November 2019
Franca Barraclough: The Visitors
Presented by Araluen Arts Centre Franca Barraclough’s The Visitors is a visual survey of people, paths and stories woven through the sociological landscape of contemporary Central Australian culture, a distillation of poignant local imagery harnessed to give an artistic account of the impacts and influences on desert life. The making of these large–scale photographs involves Barraclough engaging, choreographing and collaborating with a diverse range of local community members in unique, inimitable and immersive experiences. Reproduced with all the gloss of tourism advertising, each image is alluring but also documents the particular…
Find out more »Greenbush Art Group: Shake, Rattle and Roll
Greenbush Art Group: Shake, Rattle and Roll A History of Central Australian Transport Presented by Araluen Arts Centre Shake, Rattle and Roll: A History of Central Australian Transport by the Greenbush Art Group at the Alice Springs Correctional Centre, pays tribute to and interprets the history of transport in Central Australia. Early transport created a paradigm shift in desert regions, enabling the expansion of settler colonialism, ‘opening up’ the continent’s interior, creating cultural complexity and irrevocably changing the way people live, travel and engage…
Find out more »December 2019
Summer Reading Club for adults & kids – Win prizes for reading!
Summer Reading Club A free club for both ADULTS & KIDS that rewards you for reading! Why not be rewarded for reading over Summer? Alice Springs Public Library’s Summer Reading Club is back and stronger than ever now that it will be open to ALL AGES! Yes you heard right, whole families can register and join in the fun. Club benefits include: A prize for all members for their first 5 hours of reading, plus Weekly prize draws Major prizes at the end of summer A free pool party & BBQ celebration The Summer…
Find out more »January 2020
Wearable Arts school holiday workshops
Wearable Arts school holiday workshops will be on in January and next year's theme is Water. FREE workshops will run in a pop-up in Alice Plaza (entry via Todd Street) Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays in January on the 8th, 9th, 10, 15th, 16th, 17th, 22nd, 23rd and 24th from 10:00am - 1:00pm. Facilitated by Central Craft.
Find out more »McGregor V Cowboy
***LIVE ON THE BIG SCREEN*** The Irish superstar Conor McGregor returns to the octagon to face Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone. UFC 246 will mark Cowboy's 6th fight in 14 months and McGregors 1st fight in the UFC since losing to Khabib Nurmagomedov in October 2018.
Find out more »Starry Night Sunset
PAINT. LAUGH.CREATE. REPEAT! Come join us for a fun afternoon out to de stress, rekindle your creativity and create your own unique masterpiece. Bring friends or meet new ones during this two hour guided painting session from start to finish. No experience needed to have a fantastic time! "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist" Pablo Picasso What you will learn: Be guided with step by step instructions to create your own interpretation…
Find out more »Movie Morning – Summer School Holidays @ the Library
Escape the heat and join us for an afternoon of popcorn and film fun! Limited spaces, arrive early to avoid disappointment. Bookings required. FREE. For ages 8+ Book here: aspl.eventbrite.com For the latest event updates and special news follow us on Facebook @ASPLibrary View the complete Summer School Holidays @ the Library Program here: tiny.cc/SummerSchoolHolidays
Find out more »Preschool Storytime – Summer School Holidays @ the Library
Wednesday mornings from 10.15am-10.45am. For 2-5 year olds. Learning can be as simple as one book. Preschool Storytime is a fun and interactive session using books, rhymes, songs and play to stimulate literacy development. FREE. Bookings not required. 2-5 year olds. Follow us on Facebook for the latest updates and new events @ASPLibrary ~Summer School Holidays @ the Library. View the complete program here: https://tiny.cc/SummerSchoolHolidays
Find out more »Drag Queen Bingo
Drag Queen Bingo at The Rock Bar, Alice Springs every Wednesday night. Featuring fun drag shows, fabulous food and extremely tacky prizes and best of all its FREE - what's not to love - Bookings Essential. Ph: 08 8953 8280 Email: info@therockbar.com.au
Find out more »Baby Rhyme Time – Summer School Holidays @ the Library
Songs, rhymes, stories and play are a wonderful way to develop a love of language. This interactive session is designed to support pre-literacy education in a fun and social way. 10.15 am - 10.45 am. FREE. No bookings required. For 0-2 year olds. Every Friday morning from 10.15am-10.45am For the latest event updates and special news follow us on Facebook @ASPLibrary ~Summer School Holidays @ the Library. View the complete program here: https://tiny.cc/SummerSchoolHolidays
Find out more »First Nations Poetry with Yvette Holt
First Nations people in Alice Springs are invited to join Yvette Holt for two Saturdays of poetry writing. Yvette will guide us through activities to get our stories and poems onto paper. We will be thinking a bit more about social justice for First Nations people in Alice Springs and creating poems from some of our stories and experiences. You don’t have to be a poet or a writer to join in, just come along and share stories. Songwriters, other…
Find out more »Summer School: Love, Resistance and Other Survival Strategies
Summer School is a reading group for the time of climate change. During one of the hottest months of the year we’ll reflect on love, resistance and other survival strategies from around the world. With a focus on First Nation’s and front line writers, thinkers, and artists, we’ll learn about the ways of being, doing and knowing that can help us understand the mess we’re in, and how we might turn towards justice, love and connection as a way of…
Find out more »Whale of a Time
PAINT. LAUGH. CREATE. REPEAT! Come join us for a fun afternoon out to de stress, rekindle your creativity and create your own unique masterpiece. Bring friends or meet new ones during this two hour guided painting session from start to finish. No experience is needed to have a fantastic time! "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist" Pablo Picasso What you will learn: Be guided with step by step instruction to create your…
Find out more »Samantha Wood Author Talk @ the Library
Join us as Samantha Wood talks about the writing process, shares her insights into the publishing world and how to get inspired to write... After writing her first book Culua: My Other Life in Mexico, a love letter to her mother’s country, Samantha Wood took another decade to release her debut novel, The Bay of Shadows, a psychological thriller set on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula. She joins us at Alice Springs Public Library to talk about her latest offering, Under Ten…
Find out more »February 2020
Blue Cockatoo
PAINT. LAUGH. CREATE. REPEAT! Come join us for a fun afternoon out to de stress, rekindle your creativity and create your own unique masterpiece. Bring friends or meet new ones during a guided two hour painting session from start to finish. No experience needed to have a fantastic time! "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist" Pablo Picasso What you will learn: Be guided with step by step instructions to create your own…
Find out more »Medusa Mermaid
PAINT. LAUGH. CREATE. REPEAT! Come join us for a fun afternoon out to de stress, rekindle your creativity and create your own unique masterpiece. Bring friends or meet new ones during this two hour guided painting session from start to finish. No experience needed to have a fantastic time! "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist" Pablo Picasso What you will learn: Be guided with step by step instructions to create your own…
Find out more »Alice Springs Fairytale Ring Meeting
Hope you all had a restful and relaxing holiday season. This group as an offshoot of the Australian Fairytale Society group that I was apart of in Adelaide. Meet up and talk about your favourite fairytales. Analyse their themes and discuss their implications on society and how they have been changed by popular culture. Our first fairytale of 2020 is going to be Rapunzel! Please read the story before hand and have a think about your reaction to it,…
Find out more »Pink Roses
PAINT. LAUGH. CREATE. REPEAT! Come join us for a fun afternoon out to de stress, re kindle your creativity and create your own unique masterpiece. Bring your friends and make some new ones during this guided two hour painting session from start to finish. No experience needed to have a fantastic time. "Learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist" Pablo Picasso What you will learn: Be guided with step by step instructions to…
Find out more »Permanent Recession Book Launch
Presented by All Conference All Conference is pleased to announce the release of its first major publication Permanent Recession: a Handbook on Art, Labour and Circumstance. Published by Onomatopee Projects, Permanent Recession is an enquiry into the capitals and currencies of experimental, radical and artist-run initiatives in Australia. Excavating a shared history of independent practice stretching back to the 1980s, this publication situates new research within a rich continuum of debate about the Australian artmaking context. Part research, part advocacy…
Find out more »March 2020
Guitar & Roses
PAINT. LAUGH. CREATE. REPEAT! Come join us for a fun afternoon out to de stress, rekindle your creative side and create your own unique masterpiece. Bring friends or meet new ones during this two hour guided painting session from start to finish. No experience needed to have a fantastic time! "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist" Pablo Picasso What you will learn: Be guided with step by step instructions to create your…
Find out more »Don’t be a Gala
PAINT. LAUGH. CREATE. REPEAT! Come join us for a fun afternoon out to de stress, rekindle your creative side and create your own unique masterpiece. Bring friends and make new ones during this two hour guided painting session from start to finish. No experience needed to have a fantastic time! "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist" Pablo Picasso What you will learn: Be guided by step by step instructions to create your…
Find out more »HAPPINESS, SUCCESS & THE LAW OF KARMA
Why are some people naturally happy and successful, while others experience problems and obstacles? Why is it that when we get what we want, we often fail to derive satisfaction from having it? Why is contentment and good fortune elusive, while difficulties arise effortlessly? How can I change this situation? Buddha gave clear answers to all of these questions in his teaching on the law of karma. During this day course, Gen Kelsang Dornying will explain this universal law and…
Find out more »Sunflowers
PAINT. LAUGH. CREATE. REPEAT! Come join us for a fun afternoon out to de stress, rekindle your creativity and create your own unique masterpiece. Bring friends or meet new ones during this guided two hour painting session from start to finish. No experience needed to have a fantastic time! "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist" Pablo Picasso What you will learn: Be guided with step by step instructions to create your own…
Find out more »Frida
Paint. Laugh. Create. Repeat! Come join us afternoon out to de-stress, rekindle your creativity and paint your own unique masterpiece. Bring your friends and make some new ones during a guided two hour painting session from start to finish. No experience needed to have a fantastic time! "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist" Pablo Picasso What you will learn: Be guided with step by step instructions to create your own unique interpretation…
Find out more »Spring in Paris
PAINT. LAUGH. CREATE. REPEAT! Come join us for a fun afternoon out to de stress, re kindle your creativity and create your own unique masterpiece. Bring friends and meet new ones during this two hour guided painting session from start to finish. No experienced needed to have a fantastic time! "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist" Pablo Picasso What you will learn: Be guided with step by step instructions to create a…
Find out more »April 2020
In the Jungle
PAINT. LAUGH. CREATE. REPEAT! Come join us for a fun afternoon out to de stress, rekindle your creativity and paint your own unique masterpiece. Bring friends and meet new ones during this guided two hour painting session from start to finish. No experience needed to have a fantastic time! "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist" Pablo Picasso What you will learn: Be guided with step by step instruction to create your own…
Find out more »Peaceful Panda
PAINT. LAUGH. CREATE. REPEAT! Come join us for a fun afternoon out to de stress, rekindle your creativity and create your own unique masterpiece. Bring friends or meet new ones during this guided two hour painting session from start to finish. No experience needed to have a fantastic time! "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist" Pablo Picasso What you will learn: Be guided with step by step instructions to create your own…
Find out more »The Alice Prize
Contemporary national art award. $30,000 prize for winner. Entries Close: Midnight Friday 7 February 2020 Official opening & announcement of the winner - Friday 17 April 2020 Exhibition: Saturday 18 April to Monday 8 June 2020 Announcement of People’s Choice winner: Wednesday 17 June 2020
Find out more »Monet Bridge
PAINT. LAUGH. CREATE. REPEAT! Come join us for a fun afternoon out to de stress, rekindle your creativity and paint your own unique masterpiece. Bring friends and meet new ones during this guided two hour painting session from start to finish. No experience needed to have a fantastic time! "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist" Pablo Picasso What you will learn: Be guided with step by step instructions to create your own…
Find out more »Starry Night Sunset
PAINT. LAUGH. CREATE. REPEAT! Come join us for a fun afternoon out to de stress, rekindle your creative side and create your own unique masterpiece. Bring friends or meet new ones during this guided two hour painting session from start to finish. No experience needed to have a fantastic time! "Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist" Pablo Picasso What you will learn: Be guided with step by step instructions to create your…
Find out more »May 2020
Wide Open Space 2020
It's time to head to the heartland for a feast of music, arts and performance for Wide Open Space festival this May 2020. Deeply inspired by desert culture (both traditional and contemporary) and the ancient landscape, WOS is a celebration of creativity, connection and the irrepressible human spirit. Held at Ross River Resort, a short scenic drive from Alice Springs, WOS has been attracting audiences to this stunning desert paradise hideaway for 10 years. The venue hosts cabins, showers, shady…
Find out more »Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow
Australia's favourite comedy convoy is locked, loaded and heading to Alice Springs! Join our diverse line-up of the hottest acts direct from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival for a very special show that is sure to tickle everyone’s funny bone. Featuring a cast of Aussie stars, talented newcomers and special guest international performers, we're home-delivering Australia's largest comedy festival to you in one jam-packed night. For over 20 years the Roadshow has presented an all killer, no filler night of…
Find out more »June 2020
Alice Springs Street Art Festival
The walls in the CBD will be transformed into dynamic art as part of the Alice Springs Street Art Festival. An ‘urban artist in residence’, local painters, artists and designers will collaborate with interstate mentors, coming off the back of a highly successful street art season in Darwin. Watch the urban landscape transform into a fresco masterpiece. A DJ Festival is proposed to run alongside the Street Art Festival. We are hoping to attract local, interstate and international DJs which…
Find out more »September 2020
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
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