Adelaide Festival is an internationally renowned multi-arts festival with a long and successful history.

Welcome to Adelaide Festival 2020. We have scoured the globe for works of great scale and delicate, human intimacy. Works that engage the heart and the mind, that suggest ways forward for both the art form and the species.

Because that, after all, is what art can do.

Through art, through story, we play in the unconscious. We rehearse alternatives. We enact ceremony by which, through pattern and rhythm, image and sound, our imagination is released and with it the fundamental power of empathy.

There is so much in our world that is dysfunctional and broken. Where our social systems are failing and we search for solutions to a future that narrows before us. Art not only gives us respite, pleasure and joy, it gives us the unexpected gift of re imagining. It provides tools for the future. It enables us to rebuild.

These are ancient truths.

Around the world we are asked what makes the Adelaide Festival so special. Because its reputation precedes us. It’s known as one of those festivals that set the standard. And we say that for those 17 days in March the weather is glorious and there is a buzz and a palpable ambition that you can taste in the air around you. The whole city is alive with hope and pleasure and possibility.

And in 2020 it is our 35th Adelaide Festival, and we celebrate all 60 years of its beautiful life.

Come and join us as we play and think and dance and sing this March. 

NEIL ARMFIELD & RACHEL HEALY

Artistic Directors

www.adelaidefestival.com.au

Future dates:

2021 26 Feb – 14 Mar

For more information visit the website www.adelaidefestival.com.au