After a short break from our huge festival season in 2025, we’re going ON TOUR!

Scroll below to explore an exciting program of Indonesian acts, food pop-ups and workshops.

Yuk nongkrong bareng lagi!

SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2026 | 3PM tIL’ LATE

sODA GEMBIRA

MISCELLANIA NAARM (MELBOURNE) | BUY TICKETS (18+)

Nongkrong’s club night returns for its second iteration. A nod to the classic Indonesian pink drink, – fruity, layered, and delightfully extra – brings the same playful energy to the dance floor, with a cheeky edge that’s all about self-expression and shaking. dat. ass.

With dancers and DJs taking over, expect a journey through Indonesia’s underrepresented club sounds from dangdut, koplo, funkot, jedag jedug to breakbeat.

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Amira - Bobo - Cristal No.5 - Miss Diesel - Olita - Ones - Rivi - Sakidasumi - Yani

HACKING kRACKING

SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2026 | 5.30 - 9.30PM

LAUNDRY STUDIO GARRAMILLA (DARWIN) | BUY TICKETS

Join us for a collaborative printmaking experience where experimentation and exchange come together through printmaking. Developed by Krack! Studio and facilitated by artists from Darwin and Yogyakarta as part of Dog-Eared Darwin Print Fair.

Alongside printmaking, enjoy food, karaoke, and a welcoming social environment inspired by the Indonesian tradition of hanging out and spending time together.

SATURDAY 22 AUGUST 2026 | 2PM - 10.30PM

MISSION TO SEAFARERS NAARM (MELBOURNE) | FREE

An event of myth and metaphor, Gerhana urges us to remember against the devouring forces of forgetting – a gathering of people who understand what it means to be between two worlds and who know what it means to carry more than one world inside them.

There will be music, performances, a shadow puppet workshop and of course, food. From 2pm, Indonesian DJ’s will be bringing visibility to the often invisible architecture of ancestry and continuity through sound. Special live performances will take place in the Courtyard throughout the day, but what and when, you’ll just have to be there.

This event is free and for attendees of all ages.

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Addin Sugarda – Aisyah Kirana – Amira – Eka Poedijono – Gamelan DanAnda – Komang (DJ) – Mschess – Miras – Yani – Yasmin X Sekar

GERHANA

SATURDAY 22 AUGUST 2026 | 6PM - 10PM

MISSION TO SEAFARERS NAARM (MELBOURNE) | BUY TICKETS (18+)

Supported by Liquid Architecture

In Javanese cosmology, Batara Kala is the devouring god that moves through all things, usually unseen, but always present. In Java, people respond to gerhana by making noise together: beating drums, banging pots, shouting at the sky.

In a special ticket experience within the Dome of Mission to Seafarers, Nongkrong presents three live acts that bring visibility to the invisible architecture of time, ancestry, loss, and continuity through sound. This event invites you to make collective noise, and listen to the experimental sounds of the diaspora that have been shaped by Country, relationship and movement.

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Ria Soemardjo with Keshav Yoganathan - Excited State!!! - Sundialll (ID/TW)

gERHANA AT THE DOME

fRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2026 | 8PM tIL’ LATE

SODA GEMBIRA

RED RATTLER GADIGAL (MARRICKVILLE, SYDNEY) | TICKETS (18+)

For the first time, and one night only, Nongkrong’s club night, Soda Gembira, is throwing it down at the beloved Red Rattler Theatre this August for its Eora/Sydney takeover.

A nod to the classic Indonesian pink drink, we’re serving the same fizzy, equal parts playful and a little nakal energy to the dance floor – a love letter to self-expression and the ass-shaking club angels.

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Adinda - Cristal No.5 - malco2m - Talisha - Fio Gede Parma - Pipin Paradigma - Sasha Brown - Xenomorphia

SUNDAY 30 AUGUST 2026 | 12 - 5PM

SEASON ARI GADIGAL (ZETLAND, SYDNEY) | WALK-IN ONLY

Co-presented with season ARI

Gotong Royong translates to ‘working together for a shared purpose’.

Nongkrong brings together cooks, chefs and food practitioners from different diasporas, each presenting their version of their culture’s rice porridge. The event will be free entry, all ages with accessible pricing for bowls of rice porridge.

The Sydney edition will include free karaoke - a hearty singalong to go along with a nourishing bowl.