The Summerhouse
Venues
- AC Arts
- Adelaide Central School of Art
- Adelaide Festival Centre
- Adelaide Oval
- Adelaide Town Hall
- Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art
- Art Gallery of South Australia
- Adelaide Showgrounds
- ACE Open
- Carrick Hill
- Central Studios
- Chaffey Theatre - Renmark
- Elder Hall
- Her Majesty’s Theatre
- Hotel Indigo Adelaide Markets
- Kingpin Norwood
- Mercury CX
- Middleback Arts Centre - Whyalla
- Moseley Square
- Northern Festival Centre - Port Pirie
- Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden
- Rundle Mall
- Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre - Mt Gambier
- South Australian Museum
- State Library of South Australia
- The Cedars
- The David Roche Foundation
- The Summerhouse
- The University of Adelaide
- UKARIA Cultural Centre
Let's be Friends
Friends of the Adelaide Festival receive a host of great benefits including a 15% discount on applicable tickets, access to pre-sale and much more.
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For our first three festivals we had the Riverbank Palais floating there on Karrawirra Pari and hosting music and talks, breakfast with papers and forums, long lunches and dawn to dusk to midnight revelry and thrilling exchanges of ideas (and occasionally phone numbers!).
In March we launched a National design competition for a new club, which, out of a brilliant field of entries, was won by the extraordinary Tina Engelen and Will Fung of CO-AP(Architects) with their gorgeous lightweight pavilion of two perfect intersecting circles creating a raked auditorium and the fabulous Crescent Bar overlooking the river.
Located on the fall of land between the Festival Theatre and the Dunstan Playhouse, The Summerhouse will be our Festival home and hub for the next three years. Come and join us and play and talk and listen to our contemporary music program under the stars and trees on this precious corner of Elder Park.

GETTING THERE
Public Transport
By Bus
Bus stop Z2 travelling from South into Adelaide CBD or stop A2 travelling into the Adelaide CBD from the North.
By Train
A short walk from the Adelaide Railway Station.
By Tram
Closest stops are at Festival Plaza or Train Station/North Terrace for trams arriving from Glenelg or Adelaide Entertainment Centre.
Driving to your event?
Adelaide Festival Centre's car park is closed.
Visit UPark to find the closest car park to your venue. We recommend UPark Gawler Place or UPark Topham Mall.
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ACCESS
Wheelchair access