Rug up before heading to the Hills to sample cool-climate reds and hearty winter fare, or stay indoors and enjoy the creativity of the Waterhouse winners at the SA Museum and the best of Nordic cinema at the Scandinavian Film Festival.

Other weekend events include the opening of the State Theatre Company’s The Importance of Being Earnest and the chance to tune in to the sounds of Schubert and The Seraphim Trio.

Clare Bowditch Winter Secrets + Adalita

ARIA award-winning songwriter and star of television’s Offspring, Clare Bowditch returns to The Gov for her fourth consecutive Winter Secrets Tour tonight and will be joined by former Magic Dirt front woman Adalita. As is the custom with these tours, the audience will get plenty of opportunities to speak with the artists and interact during the show. Contact The Gov for information and tickets.

Winter Reds

Head to the Adelaide Hills this weekend to experience fine cool-climate red wines and warming winter fare at the fourth annual Winter Reds Weekend. This year’s program is the largest on record with more than 40 wineries offering a diverse range of cellar-door, cluster and ticketed events. See The Forager this week for more details or download the full program here.

The Importance of Being Earnest

Oscar Wilde’s witty and much-loved comedy of love, manners and mistaken identity, The Importance of Being Earnest, brings the antics of bachelors Jack and Algernon in stifling Victorian England to the Dunstan Playhouse. Opening tonight and running until August 16, it sees theatre legend Nancye Hayes return to the State Theatre Company to play the formidable and acidic Lady Bracknell. She is joined by the hilarious Nathan O’Keefe as Algernon, a young aristocrat with a sharp wit. “To bring together an actor of Nancye’s stature with a bright, young star like Nathan in such an absurdly funny play was an irresistible opportunity,” says artistic director Geordie Brookman. “The production will be both sumptuous and anarchic, combining all of Wilde’s wit with Nathan’s brilliant physical comedy skills.”

The Sound of Music

Adelaide’s Arts Theatre is alive with The Sound of Music, the Gilbert and Sullivan Society of SA’s production of the classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. Directed by Trish Hart, the show sees Claire McEvoy in the lead role of the mischievous nun Maria, governess to the seven children of widowed Austrian naval Captain Georg Von Trapp (played by Kimberly Clark). The season will continue until August 2.

Dreaming of the Sun

This weekend will kick off The Baker Suite’s Dreaming of the Sun tour with Australian singer-songwriter Lisa Richards. The trio, with their melting pot of folk, country, blues and jazz musical talent, can be experienced at The Singing Gallery, McLaren Vale, on Saturday at 7.30pm and at The Wheatsheaf, Thebarton, on Sunday at 4pm.

Willunga Almond Blossom Festival

The Willunga Almond Blossom Festival is a family event which has been held every year in the last week of July since 1969. This year the program is bigger than ever and includes live music, fireworks, a street parade, market stalls, a fairground with show rides and activities, community displays, gourmet food and wine events and the highpoint of the festival, the Almond Blossom Ball.

Feast in Wonderland

Dance the night away at an Alice in Wonderland-themed supper dance party – Feast in Wonderland – for the Feast Festival on Saturday night at the Wonderland Ballroom, Hawthorn. Featuring live band The Mad Hatters, DJ, bar and prizes for best dressed. BYO supper.

Schubertiade

Join cellist Rachel Johnston, pianist David Barnard and singers from the State Opera of South Australia at Elder Hall on Saturday night for the much-anticipated annual Schubertiade. This year guest curator and State Opera head of music David Barnard has assembled an exquisite program featuring dancer Daniela Taddeo and actor Craig McArdle to showcase the beautiful music of Schubert. Echoing 19th-century hospitality, mulled will be served upon arrival and coffee with Viennese Sachertorte at interval.

Scandinavian Film Festival

The inaugural Scandinavian Film Festival is running at the Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas until July 31. This weekend features the Swedish blockbuster The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, a colourful comedy based on the international bestselling novel by Jonas Jonasson; Waltz for Monica, for which the audience is invited to dress in glamorous 1960s attire for wine, cheese and entertainment followed by a special screening of this Swedish film about jazz singer Monica Zetterlund; Ballet Boys, a Norwegian story of three exceptionally talented teenagers finding their way into adulthood; 21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage, a Finnish comedy about love and marriage; The Keeper of Lost Causes, a Danish suspense thriller based on the novel of the same name; and Spooks and Spirits, an Icelandic box office smash comedy of manners and misunderstandings.

Man in a Bag – Holden Street Theatres

This new South Australian play written by Emily Steel is inspired by the true story of an MI6 officer found dead in a sports bag, and the subsequent court trial and media storm. It sets out to examine topics such as identity, information, perspective and truth. Presented by Polygraph Collective, it is running at Holden Street Theatres until August 2.

Waterhouse Prize

Climate change, natural wonders, genetic links between animals and humans, and species loss are among the themes boldly explored by outstanding finalists in the South Australian Museum’s 2014 Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize. See the exquisite works produced for this prestigious international art prize from today until November 9. More information can be found here.

Winter Wonderland

Get your skates on and head to Glenelg for some cool-weather fun on an all-weather 150sqm ice rink at Moseley Square. Dubbed Mamma Carmela’s Winter Wonderland, the ice festival is an initiative of Jetty Road traders. It begins on Saturday and will continue until July 27, with five 1.5-hour skating sessions daily (starting at 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm and 6pm). The rink is in a clear marquee and has capacity for up to 100 skaters at a time. There will also be special performances by ice dancers.

Seraphim Trio

In a second concert marking their 20th anniversary, Seraphim Trio will be returning to Elder Hall on August 3 with Fairy Tales, featuring a world premiere arrangement of Ravel’s Ma mere l’oye (Mother Goose) by Melbourne composer Benjamin Martin, accompanied by a delightful narration of Playing Fast and Loose with Mother Goose by Peter Goldsworthy, leading Australian writer and father of Seraphim Trio pianist and writer Anna Goldsworthy.

Dorrit Black & Mortimer Menpes

Side-by-side retrospective exhibitions at the Art Gallery of South Australia shed light on these two influential SA-born artists. Black (1891-1951) is described as one of the most important Australian modernists, credited with bringing with bringing the cubism movement to Australia after her experiences in Europe, and with inspiring a new generation of younger artists such as Jeffrey Smart. Menpes (1855-1938) was born in Port Adelaide but moved to London before he was 20, forging a successful career as a painter and printmaker; he held eight solo exhibitions in the city in the 1890s resulting from his overseas travels. Dorrit Black: unseen forces and The World of Mortimer Menpes: painter, etcher, raconteur are both free and run until September, with daily tours at 11am and 2pm.

Rough Medicine: Life & Death in the Age of Sail

Life on early sea voyages was no laughing matter, with smallpox, yellow fever, typhoid, pneumonia, malaria, seasickness and venereal diseases all commonplace. Rough Medicine: Life and Death in the Age of Sail features a display of eye-opening surgical instruments will make you cringe at the lengths to which sailors went to overcome the challenges of life at sea. Hosted at the South Australian Maritime Museum, the exhibition continues until November 30.

On screen

See InDaily’s reviews of the latest films screening in Adelaide:

Sex Tape
Reaching for the Moon
Charlie’s Country
Venus in Fur
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
The Lunchbox
Belle & Sebastian
Rising From the Ashes
Transformers: Age of Extinction