ART AFTER DARK pARTy

Nov 19, 2014, updated May 13, 2025

Celebrate the Festive Season and enjoy exhibitions, films, music, poetry readings, food, beer, wine, workshops and more at amazing destinations throughout Adelaide’s West End cultural precinct.

Join us in the West End for a special ART AFTER DARK pARTy, featuring the FEAST Festival! The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre’s Kerry Packer Civic Gallery will be a part of the festivities, showcasing: Traverses: J.M. Coetzee in the world – an opportunity to explore rare archival material from the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas showcasing manuscripts, notebooks, films and photographs of Nobel Laureate, J.M. Coetzee.

Other events:

Feast Festival

Visit the FEAST Festival Indulge Lounge in the Lion Arts courtyard, experience Cabaret Theatre with Bushwaacking at Queer – Nexus Multicultural Art Centre at 7pm, Serpentine at The Soul Box at 7pm and Spandexx Ballet at Leigh Warren Dance Studio at 7pm. Plus check out the Bair Art Opening and Bearstock Launch at Big K Studio on Hindley Street at 6pm and Bearotica at Caos Café at 8:30pm.

Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art, at the University of South Australia

View the Luminous World Exhibition and Cinema and join the 2015 Samstag Program Launch with bar open until 6pm.

Adelaide College of the Arts

Opening Night Celebration – Exit the 2014 Bachelor of Visual Art and Design Graduate Exhibition from 6pm.

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Australian Experimental Art Foundation

Browse through the latest and greatest books at Dark Horsey Bookshop with preview of John A Douglas.

JamFactory

View the latest exhibitions, watch glass blowing to the sounds of a DJ, sample wines by Seppeltsfield Estate and join the Christmas card making workshop from 5pm.

Mercury Cinema

Watch the closing film in the Patricia Highsmith retrospective, Ripley’s Game – special $5 admission for Art After Dark, including a complimentary glass of wine from 6:30pm.

Nexus Multicultural Art Centre

View exhibition Emulate by Derek Sargent.

West Bar, at the University of South Australia

The West Bar has free Queer Youth Readings as part of the Feast Festival from 8pm.

‘Tis the season to pARTy – join us for this ART AFTER DARK end of year event in the heart of the West End.
ART AFTER DARK West End
27 November, from 5pm
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