SALA Festival | 1-31 Aug 2025
SALA is a state-wide annual showcase and celebration of South Australia’s living visual artists. Running for the entire month of August, it is the largest community-based open-access visual arts festival in Australia.
SALA Festival celebrates the work of living South Australian visual artists, regardless of age or experience. It involves exhibitions in venues like galleries, libraries, retail and community spaces, cafes, open studios, along coastlines, at schools, retirement villages, wineries and more. After the success of their online exhibitions in 2020 there are also numerous online exhibitions for people to view without needing to step outside.
2025 Feature Artist
Sue Kneebone is an interdisciplinary visual artist with an exhibition practice spanning more than twenty years. Her creative practice encompasses the processes of assemblage and montage to evoke new associations and contexts about memory, history and place. Informed by in-depth research, Sue’s art works seek to to stir up the spectre of what has been overlooked or suppressed in Australian historical memory. Sue has been known to describe her haunting aesthetic as a kind of ‘Feral Aussie Gothic’.
The official 2025 SALA Festival Poster (pictured above) features an artwork by Sue Kneebone – Hardboiled, 2018, photograph on metallic paper. This will also feature on the cover of the 2025 SALA Festival Program.
SALA Program
The 2025 online program, featuring over 700 events, is now live and will allow you to refine your search by venue or artist, plus there are workshops, masterclasses, tours and much more. The printed SALA Program is available from Foodland stores, registered SALA venues, civic centres and visitor information centres across the state.
There is usually a huge selection of family-friendly events on during SALA. Use the program to filter by “Family Friendly” to see them.
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE 2025 PROGRAM
For more information and all enquiries please visit the SALA Festival website or follow the SALA Festival Facebook page.
What: SALA Festival
When: Month of August
Where: Various locations around South Australia
Who: Everyone
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: SALA
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