NT’s One Mile Brewery to host Craft Beer Craft Fair event

‘You couldn’t really do this sort of craft fair anywhere else in Australia,’ says one artist. Read more for where to enjoy art and a schooner this weekend.

Darwin’s answer to The Louvre arrives this weekend as art and beer lovers prepare to descend on a colourful beer garden.

The Top End’s Craft Beer Craft Fair event, an idea born over a schooner, will return to the One Mile Brewery this Saturday and Crafty Conway artist Elle Conway said she was excited to deliver arts, crafts, and beer “in Territory style”.

“(The event) basically brings together a lot of local creators at a pretty cool brewery here in Darwin and it’s all about encouraging Christmas shopping in a pretty crazy environment,” she said.

“You can get a beer while you do your shopping, it’s kind of the opposite of all your big busy shopping centres – you can sort of do it in Territory style.

“You couldn’t really do this sort of craft fair anywhere else in Australia.”

Stuart Brown and Elle Conway preparing for Saturday's Craft Beer Craft Fair at the One Mile Brewery. Picture: Pema Tamang Pakhrin

Ceramics, digital art, candles, mugs and jewellery are just some of the items to feature – all made by Territory artists.

Despite the event’s small beginnings, Ms Conway said the event’s future had potential to expand.

“(The event) is quite intimate but in saying that we have had conversations about looking at maybe a bigger sort of event like in the dry season.”

The event starts 12pm this Saturday at the One Mile Brewery in Winnellie.

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