What to do in SA this Weekend
As Adelaide Festival gets underway and Fringe is in full swing, there is plenty to see and do around the state this weekend.
Adelaide Festival
February 27 – March 15
Th Adelaide Festival returns for its 41st year with a stacked program. Kicking off on opening night with a free concert by British rock band Pulp in Elder Park/Tarntanya Wama, Adelaide Festival has 59 events, including 22 exclusives, set to light up the city across 17 days. With a commitment to making art financially accessible, this year, the majority of the festival’s ticketed events are $40 to festival goers aged under 40. See the Adelaide Festival’s program for the full list of events, dates and times.
Adelaide Motorsport Festival
February 28 – March 1
Get revved up when the Adelaide Motorsport Festival starts its engines. Displaying rare and historic racing vehicles in and around Adelaide, this celebration of automotive history marks the lead-up to the Australian Grand Prix. Along with an action-packed track in Victoria Park, the festival also features off-track activations across the city including the E-Motion Zone showcasing the latest in electric vehicle technology, as well as the Gouger Street Party on February 27.
Beachport Crayfish Festival
February 28
Celebrate the end of summer and some of the state’s best seafood as the Beachport Crayfish Festival returns. Beachport showcases its coastal lifestyle and prized southern rock lobster industry with a day full of fun. Highlights include the fan-favourite Deckie competitions, where local deckhands test their crayfishing skills, and a cooking demonstration by executive chef and restaurant manager of Mayura Station’s The Tasting Room, Mark Wright. There will also be a dedicated kids’ zone, market stalls, live music and local food and drink. The Beachport Crayfish Festival takes place at Centennial Park in Beachport.
Waste to Wonder exhibition
Until April 10
The City of Burnside is championing the art of reinvention in its new exhibition Waste to Wonder at Magill’s Pepper Street Arts Centre. Featuring works by 37 South Australian artists in various mediums including sculpture, textile and mixed media, Waste to Wonder celebrates the everyday through inventive upcycling. The exhibition’s thought-provoking theme highlights issues of conservation and environmental responsibility.
The Grats
February 27-28
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Australia’s first musical comedy supergroup makes its global debut at the Adelaide Fringe this weekend. Featuring five of the country’s most celebrated comedians including Gatesy, Andrew Hansen, Rusty Berther, Sammy J and Tom Gleeson, expect a laugh-out-loud musical comedy where sharp wit meets quality music and no topic is off limits. The Grats is showing at The Spiegeltent in the Garden of Unearthly Delights.
Manifest Destiny exhibition
February 28-March 15
Local photographer Alex Frayne’s new exhibition, premiering at the Adelaide Festival, captures modern day America and challenges our perception of it. Created in collaboration with composer Donnie Sloan and ILA, Manifest Destiny blends analogue photography, immersive storytelling and original composition to present more than 300 photographs captured across three years and three journeys across the United States. Frayne exhibits displays themes of faith, hope, beauty, power, poverty and solitude from California, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee.
Constellations: Not Writer’s Week
February 28-March 6
The event replacing Adelaide Writer’s Week kicks off this weekend. Across seven days Constellations: Not Writer’s Week brings together more than 100 authors across 50 events in 19 venues around the state. Events range from larger scale and formal to smaller and informal taking place as far as Stirling, Port Elliot and Port Adelaide, Hallett Cove and among more locations closer to the CBD. See the program for the full list of events, dates and times.
Together for Wilderness
March – May
The Wilderness Society of South Australia presents a free photographic exhibition celebrating the environment and the power of communities coming together to protect it. Open at the Botanic Gardens, exhibition displays the state’s region of the Lake Eyre Basin and also offers an immersive journey through 20 years of community action for the Nullarbor and Great Australian Bight.
The Art of Dr. Seuss
Until April 26
Harvey Galleries presents The Art of Dr. Seuss supported by Art Evolution and d’Arenberg. A compelling selection of artworks from The Art of Dr. Seuss Collection are on display in the Modern Masters Marquee. Admission is free, offering the chance to explore and acquire works from Dr. Seuss’s best-known children’s books. Also explore The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss, a collection based on decades of artwork created by Dr. Seuss at night for his own personal pleasure and featuring wacky three-dimensional “Unorthodox Taxidermy” sculptures.
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