Film & TV
Adelaide Film Festival was brought to a close with the world premiere of Kangaroo Island, a film showcasing both SA’s breathtaking beauty and its phenomenal local filmmaking talent.
Film & TV
Grief, loss and Daisy Ridley deliver freshness to an Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund movie about the undead who rise up after a military catastrophe wipes out Tasmania.
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Donate HereEverybody has a stake in leadership in the arts, and those at the helm often come under scrutiny during a crisis or controversy. Ahead of an international symposium in Adelaide, Christie Anthoney and Tully Barnett consider what good arts leadership looks like in action.
WOMADelaide has announced the first 47 artists in its 2025 line-up, including English singer and multi-instrumentalist PJ Harvey, fado star Mariza, and 47SOUL – the Palestinian band at the centre of controversy when they were ‘uninvited’ this year.
Visitors are encouraged not just to look but also to listen to and even touch some of the artworks Bridget Currie has created in response to the historic house and grounds at Carrick Hill, including a ‘portable painting’ that serves as a picnic rug.
Shannon Burns’ memoir about his dysfunctional and disadvantaged childhood growing up in Adelaide’s northern suburbs has won the $25,000 top prize in the 2024 South Australian Literary Awards.
Emerging artist Lauren Downton’s ceramic forms feature casts of objects ranging from branches and antlers to plastic bottles, inviting visitors to Port Adelaide’s POP Gallery to reconsider the relationship between humans and the natural world.
Ticket revenue is booming in Australia, yet the music sector is in crisis. Ben Green and Sam Whiting look at how market concentration is affecting the music scene, highlighting the growing interests and reach of multinational promoter Live Nation.
Adelaide author Heather Taylor-Johnson tells the story of her mother’s turbulent upbringing in a surprising new work of autofiction.
As he prepares for retirement this month, State Library of South Australia director Geoff Strempel outlines how he and his team have positioned the iconic North Terrace library for the 21st century and beyond.
An intensive collaboration between Adelaide Botanic Garden and artist Dale Chihuly has created a series of striking glass installations – including two brand new works – that are curated to live in rhythm with the flora and fauna around them.
“A tree-change to the Adelaide Hills has provided the perfect setting for Kyoko Hashimoto’s backyard experiments in ‘place-based’ paper making.
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Acclaimed director Simon Stone’s opera Innocence – which sees the intertwined stories of a wedding and a school shooting in Helsinki unfold via a multi-level rotating set – is one of the first three shows announced for the 2025 Adelaide Festival.
