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Unley library is celebrating its 50th birthday big style.

The debut Adelaide Festival from Artistic Directors Neil Armfield and Rachel Healy will mark a return to artistic works on a grand scale, with epic opera, theatrical spectacle under the stars and the biggest and most ambitious Festival hub in the event's history all set to dazzle in the 2017 program

Australia's Official War Artist and one of the country's most celebrated contemporary artists, Ben Quilty, will open major new exhibition, Sappers & Shrapnel, at the Art Gallery of South Australia on Thursday 10 November 2016 at 6pm.

For the final concert in this popular community concert season lovers of Mozart's music will be especially well served with three members of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra together with pianist Damien Mansfield performing Mozart's 1st Piano Quartet.

The performances, script, direction, and camera work are outstanding.

The 2017 Adelaide Festival Centre Season has all the perennial favourites and much-loved festivals, mixed in with a host of exciting new productions and events in what promises to be a great year of music, theatre, dance and exhibitions.

Feet of Clay provides another thread to Sir Terry Pratchett's Discworld.

The Morgans International Piano Series has brought some of the world's great performers to Adelaide.

The string quartet is a particularly refined and structured musical ensemble.

The story of Tracy Turnblad, an irrepressible dancer and hopeless optimist.

Full of beautiful melodies that are impossible to resist, and a laugh a minute story line.

Direct from sell-out seasons and London's West End, the Adelaide premiere of sizzling new circus show BLANC de BLANC is coming to The Garden of Unearthly Delights from 17 February - 19 March 2017.

Adelaide's Gilbert and Sullivan Society expanded their repertoire some time ago, and they haven't looked back.

Nexus Arts, the centre of inclusive, culturally diverse arts in Adelaide, will host the inaugural Nexus Arts Fundraising Gala on Saturday the 29th of October 2016.

The South Australian Government's "Made in Adelaide" delegation to the Edinburgh International Festival in August continues to reap rewards, with the Adelaide Festival today announcing it has received a major donation of $150,000 as a result of the initiative.

A unique South Australian solution to performance and special event spaces will premiere this month as part of Open State - the 10 day summit of collaboration, innovation, ideas and enterprise, taking place in Adelaide.

International sensation Equus by the late Peter Shaffer will be performed by the team from Adapt Enterprises at The Bakehouse Theatre this November.

It's murder in Discworld! - which ordinarily is no big deal.

Our Mob, Adelaide Festival Centre's celebration of art by South Australian Aboriginal Artists, returns to the Festival Centre for its 11thshowing.

Following continued strong Adelaide ticket sales the Australian producers of the St Petersburg Ballet have added a final extra performance to the Adelaide season of Swan Lake.

A great treat for lovers of pipe organ music will be the recital given by renowned organist and teacher, Shirley Gale, at Christ Church, North Adelaide at 5pm on Saturday 15 October when Shirley will play a selection of some of her favourite works.

Nobody wants to live an ordinary life, do they? Everyone wants their 15 minutes of fame.

Re-live the magic of the swingin' sixties with DUSTY the Musical! Starring Amy Lehpamer (The Sound of Music) as Dusty, Todd McKenney (The Boy From Oz) as Rodney, her loyal hairdresser and long time confidant and Virginia Gay (Winners & Losers) as Peg.

The Alliance Francaise d'Adelaide will present a weekend of all things French on Friday 18 andSaturday 19 November at the Bonjour Adelaide French Market to be held in the leafy Unley Soldiers' Memorial Gardens, cnr Unley Road and Thomas Street, Unley.

Summer is only eight weeks away but it will be raining on stage in the Festival Theatre when the hit West End stage production SINGIN' IN THE RAIN previews from 1 December in at the Festival Theatre for a limited pre-Christmas season.