SATURDAY
Glendale Farmers & Artisan Market 8am to 2pm, Stockland Glendale.
Hunter Wine Country Markets 9am to 2pm, De Bortoli Wines, Lovedale.
Handmade in the Hunter Markets 9am to 2pm, Sobels Wines, Pokolbin.
Lake Macquarie Landcare Super Saturday Session 9am to noon, Tiny Forest, near the Landcare and Sustainable Living Centre, Booragul.
Sandy Hollow Charity Motorfest 8am to 4.30pm, Sandy Hollow Showgrounds. A fundraiser for MS Australia featuring a car show, entertainment and more.
Hunter Renewable Energy Transformation with NSW Environment Minister Penny Sharpe 9.30am to noon, City Hall, Newcastle.
Clothing and Apparel Bazaar 10am to 1pm, Shortland Waters Retirement Village's community centre.
Cranky Handle Rally 9am onwards, 100 Church Street, Maitland (the SteamFest site). Working engines, steam powered machines, tractors, trucks, tools, cars, machinery, bikes and other memorabilia (also on Sunday).
Friends of the University of Newcastle Book Fair 2024 10am to 4pm, The Great Hall, University of Newcastle, Callaghan Campus (also on Sunday).
Book Week Family Fun Day Dress Up and Book Week Parade 12.30pm to 3.15pm, The School of Education V Building, University of Newcastle, Callaghan Campus. A free event with lots of fun activities and local authors and illustrators such as Sami Bayly, Jess Black, Jenny Blackford, Jade Goodwin, Jenni Goodman, Deb Kelly and Paul Russell.
The University of Newcastle Central Coast Campus Open Day 10am to 2pm, Ourimbah Campus.
Mad Science Inventions with Pretty Amazing Jono - Lake Mac STEAM 10am to 11am, Belmont Library.
Justices of the Peace Community Stand 10am to 1pm, ground floor, Westfield Kotara, opposite Woolworths and Donut King.
75th Anniversary of Post WWII Migration to the Hunter Region 11am to 5pm, Hunter Multicultural Communities Centre, 2A Platt Street, Waratah. An exhibition of memorabilia from the migrant camp and hostel days.
Wallsend 150 Community Fun Day 1pm to 6pm, Nelson Street and Wallsend Skate Park. Rides, workshops, entertainment, music, market and food stalls, and more.
Onwards Winter Art Market 4pm to 7pm, Onwards Gallery, Hamilton.
Lake Mac STEAM Week Screening - The Dish 6pm, Multi-Arts Pavilion (MAP mima) Lake Macquarie, Speers Point.
Look To The Stars with Newcastle Astronomical Society 6pm to 9.30pm, Multi-Arts Pavilion (MAP mima) Lake Macquarie, Speers Point. Free, children must be accompanied by an adult. Bring a torch.
Newcastle Roller Derby League - Double Header 5pm, NEC Exhibition Centre, Broadmeadow. Frog Stompers vs Scrimming Jets; Bogey Rollers vs Fort Smashleys.
Upstage at the Playhouse presents Blueberry Play 7.30pm, The Playhouse, Newcastle.
The Living Room Theatre presents The Seeping Woman 7.30pm, The Lock-Up, Newcastle.
SUNDAY
Toronto Lions Markets 8am to 1pm, Lions Park, Main Road, Toronto.
Adamstown Lions Markets 7am to noon, cnr Brunker and Glebe roads, Adamstown.
Newcastle City Farmers Markets 7am to 1pm, Newcastle Showground.
Homegrown Markets 10am to 2pm, Speers Point Park.
Bathers Way South Newcastle Community Event 8.30am to 11.30am, South Newcastle Beach Skate Park. Face painting; riding, skating and roller derby demonstrations, a BBQ and more.
Creative Kids Concert featuring The Quokkas 9.30am to 12.30pm, Newcastle Conservatorium of Music. 9.30am, free face painting. 10.15am, performance by conservatorium Early Childhood Music students. 10.40am, performance by The Quokkas.
Rail Motor Society Museum Open Day 10am to 3pm, Webbers Creek Road, Paterson.
2024 Toy & Hobby Fair - Hunter Model Auto Club 10am to 2pm, Edgeworth Sport & Rec Club.
Hunter Science Festival 10am to 5pm, Newcastle Museum. The Poo Palace from Hunter Medical Research Institute; build and race your own electric vehicle with Hunter Innovation and Science Hub HISH; activity and display tables from Hunter Water, Irukanji Shark and Ray Centre, Hunter Wetlands, Hunter Landcare and School of Earth, Hunter Geological Society; Fizzics Education's Bushfire Science Shows; Pot a Pollinator Plant and more.
Cessnock Neon Nights Noon to 8pm, Cessnock Showground. Rides, food and market stalls, and more.
Sunday Sessions at MAC 1pm to 3pm, Museum of Art and Culture yapang, Lake Macquarie, 1A First Street, Booragul. Art tutorial and live music.
75th Anniversary of Post WWII Migration to the Hunter Region - Greta Migrant Camp Bus Tour Meet at 2pm, HMC Waratah, 2A Platt Street, Waratah. Followed by movie screening, Silver City.
Celeste Barber - Backup Dancer 7pm, Civic Theatre, Newcastle.
MUSIC
Newcastle Music Festival - Saturday 2.30pm, Consolation and Exultation, by Festival Chamber Choir. 7.30pm, Kaleidoscope with Cedar Rose Newman and Simon Tedeschi. Harold Lobb Concert Hall, Newcastle Conservatorium of Music.
Felicity Dowd - Built Like Us EP Tour Saturday, 6pm, The Royal Exchange, Newcastle.
Novatones Harmony Chorus Saturday, 7pm, Flamingoes Live, Lambton.
King Hideous, Retrograde, Me Local, Punctured Saturday, 8pm, The Stag & Hunter Hotel, Mayfield.
The Australian Beefweek Show, The Owen Guns Saturday, 8.30pm, The Oak Tighes Hill.
Newcastle Music Festival finale - Sunday 2.30pm, Rachmaninoff meets Paganini, Christ Church Cathedral.
Daz Aberhart & Friends Sunday, 5pm, The Underground, Newcastle.
Dylan Wright - Get A Little Lost Tour Sunday, 7pm, King Street, Newcastle.
ART
Maitland Patchwork Quilters Exhibition 10am to 4pm on Saturday, 10am to 2pm on Sunday, Great Hall, Tocal Agricultural College.
Blackstone Gallery Not So Still Life, by Ann Caddey, final weekend.
Straitjacket Other Worldly, by Helena Newcombe, until September 8.
Teahouse Newcastle Loving Larry.
Back to Back Galleries EARTH: Woodfired & Ash Glazed Ceramics, by Bruce McWhinney, until September 1.
LEDA Gallery From The Ashes, by Sandy Lee, until August 28.
Timeless Textiles Joining Threads: SAQA Exhibition, until September 15.
Fireshed Gallery Wollombi By Nature, by Sheree Roberts and Jennifer Little, until September 1.
Newcastle and Lake Macquarie Art Society Exhibition Lake Macquarie Square, Mount Hutton, until August 25.
Museum of Art and Culture MAC yapang Including YOU, Including ME, Including US. Two Girls From Amoonguna. Alternating the Cube. ARTSPACE free family artmaking, Sunday at 10am and 11am.
Newcastle Art Space Back & Forth, until August 25.
The Creator Incubator When he started watching TV, his art career was over, by Michael Bell, final weekend. Footsteps on the Landscape, by Steven Jankovic (The Little Space), final weekend.
Raven Art Gallery Look Up On High, by Libby Cusick, ends Saturday.
Wester Gallery Surf City, by Matthew Wolfenden, ends Saturday.
Grossman & Brough Houses Reconciliation NSW Schools Art Works, From River to Sea: Our Island Home.
University Gallery 50 Years 50 Stories Exhibition.
The Lock-Up COLLECT 2024. Arts in the Yard, Saturday at 10am.
Hunter Wetlands Centre Wetland Wonders, until August 30.
Watt Space Gallery Useful Objects, until August 31.
Performance Art Culture Cessnock (PACC) Songspirals, final weekend.
Multi-Arts Pavilion (MAP mima) You need not fear the monsters of the sea, by Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, until September 1.
Lighthouse Arts What\How\Why, final weekend.
Playstate on Fern Mounted Trout Salesmen & other uncouth characters, by Gavin Coote, until August 24.
Maitland Regional Art Gallery Mother Lode. Old Stories, New Magic. Hold. Memory Collective (Part One). Small Museum. Lineage: A Visual Continuum. A Garden of Parallel Paths. Power: The Future is Here.
Newcastle Museum A Place Called Hollywood, until February 2.
- Events can cancel at short notice
