Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000
Website: www.ozasiafestival.com.au
9102473 Phone Number: 61 08 8216 8600
Fax Number: 61 08 8216 8879

From 17-Sep-2010 to 02-Oct-2010
Adelaide Festival Centre’s annual OzAsia Festival celebrates the richness and diversity of our Australian and Asian culture and presents works from Australians who identify with an Asian heritage, collaborative work between Australian and Asian artists and a diversity of contemporary and traditional cultural experiences from Asia. It is the only event of its kind in Australia. Each year, the two week event features cross-cultural theatre, dance and music performances, visual arts exhibitions, films, food events, workshops and the Moon Lantern Festival - a free family event on the banks the River Torrens where visitors can enjoy multicultural performances, sample a variety of Asian cuisine and goods at the market stalls, try out different workshops and see the spectacular lantern parade light up Elder Park at dusk. Visitors can immerse themselves in Asian culture at the OzAsia Festival. Full program available from April 2010.

Victoria Park Racecourse, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000
Website: www.clipsal500.com.au
9024627 Phone Number: 61 08 8212 8500
Fax Number: 61 08 8212 6700

From 11-Mar-2010 to 14-Mar-2010
The Clipsal 500 Adelaide V8 Supercar event is an adrenalin-charged motor race held in Adelaide every year. One of the rounds in the V8 Supercar Championship Series and according to motor racing's legendary Murray Wlaker, it's the greatest touring car event in the world. It's the Clipsal 500 on Adelaide's internationally acclaimed street circuit. Four days of V8 Supercar action, extreme machines, eight racing categories, grid girls, on-track stunts, spectacular air shows, motoring displays and the best support race program in the nation. And there are more great reasons to be at Clispal 500 - four massive after-race concerts. See leading Australian acts including Eskimo Joe, British India, The Idols, Status Quo, Ian Moss, Noiseworks, Mental as Anything and more! Stay tuned for Friday nights announcement and listen to SAFM. Also in 2010, one of South Australia's most loved fireworks displays the SAFM Skyshow returns to the skies, Saturday night at the Clipsal 500 Adelaide! This is one motorsports carnival you can't afford to miss. Adelaide are you ready!

Various Performance and, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000
Website: www.adelaidefestival.com.au
9004166 Phone Number: 61 08 8216 4444
Fax Number: 61 08 8216 4455

From 26-Feb-2010 to 14-Mar-2010
The Adelaide Festival is one of the world's great arts festivals. Every two years, it turns Adelaide into an arts and entertainment hub for artists and audiences from around the world, with a feast of theatre, film, dance, opera and more. The Adelaide Festival also hosts the intoxicating Writers Week and the South Australian Short Film Awards. At the end of the night, the Persian Garden is the place to go. This exotic outdoor club nestles between the Adelaide Festival Theatre and the Dunstan Playhouse, spilling down through Elder Park to the banks of the River Torrens. Relax in the Persian Garde's lounge pods every balmy night under the stars or hit the dance floor to the sounds of the best bands, DJs and surprise Festival artists from Australia and around the world. Featuring the masters and mistresses of hip-hop, funk, jazz, dance, global, electronic beats and everything in between. Look out for the pleasure domes which mark the gates to Persian Garden. The Adelaide Festival has created a strong tradition of innovation since 1960 inspiring celebration and presenting diverse art from across Australia and around the world. Held in the warm South Australian autumn in every 'even' year, this is a large-scale multi-arts event of

Adelaide Riverbank Precinct, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000
Website: www.tasting-australia.com.au
9002735 Phone Number: 61 08 8463 4500
Fax Number: 61 08 8463 4718

From 29-Apr-2010 to 06-May-2010
Tasting Australia is the nation's premier food, wine and beer festival. In the 11 years since its conception, Tasting Australia has become one of Australia's most influential and best attended food and drink festivals. The event has hosted hundreds of Australia's and the world's top chefs, sommeliers, restaurateurs, food, wine, beer and travel media - including the most highly respected television presenters and producers - and has attracted a wide cross-section of the food-loving public to Adelaide and South Australia. Tasting Australia regularly attracts celebrity chefs such as Rick Stein, Antonio Carluccio, Nick Nairn, Rachel Allen, Paul Rankin, Sophie Grigson, Madhur Jaffrey and Claudia Roden, Stephanie Alexander, Serge Dansereau, Neil Perry, Shannon Bennett, Paul Wilson, Chris Taylor, Cheong Liew and many more. While Tasting Australia began as a largely media-based event - aimed at drawing the attention of newspaper, magazine, radio and television attention to the bounty of South Australia - it has now grown to such an extent that the 2007 Tasting Australia comprised some 70 events, of which 65 were aimed at the general public. Some 50,000 people attended over eight days. Don't miss this culinary extravaganza!

King William Road, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000
Website: www.adelaidecabaretfestival.com.au
9003679 Phone Number: 61 08 8216 8600
Fax Number: 61 08 8216 8879

From 11-Jun-2010 to 26-Jun-2010
In 2010 the Adelaide Festival Centre will present its tenth annual Adelaide Cabaret Festival under the Artistic Directorship of entertainer David Campbell. All under the one roof at South Australia’s creative heart, the Adelaide Festival Centre, you can experience the Adelaide Cabaret Festival every June beginning on the Queen’s Birthday long weekend. Over the last nine years the Festival has become a major event in the international and Australian Arts calendar, as the most comprehensive cabaret festival in the world with a reputation of highlighting the best local, national and international artists in the cabaret genre, with classic and contemporary cabaret performances. The Festival offers unforgettable nights of music, satire, comedy, storytelling and an opportunity to dance the night away. It’s about taking the opportunity to enjoy a well-known cabaret artist or be adventurous and explore something new to the cabaret scene. The program will be available March 2010.

Various venues throughout Adelaide and surrounding suburbs., Adelaide, South Australia, 5000
Website: www.adelaidefringe.com.au
9002170 Phone Number: 61 08 8100 2000
Fax Number: 61 08 8100 2020

From 19-Feb-2010 to 14-Mar-2010
The largest Fringe Festival in the southern hemisphere, the Adelaide Fringe offers a huge twist of quirky fun and frivolity – including the legendary opening night party, the Adelaide International Buskers Festival and the Fringe Family Weekend. With more than hundreds of shows and thousands of artists taking part each year, Adelaide Fringe is not to be missed. The Fringe traditionally begins with an opening night party in the Adelaide city centre, allowing thousands of people to sample the theatre, street entertainers and buzzing atmosphere of the event. The Adelaide Fringe originated in 1960 as a movement of artists who performed and operated outside the main Adelaide Festival of Arts program, but during the festival time frame, the Fringe has grown over the years to become one of South Australia’s most loved events. See the Adelaide Fringe website for your full, detailed program of comedy, music, performance art, visual arts and more.

Adelaide Oval, Adelaide, South Australia, 5006
Website: www.adelaidesevens.com.au
9081276 Phone Number: 61 08 7224 8150
Fax Number: 61 08 8231 8066

From 19-Mar-2010 to 21-Mar-2010
With 16 countries playing 44 fast-paced matches, there is no better way for a sports fan to spend their weekend than at the International Rugby Sevens Adelaide. Back at the world-renowned Adelaide Oval over three action-packed days, the Adelaide Sevens is a sporting spectacle like no other. See a team of Australia’s fasted, fittest Rugby players up against the rest of the world in heart-stopping matches of seven-minute halves. There is a chance you will see some future Olympians in action. Kicking off under Adelaide Oval’s lights on Friday 19 March and running throughout the weekend of 20 to 21 March, Adelaide Sevens tickets start from only AUD17.00 for adults. Get behind your country and get to the Adelaide Oval this March! To purchase your tickets today, visit ticketek website or call Ticketek on 132 849. For more information on the event, visit the official Adelaide Sevens website.

Botanic Park, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000
Website: www.womadelaide.com.au
9002212 Phone Number: 61 08 8271 1488
Fax Number: 61 08 8271 9905

From 05-Mar-2010 to 08-Mar-2010
Dance and rejoice at WOMADelaide, an exhilirating and colourful international music festival. WOMADelaide is Australia's celebration of the richness of cultures from around the planet. For four nights and three days, dazzling artists transport you around the globe with an eclectic mix of artistic colours, creeds, lands and languages. And you don't have to set foot outside its beautiful outdoor festival site - Adelaide Botanic Park. Set in the heart of the city, the park's giant Moreton Bay Figs provide shady groves for intimate traditional performances. The rolling lawns provide plenty of room to dance. WOMADelaide - sometimes also known as simply WOMAD - is a glorious explosion of sound, colour and movement. For a few days, the world becomes a village in a park, and there's no better place to be. Riveting live performances, stunning visual arts, roving artists, children's programs and indigenous arts projects - WOMADelaide has it all.

King William Road, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000
Website: www.adelaideguitarfestival.com.au
9102494 Phone Number: 61 08 8216 8600
Fax Number: 61 08 8212 8879

From 25-Nov-2010 to 28-Nov-2010
The 2010 Adelaide International Guitar Festival will run over four days and will be presenting some of the best guitarists from around Australia and the world, with artists crossing a range of genres and showcasing their skill, musicianship and creativity. Over the four days and nights the Adelaide International Guitar Festival will feature more than 50 national and international artists in 16 performances and three Australian premieres, along with a range of free and low cost workshops, master classes, artist talks and panel discussions for audiences and artists alike. The first 2010 Adelaide International Guitar Festival performance has been announced and tickets are now on sale for a rare double bill featuring two masters of the classical guitar, Manuel Barrueco and Yamandú Costa in Musica Latina on 27 November in the Festival Theatre. The full program will be launched in April 2010.