SATELLITE EVENTS

Want even more? Check out these other great events happening during the Desert Festival period.   Straight Outta Compton with Lil Eazy E Alice Springs, get ready for a night […]

Dream Big Block Party: BBQ + Pass the Mic Competition

Araluen Arts Centre 61 Larapinta Drive

Kick off the night with a massive youth block party — free community BBQ, welcome to country, youth advocacy stalls, free haircuts. Connect with local services, yarn with community leaders, […]

Free entry, all welcome

Calling Home

2 Crispe Street

In a world where people are displaced, languages and mythologies lost, and treaties ignored — how do we find our home? Calling Home is a live, participatory performance created using […]

Free, but registrations required

Underworld Theatre

Garden Palace Studio 2 Mueller St, East Side

Four years ago, Christopher was flipped into the Underworld—a place where extreme anxiety meets deep depression. Underworld Theatre is a raw, imaginative journey through that descent, told through encounters with […]

$25

Underworld Theatre

Garden Palace Studio 2 Mueller St, East Side

Four years ago, Christopher was flipped into the Underworld—a place where extreme anxiety meets deep depression. Underworld Theatre is a raw, imaginative journey through that descent, told through encounters with […]

$15 – $35

Come To The Edge

Centralian Senior College 10 Grevillea Dr

Dusty Feet Dance Collective With evocative music, quirky characters, and striking aerial choreography, Come to the Edge invites you to leap into the unknown. Created and performed by Miriam Nicholls […]

$10 – $50

Come To The Edge

Centralian Senior College 10 Grevillea Dr

Dusty Feet Dance Collective With evocative music, quirky characters, and striking aerial choreography, Come to the Edge invites you to leap into the unknown. Created and performed by Miriam Nicholls […]

$10 – $50

Cruise Control

Epilogue Rooftop Lounge 1/58 Todd St

Cruise Control is an electronic dance party born from a love of independent, so-called ‘Australian’ electronic music. After over a year of broadcasting weekly on 8CCC, it’s built a vibrant […]

$15 – $20

BIG NAME, NO BLANKETS

Araluen Arts Centre 61 Larapinta Drive

By Andrea James with Anyupa Butcher and Sammy Tjapanangka Butcher "You might think we're flash up here on this big stage, with big lights and big hair but we come […]

$75

LAUNCH: Alice to Mparntwe

Watch This Space 8 Gap Rd

Watch this Space X CDU Academy of the Arts   This interactive exhibition, curated by Doris Stuart, Dan Murphy and Lucy Stewart, features creative responses inspired by the long-running and […]

Free

Tiny Infinite Deaths

Araluen Arts Centre Studio 61 Larapinta Drive

Amber McCartney X GUTS Dance The maggot will be your guide through the in-between. Don't take anything with you, remove your jewellery, watch and unzip. ‘Tiny Infinite Deaths’, commissioned by […]

$10 – $25

BIG NAME, NO BLANKETS

Araluen Arts Centre 61 Larapinta Drive

By Andrea James with Anyupa Butcher and Sammy Tjapanangka Butcher   "You might think we're flash up here on this big stage, with big lights and big hair but we […]

$75

Frequencies & Movements

Araluen Arts Centre - Gallery 61 Larapinta Drive

Luiz Gabriel Gubeissi & Miriam Nicholls   Dance and double bass merge to create spontaneous art. This duo explores shifting perspectives between dancer and musician—the relationship between space and time, […]

Free

Alice to Mparntwe

Watch This Space 8 Gap Rd

Watch this Space X CDU Academy of the Arts   This interactive exhibition, curated by Doris Stuart, Dan Murphy and Lucy Stewart, features creative responses inspired by the long-running and […]

Free

Mparntwe String Band Bush Dance

Witchetty's, Araluen Art Centre 61 Larapinta Drive

Alice Springs Folk Club   After their sold-out success at Desert Festival 2023, the Alice Springs Folk Club returns with the Mparntwe String Band Bush Dance. Expect special guest appearances […]

$10 – $25