New Annual 2024
Saturday
Big Picture Fest Various locations, self-guided. Also on Sunday.
Ngumpi Kinyingarra Oyster House with Megan Cope 10am to 5pm, Honeysuckle Marina.
Newcastle Art Gallery Talks 10am, Megan Cope In Conversation. 2pm, Ancestral Technologies in Contemporary Art.
Khaled Sabsabi & TUNZ Artist Talk & Graffiti Activation The Lock-Up, Newcastle.
WonderCity, by Tantrum Youth Arts 2pm and 7pm, Civic Park Fountain. Also on Sunday.
10-Minute Dance Parties 11am to 1pm, 2pm to 4pm, Wheeler Place, Newcastle. Also on Sunday.
Belongings: Distil Immersive and Boundaries: Transcended Noon to 4pm, Watt Space Gallery.
Eco Fair + Clothing Swap 2pm to 5pm, St John's Anglican Church, Cooks Hill.
Whale Song: Curious Legends 4.30pm to 8pm, Newcastle Beach. A multimedia outdoor theatre procession that celebrates the humpback whale migration season.
The Shuck Off 3.30pm to 4.30pm, Honeysuckle Marina. Professional oyster shuckers compete to be the Ngumpi Kinyingarra Oyster House Shuck Off Champion.
The Birth and Death of Stars: MZAZA 7.30pm, City Hall, Newcastle.
Rising from the Ashes: An Orchestral Suite 7.30pm, Harold Lobb Concert Hall, University of Newcastle Conservatorium of Music.
Sunday
Ngumpi Kinyingarra Oyster House with Megan Cope 10am to 5pm, Honeysuckle Marina.
Khaled Sabsabi 10am to 2pm, The Lock-Up, Newcastle.
Newcastle Art Gallery Talks 11am and 2pm, Protecting Aquatic Ecologies.
Rising from the Ashes: An Orchestral Suite 2pm, Harold Lobb Concert Hall, Newcastle Conservatorium of Music.
SATURDAY
True Vintage Markets 8am to 1pm, Adamstown Uniting Church Hall.
Wollombi Valley Sculpture Festival Final weekend.
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.
Spring Fair 9am to 1pm, Clarence Town Courthouse Museum, Grey Street, Clarence Town.
Tuff Nutterz 9am to 4.45pm, Griffith Park, Stockton. Inflatable obstacle course. Also on Sunday.
Maitland City SES Open Day 10am to 2pm, Waterworks Road, Rutherford.
Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction 10am to 5pm, Newcastle Museum. Also on Sunday. Fossil displays, interactive exhibitions and more. Also on Sunday.
Orchid Potting Demonstration with Stu Webb 10am to 12.30pm, Hunter Region Botanic Gardens, Heatherbrae.
Art Play 10am and 11am, SEEN @ Swansea.
Kids Summerhill Waste Management Centre Tour Bus departs Wallsend Library at 10.30am, bookings essential.
Book Launch and Storytime - The Welcome Cookies 10.30am to 11.30am, Windale Hub. With illustrator Kirrili Lonergan and author Kaye Baillie.
The Marina Market 11am to 3pm, Nelson Bay Foreshore.
Reptile Show Noon, Young Street Hotel, Carrington.
Travelling North 2pm and 7.30pm, Newcastle Theatre Company, Lambton.
Movie on the Green - The Garfield Movie 5pm, Valentine Bowling Club.
UpStage at the Playhouse presents Romeo & Juliet: A Reimagining 7pm, The Playhouse, Newcastle.
Maitland Musical Society 60th Anniversary Celebration Concert 7pm, St John's Pro Cathedral, Maitland. Also on Sunday.
Saturday Night Showcase 7.30pm, Newcastle Comedy Club.
SUNDAY
Newcastle Rugby League Grand Final First grade 3.30pm, Maitland Pickers vs Central Newcastle Butcher Boys. Women's 1.30pm, Reserves 11.30am, Under 19s 9.45am, McDonald Jones Stadium, Broadmeadow.
Homegrown Markets 10am to 2pm, Bimbadgen, Pokolbin.
Merewether Markets 9am to 2pm, Dixon Park Beach.
Homemade & Handpicked Markets 9am to 1pm, 4 Paterson Street, Hinton.
Adamstown Lions Markets 7am to noon, cnr Brunker and Glebe roads, Adamstown.
Newcastle City Farmers Markets 7am to 1pm, Newcastle Showground.
Community Market 9am to 2pm, Mick Bird Oval, Bennetts Green.
Hunter Arts Network - Art Bazaar 10am to 3pm, Lambton Park, Lambton.
Peninsula Garden Ramble 10am to 3pm, gardens in Salt Ash, Lemon Tree Passage and Tanilba Bay.
An Introduction to Dungeons and Dragons 10.30am to 1.30pm, Sugar Valley Library Museum, Cameron Park.
Caves Coastal: Beer, Food & Wine Festival 11am to 5pm, 27 Mawson Close, Caves Beach.
Book Launch - Navigating Money, Markets and Men 3pm, East Maitland Library. Maitland author Judy Williams.
MUSIC
Heartbeat of the Hunter ft Busby Marou, Robbie Mortimer, Mackenzie Lee, Jemma Beech, Finnian Johnson, Viper Creek Band, Adam Harvey, Ash Grunwald, Felicity Urquhart & Josh Cunningham Saturday, 11am to 9.30pm, Tocal Agricultural Centre, Paterson.
Waratah Girls' Choir Annual Concert 2024 Saturday, 4pm, Saint Philip's Christian College Theatre, Waratah.
Middle Kids Saturday, 8pm, Civic Theatre.
While She Sleeps (UK), Stick To Your Guns (USA), Ocean Sleeper, Boundaries (USA) Saturday, 6.30pm, King Street Bandroom.
Sweet Talk, Good Corn Liquor Saturday, 8pm, King Street Warehouse.
Teenage Bottlerocket (USA), Hack The Mainframe, Trashed Again, The Rimmingtons Saturday, 7.30pm, Hamilton Station Hotel.
The Re-Mains, Adam Young & The Down Man Saturday, 8pm, The Stag & Hunter Hotel, Mayfield.
Georgie Winchester Saturday, 8pm, Family Hotel, Maitland.
The Whispering Jack Show Saturday, 8.30pm, Flamingos Live.
Lass Bash XXVI ft Kim (The Presets), Jarrod Myers and more Saturday, 7pm, The Lass O'Gowrie Hotel, Wickham.
Kip Moore (USA), with Sons Of The East, Sunday, 8pm, Civic Theatre.
Australian Haydn Ensemble - Mozart's Horn with Carla Blackwood Sunday, 2pm, Rathmines Theatre.
Georgie Winchester, Lilli Fairfax, Kingsley James Sunday, 3.30pm, Grand Junction Hotel, Maitland.
Hot Mess, Laura Panic, The Sugar Beats Sunday, 7pm, Hamilton Station Hotel.
ART
Back to Back Galleries Canvas and Clay, by Sandra Burgess, Sharon Taylor, Jill Campbell, Judy Hall, Clare Felton and Jackie Maundrell-Hall, until October 13.
Sugar Valley Library Museum Coal Communities, until December 1.
The Owens Collective Paintings, by Mazie Karen Turner, until October 13.
The Lock-Up Khaled Sabsabi; peacefender x TUNZ, until November 24.
LEDA Gallery Test Studio, by Lavinia Coluccio, until October 2.
The Creator Incubator Alchemy of Light, by Jane Lander, until September 29.
Straitjacket Still Lies, by Kara Wood; Histories, by Bianca Vern-Barnett, until October 6.
Teahouse Newcastle The Neverland's Water, final weekend.
Multi-Arts Pavilion (MAP mima) Endless Sunbeams in Another Time, by Julia Flanagan and Miguel Felipe Valenzuela.
Performance Arts Culture Cessnock (PACC) Philip Quirk's The Eisteddfods, until October 20.
Wester Gallery Out-Of-Towners, by Hal Whitney, Tahlia Undarlegt, Patrick Oates, Bridget Stehli, Sally Bourke, Benedict dos Remedios, Nina Radonja, final weekend.
Fireshed Gallery Wollombi Small Sculptures, final weekend.
Museum of Art and Culture MAC yapang Including YOU, Including ME, Including US; Two Girls From Amoonguna; Alternating the Cube, until October 13.
University Gallery 50 Years 50 Stories Exhibition, final weekend.
Lighthouse Arts Heroine.
Maitland Regional Art Gallery Hold. Old Stories New Magic. Mother Lode. 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.
