MARKETS
Newcastle Pride Fair Day with Homegrown Markets Saturday, 11am to 6pm, Gregson Park, Hamilton.
Pelican Foreshore Markets Saturday, 9am to 3pm, Belmont Foreshore.
Warners Bay Markets Saturday, 9am to 1pm, The Esplanade, Warners Bay.
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.
Adamstown Lions Markets Sunday, 7am to noon, cnr Brunker and Glebe roads, Adamstown.
Newcastle City Farmers Markets Sunday, 7am to 1pm, Newcastle Showground.
Toronto Lions Market Sunday, 8am to 1pm, Lions Park, Main Road, Toronto.
Medowie Artisan Markets Sunday, 10am to 2pm, Bull and Bush Hotel, Medowie.
MUSIC
Waratah Brass presents 140 Years of Music Saturday, 1.30pm, Christ Church Cathedral, Newcastle.
Darlinghurst Saturday, 1pm, Belmont Foreshore.
Avalanche Saturday, 7pm, Hamilton Station Hotel, Islington.
Live on the Lake: The Angels Saturday, 4pm, Toronto Hotel.
Shadow Circus ft DeadCrow, Poltergeist 9000, Inimata, Krisp, Sondar, Smallways, SoyBoy, Unpretty, Goon Gremlins, Grub, Venus Fly Trap, Sonnet and the Breadboys, Acts of Insanity Saturday, 3pm, King Street Bandroom.
Butterknife, Caster, Industry Plant (all ages show) Saturday, 5pm, 246 High Street, Maitland.
Nathan Cavaleri Saturday, 8pm, The Stag & Hunter Hotel, Mayfield.
Blues Brothers Rebooted Saturday, 8.30pm, Flamingos Live, Lambton.
Lake Macquarie Wind Band and Guests - Australian Identity Through Music Sunday, 2pm, Rathmines Theatre.
Into the Light - Songs for Charlie Sunday, 4pm, Newcastle Conservatorium of Music.
Macquarie College Jazz on a Sunday Afternoon Sunday, 6pm, The Playhouse, Newcastle.
Raised As Wolves, Amends Sunday, 7pm, Hamilton Station Hotel, Islington.
Temple of the Stag ft Stag Temple Pilots, Melody Pool, Amy Vee, Ben Leece, Clint Wilson Sunday, 7.30pm, The Stag & Hunter Hotel, Mayfield.
SATURDAY
The 63rd Mattara Surf Classic Newcastle. Also on Sunday.
2024 Newkulele Festival Newcastle Conservatorium of Music. Also on Sunday.
Morisset Lake Macquarie Show 9am to 9pm, Morisset Showground. Also on Sunday.
ELMA's Op Shop Garage Sale 8am, Thomas Street, Belmont.
Pups in the Park 9am to 1pm, Federal Park, Wallsend.
Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction Newcastle Museum. Also on Sunday.
2024 Fast & Loud Festival Offshore Superboat and Powerboat races, Lake Macquarie. Aerial displays by Redbull pilot Matt Hall. Live music, roving entertainment, food and market stalls. Live sites at Warners Bay Foreshore, Belmont Foreshore, Rathmines Catalina Park and Speers Point Park. Also on Sunday.
Eco-Friendly Christmas Decorations Workshop 10am to noon, Wallsend Library.
NSW State Gateball Championships Lake Macquarie Croquet Centre, Glendale. Also on Sunday.
Survivor's R Us Flash Sale 10am to 1pm, 57 Pendlebury Road, Cardiff.
Oktoberfest in the Gardens 1pm to 9pm, The Station, Newcastle.
TEDx Cooks Hill 2024 - Beyond Boundaries 11am, The Playhouse, Newcastle.
Disney's The Little Mermaid JR. 2pm and 6pm, Young People's Theatre, Hamilton. Also on Sunday at 2pm.
NSW Pride vs Brisbane Blaze - HockeyOne League Match 3pm, Newcastle International Hockey Centre, Broadmeadow.
Karuah Oyster and Timber Festival 10am onwards, Lionel Morten Oval, Karuah.
Mary Poppins 1pm and 7pm, Civic Theatre, Newcastle. Also on Sunday at 1pm.
Broadie Blocko: A Celebration of Art, Music, Tattoos and Community 1pm to 9pm, FLT Tattoo, 2/90 Belford Street, Broadmeadow.. With Onwards Gallery, Woodriver Studios.
Somatics and Dance Movement Therapy 2.30pm to 4pm, The Place, Charlestown. Free workshop.
Free Cultural Dance Encounter - India 3pm, MAP mima, Speers Point Park.
Nelson Bay Rock N Roll Club's 24th Annual Rock N Roll Festival Wests Nelson Bay. Also on Sunday.
Twilight Delights: Grossmann and Brough Houses 5.30pm, 71-73 Church Street, Maitland.
An Evening with Tim Winton 6pm, University of Newcastle Great Hall.
Sonia Di Iorio - I'm Not A Robot 6pm, Newcastle Comedy Club.
Frostbites - One Night Only 8pm, The Crown & Anchor Hotel, Newcastle.
SUNDAY
Fernleigh 15 7am, Fernleigh Track.
Show & Shine 7.30am to 3pm, Speers Point Park.
Collectors' Plant Fair 8am to 4pm, Maitland Showground. Also on Sunday.
MG Car Club Hunter Region Annual Concours 8.30am to 3pm, Lambton Park, Lambton.
Sounds of Sustainability 11am to 2pm, Allambee Park, Valentine.
Emma Holland - Here Comes Mr Forehead 6pm, Newcastle Comedy Club.
ART
The Creator Incubator Chocol'art. This weekend only.
Onwards Gallery Everyday Seens. Until November 1.
Lighthouse Arts Blooming. Until December 1.
Pseudonym Gallery All Roads Lead Home, by Eira Chidgey.
Playstate on Fern Gallery Future Fragments, by Sean Thomas Bell.
The Owens Collective Sassy Kunst Exhibition: The Art of Randa Magdi and Lisa Ellen Hughes.
LEDA Gallery Leda Art Prize: Connectedness. Until October 30.
Back to Back Galleries Eclectica2 Paintings & Ceramics Exhibition. Until November 3.
Windale Hub Curious Minds Exhibition.
Museum of Art and Culture MAC yapang Barray Story Country, by Uncle Jim Ridgeway. Sand Chronicles, by Yuan Liu. Like New. Until December 8.
Singleton Arts and Cultural Centre Song of the Fish, by St Catherine's Catholic College year 7 students, until November 3.
Tomaree Peninsula Photography Club Annual Photographic Exhibition at Soldiers Point Bowling Club.
The Lock-Up Khaled Sabsabi; peacefender x TUNZ, until November 24.
Straitjacket In the Quiet Life with you, by Raphe Coombes. Hither & Thither, by Graham Wilson. Until November 3.
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, 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.
