Created by Lavene Ngatokorua and Chris Herzfeld, Rising Sun, presented as part of Tarnanthi 2023, tackles themes of connection to country and resilience through truth telling.

CAPITAL WASTE's Liam Somerville has extended his vision of Plastiq's 'killer' music video, in a digital exhibition titled 'UNIVERSAL KILLER' you can explore irl right now.

Bar, gallery and art and tech studio The Light Room is the latest venture contributing to Light’s mission of funding artists’ careers through the incidental act of arts patrons having a good time.

This new digital degustation in Adelaide is a feast for the senses

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Art meets science in a back-room gallery, and the conversation is quietly fascinating. UK studio Megaverse presents a new collaborative work that explores our relationship with water. ★★★ ½

From immersive, multi-sensory experiences and virtual-reality adventures, to musical theatre, cutting-edge interactive exhibitions and fun experiments with kids, science is at the heart of all these shows.

The immersive gallery and art studio bar is like no other in South Australia. Dull moments won't be a thing.

Rocking up in colour courtesy of local and international luxe labels, VIP guests made the most of the blank canvas that is The Light Room's cool minimalist bar at its grand opening.

Newest addition to Light Square, The Light Room is the perfect combination of culture and cocktails.

Step into the newest layer of Adelaide’s multi-level arts venue Light, featuring bright cocktails, knockout oysters, a moody gallery and enormous LED screen.

Can artificial intelligence and immersive visual arts technologies enhance live classical performances and enable audiences to connect with artists in a new way? Light ADL’s PianoLab festival resoundingly answered yes to this question. Over a four-day period the nineteenth-century-technology of the concert grand piano met with twenty-first-century digital technology and audiences where delighted with the outcome

"Featuring some of Australia’s finest pianists in a visually immersive performance space, this four-day festival is piano heaven."

Stunning visuals for a new Adelaide piano festival: PianoLab

The Advertiser Top 20: We reveal the best 20 chefs in Adelaide From creative young guns to seasoned chefs, here are the culinary creatives behind South Australia’s top 20 restaurants from the coveted delicious.100 list.

Adelaide’s multi genre immersive performance space, The Lab will debut an exclusive audio and visual experience featuring the acclaimed Australian String Quartet (ASQ), South Australian leading visual artists and the music of Beethoven, Adès and contemporary Australian composers.

4 Chefs, 2 Restaurants, 1 unmissable dining experience.

Many of Australia's most renowned pianists including Konstantin Shamray, Paavali Jumppanen, Paul Grabowsky, Lucinda Collins, Stephen McIntyre, Mark Ferguson, Dan Thorpe, Stephen Whittington and Anna Goldsworthy will perform at a new Festival in Adelaide entitled PianoLab.

An exciting new partnership between the University of Adelaide and Light Adelaide, the city’s new home for creativity and hospitality, will see the boundaries of immersive reality stretched beyond the imagination.

delicious. 100: Most delicious restaurants in Australia for 2022 revealed

SA’s hospitality industry is desperate for more staff. Here is what one top Adelaide restaurant is doing about it.

Immerse yourself in the deep ocean while all its mysteries become concrete as part of this temporal experience integrating art, science, and technology. Explore this living AI sculpture of maritime proportions on Level One as part of Illuminate Adelaide with free entry for all ages from 6pm - 11pm between the 15th and 31st of July.

In this week’s InDaily podcast: Culture clash. Is arts funding in Australia broken and what can be done about it?

Rock + Roll Icons of the 70s captured by Scott Hicks re-imagined on a cinematic scale through immersive digital technology at Light.

SA Weekend: Nick and Sophie Dunstone put $10m of their own money into ‘big, crazy’ plan to transform live and artistic performance

Nick and Sophie Dunstone have absolute belief in the recovery of the Australian arts and culture sector. So much so, they were willing to use their own funds to establish a cutting-edge performing arts and hospitality venue in the thick of 2020 lockdowns.

Adelaide's hub of creativity with a conscience.

Aurora restaurant top 5 best in Adelaide

Aurora is part of an ambitious cultural, technological and hospitality hub.

Nick and Sophie Dunstone win Creative Partnerships Philanthropy Award

Their Light Cultural Foundation, a pandemic-era project tucked in a previously unfashionable corner of Adelaide’s CBD, is at the forefront of a global surge of experimentation in using technology to put audiences at the centre of the action in music, performance and the visual arts.

WINNERS OF THE 2021 CREATIVE PARTNERSHIPS AWARDS ANNOUNCED NOVEMBER 22, 2021 A global pandemic did not deter the winners of this year’s awards, who have been true fundraising and philanthropic trailblazers for Australia’s arts and culture sector.

Emerging Philanthropy Leadership Award – Nick and Sophie Dunstone

The winners of the 2021 Creative Partnerships Awards have been announced, featuring recipients who re-define what giving means.

Revealing the leaders, philanthropists and partners advancing Australia’s arts sector

Nathan Bazley and Josephine Linsenmeier inside The Ellipse. Picture: Roy VanDerVegt

Nathan Bazely and Josephine Linsenmeier experience Immersion. Picture: Roy VanDerVegt

Set on the ground floor of a 150-year-old former tobacco factory, Aurora blurs the line between restaurant, gallery, and performance space. Inspired by Aurora Australis and the colours of our vast Australian landscape, the interior fuses old and new by blending the layers of the site’s past.

As density limits continue to hinder the industry, new restaurants including Aurora in Light Adelaide and the relocated Soi 38 on Pirie St have designed venues to accomodate reduced patron numbers without sacrificing dining atmosphere.

Guilt-free dining used to be about free-range eggs and local produce but a new Adelaide precinct is shining a light on the oft-forgotten human side of the equation. “Why do we need to sell our souls?” asks Brendan Wessells, head chef of the new fine-dining experience, Aurora, on Light Square.

A restaurant with an altruistic mission shows responsible work practices and brilliant dining can be compatible, writes Simon Wilkinson.

A new not-for-profit arts precinct in Adelaide has attracted some serious hospitality talent. Will your food taste better if the chef is being nice to the kitchen team instead of nasty? “Yes,” says Brendan Wessels, former chef at d’Arenberg Cube in McLaren Vale

Light Square’s new performance space The Lab ­– part of the arts and hospitality hub Light ­– is launching a regular classical music series that begins tonight with a performance by Slava and Sharon Grigoryan.

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As festival season descends upon Adelaide, Light has launched as a multi-faceted venue powered by world-leading technology and underwritten by an Adelaide-first business model.

Helmed by ex-d’Arenberg Cube chef Brendan Wessels, expect meats cooked on a custom-made braai, small plates influenced by Korean and Japanese cuisine, and a business model with social responsibility built in.

The middle of a pandemic might seem an odd time to inject $10 million into creating a new Adelaide arts hub, but for a couple who returned home as COVID-19 ran riot across the Western world, it makes perfect sense.

The $9 million project will transform a 150-year-old building on Light Square into a huge arts and food hub, including a restaurant helmed by ex-d’Arenberg Cube chef Brendon Wessels.