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Adelaide Festival 2026

Installation view, Manifest Destiny, Adelaide Festival 2026. Photo: Gina Fairley.
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Manifest Destiny review: Alex Frayne's photographic roadtrip through a national crisis

Poverty porn, fly-in voyeurism or reality beyond the Netflix filter? Photographer Alex Frayne makes us question America’s decay in real…

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Brodsky String Quartet with William Barton review: pioneering UK quartet teams with virtuoso yidaki player

The Brodsky String Quartet's collaboration with yidaki player William Barton was let down by a disjointed program.

Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker at Adelaide Festival 2026. Cocker, a fair-skinned, middle aged man with glasses, raises his right hand high and sings loudly into a microphone. A video screen behind him shows dazzling, colourful images.
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‘All voices should be heard’, Pulp's Jarvis Cocker tells Adelaide Festival crowd

Cocker's pointed reference to an earlier censorship issue was made as Pulp played the opening night of Adelaide Festival 2026.

Two dancers clad in fetish wear-inspired costumes crouch forward as they jump a woollen rope inside a circle of light on stage. Joshua Doctor and Yilin Kong in ADT's Faraway by Jenni Large at Adelaide Festival 2026.
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ATD’s Faraway review: a writhing, driving techno-primitive delight at Adelaide Festival 2026

Choreographed by Jenni Large, ADT’s Faraway is a rich, erotically charged work, the dance equivalent of howling orgiastically at the…

Adelaide Writers' Week at the 2025 Adelaide Festival. Audiences sit under blue shade cloths in the park at Adelaide Writers' Week.
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New Adelaide Festival Board apologises to Randa Abdel-Fattah and former Writers' Week Director Louise Adler

48 hours after its appointment, the new Adelaide Festival Board has apologised 'unreservedly' and recinded the old Board's actions.

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Arts boards in crisis: how have we landed here, yet again?

As the Adelaide Writers Week crisis worsens, many are asking why arts boards aren’t taking note of others’ past actions.

A woman in a bright roller derby uniform and protective gear, including pads and helmets, skates out of a cloud of theatrical smoke. Mama Does Derby
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Rock and rolling into Mama Does Derby

Virgina Gay and Clare Watson discuss the comic horror of adolescence and a mother who redefines herself through roller derby.