Events

The Travelling Film Festival (TFF), Australia’s longest running travelling film festival, showcases Australian and international features, documentaries and short films in regional Australia. TFF currently tours to over 20 locations annually, screening in the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales.
6 March, 2025
8 March, 2025
The biggest comedy event of 2025 is coming your way! Darwin Entertainment Centre presents Darwin Comedy Festival, bringing unstoppable laughter to the Top End in March 2025. Performing in Darwin for the first time, international superstar Celeste Barber brings her...
27 March, 2025
30 March, 2025
A unique showcase of Drag, Family and Cabaret events, celebrating the inclusivity and diversity of the Red Centre.
Parrtjima is an extraordinary FREE 10-night festival in the stunning Red Centre, with an incredible program featuring light installations, artworks, workshops, music and talks. Parrtjima 2025 will take place on Arrernte Country from 4-13 April.
For the first time in a decade, we are taking the whole orchestra on the road for an NT Tour! Bringing incredible orchestral performances to Katherine, Tennant Creek, and Alice Springs, and culminating in a spectacular performance in Desert Park for the iconic Parrtjima - A Festival in Light, join us as we champion Territory talent down the Track.
12 April, 2025
12 April, 2025
Get ready, rugby league fans—the NRL is heading to Darwin for one final match as the Territory’s home team! On Saturday, April 12, 2025, the Parramatta Eels will face the Canberra Raiders at TIO Stadium in an unmissable match. Whether you’re cheering from the grandstand or enjoying the game in style with a corporate hospitality package, this is your chance to witness top-tier NRL action live in the Top End.
The long-awaited Thailand Grand Festival by the NT Thai Association is back with full-day activities for all ages at the Civic Park. So prepare yourself for one of the most significant cultural events in the Northern Territory. This year, the theme is "Lanna Maha Songkran", a showcase of Northern Thai Culture.
Nightcliff Seabreeze Festival is an annual community festival held along a two kilometre stretch of Nightcliff Foreshore in Darwin, welcoming in the Top End dry season. In 2025 it will celebrate it's 20th anniversary!
The much-anticipated Darwin Italian Festival will return in 2025 at the Darwin Waterfront, Fort Hill Parklands. Since 2013, the Italian Festival has continued to grow with more than 20,000 people attending the festival in 2019.
The iconic Larapinta Trail, in the West McDonnell Ranges in Australia’s Red Centre is definitely a bucket list hiking destination for thousands of people around the world each year. Now ultra runners will have the opportunity to test themselves on 231km of spectacular single track in a full length end to end, supported, non-stop extreme ultra race event being organised by the Alice Springs Running and Walking Club (ASRWC).