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It takes longer than you think – Exhibition Opening & Artist Talk

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

Join, Project Seed artists Gretel Bull & Jaxon Waterhouse at in-depth artist talk about their project concept, design process and how exploding ceramics pieces makes you feel. '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, […]

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Jamie MacDowell & Tom Thum // Katanga Junior & the Mparntwe Queen // Dem Arrernte Mob // Entropy

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

One ticket, 4 performances! 7pm - Dem Arrernte Mob  Project Seed Delivery Dem Arrernte Mob have been working with emerging Indigenous artists to develop a showcase of original music that breathes Central Australian life. Nooks, Villain and Vito have been assisting local artists to delve into the world of music production,  collaboration and performance. Bringing […]

$20 – $40
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Swashbuckling Sunday Arrrrrr-fternoon

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

One ticket, 2 performances! 1pm - Sea Shanty Workshop  The world’s most terrible pirate, Captain Theodore Salmonbeard, is heading to Alice Springs in search of the finest sea shanties! In partnership with local buccaneering scallywags, The Fly Swats, the Captain is asking for your help to create and perform a unique sea shanty, born of […]

$25

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

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 high-school students to explore playful and political approaches investigating critical, contemporary issues that participants are passionate about; providing the opportunity to communicate their messages through […]

Free

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

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 Bush Expo; Sharing Knowledge & Ideas The Edge huts host a bush style expo event that brings together people and cultures to share knowledge, passions […]

Free
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Bush Foods Dinner with Rayleen Brown

Alice Springs Desert Park 871 Larapinta Dr,, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

The bushfoods inspired dinner is a culinary journey that not only tantalises the taste buds but also pays tribute to the knowledge of local indigenous women and their sustainable harvesting practices.   This menu showcases the interconnectedness of culture, nature and ethics creating a memorable dinning experience that honours the land and its caretakers. All […]

$150

Shadows of the Prehistoric Past

Megafauna Central 21 Todd Street Mall, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

Come on a journey to discover some of the amazing prehistoric stories of the Northern Territory. In a delightful adventure for the whole family, world-renowned singing palaeontologist Professor Flint, helps bring to life the awesome fossils of Megafauna Central. Along the way, you’ll learn about the remarkable creatures that once swam, slithered, crawled, and hopped, […]

Free
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OUTLANDISH feat. Spindles, Who is sticking around? Phantom Femme Fatale & Wilful Mischief

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

One ticket, 4 performances! Featuring: 6:30pm - Spindles Spindles is an indie folk musician who writes songs about love, grief, revolution and cosmic wonderment. Layering fingerstyle guitar, violin and vocals to construct contemplative emotional landscapes, Spindles warmly welcomes you to wander with them here. 7:30pm & 9pm - Who is sticking around?  A contemporary dance […]

$15 – $25

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
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ROUGE

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

All the spectacle of a circus with a deliciously deviant, adults-only twist - ROUGE is a mind bending blend of death-defying acrobatics, grandiose cabaret and deeply twisted burlesque. A titillating celebration of astonishing proportions that’s surprising, subversive and supremely sexy. Winner: Best Circus & Physical Theatre Show Adelaide Fringe 2020 “One badass sizzler of a […]

$75

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 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

ASTC x Desert Festival Public Art Walk

Todd Mall Todd Mall, Alice Springs, NT, Australia

Join local artist Pip McManus in a wander around the Alice Springs/Mparntwe town center, to discover the huge array of public street art. FREE - registration required. Meet at the Todd Mall entrance sign - corner of Todd St & Gregory Terrace. Due to the weather, this has been moved foward and will now start at […]

Free
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Alice Cotton // Casii Williams // MusicNT Desert Divas // From the Edge to the Centre

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

One ticket, 4 performances! 6:15 & 8pm - From the Edge to the Centre We celebrate the sacred Country that holds us here in a playful and uplifting show of light, performance, soundscape and song - all woven together as a web of community artworks. A playful and gentle procession of lanterns through Country is […]

$15 – $25

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 fantasy, the ‘Phantom Femme Fatale’ is a subversive character who transgresses female subjugation with assassin-like stoicism. Defiantly exploiting her physical prowess she pays homage to […]

$15 – $25

Passion Paste Up Posters: Screen Printing Workshop

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

CDU X Desert Festival 14th 15th & 22nd September Get a message you are passionate about out on the streets of Mparntwe! The CDU print studios will host a workshop to explore playful and political approaches investigating critical, contemporary issues that participants are passionate about; providing the opportunity to communicate their messages through bold and […]

$10 – $20

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

Deadly Funny Comedy Workshop with Jay Wymarra and Leon Filewood

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

Presented by Desert Festival and Melbourne International Comedy Festival   For almost 20 years, this deadly competition has been travelling so-called Australia to unearth the freshest, fiercest, funniest First Nations comedians and yarn-spinners.  ------------ 3pm - Comedy Workshop (90 mins) Aspiring First Nations comedians will sit with a seasoned professional comedian in a 90-minute Comedy Workshop […]

Free
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Opening Night: Future is Bright

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

Dallas Frasca, Deadly Funny, Jay Wymarra, MusicNT's Desert Divas & more Friday 27th September, 6:00 – midnight Join Desert Festival for an uplifting Opening Night dedicated to the resilience and power of our region’s First Nations and female artists. The hilarious Jay Wymarra will be your special MC, guiding us through the night. First Nations […]

Free – $30