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Taste Gouger Street Month 2026 is a month-long celebration of Gouger Street's vibrant and diverse food and dining culture, taking place throughout October 2026.
Organised by Gouger Street Traders Association Inc. (GSTA) in collaboration with the City of Adelaide, the campaign aims to showcase the precinct's unique culinary offerings, attract more visitors, and support local hospitality businesses.
Throughout the month, participating restaurants, cafés, and food businesses will offer exclusive dining specials, showcase their signature dishes, and take part in promotional activities, including social media competitions and meal voucher giveaways.
The campaign will be promoted through GSTA's and the City of Adelaide's social media platforms and other marketing channels, encouraging locals and visitors to discover new flavours, explore diverse cuisines, and experience the vibrant dining atmosphere of Gouger Street.
Taste Gouger Street Month 2026 brings together local businesses and the wider community to celebrate Adelaide's iconic dining precinct while supporting local traders and strengthening Gouger Street's reputation as a leading food and cultural destination.
'Tools for Quiet Activism' explores grassroots ecological restoration, drawing inspiration from the work of scientist-led organisation Bio·R in regenerating heavily-cleared native habitats. Through small, repeated acts of repair on degraded land, a form of 'quiet activism' emerges.
Artist Stephanie Doddridge embodies this gentle resistance in her 'toolkit' for ecological restoration. Seed orchard plans, stitched plant identification lists, and poetic tools crafted from experimental bioplastics embedded with native seeds, become metaphors for the process of regeneration.Please see exhibition opening hours here.
Power Surge – Into the Grid features prototype lighting designs created by JamFactory Studio Associates working across glass, metal, timber and ceramics. The prototypes were developed as part of JamFactory's annual product design challenge 'Design a Thing', led throughout 2026 by JamFactory's Creative Directors.
As part of their training, Associates accepted the challenge to develop a functional light fixture or lamp which incorporated a metre long LED strip into a product design suitable for the marketplace.
Within the limits of time, skill, material cost and pliability, Associates have created a body of work which highlights the role of playfulness, experimentation and innovation in the process of product design and production. The works displayed delight in their functionality, their assertiveness, their whimsy and technical mastery. Each creation reveals the a unique design signature through each Associates carefully considered aesthetics and skilled material manufacture, as evident here with ceramics delicately pressed with linen to give texture and warmth, glowing faceted timber, blown glass forms, cold worked and made gestural with light, finely detailed brass paired with paper screen, and a running metal ribbon as scaled-up jewellery for the wall.
An exhibition of creative works by South Australian designer, artist and researcher Guy Keulemans in collaboration with leading Australian designers. This is the third iteration in the biennial series of solo exhibitions presented by JamFactory in partnership with Adelaide University to highlight the artistic achievements and knowledge of key members of the creative faculty.
For many, the material world has never been more abundant, while planetary existence has never been more perilous. In the face of an interconnected crisis – waste, pollution, climate change and the unease of accelerating production and consumption – Keulemans and his collaborators ask, what is the role for design and craft? What is it that should be made, or remade? The works in this exhibition attempt to bring into the senses new aspirations for the manufactured world. Themes of transformative repair, localism and collaboration explore the agency in studio practice. The collaborations are signified by the X in the title; a symbol of a multiplying force for the consensus required to change material culture.
Presented as part of Adelaide Design Week
Presented in partnership with Adelaide University
Step behind the lens and into the wild to see jaw-dropping images that capture nature at its most dramatic, beautiful and raw.
Returning to Adelaide Botanic Garden this spring and summer, the world-celebrated Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition is on tour from the Natural History Museum in London, with its 61st collection of extraordinary images.
Nestled inside the lush green setting of the Bicentennial Conservatory, the exhibition features exceptional photographs that capture fascinating animal behaviour, spectacular species and the breathtaking diversity of the natural world.
Using photography's unique emotive power to engage and inspire audiences, the images shine a light on stories and species around the world and encourage a future of advocating for the planet.
Combine the exhibition experience with a stroll around the beautiful garden for a fantastic nature-filled day out.
Amidst ecological polycrisis, what practical, cultural or mystical remedies are possible?
The works offer different ways into this question: A yarning circle creates space for conversations about Country, care and planting native species. Eucalyptus leaves frame and scent the gallery. A temple offers a place for quiet retreat and the care practices involved in drinking tea. Other works turn to ecological restoration, performance, ritual, magic and noise as ways of responding to environmental anxiety and grief.
Living with ecological crises has become a part of everyday life. Climate change, habitat loss and environmental degradation bring with them anxiety and grief about what is happening to the natural world, and uncertainty about what comes next.
Leaves: Eco-Anxiety brings together seven artists whose leaf-based artworks respond to these feelings sympathetically and remedially. Across the exhibition, caring for Country and restoring native habitat sit alongside contemplation, restoration, divination and drinking tea. Together, in different ways, these approaches consider how we might care for the natural world while living with the knowledge of its increasing precarity.
Cutback is a major retrospective exhibition by Tutti artist Scott Pyle. It brings together 17 years of his art practice. Scott's art is full of energy, inspired by pop culture, fantasy, and Adelaide's train history. His paintings are full of colour, movement, and structure. They reflect how he sees and understands the world.
Cutback features art across different mediums such as painting, film, print, and zine.
Opening event: Sunday 27 September, 3 – 5pm | General viewing: Wednesday 30 September – Saturday 31 October, Wednesday – Saturday, 11am – 4pm
Wheelchair accessible venue
Step into a world of spooky fun, immersive experiences and Halloween magic at the 3rd Annual Festival of Halloween.
Returning bigger than ever in 2026, the Festival of Halloween is a unique celebration of all things Halloween, bringing together local artists, makers, performers and the community for a weekend of frightful fun and creativity.
This year features two separate ticketed events across one unforgettable Halloween weekend.
Saturday 24 October – Festival of Halloween After Dark (16+)
Experience a spookier side of Halloween with an evening dedicated to grown-up ghouls and lovers of all things strange and unusual. Explore a curated marketplace featuring spooky, gothic, horror and alternative creators, immersive themed displays, interactive photo opportunities, roaming characters and atmospheric Halloween entertainment.
Sunday 25 October – Festival of Halloween Family Day
A family-friendly celebration packed with Halloween fun for all ages. Wander through the Halloween marketplace, follow the trick-or-treat trail, meet roaming characters, enjoy interactive photo opportunities and take part in children's craft activities, DIY experiences and pumpkin carving demonstrations.
Whether you're a dedicated Halloween enthusiast, a lover of the unusual or simply looking for a memorable day out, the Festival of Halloween offers a unique experience unlike anything else in South Australia.
'The Last Age of the Falling Grace' is a meditation on our relationship with the land in the midst of climate emergency – a form of activism that seeks to create sensation that moves the viewer to act. It is also Jayne's story; a story of life on the land for the land. It is about belonging, a shared notion of "place for the benefit of place" and by extension us all, and about collapsing time, experience and perception into a shared sensation of love for the land.
Talismanic flora appear in states of flux; a gum leaf suspended in a void gently glowing, surrounded by an ember of its own destruction; a Fire Orchid preserved as virtual life repeatedlytransplanted in thin air.In an experiential invocation of story and place, 'The Last Age of the Falling Grace' incorporates landscape under threat with critical flora realised as spatialised content across three synchronised screens. A slow evocation of story in the expanded cinema tradition, beautiful and gentle – with a fiery unforgiving heart at its core.
Spring has arrived in the Adelaide Hills, and Sidewood is celebrating with its annual Sparkling Spring Weekend on 24–25 October.
Across two vibrant days, Sidewood Estate comes alive with sparkling wine, festival-style food, music and plenty of reasons to stay for the afternoon. Enjoy Sidewood's award-winning sparkling wines while Executive Chef Nick Filsell serves up relaxed seasonal dishes designed for grazing, sharing and settling in with friends.
Winter Reds favourite DJ Harvey Robbins returns to soundtrack the weekend, joined by a glitter bar, lawn games and a few sparkling surprises throughout the estate. Expect a buzzing atmosphere, plenty of photo-worthy moments and that unmistakable Sidewood mix of great wine, good food and relaxed Hills energy from the moment you arrive.
Saturday is strictly 18+ and sets the tone for a lively spring session made for groups of friends, long lunches and an afternoon that easily rolls into evening. Sunday shifts into a relaxed family-friendly celebration**, perfect for gathering the crew and soaking up the fresh Adelaide Hills atmosphere.
Whether you come for the wine, the food, the music or simply the excuse to get everyone together, Sparkling Spring is the weekend to put in the diary.
Gather your friends, choose your day and celebrate the season at Sidewood with your favourite people nearby — where spring tastes better with a glass of sparkling in hand.
Everyone's favourite spring festival hub returns to Elder Park, with delicious food, free entertainment and fun for the whole family.
Get ready for sunny days and balmy spring evenings along the banks of Karrawirra Parri/RiverTorrens, soaking up the sights, sounds and flavours of a bustling Asian open-air food market.
A line-up of 25 food vendors will showcase everything from dumplings and bao to regional street food from Vietnam, Japan, Korea, The Philippines, Thailand, India and Cambodia. And for dessert, a range of irresistible Asian-inspired treats will be available to satisfy every sweet tooth.
For the first time, OzAsia Festival's iconic moon lanterns will be on display throughout the Lucky Dumpling Market, adding even more festival magic.
Enjoy free entertainment Thursday to Sunday, featuring live music, DJs and cultural performances that celebrate Adelaide's Asian community groups.
With plenty to see, hear and experience, grab your crew and make Lucky Dumpling Market your place to be during OzAsia Festival.
Pull Pop Push your way into a world of books that move, surprise and delight.
Pull Pop Push explores the art of movable books, from pop-ups and wheels to tunnels, sound books, flap-books and more. Drawn from the State Library's collections, including the Children's Literature Research Collection, these books use carefully engineered paper mechanisms to transform flat pages into lively scenes that unfold before your eyes.
The exhibition brings these ideas to life through scale, perspective and reveal. You can look behind the scenes to discover how movable books work, step through immersive, larger-than-life recreations of iconic works, and trace the evolution of paper engineering from early scientific tools to much-loved children's books.
Created for the young, the curious and the young at heart, Pull Pop Push is a playful and visually engaging experience that celebrates imagination, creativity and the wonder of stories brought to life.
