Comics to the rescue for young readers
Comics and graphic novels are a long way from the underground, with new data revealing them as the caped crusaders of children’s book sales, as 2024 Kids News Short Story Competition launches.
Arts
‘Super uni’ insider docs reveal Elder Conservatorium faces axe
A 125-year-old prestigious SA musical institution is conspicuously absent in the plans for a new super uni.
Festivals in the firing line amid looming city rate rise
A raft of much-loved city festivals, activations and business programs may face devastating or program-ending funding cuts as Adelaide City Council looks to lower its rates.
Adelaide rock pioneer’s ‘legacy will live on’ after death at 77
Adelaide’s music scene is in mourning following the death of one of the founding members of legendary band The Masters Apprentices.
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The power of the arts: Festival’s youth climate mission
A new climate change project for young people will be a major part of the Adelaide Festival. Bushfires, waste and endangered species are some of the issues it will address.
‘Abhorrent views’: Libs demand Mali step in over festival uproar
The SA opposition has demanded the premier “use his power” after Writers Week booked two speakers accused of spreading “propaganda” against Israel and Ukraine.
From the heart: Indigenous stories inspire the Adelaide Festival
Indigenous shows stretching far beyond traditional imagery and subject matter are at the very centre of this year’s Adelaide Festival program.
‘Bigger and better’: Popular arts staple to boom in iconic SA spot
It’s been a staple of the arts calendar of the area for 35 years – now this iconic exhibition, which helped its locals recover from devastation in 2020 – expects to boom this year.
Arts reviews: The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, Mono, Mourning Tea
Here are The Advertiser reviewers’ verdicts on the latest shows including The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, Mono and Mourning Tea.
How the new Adelaide Festival director is keeping taxpayers happy
Her plan of attack? It’s simple: Everyone in SA pays for the Adelaide Festival (if they pay their taxes) so we need to be serving them, she says. Here’s how she plans to do so.
Something in the water: Why our Hills produce so many superstars
Rapper Allday grew up in the same area that spawned the Hilltop Hoods and Beccy Cole. Now he’s playing at the Adelaide Festival. So what’s the Blackwood area’s musical secret?
Comic slams Fringe censors after Rising Sun poster banned
A stand-up comedian has hit out at Adelaide Fringe “censors” who refused to publish his promotional poster because it might offend Japanese people.
Reviews: Symphonie de la Bicyclette, The Mousetrap and Hairspray
Here’s our verdict on January’s big arts shows, including Brink’s Symphonie de la Bicyclette, Red Phoenix’s A Promenade of Shorts and Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap.
‘Something was very wrong’: artist’s miracle recovery
After a brain abscess almost ended her life, artist Cressida Campbell is celebrating a marriage and her biggest ever exhibition.
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