Festival
Festival
Here at AFoI headquarters we’re sitting on an incredible treasure trove – recordings of AFoI sessions going all the way back to 1999. There are around 450 recordings all up. This is more than 95% of all the sessions we’ve hosted but only around 50 recordings have made it...
The Courage Party? Climbing out of the political abyss. Bonython Hall, University of Adelaide Saturday, 22 October 2016 PRESENTED BY THE INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AUSTRALIA (IPAA) WITH WALLMAN’S LAWYERS Australia is in a political abyss. How do we climb out of it? Do we need a ‘Courage Party’ to address...
The arts feature prominently in the 2016 Adelaide Festival of Ideas with poets, philosophers, curators, cultural activists and artists all finding places in the program. View the full arts program Home Saturday 22/10 6.30PM At our Saturday night special event, poets, story tellers and musicians come together to explore...
Ideas are big business in the world today. Our universities are in the ideas business and so too is civil society. That’s why, after 16 years, the Vice Chancellors of South Australia’s three public universities are continuing to back The Adelaide Festival of Ideas (AFoI) as a free event...
The Adelaide Festival of Ideas Inc. (AFoI) is proud to announce Australia’s Living Treasure, Phillip Adams, AO, FAHA, FRSA as it’s Festival Dedicatee, a tradition that recognises the significant contribution of individuals to Australian public life and thought leadership. AFoI founder and board Chairman, Greg Mackie says that Phillip...
The Adelaide Festival of Ideas (AFoI) is delighted to announce that Erin Brockovich will make an Australian public appearance at the 2016 Adelaide Festival of Ideas (21-23 October). A legal clerk turned environmental activist, Brockovich gained international recognition for her courageous efforts to expose the contamination of community drinking...
An excerpt from The Australian October 01, 2011 Greg Mackie may not have shown it, but he was petrified. It was midwinter 1999 and, with just hours to go before the key event of Adelaide’s first Festival of Ideas, ticket sales were lousy, if not disastrous. The festival — an ideas...
