SALA Festival

It’s back and it’s bigger than ever. The 2016 South Australian Living Artists (SALA) Festival features work from more than 4600 artists in 630 free exhibitions state-wide, including flagship shows by Robert Hannaford, Catherine Truman, Fiona Hall, Sue Kneebone and Franz Kempf at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Encompassing all forms of visual art, SALA also includes special events such as pop-up exhibitions in shipping containers in Victoria Square (from Monday), regional art tours, and art after dark. View the full program of events here.

Winter Reds – Adelaide Hills

The annual Adelaide Hills Winter Reds Weekend is a mini wine festival celebrating the region’s cool-climate red wines. This year’s event is set to be the largest yet, with more than 30 participating wineries offering a diverse range of tasting events featuring food and live entertainment. See the Adelaide Hills Wine Region website for the full program.

Cirque de la Symphonie – Festival Theatre

Conducted by Guy Noble and featuring the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, this show is a fusion of live orchestral music and circus acts – including aerial flyers, acrobats, contortionists, dancers, jugglers, balancers and strongmen. There will be two performances tonight and tomorrow. Details and video clips here. Next weekend, the ASO will present Glorious Brahms, a concert featuring American violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley, at the Adelaide Town Hall.

Circus Oz – Thebarton Theatre

Circus Oz’s new show TWENTYSIXTEEN  is described by promoters as “a refreshing two-hour cocktail of new and old; high-voltage acrobatics and explosive aerial antics; innovation and tradition”,  all accompanied by a band. There will be three performances at the Thebarton Theatre this weekend, with proceeds going to support nature conservation. Details here.

Alpine Winter Village – Riverbank

This is the final weekend of the Alpine Winter Village at the Torrens Parade Ground in the Riverbank Precinct. The village has been created by the team behind the Royal Croquet Club, with ice skating, live music, markets, winter food and drinks, and family entertainment. There’s free entry during the day for families and $5 entry for individuals after 7pm. It closes on Sunday.

Fiona Hall – All the King’s Men – Art Gallery of SA

Opening today, All the King’s Men is the masterwork from Fiona Hall’s 2015 Venice Biennale exhibition Wrong Way Time. The installation includes 20 sculptures suspended in space that are made from military uniforms, with mask-like heads and ghostly, skeletal bodies. They represent the many who have fallen and those who are yet to fall in the name of nationhood. The installation will be at the Art Gallery of SA until December 21, and Hall will discuss her work at an In Conversation event in the gallery’s Radford Auditorium at 11am tomorrow (Saturday). Read InDaily’s interview with the artist here.

‘All the King’s Men’ by Fiona Hall. Photo: Clayton Glen

Umbrella: Winter City Sounds

This new music festival is presenting 260 gigs across Adelaide over three-and-a-half weeks. Presented by Music SA, Umbrella: Winter City Sounds encompasses a smorgasbord of genres – including hip-hop, folk, pop, heavy metal and world music – in all kinds of spaces. Umbrella has also teamed up with the Adelaide Guitar Festival to present Guitars in Bars, with dozens of artists performing over four weeks (see the full line-up here).

Robert Hannaford exhibition – Art Gallery of SA

Fifty years of work by South Australian portrait artist Robert Hannaford is on show in this exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia until October 9. It features 180 of his drawings, 40 paintings and two bronze sculptures, alongside works by his South Australian mentors and some of the European masters he admired. Read InDaily’s interview with the artist here.

Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize exhibition – SA Museum

This weekend is the last chance to visit the South Australian Museum and catch the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize exhibition showcasing the work of finalists in this year’s competition. The 2016 Open prize was won this year by taxidermy artist Julia deVille, with a sculpture seeking to provoke discussion about the use of factory-farmed eggs in food products.

Seth Sentry / Peter Garrett – The Gov

Australian hip-hop artist Seth Sentry is touring the country following the release of the fourth single off his album Strange New Past. He’s playing at the Governor Hindmarsh on Saturday, with support from REMI. Next weekend, Midnight Oil frontman and former pollie Peter Garrett will be at The Gov performing songs from his first solo album, A Version of Now, with his band The Alter Egos.

Cabaret de Paris – Her Majesty’s Theatre

This French-styled cabaret show with can-can dancers, music, and aerialists, pole dancers and illusionists – dubbed “a burlesque-hip hop-circus mash-up” – returns to Her Majesty’s Theatre for three shows tonight (Friday) and tomorrow night. Bookings here.

Wicked – Arts Theatre

Matt Byrne Media is presenting Wicked at Elizabeth’s Shedley Theatre until July 30. The award-winning musical – with music by Stephen Schwarz – re-imagines the Wizard of Oz, looking at the unlikely friendship between emerald-skinned Elphaba and her rival Galinda when they meet at Shiz University in Oz. Read more about the local production here.

On screen

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

Embrace of the Serpent
Star Trek Beyond
Swiss Army Man
Ghostbusters
Maggie’s Plan
The BFG
Mustang
Finding Dory
Hunt for the Wilderpeople