In their new film 'BIOPIC or Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée', Adelaide expat artist Madison Bycroft both does and does not portray the titular figure of French history, in a work that advocates for allowing opacity and ambiguity in our understanding of identity.
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The Jam, The Mix and The Gig, an almost two-decade-old mental health program helping people make social connections through music, has been put on hold due to a lack of government funding. We speak to the people behind the organisation about why it needs to exist.
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Taking inspiration from her childhood in East Africa, Mazzprints founder and designer Marie-Jeanne Tuyisenge tells CityMag she wants to see Adelaide embrace a more colourful wardrobe, even in winter.
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One half of Australia’s most beloved and eclectic plunderphonic bands, The Avalanches, explains how music can contain snippets of a person's being, and why harnessing their own music in new ways for Illuminate Adelaide is extending the life of their art.
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A suite of psychedelic paintings made on kangaroo pelts by Walmajarri artist John Prince Siddon and installed on a wallpaper backdrop will be among highlights of the 2021 Tarnanthi Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.
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Last year during lockdown, Creative Original Music Adelaide contracted their roster of artists to create a cohesive work using the exquisite corpse art-making format. The work will finally debut next week.
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In May, soil in the Parklands met with flames in the first approved cultural burn in Kaurna Yerta Adelaide since colonisation. CityMag reporter Angela Skujins camped with Kaurna elders, uncles and young men the night before the event to hear what this means to them and for country.
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Cultural icons and colourful critters from the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands will soon be projected on North Terrace, allowing a look through the vivid viewfinder of Indigenous artist Kaylene Whiskey.
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Over its 45 years in operation, the Australian Refugee Association has helped 20,000 new arrivals settle into new homes and overcome language barriers, cultural differences and confusing Centrelink forms. We speak to the organisation's caseworkers about why they love their work.
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The Ern Malley Affair, a 1940s literary hoax, has captivated Adelaide musician Max Savage from a young age. For the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, the artist will bring the story to life through music and live painting.
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