SATURDAY 15 AUGUST 2026 | 3PM tIL’ LATE
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.
LINEUP
Amira - Bobo - Cristal No.5 - Miss Diesel - Olita - Ones - Rivi - Sakidasumi - Yani
sODA GEMBIRA
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.
HACKING CRACKING
SATURDAY 22 AUGUST 2026 | ?PM tIL’ LATE
GERHANA
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.
SATURDAY 22 AUGUST 2026 | ?PM tIL’ LATE
MISSION TO SEAFARERS NAARM (MELBOURNE) | BUY TICKETS (18+)
Presented as part of Liquid Architecture Intersonix
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.
LINEUP
Ria Soemardjo with Keshav Yoganathan - Excited State!!! - Sundialll (ID/TW)
gERHANA AT THE DOME
fRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2026 | ?PM tIL’ LATE
SODA GEMBIRA
RED RATTLER GADIGAL (MARRICKVILLE, SYDNEY) | TICKETS (18+)
Nongkrong’s club night. A nod to the classic Indonesian pink drink—fruity, layered, and delightfully extra—this event brings the same playful energy to the dance floor, with a cheeky edge that’s all about self-expression and shaking. dat. ass.
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.
GOTONG ROYONG
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