An exploration into the minds and imaginations behind Flinders Creative Arts.

From powerhouse performances to words that invoke wonder, visual art that excites or virtual worlds that shine with life, the creativity of Flinders Creative Arts students, alumni and lecturers is unforgettable.

Explore, discover, be challenged, entertained and amazed at the Flinders Festival of Creative Arts. 3 November - 18 December 2026.

Don’t miss a minute.

3 Nov - 18 Dec 2026

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Anthology Launch: Moments in the Everglow

Tuesday, 3rd November

Nexus Arts

6:00 - 8:00pm

Launch of the Creative Writing third-year anthology, Moments in the Everglow, with performances of stories by Drama Centre students.

Creative Writing and Drama invite you to a book launch and dramatic performance of our 2026 creative writing anthology, Moments in the Everglow.

Written by third-year creative students and published by Pink Shorts Press, Moments in the Everglow is a collection of short stories connected by the theme of celebration.

Watch these short stories come to life with readings from Flinders Drama students in this intimate setting at Nexus Arts.

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Hanlon Larsen Experimental Film Grant Screening

Thursday 5th November

The Mercury Cinema

6:00 - 8:45pm

Screening of the latest experimental films funded by the Hanlon Larsen Experimental Film Grant (HLEFG), paired with short films curated by Moviejuice. Launched in 2025 the HLEFG provides support to experimental film projects. Generously funded by Peter Hanlon in honour of his friend, fellow filmmaker and university lecturer, the late Cole Larsen. HLEFG supports Flinders University Alumni to make experimental film projects that challenge traditional storytelling and production techniques.

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Wrestling with Tomorrow: New Voices on Stage

Wed, 11th - Fri, 13th November

Adelaide Festival Centre Drama Centre Rehearsal Room (enter from Space Theatre Foyer)

Wednesday November 11 – 7:30pm
Thursday November 12 – 7:30pm
Friday November 13 – 5:30pm

A showcase of original new works by the 2026 graduating actors of the Bachelor of Performance (Honours) at Flinders Drama Centre.

“Turn and face the strange.”
- David Bowie

What happens when the next generation of theatre-makers turns to face the future?

In Wrestling with Tomorrow, the 2026 graduating Honours ensemble of the Flinders Drama Centre presents a collection of original short works created and performed by the students themselves.

Developed across their final year of training, the works begin from the artists’ own ideas, experiences and preoccupations, wrestled into shape for the stage and screen by director Anthony Nicola, in collaboration with students of Flinders’ Masters in Virtual Production. Personal, political, comic and unexpected, they offer no single vision of what comes next. Instead, they capture a group of young artists in the act of working it out.

Wrestling with Tomorrow marks both an ending and a beginning: a farewell to the Drama Centre, and an encounter with the unknown beyond it. Turn and face the strange.

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Flinders Virtual Production Showcase 2026

Tuesday, 17th November

The Void

7:00 - 9:00pm

You are invited to a live demonstration of the 2026 projects that have been undertaken in ‘The Void’ Flinders multipurpose virtual production stage housed in the University's acclaimed Drama Centre.

Associate Professor and Motion Capture Specialist Jason Bevan and Cameron Mackness, AV lead of The Void, will guide you through the research and production activity they have undertaken in 2026 and give you an insight into the production methods used in a multitude of virtual production projects, led by both students and staff at Flinders University. Post Graduate and Undergraduate student work in Virtual Production will be showcased as part of the event.

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Screen Student Showcase: Sunset Screening

Wednesday, 18th November

Plaza, Bedford Park Campus

7:00 - 10:00pm

Please join us to celebrate a year of filmmaking, creativity, and collaboration!

You are invited to sit back, relax, and enjoy a movie night under the stars at the 2026 Flinders End of Year Screening. Featuring short films made by Flinders Screen, Film and Television students. There will be complimentary fairy floss, popcorn, and soft drinks. BYO picnic blanket and food (no BYO alcohol).

This is an outdoor screening event, please bring warm clothing and a blanket for your comfort.

7pm-10pm, Wednesday 18th November, Flinders University, Bedford Park Plaza

We look forward to seeing cast, crew, friends, family, and supporters – all welcome.

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The Trials

Wed, 25th - Fri, 27th November

Drama Centre Movement Studio

7:00 - 8:30pm (Wed - Fri)

Australian Premiere

The world has changed. The climate crisis has become a climate catastrophe, resources are running out, and a generation of young people has inherited the consequences.

Now they get to decide who was responsible.

In Dawn King’s gripping near-future drama, twelve young jurors are called upon to judge members of the generation that came before them for their crimes against the climate. The defendants insist they were ordinary people, living ordinary lives: working, raising families, travelling, consuming, making compromises. They knew the planet was in danger. But how much could any one of them really have done?

As the jury weighs guilt and innocence, The Trials turns its judgement back upon us. How responsible are individuals for the systems in which they live? When does justice become revenge? And what will the generation that inherits our choices make of the excuses we are making today?

Following its acclaimed UK premiere at London’s Donmar Warehouse, The Trials receives its Australian premiere at Flinders Drama Centre in a performance by Second Year Actors.

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Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.

Thurs, 26th - Sat, 28th November

Drama Centre Rehearsal Room

7:30pm (Thurs - Sat), 2pm (Fri)

By Alice Birch

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. is a theatrical assault on the language that has reinforced violence against women for centuries, and an explosion of what womanhood means in the 21st century.

In a series of equally funny and disturbing events - the everyday is turned upside down, dirty talk is stripped naked, a marriage proposal is interrogated, and the dairy aisle becomes a site of civil disobedience - playwright Alice Birch rallies language to revolt upon itself, commanding it to bear arms against the conventions of work, sex, motherhood, aging, and love.

Presented by Flinders Drama Centre’s Third Year Bachelor of Performance students. Directed by Kiara Skene, graduating Honours directing student.

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Prefix - by Howard Barker

Wed, 2nd - Sat, 5th December

Matthew Flinders Theatre

7:30pm (Wed - Sat), 2pm (Sat)

“One of the UK's greatest living playwrights”

The Times

A world premiere from one of Britain’s most influential and uncompromising contemporary dramatists brings together all three streams of the Bachelor of Performance – Acting, Directing and Theatre-Making – in a major new Drama Centre production.

In July the Drama Centre Honours cohort investigated Barker’s ground-breaking body of work with Wrestling with Catastrophe. Now the Third Year students ask what Barker is writing now, with their performance of Prefix: a strange, provocative and darkly comic new work in which desire, freedom and the terrifying abundance of choice collide.

As children, Truelove and Lapin are taught to fear “the sheer extent of choice that lies before us.” From there, Barker propels them into a lifetime of teachers and lovers, violence and desire, obedience and transgression – a world in which the forbidden exerts an irresistible pull, and every choice seems to open onto another.

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Little Big Show

Thurs, 3rd - Fri, 18th December

Light Square Gallery
Basement Level, AC Arts
39 Light Square 5000, Adelaide

Gallery open:
Mon - Fri, 9:00am - 5:00pm

Jack Casper, Enes Grozdanic, Kate Waterhouse, Natalie Mekki, Sienna Montomery-Pittaway, Jack Taylor

Bringing together six South Australian artists and presented by the Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts), Little Big Show is equipped with the curious, the uncomfortable, the hopeful and the unsettling: from the freedom of play and the peculiarities of childhood, to feelings of hidden loneliness and environmental loss, all the way to the promises of hope. Unlikely collaborators invite you to look closer, sit with the unfamiliar and rediscover your own meaning in the monotony of everyday life.

Through soft sculpture, photography, ceramics, painting, sound, object-making, woodcraft and printmaking, observe unique artistic practices unfold in sporadic conversation, coming together one last time under the same roof.

Six artists, six perspectives, one small space for some rather big things.

Exhibition Opening: 3^rd December 2026, 6:00 pm

Opened by Jane McFarlane, Acknowledgement of Country given by Jemahl Casper

Image: Enes Grozdanic (detail), 2026

Wal Cherry Lecture

Friday, 4th December

Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre

6:00 - 8:00pm

“What, has this thing appeared again tonight?”

--- William Shakespeare, Hamlet

The theatre is full of doubles. The world on stage mirrors our own; the actors reflect our own desires back to us. In this electric air, we see again what we have seen before and return to stories that have been told forever. But how do we make sense of this classical tradition for the contemporary world? In the 2026 Wal Cherry Lecture, acclaimed theatre director Benedict Andrews reflects on the role of mimesis and doubling in creating new work for the international stage.

Fresh from the success of Óresteia at Iceland’s National Theatre, and Electra/Persona at the National Theatre in London—themselves theatrical mirrors, held together by the classical figure of Elektra—Andrews returns to Adelaide to explore the implausible lightning bolts that have taken his career from Flinders to Adelaide’s indie scene of the 1990s to Europe’s most venerable houses. After the lecture, he will be joined in conversation by Matthew Lutton OAM, Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival.

The biennial Wal Cherry Lecture honours the pioneering legacy of foundation Professor of Drama, Wal Cherry, who was appointed to lead Drama at Flinders University when it began in 1967 and established the Drama Centre as a training program closely integrated with industry in 1972. Every two years, a leading artist, thinker, or provocateur is invited to speak about how legacy can be balanced with innovation in the contemporary field of creative practice.

The 2026 Wal Cherry Lecture is presented by Assemblage Centre for Creative Practice Research and the Flinders Drama Centre, Flinders University, with support from Helpmann Academy and the Adelaide Festival Centre.

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Who should attend?

Whatever your role in the creative arts is, the Flinders Festival of Creative Arts has something for you. This is your opportunity to experience the work of Flinders Creative Arts students and to meet like-minded individuals.

High school students considering studying at university
Current university students
Creative Arts graduates
Industry professionals in the Arts
Researchers
Learning and teaching specialists

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