A huge range of attractive local native shrubs, trees and grasses to choose from. Create new garden areas or fill in existing garden areas. Great prices, and all money raised goes toward new projects at the Botanic Garden. Ph 8952 2154.
The Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority (AAPA) is an independent statutory organisation established under the Northern Territory Aboriginal Sacred Sites Act, and is responsible for overseeing the protection of Aboriginal sacred sites on land and sea across the whole of Australia’s Northern Territory.
Civil Train, the training arm of the Civil Contractors Federation is a not for profit registered training organisation that is nationally based. They specialise in Resource and Infrastructure / construction / land management and horticulture training. Civil Train has a proud history of delivering flexible, innovative and high quality training, assisting industry meet it’s contractual and OHS&W obligations and challenges.They are now based in the NT working closely with the OPBG
Jobfind Centres Australia Pty. Ltd. (Jobfind) is a private employment service funded by the Australian Government. Established to assist job seekers and employers, Jobfind works closely with local communities to find suitable employment for job seekers and provides support to employers increasing their hiring capacity to include disadvantaged people. The support and assistance offered by Jobfind includes training targeted at improving the skills of job seekers and through ongoing community engagement, creates improved and sustainable outcomes for all.
The option of establishing a sacred sites management program presents a truly outstanding opportunity to provide a new and exciting level of service to the central Australian community and beyond.The goals of this project are:
· To provide a vehicle for the engagement of traditional owners in caring for significant sites, and their interpretation.
· To provide training and employment opportunities in partnership with registered training organisations.
· To increase the area land actively managed by of Olive Pink Botanic Garden and build on its role in the conservation and land management
· To enhance Alice Springs reputation as a ‘must-see’ tourism destination for visitors to central Australia;
· To establish an engaging and readily accessible network of recreational walks with complementary interpretation of the natural and cultural environment for use by the local community and visitors.
· To develop partnerships with local business to support ongoing employment opportunities for Aboriginal People
The Stride for Health is an annual event held to raise awareness and to highlight the work of the two Alice Springs cancer support groups: Bosom Buddies breast cancer support group, and Alice Springs Prostate Cancer Support Group.
To be diagnosed with cancer today means that, particularly if the cancer is detected early, there is a much greater chance of long-term survival, and of cure. This is the key message our groups have in common, as we encourage people to be proactive in managing their health and wellbeing.
The Stride for Health is an important part of getting our messages across to the community. It is a family fun event (non competitive) of 4 km, open to all ages, and is followed by a light breakfast, and a barrel draw of prizes donated by supportive local business.
As well as raising awareness and focusing on the peer support and information offered by our groups to people and their families in our community touched by cancer each year, we also promote the importance of an active and healthy lifestyle during treatment and in recovery.
Being able to be proactive in regaining your health and wellbeing is very empowering, as it something you can do for yourself, and is not dependent on medical treatment.
The evidence is strong that participating in exercise programs plays a big part in reducing recurrence of disease shown especially in bowel and breast cancer studies)
Both Bosom Buddies and the alice Springs Prostate support groups are composed of survivors of breast and prostate cancer, and operate in a voluntary manner without any government funding support. Each group meets monthly and aims especially to support those who are newly diagnosed, providing encouragement, hope and information to the people and their families.
Bosom Buddies was established in 2001 after a couple of us were diagnosed through BreastScreen here in Alice. The Men’s Group got going in 2008. The Stride for Health began in 2007. Initially held in October (breast cancer awareness month), now that the Prostate Group is involved we do it on the cusp of the 2 awareness months.
The Big Top opens its doors and welcomes you into a night of rocking rhythms and soulful sounds fit to satisfy anyone who likes their music edgy and raw.
Presented by: Red Hot Arts Central Australia
Wednesday 12th -September
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Lucy and the Diamonds Let yourselves be taken side-saddle on a journey of scintillating strings and heavenly harmonies. Lucy and the Diamonds are sparkly, rough and rare. More information on Lucy and the Diamonds |
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Katie Harder A Melbourne born musician who has been writing and playing music for 10 years. Katie’s music has that all-Australian sound that pushes and pulls ideas and inspires her listeners to get the most out of life. More information on Katie Harder |
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Warren H Williams and Friends Indigenous country music star Warren H Williams and his band will be joined by talented young Indigenous vocalists in a very special performance of country style tunes. https://www.warrenhwilliams.com |
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Max Savage and the False Idols (SA) A group that peddles music of a kind not heard in Australia for a very long time. With a rock and roll swagger, Max Savage brings a sound that is both mesmerising and heartbreakingly honest. More information on Max Savage and the False Idols |
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Frank Woodley is built from funny – it’s in his bones from head to toe. After 20 years as one half of the much loved Lano and Woodley, Frank has not slowed down. In 2011 he wrote and starred in the romantic ABC TV comedyWoodley. Returning to the stage in 2012 for his solo stand up show, Frank continues to delight audiences with his hilarious, slapstick, trip up, drop down style. |
| Leon Tripp Winner of the Tasmanian Section of Raw Comedy in 2000. Leon has performed with Will Anderson, Jackie Loeb, Anthony Ackroid, and Dave Callan to name a few. A seasoned funny man, he’ll be sure to get your laughing gear oiled and moving for a great night’s entertainment. | |
| Eshua Bolton From the early age of five Eshua has been up on stage entertaining. “Sly, subversive and sardonic”, he recently performed alongside international comedians at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. |
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| Donna O’Brien Donna is back for her once a year show and she’s looking forward to seeing you all again. Be there or be somewhere else. |
Unfurl your inner feline and slink out for a night of daring and delicious entertainment for grown-ups. From raunch to paunch, deviants to diamantes, come join the crème de la crème of the Cat’s Meow Cabaret as they tease and trick their way out of the afterlife.
Friday 14 Sept, 6pm doors open; 8pm show starts
Festival Club Big Top, Olive Pink Botanic Garden, Tuncks Rd
Cost: $25 general / $35 VIP Seating
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Desert Rain Peachy, Isabelle and J9 are Desert Rain. The resonant tones of the cello and singing saw accompany Peachy’s songs which explore landscapes and how humans impact on them. Simple, soulful and full of feeling, Desert Rain seek solace through connection. |
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Dr Flouride From Tennant Creek springs one of the true music mavericks of the Territory. Wild, hardworking and woolly, the Doctor will showcase his newest and strangest tunes in a blend of rock/pop and reggae/dub. More information on Dr Flouride |
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Rusty and the Infidels Rusty and the Infidels hit you with Klezmer, the Jewish-Gypsy good-time party music, now a big hit at music festivals all over the world. With Klezmer’s origins in Eastern Europe, and its later makeover in New York into Jewish Street-Music with Attitude, don’t miss premier party band Rusty and the Infidels. And bring your dancing shoes. |
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Tek Tek Ensemble (VIC) Tek Tek Ensemble is a revitalised anthropological dance band consisting of guitars, trumpet, trombone, violins, percussion, double bass, piano accordion and the human voice. Tek Tek Ensemble creates hybridizations of most of the world’s music incorporating a startling variety of ethnographic and popular genres. The encyclopaedic repertoire of the ensemble is bound by the strict yet simple stipulation of danceability. As long as it has a fever of unbridled festivity, Tek Tek Ensemble plays it. Facebook page |
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Guthrie (VIC/TAS) Hailing from Van Diemen’s Land, Guthrie delivers honest and distinctive electric blues. Hot from a 60-date tour of the east coast of Australia, Guthrie bring their incendiary live performance to the 2012 Alice Desert Festival. These young southern men sing songs of love, murder, addiction, redemption, longing and loss. Two men, pounding drums, loud guitar played with a slide and a voice larger than life. Guthrie is dark and magnificent, this is the thinking man’s drinking music. Brace yourself! Facebook page Youtube clip |
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Los Bandoleros Perdidos Los Bandoleros Perdidos bring a Latin flavour to the desert. Inspired by band members’ personal travels and musical experiences in Latin America, transferred live to Central Australia. After a hiatus last year they’ve re-formed to bring you grooves from Latin America. Latin sounds and rhythms interpreted in their own style to keep you dancing all night. Vamos a bailarrrrrrr! Facebook page |
Sue Fielding is currently working at the Olive Pink Botanic Garden, as the ‘café poet’. The Café Poet Program is run by Australian Poetry, the peak body for poets and poetry in oz. It began in 2009, and aims to bring poetry out into the community, support local arts, and help cafes to get behind local poets and poetry events.
Sue will be set up at The Bean Tree every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11-2pm. She will be writing, reading, running events, posting poems around the gardens and ready to yarn with you about poetry.
Come and visit Sue and join her in these activities. For more information, to share ideas and make requests: contact Sue on 8953 2776.
Miss Pinks Morning Tea
Saturday the 16th of June from 10:00am
Join local historian Stuart Taynor and co-writer of the play ‘The First Garden’ Chris Raja at the Olive Pink Botanic Gardens for an informative panel discussion and Q&A about Miss Olive Pink’s life and work.
The talk will be followed by a tour of significant sites within the gardens and a morning tea that will not feature staples of Miss Pink’s infamous teas, Madeira cake and stale sherry.
The event is free, but please consider a donation to the Gardens
On Thursday the 7th of June at 3:30pm there is the opportunity to attend workshop/s with Albare and his band. These will cater to musicians from of varying skill levels from beginner to advanced so don’t be afraid to sign up!
The masterclass will be based around music and life according to Albare. It will work as an inspirational session for young artists and musicians, and this will of course be largely be based on Q and A. Albare will host this, with Evri and also Antonio. Guest need not bring instruments along, and all musical abilities, or just those interested in the art of music are warmly invited to come.
You will also have the chance to win a Gibson Les Paul Studio Guitar in ‘swamp ash’ natural finish RRP at $2199 AUD comes with authentic Gibson guitar padded guitar case
To make a booking for this event please call 8952 2154.
Art is indeed a luminous language. It is a powerful means of communication, transcending cultural, ethnic and linguistic differences. It is this power that HRAFF 2012 seeks to harness.
In its fifth year, HRAFF continues to provide a shared site whereby artists, human rights organisations and the Australian public are united in their desire to contribute to social change. For eleven days in Melbourne, and then three weeks across the country, HRAFF will exhibit a selection of contemporary cinema, fine art, discussion panels and music, seeking to engage, inspire and entertain.
The Festival aims to advance and encourage education and debate among the broader community, to showcase and support Australian and international artists and to promote works about Australians. The Festival is committed to encouraging and facilitating the participation of new audiences: our community outreach program targets marginalised communities; screenings in workplaces showcase the benefits of developing a human rights culture; and our education program travels Victoria engaging the next generation in the pertinent issues of human rights and global awareness through the very powerful medium of film. Recognising that human rights issues can be overwhelming, HRAFF aims not only to raise awareness, but also to redirect the debate towards a more positive and productive outcome. The message we hope to transmit is one focused on change, inspiration, passion, creativity, inclusion, and most of all, possibility.
Tangentyere Artists – Exhibition Opening – Friday 8th June 2012
Tangentyere Artistsis a vibrant and dynamic art centre belonging to the town camp residents of Alice Springs. The studio work space is open and welcoming, providing artists a place of respite from the intensity of some Town Camps, a contemplative place to work and create and elevate.
Tangentyere Council is the major service delivery agency for 18 housing associations known as town camp communities in Alice Springs. The camps are home to around 2000 Indigenous people from the local area and their many visitors from remote communities across Central Australia. The council is Aboriginal owned and controlled and governed by an executive of elected town camp residents. Town Camp residents are some of the most disadvantaged people in Australia, living in the most challenging physical and social conditions.
As we are part of the Aboriginal owned and governed Tangentyere Councils’ Social Services division, for many of the Artists the Art Centre serves as respite and therapy from the daily grind, the alcohol, and the suicide epidemic of their young and other trouble in their lives. Tangentyere Artists are increasingly becoming known for the figurative paintings with textual references; reflections of everyday life in the Alice Springs Town Camps.
Through the creation of recycled metal jewellery and painted found objects, seed jewellery, painted wooden panels and acrylic on canvas, artists create classical as well as quirky and offbeat art objects.
Tangentyere Artists strives to develop community partnerships and new opportunities for artists, finding ways of communicating to broad audiences the experience and perspectives of the town camp artists. The art service empowers individual town camp residents beyond the everyday so they are able to achieve collectively what they could not do individually.
The art centre provides a platform from which artists can express themselves, their lives and cultural values, while enriching their community well being and family livelihoods.
We have a pretty busy exhibition and events schedule, but also run art therapy and well being projects, from suicide prevention work, introduction to yoga and meditation, and healthy eating.
If you are in Alice Springs, Australia, we invite you to drop in and see us, so we can show you in person what we do and aim to achieve.
