www.alicedesertfestival.com.au Alice Desert Festival 1 Red Hot Arts Central Australia PRESENTED BY: Director/ Executive Officer – Lucy Kenneth, Cait Ryan, Wendy Hee Festival and Events Manager – Scott Large Marketing Officer – Nicole Sarfati Regional Arts Development Officer/ Program Coordinator– Franca Barraclough Festival Staff Production Coordinator – Joe Pickett Bushfoods Coordinator – Bec Gooderham Wearable Arts Coordinator – Sarah Hill GOVERNMENT PARTNERS: Wearable Arts Ambassador – Mary Minotti Parade/Community Coordinator – Cherie Hughes Cat’s Meow Cabaret – Franca Barraclough, Milyika Scales, Melissa Kerl Bush Bands Bash – Rodney Angelo, Bear Glasson Desert Voice – Morris Stewart, Tracks of the Desert Magic Garden – Karen Hethey National Promotion – Dave Richards Web Technician – Jonathan Rossiter PRINCIPAL PARTNER: MAJOR PARTNER: Red HOT Arts Central Australia Board Kelly-lee Hickey (Chair), Damien Armstrong, Peter Clarke, Ruth Elvin, Jan Ferguson, Karlee Foster, Alex Kelly, Matt Mulga, Dan Murphy, Karlikamurti Suich, Adrian Scholtes (Outgoing Chair ADF), Alderman Melanie Van Haaren PARTNERS: Anneke Rose and Melissa Kerl With Special Thanks To the reference groups of Wearable Arts, Bushfoods and the Alice Desert Festival. To the Staff of Music NT, Artback NT, Desart, CAAMA, Araluen Arts Centre, Ross Park Primary School. INVALUABLE SUPPORT: Yirara School, Anzac Hill High School and Tangentyere Youth Services, Alice Springs Public Library – LLLook exhibition, Peter Lowson & Shontal Klose – Wipe Out musical direction, Remar, OLSH – Magic Garden contribution, Mission Australlia – Wipe Out. Festival Program Artwork – Sally Mumford Design/Layout – Nicole Sarfati, Bronwyn Ashe of Colemans Printing Printing – Printed on 55% recycled, 45% Sustainable Forest paper/vegetable based inks, chemical free process & water conscious printers – Colemans Printing JEN STANDISH-WHITE LORRAINE BRAHAM “Unique Alice”! The beauty.. the Welcome to the 2009 Alice Werte! Recently whilst smashing colour.. our Central Australian Springs Desert Festival. This away on the laptop in the office, landscape…the flora and fauna years’ festival focus, exploring I glanced out the window to see of this land…all unique…and sustainability, provides us with a sky illuminated with the most which are the things that make the opportunity to reflect on our amazing hues of sunset fire – Central Australia’s arid desert the natural ‘Alice’ what it is! role as custodians for the future that incredible orange-red-pink region is a fertile breeding ground Unique! It gives me great pleasure generations of Central Australians. that defies definition. Throwing for an array of unique expressions to welcome the Alice Desert Here at Red Hot Arts Central deadlines to the wind, I ran out of arts and culture.The Alice Festival back to Alice Springs in Australia, we have been working the door and up a nearby hill Desert Festival celebrates the 2009, this year focusing on the hard on ensuring that the next to appreciate the full scene in diversity and vibrancy of the ‘natural environment’. generations of artists and arts widescreen. As the last of the Centre’s community. It promotes Again the Alice Desert Festival communities are empowered as days rays bounced off the low collaborative artistic efforts that presents a myriad of experiences leaders in the changing cultural clouds I was overwhelmed, showcase the creative energy of for us to view and participate. landscape of Australia. 2009 has once again, by this place. For a locals and provides opportunities This year the Festival presents seen a merger between two of moment, the traffic disappeared, to interact with national and many arts and cultural events that Central Australia’s most dynamic the buildings dissolved and the international performers. look to Central Australia’s natural arts organisations; The Alice wind held its breath. Ancient, From the street parade to wild environment for a wonderfully full Desert Festival and Red Hot Arts. decaying ranges infused with foods to wearable art, there program to enthrall and inspire us As the newly formed Red Hot stories and history stared back at are so many artistic avenues to all. Alice Springs Town Council is Arts Central Australia, we will be me. I considered the unlikelihood be explored by punters at this delighted and proud to once more supporting and advocating for that from these dry soils life and festival. I hope you enjoy this very support the Alice Desert Festival; arts and cultural development culture don’t just survive, but special and individual event. an event that is truly a part of across the region through arts flourish with abundant flare and Alison Anderson MLA the Alice Springs culture and projects, skills development, diversity. Likewise, The Alice Minister for Arts and Museums community. Congratulations to research and events. The Alice Desert Festival has grown over the Committee for their dedication Desert Festival will continue to the years from the fertile creative in bringing together the great play its important role in bringing soils of so many vibrant people events for this year. I hope that people together from across who have enriched the cultural locals and visitors alike will join Australia to celebrate the unique landscape for us all. As plants together for a week of sharing, cultural communities of Central bury their roots deep into the connecting, development and Australia. Join us in unearthing desert ground to find nutrients, growth. Enjoy. new terrain as we co-create a rich you too can dig into the program and vibrant cultural legacy for of the Alice Desert Festival Damien Ryan, the future. 2009 and find inspiration and Mayor of Alice Springs Kelly Lee Hickey sustenance. Alice Springs keeps Chair, Red HOT Arts on showing that it’s not the middle Central Australia of nowhere, but the middle of everywhere…enjoy. Scott Large Festival and Events Manger, Red HOT Alice Arts Desert Central AustraliaFestival 3 The Alice Desert Festival 09 explodes into life at The Pod - a full weekend of music and performance, workshops, miniature art galleries, local food stalls and loads of fun! Some new additions to the opening weekend celebrations are the Magic Garden Kids Day which is a vibrant mix of puppets representing the local environment, music, readings and whole lot of activities for the kid in all of us. There is also the Harvest Fare Bushfoods Hub which will showcase local produce, cooking classes, bush medicine and the hotly contested Recipe Competition. Migrate down to Anzac Oval and join in this fantastic Spring FEASTival! Time: Fri 11-13 September Venue: Anzac Oval, Wills Tce Cost: Free Date Time Event Stage Page Fri 11 Sept 6pm Sunset Street Parade Council Lawns to Anzac Oval 5 6.50pm Acknowledgement of country Main Stage - 7pm Wipe Out 5 8pm Dr Strangeways 5 9pm Mista Savona 5 11pm Los Bandoleros Perdidos 5 11.45pm DJ Milli da Moocha - Sat 12 Sept 9am-4pm Harvest Fare The Pod 19 10am-4pm Earth Garden Play Stage 6 10am-4pm NT Writers Centre Readings 6 10am Rachel Shields 6 11am Side Show Aly & J9 6 12pm Sista Native & Mal Webb 6 1.30pm Mick Cafe 6 2.30pm Bec Mathews 6 4pm Sounds From The Ground Main Stage 6 7pm Bush Bands Bash Main Stage 6 Sun 13 Sept 9am-4pm Harvest Fare The Pod 19 4.30pm Face Up Play Stage 6 5.30pm Who’s Party 6 6pm Desert Voice 6 8pm Black Arm Band Main Stage 7 All weekend A little cube of EcoArt The Pod 7 All weekend Pod Workshops The Pod 7 4 Alice Desert Festival Get ready to cheer on your favourite Dr Strangeways are the Central character/dancers/marching band/school Australian ‘desert ska funkle tube fusion’ group as Alice dresses up and struts her band. Inspired by the powerful desert stuff. Council Lawns to Anzac Hill. Magic landscape and the sounds that can be Garden Puppets feature. 6pm Friday 11 found under every rock, Dr Strangeways play a fun brand of original fusion. www.myspace.com/drstrangeways www.drstrangeways.com 8pm Fri 11 Wipe Out features the awesome talents Jake Savona is one of Australia’s of youth from Alice Springs and remote leading exponents of roots reggae Central Australia. High octane drumming Los Bandoleros Perdidos (The Lost and dancehall music with several borne from town camps and bush Bandits) is an eclectic mix of new and international releases under his belt. communities mix it with local song and seasoned local performers with a passion Jake brings to Alice a 7 piece band, dance. Featuring Drum Atweme, Yipirinya for danceable tunes with a Latin flavour. two MC’s and Melbourne vocalist Vida School, Ti Tree School and Aputula Drawing mainly on Cuban and Brazilian Sunshyne (whose credits includes Community School, Yirara, young Maori rhythms, this 12 piece groove unit creates work with Lionel Richie). This show is dancers, Ikuntji Primary and Akapulye a synergy with stabbing horns, syncopated by far the most dynamic presentation Dance Group. Stay tuned for a rendition percussion, guitars, bass, keys and vocals of roots reggae and dancehall music in of Central Australia’s desert surf ‘anthem’ forming an infectious sound bound to get the country. Get ready to dance! Wipe Out. 7pm Fri 11 people dancing.11pm Fri 11 www.mistasavona.com 9pm Fri 11 Alice Desert Festival 5 SistaNative is an orator, songwoman and Step up, face up, and get down. Come cultural arts activist playing her own brand and see these forces of nature, super of urban world roots incorporating a wide rappers and cold crush breakers step into variety of music genres including Hip Hop, the arena. You can’t hold them back, this Soul, Reggae, Traditional World, Pop, is strictly business and only the wickedest Jazz, Dub, Jungle & Folk. She is joined by crew will get the booty at the ultimate ‘Face jolly jaw-dropping journeyman Mal Webb: Up’ dance off.