SATURDAY
Maitland CWA Fundraising Stall 8.30am to 1pm, Maitland Bunnings.
East Maitland CWA Market Day 8am to 1pm, 162 George Street, East Maitland.
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.
Hunter Vintage & Retro Fair 9am onwards, West Wallsend Workers Club. A hot rod, custom and bike car show; rockabilly bands; vintage, retro, rockabilly and alternative clothing, and more.
Newcastle Dragon Boating Club Open Day 9am, 34 Tully Street, Carrington. Try the sport for free.
Lake Mac Chemical CleanOut 9am to 3.30pm, Thomas H Halton Park, Croudace Bay. Croudace Bay boat ramp will closed until approximately 5pm on Saturday. The closest boat ramp is at the Lions Park, Eleebana.
University of Newcastle Open Day 9am to 3pm, Callaghan and Newcastle City campuses.
Thomas Wines 2024 Spring Semersion Celebration 10am to 3pm, Thomas Wines Cellar Door, Pokoblin. The official release of the premium 2024 Semillon and 2018 Braemore Cellar Reserve Semillon plus live music, freshly shucked oysters, grilled fish and prawns, gelato, games and more.
Clean Up in the Parks + Skate Demo by George Richards 10am to 1pm, Wallsend Skatepark.
Spring Fair 10am to 3pm, St Philip's Christian College, Cessnock.
Newcastle Medieval Festival 10am to 4pm, Foreshore Park, Newcastle. Combat re-enactments, living history displays, markets and more. Also on Sunday.
Father-Son Linking Workshop 1pm to 4pm, Hunter Region Botanic Gardens, Heatherbrae. Create stainless steel chain bracelets with Marieke Treleor from Celtic Stag Gifts. Bookings essential.
Newcastle Family History Society - English Open Day 10am to 3pm, 68 Elder Street, Lambton.
Fashion Frenzy Newcastle-Hunter 9.30am to 12.30pm, 82-84 Belford Street, Broadmeadow.
Annie The Musical presented by Chookas Entertainment 1pm and 6pm, Civic Theatre, Newcastle.
Romanoff and Juliet by Peter Ustinov 8pm, Maitland Repertory Theatre. Also on Sunday at 2pm.
Bang and Bash Family Bonfire 6pm, Stroud Community Hall.
Saturday Night Showcase 7.30pm, Newcastle Comedy Club.
The Circus - Weber Bros Entertainment 2pm and 7.30pm, Garnham Grounds, 100 Church Street, Maitland. Also on Sunday, 1pm and 4pm.
Hunter Valley Night Markets 5.30pm to 7.30pm, Qirkz in the Hunter, Abermain.
SUNDAY
The Valley Markets 10am to 2pm, Tatler Wines, Lovedale.
Maitland Community Markets 9am to 1pm, Maitland Showground.
Homegrown Markets 10am to 2pm, Speers Point Park.
Adamstown Lions Markets 7am to noon, cnr Brunker and Glebe roads, Adamstown.
Newcastle City Farmers Markets 7am to 1pm, Newcastle Showground.
Maitland Rail Museum Open Day 10am to 3pm, Mount Dee Road, Maitland.
Lego Builders 10.30am to 12.30pm, Sugar Valley Library Museum. Bookings essential.
Facon Models Workshop National College of Dance. Runway training, photo shoots, personal branding workshops and more.
Newcastle Knights Double Header Noon, McDonald Jones Stadium, Broadmeadow. NRLW Knights vs Wests Tigers and NRL Knights vs Titans.
Rogue Scholar Choir 5.30pm, Rogue Scholar Brewing, Newcastle West.
MUSIC
Dune Rats, Fidlar (US) Saturday, Bar On The Hill.
Make Them Suffer, Bury Tomorrow (UK), Spite (US), Bloom Saturday, King Street Bandroom.
Between You & You, Teenage Joans Saturday, King Street Warehouse.
Tania Kernaghan & Jason Owen Saturday, Cessnock Performing Arts Centre.
Local Resident Failure, Hack The Mainframe, Ess-Em, Melvic Centre Saturday, Hamilton Station Hotel.
Time On Earth, New Anomaly, Halcyon Reign Saturday, Stag & Hunter Hotel.
Roshani Saturday, Flamingos Live.
Robertson Brothers 60s Variety TV Show Saturday, Belmont 16s.
Bin Lins Saturday, Racecourse Hotel, Wallsend.
The Southern River Band, Dead Witch Sunday, King Street Warehouse.
Melanie Dyer Sunday, Qirkz In The Hunter, Abermain.
Camino Gold, Colleen Ave, Zambino Jones Sunday, Hamilton Station Hotel.
Field Of Crows Sunday, Grand Junction Hotel, Maitland.
Lachlan Edwards Sunday, Adamstown Bowling Club.
ART
The Creator Incubator Show Me Your Drawers, by Leslie Duffin. The Circle, a group exhibition by Dorothy Compton, Clare Felton, Judith Hill, Deb Ansell, Maryanne Ireland and Jacquie McCoy. Until September 8.
Teahouse Newcastle Loving Larry, by Iyari.
Performance Arts Culture Cessnock (PACC) Philip Quirk's The Eisteddfods, until October 20.
Wester Gallery Streets of Our Town, by Mahalia Leckner and Jack Reading, until September 7.
Straitjacket Other Worldly, by Helena Newcombe, until September 8.
Back to Back Galleries EARTH: Woodfired & Ash Glazed Ceramics, by Bruce McWhinney. Final weekend.
LEDA Gallery Un-Blocked, by Polina Karuso, until September 18.
Timeless Textiles Joining Threads: SAQA Exhibition, until September 15.
Fireshed Gallery Wollombi By Nature, by Sheree Roberts and Jennifer Little, final weekend.
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.
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, final weekend. Arts in the Yard, Saturday at 10am.
Watt Space Gallery Useful Objects, final weekend.
Multi-Arts Pavilion (MAP mima) You need not fear the monsters of the sea, by Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson, final weekend.
Lighthouse Arts Heroine.
Maitland Regional Art Gallery Hold. Old Stories New Magic. Mother Lode. 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.
