What's on

Exhibitions

Deviate | Araluen Collection

Deviate – to depart from an established course

Exhibitions

Desert Mob 2025 | Exhibition

Curated by Hetti Perkins (Arrernte and Kalkadoon) and Aspen Beattie (Luritja, Warumungu and Yawuru), Desart is proud to present the Desert Mob 2025 exhibition, featuring a curated selection of works from hundreds

Cinema / Biography

Emily: I Am Kam

Celebrating the legacy of Australia’s most significant female artist - Emily Kam Kngwarray.

Theatre / Dance

Time Vortex | Duprada Dance Company

This September, the Australian Dance Academy and Duprada Dance Company are going on an adventure through time.

Theatre / Dance

Time Vortex | Duprada Dance Company

This September, the Australian Dance Academy and Duprada Dance Company are going on an adventure through time.

Cinema / Drama

Sorry, Baby

Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on… for everyone around her, at least.

Cinema / Comedy

The Ballad of Wallis Island

Can a rich, eccentric superfan reunite his favourite indie-folk duo?

And can they mend his lonely heart?

Theatre / Drama

1984 by George Orwell

Shake & Stir Theatre Co and Araluen Arts Centre present 1984 by George Orwell adapted by Shake & Stir.

Big Brother is back.

Theatre / Special Event

Chat 10 Looks 3 Live - Alice Springs

Central Australian Chatters, Chat 10 is heading outback! 

Cinema / Documentary

MASIFF | Crown and Country

Warlpiri teacher Wanta Jampijinpa Pawu-Kurlpurlurnu and composer Marc “Monkey” Peckham join Wanta’s father Jerry Jangala Patrick OAM in an immersive fusion of film, music, and ceremonial song.

Cinema / Documentary

MASIFF | Mr Nobody Against Putin

Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

Cinema / Drama

MASIFF | On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

Dark comedy meets surrealist invention in this Cannes-winning film, tackling trauma with wit, absurdity and bold imagination.

Cinema / Action

Eddington

In May of 2020, a standoff between a small-town sheriff (Joaquin Phoenix) and mayor (Pedro Pascal) sparks a powder keg as neighbor is pitted against neighbor in Eddington, New Mexico.

Theatre / Drama

MASIFF | Cactus Pears

In a village bound by tradition, two men rediscover each other — and themselves

Cinema / Film Festival

MASIFF | Central Australian Shorts Showcase

Following the sold-out success of last year’s Screen Territory SPARK Short Film Initiative, we return with our own curated program of Central Australian short films.

Cinema / Comedy

MASIFF | A Useful Ghost

From ambitious newcomer Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke comes a genre-smashing amalgamation of fantasy, horror, romance, comedy, art house and everything in between.

Cinema / Horror

The Rocky Horror Picture Show 50th Anniversary

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the time-warping, gender-bending classic cult classic movie, “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, which tells the story of what happened when a newly engaged couple’s car break

Theatre / Music

Waltzing the Wilarra

Written and Composed by David Milroy
Directed by Brittanie Shipway

Theatre / Special Event

The Australian Burlesque Festival | The Big Tease Soiree

Australian Burlesque - The Big Tease Soiree
Presented by the Australian Burlesque Festival

The Big Tease Soiree – 16 Years of Glamour, Glitter & Burlesque Magic

Theatre / Dance

The Wind in the Willows | Morning Melodies | Duprada Dance Company

The Australian Dance Academy are delighted to bring "The Wind in the Willows" to the Araluen stage for this years Morning Melodies performance. 

Theatre / Music

Tempest | 2025 Alice Beat Festival

The Alice Beat is the major annual performing arts showcase for NT Government schools in the Central and Barkly regions.

Theatre / Tribute Show

Get Rhythm | The Johnny Cash and June Carter Show

Get Rhythm | The Johnny Cash and June Carter Show

Presented by: MC Entertainment

Cinema / Drama

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

From Scott Cooper, director of the Oscar-winning music-drama Crazy Heart, comes the gritty, soul-searching biopic, SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE.