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ABOUT ADELAIDE FESTIVAL

2020 marked Adelaide Festival's 60th anniversary: for over 60 years, audiences have delighted in an outstanding mix of internationally acclaimed theatre productions, an eclectic array of world-class musicians, breathtaking dance pieces, renowned writers and striking visual arts displays. Enjoyed amid warm March days and starry nights, Adelaide Festival’s celebration of creative excellence makes for an event of truly epic proportions.

2020 was the fourth Adelaide Festival presented by Joint Artistic Directors Neil Armfield AO and Rachel Healy. All of their festivals from 2017 – 2021 have been a resounding success breaking box office records. Neil and Rachel will direct the 2022 and 2023 Adelaide Festival programs, making them the longest serving Artistic Directors.

"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."

READ ABOUT THE 2022 ADELAIDE FESTIVAL

Rachel Healy and Neil Armfield AO, Joint Artistic Directors

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Save the date for the next editions: 

4 - 20 Mar 2022 | 3 - 19 Mar 2023

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Adelaide Festival is a member of Festivals Adelaide: representing Adelaide's ten major arts and cultural festivals.

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ABOUT ADELAIDE WRITERS' WEEK

Adelaide Writers’ Week is Australia’s largest free literary festival, offering both writers and readers a unique opportunity to spend time sharing ideas and literary explorations in a garden setting in Adelaide’s city centre. Each carefully selected program brings the world's most celebrated established and emerging writers together for a week that delights, surprises and enlightens audiences.

Each Adelaide Writers’ Week includes six days of free panel sessions that are presented live in the gardens, and made available online via podcast. The program also features a series of ticketed special events throughout the year, and the popular free Kids’ Weekend, which attracts hundreds of families for fun and engaging literary adventures. The directorship of Jo Dyer kept the traditional appointments but added some new (and very well welcomed) events, including the Middle and Young Adults day, the Twilight Talks and the possibility to stream selected events from home with the Curated Dozen.

Over the years, Adelaide Writers’ Week has seen some of the world’s greatest writers and thinkers in conversation about literature, politics, poetry, current events, biography, the short story and much, much more.

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JOIN US

Festival Friends

As a Festival Friend, you become a part of a special community who support our exciting and ambitious program!

Become a Festival Friend and you'll be granted priority access to the best AF tickets at the best price - and you will be first in line for the world’s most exciting theatre, opera, dance, music and visual arts!

Festival Friends enjoy exclusive benefits:

- 15% off adult ticket prices to select Adelaide Festival shows, limited to 2 tickets per event
- Access to a priority booking period from launch day until 5pm on Tuesday 23 November on shows presented by the Adelaide Festival (opening nights will  have less availability than other performances)
- Option to exchange tickets to another performance of the same event, subject to terms and conditions
- An invitation for you and a guest to the Program Launch event

A Festival Friends membership costs $180.

More info: boxoffice@adelaidefestival.com.au or ph: 1300 393 404

Festival Benefactors

 

The Chairman’s Circle

Opera Donor Circle

The inclusion of a major opera as the centrepiece of the Festival has generated attention and excitement locally and nationally, but hallmark productions are expensive to produce and we cannot deliver work of this calibre and breadth without the philanthropic support of the Opera Donor Circle.

Our opera donors have made an incredible contribution to the Adelaide Festival since 2017, through supporting Saul, Hamlet, The Magic Flute, Requiem, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Golden Cockerel.

Every contribution to the Opera Donor Circle is fully tax deductible.

For more information please contact Sarah Killey, Philanthropy Manager, on skilley@adelaidefestival.com.au or 08 8216 4477.

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PARTNERSHIPS

The Adelaide Festival is the reason Adelaide is known as The Festival State.

The Adelaide Festival boasts a reputation as one of the world’s great multi-arts festivals, sharing Australia’s best new work along with some of the world’s great companies and international artists since inception in 1960.

A partnership with the Adelaide Festival, including Adelaide Writers’ Week, can benefit your business through receipt of enviable invitations to VIP events attracting key decision-makers, generation of good will for your organisation and build brand values of creativity and innovation.

Our partnering strategy is tailored to suit the outcomes sought by each sponsoring organisation: whether you want to share in our community spirit or achieve tangible business outcomes, we invite you to take part.

To discuss corporate support of Adelaide Festival through a bespoke partnership, please contact Amanda Wheeler, Head of Business Development on +61 8 8216 4439 or awheeler@adelaidefestival.com.au

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CAREERS

Staff and Board
The Adelaide Festival would not exist each year without its board and team of administration, finance, marketing, production and programming staff.

Careers
Are you looking for a career in the arts? Check back here throughout the year to learn about our job vacancies and placement opportunities.
More info: www.adelaidefestival.com.au/careers or ph 08 8216 4444

Volunteers
Interested in becoming a volunteer? Register your interest to be part of the 2022 Adelaide Festival. Visit www.adelaidefestival.com.au/volunteer or ph 08 8216 4444.

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ACCESS

Adelaide Festival strives to make its events available for all to enjoy.

Each event in the festival program contains detailed access information for that event in the booking guide and on the website. If you have any questions or suggestions regarding access, please contact us.

We also encourage you to sign up with Access2Arts for regular updates and offers to accessible arts events.

Access initiatives during Adelaide Festival includes Auslan interpreted shows and sessions, as well as touch tours, audio description, braille support, wheelchair access and companion card offers to both Adelaide Festival and Adelaide Writers' Week events. The festival also has a Pay What You Can ticketing scheme for healthcare, pensioner and student cards for top selling festival highlights.

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CONTACT US

Ticketing enquiries (Festival Friends)
1300 393 404

General ticketing enquiries, please check the event pages for best contact.

Office:
Phone: +61 (0) 8 8216 4444
Fax: +61 (0) 8 8216 4455
Email: info@adelaidefestival.com.au

Post: PO Box 8221 Station Arcade, Adelaide SA 5000
ABN: 70 858 344 347
National Relay Service: 133677 then 08 8216 4444 or online

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MEDIA

For more media information and high-resolution images of Adelaide Festival events, please contact:
Anthea Hagar
Publicity
Phone: +61 (08) 8216 4444
Email: media[at]adelaidefestival.com.au

ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CORPORATION: © 2021 ADELAIDE FESTIVAL
Permission granted to reproduce content for personal and educational use only. Any content which is used or shared outside of this website must be attributed to Adelaide Festival at all times. Commercial copying, hiring, lending is prohibited. Unless otherwise stated, all images (including all background images, icons and illustrations) on this website are copyrighted by their original owners.

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A FESTIVAL FOR THE FUTURE 

As an iconic event for our community, we want Adelaide Festival to be an exemplar of environmental responsibility and know that we can make a vital and significant contribution to a future that we want our children to inherit.

We are committed to reducing our impact on the environment and we are proud to become the first major arts festival in Australia to be certified carbon neutral.

We will consistently measure and reduce our impacts on the environment, while offsetting the remaining carbon emissions involved in presenting our arts festival. We are working with our staff, artists, suppliers, crew, volunteers, donors, sponsors and audience to ensure that sustainability is a key focus in everything we do.

The Festival is proud to be a part of a city that is leading the transition to a low carbon economy, and feels it is important to be part of the community leading climate change action to help our environment and our economy. This year, we are proud to be a Carbon Neutral Adelaide ambassador and are committed to our community’s shared aspiration to make the City of Adelaide one of the world’s first carbon neutral cities.

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READ OUR PRIVACY POLICY

1. Our commitment to your privacy

Adelaide Festival Corporation is the organiser of the Adelaide Festival.

This policy reflects our commitment to ensuring that our collection, holding, use and disclosure of information complies with the provisions of the Privacy Act 1988 (Act), in particular, the National Privacy Principles set out in Schedule 3 of the Act.

You can download a copy of the Act here: https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/C2017C00283

2. Personal Information

The Act provides that “personal information” means information or an opinion (including information or an opinion forming part of a database), whether true or not, and whether recorded in a material form or not, about an individual whose identity is apparent, or can reasonably be ascertained, from the information or opinion.

We take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information we hold from misuse, loss and unauthorized access, modification or disclosure.

3. Collection, use and disclosure of personal information
    

3.1 Information for customers
3.1.1 Collection of your personal information

When you purchase your tickets to an Adelaide Festival event, in person, over the phone or online from third parties such as ticketing agencies (for example, Ticketek) or our hired venues, they collect your personal information, including your:

• Name
• Residential address
• Postal address
• Telephone numbers
• Email address
• Details of the performance you are buying tickets to
• Date of birth
• Credit card details

The terms of your third parties’ privacy policies apply to their collection, holding, use, and disclosure of your personal information. Those policies can usually be found on their websites.

Unless you tell them otherwise, the third parties will share your name, contact details and other personal information with us. Our privacy policy applies to our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information, once it is disclosed to us by the third party.

Please note: Adelaide Festival is not given your credit card details by our ticketing agencies or our hired venues.

Use of your personal information

Our ticketing agencies and hired venues use your personal information in order to deliver your ticket, process your payment arrangements, contact you in the case of cancellation or major disruption of an event and replace lost tickets.

In general, the purpose for which we collect your personal information include:

• Placing you on mailing lists either electronically or postal
• To inform you of activities, events and products that may be of interest to you, including festival news or upcoming events
• Submitting entries to events or competitions
• To assist with enquiries you may have about the festival
• To maintain our business records
• To seek donations or sponsorship
• To carry out transactions with you, such as to process payments and donations received by you
• Any purpose that you would otherwise reasonably expect

If you no longer wish to receive marketing information from us, you can also contact our Executive Director (see section 6 below). Please allow 30 days for amendment of our records.

An unsubscribe facility is enabled with any broadcast email correspondence.

We also use your information, in anonymous form, for statistical purposes, to gain a better understanding of our audience.

3.1.2 Disclosure of your personal information

We may disclose your personal information to other organizations which provide us with marketing services, information technology services, or other services relating to our events.

We may also disclose your personal information if authorized or required to do so by law (for example, where we are required to disclose your personal information to a court in response to a subpoena).

We will not disclose your personal information for any other purpose without your consent.

3.1.3 Your right to anonymity

Where it is lawful and practicable to do so, you may undertake business with us without providing personal information. For example, you may purchase tickets to a Adelaide Festival event by cash payment, in person, over the counter, without providing personal information.

3.2 Information for business associates

3.2.1 Collection of your personal information

We may collect your personal information, including your:

• Name
• Employer
• Work contact details including your email address
• Personal contact details such as your phone number

in person, over the telephone, by fax, or by email in order to undertake our daily artistic and administrative operations.

For example, we may have your contact details if you are our “point of contact” within an organization with which we do business.

3.2.2 Use of your personal information

We will only use your personal information for the business purpose for which it was collected.

3.2.3 Disclosure of your personal information

We will only disclose your personal information if necessary to achieve the business purpose for which it was collected.

3.3 Information for job applicants (including volunteers)

If you are applying for a job with us, you may be required to provide us with certain personal information, including your:

• Name
• Residential address
• Postal address
• Telephone numbers
• Email address
• Employment history
• Educational background

This information may be collected in your interactions with Adelaide Festival in person, over the telephone, by fax or email, as part of, or in relation to, your job application.

In considering your information, we may also collect information about you from the referees you nominate in your application.

3.3.2 Use of your personal information

We will only use your personal information for the purposes of considering your application and, if successful, your employment.

3.3.3 Disclosure of personal information

In considering your application, it may be necessary for us to disclose some of your personal information to third parties in order to verify the accuracy of that information.

We will disclose only such information as is necessary in the circumstances.

3.4 Information for website users

3.4.1 Collection of your personal information

Our website uses "cookies", which are pieces of data that are placed on your web browser containing details about your use of our website.

We use cookies to analyse user activity to improve the website. For example, to look at aggregate patterns like the average time users spend on different pages.

We may also use cookies to track your browsing habits on our website, and we may include that information in our systems alongside other personal information we may hold about you.

You can read more about how Google uses data sent from our website by visiting How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps

3.1.2 Remarketing to website visitors

We use remarketing services, such as Google AdWords Remarketing, to advertise Adelaide Festival online.

Remarketing services will display ads to you based on what parts of the Adelaide Festival website you have viewed by placing a cookie on your web browser.

Remarketing services allow us to tailor our marketing to better suit your needs and only display ads that are relevant to you.

If you do not wish to see ads from Adelaide Festival you can opt out in several ways:

1. Opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings.
2. Opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

3.4.3 Third party sites

Sometimes our website contains links to third party websites, for your convenience and information.

When a user has clicked on a link to another site, they leave the Festival site and are no longer protected by the Adelaide Festival Corporation Privacy conditions. We recommend that you review the privacy policies for each website you visit.

3.5 information for Adelaide Festival social media followers

Any information posted on Adelaide Festival’s social media pages including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram and/or communicated in chat areas becomes public information. While we strive to protect and respect your privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose via social media, a chat room or bulletin board.

We use aggregate information from our Facebook and Twitter accounts to better understand our audience, and answer your queries.

4. Access to personal information

To obtain a copy of the personal information we hold about you, please contact our privacy officer (see section 6 below).

You will be required to complete and submit an access form.

You will also be required to provide proof of your identity. If you are applying by:

• Post, email or fax – you must attach a certified copy of your identification to the access form;
• In person – you must produce the relevant information to the privacy officer.

Documents that provide sufficient proof of your identity are:

• Your current driver’s license;
• The identifying page of your current passport;
• Your birth certificate; or
• A statutory declaration by an individual who has known you for at least one year.

We will not charge you to access your personal information.

5. Correction of personal information

We take all reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we collect, use and disclose is accurate, complete and up-to-date.

However, the accuracy of that personal information depends to a large extent on the information you provide to us. To help ensure the accuracy of the personal information we hold about you, please inform the Privacy Officer (see section 6 below) if:

• You become aware of any errors in the personal information we hold about you; or
• There are any changes to your personal information, such as changes to your name, address or other contact details.

Please allow 30 days for amendment of our records.

6. Contact Us

For further information about the personal information we hold about you, access to or correction of that information, or for any other privacy queries or complaints, please contact our Executive Director via:

Telephone: (08) 8216 4444
Email:info@adelaidefestival.com.au
PO Box 8221 Station Arcade, ADELAIDE, SA 5000

7. Changes to this privacy policy

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time and to notify our customers, business associates and job applicants by posting an updated version of the policy on our website.

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READ OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS

 

ADDITIONAL COVID-19 CONDITIONS

Adelaide Festival events are subject to changing COVID-19 health and safety guidelines. All attendees will be required to comply with all SA Government directions in place at the time of the event which may include, but is not limited to, QR check-in, wearing of masks and other conditions of entry.

Patrons must sit in their allocated seats as directed by venue management. In the case that capacity restrictions are further lifted or imposed prior to the event, Adelaide Festival will amend audience capacity and seating arrangements in line with Government directives.

 

FLEXIBLE TICKETING POLICY

In the case that a patron is unwell, is directed to go into quarantine and/or is isolating while awaiting further COVID-19 directions pertaining to a test, ticket exchanges can be facilitated on the following terms -

Ticket exchanges must be made in advance of the original event date on the ticket, and cannot be facilitated retrospectively
Ticket exchanges must be for a future performance of the same event, depending on availability. If an alternative date cannot be found, a refund will be given
For our interstate and overseas patrons who are affected by border closures and quarantine/isolation requirements, please contact Adelaide Festival as soon as practicable (in advance of the event) to advise your circumstances. If a ticket exchange cannot be facilitated, a refund will be given.

 

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Tickets sold or issued by Adelaide Festival are subject to the following Terms and Conditions of Sale, and the Live Performance Australia (LPA) Ticketing Code of Practice. By purchasing or registering to attend an event, you agree to abide by these terms and conditions. Tickets may be subject to additional terms and conditions including specific conditions of entry issued by each venue.

Adelaide Festival reserves the right to change ticket prices, seating arrangements and audience capacity, at any time and without notice.

All bookings are subject to availability.

Maximum ticket limits may be imposed. Adelaide Festival reserves the right to cancel orders that exceed the limit.

Where concessions are applicable, suitable and valid identification of that concession must be provided for collection of tickets.

Lost or stolen General Admission tickets may not be replaced. Adelaide Festival reserves the right to charge an administration fee to issue replacement tickets for reserved seating events.

Ticket prices are displayed in Australian dollars and are listed inclusive of all ticketing fees and charges, however transaction fees will apply regardless of the number of tickets purchased.

Latecomers may not be admitted until a suitable break in the performance. In some circumstances, latecomers may not be admitted at all. Adelaide Festival and venue management reserves the right of admission. Tickets will not be exchanged or refunded in these circumstances, unless required by law.

The use of cameras, mobile phones and recording devices is strictly prohibited and will result in removal from the venue without refund.

Adelaide Festival will take all reasonable steps to notify ticket holders of any event cancellations or rescheduled performances provided accurate patron details are given at the time of purchase.

Tickets may not be resold or offered for resale at a premium (more than 110% of the original ticket price) in line with South Australian Government legislation. If a ticket is sold or used in breach of this condition, the ticket may be cancelled without refund and the ticketholder refused admission to the event.

Tickets purchased through unauthorised resellers such as Ticketmaster Resale, eBay, Gumtree Viagogo, StubHub and similar organisations may be fraudulent and entry to the venue is not guaranteed. Adelaide Festival is not responsible for honouring or refunding tickets purchased from unauthorised agents or resellers.

Adelaide Festival will offer a refund if the event is cancelled, rescheduled or significantly relocated. Adelaide Festival is not responsible for any expenses incurred by the patron for example, cost of travel including car parking, child care and accommodation if the event is cancelled.

 

FESTIVAL FRIENDS TERMS AND CONDITIONS

The Adelaide Festival 2022 Friend membership is valid until 30 June 2022.

The cost of the membership is $180. Transaction fees apply when purchasing tickets.

Friends are entitled to 15% discount on adult ticket prices to select Adelaide Festival events, limited to two tickets per event.

Friends can access exclusive seating during the priority-booking period, on events presented by the Adelaide Festival (excludes opening nights and exclusive donor and sponsor performances).

Friends are entitled to exchange tickets to events presented by the Adelaide Festival. Exchanges will attract an $8.95 transaction fee per booking. Exchanges can be made by contacting Adelaide Festival on 1300 393 404, and are subject to the following conditions:

The performance that tickets are being exchanged from is not sold out
The performance that tickets are being exchanged into must have available capacity
Tickets can only be exchanged into a different performance of the same event (i.e., exchange from The Golden Cockerel to another performance of The Golden Cockerel)
If the new performance selected has a higher ticket price or seating in a higher price category is chosen, the difference in cost between the original tickets and the new tickets, is payable by the Friend
There are no refunds given if cheaper tickets are selected or for failure to attend the performance
Ticket exchanges must happen in advance of the performance, and cannot be made once the performance has taken place
Friend benefits vary annually at the discretion of the Adelaide Festival Corporation, and are subject to change depending on the Adelaide Festival program each year.

To access Festival Friend prices and priority seating online, please log in via the Adelaide Festival website before selecting a performance. Applicable discounted prices and seating will then become available for purchase. Tickets are also available for purchase by calling Adelaide Festival on 1300 393 404.

To discuss venue and seating accessibility, please contact the Adelaide Festival on 1300 393 404.

Tickets sold or issued by Adelaide Festival are subject to the following Terms and Conditions of Sale (see above).

 

COMPETITIONS AND GIVEAWAYS VIA THE WEBSITE AND/OR THE E-NEWSLETTER OR FESTIVAL SURVEYS

For competitions/giveaways through which entrants must answer a specific question, unless otherwise stated in the premise: a winning entry/entries will be drawn at random; the first entry/entries drawn containing the correct answer will win. For competitions/giveaways through which entrants must provide a response, unless otherwise stated in the premise, a winning entry/entries will be chosen by a panel representing the Adelaide Festival based on creativity, originality and adherence to the brief, at the discretion of Adelaide Festival Corporation.

The Adelaide Festival Corporation may compile and publish entries and/or responses to online competitions. In such cases, Adelaide Festival will not publish any entrants' personal information unless specifically instructed to do so in writing by the competition entrant. By entering any Adelaide Festival competition and/or give-away, the entrant warrants that the submission (and any part thereof) is their own work, or that they have any permissions necessary from the owner of the material to reproduce and distribute the work, and gives permission for Adelaide Festival to publish this content through its social media, website and E-Newsletter.

All competitions/giveaways for which entrants must not submit a specific answer or response, winner(s) will be chosen at random.

All prizes/giveaways are non-transferable. By entering an Adelaide Festival competition, all entrants expressly agree to these terms and conditions.

Leaving comments on the website

We welcome you to leave comments on our website. All comments will go through a moderation process by Adelaide Festival; they will not be published immediately. We are not obligated to post any comment submitted and not obligated to justify any decision.

If you quote someone or use their ideas or theories, please let us know who they are! Referencing is cool.
We won’t publish anything that is (or could be reasonably expected to be): defamatory to any person or thing; racially or religiously vilifies, incites violence or hatred; is likely to offend, insult or humiliate others based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation or any physical or mental disability.
We won’t publish anything which advertises or promotes goods or services that are not directly related, or in context to the discussion taking place.
The views expressed in comments areas are not our views, nor the views of any of our stakeholders. We accept no liability in respect of any material posted in the comments areas. We are not responsible for its content and accuracy.

If you think that a comment that has been posted is offensive please email info@adelaidefestival.com.au, include a link to the page on which the comment resides and state your reasons for objecting to it.

 

DISCLAIMER

Adelaide Festival takes no responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of, or the representations made by, the content of this site.

Adelaide Festival takes no responsibility for the content of any World Wide Web site that links from this website. Please read the disclaimer.

This website contains information provided by third parties. You should be aware that there may be technical inaccuracies, typographical errors, programming bugs or computer viruses in this website or its content.

Access to this web site is provided on the condition that:

(i) To the full extent permitted by law, Adelaide Festival will be under no liability to any person in respect of any loss or damage (including consequential loss or damage) which may be suffered or incurred or which may arise directly or indirectly from or in connection with any use of this website or of the information on or accessed through this website for whatever reason (including negligence).

(ii) Where any statute implies any term in relation to your use of this website and that statute prohibits any exclusion or modification of that term, then that term is included. However, the liability of Adelaide Festival for breach of any such term will be limited to resupply of the services that comprise this website.

Any information contained within this site about any subject matter whosoever is of a general nature only and is not intended to be complete or definitive. You should obtain professional advice before taking any action in relation to any matter referred to on this site.

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