SATURDAY
Glendale Farmers & Artisan Market 8am to 2pm, Stockland Glendale.
Hunter Wine Country Markets 9am to 2pm, De Bortoli Wines, Lovedale.
Handmade in the Hunter Markets 9am to 2pm, Sobels Wines, Pokolbin (also on Sunday).
Hunter Valley Highland Games 2024 9.30am to 4.30pm, Saltire Estate, Lovedale. Keg toss and other feats of strength, market and food stalls, entertainment, dancing and more.
Lake Macquarie Rogaine Six and 12-hour events. Details at nswrogaining.org/2024-lake-macquarie.
Giant Reference Book Sale 9.30am to 1pm, Courtyard Room, Raymond Terrace Library.
Rainbow Storytime with Timberlina 11am, Newcastle (City) Library.
Newcastle Whisky & Craft Spirits Festival Noon to 8pm, Bartholomew's, King Street, Newcastle.
Community Drumming 1pm Dixon Park Beach.
Carrie the Musical presented by Hunter Drama 2pm and 7.30pm, The Playhouse, Newcastle (also on Sunday, 2pm and 7.30pm).
Sooshi Mango - Home Made! 3pm and 7.30pm, Civic Theatre, Newcastle.
Jane Harrison's THE VISITORS 7.30pm, Performance Art Culture Cessnock (PACC).
SUNDAY
Hunter Veterans and Families Support Centre Markets 7.30am to 12.30pm, Wickham Park, Islington.
Sunday Muster Artisan Market 9am to 2pm, 1 Weakleys Drive, Thornton.
Adamstown Lions Markets 7am to noon, cnr Brunker and Glebe roads, Adamstown.
Newcastle City Farmers Markets 7am to 1pm, Newcastle Showground.
Homemade & Handpicked Markets 9am to 1pm, 4 Paterson Street, Hinton.
Upper Hunter Markets 9am to 2pm, Muswellbrook Indoor Sports Centre.
Millfield Community Fair 9am to 2pm, Millfield Public School.
The Valley Markets 10am to 2pm, Townhead Park, Singleton.
The Bloody Long Walk Redhead Beach to Newcastle.
Euro Motorfest 2024 8.30am to 3pm, Foreshore Park, Newcastle.
Hunter Arts Network Art Bazaar 10am to 3pm, Lambton Park, Lambton.
Le Tour de Glen William 26km bike ride, from 9am.
Live Your Light - Body, Mind & Soul Expo 10am to 4pm, Souths Merewether.
Bernie's Markets & Clothes Swap 3pm, Bernie's Bar. Also, Kindness Kitchen for those in need.
MUSIC
Tones and I, Coterie (NZ) Saturday, Newcastle Entertainment Centre.
Northeast Party House, Sachi (NZ), Loosie Grind Saturday, King Street Bandroom.
Sooshi Mango: Home Made Saturday, Civic Theatre.
Tomsky (IDSA) Saturday, King Street Warehouse.
Newcastle Jazz Festival Saturday and Sunday, Newcastle City Hall.
The Motherload, Splodge Saturday, Royal Oak Hotel.
Boston Manor (UK), Sunbleached, Gratitude Sunday, King Street Bandroom.
Bollard, Unpretty, Freight, At Last: Broadcast Sunday, Hamilton Station Hotel
We Honestly Love You: Olivia Newton-John Tribute Sunday, Flamingos Live.
Bobby Paquet Sunday, Royal Oak Hotel.
ART
Wangi Quilters Biennial Quilt Show Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 4pm, Wangi Workers Club.
Wester Gallery Streets of Our Town, by Mahalia Leckner and Jack Reading, until September 7.
Society of Artists Newcastle Inc Exhibition Saturday and Sunday, 9.30am to 3.30pm, RJD Gallery, Lambton Park.
Straitjacket Other Worldly, by Helena Newcombe, until September 8.
Back to Back Galleries EARTH: Woodfired & Ash Glazed Ceramics, by Bruce McWhinney, until September 1.
LEDA Gallery From The Ashes, by Sandy Lee, final weekend.
Timeless Textiles Joining Threads: SAQA Exhibition, until September 15.
Fireshed Gallery Wollombi By Nature, by Sheree Roberts and Jennifer Little, until September 1.
Museum of Art and Culture MAC yapang Including YOU, Including ME, Including US. Two Girls From Amoonguna. Alternating the Cube. ARTSPACE free family artmaking, Sunday at 10am and 11am. Live painting with Dino Consalvo, Sunday, 11am to 2pm.
Newcastle Art Space Back & Forth, final weekend.
Grossman & Brough Houses Reconciliation NSW Schools Art Works, From River to Sea: Our Island Home.
University Gallery 50 Years 50 Stories Exhibition.
The Lock-Up COLLECT 2024. Arts in the Yard, Saturday at 10am.
Hunter Wetlands Centre Wetland Wonders, until August 30.
Watt Space Gallery Useful Objects, until August 31.
Multi-Arts Pavilion (MAP mima) You need not fear the monsters of the sea, by Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, until September 1.
Lighthouse Arts Heroine.
Playstate on Fern Mounted Trout Salesmen & other uncouth characters, by Gavin Coote, final weekend.
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.
Newcastle Museum A Place Called Hollywood, until February 2.
- Events can cancel at short notice
