Venue: Mindil Beach

Contact Details: 89813454

This year we have over 200 stalls, with nearly sixty food stalls from over thirty different countries.

Market patrons can enjoy the tastes of five continents all in the space of a leisurely walk along the stunning setting of Mindil Beach, Darwin in the Top End of the Northern Territory, Australia. The market is also famed for the huge range and quality of its art and craftwork. Visitors to the market get a taste of tropical life as stallholders converge on Mindil to sell their hand made wares. Crocodile, kangaroo and Barramundi products, Indigenous and Bush Art, clothing, sculpture, pottery, puppets, soaps and didgeridoos, you name it and it’s likely that you can get it at Mindil Beach.

You can book a tour, get a massage, have your palm read, listen to your Tarot readings, watch the buskers and performing artists, listen to the live bands or just kick back, eat great food and watch the sunset.

Every Thursday 5pm - 10pm and Every Sunday 4pm - 9pm

Venue: Various Locations

Contact Details: Contact Cancer Council NT for more information (08) 8927 4888

On Friday 24 August yellow was the colour and cancer was the cause as thousands of Territorians helped ‘paint the town yellow’ and bought daffodils and merchandise for the Cancer Council’s 14 th Daffodil Day.

Venue: TBA

Contact Details: Vickie Dennien 89 311 866 variety@variety.nt.org.au

Venue: Museum and Art Gallery of the NT

Contact Details: 89998219

The Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Award is the premier national indigenous event on the arts calendar. Initiated by the Museum and Art Gallery of the Northern Territory in 1984, today the Award offers AUD56,000.00 worth of prize money; one of the highest for any art award in Australia. The Award attracts a broad range of artistic talent with upwards of 150 works selected for the exhibition from approximately 500 entries. This exhibition showcases up-to-date developments in contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art and attracts a range of indigenous artists from all parts of the country. The diversity and style of work submitted each year reflects the changing face of contemporary Aboriginal art practice

Venue: Katherine Training Centre outdoor stage area

Contact Details: Katherine Regional Arts - 8971 0928

A screening of the finalists from the NT's own film competition. BYO chair.

NO ESKIES PLEASE, BAR FACILITIES PROVIDED BY THE KATHERINE FILM SOCIETY.

Time: 7pm Cost: $10 adult / $8 Concession / under 10 FREE pyro

Venue: June Tapp Room Katherine Training Centre

Contact Details: Territory Craft - 8971 0740

Senior fibre artists from Wugularr will demonstrate their weaving skill at the Katherine Regional Artspace.

Time: 6pm - 8pm FREE ENTRY

Venue: Nitmiluk National Park ( Katherine Gorge)

Contact Details: Katherine Town Council-8972 5500

Get your team of 10 plus a drummer together for the Toll Express Dragon Boat Challenge! No experience required and all equipment provided. Prize for the best dressed team!

Food and drinks on sale - community fundraiser for the YMCA. Time: 8.30am - 3pm Cost: $100p / team

Venue: St Paul's Church KATHERINE

Contact Details: St Paul's Church KATHERINE - 8972 1493

Featuring DRUMS & LIONS. Be transported to East Africa in this unique musical collaboration between Maltese Australian reggae dynamo Nicky Bomba & Ethiopian Azmari musician Dereb Desalegn.

Come and enjoy Art, fine food and music! Time: 5pm - 9pm Cost: FREE ENTRY

Venue: Todd River , Alice Springs

Contact Details: central Australia Tourism Association - 08)89525800

A boat race with a difference - on the dry sands of the Todd River. The ASSA ABLOY Henley-On-Todd Regatta is a day of fun where teams and individuals race ‘boats’ in the dry bed of the Todd River in Alice Springs. Have fun and enjoy the hilarity as you watch seemingly sane people race in bottomless 'eights', 'oxford tubs', 'bath tubs' and yachts through the deep coarse sand. The event has its origins in 1962, when Reg Smith, an Alice Springs local, and his work colleagues proposed holding a regatta based on the famous Henley-on-Thames, a race between Cambridge and Oxford Universities. The idea was taken up by the Rotary Clubs of Alice Springs and the fact that the town was 1,500 kilometres from the nearest large body of water was never seen as a problem. So the ASSA ABLOY Henley-On-Todd was born. Food and drink stalls are available, with all proceeds going to the three local Rotary clubs in Alice Springs, and ultimately back to the Alice Springs Community.

Venue: Poolside Nitmiluk Campground (Katherine Gorge)

Contact Details: Nitmiluk Booking Office- 89721253

Opening of the new resort style pool at Nitmiluk Gorge Campground. Great family night showcasing the indigenous movie, 10 Canoes.

Time: 7pm Cost: $7 p/person ($14 inc. bus transfers) $25 p/family (2 Adults & 2 Children)