woman Emily Wurramara and Wergaia woman Alice Skye, have teamed up and for their co-headline ‘River Eylandt’ national tour. WHEN SAT 14 JUL | 7PM COST $25

Sing the Camino WHEN SUN 22 JUL | 10AM-1PM AT CHARLES DARWIN UNIVERSITY THEATRE, CASUARINA COST $35 | $30 PRESALE INFO singthecamino.com

Monday Jam Nights WHEN EVERY MON | FROM 7PM AT DARWIN COMMUNITY ARTS COST FREE INFO eo@darwincommunityarts. org.au

Darwin City Brass Band Rehearsals New members and visitors welcome. WHEN EVERY TUE | INTERMEDIATE 5.30PM | MAIN BAND 7-9.30PM AT 2 ABALA RD, MARRARA COST $10 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP INFO darwincitybrassband.org.au

Acoustic Jam Sessions Bring your guitar or any acoustic instrument and song suggestions.

WHEN THU 5, 19 & 26 JUL | 5-8PM

Have Fun With Brass

39 Mitchell St, Darwin 8941 7947 | thehoteldarwin.com.au

Glen Forner

WHEN FRI 6, 20 & 27 JUL | 6-9PM

James Damien

WHEN SAT 7, 21 & 28 JUL | 6-9PM

WHEN SAT 21 JUL | 7PM COST $15

JAM NIGHTS, CHOIR AND OPEN MIC

WHEN EVERY SUN | 4-7PM

Neil Murray

Darwin City Brass Band’s Training and Development Program is a fun, friendly and relaxed small group ensemble program that caters for both children and adults – entry level and developing players welcome. WHEN AT COST INFO

EVERY SAT | 10-11.30AM 2 ABALA RD, MARRARA $10 ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP darwincitybrassband.org.au

With support from Serina Pech.

Join MisS Possum and guest musical connoisseurs for a Sunday

FRI 20 JUL | 7PM-9PM DARWIN SKI CLUB $15 creativeaccomplice.com.au

Rachel Rachel

HOTEL DARWIN

Shawn Morrow

Sunday beat train – get onboard!

WHEN AT COST INFO

WHEN WED 4 & 18 JUL | 8-11PM AT DURACK COMMUNITY CENTRE COST FREE WHEN FRI 27 JUL | 6.30-11PM AT PALMERSTON LIBRARY COST FREE INFO eo@darwincommunityarts. org.au | 8945 7347

Bloody Marys, Epic Phannies, Gored Matadores & The World’s Fear

WHEN FRI 27 JUL | 7PM COST $30+BF

Pub Choir

WHEN SUN 1 JUL | 2-7PM AT PINT CLUB, MARRARA COST GOLD COIN DONATION INFO facebook.com/firstsunday blues

EVERY FRIDAY IN THE DRY May to October

In partnership with the NT News, Brown’s Mart continues to present its popular Friday afternoon, live music program in the Courtyard from May – October. The NT News Live on Fridays program provides a laidback music scene suitable for all ages, at one of the most picturesque, outdoor venue in town.

JULY 6TH

JEREMIAH JOHNSON

JULY 13TH

STEVIE JEAN

JULY 20TH

SAM CARMODY

JULY 27TH

LEASH & THE DUSTY BOOTS

BAR OPENS 4.30PM LIVE MUSIC 5PM-7PM FREE ENTRY

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31 May – 21 July CDU ART GALLERY | Building Orange 12 Casuarina Campus | Charles Darwin University

10am - 4pm Wed to Fri | 10am - 2pm Sat T: +61 8 8946 6621 |  /cduartgallery E: artgallery@cdu.edu.au www.cdu.edu.au/artgallery Lirrmingining Grasshopper Man, 2007, Bark, natural pigment, vegetable fibre and feathers on wood, 142 x 128 x 7 cm, Courtesy of Stephen Roseman and Rosa Saladino

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A celebratory event that brings together Australian Aboriginal fabric design and people who like to sew

Friday 22 June – Sunday 19 August Weekdays: 9am – 4pm Weekends:9am – 3pm

Promoting the wearing of handmade clothing and slow fashion and to provide a platform for emerging designers

Aboriginal Bush Traders 74 Esplanade, Darwin Follow the event #getiton2018 aboriginalbushtraders

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NAIDOC @ ABT For a full list of NAIDOC Week celebrations aboriginalbushtraders.com