MARKETS
Medowie Lions Art and Craft Fair and Markets Saturday, 8am to noon, Medowie Community Centre.
Glendale Farmers & Artisan Market Saturday, 8am to 2pm, Stockland Glendale.
Hunter Wine Country Markets Saturday, 9am to 2pm, De Bortoli Wines, Lovedale.
Handmade in the Hunter Markets Saturday, 9am to 2pm, Sobels Wines, Pokolbin.
Gresford Community Market 9am to 1pm, 12 Park Street, East Gresford.
Wangi Mens Shed Annual Garage Sale Saturday, 8am to 1pm, 22 Donnelly Road, Wangi Wangi.
Port Stephens Church of Christ Car Boot Sale Saturday, 8am to 2pm, cnr Nelson Bay Road and Lemon Tree Passage Road, Salt Ash.
Homegrown Markets Saturday, 10am to 2pm, The Station Newcastle.
Caves Beach Sunset Market Saturday, 4pm to 8pm, Stuart Chalmers OAM Park.
Adamstown Lions Markets Sunday, 7am to noon, cnr Brunker and Glebe roads, Adamstown.
Newcastle City Farmers Markets Sunday, 7am to 1pm, Newcastle Showground.
Tomaree Markets Sunday, 9am to 1pm, Neil Carroll Park, Nelson Bay.
Community Market Sunday, 9am to 2pm, Michael Bird Oval, Bennetts Green.
Made & Found Sunday, 10am to 2pm, Webb Park, Redhead.
The Valley Markets Sunday, 10am to 2pm, Townhead Park, Singleton.
MUSIC
Live on the Green Saturday, noon, Mayfield Bowling Club.
Push Back Presents All Ages Heavy Metal Minifest Saturday, 1pm, Hiss & Crackle Records, Wallsend.
Daniel Champagne Saturday, 8.30pm, Flamingos Live, Lambton.
Hell Rips The Hamo Vol. IX ft. Slaughtercult, Destruction Of The Healer, Devoid Altar, DeathFeeder, Saturday, 8pm, Hamilton Station Hotel.
Screaming Gay: Priscilla Queen of the Desert Saturday, 8pm, The Lass O'Gowrie Hotel, Wickham.
Dank Hank & The Hot Ones Saturday, 8.30pm, Royal Oak Hotel, Tighes Hill.
The Fabulous Caprettos Sunday, 3pm, Toronto Hotel.
Koyo (USA), with Secret World, Feel The Pain, Gratitude, Sunday, 6pm, Newcastle Hotel, Islington.
Great Gable, with Kitschen Boy Sunday, 7pm, Stag & Hunter Hotel, Mayfield.
Invincible: The Helen Reddy Story Sunday, 2pm, Flamingos Live, Lambton.
Nuffin Butta, with Krisp, Leyeza, Sunday, 7pm, Hamilton Station Hotel.
Raggle Taggle Gypsies Sunday, 2pm, Royal Oak Hotel, Tighes Hill.
Lake Macquarie Music Society presents Festival of Strings n Things Sunday, 2pm, Warners Bay Theatre.
Newcastle Chamber Choir presents: Pops at Bartholomew's Sunday, 3pm, Bartholomew's Restaurant and Bar.
SATURDAY
Back to Broke 10am to 4pm, Broke Recreation Ground. Markets, games, exhibitions, stage coach rides, balloon rides and more. Celebrating Broke's bicentennary.
2024 Lake Macquarie Kokoda Challenge Cooranbong.
Stacey Klimovitch Softball Gala Day 8.30am to 3.30pm, Stevenson Park, Mayfield. Raising funds for domestic violence support and education.
Newcastle Pride Festival Parade 11.30am, Newcastle Foreshore to Nobbys Beach.
Newcastle Wellness Walk 9am to 2pm, Newcastle Foreshore Park to Rydges and return.
Hunter Valley Beer & BBQ Festival 10am to 5pm, Hope Estate, Pokolbin.
LEGO Brickpit 10am to 2pm, Hunter Region Botanic Gardens, Heatherbrae.
Make Your Own Clay Christmas Gnome 10am to 2pm, Sugar Valley Library Museum, Cameron Park. With clay artist Marian Marcatili.
Succulent Dish Garden Workshop 10am, Wallsend Library.
Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction Newcastle Museum. Also on Sunday.
Book Launch and Storytime: The Mosaic 10.30am, Belmont Library. With author Deborah Kelly.
Crystalspirit Expo 10.30am to 3.30pm, Cessnock Leagues Club. Also on Sunday.
Maitland Riverlights 1pm to 9pm, The Levee, Maitland.
Disney's The Little Mermaid JR. 2pm and 6pm, Young People's Theatre, Hamilton. Also on Sunday at 2pm.
Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins 1pm and 7pm, Civic Theatre, Newcastle.
UpStage at the Playhouse presents Karma Kafe 1pm and 7.30pm, The Playhouse, Newcastle.
Free Cultural Dance Encounter - Latin America 3pm, Multi-Arts Pavilion (MAP mima) Lake Macquarie, Speers Point.
Wickham's Seafood Twilight Fair 3pm to 7pm, The Fishermen's Co-op, Wickham. Market stalls, food trucks, live music, seafood specials.
Newcastle Permanent's Cinema under the Stars - Willy Wonka (PG) 5.30pm, Speers Point Park.
SUNDAY
I Run For Her - Got Your Back Sista 8.30am to 11.30am, Empire Park, Bar Beach.
Festival of Sweets & Treats 9am to 2pm, The Station Newcastle.
Two Feet & A Heartbeat Walk - Heart Kids 9am to 1pm, Thomas H Halton Park, Eleebana.
Back to Broke 11am, McNamara Park, Broke. Bicentennial plaque unveiled, time capsule opened, a fun run and more.
Grossman and Brough Houses Open Day Hourly guided tours 10am to 3pm, 71-73 Church Street, Maitland.
Miss Porter's House Museum Open Day 1pm to 4pm, 434 King Street, Newcastle.
Disney and Cameron Mackintosh's Mary Poppins 1pm, Civic Theatre, Newcastle.
ART
Blackstone Gallery The Giver, by Aidan Gageler.
The Owens Collective Paintings, by Mazie Karen Turner, final weekend.
The Lock-Up Khaled Sabsabi; peacefender x TUNZ, until November 24.
LEDA Gallery Bare, by Abbie Thompson, until October 16.
Straitjacket In the Quiet Life with you, by Raphe Coombes. Hither & Thither, by Graham Wilson. Until November 3.
Back to Back Galleries Canvas and Clay Exhibition, final weekend.
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) Philip Quirk's The Eisteddfods, until October 20. Artist talk on Saturday at 1pm.
Museum of Art and Culture MAC yapang Including YOU, Including ME, Including US; Two Girls From Amoonguna; Alternating the Cube, final weekend.
Lighthouse Arts Heroine, final weekend.
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.
Newcastle Museum A Place Called Hollywood, until February 2.
