SATURDAY
The Olive Tree Market 9am to 2pm, The Station, Newcastle.
Newcastle Vintage Kilo Sale 8am to 4pm, 48 Watt Street, Newcastle (also on Sunday, 8am to 2pm).
Newcastle City Australian Football Club Pride Round 9am onwards, No. 1 Sportsground, Newcastle. Family-friendly event with music, face painting, raffles and more.
Pelican Foreshore Markets 9am to 1pm, Lakeview Parade, Pelican.
Glendale Farmers & Artisan Market 8am to 2pm, Stockland Glendale.
Hunter Wine Country Markets 9am to 2pm, De Bortoli Wines, Lovedale.
Shop & Feast Markets 9am to 2pm, Morisset Showground.
Handmade in the Hunter Markets 9am to 2pm, 5 Halls Road, Pokolbin.
Native Plant Sale 9am to 1pm, Hunter Region Botanic Gardens, Heatherbrae.
Newcastle Repair Cafe 9.30am to noon, Wallsend Library.
Kintsugi for Clothing - Mending with Gold Thread 10.30am to noon, Wallsend Library. Presented by High Tea with Mrs Woo.
Meet The Makers - Free Tastings 11am to 1.30pm, Pork Ewe Deli, Mayfield.
Create & Animate with Melbourne artist Emma Lyn Winkler 2pm to 5pm, Multi-Arts Pavilion (MAP mima) Lake Macquarie. Suitable for ages 9 to 14 years.
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid Tales 2pm and 6pm, Young People's Theatre Newcastle, Hamilton.
The Hunter Valley Night Markets 5.30pm to 7.30pm, Qirkz in the Hunter, Abermain.
Newcastle Pro Wrestling presents Shattered V 8pm, Hamilton Station Hotel.
SUNDAY
Adamstown Lions Markets 7am to noon, cnr Brunker and Glebe roads, Adamstown.
Loved & Local Market 8am to 1pm, Abermain Hotel.
Toronto Lions Markets 8am to 1pm, Lions Park, Main Road, Toronto.
Newcastle City Farmers Markets 7am to 1pm, Newcastle Showground.
Maitland Community Markets 9am to 1pm, Maitland Showground.
Homegrown Markets 10am to 2pm, Speers Point Park.
Newcastle Wedding Expo 10am to 1pm, Newcastle Exhibition Centre, Broadmeadow.
Maitland Rail Museum Open Day 10am to 3pm, Mount Dee Road, Maitland.
Biggest Morning Tea and Watercolour Workshop with Anna Scobie 10am to 11.30am, Hunter Region Botanic Gardens, Heatherbrae. Book at eventbrite.com.au.
Lego Builders 10.30am to 12.30pm, Sugar Valley Library Museum, Cameron Park. Bookings essential.
Franky's Dumplings & Jazz Noon onwards, Young Street Hotel, Carrington.
Glow Bowls 4pm to 8pm, Adamstown Bowling Club. A fundraiser for Hunter Transplant Research.
MUSIC
Good Corn Liquor Saturday, 8pm, Stag & Hunter Hotel, Mayfield.
The Pigs Saturday, 8pm, Flamingos Live, Lambton.
Marriah & The Scarlett Joes Saturday 8.30pm, Wickham Park Hotel.
Lysysta, Aunty Alan Saturday, 8.30pm, Royal Oak Hotel, Tighes Hill.
Cap in Hand Saturday, 6.30pm, New Lambton Community Centre.
Hellcat Speedracer Sunday, 8pm, King Street Warehouse, Newcastle West.
Natalie Davis Sunday, 2pm, Adamstown Bowling Club.
Beer Garden Blues Sunday, noon, Wickham Park Hotel.
Bobby Paquet Sunday, 2pm, Royal Oak Hotel, Tighes Hill.
ART
Raven Art Gallery LOOK UP ON HIGH, portraits of High Street, Maitland, by Libby Cusick.
Morpeth Museum Born Again Bradmill.
Onwards Gallery Scenes From Nowhere, by Caitlin Jackson.
Wester Gallery Surf City, by Matthew Wolfenden.
LEDA Gallery Spare Room, by Lexie Worboys, Raffi Butler.
Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre, Singleton Arts + Cultural Centre LiddellWORKS Exhibition.
Back to Back Galleries The Essence of Nature, by Kerry McDonald, Anne Gazzard, Beth McDonald.
Straitjacket Hermetic, by Dean Beletich. Turn Return, by Peter Lankas.
Teahouse Newcastle The Blue Sun Exhibition.
University Gallery 50 Years 50 Stories Exhibition.
The Lock-Up COLLECT 2024. Arts in the Yard, Saturday at 10am.
Timeless Textiles Dark Dark Forest, by Janet Clouston.
Watt Space Gallery Useful Objects.
Performance Art Culture Cessnock (PACC) Songspirals.
Multi-Arts Pavilion (MAP mima) You need not fear the monsters of the sea, by Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson.
Fireshed Gallery Wollombi Botanicals and Birds.
Museum of Art and Culture MAC yapang Bernard Ollis Masterclass, Saturday, 10am to 1pm. Young Dobell. Snakes and Ladders. Dobell and His Dogs. ArtSpace, Sunday, 10am.
Lighthouse Arts What\How\Why.
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.
- Events can cancel at short notice
