With plenty to warm the heart, mind and soul, Adelaide Festival Center will present two of its beloved annual festivals, a majestic range of exhibitions and two joyous and infectious musicals as part of its winter season. 2022.

With national treasure and performer extraordinaire Tina Arena AM at the helm, the 2022 Adelaide Cabaret Festival will soon pull back the velvet curtains from June 10-25 to present something to dazzle and delight. Must-see shows include a decadent tribute to disco icons at the Piña Colada Room; uplifting stories and songs from the one and only Marcia Hines in The Gospel According to Marcia; and, in a rare opportunity to see Tina’s intimate side, the world premiere of Songs My Mother Taught Me, where she will be joined by special guests Lior, Thando, Jess Hitchcock, Wendy Matthews and Sophie Koh. King of the ivories and Festival staple Trevor Jones returns to the Quartet Bar in the Festival Theater foyer every night, ready to play along to everyone’s favorite tunes (and yes, he takes requests!).

South Australian artists include regional First Nations artists Kuko, Katie Aspel and Rob Edwards in TRAIL (Tonight’s Regional Aboriginal Islander Live) who perform blues, jazz, soul, folk and storytelling. Glam rock goddess Carla Lippis takes center stage in State Opera South Australia’s hilarious dramatization of Kathy Lette’s How to Kill Your Husband (and other handy household hacks); and sassy singer Victoria Falconer makes her festival debut in And Then You Go – The Vali Myers Project, as the recipient of this year’s Frank Ford Commissioning Award.

After an explosive opening and through June 12, eight-time Tony Award-nominated electrifying musical phenomenon SIX The Musical continues to dazzle and delight audiences. A witty and daring musical, SIX remixes the story of Henry VIII’s six wives as they take the microphone to retell their stories and reclaim their HERstories, once and for all, in the aptly named Her Majesty’s Theater Adelaide.

In July, the Adelaide Guitar Festival welcomes the world’s largest acoustic guitar to the Adelaide Festival Plaza, along with a kingdom of extraordinary musicians from July 9-24, and via On the Road offers free class concerts world. entertainment in ten regional towns in South Australia.

Plectrum-based pleasures include fiery Flamenco with Spaniard José María Gallardo del Rey and Victoria-based dance group Arte Kanela; crisp classical notes from China’s Xuefei Yang and Australian voice/guitar duo Quin Thomson and David Malone; Spinal Tap’s Derek Smalls cranks up the amp at eleven with Aussie rock legends You Am I; legendary Black Sorrows frontman Joe Camilleri celebrating his 50th album with special guest Lecia Louise; and charming road tunes from Australian country crooners Fanny Lumsden and Jimmybay.

Adelaide Festival Center CEO and Artistic Director Douglas Gautier AM: “Our premier venues – Her Majesty’s award-winning Theater and Adelaide Festival Centre, close to the exciting new Festival Plaza area – are ready to continue to welcome audiences and performers this winter SIX was the first major musical staged in South Australia since restrictions were lifted, and it was great to be able to see it performed in Adelaide and audiences enjoying it again the thrill of live performance.

“With top local artists also on display in our galleries, and even lighting up the Festival Theater Shells, there’s never been a better time to cover up, get out there and experience the best entertainment on offer.”

Now in its 17th year, the Adelaide Festival Centre’s prestigious statewide exhibition of First Nations art, stories and ideas, OUR MOB returns from August 18 to October 7 to the Festival Galleries Theater recently reopened. Expressions of interest to exhibit are still open until July 1st. Its youth counterpart, OUR YOUNG MOB, and returning after a gripping 2021 debut, live literary panels for OUR WORDS (hosted by poet, activist and proud Ngarrindjeri, Kaurna and Italian man, Dominic Guerrera) and immersive storytelling event , OUR STORIES. This year’s OUR MOB awards include the $2,000 Trevor Nickolls Art Prize and the renowned $5,000 OUR MOB Emerging Artist Prize from the Don Dunstan Foundation.

Follow some of the most enjoyable and intelligent artistic conversations, recorded during the 2021 OUR WORDS live panel sessions, OzAsia Festival In Other Words and 2022 inSPACE inDiscussion, with Adelaide Festival Centre’s brand new From the Wings podcast. New episodes continue to be released fortnightly every Tuesday.

Works by local artists Jake Yang, Cedric Varcoe, Bridgette Minuzzo and Sue Michael, brought to life by award-winning creative team Electric Canvas, will light up the iconic shells of the Festival Theater through June 3. From June 4 to July 14, screenings continue with works by Craigmore and Salisbury East High School students (mentored by artist Caitlin Bowe) from Children’s Artspace Legendary Textile Tales; and from July 15-31, works by contemporary First Nations artists from Amala Groom, Daen Sansbury-Smith, Elizabeth Close and Jaydenlee Tong in New Light, presented by Illuminate Adelaide and the Australian Network for Art + Technology.

Legendary Textile Tales remains in the new Children’s Artspace gallery until June 12, featuring tapestries, 3D works and ink drawings based on myths and folk tales from each student’s cultural ancestry. Enter the gallery, take a journey through history and legend, and create your own loom creation in our Spinning a Yarn workshops!

Mark your calendars for August 1 when the 2022 OzAsia festival program is unveiled, led by the family-friendly Moon Lantern Trail and foodie favorite Lucky Dumpling Market, as well as a fantastic program of music, theatre, dance, visual arts, literature and numerous topical conversations highlighting Australia’s engagement with Asia.

Until August 5, Behind the Seams: costumes designs from Adelaide Festival Centre’s Performing Arts Collection brings together the art of Australia’s top theater costume designers in the Festival Theater Galleries. One hundred unique works by thirty exceptional designers, including Sainthill, Goodchild, Rowell, Moisewitsch, Moore and Arrighi, spanning four decades of productions by Shakespeare, Molière, Rogers and Hammerstein, Wagner, Britten and The Australian Ballet, demonstrate in style meticulous the precision process of interpreting the characters through the stage costume.

As befits winter, Disney’s hit musical Frozen will rule the Festival Theater stage in an all-new, unforgettable theatrical experience featuring stunning sets and costumes and sensational special effects until the 24th. July. Starring Jemma Rix and Courtney Monsma from Adelaide in the two lead roles, it features the songs you know and love, plus an expanded score with a dozen new numbers.

For more information on upcoming performances and events, visit www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au.