Community Calendar

Bindi Digital Art Prize - Submissions Open

FRI 22 MAY 2026 - FRI 21 AUG 2026 12:00 AM

Type: Major Event

Audience: All Ages

Call For Entries!Bindi Enterprises invites artists to submit digital and moving image works for this all-inclusive national art prize, based in Mpartnwe / Alice Springs.

Young Minds: Our Future (#YMOF) Survey

WED 01 JUL 2026 - WED 30 SEP 2026 12:00 AM

Type: Community

Audience: All Ages

An important survey on child and adolescent mental health and wellbeing is being conducted right across Australia and in our neighbourhood.

Free Community Yoga Classes

WED 01 JUL 2026 - THU 09 JUL 2026 7:00 PM

Location:: 10 Speed Street, The Gap

Type: Community

Audience: All Ages

Free Yoga class Wednesdays 6pm to 7pm with Fiona Gordon in Alice Springs sports and Leisure Centre gym .Classes are sponsored by ASTC so no cost. All welcome.

Newlandia Skate & Music Festival

FRI 10 JUL 2026 12:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Location:: Newland Skate & Play Precinct

Type: Community

Audience: All Ages

📍 Newland Skate & Play Precinct - 36 Newland St, Gillen, Alice Springs📅 Friday 10 July 2026🎟️ FREE | ALL AGES Get ready, Mparntwe, Alice Springs! Newlandia Music & Skate Festival is a brand new celebration for NAIDOC Week bringing

Learn how to make beeswax wraps

SAT 11 JUL 2026 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Location:: Westside Community Garden

Type: Community

Audience: All Ages

Learn how to make your own beeswax wraps Join us at West Side Community Gardens on July 11, 2026 at 9:00 AM (ACST) to discover how to create your very own beeswax wraps. This fun and eco-friendly workshop will teach you how to make wraps that

Alice Springs Running Festival 2026

SUN 19 JUL 2026 7:00 AM - 1:30 PM

Type: Community

Audience: All Ages

The Alice Springs Running Festival is back for 2026. Located in the West MacDonnell National Park. Starting at Simpson Gap and running along the Simpson Gap Bike Bath. Come and celebrate the beautiful landscape. Three Key Events. 10km run &

The Red Centre Wringer Backyard Ultra

SAT 01 AUG 2026 - MON 03 AUG 2026 12:00 AM

Type: Community

Audience: All Ages

The Red Centre Wringer Backyard Ultra is a last one standing event organised by Alice Springs Running & Walking Club, starting on 1 August 2026. The Backyard Ultra is a form on ultramarathon race where competitors must consecutively run a

Writing the Weird. Writing workshop with Johanna Bell

SAT 01 AUG 2026 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Type: Community

Audience: All Ages

Writing the weird: how to in inject more strangeness into your writing with award-winning author Johanna BellLife is strange and sometimes inexplicable so why do so many writers tend towards cliches? What is it that prevents us from straying

Old Timers Fete

SAT 08 AUG 2026 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Type: Community

Audience: All Ages

The Old Timers Fete, held on the second Saturday of August every year.A fun-filled family day with amazing bargains on crafts, books, cakes, plants, bric-a-brac and more. Lots of food stalls, kids activities, great entertainment, demonstrations

Alice Springs Disability Expo

THU 13 AUG 2026 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Type: Community

Audience: All Ages

This forum is a safe and inclusive space, open to all women across all industries, roles and stages of their working lives. It offers an opportunity to connect, reflect, and explore what being a woman in the workforce looks like right now

Henley on Todd Regatta

SAT 15 AUG 2026 12:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Type: Community

Audience: All Ages

The Henley on Todd is a quirky, fun, typical Territory event. It is the only "boat" race of its kind in the world involving entrants in bottomless boats racing along the dry Todd riverbed. There are various other races as well as kids'

Red CentreNATS presented by LMCT+

THU 03 SEP 2026 - SUN 06 SEP 2026 12:00 AM

Type: Community

Audience: All Ages

For more than a decade, Red CentreNATS, presented by LMCT+, has been Australia’s most unique car festival — a pilgrimage for car and bike lovers nationwide. From Thursday 3 to Sunday 6 September 2026, Alice Springs becomes a rolling

Bush Bands Bash 2026

SUN 13 SEP 2026 3:30 PM - 9:30 PM

Type: Major Event

Audience: All Ages

Now in its 22nd year, Bush Bands is fast becoming the premier music development program for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander bands and artists from remote locations across Australia. From humble beginnings as a space for Indigenous

Alice Springs Masters Games

SAT 10 OCT 2026 - SAT 17 OCT 2026 12:00 AM

Type: Major Event

Audience: All Ages

The Alice Springs Masters Games returns from 10–17 October, celebrating 40 years of competition, camaraderie, and community spirit. As Australia’s longest running Masters Games, it offers more than 25 sports, including swimming,

Alice Springs Rugby 7s Tournament

FRI 23 OCT 2026 - SUN 25 OCT 2026 12:00 AM

Type: Major Event

Audience: All Ages

An exciting weekend of Rugby 7s comes to Alice Springs with central desert including remote communities, Top End and teams from all over Australia and Fiji. This is an inaugural event promised to be filled with showcasing speed and talent. A

Alice Springs Rugby 7s Tournament

FRI 30 OCT 2026 - TUE 01 DEC 2026 12:00 AM

Type: Major Event

Audience: All Ages

Date Amendment ** 30 October 2026 to 1 November 2026 An exciting weekend of fast -paced Rugby 7s comes to Alice Springs for the first time with teams from central desert including remote communities, Top End and from all over Australia including