MARKETS
The Olive Tree Market Saturday, 9am to 2pm, The Station, Newcastle.
Swansea Men's Shed Garage Sale Saturday, 7am to 2pm, 74 Pacific Highway, Blacksmiths.
Newcastle Men's Shed Garage Sale Saturday, 9am to noon, 143A Kings Road, New Lambton. Also on Sunday.
Warners Bay Markets Saturday, 9am to 1pm, The Esplanade, Warners Bay.
Glendale Farmers & Artisan Market Saturday, 8am to 2pm, Stockland Glendale.
Handmade in the Hunter Markets Saturday, 9am to 2pm, Sobels Wines, Pokolbin.
Hunter Wine Country Markets Saturday, 9am to 2pm, De Bortoli Wines, Lovedale.
Pelican Foreshore Markets Saturday, 4pm to 8pm, Lakeview Parade, Pelican.
Toronto Lions Markets Sunday, 8am to 1pm, Lions Park, Toronto.
My Kids Market Sunday, 9am to noon, Newcastle Entertainment Centre.
Adamstown Lions Markets Sunday, 7am to noon, cnr Brunker and Glebe roads, Adamstown.
Newcastle City Farmers Markets Sunday, 7am to 1pm, Newcastle Showground.
Toronto Mens Shed Christmas Garage Sale Sunday, 9am to noon, 16 Nicholson Street, Toronto.
Markets in the Park Sunday, 10am to 2pm, Tucker Park, Paterson.
Homegrown Christmas Markets Sunday, 10am to 2pm, Speers Point Park.
Medowie Artisan Markets Sunday, 10am to 2pm, Bull n Bush Hotel, Medowie.
Aussie Night Markets Sunday, 4pm to 9pm, Morisset Showground.
MUSIC
Chiefest 24 ft. Dallas Frasca, Good Corn Liquor, Halfway Homebuoy, L.R. Marsh, Piper Butcher, Kirsty Larkin, The No Shows Saturday, 3pm, Stag & Hunter Hotel, Mayfield.
Crafted Beer Festival ft. Children Collide, Hot Potato Band, Nana Klumpp, Austin Mackay, Saylor & The Flavor, Underlay, Daytrip Saturday, 11.30am to 8.30pm, Foreshore Park, Newcastle East.
I Hate People, Defiant Ground, None For One, LauraPanic, Only At The Movies, Drenched In Grey Saturday, 7pm, Hamilton Station Hotel, Islington.
SummerSalt ft Hozier (IRE), Angie McMahon, Joy Oladokun (USA), Jack Botts, Mia Wray Saturday, 2.10pm to 9.30pm, Roche Estate, Pokolbin.
Salt 'n Sound ft MTTY, Bracken, Blanch, Tikabox, Costan, Sol C Saturday, 3pm, Cooks Hill Surf Club.
The Rions Saturday, 8pm, King Street Bandroom, Newcastle West.
X Mentals Play Mental As Anything Saturday, 6pm, Qirkz In The Hunter, Abermain.
Hunter Singers 35th Anniversary Concert Sunday, 4pm, Newcastle Conservatorium of Music.
Christ Church Camerata ft David Drury Sunday, 2.30pm, Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle.
The High Andies Sunday, 3.30pm, Grand Junction Hotel, Maitland.
Taj Ralph Sunday, 6pm, Hamilton Station Hotel, Islington.
SATURDAY
Save Myall Road Bushland Walk & Talk Meet at Lance York Oval, Garden Suburb, at 9am.
Pop-Up Clothing Swap 11am to noon. Textile and Soft Toy Fix-It Clinic 10am to 2pm. Level 1, Marketown East near BIG W, Newcastle.
Give a Sheet For the Planet 9am to 3.30pm, Newcastle TAFE Student Car Park, 266 Maitland Road, Tighes Hill. City of Newcastle residents can drop off their old bedroom, bathroom and kitchen linen.
Kids Yoga at The Station 10am to 11am, The Station, Newcastle.
Christmas Bon Bon Decorating Workshop 10.30am to 12.30pm, The Full Circle Collective, Newcastle.
Irukandji Shark & Ray Encounters Opening Day and 10th Anniversary 10am to 3.30pm, 2 Jessie Road, Anna Bay.
Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction Newcastle Museum. Also on Sunday.
Repair Cafe 10am to 12.30pm, Rathmines Theatre.
KIDS Christmas Creative Spectacular 10am to 2pm, Raymond Terrace Bowling Club. Suitable for children aged two to 14.
JP Community Stand 10am to 1pm, opposite Woolworths at Westfield Shopping Centre, Kotara.
The Newcastle Herald Hunter Race Day 11am onwards, Newcastle Racecourse. Performances by The Screaming Jets and The Hot Potato Band.
Crafted Beer Festival 11.30am to 8.30pm, Foreshore Park, Newcastle East.
Snowtime in the Gardens 5.30pm to 10.30pm, Hunter Valley Gardens, Pokolbin. Also on Sunday.
The Singing Circle 5pm, Hamilton Community Hive.
Aladdin JR presented by What Theatre Company 1pm and 6.30pm, The Playhouse, Newcastle. Also on Sunday at 1pm.
The Game's Afoot 2pm and 7.30pm, Newcastle Theatre Company, Lambton.
Ben Stevenson: Everything Is Going Really Well And I'm... 6pm, Newcastle Comedy Club.
Abbie Chatfield - The Trauma Dump Tour 8pm, Civic Theatre, Newcastle.
SUNDAY
A-League Women Newcastle Jets vs Wellington Phoenix 3pm, Maitland Sportsground.
Angel Billy Golf Classic Nelson Bay Golf Club.
The Rail Motor Society Open Day - CPH 7 Rail Motor's 100th Birthday Return rail journeys from 9.30am. Webbers Creek Road, Paterson.
Kracka Challenge 9.30pm, Blacksmiths Beach.
ART
Newcastle Art Gallery A score for reconstruction, by Diana Baker Smith. Nari narinari, by Agus Wijaya. Until January 27.
Back to Back Galleries Beyond Horizons, until November 24.
Wester Gallery Mea Culpa, by Shane Bonsujet, until November 23.
Straitjacket Patterns of Manual Labour, by Benjamin Paul Gallagher. Docker Grease, by Stephen Brameld, Jay Staples. Until December 1.
The Creator Incubator Novolandia, by Lyndal Campbell, final weekend.
Teahouse Newcastle Bram Eastman.
LEDA Gallery Meander, by Saltwater Woman, until November 20.
Brough House Figtree Connection Exhibition, by Janet Steele.
Rathmines Heritage Centre Max Dupain: Art and War, until January 19.
Lighthouse Arts Blooming, until December 1.
Windale Hub Curious Minds Exhibition.
Museum of Art and Culture MAC yapang Barray Story Country, by Uncle Jim Ridgeway. Sand Chronicles, by Yuan Liu. Like New. Until December 8. Sunday Sessions at MAC, 1pm to 3pm.
The Lock-Up Khaled Sabsabi; peacefender x TUNZ, until November 24.
Multi-Arts Pavilion (MAP mima) Endless Sunbeams in Another Time, by Julia Flanagan and Miguel Felipe Valenzuela, until December 1.
Performance Arts Culture Cessnock (PACC) Lionel's Place, until January 5.
Sugar Valley Library Museum Coal Communities, until December 1.
Maitland Regional Art Gallery GAJAYARRA. The Foundations Are Shifting Beneath. Twitcher. Memory Collective (Part One). Lineage: A Visual Continuum. Pregnant Woman. Tjukurpa, Handle It.
Newcastle Museum A Place Called Hollywood, until February 2.
