The 2025 OzAsia Festival programme in Adelaide will be the event’s longest yet – spanning four weekends this coming spring.
OzAsia will expand across the city, with events at Adelaide Town Hall, Her Majesty’s Theatre, Odeon Theatre, Adelaide Botanic Gardens, and more. Audiences can expect transformative performances, delicious food, and engaging conversations. The programme features six world premieres, four Australian premieres, and eight Adelaide premieres.
“This year OzAsia Festival spans four weeks, giving our audiences more chances to celebrate culture, creativity, community and connection at intimate shows and spectacular events,” Festival Director Joon-Yee Kwok says. “From theatres and galleries to the riverbank, parks, and city streets, we’re looking forward to bringing people together with some fantastic Asian and Asian Australian artists.”
Highlights include GRAMMY Award-winning pianist Hiromi joining forces with GRAMMY-nominated string quarter PUBLIQuartet, presenting a blend of jazz and classical composition. . . Pioneering artist William Yang reflecting on his life in ‘Milestone’ at Adelaide Town Hall and exploring themes of family, sexuality and culture. . . A comedy special starring Michael Hing, AJ Lamarque, Alex Lee, Lawrence Leung, Sashi Perera and Kushi Venkatesh, and more.
“This year, OzAsia Festival offers audiences new and diverse ways to experience the festival, by expanding into even more venues and public spaces across the city. I look forward to welcoming audiences, old and new, to Adelaide’s cherished OzAsia Festival this spring,” Adelaide Festival CEO Kate Gould says.
At The Odeon Theatre, Monica Lim and Mindy Meng Wang reimagine the connection between life and death in ‘Opera for the Dead 祭歌’. Plus, Australian Dance Theatre continue to break new ground in their 60th anniversary with ‘Two Blood’.
Festival Plaza will play host to The Human Expression (T.H.E) Dance Company, presenting ‘Searching Blue’, an outdoor performance tracing shifting relationships between people, places and passers-by.
At Nexus Arts, Spanish-Iranian duo Mohammad Miraghazadeh and Michel Gasco breathe new life into the ancient music of a vast cultural region in ‘Badieh: Music From Greater Khorasan’. . . And after a sold-out season last year, South Australian hip hop artist Kultar Ahluwalia is back with ‘The Mixed-Race Tape’, blending hip hop with old recordings, family interviews, and spoken word.
A poignant yet playful cabaret, ‘LauZone’, sees Rick Lau and Anna Lo celebrating their ancestral roots and honouring the lives and memories that make up Hong Kong.
“OzAsia Festival is an exciting celebration of Australian and Asian culture right here in Adelaide and is not to be missed, This year, audiences have even more opportunities to experience this wonderful festival, as it extends for an extra weekend throughout the city,” The Honourable Andrea Michaels MP, Minister For Arts says.
OzAsia favourite Lucky Dumpling Market returns to Elder Park, as does the beloved Moon Lantern Trail. Plus, attendee can celebrate Japanese pop culture at AnimeGO! with anime, manga, karaoke and more.
Check out the full programme.
OzAsia Festival is on in Adelaide from 17 October-9 November.
