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• Adelaide Festival of Ideas Returns in 2021 News Illuminate Adelaide in partnership with the University of Adelaide presents a new iteration of the Adelaide Festival of Ideas in 2021.  Ideas matter. They define how we see the...
• Robyn Archer Dedicatee
• From the Chair: Thank you for an incredible 2018 AFoI News Well – what a memorable experience the 2018 AFoI was for all who attended. Our move to the west end of North Terrace and to July worked for audiences....
• Adelaide Festival of Ideas meets Entrepreneurs Week News Day two of the 2018 Adelaide Festival of Ideas coincides with Entrepreneurs Week, and as such, we have focussed our Friday 13th July program on social enterprise and innovation....
• 2018 Adelaide Festival of Ideas – From the Chair News The Adelaide Festival of Ideas is an example of what can happen when passion is mobilised and shared. The 2018 AFoI is a rich offering of ideas and a...
• Help us populate the AFoI archive News 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...
• This year’s theme – Who’s at the Wheel? News This is an exciting time to be alive, but it can be uncomfortable in the passenger seat. Where are these new roads heading and will we find our way home? Are...
• Azusa Kyushiki Programming Team Azusa is a passionate young professional within the local performing arts events and festivals industry. She is on a journey to spread her love of arts with Adelaide audiences...
• Belinda Petersen Programming Team Belinda is the passionate PR Director of BPPR who loves nothing more than to see her clients plastered in neon lights on TV, radio, online and in print.
• Anne Wiberg Programming Team Anne Wiberg is passionate about music, arts and a life worth living. She works with arts festivals and organisations both in SA and interstate and continues to chair the...
• Helen Richardson Programming Team In a former life, Helen was the senior government arts adviser who kept us all in check – now she applies herself (voluntarily) to the pursuit of excellent grammar!
• Dani Raymond Programming Team Dani is an arts marketer and a festival tragic, with a keen interest in audience development and a (bizarre) love of spreadsheets. Recent recipients of Dani-love include Adelaide Film...
• Sandy Verschoor Programming Team Sandy has developed, fostered and promoted some of Adelaide’s richest cultural experiences. She’s addicted to learning and loves nothing better than an epiphany!
• Amy Milhinch Post Amy is the creative director of Freerange Future, an Adelaide agency that creates for Cause and Culture. She has had 20+ years of visual communication experience and branding. She...
• Art = Ideas News For 20 years The Adelaide Festival of Ideas has been a gathering point for the exchange of ideas and a celebration of the life of the mind. Since time...
• Morris Gleitzman – Australian Children’s Laureate News Newly announced Children’s laureate Morris Gleitzman will be our guest at AFoI 2018, sharing lots of his ideas with us, including a challenge to the way many adults view children’s literature....
• 2018 AFoI Dedication – Robyn Archer News From cautious beginnings in 1999, every Adelaide Festival of Ideas since 2001 has been dedicated in honour of a great Australian whose contribution to the world of ideas and...
• From the Archive – Hanan Ashrawi News At the very first AFoI in 1999, we invited Hanan Ashrawi as a guest. A little-known spokesperson for the Palestinian Authority, her clarity and reason were hallmarks of that event...
• Hugh Stretton AC Dedicatee
• Lowitja O’Donaghue Dedicatee
• Basil Hetzel AC Dedicatee
• Elliot Johnston Dedicatee
• Frank Fenner AC, CMG, MBE, FRS, FAA Dedicatee
• Barbara Hardy FRSL, FBA Dedicatee
• Paul Davies AM Dedicatee
• Phillip Adams AO, FAHA, FRSA Dedicatee
• Sarah Tooth Post Director of Writers SA. Former Director of Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Arts Producer and Writer with the ABC’s international television service, Convenor of Asian Studies at Charles Darwin...
• Helen Loudis Post Clinical Trial Project Manager at SAHMRI. Passionate about research and innovation within diverse platforms. Interests spanning from health and medical research to improve health outcomes, through to space exploration and technology development to...
• Liz Nowell Post Liz Nowell is the inaugural CEO of ACE Open and former Executive Director of the Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (CACSA). During her time as Executive Director, Liz...
• The University of Adelaide 2017 Cultural Oration: Finding the Next Wave: Innovation and its Discontents News On July 13th 2017 Adelaide Festival of Ideas founder and chair Greg Mackie OAM presented the University of Adelaide 2017 Cultural Oration. Finding the Next Wave: Innovation and its...
• The sun rises in the west: AFoI makes its move! News The Adelaide Festival of Ideas is making a leap in time and space, announcing that the much-loved event will be returning in 2018 – and to its original dates...
• Event: Antarctica: Past, Present and Futures News Three specialists explore the one unique territory from different perspectives. Join us for this special presentation featuring three world renowned local scientists and writers as they share their recent...
• Event: Transforming Work with Trebor Sholz News During the AFoI2016, you may have attended sessions featuring international guest Michel Bauwens addressing issues concerning the sharing economy. These issues continue to raise serious questions in the public...
• The 20th Don Dunstan Oration News 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  ...
• Art at the Heart of AFOI News 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...
• Vice Chancellors step up to support iconic ideas festival News 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...
• 2016 Adelaide Festival of Ideas dedicated to Phillip Adams News 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...
• Erin Brockovich in Adelaide News 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...
• Get along to Adelaide Festival of Ideas News The Adelaide Festival of Ideas (AFoI) is a treasured South Australian public event that this year sits at the heart of Open State. Since its inception in 1999, AFoI...
• Jacinta Thompson Post Executive Director, The Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre Prior to joining UniSA, Jacinta was the Artistic Director of the OzAsia Festival at Adelaide Festival Centre from 2007-2014, and Executive...
• Vic Pisani Post WOMADelaide Planet Talks Program Manager; Arts Projects Australia
• Peter Mares Post Peter Mares is contributing editor with the magazine Inside Story and senior moderator with The Cranlana Programme, a not-for-profit foundation that promotes ethical leadership. He is the author of...
• Darryl Gobbett Post Currently Chief Economist and Financial Adviser at Baillieu Holst Ltd. Previously worked in senior financial advisory, economic analysis and executive management roles in the Federal Government and private sector.
• Kristin Alford Post Futurist and Director of MOD, at the University of South Australia, a futuristic museum of discovery.
• Ian Gibbins Post Ian Gibbins is a widely-published poet, video artist and electronic musician living on Kaurna land in Adelaide, South Australia. Ian’s videos have been shown at festivals, exhibitions and installations...
• Make or Break News So here we are, well into the second decade of the twenty-first century of the current era. Many of us will say that we are in a load of...
• How Adelaide’s Festival of Ideas started a national trend News Excerpt from The Australian, Life – November 21, 2015 Adelaide might be anxious about building submarines, but it’s way ahead in the building of festivals. Writers’ festivals, film festivals....
• Everybody’s talking at festivals of ideas Festival Update 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...
• Festival of Ideas saved by its founder News Exerpt from InDaily, September 04, 2015 South Australia’s Festival of Ideas will return in 2016. The State Government withdrew funding for the event earlier this year but the festival’s...
• Greg Mackie OAM Board In 1999, Greg Mackie was founder and is now Chairman of The Adelaide Festival of Ideas Association Inc. Cutting his teeth as a cabaret musician and department store executive,...
• Professor Robert Phiddian Board Robert Phiddian is a professor of English at Flinders University. He joined the Adelaide Festival of Ideas  as a ‘youth representative’ on the first Advisory Board in 1998. As...
• Professor John Williams Board Professor John Williams is the Acting Provost and the Executive Dean of the Faculty of the Professions at the University of Adelaide. He is the founding Director of the...
• Emeritus Professor Ian Gibbins Board Ian Gibbins retired in 2014 after 30 years as a neuroscientist including 20 years as Professor of Anatomy at Flinders University. He is internationally recognised for his research on...
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• Elizabeth Ho OAM Board Elizabeth Ho OAM has held a number of senior positions in the public and higher education sectors. As an Associate Director of the State Library of SA and later,...
• Nick Crowther Board Nick is the Managing Director of Freerange Future, a B Corp certified creative agency that works to further progressive causes and cultural initiatives. He has almost 20 years experience...