WOMADelaide has revealed another 38 acts for 2024 – including a new show by the company behind feather-filled aerial spectacle Place des Anges – with significant changes also planned to the site after concerns this year about overcrowding.
Festivals
Brendan Goh’s first attempt at stand-up left him despairing that he wasn’t ‘Kathy Griffin funny’, but after finding the courage to try again and tell his own story, the Malaysian-born gay comedian has found his groove.
Festivals
Attending her first Picnic in the Park at Feast Festival was like a homecoming for Tish Naughton. Now, 16 years later, she is spearheading a push to breathe new life into South Australia’s annual queer arts and culture celebration.
PHOTO GALLERY: More than 110,000 WOMADelaide revellers converged on Botanic Park over the long weekend, with headline acts including Florence + The Machine, Sampa the Great and Bon Iver rocking out the main stage – but crowd congestion and long toilet queues also provoked a backlash from some festival-goers.
The 2023 Adelaide Film Festival has officially closed with a 13 per cent increase in box office sales over last year, as shooting begins in SA on a new movie starring Marta Dusseldorp that will have its Australian premiere at the 2024 festival.
Nostalgia ruled at the second iteration of Harvest Rock as the rain stayed away and the family-friendly, accessible festival delivered two days of world-class live music with top-notch drops and bites. The only disappointment was the lack of local acts.
The power of the musical brain is explored in this new Scott Hicks film bringing together musicians David Helfgott, Ben Folds, Daniel Johns and Simon Tedeschi.
In this contemporary dance piece on freedom in the modern age, the performers aren’t the only ones facing the scrutinising glare of the spotlight.
Another pair of Australian filmmaking brothers has come up with a smart and funny horror movie – this one set in the world of late-night talk shows.
Film & TV
A gritty aesthetic complements an amusing, dream-like satire in Sean Price Williams’s directorial debut.
Arts & Culture
Silly, profound, vulgar and mysterious, ‘On the Go’ is alive with the contradictions and chaos of a cruel and beautiful world.
A moving story about on the life of Vietnamese-Australian musician Dung Nguyen, with himself at the centre of the performance, 1988 leaves an indelible impression.
Colonialism, pop culture and family legacy are all part of the story shared through the first major survey exhibition of work by Vincent Namatjira, an artist who enjoys placing powerful people outside their comfort zone.
A debut feature from an Iranian director took out the Feature Fiction Award, while the Documentary Award went to an Egyptian journalist turned filmmaker.
The 2024 Adelaide Festival will feature returning favourites such as Barrie Kosky, Laurie Anderson, Angélique Kidjo, Stephen Page and Akram Khan, as well as introducing a new generation of rising stars from Australia and around the world.
Film & TV
This controversial documentary tells the story of a bleak yet important chapter in Indonesia’s history.
Theatre
Life, death, religion and Harvey Norman – this one-man show combines comedy and chaos with moments of reflection on the nature of existence.
On the eve of the 2023 Tarnanthi Festival, artistic director Nici Cumpston highlights some of the diverse contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art on show at the Art Gallery of SA – from delightful animations and unique sculptural works, to paintings inspired by a love of rock music.
Jamaican musician Ziggy Marley – the son of reggae legend Bob Marley – headlines a line-up of 28 artists from 25 countries in WOMADelaide’s first major announcement for the 2024 festival in Botanic Park.
Musician Dung Nguyen revisits his tale of family, connection and music during his emigration to Australia in 1988 through a multimedia experience of story, traditional Vietnamese instruments and archival photographs for this year’s OzAsia Festival.
Decorative? Nostalgic? Blatantly commercial? All of the above, says former Adelaide artist David Bromley, who shrugs off his critics in an Adelaide Film Festival documentary exploring his life and art.
Arts & Culture
SA arts & culture news in brief: An opportunity for artists to respond to an historic political poster collection; new films added to festival program; Helpmann Academy’s new home for its graduate exhibition; and a Nobel Prize winner in conversation.
Festivals
The 2024 Adelaide Fringe Poster has been revealed, showing artist Rebecca Davis’ take on the theme “Arts Unlimited” as a vibrant, marching band of animals.
The Adelaide Film Festival has unveiled a strong slate of more than 130 films from 43 countries in its 2023 line-up, despite the disruption caused by the US writers’ strike.
More than 1500 First Nations artists from across Australia will feature in this year’s Tarnanthi Festival, which includes a major exhibition of work by the multi-award-winning Vincent Namatjira and will see the annual Tarnanthi Art Fair return as an in-person event at Adelaide Entertainment Centre.
SA-filmed thriller The Royal Hotel – directed by award-winning filmmaker Kitty Green and starring Hugo Weaving – will open the Adelaide Film Festival on October 18.
SA arts and culture news in brief: Artist submissions open for 2024 Cabaret Festival; star-studded line-ups revealed for two upcoming Adelaide festivals for writers and readers; meet ActNow’s new MakeSpace residents; Porter Street Commission recipient announced, and the 2023 Our Mob winners.
Festivals
Artists from 13 countries will converge in Adelaide for this year’s OzAsia Festival, which has unveiled a line-up ranging from provocative theatre and immersive dance shows to an exhibition by the punk artist dubbed ‘Malaysia’s Banksy’ and free music performances at the Lucky Dumpling Market.
Visual Art
Celebrated photographer Trent Parke’s new retrospective exhibition is like a time capsule, offering a unique and fascinating look at everyday life through his lens.
SA arts and culture news in brief: Exhibitions to whet your SALA appetite, meet The Mercury’s new GM, a mentorship opportunity to catapult your career, Film Festival callout for “reality-warping creatives”, ACE opens its artist studios, and young South Australians urged to get creative to fight climate change.
An extra $2.3 million will be allocated to the arts and culture festival after it contributed $57.6 million to the state economy this year.
When his social media accounts were hacked in 2022, light painting photographer Denis Smith reassessed his online life. The creative results feature in his SALA show Duality, which also offers visitors a chance to try the technique themselves.
Specially commissioned for Illuminate Adelaide, Restless Dance Theatre’s immersive production invites audiences to step into a liminal space where spinning reflections and plays of light open up a multitude of surprising new perspectives.
French and Korean duo Antoine Boyer and Yeore Kim charmed their Adelaide audience with a virtuosic performance of classical-inspired gypsy jazz in a show that also featured Australian musician Kathleen Halloran.
Festivals
A full house responded joyfully to a tight band of nine performers as they gave fitting homage to guitar god Jeff Beck in a thrilling performance at Her Majesty’s Theatre.
Festivals
Oud master and engaging raconteur Joseph Tawadros traversed a category-defying mix of influences and musical styles in this Adelaide Guitar Festival show, which also featured rising star of the classical guitar Connor Whyte.
One of the most anticipated international acts at this year’s edition of Unsound Adelaide has pulled out ahead of the festival’s first night.
Poh Ling Yeow says being immersed in her Illuminate Adelaide exhibition has been cathartic on many levels, including helping her deal with the grief of losing her mother.
Yothu Yindi wove their sonic magic to create a poignant reaffirmation of truth, treaty and tribal voice for a revering Adelaide audience at this NAIDOC Week performance.
The Bicentennial Conservatory has a starring role in Illuminate Adelaide’s after-dark experience in the Botanic Garden this month – but does Resonate live up to audience expectations after the sell-out success of Light Cycles?
