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Events for 13 August 2010
The Lighthouse Commission
Fri 13 Aug - Sun 29 Aug 10 | Festival Park | Price: Free
In 2009, the now iconic Top End venue The Lighthouse was launched, heralding a new era in dry season entertainment. Tagged affectionately as a virtual big-top tent, the unabashedly NT walls were made...
27th Telstra National Aboriginal &Torres Strait Islander Art Award
Fri 13 Aug - Sun 07 Nov 10 | Museum and Art Gallery NT | Price: Free
As the sun sets over the luxuriant waterside grounds of the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, locals and visitors join this most prestigious event, the 27th Telstra National...
Thuringowa Helicopter Project
Fri 13 Aug - Sun 29 Aug 10 | Stokes Hill Wharf | Price: Free
Philippine-born Australian artist Alwin Reamillo has worked with communities around the world to create ‘social sculptures’ designed to invoke the traditional Filipino idea of ‘bayanihan’ involving...
Goose Lagoon
Fri 13 Aug - Sun 15 Aug 10 | The Playhouse - Darwin Entertainment Centre | Price: TBC
An exquisite tale of love, magic and mysticism, set against the spectacular backdrop of Arnhem Land’s northern floodplains, as the drama of the annual goose hunting season unfolds. When the first...
Live Music @ City Library - Jimi and Emma
Fri 13 Aug 10 | City Library | Price: Free
Jimi Bonne has played with all sorts, from Charlie McMahon (gondwanaland) to Shellie Morris and the Victor Brox Blues Train. His songs reflect his diverse life journey. Emma Stocker is at the...
Ten Swags
Fri 13 Aug - Sun 29 Aug 10 | Festival Park | Price: Free
This is a very special exhibition intitiated by Larrakia Nation Arts and HEAL*. The grass and bush areas of Civic Square Park are home to many people living in the long grass – by necessity or...
Cine Kosmos
Fri 13 Aug - Wed 18 Aug 10 | Deckchair Cinema | Price: TBC
In a Festival first, the world comes to Darwin with a fabulous feast of films from around the globe. The line-up features My Name is Khan, a Hindi film about Indians living in a paranoid, post 9/11...
Barry Brown and the GetDown
Fri 13 Aug - Sat 14 Aug 10 | The Lighthouse | Price: $20
The absolute epitome of timeless funk is James Brown. The flirtatious king of bootylicious soul is Barry White. The dangerous mix of the two is Barry Brown, the afromakin’, bootyshakin’,...
A Touch of Spice (M)
Fri 13 Aug - Sun 22 Aug 10 | Deckchair Cinema | Price: $13
A Touch of Spice M 108m 2004 Tassos Boulmetis Greece 13, 22 Aug The heartwarming story of a young Greek boy, growing up in Istanbul, where his Grandfather teaches him the joy of preparing food -...
Tim Freedman
Fri 13 Aug - Sat 14 Aug 10 | The Lighthouse | Price: $35
Tim Freedman is a seminal part of our music history. Best known as lead singer of The Whitlams, his songs such as No Aphrodisiac and many other well-crafted examples illuminate his charming wit and...
En Route
Fri 13 Aug - Sun 29 Aug 10 | Darwin Waterfront | Price: $25
Like a love song to your city, en route offers fresh eyes and renewed perception as you navigate your own, solitary way through Darwin’s CBD and Darwin Waterfront. The simplicity of an iPod and...
The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik
Fri 13 Aug - Sun 15 Aug 10 | Brown's Mart Theatre | Price: $20
Alvin Sputnik, deep sea diver is our unlikely hero in a curious and fantastical production that will captivate audiences of all ages. Creator and performer Tim Watts uses mime, puppetry, live and...
Live Music @ Casuarina Library - Francis Diatschenko
Fri 13 Aug 10 | Casuarina Library | Price: Free
Francis Diatschenko is a guitarist living in the Northern Territory. He has performed as a soloist and in ensemble with recitals in Australia and abroad. These venues include: Mundial Festival...
Gapuwiyak Culture and Arts Exhibition
Fri 13 Aug 10 | Territory Craft Gallery | Price: Free
This is the first exhibition for artists from this remote community of Gapuwiyak. An amazing array of the beautiful and renowned fibre art together with paintings, yidaki (didgeridoo) and sculpture....
The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik
Fri 13 Aug - Sun 15 Aug 10 | Brownsmart Theatre | Price: $20
The seas have risen, the human race is on the brink of destruction and one man can save the world. This is micro-epic theatre melds technology and comedy in a touching story of enduring love at the...
Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair
Thu 12 Aug - Sat 14 Aug 10 | Darwin Convention Cente - Hall 1 | Price: Free
The Art Fair provides a unique opportunity for arts industry buyers and the public to purchase art directly from the Indigenous owned and incorporated art centres, to see the work of emerging as well...
The Cook, The Queen, and The Kelly
Wed 11 Aug - Sun 22 Aug 10 | Frog Hollow Park | Price: $25
Tall Territory Tales! Featuring a cast of 30 dancers and actors, ‘The Cook, The Queen, and The Kelly’ is set under the stars in beautiful Frog Hollow Park. Worlds collide, cultures...
Not Dead Yet: Therese Ritchie and Chips Mackinolty - a retrospective
Wed 11 Aug - Thu 30 Sep 10 | Charles Darwin University Art Gallery | Price: Free
For more than three decades, the powerful graphic images produced by Therese Ritchie and Chips Mackinolty—together, sideways and apart—have traced the lives, landscapes and events that...
Special preview: Dion Beasley’s first-ever etchings on paper
Wed 11 Aug - Fri 20 Aug 10 | Northern Editions | Price: Free
Tennant Creek artist Dion Beasley, of Cheeky Dog fame, has extended his talents to fine art printmaking in a series of delightful and engaging etchings. Scratching his favourite images of dogs,...
North Face (M)
Mon 09 Aug - Fri 13 Aug 10 | Deckchair Cinema | Price: $13
North Face M 121m 2009 Phillip Stolzl Austria/Germany 9, 11, 13 Aug Based on a true story, NORTH FACE is a gripping adventure drama about a competition to climb the most dangerous rock face in the...
Kumunupunari – Season of Smoke
Mon 09 Aug - Sun 15 Aug 10 | Holiday Inn, The Reflection Room | Price: Free
The Tiwi Art Network invites you to the official opening breakfast of Kumunupunari – Season of Smoke featuring works from the Munupi Arts & Crafts, Tiwi Design and Jilamara Arts and Craft. ...
Nexus: a collaboration in print from Central Australia and Fiji
Mon 09 Aug - Fri 27 Aug 10 | The Gallery | Price: Free
An intensive printmaking workshop held in Alice Springs early this year was the catalyst for a unique intersection of ideas and artistic expression in print, across cultures. The exhibition Nexus...
Recent Works by Zhou Xiaoping
Sat 07 Aug - Sun 29 Aug 10 | Framed - The Darwin Gallery | Price: Free
Zhou Xiaoping captures the daily life of an Aboriginal community with great skill and sensitivity. His love and respect for the people of Arnhemland and the country itself is the result of many years...
Paintings From a Wild World by Ray Firth
Sat 07 Aug - Sun 29 Aug 10 | Framed - The Darwin Gallery | Price: Free
Ray Firth gives us an eagle's eye view of beautiful Australia. The splendour of wild, empty places is realised through a palette of shimmering reds and oranges. The complexity revealed in the detail...
Lena Yarinkura & Bob Burruwal
Sat 07 Aug - Sun 29 Aug 10 | Framed - The Darwin Gallery | Price: Free
The charming soft sculptures of Lena Yarinkura and Bob Burruwal from Maningrida in Arnhemland are beautifully crafted works, woven and painted with great care. From cheeky dogs to tales of seduction...
First Prints: Western Desert Mob
Sat 07 Aug - Sat 18 Sep 10 | Nomad Art Gallery | Price: TBC
The Western Desert Mob is a powerful coalition of Aboriginal art centres, painters, woodcarvers and weavers from the Ngaanyatjarra Lands in Western Australia. This exhibition showcases the first...
Adorn
Fri 06 Aug - Sat 28 Aug 10 | Art Warehouse | Price: Free
Adorn . A wearable Art exhibition. Nothing mass produced nothing boring. Veronica Priestley Gina Trengrove Mandy Perters ...
Civic Centre Community Art Space - Culture Connecting Community, Arts From the Long Grass
Mon 02 Aug - Tue 31 Aug 10 | Civic Centre | Price: Free
An exhibition of works created by artists as part of Larrakia Nation's celebrated HEAL program. ...
Closing Down
Sun 01 Aug - Mon 20 Sep 10 | Alice Sundown Aboriginal Art | Price: Free
Gallery closing down sale. All stock must go by end of September, massive reductions storewide. ...
Djalkiri: we are standing on their names. Blue Mud Bay
Sat 31 Jul - Sat 04 Sep 10 | 24HR Art NTCCA | Price: Free
Presented by Nomad Art Productions, “Djalkiri” exhibits works by indigenous and non-indigenous artists in a cross-cultural collaborative printmaking workshop at Yilparap on Blue Mud Bay...
Photographic Exhibition
Mon 28 Jun - Sun 05 Sep 10 | Northern Territory Library | Price: Free
Come in to the Library to see Penny Tweedie’s extraordinary photographs which provide a unique visual celebration of Arnhem Land people as they strive to maintain their traditional beliefs...
In Vogue Dancing Fridays
Fri 31 Oct 08 - Fri 17 Dec 10 | Nightcliff Sports Club | Price: $3
Social morning with Ballroom Dancing and morning tea - enjoy yourself on Fridays 10am till midday ...
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