World Tea Gathering

The Art Gallery of SA is hosting a World Tea Gathering celebration this weekend, bringing together tea masters and artists from around the world to explore creative endeavours around tea. Tonight’s First Fridays after-hours event will feature performances by World Tea Gathering co-founder Adam Wojciński and performance artist Yumi Umiumare. Moonta Street band will play their hypnotic music live and “tea artists” will be scattered throughout the gallery presenting a series of tea ceremonies. The celebrations continue tomorrow with the World Tea Gathering symposium, a free public event at the Radford Auditorium. On Sunday, the gallery will present a child-friendly introduction to tea rituals. View the full program here.

OzAsia Festival

InDaily’s OzAsia picks for this week include Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s acrobatic work Sutra (pictured above), which features Cherkaoui on stage with a troupe of 19 Shaolin monks, and electronic opera War Sum Up, which the program guide describes as a mix of “music, manga and machines”. Also showing this weekend is hyper-real Chinese theatre production Here is the Message You Asked For…, where the audience is encouraged to download a social app to exchange text messages with the performers on stage. Running in conjunction with OzAsia is Mercury Cinema’s OzAsia Film Festival, which spotlights a collection of leading filmmakers. See all InDaily and CityMag’s OzAsia stories (include film previews) here, and view the full OzAsia program here.

Palestinian Film Festival

1948: Creation and Catastrophe.

The Palestinian Film Festival is on in Adelaide this weekend with a selection of three films screening at GU Film House. Tonight’s film – The Tower – is described as a deeply emotional animation feature based on the true stories of Palestinian refugees living in camps in Lebanon. Tomorrow night’s documentary film, 1948: Creation and Catastrophe, reveals shocking events from the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. On Sunday afternoon, the festival will screen The Reports on Sarah and Saleem, which tells the story of Palestinian delivery man Saleem and Israeli café owner Sarah, who start an illicit affair.

ASO’s Classics Unwrapped

The Adelaide Symphony Orchestra will present its final Classics Unwrapped performance of the year on Wednesday, featuring the works of Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Copland and Bernstein. Conductor Guy Noble will lead the orchestra alongside principal oboe and player guest Celia Craig for this “Invitation to the Dance” edition of the popular series. Starting with Tchaikovsky’s ballet scores and ending on Bernstein’s energetic West Side Story, the program is designed to reflect the powerful connection between music and dance.

Lines by Theatre Republic

Matt Crook, Stuart Fong, James Smith and Rashidi Edward in Lines.

Adelaide company Theatre Republic is presenting its debut production, Lines, at the Bakehouse Theatre until November 10. Written by Pamela Carter and originally produced by The Yard Theatre in London, Lines exposes the tensions and bonds of four young soldiers experiencing the rigours of army training. Director Corey McMahon describes the fast-paced play as a “bang up-to-date, political, provocative” work that raises questions about toxic masculinity, war and identity. Read InDaily’s review here.

The Living End

Photo: David Crosling / AAP

Tickets are still available to see Melbourne rock band The Living End at the Thebarton Theatre next Friday night. The band will be in Adelaide as part of their national spring tour to celebrate the release of their eighth studio album, Wunderbar, which they describe as “heaven on wax”. Local band West Thebarton will support The Living End for this one-night-only concert.