Alice Springs

3 September, 2025
3 September, 2025
Fans attending Nitro Up North can expect a heart-pounding weekend filled with non-stop action, jaw-dropping speed, thundering engines, and fierce on-track rivalries.
Red CentreNATS has become an iconic event, drawing automotive enthusiasts from across the country to witness the spectacle. Showcasing top-of-the-range street machines, elite show cars, hot rods, classics, and exotics.
Parrtjima is an extraordinary FREE 10-night festival in the stunning Red Centre, with an incredible program featuring light installations, artworks, workshops, music and talks. Parrtjima 2025 will take place on Arrernte Country from 4-13 April.
The Travelling Film Festival (TFF), Australia’s longest running travelling film festival, showcases Australian and international features, documentaries and short films in regional Australia. TFF currently tours to over 20 locations annually, screening in the Northern Territory, Queensland and New South Wales.
Welcome to Run Larapinta – an extraordinary trail running experience through the very heart of Australia. This is a race through a landscape that transcends time, where the tectonic lines of the MacDonnell Ranges stand solid and strong as the Larapinta Trail weaves its route like a magic serpent in the dust. It’s a landscape of boundless beauty that leaves you in awe at every step.
The NT Writers Festival (NTWF) is a four-day festival celebrating Australia’s cultural and linguistic diversity and bringing people together to share story, language and culture.
The iconic Finke Desert Race is an off-road, multi terrain two day race for bikes, cars and buggies through desert country from Alice Springs to the small Aputula (Finke) community.
11 September, 2025
26 October, 2025
Desert Mob brings together hundreds of artists to celebrate desert culture in the heart of Australia. One of the nation’s oldest Aboriginal art festivals, Desert Mob features an exhibition, symposium and marketplace as well as public programs and satellite events throughout Mparntwe (Alice Springs).
27 September, 2025
29 September, 2025
Desert Festival is back again this September, for a vibrant weekend celebrating place, community, and creativity. Dive into desert stories through live music, dance, theatre, immersive experiences, light installations, workshops, and engaging panel events, and sink into the lush bush surrounds of Olive Pink Botanic Gardens.
For the first time in a decade, we are taking the whole orchestra on the road for an NT Tour! Bringing incredible orchestral performances to Katherine, Tennant Creek, and Alice Springs, and culminating in a spectacular performance in Desert Park for the iconic Parrtjima - A Festival in Light, join us as we champion Territory talent down the Track.