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What’s on in Adelaide

Feb 04, 2015, updated Oct 22, 2015
Adelaide Writers' Week opens this weekend in the Pioneer Women's Memorial Gardens.

Adelaide Writers' Week opens this weekend in the Pioneer Women's Memorial Gardens.

Mad March is upon us, with the Adelaide Festival, Fringe, Clipsal 500 and Writers’ Week bringing more vibrancy than any politician could wish for.

From the tranquility of literary conversations in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Gardens, to a free spectacular light and sound show over Elder Park, and the roar of the V8 Supercars and rock concerts in the East End, just take your pick.

Adelaide Writers’ Week

What better way to spend a fine weekend than by immersing yourself in all things bookish at the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Gardens? Writers’ Week opens on Saturday, with free sessions featuring guest writers such as Michel Faber (The Book of Strange New Things), Omar Musa (Here Comes the Dog) and former prime minister Julia Gillard (My Story), while on Sunday you can listen to the likes of Graeme Simsion (The Rosie Effect), Hugh Mackay (The Art of Belonging) and Rohan Wilson (To Name Those Lost). There is also plenty to entertain the kids, including the Story Tent and Nylon Zoo. Writers’ Week continues until March 5, and the full program is online.

Adelaide Festival

The 2015 Adelaide Festival opens tonight with a free party in Elder Park from 4pm, featuring Fork on the Road food trucks, a bar, the switching on at 9pm of the Blinc light and sound show, and a fireworks display. Blinc will feature more than 30 digital artworks, including installations and projections, in and around Elder Park, the Adelaide Festival Centre and the Torrens Riverbank Precinct (more details and photos in this InDaily story). Opening weekend shows include Tommy, a reinterpretation of The Who’s 1969 rock opera; riverrun, a one-woman performance inspired by James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake (see InDaily review); acrobatic/dance performance Azimut, and a gig by post-rock band Mogwai. Visit InDaily’s Adelaide Festival hub for all our articles and reviews relating to the Festival, WOMADelaide and Adelaide Writers’ Week.

Clipsal 500

Cold-Chisel

Cold Chisel will be headlining the Clipsal 500 Sunday night rock concert with a one-off show marking the first time the band has appeared together on stage since 2012. “The Clipsal 500 is the biggest event on the V8 Supercars calendar and the concerts are huge and notorious, so for us it was a great fit, a no-brainer,” frontman Jimmy Barnes says. Sunday night’s show will also feature Spiderbait and 100 Proof, with other performers lined up for the weekend including Havana Brown, URTEKK, Zep Boys, Swanee and Lazy Boy. For details of the V8 Supercars program, check out the Clipsal 500 website.

Adelaide Fringe

If you’re looking for ideas for which shows to see this weekend, the list of Fringe weekly award winners might help. The week one winners (online here) include 18+ cabaret act Hot Brown Honey and Fake it Til You Make It (both at the Royal Croquet Club), theatre production Blood at the Root (Holden Street Theatres), and art exhibition Translucent Shadows (SASA Gallery, UniSA). InDaily’s reviewers also highly recommend Tubular Bells for Two, cabaret/circus show Scotch & Soda (Garden of Unearthly Delights); kids’ show McNirt Hates Dirt (Holden Street) and comedian Kitty Flanagan (Royalty Theatre). You will find links to all InDaily’s Fringe stories and reviews here.

Beckett Triptych

Three of Samuel Beckett’s rarely presented short plays – Footfalls, Eh Joe and Krapp’s Last Tape – are being presented by the State Theatre Company in its Scenic Workshop and Rehearsal Room at the Adelaide Festival Centre. The Triptych, part of the Adelaide Festival program, features actors Pamela Rabe, Paul Blackwell and Peter Carroll, with performances continuing until March 15. Click here to read InDaily’s review.

Openair Cinema

Openair-Cinema

Ben & Jerry’s Openair Cinema returns to the Brian Nadilo Reserve in Glenelg from this weekend, with a line-up of live music and films beginning with a “Sundae Session” headlined by Melbourne band Husky ahead of the new Johnny Depp comedy Mortdecai. Other films showing in the coming week include American Sniper, Gone Girl and The Theory of Everything. The full program is online and tickets sell out quickly, especially for the weekend sessions, so get in early if you don’t want to risk missing out. The Openair Cinema continues until April 12.

do it (adelaide)

Twelve South Australian artists were assigned a particular instruction to produce an artwork for this new exhibition at Samstag Museum. The do it concept began in Paris in 1993 and has since travelled all over the world, with a manual of written instructions that is constantly added to. do it (adelaide) features work in different mediums, with several instructions for museum visitors to interact with and an accompanying archive explaining the history of what is described as an “ever-evolving global art phenomenon”. The exhibition runs until April 25.

Iridescence – SA Museum

This exhibition at the South Australian Museum features beetles, bubbles, shells, fossils and myriad other items that illustrate the beauty of iridescence, “where colour is seen despite the absence of pigment”.  Exhibits have all been drawn from the museum’s own collection, and will be on display until March 15, 2015.

Tandanya exhibitions

Three exhibitions displaying more than 40 works are on display at the Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute in Grenfell Street. 14 Nations features works by Archie Moore focussing on the varied symbolic uses of flags, while Kinship showcases works in a range of styles and mediums by 2014 Archibald Prize finalist Jandamarra Cadd. The third exhibiton, Nganampa, comprises works created by Adelaide-based Pitjantjatjara artists from the Tandanya Urban Arts Studio 2014-2015 pilot project. All three shows will continue until March 21.

On screen

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

Fifty Shades of Grey
Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead
The Theory of Everything
Still Alice
Wild
Taken 3
Birdman

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