April 2020
The Alice Prize 2020
A $30,000 national acquisitive contemporary art prize Presented by the Alice Springs Art Foundation View the exhibition online here The Alice Prize brings artworks by some of the most exciting and renowned contemporary artists in Australia to the Araluen Arts Centre. A prestigious biennial award, the Alice Prize is one of Australia’s longest running and most significant regional art prizes. Finalists are selected from hundreds of nationwide entries by an expert panel and the Alice Prize winner will be selected by judge Rhana Devenport ONZM, Director of the Art Gallery of South Australia. The winning…
Find out more »June 2020
Unbroken Land 2020 Free ‘Light The Water’ Bamboo Lantern Tutorial & Materials
As part of Incite Arts’ Unbroken Land 2020 program you are invited to join the fun in making your very own bamboo lantern. Materials and tutorial provided to you – for free! To order your materials, please contact admin@inciteya.org.au. Project running until July 17th 2020. Click the link below to the Light The Water tutorial…
Find out more »Unbroken Land 2020 Virtual Delivery
Incite Arts Announces: Unbroken Land 2020 - Virtual Launch in June Stories about water. Water is life! Incite Arts are very excited to announce the re-visioning of Unbroken Land 2020. We will now see the event and community participation program presented virtually. The first of the water themed productions is scheduled to be released online on the 10th of June via our website and Facebook. Further productions will be presented episodically until December. Virtual presentation offers us unique opportunities to…
Find out more »Linework an exhibition of paintings by Marina Strocchi
The Residency Alice Springs hosts an exhibition of paintings by Marina Strocchi. Presented by Heritage Alice Springs and sponsored by the Northern Territory Government. Some words about Linework from Marina I have painted for nearly decades, my inspiration has been a combination of landscape, imagination, and objects close at hand. I like to invent a structure using line, which I “take for a walk”, colour, texture, and shapes. I try to create a balanced, overall structure. I start with…
Find out more »July 2020
11.2.one
11.2. one is back for 2020! Join us for free live music in the mall Thursdays, Friday’s and Saturdays, 11am – 1pm starting 9 July until 1 August. Support local, grab some lunch and enjoy in the sun while listening to an array of Alice Springs talent.
Find out more »Tangentyere Artists Gallery – Open by Appointment
Tangentyere Artists Gallery is open by appointment, Monday to Friday 9 am-5 pm Please call 8951 4232. The Gallery is open on Saturday, 10 am to 2 pm We have adopted these measures to maintain appropriate visitor numbers as recommended under social distancing guidelines and appreciate your cooperation You can purchase online 24/7 at: https://www.towncampdesigns.org.au/ We also recommend visiting the 41st Alice Prize Exhibition, which has been extended until 3rd August at the Araluen Art Centre. Tangentyere Artists’ Doris Thomas, Sally…
Find out more »Eagle V Shark – Araluen Arts Centre
Comedy | New Zealand Directed by Taika Waititi Starring Jemaine Clement, Loren Taylor, Taika Waititi "Romantic comedy about two lonely people who find each other while orbiting on the outer fringes of society reminded me of Napoleon Dynamite." Laramie Movie Scope A wry comedy that chronicles the quirky romance of two awkward misfits, Lily a shy fast-food restaurant cashier, and her crush, Jarrod, an electronic store clerk. On the day Lily gets fired from her job at Meaty Boy, she musters up the courage…
Find out more »Babe – Araluen Arts Centre
Australia | USA Directed by Nicholas Stoller, Doug Sweetland Starring James Cromwell, Magda Szubanski Voice talents of Miriam Margolyes, Hugo Weaving " a comedy of animal manners that is much funnier and much cannier than any recent movie about human relationships: a lovely, stubbornly idiosyncratic fable of aspiration and survival." - The New Yorker A young pig fights convention to become a sheep dog -- or, rather, sheep pig -- in this charming Australian family film, which became an unexpected international success…
Find out more »YAG Phoney Film Festival 2020
Are you a creative young film-maker, or know someone who is? Phoney Film Festival is back for its 6th year! YAG’s Phoney Film Festival is a festival of short films shot on smartphones and tablets, by young people aged 12 to 25. Films must be less than five minutes duration, and can be across any category / genre including: action, drama, horror, comedy, real life …get brainstorming! $1500 of cash and prizes to be won. ENTRIES NOW OPEN. Entries close…
Find out more »Family Connections artist talk with Marina Strocchi
Family Connections July 16, 2020 The Residency Followers of the Papunya Tula Artists Company would be acutely aware of the high percentage of female artists in the ranks. This was not always the case. PTA started as a men's company, though included around half a dozen women artists over the years until April 1996, when the company took a radical turn and invited a host of Kintore and Kiwirrkurra women to paint for the company full time. Preceding this eventful…
Find out more »Swan Lake
On a lake filled with tears, the princess of white swans weeps. For she and her maidens have been cursed. Only at night does the curse weaken, revealing their original human forms. The Sorcerer, Baron Von Rothbart always lurks near, for he knows that the curse will break with the vow of true love. When a handsome prince enters the forest, avoiding the prospect of an arranged marriage, he is surprised when the beautiful white swan transforms before him. As…
Find out more »Wasting Days
Wasting Days are finally hitting the Alice music scene. Come down and spend an evening with Simo, Matt & Donald, as they deliver a mix of solo, duo and trio tunes with a blend of vocal harmonies and acoustic vibes. Wasting Days will be delivering a great mix of covers from female icons such of Pink, Lady Gaga and Shania Twain, through to a couple of country favourites and unique versions of some absolute classics.
Find out more »It Must Be Heaven
Comedy | Palestine | Arabic & French with English subtitles Directed by Elia Suleiman Starring Elia Suleiman, Tarik Kopty, Kareem Ghneim "A profound burlesque comedy" Vanity Fair Elia Suleiman (as himself) escapes from Palestine seeking an alternative homeland, only to find that Palestine is trailing behind him. The promise of a new life turns into a comedy of errors: however far he travels, from Paris to New York, something always reminds him of home. From award-winning director Elia Suleiman, a comic saga exploring identity, nationality and belonging, in…
Find out more »Vinyl Sock Hop and 8CCC benefit with Mike
Mike brings musical platters back to Monte's with tasty morsels of music played from that warm sound of vinyl. 8CCC will be around to sign up new and renewing members. Come down for the whole evening and have a tasty dinner, or just for a short stay for a beverage. Lots of cold choices
Find out more »Extra Ordinary
Comedy | Horror Ireland | Belgium | Finland | UK Directed by Mike Ahern, Enda Loughman Starring Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Will Forte "An unfalteringly funny, ectoplasm-drenched horror-comedy that deserves the cult status it's destined for." Empire Magazine Rose, a sweet, small town driving instructor, is gifted with supernatural abilities, "The Talents", which mean she can talk to the spirit world. Rose has a love hate relationship with her abilities, after seeing what they did to her Dad, Vincent, and tries…
Find out more »August 2020
WTS Mini Market
Welcome to the WTS 2020 Mini Market. Every year WTS holds a Mini Market, but this year we’re preferencing those of you in town who are MAKERS. AKA ceramicists, jewellers, illustrators, sewers, bakers, home-cooks, musicians wanting to sell their records or merch, zine-makers, craft fanatics, artists and makers of all kinds. This market is for you! We will still have a number of stalls for second-hand things, but these will be limited so get in quick. 8CCC Radio broadcasting live.…
Find out more »Travels on a Distant Star by Suzi Lyon
OPENING 6pm, Friday 7 August EXHIBITION 5—23 August We are 'survivors of immeasurable events', 'small wet miracles'. So writes poet and astronomer, Rebecca Elson. And so we travel, immeasurably distant, immeasurably mysterious. But there is a sensation that holds like iron, that we are the stars. So in this I am, my own brief minuscule miracle of magical gritty self, this is how I can be, of the stars, of this distant star. This work is made within this sensation,…
Find out more »2020 August Night Market
Come prepared to be spoiled with a diversity of stalls that clearly reflects this town's inclusive spirit.
Find out more »September 2020
Desert Mob 2020
Celebrating 30 Years Presented by Araluen Arts Centre and Desart In 2020, Desert Mob celebrates 30 years! Over that time, Desert Mob, has fostered and charted the incredible rise of Aboriginal art from the desert to its current eminent position as one of the most important art movements and forms of cultural expression in the world. Since its inception in 1991, Desert Mob has become an event of national significance, representing the most comprehensive survey of contemporary Aboriginal art by artists from Desart-member art centres from the desert regions and communities of…
Find out more »Desert Festival 2020
Presented by Red Hot Arts Central Australia, the Festival shares the stories, songs and the unique lifestyle of the Red Centre’s arid region. Featuring a vibrant program born out of the desert landscape, it celebrates the dynamic exchange between cultures in the heart of Australia. More information to come! #desfest
Find out more »2020 September Night Market
Come prepared to be spoiled with a diversity of stalls that clearly reflects this town's inclusive spirit.
Find out more »October 2020
Banff Mountain Film Festival 2020
Presented by Adventure Reels The Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is a 3 hour celebration of the mountain and adventure sport world. Sharing over two and a half hours of the most exhilarating short films from explorers, mountain bikers, skiers, paddlers and climbers from around the globe. The tour is hot on the heels of the largest and most prestigious mountain festivals in the world, the Banff Mountain Festival, which takes place every November in the mountain town of Banff, in Canada.…
Find out more »2020 October Night Market
Come prepared to be spoiled with a diversity of stalls that clearly reflects this town's inclusive spirit.
Find out more »Evolve
Presented by Araluen Arts Centre “With his razor-sharp wit and surprisingly blunt nature, Matt had the audience in stitches” - Scenestr Leading Australian magician and mentalist Matt Tarrant is bound for Alice Springs, with his new solo show EVOLVE following his win for best act overall at the 2019 Adelaide Fringe. Brimming with interactive magic and mindblowing mentalism, multi-award winner Tarrant promises to leave audiences happily bewildered, with all-new tricks guaranteed to bamboozle even the biggest sceptics.
Find out more »November 2020
2020 November Night Market
Come prepared to be spoiled with a diversity of stalls that clearly reflects this town's inclusive spirit.
Find out more »New York New Work: Marina Strocchi
Presented by Araluen Arts Centre New York New Work is the outcome of Marina Strocchi’s time in the United States and most notably an extended stay in Brooklyn where she undertook a studio practice for three months through the Arts NT Fellowship program. Renowned for working from surrounding natural environments, her home and still life, in Brooklyn and Manhattan, Strocchi was faced with the built environment on an incredible scale. The sheer mass and density of life and hope, the walls of repetitive windows, which sometimes reflect and sometimes recede, …
Find out more »TQ20
Territory Quilts 2020 Presented by the Alice Springs Quilting Club Territory Quilts 2020 (TQ20) brings together the finest work by both amateur and professional quilters from across the Northern Territory, presented by the long established Alice Springs Quilting Club. Outstanding examples of quilting practice are acknowledged and awarded by a guest judge. Reflecting creativity and craftsmanship, hand and machine approaches, the traditional and experimental, TQ20 also operates as a place for the exchange of ideas and skills between members and those interested in the art of quilting. Mesmerising with…
Find out more »Urzila Carlson: Token African
Presented by Live Nation As seen on Have You Been Paying Attention?! & Netflix’s Comedians of the World 2019 MICF PEOPLE’S CHOICE AWARD FOR HIGHEST TICKET-SELLER MELBOURNE, AU (November 14, 2019) – South African-New Zealander Urzila Carlson is a Token African. She’s also a multi award-winning comedian, the 2019 Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s highest ticket-seller, and a household name across two continents. And she’s not finished yet. Carlson is hitting the road again in 2020 with her brand new stand up…
Find out more »December 2020
Alice Springs Town Council Christmas Carnival 2020
The Alice Springs Town Council’s Christmas Carnival permeates the Red Centre with festive fun and Christmas cheer!
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