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2025 Alice Springs show full guide: Fireworks, celebrity saw-off, grand parade and dachshunds

The Alice Springs show is back for another year, with new activities and old favourites making a return. See the FULL GUIDE here.

Central Australian Show Society vice-presidents Rachel Jericho and Craig Whan ahead of doors opening for the 2025 Alice Springs Show. Picture: Gera Kazakov
Central Australian Show Society vice-presidents Rachel Jericho and Craig Whan ahead of doors opening for the 2025 Alice Springs Show. Picture: Gera Kazakov

New rides and old favourites returning are all part of an “unmissable” 2025 iteration of the Alice Springs show.

With doors opening at Blatherskite Park at 9am on Friday July 4, Central Australian Show Society vice-presidents Rachel Jericho and Craig Whan said the team had been hard at work organising this year’s show.

The team are expecting more than 20,000 people through the gates across the next two days, where “everything is unmissable” according to Mr Whan.

Central Australian Show Society vice-presidents Rachel Jericho and Craig Whan. Picture: Gera Kazakov
Central Australian Show Society vice-presidents Rachel Jericho and Craig Whan. Picture: Gera Kazakov

“It’s a high percentage of our population coming through the gate,” Ms Jericho said.

The population of Alice Springs and surrounds sits about 28,000.

This year’s show will feature new rides for kids, and new food and trade vendors.

“There’s a lot of free entertainment on the ground as well as the sideshow,” Mr Whan said.

Old favourites are also making a return, with the celebrity saw-off and the dachshund events coming back.

Speaking on Wednesday, Mr Whan said things were looking a touch tight for a flight of chicks coming from Sydney due to wild weather on the east coast.

The Alice Springs Correctional Centre stand will be returning in 2025. An offering from last year. Picture: File
The Alice Springs Correctional Centre stand will be returning in 2025. An offering from last year. Picture: File

But Mr Whan said he was confident the chicks would make their flight, and the chicken enclosure would be ready to go.

For Ms Jericho, she said she was looking to her favourite part of the show: catching the sunset over the ranges at the end of the day.

“Watching the sunset over the ranges with the hectic lights and noise in the background – what a better place to be than here,” she said.

“The view from the grounds is spectacular.”

Full guide to the 2025 Alice Springs Show

Friday

Rumball Hall 9am - 5pm

Yellow Brick Road 9am - 3pm

Pavilions 9am - 5pm

Eljay Show 10am, 1pm & 3.30pm

Funny Farmers 9.30am, 12pm & 1.45pm

Bubble Muffin 11.30am, 1.30pm & 3.30pm

Outback Jack Stockman Show 10am, 12.30pm & 3pm

BeMe Activities and Sand Volcano Making 9am - 4pm

Barnyard Party Petting Zoo 9am - 12pm & 2pm - 5pm

Stilt Walkers From 10.10am

Gemma Giraffe 10.10am & 1pm

Peacock People 11.40am & 2.45pm

Bubble Tonic 11am & 12.20pm

Aussie Outback Woodchoppers 11am, 2pm & 4pm

Celebrity Saw 1pm

Light Horse Display From 9am

Donkey Show 10am

Pack Ponies 12pm & 3pm

Alice Springs Dog Obedience Club 10.30am, 12pm & 1.30pm

Dachshund Dash & Novelty Events 3pm (After the Grand Parade)

Grand Parade/Official Opening 2pm

Saturday

Rumball Hall 9am - 5pm

Yellow Brick Road 9am - 3pm

Pavilions 9am - 5pm

Eljay Show 10am, 1pm & 3.30pm

Funny Farmers 10am, 12pm & 3pm

Bubble Muffin 11.30am, 1.30pm & 3.30pm

Barnyard Petting Zoo 9am - 12pm & 2pm - 5pm

Outback Jacks Stockman Show 10.30am, 12.30pm & 2pm

BeMe Activities and Sand Volcano Making 9am - 4pm

Stilt Walkers From 10am

Gemma Giraffe 11.30am & 2.30pm

Peacock People 10am & 1pm

Bubble Tonic 11am & 12.30pm

Light Horse Display From 9am

Donkey Show 10am

Pack Ponies 12pm & 3pm

Aussie Outback Woodchoppers 11am, 1.30pm & 3.30pm

Celebrity Saw 1.30pm

LIVE Music with Wolfpack Amadeus 5pm - 7.30pm

Fireworks 7.30pm

Originally published as 2025 Alice Springs show full guide: Fireworks, celebrity saw-off, grand parade and dachshunds

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