SATURDAY
Medowie Markets 8am to noon, Bull n Bush Hotel, Medowie.
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.
2024 Newcastle Outdoor Adventure & Motoring Expo 8.30am to 4pm, Newcastle Entertainment Centre, Broadmeadow (also on Sunday).
Curious Minds Exhibition 9am to noon, Toronto Library. A hands-on science exhibition by year 9 and 10 students from Belmont High School, Cardiff High School, Erina High School and Rutherford Technology High School.
Twist on the Tales - Open Casting Call 9am to 5pm, The Underground, Newcastle. Artists of all genres invited.
Singleton Picnic Train Morning and afternoon journeys, Maitland to Singleton and Camberwell Loop (return).
Stores for Paws - Cat Rescue 10am to 2pm, Bunnings Wallsend, 10am to 4pm, Bunnings Cessnock.
A Place Called Hollywood Newcastle Museum. An exhibition telling the stories of those who lived, worked and played in an unofficial "suburb" of Newcastle established just outside Jesmond during the Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s.
Clay Day 10am to 11.30am, Newcastle Library. Help the Newcastle Migration Research Network build 600 tiny ceramic houses which represent the 600 refugees who have recently resettled in the Hunter Valley. They will be displayed at Watt Space Gallery during the New Annual Festival. Free but registrations essential.
The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever 2024 Noon, King Edward Park, Newcastle. Funds raised go to Warlga Ngurra Refuge.
Sleapy's Day - South Newcastle vs Maitland Noon, Townson Oval, Merewether.
44th NSW Annual State Square and Round Dancing Convention Tocal College, Paterson (also on Sunday).
Silent Disco Walking Tour 3pm, The Rogue Scholar, Newcastle West.
Jim Jefferies - Give 'Em What They Want Tour 7pm and 10pm, Civic Theatre, Newcastle.
Travelling Film Festival 2024 Event Cinemas Kotara. 10.30am, Dale Frank - Nobody's Sweetie. 1pm, The Monk and the Gun. 4pm, Black Dog. 7.15pm, I Saw The TV Glow; Die Bully Die (short film).
Newcastle Music Festival A Saxophone in Paris, 2.30pm; Ben Mingay and Friends with Sue Carson and Heather Price, 7.30pm. Harold Lobb Concert Hall, Newcastle Conservatorium of Music.
SUNDAY
Adamstown Lions Markets 7am to noon, cnr Brunker and Glebe roads, Adamstown.
Newcastle City Farmers Markets 7am to 1pm, Newcastle Showground.
Made & Found 10am to 2pm, Webb Park, Redhead.
Perfect Sunday Markets 1pm to 5pm, The Lass O'Gowrie Hotel, Wickham.
Cars for Corrina 8am to 1pm, Morisset Showground. A fundraiser for Corrina, a young mother of five children, who is living with Multiple Sclerosis.
Sea Shepherd Day for the Ocean 8.30am to 11.30am, Nobby's Beach, Newcastle East.
Fernleigh Awabakal Shared Track Opening 10am to noon, Alick Street, Belmont.
National Science Week at Hunter Region Botanic Gardens 10am to 2pm, Heatherbrae.
Free Dog Microchip Day 10am to 2pm, Bunnings at Morisset.
Miss Porter's House Museum Open Day 1pm to 4pm, 434 King Street, Newcastle West.
Eco Friendly Decorations Workshop 2pm to 4pm, Wallsend Library. Free but bookings essential.
NRL and NRLW Double Header - Newcastle Knights vs Wests Tigers 4pm, McDonald Jones Stadium, Newcastle.
Travelling Film Festival 2024 Event Cinemas Kotara. 10.30am, The Mountain. 12.30pm, You Should Have Been Here Yesterday. 3pm, Marcello Mio. 6.30pm, Kneecap.
Newcastle Music Festival The Festival Choir, 2.30pm, Christ Church Cathedral.
MUSIC
Spy (US), The Chain Saturday, 7pm, The Newcastle Hotel, Islington.
Caitlin Harnett & The Pony Boys Saturday, 7.30pm, The Stag & Hunter Hotel, Mayfield.
Hell Rips The Hamo VII ft Mondernite (Iceland), Plague Dweller, Irreperable, Asura Saturday, 7.30pm, The Hamilton Station Hotel.
Field of Crows Saturday, 8pm, The Family Hotel, Maitland.
The Strike Outs, Glycereens (double album launch) Saturday, 8.30pm, Royal Oak, Tighes Hill.
Stilling Street Singers present Imagine Sunday, 2pm, Toronto Uniting Church.
Vince Jones Sunday, 4pm, Warners Bay Theatre.
Kingswood Sunday, 6pm, King Street Hotel, Newcastle. Neptune at 8pm.
The Rolling Stones Revue - Stones Sticky Fingers Sunday, 7.30pm, Civic Theatre, Newcastle.
ART
Playstate on Fern Mounted Trout Salesmen, by Gavin Coote.
Museum of Art and Culture MAC yapang Including YOU, Including ME, Including US. Two Girls From Amoonguna. Alternating the Cube.
Newcastle Art Space Back & Forth.
The Creator Incubator When he started watching TV, his art career was over, by Michael Bell. Footsteps on the Landscape, by Steven Jankovic (The Little Space).
Raven Art Gallery Look Up On High, by Libby Cusick.
Onwards Gallery Scenes From Nowhere, by Caitlin Jackson.
Wester Gallery Surf City, by Matthew Wolfenden.
Grossman & Brough Houses Reconciliation NSW Schools Art Works, From River to Sea: Our Island Home.
LEDA Gallery Spare Room, by Lexie Worboys, Raffi Butler.
Singleton Arts + Cultural Centre LiddellWORKS Exhibition.
Back to Back Galleries The Essence of Nature, by Kerry McDonald, Anne Gazzard, Beth McDonald.
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 (final weekend).
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.
