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Red Hot Arts Central 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

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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 Central Australia. High octane drumming Los Bandoleros Perdidos (The Lost and 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 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

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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. Prizes. 4.30pm Sun 13 vocal adventurer, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter. Eclectic, ebullient and even educational, Mal Webb uses a world of vocal techniques (including pygmy yodelling Dusty Feet Dance Troupe and Inuit panting) and song styles. Who’s Party is the launch of a new www.myspace.com/sistanative independent Alice Springs Dance Troupe, 12 noon Sat 12 The Dusty Feet Collective. Miriam Bond has developed a contemporary dance- Kick back, relax, wander in, wander theatre work that explores interactions out, lie down, stare at the sky, sit down, between characters over one night at a cross your legs, laugh, drink chai, eat Arrive early to catch live and electric local house party. 5.30pm Sun 13 bush foods and enjoy the wondrous bands ramping up the energy on the Main spell where music and words intertwine Stage. There’s a sound wave for everybody! in a program of earthy delights. Featuring South East, Built 4 Comfort, The Acoustic grooves, award-winning Billygoat Superstars, plus more. Presented storytellers, rhythm by the metre. by Music NT. www.musicnt.com.au Immerse yourself in Featuring: NT Writers, Rachel Shields, 4pm Sat 12 rhythm and song. Side Show Aly and J9, SistaNative, Mal Desert Voice brings Webb, Mick Cafe and Bec Mathews. vibrant energy into The Pod with Time: 10am-4pm Saturday the combination 12 September Venue: Play Stage, The Bush Bands of Desert Song and Multicultural Magic. The Pod, Anzac Oval, Wills Tc Bash has grown Asante Sana creative powerhouse to become one of Morris Stuart is the talent behind this Australia’s biggest new exciting event. Experience Alice’s showcase of rich multicultural arts as dance and song remote Indigenous performances are woven into an afternoon music. The night of choral delight featuring a diversity of highlights incredible choirs and performance groups from contemporary Alice and surrounding Central Australian musical talent and communities. Asante Sana, Areyonga, flavour from remote Yirara College Choir, Tnantjama Ngkatja communities. Ntjarrala ( Harmony in Many Voices) Choir, A powerful event that celebrates our unique Titjikala Community Choir, St Phillips desert culture. This is Indigenous music choir, Choral Society, Young Lions-South from the heart. 7pm-12am Sat 12 Sudan Dancers, Akapulye Dance Group , Maori Dancers, 11 Hand’s Drumming Group,Tango Prima Vera, Multicultural Mabuhay Association. 6pm Sun 13

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What’s small, At the Pod all weekend we will be serving recycled, creative up a mix of fun and interesting workshops. and in a portable Come and get involved in hands on whitebox? Miniature activities, tailored to people of all ages. eco-art, that’s what! Workshops will be delivered by a range Alice Desert Festival is proud to Watch This Space of skilled leaders in the areas of dance, present The Black Arm Band as a Artist Run Initiative presents ‘ecoart3 ’; arts, crafts, environmental sustainability, Festival highlight. murundak - meaning a portable miniatures gallery housed in a movement and food making. Look out ‘alive’ in Woiwurrung language - is an white cube positioned at The Pod space. for the workshop program on the website historic musical event that celebrates The miniature artworks are no bigger than before the event or grab it at the Pod. music as an instrument of identity, 15cm x 15cm and made from recycled 11-13 Sept resistance and resilience, and a materials. 11-13 Sept. call to freedom. The soundtrack to Australian Aboriginal life is alive with songs that express joy, hope, struggle and compassion, murundak takes audiences on a spiritual journey of ‘the only contemporary Indigenous Australia. original Hotel in the Alice’

Bistro open daily from 12noon - 9pm The Indigenous musicians playing in Lunch time specials start from $10.00 The Black Arm Band are amongst the Great affordable menu most respected names in Australian music and include Dan Sultan, Mark Happy hour Friday’s from 5pm Atkins, Lou Bennett, Kutcha Edwards, Ruby Hunter, Stephen Pigram, Archie Maxims bar open 10.30am - late Roach, Bart Willoughby and joined by Darwin’s own Shellie Morris and Full Tab, Keno and gaming facilities Leah Flanagan. ‘Up on stage … were some of the Happy hour Friday’s from 6pm greatest performers this country can presently boast of, members of what Extensive drive-through bottle department is described as black folk protest, a phenomenon as significant to the Affordable accommodation national cultural life as Aboriginal art.’ The Age 8pm Sun 13

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The Magic Garden Kids Day invites young minds to think big about the fragile flora and fauna of the Desert environment. ‘Wish on a tree, take a ride on a wild story, check out a Katapilla kid, look up and see ‘a cloud over Alice’, make a birds nest, get hip with the Fro, play some skins, and sit back and enjoy the vast array of young local talent in all its glory.’ Time: 9.30am-4pm Sunday 13 September Venue: Play Stage, The Pod, Anzac Oval, Wills Tce Cost: Free

Date Time Event Page Sun 13 Sept MC Shari Larkins - 9.30am Wild Stories 9 10.30am Drum Atweme Workshops 9 11.00 am Katapilla Kids Productions 9 11.40am Body Move Body Groove 9 12pm Hip Fro 9 12.30 Mal Webb 9 1.30pm A Cloud Over Alice 9 2pm Young Song 9 2.50pm Sunshine Disco with Claudia Palimore 10 10am-4pm Kids Miniatures artHouse 10 10am-4pm Roaming Magic Garden Characters - 10am-4pm Bush Fairies - 10am-3pm The Wishing Tree 10 10am-1pm Costume Making - 10am-1pm Recycled Toy Workshop 10 1pm-4pm Birds Nest Workshop 10 10am-3pm Face Painting - 10am-4pm The Talking Tree - 10am onwards Steiner Healthy Stall -

8 Alice Desert Festival Have you ever wanted to get lost up the Come and see Alice’s own 13 and garden path or step into the enchanted under local dance groups shake up the forest where the wild things are? Well here’s kids space with their own original your chance for some frolicking fun and choreography and wicked moves and a wild adventure. Join the Alice Springs stylin grooves. YMCA Just dance and Public Library for a wild ride through the more. 11.40am Sun 13 engaging world of words. Local and multicultural stories, songs and activities about wild animals, wild places, will let your imagination run free! 9.30am Sun 13 Get your desert dance styles on with the SIILI sisters! Spend the afternoon with Gab, Drum workshops facilitated by Drum Stephie, Jeunae and Frankie as they get Atweme - kids teach kids rhythm on drums. little bodies moving and grooving with a Drum Atweme began in 2004; rising from fresh mix of Hip-Hop and African Dance town camps and led by Peter Lowson. straight from the concrete jungle. Drum Atweme are an exciting and dynamic 12pm Sun 13 The Pod comes to life with the Magic percussion group with participant ages Garden Puppets. This community arts ranging from 6 to 13 years. Drum Atweme project encourages interaction with the has performed regularly around Alice and Red Dust Theatre and Red HOT Arts incredibly diverse and interesting flora nationally at community, conference and presents A Cloud over Alice, an unusual and fauna of our Desert environment. festival events. 10.30am Sun 13 cloud over the gap spurs the imagination The larger than life puppets have of a group of children playing in the park. Is emerged from three Alice schools; it a feather? A snowflake? A wave? A Cloud Yirrara College, Anzac Hill High School Katapilla Kids has been formed to Over Alice is a theatre, circus and dance and Ross Park Primary School led create theatrical dance and puppetry performance about local kids developed by local artists Sally Mumford, Dan performances by big and little kids for by local kids during Red Dust Theatre’s Murphy and J9 Stanton who have all kids. 11am Sun 13 Kids Performance Lab workshops. Based been thinking big with international on a story by Lee Frank and directed by puppeteer Karen Hethey. Miriam Bond. 1.30pm Sun 13 (ADYOURFREEHOME energy survey yet? A bunch of young Around the world and into your brain, emerging artists vocal adventurer, multi-instrumentalist Bring this voucher to the Smart Living from Tashka’s and looping beatboxing songwriter Centre when you sign up and receive a music studio, Mal Webb plays too many instruments pack of energy efficient light bulbs. aged 12 to 16, in too many styles to too many have experimented with their own artistic people. Music that stomps all over imprint on the entertainment sphere. From stylistic boundaries. Family fun free singer-songwriters with incredible voices from facile frippery. Using a world of and stunning lyrics, to improv artists with vocal techniques, guitar, mbira, slide unbelievable stage flair - you’ll want to see trumpet, chromatic harmonica, a loop the upcoming youth of Alice Springs! 4ODD3TREETs0H recording pedal called Derek and the 2pm Sun 13 audience. 12.30pm Sun 13

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Watch the skeleton Bandages, missing of a tree transform ears, worn out fur and The Sunshine Disco encourages self into a lush green missing clothes. Are expression through dance. Breaking, canopy over one your toys looking a bit popping, locking, house, dance and day as kids put worse for wear. Don’t electro dance. Lead by Melbourne based their environmental throw them out; bring dancer Claudia Sangiorgi Palimore solutions and wishes them to The Magic who has performed and taught dance for our planet on the Garden Recycled Toy Workshop. Here’s workshops at a range of festivals, back of leaves. 10am-3pm Sun 13 your chance to renew your favourite toy community events and corporate functions characters and give them a new wardrobe, throughout Australia. 2.50pm Sun 13 a new look and a new lease of life. We will also have many toys available to dress up and take home. 10am-1pm Sun 13

Make Bird’s Nest Baskets, a workshop for ages 6-16. Kids will be introduced to fibre sculpture techniques to make a birds nest like basket using locally sourced plant materials and recycled manmade clutter. 1-4pm Sun 13

The Kids miniatures artHouse is jolly happy to present an exhibition of tiny, teeny, little, bits of lovely microscopic art works about the natural world. Choosing their favourite plant or animal to paint or draw on recycled material like scrap wood or metal that would otherwise be discarded. 10am-4pm Sun 13

10 Alice Desert Festival DESERT MOB 09 Araluen Arts Centre presents a showcase of recent works from Aboriginal Art Centres in Central Australia SYMPOSIUM: Fri 4th Sept, 9am to 3pm MARKETPLACE: Sat 5th Sept, 10am to 2pm DANCESITE: Sat 5th Sept, 6pm Alice Springs Telegraph Station A breathtaking love story about one EXHIBITION: Opening Sun 6th Sept, 2pm woman’s sacra ce Exhibition open until 18 October Sung in English. Performed with chamber orchestra KATHLEEN WALLACE BOOK LAUNCH: Directed by John Bell Sun 6th Sept, 3pm ARALUEN ARTS CENTRE SCREENING OF SAMSON & DELILAH: '3*%":"6(645 1. Sun 6th Sept, 7pm 4"563%":"6(645 1. (AUST - Rated MA15+) For more information visit: Book now at Box Oce: www.araluenartscentre.nt.gov.au (08) 8951 1122 -BSBQJOUB%SJWF "MJDF4QSJOHTt1I   61 Larapinta Drive www.araluenartscentre.nt.gov.au Araluen Arts Centre Image: Bugai Whylouter, ‘Balfour Downs’ (detail), 2008 acrylic on canvas, 107 x 151 cm, Martumili Artists. Photo Steve Strike. The Festival Club

Make hay while the moon is high. Quit beatin’ the devil around the stump. Put your best bib and tucker on. Blow your worries and get along to the ‘High Moon Saloon’ Festival Club. We got the whole kit and caboodle from happy, happy, ha ha’s, live theatre, witty maverick ‘The Bedroom Philosopher’, grass roots country, quirky camp fire ditties, cream of the crop local music, cabaret, bird whistlers, yodellers, shoot outs, legend gypsy ‘Barons of Tang’ and, of course, much, much more. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry and you’ll do crazy dance moves that you never imagined possible. Lucky Door Prizes on all nights. Bar service available. Date: Wednesday 16 – Saturday 19 September Venue: Witchetty’s, Araluen Arts Centre

12 Alice Desert Festival Festival Comedy Night Date Time Event If you work for a living, why do you kill Wed 16 Sept 8pm MC Donna OBrien yourself doing it? Put your drawers on, throw up the sponge and tuck into a colossal 8pm Bite Sized Theatre bowl of spaghetti western cranks, pranks, 8.30pm Emerging Comedians yarns, gags, tall stories, stunts and hoaxes. The odd sticks of Alice and beyond will be 9 &10pm The Bedroom Philosopher shooting their mouths off, yammering, pulling 11pm Mal Webb your donkey’s tail, larking about, playing the Skits fool, and winding up those spaghetti strands until they’re flicking all over your funny face. Bird Whistling Competition Date: Doors open at 7pm. 8pm - 12am Door Prizes Wednesday 16 September Venue: High Noon Saloon, Witchetty’s, Araluen Arts Centre, Larapinta Dr Cost: $10

Donna O’Brien became an accidental comedian after giving a speech at a friend’s 40th. Thought about trying it The Bedroom Philosopher (nee Justin Heazlewood) was born in Burnie, professionally but couldn’t give up the , with a complete set of sideburns. From a young age he began raiding joys of teaching teenagers trigonometry. his uncle’s wardrobe for dress ties and sweater vests in a quest to find meaning 8pm Wed 16 in mismatched colour patterns. Needless to say, he’s been trapped in a 1970’s aesthetic ever since. Aside from being the chic-geeks’ pin up boy, this self- deprecating witty maverick also knows ‘Is that a bluff, or do you mean it for real how to strum a tune. Who would have play?’ Two short plays from Red Dust thought sitars, accordions and a Wurlitzer Theatre’s Bite Size Theatre. Dead Ringer: played simultaneously could sound so A dark comedy about facing your fears, good? The Bedroom Philosopher has your past and the box you find yourself graced the stages of The , in. Written by Danielle Loy, Directed by , Perth International Arts Kerzland, starring Jim Coads. On a Hot Festival, Melbourne International Comedy Tin Roof: It’s the middle of summer in the Festival and the National Folk Festival. great Central Desert and Nugget and Stan 9pm & 10pm Wed 16 are on a hot tin roof….Written and Directed by Michael Watts, Staring Don Mallard and Luke Scholes. 8pm Wed 16

Alice Desert Festival 13 Country Music Night Date Time Event Let me ride through the wide open Thur 17 Sept MC Stanley Chasm country that I love, Don’t fence me 7.30pm Rhubee Neal in. Let me be by myself in the evenin’ breeze, And listen to the murmur of the 8.00pm Mary Flynn eucalyptus trees’..... What more can we 9pm Not Real Cowboys say? This gem of an evening is dedicated to the muso’s of the camp fire. 9.30pm Fake Fires Time: Doors open at 7. 7.30pm -12am 10.30pm Grass Roots Country Thurs 17 Sept Music Session Venue: High Noon Saloon, Witchetty’s, Yodelling Competition Araluen Arts Centre, Larapinta Dr Cost: $10 Door Prizes

Chasm, with the highly cultured Mr Harry Luen on guitar, harp and vocals. Strutting Singer-songwriter Rhubee Neale out the Rhythm on bass guitar is the very Napananka was born in Alice Springs, the pedestrian Mr Todd Mall and keeping the red centre of Australia. Rhubee’s heritage is beat like its flowin in his veins like a virus, from the Arrernte, Katetye and Anmatyerr on drums, Mr Ross River. 9pm Thur 17 tribes of Central Australia. 7.30pm Thur 17

This is a rare opportunity to see some of Mary Flynn is a songwriter who lives in Quirky country music set presented by the local real deal grass roots Indigenous Alice Springs. Mainly writing in the country/ emerging and established local singer/song country music legends present a fine folk genre on subjects and issues relating writers. Imagine a 50’s post card of an out as gravy, historically significant genre to Central Australia and beyond; lost back camp fire scene with twinkling stars of music. Baydon Williams, Cassandra stars, rampant gum trees, freaky roosters, in a dark blue sky, a cellophane camp fire, Williams and more. These gentleman and pirouetting farmers and other sad but true silhouettes of horses and a motley crew of gentlewomen are of the first water and tales. 8pm Thur 17 ramble country misfits. Hannah May, Mick not to be missed. 10.30pm Thur 17 Cafe, Aly de Groot, Ella McHenry, Dan Murphy, Eddie Donald, Svetlana Bunic, The Not Real Cowboys are a group of Katelnd Griffin, Shontal Klose, Ben Dank, local icons of the country music scene Stephanie Harris, Matt Hill and more...... led by the not really world famous Earl 9.30pm Thur 17 Dunda on lead ukulele, jews harp and vocals. Backing up Earl on lead guitar and vocals is the spectacular Mr Standley 14 Alice Desert Festival Hold on to your horses and get ready to Date Time Event hit the hurricane deck with the best of Fri 18 Sept 8.30pm MC local music and the festivals feature artist Sami Cha’s unique presentation of music, 8.30pm Super Raelene Bros film/new media and the environment. It’s 9.30pm Jackie Freeman & Matt Hill going to be a musical mash of Sassy, Hip- hop Soul, dusty rhythm, pop and roots. If 10.30pm Treat ‘em Green, things get too wild you can cool yer heels Keep ‘em Keen – Sami Cha and bend an elbow at the fire water bar. 11.30pm Human Canvas – Tashka Urban Time: Doors open at 8pm. 8.30pm-1am 12am Sassy J & Dan N Dee Friday 18 Sept Venue: High Noon Saloon, Witchetty’s, Araluen Arts Centre, Larapinta Dr Cost: $10 Club Entry

Fresh from the desert, a sonic waterhole Dan N Dee & Sassy J is Alice Springs Hip of sweet harmony and funk that never fails Hop/Soul at its best, we’ve taken Dan the to fill the dance floor. www.myspace.com/ Underdog, added acclaimed Red Centre superraelenebrothers 8.30pm Fri 18 MC; McDee and mixed it up with the soulful sounds of Alice Springs own Sassy J (Jacinta Castle). 12am Fri 18 Treat ‘em Green, Keep ‘em Keen, Jacqueline Freeman combines textures is a performance of folk, soul, and electro as she shares driven by Sami Cha journeys that twist and turn through the and supported by tumultuous nature of her experience. local musicians. www.triplejunearthed.com 9.30pm Fri 18 Sami Cha’s tunes will be entwined in and around imagery, delivering a contemporary interpretation of our Desert country. The group promises The Human Canvas Project (HCP) live to deliver an energetic show and show is a mix of Tashka Urban’s music sound, which will absorb and connect and a group of artists who push the the audience to country: our country. boundaries of Music and Art. 10.30pm Fri 18 www.myspace.com/tashkaurban 11.30pm Fri 18

Alice Desert Festival 15 Gitty-up y’all, to the Catawampously Date Time Event Fabulous Fandango Festival Finale Club Sat 19 Sept MC Matt Hill Party. Curly wolves, coots and cool cats alike will be cutting a swell and 8pm Mei Lai Swan whooping it up with cabaret, serenading 9pm Stop it! I love it! siren’s, gypsy death-core’, live jive, and DJ’s. Having fun on this night will be like 9.45pm The Transients lickin’ butter off a knife. 10.30pm Barons of Tang Time: Doors open at 8pm. 8pm-2am 12pm DJ Mustaphaa Saturday 19 Sept 1am DJ Sveti Boom Boom Venue: High Moon Saloon, Witchetty’s, Araluen Arts Centre, Larapinta Dr Live or Let Die Shoot Out Cost: $15 Blazing Saddles

and the ghastly sound of a beating heart breaking, these grimy carnivale women discover the anguishes and ecstasy that is true love in a show that is as much Cellist and songbird Rocky Horror as it is Pride and Prejudice. Lashing Tango, Mei Lai Swan returns Scream it if you believe it! Rockabilly, Latin to Alice for a special www.myspace.com/stephieharrison and Gypsy with Desert Festival show 9pm Sat 19 breaks, hard hitting with Steph Harrison guitar riffs, double on trumpet and kick blast beats vocals. 8pm Sat 19 and massive horn The Transients are Shontal Klose, Svetlana arrangements: Bunic and Eddi Donald. The trio have only The Barons serve recently collided in the Central Desert to up their gypsy maelstrom. The 8 piece 'a coven for the nun' form their tantalising soulful mixture of live ensemble use mainly traditional gypsy percussion, accordion, guitar, voice and Dreamers, believers, and tango feels played in the most electronic beats. Their sound is laced with heartbleeders ... bastardised and inappropriate way alt-gypsy-afro-electro-operatic influences, come with us on a possible. With accordion, double bass, so be ready for unexpected sonic delights. journey deep into saxophone and tuba to name just a few, 9.45pm Sat 19 the dark underworld the catchy tunes and punk ethos all tie of desire, for this is together to mean one thing, dancing a tale of misfortune is inevitable. www.myspace.com/ in the most beautiful of ways. Combining thebaronsoftang 10.30pm Sat 19 contemporary dance, music, cabaret

16 Alice Desert Festival Date Event Page 28 & 29 Aug Wearable Arts 18 31 Aug Poets on a Plate 20 Throughout Sept Bush Foods – Alice on the menu 19 2-4 Sept Hello Dolly 20 4 Sept Off The Page 20 4-5 Sept Meet the Publisher Workshops 20 4 Sept Desert Mob Symposium 20 4 Sept Desert Mob Marketplace 20 5 Sept Dutty Bounce Pounce Shakedown Dancehall Party! 21 5 Sept Artback NT Dance Site 20 5 Sept Paul Kelly 21 6 Sept- 18 Oct Desert Mob Exhibition 20 5 & 6 Sept Dance Workshops with Claudia Palimore 21 6 Sept The IAD Press Book Launch: Listen deeply, let these stories in 21 7-20 Sept Knit Graffiti 21 9 Sept Artefact Exhibition 21 11-20 Sept Turn The Page – Creative Bookmaking exhibition 21 12 Sept In conversation with the Arts 21 12 & 13 Sept Harvest Fare 19 12 Sept – 12 October LLLook Locals Lenses Landscapes 22 12 Sept Salsa Bootcamp 22 12 Sept Latin Groove 22 11-20 Sept Watch This Space Lightbox Project 23 13 Sept Rueda Workshop 22 13 Sept Inaugural Sustainable Living House Open Day 22 15 Sept – 3 Oct Head Miles – J9 Stanton & Aly de Groot 23 17 Sept Night Market 23 18-19 Sept Cats Meow Cabaret – The Midnight Carnivale 22 19 Sept Bush Foods Recipe Competition 19 19 Sept DesertSMART Eco Fair 22 19 Sept Solo Bach, Hermannsburg 23 20 Sept Asante Sana 23 20 Sept DesertSMART Dinner 23 20 Sept Bush Foods Foodies Finale 19 23 & 24 Oct Cinema in the River 23 25 Oct Composer Forum 23

Alice Desert Festival 17 Adult Wearable Arts Awards Date: 7pm Saturday 28 August Venue: Araluen Arts Centre Cost: $40 / $35 / $130 family Tickets at Territory Loans primary school students (to Araluen Box Office, 8951 1122 year 3), Moving Pictures primary school Leap off the elevator of life and drift among students (years 4 – 6), Headspace high Students Wearable Arts Awards the clouds of fantasy…into the Alice school students (years 10 to 12), Maviks Date: 1pm Sunday 29 August Springs Wearable Arts Awards 2009. Menswear & Sporting Apparel, People’s Venue: Araluen Arts Centre Beware the shower of exuberant joy and Choice Award, Lorraine Braham Festival Cost: $25 / $20 / $80 family steamy atmospherics. Allow yourself Acquisition Award Tickets at Araluen Box Office, 8951 1122 the luxury of a warm bubble bath full of refreshingly exhilarating theatre, exfoliating Adult Wearable Arts Awards Matinee art and titillating extravaganza. This year’s Date: 2pm Saturday 28 August artists have been challenged with new Venue: Araluen Arts Centre categories, including the Master Class Cost: $35 / $30 / $115 family Tickets at where previous prize winners are to create Araluen Box Office, 8951 1122 their outfits from five items.

Olive Pink Botanic Garden is proud to host the Desert Smart Eco Fair 2009.

Come and select from our great range of local Gallery Gondwana- Natural Fibres Award, native shrubs and groundcovers on sale LJ Hooker Desert Improvisation, Springs Plaza Top Notch Award, GGS Alice Glass ready for early summer gardens. and Aluminium Master Class, Brian Tucker Accounting Fantasia Award, Jen Standish- White Youth Award, Plumbtec Taps Tubs While you are here browse the Visitor Centre, & Tiles Performance Awards,Territory Chinese Medicine People’s Choice Award, have a meal in the Bean Tree Cafe or take a Alice Desert Festival Acquisition Award (sponsored by Central Craft Alice Springs) walk in the Garden.

18 Alice Desert Festival ‘festival dishes’ across town during the month of September, where the challenge is to create a dish (or dishes!) to showcase “celebrating bushfoods, wildfoods our unique regional cuisine...local food for and other local produce of Central local people and a guaranteed winner with Australia ….” visitors! Let’s put Alice on the menu! Check the website for participating outlets and be in the running to win a prize for the best diner review. Now in its fifth year, this exciting event has captured the hearts and minds of local Time/ Venue: Month of September. foodies, gained worldwide media attention, See website for participating outlets, and wooed the tastebuds of renowned www.bushwildfoods.wikispaces.com, chefs Maggie Beer and Stephanie www.alicedesertfestival.com.au Alexander. With a focus on creative use of ingredients, this is your chance to try your An afternoon soirée at Witchettys, this is hand at utilising our unique bushfoods, Local fare is centre stage in 2009 at The your chance as supporters, participants wildfoods and other local fare and create Pod, Anzac Oval. Celebrating the theme and the tasting public to catch up, unwind an award winning recipe! With only two of bushfoods, wildfoods and other local and take part in a foodies finale treat. This opportunities to get involved, you’ll need to produce from Central Australia, this special event will showcase and make get in quick for your chance to be included Harvest Fare will showcase the best of available for your tasting pleasure the in the much anticipated bushfood and the region with displays, tastings, cooking best of bushfoods, wildfoods and other wildfood recipe book. This event is open to demonstrations, workshops and bush local produce from our region. Toast the all ages and abilities, so get involved in the medicine. Don’t miss part one of the recipe end of the festival as the sun sets, and name of fun, food and innovation! competition, when local foodies of all ages be serenaded by the delicious sounds of Entry forms available from Afghan will cook up a storm before a panel of Katelnd Griffith, Rebecca Matthews and Traders, Bean Tree Cafe, Garden judges, for a chance to become an award Mei Lei Swan. Solutions, RedHOT Arts & more, winning recipe maker! Time: 4 – 7pm Sunday 20 September www.bushwildfoods.wikispaces.com Time: 9am – 4pm 12 & 13 September Venue: Witchettys, Araluen Arts Centre, www.alicedesertfestival.com.au Venue: The Pod, Anzac Oval, Wills Tce Cost: $30 Bookings Araluen Box Time: 10am onward Sunday Cost: Free Office 8951 1122 13 September Venue: The Pod, Anzac Oval, Wills Tce Cost: Free www.iadpress.com Time: 10am onward Saturday 19 September Venue: Sustainability Fair, Olive Pink Botanic Garden, Tuncks Rd Cost: Free Bringing beautiful new books to the In 2009 it’s all about participation and Alice Desert Festival! innovation with the launch of ‘Alice on the menu’, where our restaurants and eating houses put their creativity and skills to the test. Let your taste buds be tantalised by

Alice Desert Festival 19 St Phillip’s College Musical After years of match making others, what Desert Mob is the annual showcase gift could Dolly Levi be planning for herself? event for the Aboriginal-owned Art Love of course! In 2009 the St Philip’s Centres in Central Australia, comprising College Performing Arts Department, is three days of events and celebrations. set to entertain you with one of the most famous musical comedies Hello Dolly. Date: 7.30pm 2-4 September Venue: The Minnamurra Hall, St Phillips Desart, the Association of Central College Cost: $10 / $5 Australian Aboriginal Art and Craft Centres, presents Art Talks: a symposium of Aboriginal artists talking about their work. and Walking with Spirits. This is an alcohol Date: 9am cuppa tea and fire-making free event. To alleviate parking congestion An evening of vibrant poetry and spoken outside, for 10am-3pm Friday 4 September at the Telegraph Station precinct, courtesy word to close National Poetry Week. Venue: Araluen Arts Centre Theatre buses will be leaving from outside Araluen Featuring local award-winning poets, Cost: Free Arts Centre at 4.45pm, and from the and you ... come on, don’t be shy ... on bus stop on Gregory Tce (opposite Alice the open mic. Springs Library entrance) at 5.15pm; Time: 7pm-9pm Friday 4 September returning to these sites at the end of the Venue: Todd Tavern, Todd Mall The Desert Mob Market Place is a large performance. Cost: $5 outdoor market with stalls from many of the Date: Gates open 5.30pm, 6pm-9pm local and remote Art Centres selling small Saturday 5 September and low priced Aboriginal arts and crafts, Venue: Telegraph Station and related products such as T shirts, What does it take to win the ear of a Cost: Gold Coin Donation bags, books and calendars. Popular with publisher? What gives one manuscript both locals and visitors the market gives the edge over another? Find out how a chance for some excellent bargains for directly from the horse’s mouth, publishers early browsers. from HarperCollins, IAD Press, Niblock, Serious art collectors and enthusiasts from Penguin and Text. Date: 10am–2pm Saturday 5 September all over Australia and overseas gather at Venue: Araluen Arts Centre Araluen Arts Centre for the opening of Time: 4 & 5 September Cost: Free the Desert Mob exhibition. It is a chance Venue: Andy McNeill Room, to see the latest works from each of the Alice Springs Town Council participating Art Centres, and includes Cost: $150 / $80 to book: paintings from some of the leading artists in [email protected] Australia, together with traditional artefacts, weavings, ceramics and other crafts. Each Desert Mob DanceSite showcases Art Centre exhibits works by its most senior traditional Indigenous dance performances Grab a sound-bite for lunch. Local award- artists, together with works by emerging from the remote communities in the winning poets and storytellers will provide younger artists. food for thought. NT, WA and SA including local Arrernte Dancers and the Tjanpi Dancers from Time: 2pm Sunday 6 September Date: 12.30-1pm Monday 31 August – across the Ngaanyatjatjarra, Pitjantjatjarra until 18 October Thursday 3 September Yankunytjarra (NPY) lands. Special guests Venue: Araluen Arts Centre Venue: Various cafes around town this year are Djilpin Dancers from Katherine Cost: Free Cost: Free Region, who have performed at many national festivals including The Dreaming

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Knit Graffiti is back! Listen deeply, let these stories in Like you’ve never Wind, grind, bounce, mash, pop, lock seen it before. This Listen deeply, let these stories in is a richly and booty shake. Dancehall performance new Knit Graffiti illustrated journey through the art, life, law from Melbourne. DJ’s: Munga and Mili da installation by textile artist Nicky Schonkala and country of renowned senior Eastern Moocha and more. is of far reaching proportions and will Arrernte artist Kathleen Kemarre Wallace. Time: 9pm – late Saturday 5 September challenge your notion of the knitted form. Join IAD Press, Kathleen and co-author Venue: Ki Warehouse, George Cres. Time: 7-20 September Judy Lovell to celebrate the launch of Cost: $10 entry Venue: Uniting Church Lawns this book – the first title in a new IAD Cost: Free Press art book series. Guest launcher and commentator Margo Neale, Principal Advisor to the Director (Indigenous) & Senior Curator, National Museum of Australia. Learn Afro funk: from heartland to From very early on in his career, Paul Time: 3pm Sunday 6 September the expressions of hip hop. Pop, shuffle, Kelly has been recognised as one of the Venue: Araluen Art Centre jump, and get your groove on. Dancehall: most significant singer/songwriters in the Cost: Free Based on the flavorsome dance-style born country. As well as issuing an enduring out of . Wind, bounce, grind shake body of work with his own bands, Kelly and get low. has written film scores, produced albums for and written songs with some of Creative Book Making Exhibition Time: 3.30-5.30pm Saturday 5 & 12-2pm Australia and New Zealand’s finest artists. & 2.30-4.30pm Sunday 6 Books are wonderful but these books are Paul will be performing a range of songs extra special. Read books handmade from Venue: Alice Springs Youth Centre from his vast catalogue. This will be a rare a variety of materials, you’ll need time to Cost: $30/$50 for both. To book opportunity to see Paul in an intimate solo hold, read and turn the pages of these [email protected], 0409 948 324 acoustic performance. stunning works of art! Time: Saturday 5 September Date: Store Hours Venue: Araluen Arts Centre Venue: Dymocks Bookstore, Cost: $49 Bookings Araluen Springs Plaza, Todd Mall Box Office 89511122 Cost: Free

Artefact is an upcoming tour by Melbourne Hey have you heard of the formally based sound artists Camila Hannan, trained opera singer working in Alice as Thembi Soddell and Eamon Sprod an engineer? Come and learn of those (tarab) covering Adelaide, Alice Springs, amongst us who have by choice or Darwin, Perth, Bendigo and Melbourne. circumstance become ‘sleeper artists’. By incorporating field recordings from Hear their stories and see them perform. SAT 5 SEPT each location into the performance, their Hosted by Friends of Araluen. work will constantly shift and evolve into Time: 2.30pm Saturday 12 September ARALUEN a complex sonic map reflecting their Venue: Witchetty’s, Araluen Arts Centre ARTS CENTRE individual perceptions of their journey. Cost: $10 donation Tickets: www.soundtravellers.com.au. Araluen Box Office Time: 6.30pm Wednesday 9 September Ph. 8951 1122 Venue: Watch This Space, 9 George Cres www.paulkelly.com.au Cost: Free

Alice Desert Festival 21 Learn about local sustainability LLLook exhibition is a photographic initiatives and take exploration of the relationship between the opportunity to locals and this desert environment learn more about through the lens of the camera. Local the actions that local photographers have rummaged through residents can take to live more sustainably their collections to find the best images that in the arid zone. Wander through stalls, capture the beauty, joy and connection to taste entries from the solar oven bake-off, desert country. Presented by Alice Springs check out interactive displays and speak Public Library and Alice Desert Festival. to the experts. National Bird Week will Time: Opening 11am Saturday be launched at the fair and the Greening 12 September until 12 October Australia plant sale will give you tips on Venue: Alice Springs Public Library which native plants are best to attract bird Cost: Free life to the garden. www.alec.org.au Time: 7am – 5pm Saturday 19 September Venue: Olive Pink Botanic Garden t Learn this sexy South American dance Cost: Free in just three hours with experienced The Midnight Carnivale instructors Shaun and Kirsty Nancarrow. With two years of Sold Out Smash Hits Suitable for beginner to intermediate level. If you’re addicted to Salsa, you’ll love under their belt, this year the fabulous Includes full course notes and a Latin Rueda-the progressive salsa dance where Cat’s Meow is jumping through hoops music CD. couples assemble in a circle -great fun, and delving deep into the dark theatrical Time: 2-5pm Saturday 12 September great music and a great way to take your night to bring you the Midnight Carnivale. Venue: 7 Barclay Crescent. dancing to another level. This awe-inspiring extravaganza serves Cost: $50 /Bookings 0400130634, Time: 1-2.30pm Sunday September 13 up a sizzling smorgasbord of local talent [email protected] Venue: 7 Barclay Crescent with a generous dollop of genius and flair. Cost: $20 Bookings 0400130634, Think has-beens, misfits and a bar six [email protected] feet underground. Think freak shows and bewitching beauties, honky hot pants If you like dancing salsa and Latin music, and aerial artistry. Think live circus band you’re in for a full night of entertainment. and a cast of hundreds. Think Cabaret, Featuring salsa lessons with Kirsty and don’t miss out, because we are Nancarrow, followed by Latin groove The Cat’s Meow. with Los Bandoleros Perdidos who’ll A typical Alice Springs home has keep you dancing all night long. Time: 6.30pm for 7pm 18 & undergone a sustainability make-over. 19 September Time: 8pm for 8.30pm To coincide with the national Sustainable Venue: Araluen Arts Centre Theatre, Saturday 12 September House Day this property will be open to Cost: $20 / $18 / $15 Venue: Upstairs @ The Lane, the public for the first time. A joint project Bookings Araluen Box Office 8951 1122 Reg Harris Lane of Alice Solar City and DesertSMART Cost: $10 COOLmob. Time: 10am–2pm Sunday 13 September Venue: 68 Kurrajong Drive, Alice Springs Cost: Free

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Head Miles is a continuing dialogue Acapella in the Gorge between the head and heart. J9 Stanton Asante Sana will perform in the magical lives in the desert and Aly de Groot in Trephina Gorge. Asante Sana will offer the tropics, the contrasts and similarities their rendition of stirring African harmonies, between their artworks comes together to ballads, and songs inspired by life in Solar Lit, transportable light boxes tell the story of two women’s experiences the Red Centre. Trephina Gorge is one housing local young and emerging of living, travelling and working. of Central Australia’s best kept secrets: visual artists work. Various locations Time: Opening 6pm 15 September beautiful, majestic, ancient, and a throughout the festival, keep your eyes until 3 October magnificent soundshell. out for glints of creativity! Solart is an Venue: Watch This Space Gallery, Time: 3.30pm Sunday 20 September ongoing project. 4/9 George Cres Venue: Trephina Gorge Time: Nightly during the Festival Cost: Free Cost: Free Venue: All around town Cost: Free A market in the midst of the Alice Desert Drive through the West MacDonnell Festival with performances from local Ranges and visit the Historic Precinct at musicians. Wander through the eclectic Hermannsburg for this rare opportunity mix of market stalls. to hear a live performance of high quality Alice Desert Time: 5-9pm Thursday 17 September classical music. Cellist Nicholas Hempel Festival returns Venue: Todd Mall gives a performance of Johann Sebastian to the banks of Cost: Free Bach’s first and third Suites for Solo Cello. the Todd River Time: 4pm Saturday 19 September for two nights. Venue: Old Church, Hermannsburg Friday night will Historic Precinct showcase some Practitioners from the international Cost: $20 / $15 of this year’s best movement - transition towns - will join new Indigenous local voices to consider climate change, cinema from peak oil and the future of Mparntwe Australia and (Alice Springs). What are the intercultural In Conversation with composer overseas, stories for a genuinely desertSMART David Hirschfelder. including the Alice Springs premiere community? How can we cultivate this David Hirschfelder is an icon in Australian of the feature documentary by local future? Join this essential conversation film. Recognised internationally as one of filmmaker Beck Cole about the making over a 3 course dinner featuring local and the word’s finest screen composers today, of Warwick Thornton’s Cannes Camera bush foods - drinks included. Hosted his many awards and nominations includes d’Or-winning Samson and Delilah. On by Desert Knowledge Australia and Arid two Academy Award nominations, a Saturday night, Cinema in the River, in Lands Environment Centre. Golden Globe and a British Academy partnership with the Australian Screen www.desertknowlegde.com.au Award. Sponsored by Northern Territory Composers Guild, will present Baz www.alec.org.au Film Office and presented in association Luhrmann’s classic feature film Strictly Time: 7pm Sunday 20 September with the AFI. Ballroom. The film will be introduced by the film’s composer, David Hirshfelder. Venue: The Desert Peoples Centre, Time: 11.00am – 12.30pm Desert Knowledge Precinct Sunday, 25 October Time: 7pm Friday 23 & 6pm Cost: $60 / $45 Venue: Andy McNeil Room, Sat 24 October Alice Springs Town Council Venue: Todd River Cost: Free (near Totem Theatre) Bookings: [email protected] Cost: gold coin mobile: 0411 888 664 Alice Desert Festival 23 NT in the red centre