The Buffel Harvest

Festival Hub 123 Gap Rd, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

From artist and researcher Dean West, The Buffel Harvest is an experimental performance orbiting around a live demonstration of how to grow Oyster Mushrooms using Central Australian weed species Buffel […]

$7.00 – $20.00

Come to the Edge & Dancing in the Air – 4pm Showing

Centralian Senior College 10 Grevillea Dr, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

Come to the edge. We might fall. Come to the edge. It’s too high! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed. And they flew. - Christopher Logue […]

$10.00 – $25.00

The Nestmakers – 8:30pm Showing

Festival Hub 123 Gap Rd, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

The Nestmakers is a time capsule of climate anxieties, a resting place for your doom and gloom. It is a funny and sad play about culpability and climate, bunkers and […]

$10.00 – $25.00

Dina: Should You Lose Your Belongings

Festival Hub 123 Gap Rd, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

Amidst times of questioning our losses, our sense of belonging and our resilience, songs came to be. This is a collaborative project initiated by Jakarta- born, now Mparntwe-based musician and […]

$20.00 – $33.00

From Infancy

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

Three women co-exist within a forest of plastic columns, experimenting with gentle but persistent acts which transform their bodies and surroundings over a six hour period. Their collective attempts to […]

Interplay x Desert Festival – The Edge

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

Fringe dwelling experiential spaces that bring together people and ideas to explore the heart and soul of the desert through multiple mediums and transitions This immersive experience brings together a […]

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  […]

Interplay x Desert Festival – The Edge – Community art installation

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

Interplay Project x Desert Festival Change has always come from the Edge Fringe dwelling experiential spaces that bring together people and ideas to explore the heart and soul of the […]

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 […]

Free

It takes longer than you think

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

'It takes longer than you think' is a mixed-media exhibition investigating the multiplicities of temporal experience in expanded and multiple frames. Drawing on Einstein’s special theory of relativity, black holes, […]

CDU x Desert Festival Paste-Up Passion Project

Charles Darwin University 10 Grevillea Dr, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

Join an exciting opportunity to create screen-printed posters and then paste your work up in a large-scale installation at Desert Festival. The CDU print studios will host a workshop for […]

Free

Voices from The Edge & Bush Expo

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

Interplay Project x Desert Festival The audience is invited to an experience of Deep Listening to the important but less-heard voices of in our community. 4pm - The Edge Community […]

Free

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

Araluen Arts Centre 61 Larapinta Drive, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

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 […]

$20 – $30

Karnage n Darknis // Victoria Alondra // Phantom Femme Fatale

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

One ticket, 2 performances! 6:30pm - Karnage n Darknis featuring spoken word by Victoria Alondra  8:30pm - Phantom Femme Fatale Not to be dismissed as a sexist figure of male […]

$15 – $25

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 […]

$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 […]

$10