I declare that the weekend at Ukaria in the Adelaide Festival is a unique jewel in the musical calendar of Australia, where venue, audience, and performers, embraced by the curators of the weekend, combine to produce an experience as close to ideal as can be imagined.

An evening when three different ballets are danced to a single score is a remarkable event. When that score is the inscrutable, un-danceable-to score that is Beethoven’s string quartet “Grosse Fuge” op 133, it becomes extraordinary.

Fresh from last year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, this gripping and candid Australian Premiere is a most fitting exclusive addition to this year’s Adelaide Festival.

The South Australian Minister for the Arts, Jack Snelling just announced that Neil Armfield AO and Rachel Healy have been appointed co-artistic directors for the Adelaide Festival of Arts for 2017, 2018 and 2019.

Crowdfunding organisation Pozible launched its latest city-specific initiative, the Adelaide Edit, earlier today.

Alfie Simpson and Chloé Eckert have been announced winners of the 2012 Flinders University Young Playwrights Award.