• Scenes from real life: Cuttings

    Cuttings is a dynamic new play that grew out COVID and the beating red desert heart of Mparntwe/Alice Springs. It’s about to have its South Australian premiere at the 2023 Adelaide Fringe Festival.   In 2020, long-time Alice resident, novelist Jo Dutton (From Alice With Love), received a Creative Fellowship… Read more >

  • Firestarter: Katanga Junior

    A powerful new voice arrives to set the Australian music scene on fire.   Tanzanian rapper, musician, singer and hip hop artist Katanga Junior has called Mparntwe (Alice Springs) home for only a year. Yet already he’s one of the hardest working musicians in town, igniting the stages of festivals… Read more >

  • Sounds of Yearning: Cloud Sequence

    I always jump at the chance to write about music. Sadly it’s been a while. Music writing is something I love to do, especially when it involves the work of Jez Conlon, a friend and artist I’ve written about previously here on Circus Folk.   Cloud Sequence heralds a new… Read more >