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.
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 is a spectacular new drone and light event coming to Adelaide Oval on 18 July 2025. 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. On the banks of Karrawirra Parri featuring the aerial capabilities of hundreds of illuminated drones together with state-of-the-art lighting, audio ...
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 installations featuring interactive experiences, stunning projections, and captivating roaming performances created by world-renowned artists and creative studios. From 4 – 20 July, Adelaide's iconic cultural institutions and hidden gems come alight with breathtaking displays spanning the bustling CBD from Adelaide’s East End all the ...
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. 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 delicious memories ...
Night Visions is a new mind-bending immersive night time experience coming to Adelaide Botanic Garden in 2025 for Illuminate Adelaide. The all-new after dark experience exclusively conceived by Illuminate Adelaide, allows you to step outside the boundary of what you know as Night Visions and transforms the secrets of Adelaide Botanic Garden into a gateway to the unknown. Fuelled by cutting-edge light, lasers, projections and sound, journey along an extraordinary ...
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. FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS First shows ...
At Play & Go Adelaide we make every effort to provide accurate information to the best of our knowledge at the time of publication. We recommend confirming times, dates and details directly before making any plans as details may be subject to change.
Image Source: Play & Go; images supplied
SUBSCRIBE
Want to get all the latest events and activities straight to your inbox?
Subscribe to our weekly email newsletter below to keep up to date with our latest posts and find out all the best events & activities for Adelaide families. Newsletters are only sent once a week, and you may sometimes get a special offer exclusively for our subscribers only!
![✨ If you haven’t checked out the 2025 Illuminate Adelaide program, make sure you do because it looks amazing! 🤩
Here’s a rundown of the highlights:
🌃 The free and family friendly City Lights returns with an all-new series of exciting installations!
🎇 Horizons is a brand-new drone + light show at Adelaide Oval for one night only.
🔥 Base Camp returns to Lot 14 with food, drinks, firepits and chilled vibes+++
🌿 Night Visions is a mind bending new immersive after-dark experience at the Botanic Garden
This is just a snippet of the huge program. Don’t miss it.
Comment ‘lights’ to see more
[You need to be following @playandgoadelaide for us to be able to message you the link]](https://scontent-syd2-1.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.71878-15/491464905_1470246807280082_3073814614389746163_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_tt6&_nc_cat=102&ccb=7-5&_nc_sid=18de74&_nc_ohc=w6dbxx-AiLAQ7kNvwHZj6OF&_nc_oc=Adlj62z_fDZ2yXYoIehg9vZ4M7y1eQT-t3ZY7WNgwoSHhNg5g5YVgsAn6OH_RQYxIJ0&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-syd2-1.cdninstagram.com&edm=ANo9K5cEAAAA&_nc_gid=Zr-Qu5QFoz_LWPpUXdi_bw&oh=00_AfLCkIXYLnZwn-fUC8LmQ9JuJPpMz7x8uHT71lP4g_1k5A&oe=682C9C90)
