Bowerbird and the 2024 Multicultural Festival
This weekend, head to Her Majesty’s Theatre as James Morrison pays tribute to jazz legend Duke Ellington, or get ahead with your Christmas shopping at Bowerbird.
15 years of Bowerbird
Get a start on your Christmas shopping as Bowerbird – Adelaide’s premier design market – returns to the Adelaide Showgrounds from November 22 to 24 to celebrate its 15th anniversary. Bringing together dozens of designers and makers from across Australia, there will be an abundance of fashions and accessories, crafts and toys, and furniture and homewares on offer. Between shopping, treat yourself to artisanal food and drinks as you soak up the atmosphere and enjoy live music, or sign up for a workshop and learn a new skill directly from the makers.
Photograph Kathryn ThomasI am, you are, we are Australian
South Australia’s rich cultural diversity will be recognised this weekend at the 2024 Multicultural Festival. Billed as SA’s biggest multicultural festival, the annual event is expected to attract some 10,000 people, with 80 community groups representing nearly 60 cultures. There’ll be music and dance, interactive demonstrations, intercultural activities, and stalls featuring cultural crafts, international art and delicious cuisine from around the world. The Multicultural Festival is on at Victoria Square/Tarntanyangga on Sunday, November 24 from 12pm until 6pm.
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Swing into action
Jazz legend James Morrison will be joined by his big band for a tribute to jazz maestro Duke Ellington, to mark 50 years since his passing. Simply known as Duke, the 20th-century pianist, jazz composer and bandleader pioneered the big band style of music. This performance will include much-loved standards from the Duke’s repertoire, including Take the A Train, In A Sentimental Mood, Caravan and It Don’t Mean a Thing (It Ain’t Got That Swing). Described as a “genius of jazz”, James Morrison will be accompanied by multi-award-winning vocalist Nina Ferro and a big band of jazz musicians from around the country. This performance by James Morrison and his Big Band takes place at Her Majesty’s Theatre on November 22.
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Pretty as a picture
Following his 2023 sell-out exhibition, The Return, which marked his re-entry into the SA market, Australian painter and printmaker Leon Pericles returns with his latest exhibition, The Revival: Tiggy Puggenheim – The Return of the Artworld’s Top Dog, which focuses on Pericles’s parody vernissage. Leon Pericles grew up in the Australian outback a setting he constantly returns to in his work, as depicted in the imaginary town of Widjimorphup. The Western Australian artist works in diverse media, ranging from painting to printmaking, sculpture, design and kitmaking. He has held 160 solo both nationally and internationally over the past 50 years, with works in both public and private collections. The Revival is showing at Ex Animo Art in Hyde Park from November 22 until December 14.
A tribute to our furry friends
Artist Carlos Barrios remembers growing up in El Salvador, with his loyal German Shepherd Tonatiu providing much-needed companionship as a civil war raged on in the background. Carlos will pay homage to our animal cousins in his exhibition Todos los Animales – All The Animals, an installation of his painting and ceramics at BMG Art from November 29 to December 21. “Most of us have been touched in certain moments of our lives by a creature of the animal kind, furry, scaly or feathered, from the air or water, from the land or mystic realms,” says Carlos.
Honouring your loved ones
When a loved one passes, it can be difficult to know how to honour them. Centennial Park is now offering a sustainable memorial option at its Living Legacy Forever Flowers Garden. This first-of-its-kind in South Australia allows you to spread the ashes of your loved one in the garden, helping it grow and positively impacting the garden. This November 30, the Living Legacy Forever Flowers will hold an open garden, with the Memorial team onsite between 10am and noon to answer your questions.
