ASTC x Desert Festival Night Market

Todd Mall Todd Mall, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

Live entertainment, food from across the globe, and unique crafts and culture will fill the Todd Mall. Come and check out great live acts by Sissy Fu!, Michael Connell, Super Raelene Harmonium band, and the The Holy Dimes. Michael Connell Imagine a cross between Jerry Seinfeld and Cirque Du Soleil and you'd have something like […]

Opening Night feat. Music // Dance // Theatre performances

Olive Pink Botanic Gardens 27 Tuncks Rd, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

Please join us at 5:30pm for the official Welcome to Arrernte Country with Kumalie Riley.  Featured performances include: 5:45pm - Ayenge Arrweketye (I Am Woman) - Toni Lord X GUTS  GUTS Dance and emerging Indigenous choreographer Toni-louise Lord share Ayenge Arrweketye, in Arrernte, meaning "I am Woman". Indigenous Contemporary Dance piece, Ayenge Arrweketye, is an […]

Jamie MacDowell & Tom Thum – Vocal and Sampling workshop

Red Hot Arts Central Australia 67 Bath street, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

World renowned beatboxer Tom Thum, and talented musician-songwriter Jamie MacDowell guide you through an interactive vocal and sampling workshop for participants of all skill levels. In this hands-on session, participants will learn how to create, manipulate and arrange sampled sounds to craft compelling musical compositions. Please note this is and Adults only workshop. FREE - […]

Free

Mparntwe Bush Dance

Olive Pink Botanic Gardens 27 Tuncks Rd, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

One ticket, 3 performances!   5pm - Music that Moves - Dusty Feet Dance Collective - Project Seed Music that Moves is a collaborative performance between Dusty Feet Dance Collective and the World Chamber Orchestra, featuring four dancers and a string quartet. Set at the beautiful Olive Pink Botanic Gardens, with composers including Elena Kat-Chernin, […]

$10 – $60

Espie St AllStars // Songs of Spring – The Splinter Sisters // Hive Alive – Bee Theatre

Olive Pink Botanic Gardens 27 Tuncks Rd, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

One ticket, 3 performances! 6pm - Songs of Spring by The Splinter Sisters The Splinters Sisters invite you to celebrate the new beginnings of Spring through song. From a Swedish love ballad about wrapping flowers around your heart, to a Spanish song opening doors to new beginnings, and closer to home with a Torres Strait […]

Ampe-mape Alyelheme! (Kids Sing!) Album Launch

Olive Pink Botanic Gardens 27 Tuncks Rd, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

Join Children's Ground to launch our album of deadly, uplifting Arrernte songs for children: 'Ampe-mape Alyelheme! (Kids Sing!)'. The first children’s Arrernte language album of its kind – created by Arrernte artists, families and educators during this International Decade of Indigenous Languages. Come for a dance and, sing along with us to our versions of […]

Free

ASTC x Desert Festival Pop Up Park

Lyndavale Park 41 Lyndavale Dr,, Larapinta, NT, Australia

Alice Springs Town Council invites all community members to enjoy the Desert Festival Pop Up Park held at Lyndavale Park, Larapinta from 4-7pm. Join local Hip Hop legends Dan the Underdog, Karnage N Darknis & Dem Arrente Mob for an evening of live music and festivities at Lyndavale Park. There will also be a Youth […]

Free

THE GUTTER: Holey Communion feat. Madam and the Mafia & Homostasis

Araluen Arts Centre 61 Larapinta Drive

The much anticipated second run of The Gutter Collective’s Holey Cummunion will take audiences back into the sacred Church of Erotica, exploring themes of ritual, kink, queer eroticism, and an insight into the backstage world of a strip club and brothel.  Madam & the Mafia are joined by their filthy gutter family of hookers, queerdos […]

$20 – $30

Synth School with RONA.: The Sound behind the Song

Red Hot Arts Central Australia 67 Bath street, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

In partnership with In The Mix As part of Desert Festival’s Synth School series join Kaytetye producer and DJ, RONA. for a music production workshop. Discover her unique sound, production techniques, and methodologies as you unpack track stems. Share ideas, connect with others, and bring your creativity. Joining RONA. to host this workshop, is the […]

$10

Synth School with V.N Lucarelli

Red Hot Arts Central Australia 67 Bath street, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

Build an electronic sound circuit As part of Desert Festival’s Synth School series, join Vito Lucarelli (they/them), for a workshop & demystify and exploring the fundamentals of synthesisers. If you've ever wondered what some terms like frequency, waveshape or oscillator sync mean, or what the insides of some synthesisers look like, then this workshop just might be […]

$10

Opening Event: Timepiece and CRISÁLIDA

Olive Pink Botanic Gardens 27 Tuncks Rd, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

Red Hot Arts Project Seed Join us for the grand opening of two new works by inspiring homegrown artists. Places are limited, so make sure you register to welcome these two impressive Project Seed artworks into fruition. ______________________ CRISÁLIDA Opening: 6pm-8.30pm The first collaboration between dance artist Ashleigh Musk and video artist Ivan Trigo Miras, […]

Free

CRISÁLIDA

Olive Pink Botanic Gardens 27 Tuncks Rd, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

Ashleigh Musk & Ivan Trigo Opening Event  -  Thursday 26 Sep, 6pm - 8.30pm Reflective by nature, CRISÁLIDA 26 Sep – Sun 6 Oct, is a moment of calm in a rapidly shifting world. This immersive installation wrestles with our relationships to time, intimacy, landscape and money through the lens of the body, entangling the […]

Free

Joe Camilleri and the Black Sorrows

Araluen Arts Centre 61 Larapinta Drive

Araluen Arts Centre  28 September 2024, 7pm Joe Camilleri and The Black Sorrows are coming to town for one show only! _________________________________________ Joe Camilleri has been at the forefront of the Australian music scene for decades as the leader of Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons and The Black Sorrows, and as writer of radio […]

$40 – $69