The Shawshank Redemption - Hunter Drama Saturday, 2pm and 7.30pm, The Playhouse, Newcastle.
Here, There and Everywhere Saturday, 2pm and 7pm, The Creative Arts Space, Hamilton.
Steel Magnolias Saturday and Sunday, 2pm, Newcastle Theatre Company.
Ladies In Black Saturday, 8pm, Theatre on Brunker, Adamstown.
Fort Scratchley Gun Firing Saturday, noon and 1pm. Also, tunnel tours all weekend. Bookings essential.
Newcastle Food & Flower Markets Saturday, 8am to 2pm, Sunday, 8am to 1pm, 1 Rural Drive, Sandgate.
Singleton Art Prize Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 6pm, Singleton Civic Centre.
Backyard Composting and Worm Farms Saturday, 9am to 11.30am, Belmont Neighborhood Centre.
Clarence Town Markets Saturday, 8am to boon, Prince Street, Clarence Town.
Ultimate Fungal Wizardry Saturday, 11.30am to 1.30pm or 2.30pm to 4.30pm, The Place: Charlestown Community Centre.
National Tree Day Sunday, various locations.
Homegrown Market Sunday, 10am to 2pm, Speers Point Park.
The Voice Studio Family Concerts Sunday, 1pm and 7pm, Lizotte's Newcastle.
Public Skate Sessions Sunday, 11.30am to 2pm, Hunter Ice Skating Stadium, Warners Bay. Tickets $65 at stickytickets.com.au.
Adamstown Markets Sunday, 7am to 1pm, cnr Brunker and Glebe roads, Adamstown.
Newcastle City Farmers Market Sunday, 7am to 1pm, Newcastle Showground.
- Remember, events can cancel at late notice.
Art with Ahn Wells
This weekend sees the opening of Flowers, Feathers & Fings at Art Systems Wickham by Jacqueline Immens-McCoy.
Her subjects range from chickens, exotic and native Australian birds, to flowers. These themes have provided McCoy with both joy and an element of escape.
"The last 12 months has been a time of personal heartbreak and grief so picking up tools to create a work that's decanted from my environment has allowed me to lose myself in the process," she says.
The exhibition also incorporates Immens-McCoy's hand-built ceramics.
"Hand-building has always appealed to me. Using my hands and other tools to create a ceramic sculpture, organic vase or a screen print. The development bit-by-bit is at the heart of making for me," she says.
40 Annie St, Wichkam; Friday to Saturday 11am to 4pm.
Two + Two is on exhibition now until August 1 at SMAC Studios.
Consisting of two painters and two printmakers; Jackie Maudrell-Hall, Carol Archer, Steph Berrick and Leigh Dennis with each artist exhibiting their own interpretations of the world.
Maudrell-Hall says: "I'm tyring to capture the very essence of the natural landscape, the fleeting light and the wild moments of nature", while Berrick says "It is an exciting art form (printmaking) but also allows great freedom of creativity and experimentation."
Archer wants her viewers to feel immersed in the landscape and Dennis is "excited by the way the elements, paint, paper, water and the artist's vision blend to create the finished painting."
73 Elizabeth St, Tighes Hill; Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 4pm. Meet the artists during this time too.
Maitland Regional Art Gallerymembers art sale starts 10am on Friday, August 6, until Sunday, September 12.
The art sale includes over 300 paintings, prints and sculptures starting from $50 and including collectable artists such as David Boyd, Charles Blackman, Emily Besser, Lottie Consalvo, John Coburn, Nell; local artists including James Rhodes and Annabel Sutton plus painting from Warlukurlangu - Artists of Yuendumu and many more!
The sale is a fund-raising exhibition to help deliver the gallery's programs.
Clouds ends at Newcastle Art Space and Earthworks starts at Back to Back Galleries.
Ahn Wells is director of Gallery 139.
