🌗 Sunday Night In #26
Poetry at the art gallery, fellowships and grants, and vote for our beautiful library.
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Hello friends!
This last week (or two) in South Australia we’ve had the budget, an unexpected football win, and some rain!
I know this is Monday night, but it’s a long weekend, so even if this doesn’t feel like Sunday night, tomorrow will feel like Monday morning. In this week’s edition of Sunday Night In we’ve got: wonderful workshops at the Art Gallery and Jam Factory, libraries doing lots of great things, some excellent talks, and heaps of jobs and grants.
Let’s get started …
News
🎉 Justyna Jochym has been announced as the incoming Chief Executive of the History Trust of South Australia. She is succeeding Greg Mackie, so has big shoes to fill, but she has an exceptional blend of experience perfect for this role.
🏛 The State Library has been nominated as one of the world’s most beautiful libraries in the 1000LibrariesAwards. You can vote for it to be top of the list. Of course, as the library itself writes ‘at the heart of this nomination is the Mortlock Chamber.’ A week ago, when I was first drafting this newsletter I was thinking, ‘yeah, but pity about the carpet, eh’ when I came across this announcement that the Mortlock Chamber is temporarily closed while the carpet is replaced. So I’m glad I kept that particular piece of snark to myself, eh?
📣 Nexus Arts has announced the appointment of Co-CEOs, Zhao Liang and Kim Roberts.
Theatre and performance
💃 Registrations are open to attend the South Australian Presenters Association (SAPA) Showcase in June. If you’re a venue or producer or looking for potential acts to visit your organisation, this is an excellent opportunity to see what local artists are currently working on.
🎡 Are you a producer interested in mentoring the next generation of producers? Expressions of interest are now open for mentors for the Adelaide Fringe Early Career Producer Mentorship.
🎬 A bunch of excellent workshops at the Mercury Cinema including Sound Design, Location Management and Script Supervision.
🎭 Tomorrow! Talking History: All the World’s a Stage, a look at our “history of circuses and stand-up, boxing rings and vaudeville.” Presented by the History Trust of South Australia and the State Library.
🎭 It’s the return of the One Act Play Festival with three one act plays presented by Galleon Theatre Group, St Jude’s Players and Deadset Theatre at the Marion Cultural Centre.
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Books, readings, storytelling and writing
📗 Jennifer Mills has launched her latest work, Salvage. I am hoping to get it finished before the next issue of this newsletter but in the meantime, here is a review by Rachael Mead in InDaily’s InReview.
🪡 This will be great! A one-day workshop on Text in Textiles with Makeda Duong at the Jam Factory.
🐶 The next Dog-Eared Readings on June 26 is a “jaw-dropping line up of literary luminaries” with featured writer Peter Goldsworthy in conversation with Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee, joined by Barkindji poet Barinna South and Rory Harris. The entry price is pay as you can but you’ll need to book because there’s limited seating.
📗 The Stella Day Out is a free one-day literary festival (17 July) which will feature Stella-Prize listed authors Hannah Kent and Stephanie Radok along with recently-announced winner, Michelle de Krester. You can attend in person or view online. Registrations and more information here.
📣 The shortlist for the fabulous Deep Creek Residency Fellowship has been announced. The residency is presented by Matilda Bookshop in partnership with Writers SA and in association with Ultimo Press.
📗 Dymocks Adelaide have a great In Conversation coming up: Chloe Wilson (author of Rytual) with Michelle Brasier, talking about the beauty industry, writing and dark humour. an Everything Lost, Everything Found
📗🍲 A live firsthand retelling of refugee stories at the City of Charles Sturt Refugee Diaries Living Library. Held during Refugee Week, the oral stories event will be followed by a potluck dinner.
📗🧍🏼♀️Read a Human Book at the Marion Library Human Library as part of the Libraries SA’s firstival. “Challenge what you think you know at the Human Library where people become Books and have real conversations … Readings will be 30 minutes in length.”
✍️ A poetry workshop at the Prospect Library led by Jude Aquilina.
⭐️ Help to shape the Library of Things at the City of Charles Sturt (when I was checking someone had suggested a puff pastry baking tray which is a brilliant idea).
✍️ If you’re looking for a quiet space to focus on a writing project, the City of Tea Tree Gully holds a Shut Up and Write! session every Saturday in the Community Learning Centre.
🏠 Adelaide Modernism: 101 Houses at the State Library. A talk by Tim Reeves who “delves into 101 modernist houses built between 1939 and 1974, showcasing the work of over 70 architects across more than 50 suburbs.” Tim’s most recent book is published by Wakefield Press and titled…yes, you’ve guessed it, Adelaide Modernism: 101 Houses.
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Festivals
🎩 The Adelaide Cabaret Festival is in full swing.
🎸 The Adelaide Guitar Festival program has been announced.
🎬The Spanish Film Festival has begun.
A Little Bit of This and That That Isn’t Books or Theatre or Readings or Performance
🎄 The annual fundraiser for No Strings, is coming up. It’s the No Strings Winter Wonderland Christmas Cabaret at the beautiful Woodville Town Hall.
🎂 It was my mum’s birthday a few weeks ago, and I always try to give myself a little treat on that day, and to do something that suits us both. I took myself to Dangerously Modern: Australian Women Artists in Europe 1890-1940 at the Art Gallery of South Australia. It was outstanding. I think possibly as excellent as the highly excellent Clarice Beckett show was. There’s a bunch of excellent workshops held in conjunction with the exhibition including this poetry workshop with Jill Jones. It’s held at the work-friendly time of 6pm-8pm, and it will be a little bit magic to be in the gallery after dark.
⭐️ Two opportunities for the Guildhouse Collections Project:
one with Fabrik Arts + Heritage “provides a paid opportunity for an artist, craftsperson, or designer to explore and research Fabrik’s extensive historic, cultural, and living collections, and in response, develop new work(s) for presentation at Fabrik in February 2026”
and one with the City of Adelaide “provides a paid opportunity for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander artist to research and respond to the City of Adelaide’s extensive collections. In response to their research, the selected artist will develop new work(s) for presentation during the 2025 Tarnanthi Festival, presented in the ART POD.”
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Opportunities!
Jobs, funding, residencies, fellowships, competitions, and calls for expressions of interest
⭐️⭐️ Expressions of interest are open for the next Access2Arts audio description course in July. I did this course last year. It’s an excellent course if you’d like to become an audio describer, but also a great opportunity for anyone working in the arts more generally. My performance work has a very high audio content, and I wanted to learn how to write good notes to make it a richer experience for people who are blind or have low vision. I learnt heaps and it has definitely enhanced my performance.
💲 Applications are now open for the Adelaide Fringe Fund Grant program.
💲 Applications are open for the next round of CreateSA grants (but closing relatively soon, so don’t delay!).
🏰 Applications are now open for Carclew’s 2026 Fellowship program.
⭐️ Access2Arts is looking for an Operations Manager.
👩🏼🎨 A part-time, temporary contract for an art teacher at Wilderness School.
🎨 Pulteney Grammar School is looking for an Art and Technology Teacher.
💸 The Adelaide Fringe is looking for a Fundraising Coordinator.
🎪 The Adelaide Fringe is looking for an Industry Coordinator (to "bridge collaborations between industry and artists”).
📡 The Helpmann Academy is looking for a Communications and Marketing Assistant.
🎬The South Australian Film Corporation is looking for a new Head of Corporate.
📣 Glam Adelaide is looking for a Clients Services Manager.
Thank you for reading!
That’s it for this issue. We’ll be back next Sunday. Until then: Read books! See theatre! Listen to music! Be part of a vibrant, thriving culture of arts in South Australia.
Talk soon
Tracy xx
The small print
A disclaimer: I take a lot of care to make sure I’ve got details correct, but I’m often working on my phone or uploading things from word to substack and I spend a lot of time in places with terrible internet connections. So mistakes will happen. Please double check all of the details about events before you head out.
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