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“Heart of the Arts”
Every 2nd even-numbered year, all paths will lead to Adelaide when the nation’s
most eclectic artistic come together in celebration at the Adelaide Festival of
the Arts. Running from late February through to around mid March the event comes
alive with live drama, dance and musical events just to name a few of the
attractions for Australia’s leading arts festival.
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There is a writers’ week, art exhibitions and poetry readings with sought after
speakers and performers from around the world. The Fringe Festival, about the
same time, features alternative music and performance art. Womadelaide is an
outdoor festival of world music and dance which takes place annually in early
March. Other festivals include the Idea’s Festival, Adelaide Cabaret Festival,
FEAST, SA Living Artists Week and many more culminating in weeks of the most
colourful variety of international humanism to grace our shores.
The Adelaide Fringe is Australia’s biggest arts festival and if that doesn’t
impress you enough, it’s the second biggest Fringe in the world (next to
Edinburgh). The Fringe is open to any and all artists who wish to join in, which
results in a fantastically diverse program. Explore and enjoy. |
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• South Australia Events |
Adelaide
Festival of the Arts
• Level 9, 33 King William St, ADELAIDE SA 5000
• Ph: +61 8 8216 4444 • Fax: +61 8 8216 4455 •
• Biennial event - February - March
• Adelaide plays host to Australia’s
mother festival featuring a smorgasbord of global artistic expression. From
traditional classic art forms to cutting edge contemporary work, audiences will
converge on Adelaide to draw hope, inspiration and meaning through art.
The Festival connects audiences and artists in an extraordinary program of
cultural and sensual experiences guaranteed to appeal to all ages. To join their
mailing list,
click here.
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Adelaide Fringe Festival
• Ph: +61 8 8100 2000 • Fax: +61 8 8100 2020 •
• February - March
• Evolved in the early 1970s as a
reaction against the establishment and the then ‘mainstream’ Adelaide Festival.
Once inextricably link with the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, the Adelaide
Fringe Festival now stands on its own, becoming an annual event. Each year over
2,200 artists bring nearly 500 events of every art form imaginable to Adelaide
for the Fringe.
The Adelaide Fringe is renowned for fresh ideas, risk, imagination, spontaneity
and fun, and is widely regarded as one of the best events of its kind in the
world. Rivalled in size only by the Edinburgh Fringe, our program generates
massive enthusiasm with audience attendances exceeding 850,000 in 2000 and again
in 2002.
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Womadelaide • Sounds of the Planet
• Arts Projects Australia, 12 King William Rd, UNLEY SA 5061
• Ph: 08 8271 1488 • Fax: 08 8271 9905 •
• Early March
• WOMADELAIDE is considered the
nation’s best outdoor music event. Australia’s only WOMAD (World Of Music, Arts
& Dance) festival, it features more than 40 amazing bands from across the globe,
performing on seven stages, plus a workshop program, kids area, global village
with unique crafts and food stalls and the WoZone club.
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• South Australia Events |
Adelaide
Festival of the Arts
• Level 9, 33 King William St, ADELAIDE SA 5000
• Ph: +61 8 8216 4444 • Fax: +61 8 8216 4455 •
• Biennial event - February - March
• Adelaide plays host to Australia’s
mother festival featuring a smorgasbord of global artistic expression. From
traditional classic art forms to cutting edge contemporary work, audiences will
converge on Adelaide to draw hope, inspiration and meaning through art.
The Festival connects audiences and artists in an extraordinary program of
cultural and sensual experiences guaranteed to appeal to all ages. To join their
mailing list,
click here.
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Adelaide Fringe Festival
• Ph: +61 8 8100 2000 • Fax: +61 8 8100 2020 •
• February - March
• Evolved in the early 1970s as a
reaction against the establishment and the then ‘mainstream’ Adelaide Festival.
Once inextricably link with the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, the Adelaide
Fringe Festival now stands on its own, becoming an annual event. Each year over
2,200 artists bring nearly 500 events of every art form imaginable to Adelaide
for the Fringe.
The Adelaide Fringe is renowned for fresh ideas, risk, imagination, spontaneity
and fun, and is widely regarded as one of the best events of its kind in the
world. Rivalled in size only by the Edinburgh Fringe, our program generates
massive enthusiasm with audience attendances exceeding 850,000 in 2000 and again
in 2002.
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Royal Adelaide Show
• September
• The Royal Agricultural and
Horticultural Society of South Australia Inc is the organiser of the State’s
largest event, the Royal Adelaide Show, which attracts approximately 40% of
South Australia’s population. Further to this, the Royal Adelaide Showground
provides facilities to more than 140 exhibitions, conventions and banquets each
year.
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Womadelaide • Sounds of the Planet
• Arts Projects Australia, 12 King William Rd, UNLEY SA 5061
• Ph: 08 8271 1488 • Fax: 08 8271 9905 •
• Early March
• WOMADELAIDE is considered the
nation’s best outdoor music event. Australia’s only WOMAD (World Of Music, Arts
& Dance) festival, it features more than 40 amazing bands from across the globe,
performing on seven stages, plus a workshop program, kids area, global village
with unique crafts and food stalls and the WoZone club.
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World Solar
Challenge •
Panasonic World Solar Challenge
• Ph: +61 8 8463 4690 Fax: +61 8 8463 4718 •
• Biennial event - held in October 2007. Next event 2009
• A biennial event based on a
competitive field of solar cars crossing the Australian continent powered by
nothing but the sun. Teams are required to research, build and design vehicles
capable of completing the 3,000 km journey from tropical Darwin in the Northern
Territory, to cosmopolitan Adelaide in South Australia.
The 2007 Panasonic World Solar Challenge
To view our images of them in Alice Springs,
click here...
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Adelaide Festival Events Other links
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 The
Friends of the Adelaide Festival
• A vibrant group of
arts lovers, passionate about Australia’s most celebrated
arts festival. The Friends of the Adelaide Festival are the
community supporting body of the Adelaide Festival of Arts.
They have played an integral role in the history of the
Adelaide Festival since the 1960s and were the founding
financial supporters of the event. The Friends provide loyal
support through their integrated involvement including
fundraising and volunteering. Friends also save money on
tickets and get a range of other great
benefits.
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