Make your voice heard!
Until December 4th, you can choose which artworks will be part of the 2024 Adelaide Festival! Vote now on this website!
SEE THE FINAL ARTWORKS IN PERSON!
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Head to the Adelaide Botanic Garden to see the artworks you voted for as part of the 2024 Adelaide Festival.
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Welcome to Create4Adelaide,
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the project
Get on board for a 12-month trip that could see you land in the
Discover some inspiration
2024
Adelaide Festival!
February - March 2023
Young people were invited to vote on their climate change priorities in Adelaide and South Australia.
April - September 2023
With inspiration and support from their teachers and local artists, young people will participate in workshops to create art that offers ideas to address climate priorities and inspire action.
August - September 2023
An open call will be launched in the State to invite young people to submit their artworks.
October - November 2023
Young people will choose the artworks they want to see featured in the 2024 Adelaide Festival.
March 2024
The Create4Adelaide exhibition opens in the 2024 Adelaide Festival.
Launched in 2023, Create4Adelaide is a large-scale, year-long project that encourages young people to develop their creative skills and engage with local climate change priorities.
This is an opportunity for young people to be part of something big; to express themselves artistically, to think outside of the box and to engage with important issues around climate change in a local setting.
This is an opportunity for young people to be part of something big; to express themselves artistically, to think outside of the box and to engage with important issues around climate change in a local setting.
News
C4A is at Royal Adelaide Show!
Come and see us in the Pavilion at the Royal Adelaide Show! Come make some art with us!
Extinction of animals and plants
Create your own artwork around climate priority #1! 🐋
“Embracing the Tempest: Kolkata’s Monsoon Saga Along the Ganges”
Meet the artist behind this #C4A artwork : Shubhodeep Roy is a 22 year old that decided to tackle priority #2, extreme weather events, trough visual arts.
Catherine Truman “The Weeping Orchid”
SA Artist Catherine Truman has participated in the #C4A open call with "The Weeping Orchid" ✨
Jeremy Deller’s bees
Acclaimed artist Jeremy Deller has joined the #C4A open call!
Berky’s Bee
Take a look at one of our first #C4A artworks 🐝🤭 Berky is a 2 year old from Nanny Cryssie Crew!
The Open Call is LIVE
Join Create4Adelaide by sharing your art on social media using #C4A or via our submission form at create4adelaide.au/participate 🫶 Submit your work and you could see it featured in @Adelaidefestival 2024!!
Meet Nanny Cryssie, C4A Ambassador!
Nanny Cryssie is a wonderful child carer and she also is a nanny consultant ! Nanny Cryssie Crew (2+) shared their learning journey creating artworks around bees. Discover their work on our Instagram!
What to do during school holidays? ✨
School holidays are almost over... Use these last few days to discover the fantastic events presented by our friends and partners on our Instagram! 😍
ZINE WORKSHOP WITH BEC SHEEDY
Create4Adelaide workshop alert! Bec Sheedy is a local illustrator, comic maker and zinester that will teach you how zines can be used to talk about local climate priorities!
SALA Festival 💚
Exciting news! We are thrilled to be part of the 2023 @salafestival as a digital venue 🥳 Visit our website later in August to see the very first C4A artworks! Find out about their program on their website and stay tuned as we unveil more details about how you can participate 💚 #C4A
Alliance Française workshop!
Get inspired for Plastic Free July ✨ For World Environment Day on 10 June, C4A was at @alliancefrancaise.adelaide for a special workshop on plastic pollution with local artists @calamitytash! #beatplasticpollution 💪 Take a look at the artworks created by Carina, Neusa, Ethan, Gabriel, Nayan and Sara!
Make music day
It’s Make Music Day! We’re big believers in the power of music to speak into climate change issues 🎶🌍 You can use music to get involved in C4A.. find out more on Create4Adelaide Instagram!
World Environment Day at Botanic Gardens!
Last Friday, over 1500 young people gathered at Botanic Gardens of South Australia! Create4Adelaide hosted a workshop with artist collective Bait Fridge and Dulcie's bus on fashion and plastic pollution. Inspiring artworks have been created!
How to eco-create an artwork?
As the workshops are starting, a few tips on how to eco-create an artwork... More on Create4Adelaide Instagram!
The three priorities are…
The three priorities are: 1) Extinction of animals and plants 2) Extreme weather events (bushfires, floods, droughts) 3) Pollution of our air and waterways
The three priorities have been picked!
On April 21st, Noah, Reimer and Sophia met with Andrea Michaels MP to share the three climate priorities chosen by over 2,000 young people in South Australia!
2,000 young people voted on their top 3 priorities
2000 young people voted to choose their three climate priorities which will be announced on April 21st.
Create4adelaide first workshop
Create4Adelaide held its first workshop last week at Neo event with the artist Calamity Tash! Over 700 young people shared their best creative ideas to save the planet.
A new partner!
A new partner has joined the journey of Create4adelaide! We’re so happy to have the South Australia Museum on board! That’s one more local partner to tackle climate change in South Australia together.
WHAT IS THE BIGGEST CLIMATE CHANGE CHALLENGE IN SA?
VOTE! Last January, a group of young people shared their top priorities on the biggest climate issues in Adelaide: now it’s your turn to decide. Take our survey, make your voice heard!
POWER TO THE (YOUNG) PEOPLE
Last week, Helen Connolly, the SA Commissioner for Children and Young People and Ruth Mackenzie, Artistic Director of Adelaide Festival, met to discuss Create4Adelaide and creative opportunities for Australian young people.
VOTE NOW!
It is easy to vote! Like Chloe (10), grab a phone or a computer and take our survey! Only a few clicks to pick your top 3 climate change priorities!
Your classmates from Glasgow have a message for you…
Last year, Create4Adelaide was Create4Glasgow! Now, it is your turn! Keith and Savannah are handing you over the keys of the project. How can you get involved? First, vote on your top three climate change priorities! Then, get inspired by their work and get your crafting tools to start creating!
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on Create4AdelaideBecause we are convinced our collective engagement will be a turning point tackling climate change ; because young people’s voices need to be heard more than ever to empower all generations in becoming activists against global warming : join us on this unique project as we head toward the 2024 Adelaide Festival!
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Presented as part of Adelaide Festival 2024 from an original concept by Sabir, presented as part of the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26)
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The Botanic Gardens of South Australia comprises three beautiful public gardens. Visit them at Adelaide Botanic Garden in the green lungs of the city, Mount Lofty Botanic Garden in the picturesque Adelaide Hills and Wittunga Botanic Garden, an oasis in suburban Blackwood
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Carclew is South Australia’s multi-artform cultural organisation, transforming young lives through creativity, and embedding creativity in communities, schools and careers
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Children's University Adelaide offers educational experiences for children aged 5-14 and volunteering opportunities for 15-18 year olds. Their achievements are recognised through the award of formal certificates and graduations.
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SALA is a state-wide showcase and celebration of South Australia’s living visual artists. It culminates in Australia’s largest and most inclusive visual arts festival, which takes place in galleries and non-traditional arts spaces across South Australia annually, during the entire month of August.
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Slingsby presents emotionally challenging and engaging storytelling in rich live theatrical realms for family audiences and young people aged eight years and over.
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Connecting leading water, climate scientists and researchers with international collaborators and external stakeholders to address complex environmental problems and export innovation to the world.
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An independent statutory office advocating for the rights, development and wellbeing of all South Australian children and young people.
Learn morePatch Theatre has been making professional theatre for 4–8 year old children and their families since 1972.
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Country Arts SA’s vision is for artists and communities of regional South Australia to thrive through engagement with the arts, and be recognised as essential contributors to the nation’s cultural voice
Learn moreFor 85 years, the ASO has been there to corroborate life and contribute to South Australia’s identity. Today the ASO plays a major role in Adelaide’s cultural and economic vibrancy, and enriches the community through a diverse program of world-class performances to more than 100,000 concertgoers each season.
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Fun intended. Based in Adelaide, Australia, Windmill Theatre Company has a global reputation as a leading producer of theatre for children, teenagers, and families. We bring artists together to uncover and ignite stories that are burning to be told. Each year we perform in our hometown, and tour across Australia and around the world.
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The South Australian Museum cares for a wealth of treasures with national and international significance – it is admired for its world class collections, which have been amassed over more than 150 years and encompass everything from fossils of the first known life on Earth to pieces of Martian meteorites. The Museum’s collections are still growing and used each day in scientific and cultural research.
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The Australian Government established the Australian Space Agency (the Agency) as an ongoing entity on 1 July 2018 to effect long-term transformation and growth of Australia’s space industry. The Agency’s purpose is to transform and grow a globally-respected Australian space industry that uplifts the broader economy, and inspires and benefits all Australians — underpinned by strong national and international engagement.
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