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Adelaide’s Big Day Out

Each year Adelaide rocks to the tune of some of the world's top popular music bands, when the travelling smash music festival, The Big Day Out, hits town. Adelaide is an important stop on the famous festival tour, which begins each year in...  see full details

Carnevale

South Australia’s Italian community come out in force to demonstrate and share their vibrant culture, traditions and delicious cuisine at this annual event. Revellers can enjoy cooking demonstrations, Italian fashion on show, admire cars and motorbikes, watch music and dance shows, and fill up...  see full details

Credit Union Christmas Pageant

The streets of Adelaide come to a standstill on pageant day in November each year, when hundreds of thousands of people converge on the city to watch a procession of fairytale floats weave their colourful and magical way past, heralding the start of...  see full details

Adelaide Festival of Arts and Adelaide Festival of Ideas

The splendid Adelaide Festival of Arts has become one of Australia's (and even the world's) top cultural events, with its epicentre at the Universal Playground venue. The bi-annual festival draws about one and a half thousand artists in all categories, mostly Australian but also...  see full details