Calendar of Events

Saturday 9 August
until Sunday 19 October

OCEAN TO OUTBACK Australian landscape painting 1850 - 1950
Araluen Arts Centre, 61 Larapinta Drive
National Gallery of Australia’s 25th Anniversary Travelling Exhibition. For enquiries contact:
T: 08 8951 1122

Thursday 11 September
until Monday 6 October

IMAGINE ALICE
Various venues in and around Alice Springs
Imagining Alice Springs and the reality of Alice can be poles apart. The longer you stay the more your imaginings change every time you leave. The vastness of the desert, the blue sky, the searing summer heat and the icy winter nights are things you can experience only by being here. Artists find themselves in a special place when they land in Central Australia. They are remote, sometimes isolated but always inspired. The land, the people and the culture combined create an environment for artists experienced nowhere else in the country. The IMAGINE ALICE program of installation based works, exhibitions and other events gives local artists the opportunity to show their work and to exchange with artists from interstate. Linked under the umbrella theme of ‘place and identity’ IMAGINE ALICE is presented by RedHOT Arts and Watch This Space Artist Run Initiative. Works will be located at the Alice Springs Convention Centre, Crowne Plaza Alice Springs, Araluen Cultural Precinct, Watch This Space, Alice Springs Airport, Olive Pink Botanic Garden, town centre and business premises.

Artists in residence – New works:

Tincture, Texture and Twigs: Philomena Hali at Olive Pink Botanic Garden

Stories From the Tea Cup: Franca Barraclough at Alice Springs Convention Centre

Knit Graffiti: Nicky Schonkala at Alice Springs Convention Centre, Crowne Plaza, Araluen Cultural Precinct, Telegraph Station, Alice Springs Airport

Random: Dave Nixon at the Alice Springs Convention Centre MacDonnell Room

gunta karnelare (earth echo):Vicki West (Launceston,Tas) National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame

white broken promises black compromise: Vicki Couzens (Warrnambool, Vic), Olive Pink Botanic Garden, Araluen Arts Centre (Sculpture Courtyard)

INTERFACE: Beverley Bloxham (Towoomba, Qld)ANZ Bank, Story Wall


Linked exhibitions

Rod Moss Retrospective: Rod Moss at Alice Springs Convention Centre

DeLiver Postcards: Beth Sometimes & Jennifer Mills at Alice Springs Convention Centre

Alice in View: various artists and artworks throughout town

New Settlers Series 2: Sue Richter at Watch This Space

Things that go bump, spark, gush, whir...: Olive Pink Botanic Garden

For more details of dates and venues contact RedHOT Arts on: 
T: 08 8952 2392
W: www.redhotarts.com.au

Friday 12 September
until Sunday 19 October

ALICE DESERT FESTIVAL WEARABLE ART EXHIBITION
National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame, 2 Stuart Terrace
Get along to the National Pioneer Women’s Hall of Fame and view this very special showing of what Alice artists create with natural fibre and found and recycled objects. A signature and sell-out event of the Alice Desert Festival every year, this is a must for all you craft specialists and those who just want to marvel at what can be made from junk! Daily 10am – 5pm (entry fees apply). 
T: 08 8952 9006 
W: www.wearablearts.wikispaces.com

Sunday 28 September
until 9 November

                               

           

DESERT MOB EXHIBITION
Araluen Arts Centre, 61 Larapinta Drive
Exhibition opens Sunday 28 September, featuring works by Indigenous artists living and working in remote areas of the Northern Territory, South Australia and Western Australia. Always an exciting opening with spectacular works to view and purchase. For enquiries contact:
T: 08 8951 1122
W: www.nt.gov.au

Wednesday 1 October
8.30am – 5.00pm

‘MWARRE ANTHURRE’ Art works: Communities thrive
2008 Charles Darwin Symposium Series
Centralian Senior Secondary College Building Charles Darwin University, Grevillea Drive
Over the last 30 years Indigenous arts have achieved extraordinary success. Since the development of acrylic ‘dot painting’ at Papunya in the early 1970s, contemporary Aboriginal art has become a multimillion dollar industry that is widely acclaimed in Australia and overseas. Government agencies are partners in this success through the cooperative development of policies and strategies designed to foster and support the arts. But how is success defined? Is it just record prices achieved at auction? Or do the arts play an important role in building social cohesion, cultural capital and business enterprise?

You are invited to participate in a free public forum to debate these issues with experts from the Territory and interstate. The program will bring together an exciting range of speakers plus exhibitions and performances by Indigenous communities. www.cdu.edu.au/cdss

Thursday 2 October
1.00pm - 3.00pm 
Sunday 5 October
from 4.00pm

INDIGENOUS FILM PROGRAM
Araluen Arts Centre,61 Larapinta Drive
This free program will showcase Northern Territory Indigenous films and allow filmmakers to discuss their work with the audience. The program focuses on changes to the NT Aboriginal people’s experiences of citizenship and self-determination in the wake of the 1967 Referendum when Australians voted by an overwhelming majority to include Aboriginal people in the census and to empower the Federal Government to make laws on their behalf. A special series of short films exploring Alice Springs town camp residents’ experiences of the post-Referendum period have been commissioned especially for this event. These will play alongside a series of new short films made by the Mulka Project in Yirrkala, North East Arnhemland, highlighting the intergenerational transmission of culture and identity using new digital technologies and involving repatriations of representations made of them by non-Yolngu over many years. The multi-award winning feature documentary ‘Dhakiyarr vs the King’, a story of two laws and the cultural expression of citizenship and reconciliation in the Northern Territory will screen after the Mulka films. For enquiries contact Araluen Box Office:
T: 08 8951 1122

Detailed information on the screening times is available here: Indigenous Film Program 

Thursday 2 October
6.00pm - 10.30pm
Friday 3 October
8.00 am - 10.30pm
Saturday 4 October
8.30am - 10.30pm  
Sunday 5 October
8.00am - 12.00pm

URBAN SCREENS
Alice Springs Town Council Lawns, ALice Springs CBD
Urban Screens are holding an international coference coinciding with art at the heart and will be broadcasting
impressions from Alice Springs to Federation Square in Melbourne and 50 other countries and vice versa. Locals can relax and enjoy the best of the short films screened at recent Melbourne film festivals, a series of experimental films, documentaries and some great classics.

Thursday 2 October 
until Sunday 26 October

The Togart Contemporary Art Award (NT) 2008
Witchetty’s, Araluen Arts Centre, 61 Larapinta Drive
The Toga Group and Artback NT Arts Development and Touring present the first tour of the Togart Contemporary Art Award (NT) 2008 to the community of Alice Springs. The 2008 award exhibition showcases 33 artists from a broad range of cultural backgrounds and includes painting, photography, sculpture and jewellery. Well known Alice Springs artist Pamela Lofts will officially open the exhibition on Friday 3 October at 6.00pm For enquiries contact:
T: 08 8951 1122

Thursday 2 October
from 7pm
Friday 3 October
from 8.30pm

BA-DUM HEART CLUB
Alice Springs Convention Centre Courtyard, 93 Barrett Drive
Ba-dum is the evening hot spot that will revel creatively in the relentless rhythmic qualities of the heart organ as a powerful symbol for the creative forces associated with the Central Desert Region.

Thursday night features MC S.T Ruth (QLD), Sami Cha (NT), Mike Cafe (NT), Car Trouble from Bite Sized Theatre (NT), Tutti Ensemble (SA), Miriam Bond (NT), Tracey Bunn & Graham Ring (NT), Rob Bundle (QLD), NoKTuRNL (NT)

Friday night features Polytoxic (QLD), Mei Lai Swan (NT), Circosis (NT), Sink or Swin (NT), Steve Gumerungi Hodder (NT), Superlene (NT), Rusty & the Infidels (NT), Take-off (NT), The Human Canvas Project & the Hobohemians (NT), All that Jazz (NT), Melyssa Kerl (NT), Dj Booty Slayer (formerly Violet Crumble) vs Mustapha (NT)

Thursday 2 October,
until Sunday 5 October

ALICE DESERT FESTIVAL BUSH FOODS/ WILDFOODS CULINARY CHALLENGE
Various restaurants in town
Check out some of the restaurants in Alice that are participating in this unique challenge. See the signage in the window. Special ‘Festival Dishes’ have been held over so delegates can taste the flavours of Central Australia. The task in 2008 is to create a dish with wattleseed and another desert product. Last year we cooked, curried, seared and baked camel with great success. We wonder what Alice chefs will concoct this time?
W: www.bushwildfoods.wikispaces.com

Thursday 2 October,
Friday 3 October and
Saturday 4 October
from 8.15pm

NGAPARTJI NGAPARTJI
Araluen Arts Centre, 61 Larapinta Drive
Ngapartji Ngapartji is an epic story of displacement as the Spinifex nation is swept up in the Cold War. Written and directed by Scott Rankin and performed by Spinifex man and master storyteller Trevor Jamieson, with an ensemble cast of elders and young people from his community. This incredible story is shared in Pitjantjatjara and English, inviting audiences into an intimate and rare experience of culture through dance, story and song. Big hART’s Ngapartji Ngapartji is a long term intergenerational Pitjantjatjara language and arts project based in Central Australia. Presented by Big hART at the Araluen Arts Centre.

For bookings phone the Araluen Box Office on 08 8951 1122.
Ticket prices are:
Full: $38
Concession: $30
Students: $20

Araluen Box Office hours are: 10 am – 5 pm Monday - Friday and 11 am – 4 pm on weekends. Tickets can be booked by paying with credit card over the phone, and can then be collected from the Araluen Box office upon arrival in Alice Springs.

Friday 3 October
6.00pm – 9.00pm

DESART IN THE PARK
Alice Springs Desert Park, Larapinta Drive
Enjoy a unique experience in the form of an Indigenous art market at the Desert Park. The event in collaboration with DesArt, the Association of Central Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Centres will host approximately 10 art centres affiliated with DesArt, displaying and selling their works in the courtyard at the Alice Springs Desert Park. The night will include entertainment for the whole family comprising of live music and a variety of Central Australian films. Sumptuous food will be available during the evening. For enquiries contact:
T: 08 8951 8788