{"id":551,"date":"2016-12-22T15:52:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T06:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/?page_id=551"},"modified":"2025-06-11T14:00:51","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T04:30:51","slug":"seniors-expo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/about-us\/seniors-expo\/","title":{"rendered":"About COTA NT Seniors Expos"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_91299\" style=\"width: 223px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91299\" class=\"wp-image-91299 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Darwin-Expo-2025-213x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-91299\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/darwin-seniors-expo-2025\/\">here <\/a>for program info &amp; promotional artwork.<\/p><\/div>\n<h1>COTA NT&#8217;s Seniors Expos<\/h1>\n<p><strong>COTA NT created Seniors Expos to bring people together \u2013 to foster community connections, to help conversations happen and to celebrate the contribution that seniors continue to make to the Northern Territory.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The first Seniors Expo focused on an open &#8220;one-stop&#8221; community event specifically for seniors &#8211; where stakeholder smet with service providers, businesses and community groups focusing on seniors&#8217; issues, concerns and lifestyle. Lord Mayor of Darwin, Katrina Fong Lim described Seniors EXPO as a &#8220;very special community event&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h2>COTA NT&#8217;s Seniors expos<\/h2>\n<p>All of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/seniors-expos\/\">COTA NT&#8217;s Seniors Expos<\/a> since 2015<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>COTA NT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/seniors-expo\/darwin-seniors-expos\/\">Seniors Expos in Darwin and Palmerston<\/a><\/li>\n<li>COTA NT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/seniors-expo\/alice-springs-seniors-expos\/\">Seniors Expos in Alice Springs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>COTA NT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/darwin-rural-seniors-days\/\">Seniors Days in Darwin Rural<\/a><\/li>\n<li>COTA NT <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/about-us\/seniors-expo\/katherine-seniors-expos\/\">Seniors Expos in Katherine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>About COTA NT Seniors Expos<\/h2>\n<h3>Quick facts and stats*<\/h3>\n<p>The first Seniors EXPO was held in Darwin in 2015 and won the Australia Day Award for Community Event of the Year award. It attracted over 400 people. The latest Darwin Expo attracted over 2 500. COTA NT&#8217;s Seniors Expos in all regions continue to grow from strength to strength &#8211; in reach and reputation (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/about-us\/what-you-say-about-cota-nt\/\">what people say about COTA NT&#8217;s Expos<\/a>).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Expo in Darwin attracts approximately 2 500 people and 80 &#8211; 90 exhibitors.<\/li>\n<li>Expo in Alice Springs attracts approximately 500\u00a0 people and 55 exhibitors.<\/li>\n<li>Expo in Katherine attracts\u00a0approximately 250 people and 40 exhibitors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>* based on numbers attending most recent Expo in each region.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Page updated June 2025<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COTA NT&#8217;s Seniors Expos COTA NT created Seniors Expos to bring people together \u2013 to foster community connections, to help conversations happen and to celebrate&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":7,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"custom-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"TEC\\Tickets\\Commerce\\Module","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-551","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551"}],"version-history":[{"count":129,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98101,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/551\/revisions\/98101"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotant.org.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}