Tag: Adelaide Writers Week

The most wonderful time of year

Late summer/early autumn, February-March, is the best time to visit Adelaide, South Australia. Often regarded as ‘conservative’, the city comes alive during the twin events of the Adelaide Festival and Fringe. For three Covid-conscious festival seasons audiences and artists alike laboured under a cloud of anxiety. Would their show be cancelled? Would a key cast

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Literary luxuriance

Adelaide Writers' Week 2018

ADELAIDE WRITERS’ WEEK 2018 This has to be one of my favourite weeks of the year. Falling under the umbrella of the Adelaide Festival, Writers’ Week is an open air literary festival that takes place under the canopy of leaves and sails in the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden. For one week leading Australian and overseas

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Communal craziness- the return of Fringe

ADELAIDE FRINGE FESTIVAL   It’s here again, the communal craziness that is the Adelaide Fringe. When the streets of the city become a gigantic, flamboyant conga of performers- dancers, jugglers, actors, musicians, singers, comedians, visual artists, mime artists, contortionists, physical theatricists, acrobats, poets, puppeteers, photographers, conductors, plus the myriad supporting roles- directors, writers, stage hands,

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