Life essentials

The essentials of life - love and food - are at the centre of works by two international authors who will be in Adelaide this March for Writers’ Week.

Stalin’s Piano: Scoring speeches ripe for song

Stalin's Piano, a musical work by Australian composer Robert Davidson, will re-contextualise famous speeches and the historical figures who delivered them for the Adelaide Festival.

LOVEFEST: two-for-one AF tickets

30-30-30

If you're under 30 you've got 30 hours to buy Adelaide Festival tickets for $30. Ends 3pm Feb 2nd.

Grounded: Fringe for the whole family

When he was artistic director of Adelaide Festival, David Sefton's programming significantly reduced that audience's average age. His new venture – a kid-centric Fringe venue called Grounded – goes even further.

Memorial: The magnitude of loss

When Brink Productions’ 'Memorial' premieres at the 2018 Adelaide Festival it will stand in explicit acknowledgement of the Centenary of Armistice Day and as implicit elegy to all of humanity – eulogising what we are, what we were, and what we never will be.

Bookshelf: CityMag’s reading recommendations

A personal recommendation is the best way to guarantee a good book (or magazine) comes home with you. Here’s what we’re reading, and why we think you should be reading it too.

Neil Finn by the Riverbank

Portraits in Motion: Capturing the moments in between

Artist Volker Gerling’s flipbooks cross the borders between film and photography, and in doing so capture something rarely seen in the more traditional mediums.