This weekend’s picks include new exhibitions of photography and Indigenous art, music icon Bob Dylan’s Adelaide concert, a papal mystery starring David Suchet (aka Hercule Poirot), the Israeli Film Festival and a combined concert of the Adelaide Youth Orchestras featuring 220 young musicians.

Bob Dylan

Given his iconic status, it’s surprising there are still tickets available to Bob Dylan’s Sunday night show at the Adelaide Entertainment Centre – but then the sell-out performances interstate have generally been at rather more “intimate” venues. The 73-year-old is touring with his five-piece band, and reviews of his shows elsewhere have been overwhelmingly positive. While the set list is said to include mostly songs that were released after 1997, including six from latest album Tempest, fans can also expect to hear iconic favourites “All Along the Watchtower” and “Blowin in the Wind”. Click here to read music writer Brian Wise’s article explaining why a Bob Dylan concert is a must-see.

Hard Rain – Dylan revisited

In homage to Bob Dylan – and coinciding with his tour – a group of Adelaide creatives will perform a live-to-air, one-hour radio performance at the Soul Box on Saturday featuring stories, songs, and poetry.  Hard Rain – Dylan Revisited will be performed by writers Tony Collins, Ian Bell and Mandy Treagus, along with cabaret chanteuse Alison Coppe and musicians David Mazzarelli and Aaron Nash. Doors open at 3.30pm at the Soul Box (Hindley Street) if you want to attend ($5 entry), or you can tune in to broadcast from 4pm on Radio Adelaide 101.5 FM.

The Last Confession

Starring David Suchet (aka Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot), this stage production is essentially a mystery set in the Vatican during the time of Pope John Paul, who died just 33 days after taking office. Did his death have something to do with the fact that he was trying to make too many changes too quickly? InDaily’s reviewer says Roger Crane’s play brings together issues of faith, doubt, power and greed, with a stellar cast, and beautiful costume and set design. It’s at Her Majesty’s Theatre until August 30.

Shimmer Photographic Biennale

Adorned Tresses 2013, by Deborah Paauwe, courtesy of GAGPROJECTS/Greenaway Art Gallery

The City of Onkaparinga has extended its 10-day photography showcase into a month-long festival featuring events, exhibitions, tours and workshops. Among the more than 40 artists whose work is being shown across 32 venues are Deborah Paauwe, who is exhibiting works from her recent series The Untold Story (at the Arts Centre in Port Noarlunga); Alice Blanch, who is showing black and white photos captured on a 1940s Box Brownie (Oliver’s Taranga Vineyards, McLaren Vale); and Jonathan Daughtry, whose photos of South America’s dramatic landscapes are displayed at the Noarlunga Library. The full program can be downloaded here.

Warakurna exhibition

Opening today at the South Australian Museum is an exhibition of paintings by Aboriginal artists from the Western Australian community of Warakurna – which lay in the middle of the flight path of missiles launched from Woomera in the SA desert in the 1960s. The paintings are said to explore events such as the coming of explorers, prospectors and missionaries, building roads and missile testing. “Through an emerging style of art from Warakurna, we are able to learn the stories of the region and how its people feel about their interactions with European culture,” says SA Museum director Brian Oldman. Warakurna: All the Stories Got into our Minds and Eyes will be at the museum until November 30.

Israeli Film Festival

This festival at Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas is said to reflect the growing strength of Israeli cinema, with a selection of films described as “diverse, complex, inspirational, and turbulent”. Highlights this weekend include Self Made, an award-winning film aboutan Israeli woman and a Palestinian woman who each find themselves living life on the other side after a mix-up at the border; a documentary about singer Rita Jahan Foruz, who was born in Iran and sings Persian songs, but emigrated to Israel at eight and is described as the country’s most successful contemporary diva; and drama The Kindergarten Teacher, about a teacher obsessed with her gifted five-year-old student (read InDaily review). The film festival continues until September 4.

AdYO Gala Concert – Youth Revolution

Members of the AdYO. Photo: Tony Lewis

More than 220 young musicians will take to the stage at the Adelaide Town Hall on Sunday afternoon for the only concert on the AdYO calendar that features all four of its orchestras: the Adelaide Youth Wind Orchestra, Adelaide Youth Strings, Adelaide Youth Sinfonia and Adelaide Youth Orchestra. The 2.5-hour concert program includes a mixture of orchestral works, including Dvoák’s Symphony No 9 “From the New World”. The concert begins at 3pm, with the full program and booking details available here.

The Timbers

Adelaide four-piece The Timbers will be bringing their blend of “roots, folk, and Celtic bushman brassy punk” to the World’s End tonight (Friday). The show kicks off a national tour on the back of the band’s debut album, Lawless, released earlier this year, and celebrates the launch of the video clip for their single “Mean Streak”, which you can check out here.

Adelaide Music Collective Sessions

Rockin’ Rob Riley, The Shaolin Afronauts, Kaurna Cronin and members of The Baker Suite will be playing at the latest AMC Session tonight (Friday) at the Goodwood Institute. The event, which begins at 7.30pm, will also see five more South Australian music identities presented with the AMC SA Music Hall of Fame Award. Tickets to the last event sold out and apparently there will be only a few available at the door, so best get in quick.

Peter and Alice

Wonderland meets Neverland in the Independent Theatre’s latest production – and this weekend is your last chance to see the play at the Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre. Playwright John Logan’s Peter and Alice centres on a 1932 chance meeting between Liddell Hargreaves (the inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland) and Peter Llewelyn Davies (JM Barrie’s inspiration for Peter Pan), with the work said to blend fairytale and reality. Read InDaily’s review here.

Grease is the Word

Rob Mills and Gretel Scarlett in Grease. Photo: Jeff Busby

Also finishing this weekend is the high-energy musical Grease, starring Rob Mills as Danny and Gretel Scarlett as Sandy alongside John Paul Young, Todd McKenney, Val Lehman and Bert Newton. Featuring all the popular songs, it is at the Festival Theatre until August 31. Read InDaily’s review here.

At the Hop

Adelaide swing band Lucky Seven will headline this event at new live music venue the Published Arthouse in Cannon Street on Saturday night, with the promise of a night of 1950s rock ’n’ roll music and dancing. DJ Jess will be on the decks, Americana-style food and drinks will be available, and we’re told there is a big dance floor. Doors open at 8pm.

A Boutique Life

This regular design market is back at St John’s Grammar in Belair from 10am until 4pm this Sunday, with stalls selling a wide selection of hand-crafted design items, including homewares, jewellery, accessories and boutique fashion. There will also be fashion parades, live music, food and drink. More info here.

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 the cubism movement to Australia after her experiences in Europe. 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. Dorrit Black: unseen forces and The World of Mortimer Menpes: painter, etcher, raconteur are both free and run until September 7, with daily tours at 11am and 2pm.

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 all over the world until November 9. More information can be found here.

On screen

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

Magic in the Moonlight
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
20,000 Days on Earth
The Hundred-Foot Journey
These Final Hours
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy
Aussie Rules the World
Lucy
Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie
Hercules