May 2020
Book Launch! An Alice Girl by Tanya Heaslip
Monday 18th, 5.30pm - online Official Launch Facebook Live via Red Kangaroo Books & Tanya Heaslip Author Facebook pages Tuesday 19th, 10am - 1pm at Red Kangaroo Books book signing with Tanya - social distancing rules apply! From the bestselling author of Alice to Prague, for fans of Toni Tapp Coutts' A Sunburnt Childhood and Mary Groves' An Outback Life, comes Tanya Heaslip's extraordinary story of growing up with her sister and brothers in the late 1960s and early…
Find out more »Performers for ASTC Night Markets
Alice Springs Town Council are seeking performers (preferably roving) for the Thursday 4th June ASTC Night Markets. ASTC are looking for performers to give a humorous take on COVID-19 messages like 1.5 distancing, washing hands etc. The whole performance doesn’t have to centre around COVID however ASTC would like to have some messages portrayed through entertainers.
Find out more »Spread the Word – Self Promotion and Your Online Music Business I Music NT Workshop
So you've made banger after banger in isolation, but now how do you actually get people to hear it? Covering everything from self-promotion through social media, creating and sending a press kit, easy ways to create your own website and how to stand out from the crowd, industry experts Stephen Green and Sose Fuamoli will touch on it all in this 1hr masterclass. With over 20 years of combined experience, you don't want to miss the chance to learn from…
Find out more »EOI Open for Arts Access CEO
Arts Access Australia is looking for a new CEO Arts Access Australia (AAA) is looking for a visionary and dynamic leader to transform our organisation and implement our vision for full and equal opportunity for cultural and creative participation and contribution for all Australians. We are looking for a leader with lived experience of disability, to collaborate and connect with our stakeholders and guide the development of AAA’s new strategic and operational framework while establishing new ways of working to…
Find out more »EVERYDAY – Sally M Nangala Mulda
EVERYDAY is Sally Mulda's most recent body of work. "Living in Alice Springs/Mparntwe you can relate to Sally’s poignant social commentary. It gives an insight into how life is from the perspective of someone who lives in town camps. Aside from people who work with Aboriginal people, we pretty much live in a divided world, and while there are crossovers like at the supermarket, in the streets, Sally’s work offers more grounding insight. It’s raw, it’s playful, it’s real." Dallas…
Find out more »Exporting Your Quarantine Creations I Music NT Workshop
Sounds Australia are taking their famous Export Masterclass online for MusicNT, with a particular focus on digital exporting in a time of COVID-19. Get tips to develop and deliver an effective digital export strategy to increase global awareness and boost listener numbers, across all digital platforms. Sounds Australia will also provide insights into best practice in Digital Export for artists currently, and in the post-COVID-19 world. This virtual workshop will be live-streamed to the MusicNT Facebook page. There will be…
Find out more »YAG Phoney Film Festival 2020 WORKSHOPS
The Phoney Film Festival workshops for 2020 include both instructional videos with handy tips on how to create your short film on your smart phone or tablet device! Just head to https://alicepsrings.nt.gov.au/YAG Two new tutorial videos will be posted each week: Monday 25/5/2020 -Story writing and frame composition Monday 1/6/2020 - Camera angles and movement Monday 8/6/2020 - Storyboarding and sound recording and Virtual meeting with a film-maker Monday 15/6/2020 - Stop-motion animation and green screens Monday 22/6/2020 - Editing…
Find out more »National Simultaneous Storytime ONLINE
Join us alongside thousands of others nationwide for a very special ONLINE National Simultaneous Storytime. We will be reading 'Whitney and Britney Chicken Divas' by Lucinda Gifford. Join us this Wednesday at 11 am on the Alice Springs Public Library's Facebook page @ASPLibrary, for some magic diva antics 🐔✨ Click here to view the Alice Springs Public Library's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ASPLibrary/ #NSS2020 #1millionkidsreading
Find out more »Australia Council 2020 Resilience Fund – Closing May 28
The 2020 Resilience Fund is designed to provide emergency relief to support the livelihoods, practice and operations of Australian artists, groups and organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic. We are directing more than $5M to the Resilience Fund to provide immediate relief to the Australian arts sector. Applications for all three streams of the Resilience Fund will close on 28 May 2020. This funding can be combined with relief offered by other arts funding agencies, government departments, support services and philanthropy.…
Find out more »Regional Arts Fund Quick Response Grants
The NTRA Quick Response Grant category supports creativity, innovation, participation, and access to arts and cultural activities which contribute to the sustainable cultural, social and economic capacity, and well being of individuals and community. Skills development initiatives may relate to: specific arts practice; arts management; small business management; emerging technologies; arts or cross sector training and mentoring schemes; or broader community cultural development and capacity building. Applications close May 29th at 1pm Grants are up to $2000 for individuals CLICK…
Find out more »What is Mindfulness? | Online Meditation Workshop
At this half-day workshop, learn how to take control of your mind, and your life, by training in mindfulness. Do you ever boil the kettle but forget to make tea? When you sit down to a task, are you overcome by distractions? Do you sometimes forget your meditation object – while you’re meditating? Ever feel like there’s *nothing* you can do about these things? The secret is to train a muscle you already have, but might not know much about:…
Find out more »Book Launch Dani Powell
Please join local writer Dani Powell for the launch of Return to Dust. Dani has lived in Mparntwe/ Alice Springs for the past twenty years. Her writing has been published in literary journals and anthologies and her location-based performances have been produced in and around Mparntwe/ Alice Springs as well as for ABC’s Radio National. Dani has directed the NT Writers’ Festival in Alice Springs since 2015. Return to Dust is her debut novel. Join us down at Olive Pink…
Find out more »June 2020
Arts NT Territory Arts Projects – Opening in June
Territory Arts Projects - round 2 A healthy, vibrant artistic and cultural sector is critical to the health and wellbeing of our community, and will also underpin the Territory’s recovery. With a focus on the sustainability of the sector, grants will support existing and emerging artists in the creation of new artist works and skills development. Funding available Up to $20,000 per applicant for arts projects. Up to $15,000 per applicant for emerging artists (less than five years professional practice).…
Find out more »Arts Administrator I Postion Vacant
Tracks is looking for their next Arts Administrator Applications close 15 June at 5pm ADMINISTRATOR POSITION DESCRIPTION 2020
Find out more »Cosi
Cosi tells the story of Lewis, a young theatre director, who goes to a Melbourne mental institution in the year 1971 with his heart set on successfully directing a play using mental patients as actors. Little does he know that a mental patient named Roy has already planned to stage the Mozart Opera Cosi Fan Tutte. This leads to a power struggle throughout the play. Will they be able to set aside their differences and work together as a team?…
Find out more »Honouring Culture in Writing – making cross cultural writing benefit everyone
How do you honour your own culture in your writing? How do you depict it in ways that are meaningful and engaging? How do you write about culture that brings pride to yourself, others and the readers? How can your research and writing improve Settler-Indigenous relations? How can you position your writing into the wider socio-cultural field in ways that benefit First Nations’ Peoples in Australia’s remote Aboriginal communities. This workshop will provide techniques and insights into how to write…
Find out more »Manager – Aboriginal Art Centre, East Kimberley – Position Vacant
About Warmun Arts Centre Warmun Art Centre is one of Australia’s leading Aboriginal arts and culture organisations, located 200km south of Kununurra in the beautiful East Kimberley region of Western Australia. Warmun Art Centre represents internationally renowned senior artists and a large number of young and emerging artists. In addition to the successful painting studio and gallery program, the Art Centre runs many interconnected cultural operations that preserve, maintain and promote Gija culture to internal and external audiences. A 2019…
Find out more »Balancing the Books at Tax Time I Music NT Workshop
It’s tax time, which means one thing: we need to talk money. Join MusicNT for a practical session aimed at helping you understand tax, your finances and good business practices - just in time to help you prepare a tax return. Facilitated by Sarah McEachern from Nexia Edwards Marshall NT and Fiona Carter (Corrugated Iron/MusicNT). This is a vital session for artists, managers and small music business owners looking to make the most of their money. This virtual workshop will…
Find out more »Open Mic Night!
Hi Alice Springs! We are so excited to announce that we are bringing back the Open mic night this Thursday! 🎤🎤 Established 2013! We can’t wait to bring it back to the cosy laneway! Come down early to enjoy a beverage and some quality food under the warm heaters whilst listening to some true local talent! Bring an instrument and get amongst it! 🥁🎷🎻🎸 Looking forward to seeing you all there! 🙌🏻
Find out more »ADJUSTER ALBUM LAUNCH!
Come and support ADJUSTER Album Launch! 🙌🏻 This Friday night on The Rooftop! Alice Springs' home-grown power-trio ADJUSTER offers a unique blend of experimental, progressive-rock with overtones of post-rock and indie. With their syncopated rhythms and melodic compositions, ADJUSTER has become a firm favourite in the local scene. Their self-titled debut album was released through Alice Springs-based label Sing Hum Records on May 2nd. The band were scheduled to appear at this year’s Wide Open Space Festival where they had…
Find out more »RnB on The Rooftop!
This Saturday night we have an RnB Night on The Roootop! Get in early to skip the queue and dance the night away to some of the best RnB tracks!
Find out more »Matinee Concert Contemporary Classsic Music
The Alice Springs World Chamber is back with an all new program introducing its new members to their first appearance in 2020. Works by Peter Warlock, Max Richter, Philip Glass, Elena Kats Chernin, Arvo Pärt, Gershwin and Lady Gaga are on the program. With particular focus on social distancing of 4sqm per person we ask you to bring your own blankets and chairs to assure comfort with social distancing measures. Saniitizers provided. ENTRY BY DONATION
Find out more »Au Plein Air – Painting & Drawing
Drawing and painting outdoors Sunday 14th June - 2pm to 4.30pm at Emily Gap Car Park Please supply your own equipment and refreshments Contact Central Australian Art Society for more info.
Find out more »MusicNT Alice Springs Meet n Greet
Are you a Central Aus musician, music-lover, venue manager or just have an interest in the Alice Springs/Mparntwe music scene? Now that we can all meet face-to-face again, come down and join us at the first post-COVID MusicNT Member Meet n Greet! The event is FREE and we can't wait to meet you! We want to chat to Mparntwe's musically-minded community and hear what you would like to see from us in the second half of 2020 as your music…
Find out more »Open Mic Night in the Laneway!
THE OPEN MIC NIGHT in the Laneway! 🎙Hosted by Biddy🎙 🍕$10 Pizza Special🍕 🍷Hot mulled Wine🍷 🔥plenty of heaters 🔥 to keep you warm while listening to local live music - or bring an instrument and jump on the stage yourself! See ya there 👋
Find out more »Cave Hill – Angkaliya Curtis
RAFT artspace & Tjungu Palya present Cave Hill New works by Angkaliya Curtis 19 June - 11 July View online catalogue here Click to view works Gallery hours Tues-Fri 10am-4pm Sat 10am-2pm Open by appointment
Find out more »Walking with Camels – The Story of Bertha Strehlow Author talk and reading with Leni Shilton
Join us for an evening with Leni Shilton as she reads from her award-winning book. This event will mark the end of the Bertha Strehlow in Images exhibition which is currently hanging at The Residency. Friday 19th June 2020 5 – 7 pm Doors 5pm Talk 5:30pm Followed by a light meal of soup and bread available for $10 Places limited RSVP to heritagealicesprings@telstra.com by 17th June to secure your table. Due to current operating restrictions, tables will be limited…
Find out more »DILDZ + NICK on the Rooftop!
Get ready Alice Springs for some DEEP BEATS! DILDZ + NICK will make the most out of your Friday Night! 💥 Get down early to save your spot on the dancefloor! 💃🏽🕺🏼
Find out more »BACK TO THE 80’s PARTY! On the Rooftop!
Back to the 80’s is back this Saturday night on the Rooftop! It’s not a must, but if you feel like getting creative, start digging in those wardrobes or looking in the op shops! We want to see some of the best 80’s outfits dancing to some of the best 80’s tracks all night long! 🕺🏼💃🏽
Find out more »Love, Desire, Attachment | Online meditation classes
Learn what love is – and what it isn’t! In the morning: I love you so much. I’m so lucky to have found you. Let’s never be apart! After a long day: I can’t stand the sight of you. I just need some space, ok? At night: I don’t particularly like you right now but I don’t want to be alone, so can you stay please? If we’re struggling in relationships – any relationship – there’s a good chance our…
Find out more »Tuesday Morning Chanting in Alice Springs
Each Tuesday we invite you to join in a morning chanting practice. Its a wonderful way to start the day and to strengthen your personal practice. We include the three chants recommended for daily practice by Swami Niranjananda. Over this year we will also go through the Sandarya Lahari, chapters of the Bhagavad Gita and the Shanti Mantras. All are welcome - no prior experience is needed, just a willingness to take part. All texts are supplied. We are currently…
Find out more »In conversation with Monica Tan – Facebook Live
Please join us online for a Facebook Live conversation with author Monica Tan. We'll be discussing her debut memoir ' Stranger Country' and winning the 2020 Chief Minister’s NT Book Award for Non-Fiction! 'Stranger Country' is an account of Chinese Australian journalist Monica Tan's six-month odyssey through outback Australia. “Will I ever really belong to this country? As a Chinese Australian? As a non-Indigenous Australian...? I was 32 years old and barely knew the country of my birth. It was…
Find out more »Lyete Itelareme Remembering Now
Saturday 27 June from 10am – 2pm Tangentyere Artists Gallery will open for the first time since the COVID-19 closures across the Northern Territory. Image credit: Nora Abbott, Docker River, 2020, 320 x 600 mm Acrylic on Linen © The Artist courtesy of Tangentyere Artists.
Find out more »New World Order
Palladium Circus presents an immersive, all-night takeover of one of your favourite Alice Springs venues, featuring expertly crafted performances by Palladium Circus alumni. The rooftop at Epilogue Lounge & Rooftop Bar is known to host some of the most exciting events in Alice Springs. On the 27th of June, Palladium Circus will transform the space into a dystopian warehouse for New World Order. Dildz, Dipterra, Igadi, and Nick Robins will take you on an auditory journey through house, techno, and…
Find out more »au plein air
drawing and painting outdoors Sunday 28/06/20 - 2pm to 4pm at Emily Gap Carpark
Find out more »Jazz Afternoon | Kangaroo Island Bushfire Appeal Fundraising Event
Outdoor jazz afternoon in support of the Kangaroo Island Bushfire Appeal. Musicians are Nicola and Peter Gilham with Paul Box and students from St. Philips College. It is a beautiful bush setting. The beautiful and stunning NT Heritage listed Robert Czako painted mural is available for you to appreciate inside St. Mary's Chapel. As a public event all are welcome! Some chairs are provided outside, otherwise bring your own. Bring your own afternoon tea if you wish. There is no…
Find out more »July 2020
Open Mic Night in the Laneway!
Thursday night Open Mic night in the Laneway! This week is hosted by Caleb! Come and enjoy some local talent and Don’t forget $10 pizzas!
Find out more »Holy Dimes playing live this Saturday on The Rooftop!
This Saturday don’t miss local band ‘Holy Dimes’ playing live on the Rooftop! With special guests Hugh Winterflood and DJ Flim Flam!
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 »Happy New Year, Colin Burstead – Araluen Arts Centre
Comedy | UK Directed by Ben Wheatley Starring Neil Maskell, Charles Dance, Richard Glover "Cuts like acid through the fatty, feel-good excess of the Christmas film canon." Financial Time Colin Burstead has hired a heritage mansion for a New Year's Eve party for his extended family and various hangers-on. Colin's mother Sandy - the family's matriarch - dramatically injures her ankle before she has even crossed the manor house's threshold. Her indebted husband Gordon, is desperately trying to secure a…
Find out more »Storks – Araluen Arts Centre
Special School Holiday Screening USA Directed by Nicholas Stoller, Doug Sweetland Voice talents of Andy Samberg, Kelsey Grammer, Jennifer Aniston, Ty Burrell "Storks is pure fun, a delight start to finish." - We Are Movie Geek Storks deliver babies…or at least they used to. Now they deliver packages for a global internet retail giant. Junior (Andy Samberg), the company’s top delivery stork, is about to be promoted when he accidentally activates the Baby Making Machine, producing an adorable and wholly unauthorized baby…
Find out more »Showcasing Your Art as a Professional Business – Free Workshop Series Live & Online
In this free workshop series you will learn who your audience is and how to market to them, how to create a strong online presence, how to efficiently showcase your work via social media and how to build digital tools to assist with marketing and finance. WORKSHOP 1 - I’m Good at This! Who wants to see Me? What do you have to offer? Who are your fans and how do you create resource to market to them? What you’ll…
Find out more »The Iron Giant – Araluen Arts Centre
Special School Holiday Screening USA Directed by Brad Bird Voice talents of Eli Marienthal, Vin Diesel, Jennifer Anniston, Harry Connick Jr "It is in the best tradition of animation: an ideal tale for children that offers a lot to adults as well." - Associated Press Imagine you confront your enemy--a giant, scary robot from outer space--and he becomes your best pal. A young boy befriends a monster in the heartwarming animated feature The Iron Giant.October, 1957. Nine-year-old Hogarth Hughes lives in…
Find out more »National Library of Australia – Creative Arts Fellowships
Apply for a 2021 Creative Arts Fellowship The National Library of Australia’s Creative Arts Fellowships offer practising artists and writers the opportunity to develop an artistic concept or work that is inspired or informed by the Library’s collections. Two fellowships are available: the Creative Arts Fellowship for artists working in any medium other than writing, including music, dance, visual arts, emerging or experimental artforms; and the Creative Arts Fellowship for Australian Writing. Fellows receive: A four week* residency at the…
Find out more »A River And A Voice Shouting Above it by Gabriel Curtin
A River And A Voice Shouting Above it by Gabriel Curtin OPENING 6pm, Friday 10 July EXHIBITION 8—25 July There was this cartoon, all these animals huddled on an island beach trying to make a plan. A tsunami surged towards them and the scene kept cutting between the curling water and the panicked wildlife. Then it cut to the tsunami’s crest and perched atop it as though it were a branch were two vultures. And the vultures talked about all…
Find out more »Afrobeats & Dancehall on the Epilogue Rooftop
DJ Magnus & DJ Makkii on the Rooftop Turntables 🔥 get your feet on the dancefloor - Afrobeats & Dancehall All Night Long
Find out more »Live from the CAAMA Studio
CAAMA Studio will be streaming live on Friday nights from the 12th of June to the 10th of July with five very special performances by local musicians. We’ve put together a series of 5 local musicians that will be streaming on CAAMA Radio live into your living room, your car or wherever you listen to CAAMA Radio. From 8pm - 8.30pm audiences will be able to tune into CAAMA Radio, watch the video stream live here on the CAAMA Music…
Find out more »Online -Gathering Ground: Walking, Talking and Writing With Place – Online Workshop
Walking and writing have a long history together. Take a leisurely stroll along the winding path of walking and writing practice, encountering the theories and thinkers who have shaped the way we read, write and walk in the world, from the vantage point of your own back yard. Each workshop will include an introduction to the theoretical concepts behind each weeks theme, a short walking practice undertaken in each participants local area or backyard, practical writing exercises, group sharing and…
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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
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