What’s On In Newcastle? Here’s Your Insider’s Guide

by Skye on August 3, 2012

Take a good look through our What’s On guide where we have loads of music, arts and a little relaxation for you to enjoy in Newcastle this week. 

Friday 3 August

Health Harmony Soul Expo @ Newcastle Entertainment Centre

Running from the 3rd - 5th August

3 Days of HEALTH, WELLBEING & SPIRITUALITY! FREE Workshops, Seminars & Classes run by Leaders and Specialists in their fields. Join MITCHELL COOMBES on stage daily! Discover your destiny, improve your health, relax and learn the pathway to inner peace. Discounted Tickets offers will be available on Facebook, keep updated! www.healthharmonysoul.com.au

Contact:  07 5538 7118 info@ctmevents.com.au

Man in Black @ Civic Theatre

After a sell-out season at Sydney Opera House, an 18 month Australia wide tour, a triumphant tour of New Zealand and a Helpmann Award for Best Contemporary Australian Concert, The Man in Black is coming to Newcastle for one show only at Civic Theatre, Newcastle on Saturday 4 August 2012.

Australian rock legend Tex Perkins takes to the stage in this sensational two-hour concert featuring the legendary songs of Johnny Cash interwoven with the story of his rise to stardom, his fight for survival and his eventual redemption.

Cash, who died in 2003, was one of America’s most influential country music stars. He sold well over 50 million records in his lifetime and his music is still selling today. Johnny Cash was dealt a very tough hand early in life, but through his music and dedication he became a legend throughout the world.

The challenging life of the music superstar and his legacy of powerful hit songs will be brought to life with all the laid-back intensity of The Man himself in The Man in Black.

Written by Australian theatrical producer Jim McPherson (writer of the smash hit show starring Rick Price, The John Denver Story: Take Me Home Country Road), who confesses to a 40-year fascination with the wildly unpredictable star, The Man in Black features the hits Ring of Fire, I Walk the Line, Folsom Prison Blues, Sunday Mornin’ Coming Down, Get Rhythm, A Boy Named Sue, Hey Porter and more.

Renowned as one of the wildest men in Australian rock, singer with the multi-ARIA Award-winning Cruel Sea, Beasts of Bourbon and Ladyboyz, Tex Perkins will lead The Tennessee Four in a night of magnificent music. Joined on stage by Rachael Tidd, as the beautiful and long-suffering June Carter, it’s a lethal and haunting combination, when Perkins plays one of the most influential American singer songwriters of the 20th Century.

Dates?: Friday 3 August & Saturday 4 August 2012 8PM

Saturday 4 August

The Olive Tree Markets

Come along to Junction Public School on the first Saturday of every month, and pick up some unique gifts, homewares, nick nacks or find an absolute bargin. And let’s be honest, who doesn’t love a bargin. With plenty of products produced with the local Newcastle community, or sourced from unusual locations, you’ll be sure to find a whole lot of special somethings, unique that friends will just want to know from where you got them.

Stalls include: printmaking, jewellery, design, handmade toys, fashion, photography, ceramics and more! There is also delicious food, organic bread, coffee and plants. Local musicians, including Samba Frog and Fode Mane, play at each market. Buskers are welcome!

Contact: Justine Gaudry on 0439 649 058 or visit their site here

Where?: Junction Public School, Union Street, The Junction Aus 2291

 The Ruby Revue Burlesque @ Lizottes

From the producers of The Burlesque Ball & Miss Burlesque Australia, The Ruby Revue has repeatedly been named as Sydney’s Number 1 Burlesque Show. After 5 sell out years, and a constant roster of the top burlesque artists (past performers include Dirty Martini, Chrys Columbine, Imogen Kelly + MORE) we are bringing the “show on the road” to Newcastle with some of our finest.

Reading like the who’s who of Burlesque, we will be bringing you an assortment of Australian stars Frankie Valentine, Mimi Le Noire, Heidi Hoops & Zoe Linnane !! So book now and see what all the fuss is about!!!

Main meal + show = $91

Show only = $49

Tickets see Lizottes

Red Fire Red @ The Northern Start Hotel 

RED FIRE RED is bringing their outstanding high-energy rock show to the NORTHERN STAR HOTEL on SATURDAY 4 AUGUST for the last date of their “SHAKE YOUR CAGE” tour of NSW.

Emerging from the underground, RED FIRE RED has carved out a solid reputation as the band to watch in 2012. With their debut album receiving critical praise and national airplay, the band has been dubbed “the dark horse of the Aussie music scene”.

The boys will be heading into the studio after the tour with producer Ian Pritchett (Angus & Julia Stone, Beautiful Girls) to record their new single “COLD INTO NOTHING” which is to be released in October.

Where?: 112 Beaumont St Hamilton

Ministry of Sound - Session 9 @ King Street Hotel

With the sun setting on another working week, we are only a few hours away from another killer weekend of clubbing action courtesy of Ministry of Sound.

The Sessions Nine tour has been demolishing dancefloors all over the country and this weekend is shaping to be no different with 3 huge shows across 2 nights and 3 states!

Saturday night sees the dynamic duo of Timmy Trumpet & Tom Piper join forces, for one monster double billing at Newcastles King St Hotel.

See you on the dancefloor!!

$10 entry. No presale.

Doors open 9pm.

Reggae Got Soul @ THe  Great Northern Hotel 

Reggae Got Soul is a musical trip to another time and another place with DJs spinning the best selection of vintage reggae, soul, Motown, northern soul, funk, R&B, MOD, rock & roll, rocksteady and traditional ska, all on vinyl 45s and 33s.

Where?: Tiki Bar @ The Great Northern Hotel (89 Scott Street Newcastle).

Time?: 8pm - late!

FREE!

Sunday 5 August

 ARThive

ARThive’s first massively multiplayer art exhibition themed around video games and game culture! We’ve assembled an incredible group of local artists paying tribute to their favourite games, characters, and consoles. Opening reception from 2pm Sunday August 5 with special live music performances by experimental electronica groups MEN64 and THE MERMAIDS, and a highly competitive MARIO KART 64 tournament. If you can’t make it, the exhibition will continue throughout August so there’s plenty of chance to get in and check out the show during regular gallery opening hours.

FEATURED ARTISTS

Ben Mitchell, OX KING, Shana Dennis, Butch Moon, Jessica Louttit, Eddie Botha, Ben Kennedy, Mike Foxall, Amanda Reeves, Daniel Smith, Marika Mihan, Sarah Mould, Lu Quade, Grant Hunter, Kate Burton, Daniel Purvis, Stu McDonald, KEZ, Smella Catshine, April Cotton, Adam Blake, GWAN, Ben Smith, Effie Dee + maybe more!!!

Where?: ARThive. Level 1/111 Hunter St Newcastle

When?: Sunday August 5 from 2pm

Monday 6th August

Reverence Exhibition @ Emma Soup 

THATS RIGHT! It’s another exciting art exhibition at Emma Soup and The Soup Can Gallery!

This August we will be featuring the work of Yasmin Nebenfuhr with her solo exhibition ‘Reverence’

Reverence will be a purely photographic exhibition of epic proportion. Yasmin promises to be the next up-and-comer in the Newcastle art scene and her exhibition is an experience not to be missed.

 

Tuesday 7th August

Lego Brickworks @ THe Newcastle Museum

Unique pieces of LEGO brick art to go on show on at the Newcastle Museum as the latest part of LEGO Festival of Play - Continuing to celebrate 50 years of the LEGO brick in Australia, LEGO Australia has teamed up with various creative personalities including Romance Was Born and Adriano Zumbo to build an exhibition of unique art mosaics, made entirely from the iconic colourful LEGO bricks. Now, after being on display in Sydney, the mosaics have hit the road and taken up residence at Newcastle Museum where they’ll be on display from 1 August to 7 September, giving Novocastrians the chance to see these colourful, world-first creations. Creative Australians from a variety of industries were invited to take part in Brickworks by submitting their own distinct design inspired by play to be turned into a LEGO brick mosaic up to 1.1m tall.

The LEGO Brickworks exhibition offers something for everyone, with personal creations from fashion designers Romance Was Born, patissier Adriano Zumbo, tattoo artist and illustrator Simplesime and child artist Max Treffkorn, to name a few. Each design was inspired by the artists? take on play and the endless possibilities of the LEGO brick, and was meticulously built by one of only 13 LEGO Certified Professionals in the world, Australia’s own Ryan McNaught, and a team of skillful helpers over three weeks. Visit LEGOfestival.com.au online or on your mobile to find out more. LEGO Brickworks will next head to Ipswich from 11 September , 7 October.

When?: 1st August to 7th September 2012

Where?: Newcastle Museum

Contact?: Colette Cordes, One Green Bean, Colette@onegreenbean.com.au | 0451 269 161 | 02 8020 1807

Contemporary Indigenous Art and Design @ Front Room Gallery

The staff and students of Newcastle Art School and the Front Room Gallery invite you to the second Museum Practices exhibition of contemporary indigenous art & design. This project has been curated, promoted and managed by students enrolled in our Museum Practices course.

We look forward to seeing you at the opening event.

Contact?: Hunter TAFE

Address 582 - 608 Hunter Street Newcastle West, NSW, 2380.

Wednesday 8th August

 Bluejuice @ Bar on the Hill!

The Bar on the Hill has just been announced as the starting point for musical miscreants Bluejuice’s Winter of Our Discotheque Campus Tour on August 8. The tour coincides with the release of Bluejuice’s 4th single ‘The Recession’ and will go on to take over more than a dozen other campuses. Joining Bluejuice on their academic odyssey will be Deep Sea Arcade and The Preachers.

Win a free double pass to the show here!