Illuminate Adelaide | Winter Light Festival | 2-20 Jul 2025
Illuminate Adelaide, Adelaide’s exciting winter light festival, returns from 2 – 20 July 2025 with a spectacular program of immersive installations that will light up the city.
Celebrating the intersection and innovation between art, light music and technology, Illuminate Adelaide features a dedicated program of major ticketed events, music performances and free installations.
This is the perfect winter event for families with kids of all ages.
VIEW THE FULL 2025 PROGRAM HERE
FESTIVAL EVENT HIGHLIGHTS
10 Minute Dance Parties | Illuminate Adelaide 2025 | 3-20 Jul 2025
Welcome to the fastest dance session of your life where your time starts…NOW! Enjoy a celebration of art, colour, costume, and community in this all-ages party with only one catch: you only have 10 minutes to dance! There will be world record attempts, move competitions, dedications, interpretations, and ventures into the unknown. So, start stretching out those hamstrings. Sessions running every 20 minutes when the pop-up hospitality village Base Camp ...
Universal Kingdom: The Next Era | Dinosaurs at Adelaide Zoo | 3-20 Jul 2025
Adelaide Zoo and Illuminate Adelaide present Universal Kingdom: The Next Era this July! Experience state-of-the-art puppetry, stunning light installations, and a colourful prehistoric world full of exciting interactive moments created by renowned creative studios Erth and A Blanck Canvas. Roar into a new era where dinosaurs roam wild around every corner. Prepare to travel back in time with Universal Kingdom: The Next Era, the next instalment in the thrilling dino ...
Horizons – Drone & Light Spectacular | Illuminate Adelaide | Adelaide Oval | 18 Jul 2025
Horizons - Drone and Light Spectacular at Adelaide Oval presented by RAA. In an Australian first and for one night only, Illuminate Adelaide transforms Adelaide Oval into a living, breathing canvas using light, sound, and sky to celebrate our place, our people and our bright future. Following overwhelming audience demand, Illuminate Adelaide’s stadium spectacular Horizons has announced a second show. Originally scheduled for 6.30pm on Friday 18 July, the world ...
City Lights | Free Light Trail | Illuminate Adelaide | 4-20 Jul 2025
City Lights - Illuminate Adelaide's FREE Family Friendly Event! Illuminate Adelaide’s biggest free program of art, light and technology returns with an all-new series of exciting free installations featuring interactive experiences, stunning projections, and captivating roaming performances created by world-renowned artists and creative studios. Enjoy 17 unforgettable nights as Adelaide’s iconic cultural institutions and hidden gems come alight with breathtaking displays spanning the bustling CBD from Adelaide’s East End all ...
Base Camp | Lot Fourteen | Illuminate Adelaide | 3–20 July 2025
Base Camp returns to Lot Fourteen in July 2025 as part of Illuminate Adelaide. Lot Fourteen on North Terrace will again host a pop-up village filled with delicious food, refreshing drinks and cosy firepits this winter. Hidden amongst the laneways of Adelaide's innovation district, Base Camp showcases the best our state has to offer. With something for everyone, discover a range of Adelaide’s best vendors that are bound to create ...
Night Visions | Adelaide Botanic Garden | Illuminate Adelaide 2025 | 2-20 Jul 2025
Slip through the veil of Adelaide Botanic Garden to enter a mesmerising portal to parallel worlds at Night Visions, Illuminate Adelaide's spectacular new family friendly event for 2025. In the heart of the city where reality flickers, a new frontier unfolds — a place where dimensions bend beyond the Garden's gates to create a world of alternate possibilities. The all-new after dark experience, exclusively conceived by Illuminate Adelaide, allows you ...
City Lights Trail | Illuminate Adelaide 2025 | Review
City Lights is a must-see during the Illuminate Adelaide festival, with a huge range of interactive and dazzling art installations ...
Universal Kingdom: The Next Era at Adelaide Zoo | Review
Wander through the Adelaide Zoo at night, illuminated with stunning light installations and dinosaurs aplenty! Universal Kingdom is a great ...
Night Visions at Adelaide Botanic Garden | Review
Experience a mystical, magical winter's night at the Adelaide Botanic Garden with Night Visions during Illuminate Adelaide 2025. We were ...
For more information and all enquiries please visit the Illuminate Adelaide website.
What: Illuminate Adelaide
When: 2 – 20 July 2025
Where: Adelaide, South Australia (various venues)
Who: Everyone
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