MARKETS
The Olive Tree Market Saturday, 9am to 2pm, Civic Park, Newcastle.
Pelican Foreshore Markets Saturday, 9am to 1pm, Lakeview Parade, Pelican.
Glendale Farmers & Artisan Market Saturday, 8am to 2pm, Stockland Glendale.
Wallsend Community Markets Saturday, 10am to 1pm, Wallsend Rotunda.
Port Stephens Homemaker Markets Saturday, 9am to 1pm, Taylors Beach.
Hunter Wine Country Markets Saturday, 9am to 2pm, De Bortoli Wines, Lovedale.
Handmade in the Hunter Markets Saturday, 9am to 2pm, Sobels Wines, Pokolbin.
Maitland Community Markets Sunday, 9am to 1pm, Maitland Showground.
The Marina Market - Christmas Market Saturday, 4pm to 8pm, Nelson Bay Foreshore.
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, Fly Point.
Homegrown - Christmas Market 10am to 2pm, Speers Point Park.
MUSIC
Music of the Guns ft Australian Army Band Newcastle, Waratah Brass Band, Australian Military Wives Choir Saturday, 6pm, Fort Scratchley.
Me First and The Gimme Gimmes (USA), Dwarves, The Skarntz Saturday, 7.30pm, Bar On The Hill, Callaghan.
Toni Childs (USA) Saturday 7.30pm, Civic Theatre, Newcastle.
Pretty Things Fest ft. Georgie Winchester Special, Boycott, Kingsley James, Aunty Alan & The Uncools, Stoney Dubs Saturday 6.30pm, King Street Warehouse, Newcastle West.
Becoming Eliza starring Anna O'Byrne Saturday, 7.30pm, Warners Bay Theatre, baramayiba.
Hotter Than Donut Grease EP launch ft Grand Pricks, The Tall Stories & Dave favours & The Roadside Ashes Saturday 8pm, Stag & Hunter Hotel, Mayfield. Also on Sunday, 3.30pm, at Grand Junction Hotel, Maitland.
Old Friends Sing Sondheim Saturday 8.30pm, Flamingos Live, Lambton.
Black Rheno, Evocatus, I Hate People, Phantom Saturday, 8pm, Hamilton Station Hotel, Islington.
Singalong - Favourites and Farewell Sunday, 2pm, Adamstown Uniting Church.
Ben Lee, The Tryouts Sunday, 5.30pm, Qirkz In The Hunter, Abermain.
Acacia Blue, Chloe Gill Sunday, 7pm, Hamilton Station Hotel, Islington.
SATURDAY
Household Chemical CleanOut 9am to 3.30pm, Newcastle TAFE student car park, Tighes Hill.
Native Plant Sale 9am to 1pm, Hunter Region Botanic Gardens.
Clarence Town Swim In and Rally 9.15am, Clarence Town.
Coal Point Fete 10am to 4pm, Coal Point Public School.
Vintage Japanese Motorcycle Show and Shine 9am to 1pm, Glendale AMX.
Dinosaurs: Surviving Extinction Newcastle Museum. Also on Sunday.
Plant Swap and Garden Tools Repair 10am to noon, Lambton Library.
Windale Hub Author Talks 10am, True Crime Uncovered with Michael Adams and Mark Dapin. Lest: Australian War Myths with Mark Dapin, 11.15am. Warra Warra Wai - How Indigenous Australians discovered Captain Cook, 12.30pm.
Denman Wine Food and Film Affair 11am to 4pm, Ogilvie Street, Denman.
Author Talk with Wayne McLennan - Coal Town 10.30am, Cessnock Library.
Dobell House Open Day 1pm to 4pm, 47 Dobell Drive, Wangi Wangi. Also on Sunday.
Art Studio Workshops for High Schoolers Noon to 2.30pm, Museum of Art and Culture yapang, Booragul.
Halloween Disco Noon to 3pm, Hunter Region Botanic Gardens.
SES Women Helping Women Workshop 2pm, NSW SES Newcastle Unit, Mayfield West. Registrations essential.
Disney's The Little Mermaid JR 2pm and 6pm, Young People's Theatre, Hamilton.
Christmas Lights Spectacular 5.30pm to 10pm, Hunter Valley Gardens. Also on Sunday.
The Game's Afoot 7.30pm, Newcastle Theatre Company, Lambton. Also on Sunday at 2pm and 7.30pm.
The Mane Event - A Mark Hughes Foundation Fundraiser 5pm, Pasterfield Community Centre, Cameron Park.
The Singing Circle 5pm to 7.30pm, Hamilton Community Hive.
Newcastle Comedy Showcase with He Huang 7.30pm, The Playhouse, Newcastle.
SUNDAY
2024 NSW State Pipe Band Association Championships 9am to 4pm, Maitland Showground.
Veterans Cricket Australia Over 50 Championships 2024 9am to 4pm, No 1 Sportsground, Hamilton.
Kids Graffiti Workshops 10am and 2pm, Playstate on Fern, Islington.
Lego Builders 10.30am to 12.30pm, Sugar Valley Library Museum, Cameron Park.
ART
Lake Mac Open Studios 2024 10am to 4pm, various locations. Also on Sunday.
Virtual Museum Tour - History of Australian Art Saturday, 2pm, Multi-Arts Pavilion (MAP mima), Speers Point.
HMRI Art Series Exhibition: Meet the Artist Evening Saturday, 6pm to 10pm, Ravella, 48 Watt Street, Newcastle.
LEDA Gallery Meander, by Saltwater Woman, until November 20.
Brough House Figtree Connection Exhibition, by Janet Steele.
Rathmines Heritage Centre Max Dupain: Art and War, until November 10.
Lighthouse Arts Blooming, until December 1.
Back to Back Galleries Eclectica2 Paintings & Ceramics Exhibition. Final weekend.
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.
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. 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) Lionel's Place.
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.
