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==South Australia== <!-- Be careful to list the first event year, not the year of establishment of the organising committee --> {| class="wikitable sortable" style="width:100%;" |- ! style="width:25%;"|Festival!! style="width:30%;"|Location!! style="width:15%;"|Began / When!! style="width:30%;"|Notes |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Adelaide 500]] || [[Adelaide]] || 1999 ||Was Clipsal 500; annual motor racing event on Adelaide streets in March |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art]] || [[Art Gallery of South Australia]]|| 1990<ref>{{cite web|title=conVerge|url=http://www.adelaidebiennial.com/cocoon/adelaidebiennial/exhibition.xml|work=Exhibition|publisher=Art Gallery of South Australia|accessdate=30 June 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020609204037/http://www.adelaidebiennial.com/cocoon/adelaidebiennial/exhibition.xml|archive-date=9 June 2002|df=dmy-all}}</ref> ||"The flagship visual arts event of the Adelaide Festival of Arts"<ref>{{cite web|title=2010 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art|url=http://www.artgallery.sa.gov.au/agsa/home/Exhibitions/Past_Exhibitions/2010/2010_Adelaide_Biennial_of_Australian_Art.html|work=Exhibitions|publisher=Art Gallery of South Australia|accessdate=30 June 2011}}</ref> |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Adelaide Cabaret Festival]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 2001 ||Annual in June |- style="text-align:left;" |Adelaide Fashion Festival<ref>{{cite web|title=Adelaide Fashion Festival 2012 opening party|url=http://notsonaked.com.au/blog/adelaide-fashion-festival-2012|website=Notsonaked|accessdate=24 June 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322164602/http://www.notsonaked.com.au/blog/adelaide-fashion-festival-2012|archive-date=22 March 2016}}</ref> || [[Adelaide]] || 2008 ||Annual |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Adelaide Festival of Arts]] || [[Adelaide]] || 1960 ||Was biennial, annual since 2012; aka Adelaide Festival |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Adelaide Festival of Ideas]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 1999 ||Biennial |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Adelaide Film Festival]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 2003 ||Biennial |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Adelaide Food Fringe]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://citymag.indaily.com.au/habits/plate-and-cup/adelaide-food-fringe-launches-its-2021-program/ | title=Adelaide Food Fringe launches its 2021 program | date=23 March 2021 }}</ref> || [[South Australia]]|| 2020 || One of South Australia's largest food and beverage festivals.<ref>[http://adelaidefoodfringe.com.au/ Website]</ref> |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Adelaide Fringe]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 1960 ||Was biennial now annual (as of 2007) |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Adelaide Guitar Festival]] ||[[Adelaide]]|| 2007 ||Was annual now biennial (as of 2009) |- |[[Adelaide Jazz Festival]] |[[Adelaide]] |2023 | |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Adelaide Language Festival]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 2014 || |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Adelaide Writers' Week]] || [[Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden (Adelaide)]]|| 1960 ||Part of the Adelaide Festival; annual in March |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Big Day Out]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 1993–2014 ||Multi-city music festival |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Burnout (festival)|Burnout]]|| [[Mutonia, Alberrie Creek|Mutonia]], [[Alberrie Creek]], [[Oodnadatta Track]] || 2004 || was Mighty Burning Demon Festival |- style="text-align:left;" | [[Cabaret Fringe Festival]]|| [[Adelaide]]|| 2008 ||Annual open-access festival in June<ref>{{official|http://www.cabaretfringefestival.com/about/|Cabaret Fringe Festival: About}}</ref> |- style="text-align:left;" |Cheesefest; Cheesefest + Ferment || [[Adelaide]]|| 2007–2013; 2017– || Ran as Cheesefest until 2013; Ferment 2017; Cheesefest & Ferment 2018–<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foodandbeveragefundsa.com.au/cgi-bin/page.cgi?id=107|website=Food & Beverage Development Fund SA|title=Sponsorships|access-date=3 September 2019}}</ref><ref>{{official|https://cheesefest.com.au/|Cheesefest}}</ref> |- style="text-align:left;" |[[A Day On The Green]]|| [[Barossa Valley]], then [[McLaren Vale]] || ||Annual |- style="text-align:left;" |[[DreamBIG Children's Festival]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 1974 ||Biennial; formerly Come Out |- style="text-align:left;"| |[[Feast Festival]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 1997 ||Australia's biggest lesbian and gay arts festival |- style="text-align:left;" | Fleurieu Folk Festival<ref>{{cite web|author=Peter Thornton |url=http://www.fleurieufolkfestival.com.au |title=A Weekend of Fabulous Folk Music, Poetry & Dance |website=Fleurieu Folk Festival |date=1 January 2012 |accessdate=14 October 2012}}</ref>|| [[Willunga, South Australia]] || 2007 || Folk Festival held annually in October on the Fleurieu Peninsula |- |FOMO Festival |[[Elder Park]], Adelaide |2017 |Multi-city festival in January<ref>[http://www.fomofestival.com.au website{{!}}FOMO]</ref> |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Future Music Festival]] || [[Adelaide]]||2006–2015 || |- style="text-align:left;" |Gawler Gourmet & Heritage Festival || [[Gawler, South Australia|Gawler]] || || |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Illuminate Adelaide]]<ref>{{cite web | title=Art, Light & Technology | website=Illuminate Adelaide | url=https://www.illuminateadelaide.com/ | access-date=28 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Illuminate Adelaide set to light up winter in 2021 | website=Tourism SA | date=10 August 2020 | url=https://tourism.sa.gov.au/news-articles/illuminate-adelaide-set-to-light-up-winter-in-2021 | access-date=28 June 2021}}</ref> || [[Adelaide]] |2021 |Includes [[Adelaide Festival of Ideas]] |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Kernewek Lowender]] || [[Kadina, South Australia|Kadina]], [[Moonta, South Australia|Moonta]] and [[Wallaroo, South Australia|Wallaroo]] || 1973 || Biennial, [[Cornish Australians|Cornish]]-themed festival held in Copper Coast towns |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Leafy Sea Dragon Festival]] || [[Fleurieu Peninsula]] || 2005–2013(?) || |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Live at the Zoo]] || [[Monarto, South Australia|Monarto]] || 2008 ||(one-off) |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Lizard's Revenge]]|| [[Roxby Downs, South Australia|Roxby Downs]] || 2012 || Annual Music Arts and Culture Festival |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Oysterfest]]|| [[Ceduna, South Australia|Ceduna]] || 1991 || Held annually on the October Labour Day long weekend.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ceduna.sa.gov.au/oysterfest |title=Website |access-date=1 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141015060913/http://www.ceduna.sa.gov.au/oysterfest |archive-date=15 October 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>[https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-30/oysterfest-returns-to-ceduna-attracting-5-000-oyster-lovers/101489990 Oysterfest returns to Ceduna after two-year hiatus, attracting 5,000 oyster lovers] ''ABC News'', 30 September 2022. Retrieved 1 October 2022.</ref> |- style="text-align:left;" |[[OzAsia Festival]] || [[Adelaide]]||2007 ||Annual; includes [[Jaipur Literature Festival#JLF International|JLF International (literary festival)]] since 2018 |- style="text-align:left;" |[[South Australian Living Artists Festival|SALA Festival]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 1998 || South Australian Living Artists Festival, Annual Celebration of the Visual Arts |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Schützenfest (Adelaide)|Schützenfest]] || [[Adelaide]] || || Shooting and Beer Festival |- style="text-align:left;" |Sea and Vines Festival || [[McLaren Vale, South Australia|McLaren Vale]] || || |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Soundwave (Australian music festival)|Soundwave]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 2007–2015 ||Multi-city music festival |- style="text-align:left;" |[[South Australia's History Festival]] || [[South Australia]]|| 2004 || SA's largest festival, 1–31 May; over 600 individual events in 2016.<ref>[http://historyfestival.sa.gov.au/ Website]</ref> |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Stereosonic]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 2009–2005 ||Annual; [[electronic dance music]] festival |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Tarnanthi]] || [[Art Gallery of South Australia]], [[Adelaide]]|| 2015 ||Annual in October; Contemporary Aboriginal and TSI Art |- style="text-align:left;" |[[Umbrella: Winter City Sounds]] || [[Adelaide]]|| 2016 ||Annual in July; multi-genre music festival in multiple venues |- style="text-align:left;" |Vegan Festival || [[Rundle Park, Adelaide]]|| 2007 ||Annual in October; celebrates and showcases vegan food and lifestyle<ref>{{cite web|url =https://veganfestival.info/about|website =Vegan festival|title=About|access-date =24 October 2019}}</ref> |- style="text-align:left;" |[[WOMADelaide]] || [[Botanic Park, Adelaide]]|| 1992 ||Annual (since 2003); 4 days in March; [[world music]] |}
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