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11/09/2025

🌏✨ OzAsia Festival: Hot Picks! ✨🌏

OzAsia Festival returns this October 16 – November 2, Australia’s leading contemporary arts festival, engaging with Asia.

Celebrating vibrant connections across cultures, the festival presents an extraordinary program of:

🎭 Groundbreaking theatre and dance
🎶 Innovative music and sound
🍜 Lucky Dumpling Market – food, bars and free performances by the river
🎨 Visual arts exhibitions and installations
💬 In Conversation – powerful ideas and storytelling

From bold new works to family-friendly fun, OzAsia Festival unites communities through creativity, diversity, and exchange. As Adelaide’s gateway to contemporary Asian arts, it’s a must-experience highlight of the cultural calendar.

👉 We’ve highlighted a few of our top picks, but make sure you explore the full program!

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10/09/2025

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09/09/2025

OzAsia Festival Australia’s leading contemporary arts festival engaging with Asia, has launched its longest program yet, spanning four weekends this Spring.

📍Various Locations
📅 October 17 - November 9
👩‍💻 https://theupsidenews.com/2025/09/09/from-her-majestys-theatre-to-adelaide-botanic-gardens-ozasia-festival-announces-extended-program/

OzAsia Festival will expand across the city, with events at Adelaide Town Hall, Her Majesty’s Theatre, Odeon Theatre, The Art Gallery of South Australia, Nexus Arts and Adelaide Botanic Gardens.

Audiences can expect performances, delicious food and engaging conversations
from this year’s program, showcasing the best of Asian and Asian Australian art and culture, curated by Festival Director Joon-Yee Kwok and featuring more than 200 local, national and international artists from 14 countries.

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31/08/2025

🎸🔥 Adelaide Guitar Festival: Hot Picks! 🔥🎸

The Adelaide Guitar Festival Kicks off this September 10 to October 12.
This is the Southern Hemisphere’s most significant celebration of the guitar.

Led by world-renowned Artistic Director Slava Grigoryan, the festival showcases:

✨ Performances by world-class guitarists
🎶 The prestigious Classical Guitar Competition
🍻 Guitars in Bars bringing live music to local venues
🎓 Workshops for all levels
🚗 Regional roadshows across SA

From flamenco to folk, blues to classical, this festival encompasses a diverse range of genres, generations, and cultures. Uniting lovers, learners, and makers of the guitar right here in Adelaide, UNESCO City of Music, we have compiled a few top picks for you, but make sure you check out their full program!

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28/08/2025

The Adelaide Festival has unveiled its first exclusive events for the 2026 season.

The festival will feature;

💃 Play: Isabelle Huppert as Mary Queen of Scots and host the Australian debut of the distinguished

🎵 Ensemble: From France Ensemble Pygmalion

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27/08/2025

✨ What’s On in Adelaide this September ✨

Adelaide is alive with music, theatre, food and family fun there’s your guide to the upside this month:

🎭 Cats the Musical – the iconic Broadway hit takes the stage.
🍝 St Ali Italian Festival – taste the best of Italy right here in Adelaide.
🎷 Melbourne Ska Orchestra – high-energy live music to get you moving.
🎸 Adelaide Guitar Festival – world-class guitarists bringing the strings to life.
🌌 Timelight: Beyond Our Ticking World at ILA – an interactive, family-friendly experience.
🎶 The High Kings – on their world tour, direct from Ireland.
🎵 Semaphore Music Festival – a local favourite showcasing grassroots talent.

There’s something for everyone this September. The only challenge is fitting it all in! 🙌

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22/08/2025

It’s been a turbulent few years for Australian music festivals, with cancellations, weather chaos and post-pandemic challenges hitting the industry hard but 2025 has come up with the goods.

Headlining Saturday night is a true coup: , playing their first Australian show since 2022.

With its eclectic mix of indie rock, dance, pop, country and electronic music, Harvest Rock 2025 promises to rekindle the magic of the classic festival experience. This will be one to renew your early to mid-2000s playlist with a host of and hugely successful electronic music duo , delivering a DJ set, and reunited British dubstep legends , and a Ministry Of Sound Classical which is set to cover the whole history of dance music!

Bringing back Fall Festival 2010 vibes, and coming off the Triple J hottest Australian songs, Wolfmother will be peforming alongside party anthem bands of the last 10 years The Presets and PNAU as well as Bag Raiders who's hit Shooting Star's was a croud favorite, Cloud Control will bring the nostalgia with a set for its 15th anniversary celebrations.

It’s not just about the music, festival-goers can expect Harvest’s signature blend of gourmet food, fine wine, and vibrant art installations, creating a uniquely Adelaide festival atmosphere.

Read more on our website at: https://theupsidenews.com/2025/08/20/news-harvest-rock-festival-returns-in-2025-with-blockbuster-lineup/

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20/08/2025

Award-winning South Australian drama opens in cinemas nationwide Thursday, August 21

Described by critics as “the best Australian film in years,” the highly anticipated feature Kangaroo Island will open in cinemas nationwide on Thursday, August 21, 2025, following a red-carpet Adelaide premiere at the newly restored tonight.

In an era dominated by blockbusters and global franchises, boldly revives an increasingly rare cinematic experience: an intimate, character-driven drama that places human connection at the heart of the story. That such a work has been created in South Australia underscores the state’s growing reputation as a powerhouse of world-class film production.

Read more on our website at: https://theupsidenews.com/2025/08/20/movie-release-kangaroo-island-hailed-as-the-best-australian-film-in-years/

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13/08/2025

This August, something extraordinary stirs in the heart of Adelaide’s cultural scene. South Australia’s only professional ballet company, , makes its much-anticipated season debut with the Australian premiere of Murray Whispers, a groundbreaking fusion of movement, music, and digital art.

Read more on our website at: https://theupsidenews.com/2025/07/31/whats-on-adelaide-ballet-premieres-murray-whispers-at-ila/

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10/08/2025

Film Review: Sudden Outbursts of Emotions is up, apart of the Hurtigruten Scandinavian Film Festival at Palace Nova Cinemas.

"Sudden Outbursts of Emotions is an insightful, compassionate, and witty debut feature. It challenges conventional romance narratives without preaching, inviting viewers to consider what love means when boundaries shift. A thoughtful addition to Adelaide’s festival line‑up."

Link here ➡️ https://theupsidenews.com/2025/08/05/film-review-sudden-outbursts-of-emotions/

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07/08/2025

Review is out for 'And Then There Was None'

"It was a full house on Sunday, 3 August at Her Majesty’s Theatre for the opening night of And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie’s most chilling whodunnit, and the best-selling crime novel of all time, with over 100 million copies sold. Now adapted for the stage by acclaimed director Robyn Nevin (The Mousetrap), this suspense-filled classic has been given a fresh and theatrical spin."

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07/08/2025

"A high-impact, open-air street party Poppin Out is the official after-march destination for Pride Adelaide, keeping the energy rolling!"

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