The Adelaide Fringe, formerly known as the Adelaide Fringe Festival, is the largest art festival in Australia and the second largest annual art festival in the world (after the Edinburgh Fringe Festival), held in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. Let yourself be carried away by your mouth during the annual Adelaide Fringe festival, where the kaleidoscopic program ranges from dirty and visceral theater to circus, visual arts, comedy, classical and contemporary music, workshops and much more. In total, there are about 6000 artists performing from all over 300 venues across South Australia. Tour the festival and you'll enjoy everything from drum circles to family puppet shows, physical theater and indigenous dance.
Tasting Australia has become a world-class food and drink festival. Every year, the capital of South Australia is transformed for WomaAdelaide, which attracts thousands of people to appreciate its varied program of music, aerial theater, dance, cinema, art and culture. The annual festival, which celebrates cultural and creative diversity since its inception in 1992, is traditionally held on seven stages in the Botanical Park. WOMADelaide is one of the six WOMAD festivals that are part of a global circuit.
The Adelaide Arts Festival, also known as the Adelaide Festival, is an art festival held in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia, in March of each year. Started in 1960, it is an important celebration of the arts and a major cultural event in Australia. Conceptualized in 2001, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival focuses on creative excellence and highlights the best local, national and international artists through a dynamic program of performances that push boundaries for all ages. The Adelaide Festival began with the efforts of Sir Lloyd Dumas in the late 1950s to establish a major art festival that would bring world-class cultural exhibitions to South Australia.
From festivals with music and art to iconic food festivals and hybrid formats that celebrate all of them, here are 10 Adelaide festivals that will brighten up your days and nights. They can range from month-long marathons such as the world-famous Adelaide Fringe Festival to smaller events that only last on weekends such as the Adelaide Beer & BBQ Festival or the annual CheeseFest food show. The proposal for an event similar to the Edinburgh International Festival was supported and the first Board of Governors of the Festival was formed. The Adelaide Festival Centre and River Torrens are often at the heart of the event and in the 21st century Elder Park has hosted opening ceremonies.
The Adelaide Festival continued to grow in subsequent years with the support of the Government of South Australia. The famous Adelaide Fringe is the second largest annual art festival in the world, packed with theatre, comedy, circus and more. The Adelaide Cabaret Festival is the biggest cabaret festival in the world and brings some very unusual and spectacular performances to Adelaide. In 1998, the Adelaide Festival Corporation was established as a statutory company by the Adelaide Festival Corporation Act 1998 (AFC Act), which was under the Ministry of Arts.
The festival scene is also constantly growing and evolving with new and fresh events such as WellFest Adelaide. If The Fringe lights a torch on talent that emerges from some of the darkest and most experimental corners of creative effort then from March 3rd to 19th, The Adelaide Arts Festival is a fireworks show with stellar appeal. The opening of The Adelaide Arts Festival was held from 12th to 26th March 1960 and was led by Bishop with help from Ian Hunter artistic director of Edinburgh Festival. Established in 1998 as a way to promote and pay tribute to South Australian visual artists festival organizers continue to celebrate diverse creative practices of South African artists with cutting-edge programs that keep brain cells active.
The Adelaide Beer & BBQ Festival brings together a diverse guest list of beer and barbecue vendors who set up shop at The Adelaide Showground every year to celebrate this annual event.
