When   Friday,
13 March - 9 am – 3 pm
Where   Fabrik Arts + Heritage, Old Woollen Mill 1 Adelaide, Lobethal Road, Lobethal

New Exuberance: Contemporary Australian textile design is a major touring exhibition project reflecting on current directions in textile practice through art, design and fashion. Curated by Meryl Ryan in consultation with the JamFactory team, the exhibition presents the work of more than thirty diverse multidisciplinary creatives and includes ten commissioned furniture pieces produced by designers associated with JamFactory.

This exhibition will run from Friday 13 March to Sunday 10 May. More information here. 

When   Friday,
13 March - 12 pm – 3 pm
Where   Immersive Light and Art, 63 Light Square, Adelaide

The Immersive Table invites guests to share an intimate afternoon with Alex Frayne, delving deeper into the making of Manifest Destiny. Guests will gain insight into how an artist becomes part of the scene rather than a bystander, over a menu inspired by the flavours and moods of the American South and West.

Tickets are $129, and can be purchased here.

When   Saturday,
14 March - 1.30 pm – 3 pm
Where   Burnside Library, 401 Greenhill Road, Tusmore

Join us for the much-anticipated launch of Belle and Bea’s Beautiful New Home by Kristin Martin and Bianca Richardson. Come along and hear the story for the first time, and enjoy a craft activity and nibbles.
Published in association with the Foundation for Rabbit-Free Australia Inc, Belle and Bea's Beautiful New Home is the third book in the Easter Bilby's Friends series, which explains to children how introduced wild rabbits affect the native plants and animals in the area, and what they can do to help.

Registrations are essential, and can be made here.

When   Sunday,
15 March - 9 am – 5 pm
Where   Immersive Light and Art, 63 Light Square, Adelaide

Manifest Destiny is an epic photographic and immersive study by acclaimed South Australian artist Alex Frayne, exploring the fractured psyche of modern America. Featuring an original score by Donnie Sloan (Empire of the Sun), the exhibition takes visitors on a multi-sensory journey, offering a raw, outsider portrait of a nation in crisis.

This exhibition will run until Sunday 15 March. Tickets start at $20, and can be purchased here.

When   Tuesday,
17 March - 6 pm – 7.30 pm
Where   Ern Malley, 137 Magill Road, Stepney

War-torn, fractured Yugoslavia is the backdrop for The Bridge, a new collection by award-winning poet Jelena Dinić. Inspired by Eastern European poetic traditions and the creativity and activism of Australian writers, Jelena attempts to reconcile past and present, while acknowledging the fragility of the struggle.

Registrations are essential, and can be made here.

When   Saturday,
21 March - 9 am – 5 pm
Where   Ararat Gallery TAMA, Western Highway, Ararat, VIC

JamFactory’s ICON series celebrates the achievements of South Australia’s most influential visual artists working in craft-based media. Aunty Ellen Trevorrow is a proud Ngarrindjeri woman and a prolific, internationally acclaimed weaver with over 40 years of weaving experience. Weaving Through Time is a celebration of Aunty Ellen’s unwavering dedication to culture, community and innovation in contemporary Ngarrindjeri weaving.

This exhibition will run from Saturday 21 March to Sunday 21 May. More information here. Weaving Through Time is on tour with JamFactory until 2027. Find upcoming exhibition dates here.

When   Saturday,
21 March - 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm AEDT
Where   Henry G's Wine Parlour, 11 The Corso, Manly, NSW

Suburban streets, domestic routines and familiar relationships are the setting for some of today’s most unsettling crime fiction. In The Murder Next Door, Kate Horan, Troy Hunter, Ali Lowe and Nikki-Lee Taylor explore psychological suspense, domestic noir and the menace that lurks in ordinary lives — the neighbours you wave to, the houses you pass every day, the secrets hidden in plain sight.

Tickets are $25, and can be purchased here.

When   Sunday,
22 March - 9 am – 5 pm
Where   Hahndorf Academy, 68 Main Street, Hahndorf

Stephanie Radok's new exhibition, The Trees are Listening, investigates knowledge and its taxonomies. 'Trees live alongside us. We grow up together, we share memories and experiences.  These paintings are about distance and intimacy. They draw in the viewer and hold onto them.'

This exhibition will run until Sunday 22 March. More information here.

When   Sunday,
22 March - Various times
Where   Holden Street Theatres, 32–34 Holden Street, Hindmarsh

Fringe Award winner, the iconoclastic and generally funny Peter Goers, presents his eleventh show in a trilogy of popular shows in the Holden Street Theatre's Fringe. All new material (almost), special guests and a show you’ll soon forget for the rest of your life.

See this performance until Sunday 22 March. Tickets are $25, and can be purchased here.

When   Sunday,
22 March - 1 pm – 2 pm AEDT
Where   Henry G's Wine Parlour, 11 The Corso, Manly, NSW

With host Troy Hunter, three writers of contemporary political and espionage fiction explore a world shaped by surveillance, disinformation and global instability. Drawing on backgrounds in journalism, diplomacy and intelligence, they discuss how power operates in the shadows, and why fiction is often the most revealing way to understand it.

Tickets are $25, and can be purchased here.

When   Saturday,
28 March - 11 am – 2 pm
Where   Craft and Design Canbera, 180 London Circuit, Canberra, ACT

JamFactory’s ICON series celebrates the achievements of South Australia’s most influential visual artists working in craft-based media. Julie Blyfield is a jeweller and metalsmith whose ever-evolving practice is inspired by her research into botanical specimens, historical silver collections and the rich diversity of the Australian landscape.

JamFactory ICON Julie Blyfield: Chasing a Passion is inspired by Blyfield’s experiences of the Great Barrier Reef and Daintree Rainforest in far-north Queensland. In developing work for this exhibition, Blyfield has drawn on the marine collections of the South Australian Museum as well as resources she collected during her visit.

This exhibition will run until Saturday 28 March. More information here. Julie Blyfield: Chasing a Passion is on tour with JamFactory until 2027. Find upcoming exhibition dates here.

When   Saturday,
28 March - 11.30 am – 12.30 pm AEDT
Where   University of Newcastle, corner Hunter and Auckland streets, Newcastle, NSW

Siang Lu, Katharine Pollock and Clare Stephens use humour, insight, and sharp observation to reflect our modern world back at us. From AI translation to chaotic fandom to the cascade of an internet pile-on, their novels offer fresh takes on the contradictions and joys of contemporary life and work.

Tickets start at $25 and can be purchased here.

When   Saturday,
28 March - 2.30 pm – 3.30 pm AEDT
Where   University of Newcastle, corner Hunter and Auckland streets, Newcastle, NSW

Romance refuses to sit quietly on the page. Speaking with Katharine Pollock, Amie Kaufman, Natalie Murray and Melanie Saward explore what love ignites in narrative and why emotional connection remains important to readers.

Tickets start at $25 and can be purchased here.

When   Saturday,
28 March - 4 pm – 6 pm AEDT
Where   St Arnaud RSL, 6 Raglan Street, St Arnaud, VIC

Join us as award-winning and emerging artists from Melbourne and Adelaide come to St Arnaud for a unique performance. Poets Melinda Bufton, Michael Farrell, Leah Muddle, Alex Sutcliffe and Lucy Van will share the stage with cellist David Moran and sound/visual artists Alex Hamilton and David Palliser. This unique event, interweaving word and sound art, promises to be as reinventive, haunting and resonant as the performance space itself: new art on old foundations.

Tickets are $8, to be paid at the door. Reserve your place here.

When   Thursday,
02 April - 9 am – 5 pm
Where   Artspace Mackay, 61 Gordon Street, Mackay

Tom Moore is a glass artist who creates characters that blur the boundaries between life forms. Natural Oddity presents playful and unsettling reflections on nature and technology. The aim of this exhibition is to defy gravity and to melt the coldest heart.

This exhibition will run until Thursday 2 April. Find more information here.

When   Sunday,
26 April - 9 am – 5 pm
Where   Broken Hill Art Gallery, 404–408 Argent Street, Broken Hill, NSW

In celebration of Gray Street Workshop’s 40th anniversary, JamFactory presents Beautiful Tensions, a major touring exhibition honouring the momentous legacy and talent of the workshop by showcasing new work by the four current partners: Jess Dare, Lisa Furno, Sue Lorraine and Catherine Truman.

This exhibition will run until Sunday 26 April 2026. More information here. Beautiful Tensions is on tour with JamFactory until 2027. Find upcoming exhibition dates here.

When   Friday,
15 May - 7 pm
Where   Good Neighbour (Town Square), Victoria Square, Adelaide

To call Cheong Liew OAM a legend barely begins to explain. Describing Jason Roberts as a star feels too vague. But we must start somewhere. The whole story? It’s on the table.
Be there as this lauded duo take over the Good Neighbour kitchen for a dream Friday night meal. Claypot chicken will serve as the centrepiece, together with sides capturing the layered flavours of Asian fare.

Tickets are $150, and an be purchased here.

When   Monday,
04 May - 10 am – 5 pm
Where   Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE), North Terrace, Adelaide

Kumarangk is an intergenerational love letter for Ngarrindjeri women; an exhibition that explores the survival of culture, and resistance to colonial destruction. Curated by Dominic Guerrera and Danni Zuvela, the exhibition will feature the remounting of Sandra Saunders's HIndmarsh Island Collection, major new works from Mardawi Art Collective, which includes the legendary Aunty Ellen Trevorrow, alongside Elizabeth Rankine, Margi Sumner, Temeika Campbell, Bessie Rigney, Zemiah Campbell, Debra Rankine and Stephanie Russell. Kumarangk will also feature new weaving pieces from Aunty Betty Sumner, Sonya Rankine and Carly Tarkari Dodd, and ceramics from Tiarnie Edwards.

This exhibition will run until Saturday 4 May. More information here.