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COVID-chaos disrupts July, hopes for August

SA’s snap lockdown halts Illuminate Adelaide; Australian Festival of Chamber Music cancels 30th anniversary; Winter Jazz Fest hopes for August.

21 Jul 2021

Celina Lei

Performing Arts

Light Cycles as part of Illuminate Adelaide at the Botanic Garden. Image supplied.

South Australia joined Melbourne and Sydney in lockdown as of Tuesday (20 July), forcing arts festivals and organisations to adapt their programming as Australia faces an ongoing wave of the highly infectious Delta variant of COVID-19.

The escalated restrictions mean that the inaugural Illuminate Adelaide has been paused from Monday (19 July) until 27 July inclusive, with future programs subject to SA Health directives.

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Celina Lei

Celina Lei is an arts writer and editor at ArtsHub. She acquired her M.A in Art, Law and Business in New York with a B.A. in Art History and Philosophy from the University of Melbourne. She has previously worked across global art hubs in Beijing, Hong Kong and New York in both the commercial art sector and art criticism. She took part in drafting NAVA’s revised Code of Practice - Art Fairs and was the project manager of ArtsHub’s diverse writers initiative, Amplify Collective. Celina is based in Naarm/Melbourne.