Monday July 21st
WILDCARD CINEMA 3 weeks of short films @ DARWIN RAILWAY CLUB
EVERYTHING IS A REMIX
7pm Monday 21st July. Entry $10 (includes a free Coopers beer!)
A mega mash-up of supercuts, remix cinema, cut-up, sampling and the art of copyright violation. WARNING: This screening is highly illegal and will only ever be screened once, so don’t miss it!. curated by Timothy Parish & Hatstand Pincer Movment
Tuesday July 22nd
Wednesday July 23rd
GLENY RAE VIRUS & THE PLAYBOYS
23rd July - DARWIN RAILWAY CLUB
Armed with fiddle and squeezebox, Gleny Rae has become a regular face at folk festivals, ute musters and outback events.
In 2006, she formed specialist western swing band Gleny Rae Virus and her Tamworth Playboys with an aim to put the swing back in country music. The band’s first release Highrollin’ received national airplay and earned the band a top 5 finalist position in the Victorian Country Music Awards for Best Band.
Witness her unique style and catch the Virus on the dance floor!
ART IN THE PARK
FREE creative workshops @ DARWIN WATERFRONT
5:30pm-7:00pm every Wednesday till 13th August
Workshops run from 5.30pm to 7.00pm and include polymer beads, felt ornaments, paintings, fibre creatures, ghost net baskets and fishing flies.
Brought to you by the Darwin Waterfront and Tactile Arts. Bookings: darwinwaterfront@nt.gov.au
Thursday July 24th
KEN O’SHEA & METTAPHOR
5:00pm -10:00pm
Mindil Beach Sunset Markets provides the setting for Ken O'Shea & Mettaphor plus Stilt Walker (Sunshine Coast).
Head to the market info stall for times and location details.
WILD WORDS from the FRINGE
7:00pm Thursday 24th July @ THE HAPPY YESS
A literary open mic gig for all those readers and writers out there looking for space to vent their latest musings or punters just looking to have a laugh, have a cry, be inspired or see something new.
Featuring short films by local poets and more. Tickets at the door $5.00
GOOD ROOTS
A VISUAL ART EXHIBITION by DANNY CRICHTON
Darwin Railway Club, SOmmerville Gardens, Parap.
Featuring Carrot pin-up girls and ginger strong men. Pulled fresh out of the ground. Good Roots. They be crunchy!
https://www.facebook.com/events/696413360430405/?fref=ts
THE CAMBODIAN SPACE PROJECT
25th July - DARWIN RAILWAY CLUB, PARAP. Doors open at 7:00pm
Cosmic cross-culture rendezvous featuring space trippers from various planets preparing a mission to beam its unique mix of space rock, surf, reggae, dub, khmer surin, cambodian rock psychedelica out-of-this-world
and into another... Buy tickets here
Friday July 25th
Saturday July 26th
TEMPERAMENTAL, UNDER DURESS & ACID CITY
Saturday 26th July @ HAPPY YESS from 9:00pm
Guitars, drums, rock music! Come on down for a night of live, original music from Darwin's rural area! Grunge band, Temperamental, with alternative rockers, Acid City, and Heavy rockers Under Duress. You do not want to miss out! Bring your dancing shoes, and rock out with some of Darwin's favourite local bands. Tix at the door $10
Nook Events Management Presents BONJAH
**SOLD OUT**
7:30pm Sat 26 July Darwin Railway Club
Melbourne based BONJAH have built a reputation as an explosive live act. They’ve played many shows around the world, multiple headline tours around Australia and supported legendary bands like The Who. Their touring legs have been backed up with 2 critically acclaimed albums earning nominations for APRA, Rolling Stone & AIR awards.
PLAYBACK THEATRE presents Fringe Dwellers on the Frontier
4pm SAT 26th - BROWNS MART
Playback Theatre is an original form of improvisational theatre in which audience members are prompted to spark stories and then watch them enacted on the spot by the Playback Actors. Come along, share a story or witness how members of the recently re-formed Darwin Playback portray. Tickets at the door $8/$10/$15 more info
Sunday July 27th
人 (HUMAN)
7:00pm SUN 27th JULY $15.00 @ CORRUGATED IRON YOUTH ARTS, NIGHTCLIFF
人 is an identity struggle that explores dislocation and mocks the absurdity of “assimilation”.
Who are you when you’re not at home?
The porn star, the Karaoke queen, the spoilt princess, the Liberated Woman…
Forced to confront her gender and race the performer attempts to physically articulate the experience of a modern, white woman living as a minority within the ancient cultures. Following one woman’s story this work is a personal reflection of the migratory experience. 人 is an experimentation of ideas discovered through Clown and Butoh, presented through a language free form.
bookings: http://www.trybooking.com/FJMV
AFTER THE RAIN - EP LAUNCH
SUNDAY 27th July 7:00pm - Darwin Railway Club
After the Rain is a dynamic indie folk-rock band from Darwin.
The rhythmic bass lines of Amy Kimber (bass guitar), soaring melodies of Micha Jackson (viola), funky noodles of Brad Ermel (mandolin), and driving beats of Tim Birch (drums) add a new dimension to local artist Anna Boustad (vocals/ guitar). Buy tickets here
ACOUSTIC SONG BIRDS
4:00pm -10:00pm FREE! Mindil Beach Sunset Markets provides the backdrop for an evening of woman singer/wongwriters featuring Bridey Rose, Freedom Summers & Maya.
Monday July 28th
Tuesday July 29th
If you see something awesome at the fringe- take a photo and hashtag it!
#DARWINFRINGE
We’ll be creating an online photo gallery throughout the Festival made of art and photos taken by YoU! It’s your chance to get famous on the internet! But more than that, the best photos from the Fringe Festival will receive free tickets to events, CD’s and other giveaways!!
#snappiertanacroc
Wednesday July 30th
“HELLO SAILOR” BIG BAND SWING NIGHT
7:00pm Wednesday 30th July @ DARWIN RAILWAY CLUB
The regular swing night at the Rails goes nautical with a special fancy dress theme night for the Fringe Festival.
Dress in your favourite nautical themed costume and dance the night away to the Hot & Cold Swing Band. more info
THE 20th ANNUAL DARWIN POETRY CUP
8:00pm Thurs July 31st Darwin Railway Club
A mainstay of the local Poetry scene.
Contenders will vie for prizes donated by local sponsors plus the chance to be IMMORTALIZED with their name engraved on a plaque of The DARWIN POETRY CUP!
60 SECONDS MAX - Judged by Audience Applause !!
Tickets $10 available at the door - Contestants Free Entry. more info
Thursday July 31st
WILDCARD CINEMA 3 weeks of short films @ DARWIN RAILWAY CLUB
THE ANIMATED WORLD
7:00pm Monday 28th July
Local, national and international animations that will blow your mind.
Bring along a beanbag, pull up the couch, grab a lovingly prepared meal at the Pop Up Burger Stand. This is WildCard Cinema!
Curated by Al Oldfield & Daniel Hartney. Entry $10 (includes a free Coopers beer!)
‘ECHO’ by Syren
7:00pm Thursday 31st @ Mindil Beach Markets
ECHO is a one off musical performance combining theatre, cinematic sound design and ecstatic dance to explore the themes of elemental energy and environmental destruction.
With guest percussionist and ecstatic dancers fusing the elements of earth, water, air and fire this performance will take the audience on an elemental journey.
www.syrensong.net
WOMEN’S SONG OF SOUL
Featuring Freedom Summers and Jillaine Jones
7:30pm Friday 1st August @ The Groove, Nightcliff
Two song women of soul are coming together for one night only. Singing their secret stories in deep groove and grace. One special event not to be missed.
Bar and kitchen will be open at this event.
WARP FESTIVAL @ HAPPY YESS
Warp is a festival-within-the-festival for experimental music and noise making, with performances, lectures, and workshops. Warp is an interdisciplinary exploration of the collaboration between sound and visual art, mainly within the framework of electronics and new media.
Featuring workshops by James Mangohig (Sietta) on audio production, Bong Ramillo on kinect hacks,Timothy Parish on VJing and video art, Lulu Madill on sound
Friday 1 August from
4pm - Workshops on sound art, circuit bending & experimental music.
7pm - screening of documentary PressPausePlay.
9pm - THE SOUND FACTORYlive music/performances and open stage for wild experiments.
http://warpfestival.com
more info
Friday August 1st
TERRITORESQUE
9:00pm Friday 1st August - Throb Nightclub
The Territory's darlings of burlesque and cabaret will come out in their finest to entertain you for this Fringe special. A collection of the finest burlesque, comedians and cabaret performers in Darwin all join together to sizzle your senses.. there will be banana splitting burlesque from ms Lana del banana, sweet temptation from Maxi la Rose, a bit of bop and swing from the razzleberry belles and hopefully our ole pal Bazza from the doo will drop in to say hi. It will be a show of territory themed debauchery and fun. So frock up and come along. Tickets at the door $25.00
The Detonators
FRIDAY 1st August - DARWIN RAILWAY CLUB
Through their relentless gigging and touring both here and overseas have seen them become crowned kings of Australian roots rock n roll. Their original music is a lethal combination of blues, rockabilly and early rock n roll. The band features bespectacled Rockbottom James an vocals and electric harmonica, Paulie Bignell on hollow body guitar, Doghouse Dave on slapping double bass with Craigo Hadlow on sticks and skins duty. Buy tickets here!
PLAYBACK THEATRE presents Love & Other Earthly Delights
7:00pm Friday 1st August @ BROWNS MART THEATRE
Playback Theatre is an original form of improvisational theatre in which audience or group members tell stories from their lives and watch them enacted on the spot. Come along, share a story or witness how members of the recently re-formed Darwin Playback portray the ideas and stories the audience choose to share. Tickets at the door $8/$10/$15
ANIMALE CARNIVALE
5:00pm-10:00pm Sat 2nd August Territory Wildlife Park, Berry Springs. $10 per person, $25 family deal
You animal! Unleash your wild side in your best animal costume and come on down to the Territory Wildlife Park for ‘Animale Carnivale’, an animal costume party in a fun festival atmosphere!
Settle back for a cavalcade of circus and dance performances from 6pm and stay on afterwards for a boogie to the Funk Jungle DJs!
Original art will feature around the Park picnic ground with craft and play spaces to keep the kids entertained. Cosy up to a croc or python in the Wild Encounter Photo Booth or chill out under the stars with a bevvie and a bite to eat. Don't forget there are prizes to win for best animal costume!
Winner of adult category receives a prize pack including: 1 x Viva La Body hamper (est value $120), 2 x free tickets to Sea Darwin's Sunset Fish n’Chips Cruise (est value $110), 1 x Super Family Territorian Pass (12 months free entry to the Park for 2 adults and up to 4 kids) to the Territory Wildlife Park (value: $71.50).
Winner of kids category receives a prize pack including: 2 x free passes to a Zone 3 Darwin Open Session (est value: $50), 1 x Behind The Scenes tour of the Territory Wildlife Park's Flight Deck for a family of 2 adults and up to 4 kids (est value: $200), 1 x Super Family Territorian Pass (12 months free entry to the Park for 2 adults and up to 4 kids) to the Territory Wildlife Park (value: $71.50).
Animale Carnivale will have a licensed bar and food vendors.
For updates & costume ideas head to the Animale Carnivale Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/1435318200066294) or BUY TICKETS NOW:
LOW END THEORY with Monk, Birdz, Sime & Mangohig
9:00pm Saturday 2nd - HAPPY YESS
A journey into bass-driven beats and rhymes; from hip-hop to jungle and beyond. Low End Theory is an evening of forward thinking bass music for ears, minds and rears. Mangohig and Sime bring the beats with original productions alongside sure-fire dancefloor bombs while Monk and Birdz drop the razor sharp raps. Heavy duty party business - BOOM!. Part of the WARP FESTIVAL. Tickets at the door
more info
THE LYRIC LIFE
7pm & 8pm Sat 2nd August - BROWNS MART
In 5 short acts a guy and a girl meet, date, fall in love, have sex and break up all through the lyrics of popular songs.
Saturday August 2nd
WARP FESTIVAL @ HAPPY YESS
Warp is a festival-within-the-festival for experimental music and noise making, with performances, lectures, and workshops. Warp is an interdisciplinary exploration of the collaboration between sound and visual art, mainly within the framework of electronics and new media.
Featuring workshops by James Mangohig (Sietta) on audio production, Bong Ramillo on kinect hacks,Timothy Parish on VJing and video art, Lulu Madill on sound
Saturday 2 August12 noon: Workshops with circuit bending, DIY instruments, audiovisual technology, VJing and more.7pm - screening of I Dream of Wires.9pm till late -LOW END THEORYwith Monk, Birdz, Sime, Mangohig
http://warpfestival.com/
ED KUEPPER
7pm Saturday 2nd August- DARWIN RAILWAY CLUB
Having recently returned to Australia from touring Europe and the U.S with the Bad Seeds, the most legendary and influential Ed Kuepper is coming to a town near you for a night of special, Solo And By Request shows.
Tickets here!
TERRITORESQUE
7pm Saturday 2nd August - Throb Nightclub
The Territory's darlings of burlesque and cabaret will come out in their finest to entertain you for this Fringe special. A collection of the finest burlesque, comedians and cabaret performers in Darwin all join together to sizzle your senses.. there will be banana splitting burlesque from ms Lana del banana, sweet temptation from Maxi la Rose, a bit of bop and swing from the razzleberry belles and hopefully our ole pal Bazza from the doo will drop in to say hi. It will be a show of territory themed debauchery and fun. So frock up and come along. TICKETS $25
ROBBIE MILLS
& THE COLLECTIVE
4pm - 9pm free music at the Mindi beach Sunset Markets
CROCODILE COUNTRY
Jasmine Jan Studio Gallery OPENING 3rd AUG
Crocodile Country is a group exhibition showcasing the work of 11 Territory Artists interpreting their impression of the Territory in diverse mediums ranging from paintings, mosaics, fused, slumped and flame-worked glass, textiles, fibres, sculptures and jewellery.
THE GOOD, THE WEIRD & THE LOVELY.
Steve Holliday CD LAUNCH.
Sunday 3rd August - Darwin Railway Club
Songs by Darwin Poet STEVE HOLLIDAY inspired by his life love passion extremity & search for the comfort zone amid this bright tropical beauty. Includes dance sequence if dancers appear!
Sunday August 3rd
WILDCARD CINEMA ! Last Showing !
"A FIST FULL OF MONSTERS"
7:00pm MONDAY 4th AUGUST @ DARWIN RAILWAY CLUB
Featuring door to door zombies, demonic water towers, ghosts of Browns Mart and giant stone men, this night will feature the best Top End monsters movies ever made. Be scared. Entry $10, includes a free Coopers beer.
Hungry? No worries, the fabulous Pop Up Burger Joint will be available and be sure to feast your eyes on the final week of Danny Crichtons 'Good Roots' exhibition.
https://brownscinemart.wordpress.com/2014/07/15/darwin-fringe-festival-presents-wildcard-cinema-darwin-railway-club/
Monday August 4th
DO THE NT with TOP END COMEDY
7:00pm 7th August at The Happy Yess.
Are you Territory proud!? It’s time to DO THE NT with Top End Comedy! Join local comedians for a night of Territory-inspired stand up. Expect stories about cane toads, cyclones and of course the NT News!
Headliner: Amy Hetherington (Adelaide Fringe 2014, MICF 2014).
MC: Danielle Andrews (Adelaide Fringe 2014, MICF 2014).
Followed by Karaoke with Glenn B.
www.facebook.com/topendcomedy
GREEN STONE GARDEN
7:00 pm Free music at the Mindi Beach Sunset Markets Sound Shell
Together since 2011, alt-rock band Green Stone Garden has become emblematic of the Darwin music scene. They have received critical and industry recognition with the band winning the rock category of the ‘2013 Northern Territory Song of the Year Award’ for single ‘The Island’ and lead singer Mike Meston winning the Folk category in 2012. Bring along a rug and enjoy under starlight.
http://greenstonegarden.com
Thursday August 7th
“HOWDY COWBOY” BIG BAND SWING NIGHT
7:00pm Wednesday 6th AUGUST @ DARWIN RAILWAY CLUB
Once again the swing band at the Rails goes is celebrating Fringe with a special fancy theme night. ‘Howdy Cowboy’ will celebrate boot-scooting, cussin’, and line dancin’ along with the big band swing we know and love from the Hot & Cold Swing Band.
Wednesday August 6th
Tuesday August 5th
The Fringey All Ages Gig then Megabass!
7:00pm at The Happyess
Featuring Darwins next Gen including Stephanie Von Kanel, Actual Footage, Something Ironic, Indica Sunrise plus two bands from Dripstone Middle School & 1 from Kormilda College!
Entry $5.00 at the door. NB No Alcohol will be served at this underage event.
Friday August 8th
THE HARLOTS
7:00pm 8th August - DARWIN RAILWAY CLUB
“The Harlots are one of the best new Melbourne bands I have seen in ten years.
Let me save everyone the time and money. The Harlots are without question going to be THE NEXT BIG THING IN AUSTRALIA AND THE WORLD!Trust me, I know some shit.” - James Young,Cheery Bar Melbourne.
Here's your chance to be the judge! Tickets Here! More info
Mega Bass
9:00pm August 8th at The Happy Yess
Take your dance floor shoes along (and then kick 'em off) at your festival dose of underground mega bass music.
Tickets $10.00 at the door
ELECTRIC ALLEY
9:00pm Saturday 9th August @ HAPPY YESS
Musical feast of Glitch Hop, breaks , techno, electro, drum’n’bass and trance.
Electric Alley showcases Darwin’s best producers and DJs of electronica.
ENTRY $10.00 at the Door
THE FIRIES BALL
The Andrews Sisters will sway you for one last tango at Mandorah before the wrecking ball swings!
Black Tie Gala Dinner - Tables of Ten $1500.00
Single Tickets $165.00 (Includes return ferry Cullen Bay-Mandorah)
Proceeds to Cox Peninsula Volunteer Bushfire Brigade Inc. more info
THE OWLS
9th August - DARWIN RAILWAY CLUB
Think the dirty sexy feel of Queens of the Stone Age, soulful sensibilities of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, harmonies reminiscent of classic Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, with a splash of Radiohead.
Put all these elements in a haunted house, cut the power, and you’ll feel the musical energy of The Owls.
Buy tickets here! more info
Saturday August 9th
FRANKENSTEINED MONOLOGUES collaborative scripting project
Various Locations - follow us on Facebook for daily updates.
A lonely typewriter asks you a question, you begin to write, this is Frankensteined Monologues. Add your voice to hundreds of others to help shape this unique new theatre work.
Presented by Theatre of the Found Collective and The Darwin Fringe Festival.
NEW DUB CITY
Free music at the Mindi Beach Sunset Markets.
Check out the times and locations here:
http://www.mindil.com.au/announcements/this-weeks-entertainment-line-up
DR. PIFFLE & THE BURLAP BAND
Sunday 10th August - DARWIN RAILWAY CLUB
A 12 piece tribe of raggle-taggle gypsy punks playing folk music as hard, fast and as powerful as their lungs and bodies are capable.
They spend there time rambling, hitchhiking, busking, touring and singing... always with a passion, always with conviction, always with a message. Tickets Here!
Sunday August 10th
LAYERS OF CREATION ART BOOK! ART BOOK COLLABORATION
******closing days --- get your entry in******
Attendees of the Darwin Fringe Festival are invited to submit photos which will be passed on to a local writer to inspire a poem or short piece of work. After the festival the compiled photos and written work will be published online through a print on demand service.To learn more, follow us on www.facebook.com/Layer
Abstract Steel and X-ray Vision
23rd July – 6th Aug - DVAA 56 Woods St, Darwin
Opening Hours 12:00pm -5:00pm. Wednesday-Saturday.
Art Exhibition of Rustic Steel Garden Sculptures by Freedom Summers and Traditional Aboriginal paintings in Top End style by local elder Tibby Quall and family. Come and meet Tibby at the opening as he explains the paintings and give you a little insight into his land and culture.
The abstract steel sculptures were created in collaboration between Freedom Summers and Tibby’s brother/cousin Geoffrey May, Welder/technician.
Freedom studied Sculpture @ National Art School East Sydney completing a 3-year Diploma in Fine Art, 1992-95.
These Sculptures were inspired by Freedom’s teachers at the National Art School, Ron Robinson Swan and Michael Snape who are the leading Steel Sculptors in Australia.
To view more of Freedom Summers Art
www.youtube.com/FreedomSummerSongs
All welcome to the Opening Wednesday 23rd July @ 6:00 - 8:00pm
If you see something awesome at the fringe- take a photo and hashtag it!
#DARWINFRINGE
We’ll be creating an online photo gallery throughout the Festival made of art and photos taken by You!
It’s your chance to get famous and the best photos from the Fringe Festival will receive free tickets to events, CD’s and other giveaways!!SO GET SNAPPING!!
