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On Stage

Adelaide Festival Centre is proud to present On Stage, our performing arts program.

A photo of a group of high school students on stage, facing towards the auditorium. The stage lighting is on.

Registrations have now opened for the April School Holiday Programs.

Parent testimonials

  • You all go above and beyond. In particular I really appreciate the 'kiss and drop' service, it takes all the stress out of the drop off/pick up times for me.

  • Leyla attended On Stage for the first time this summer. She thoroughly loved being a part of this great program, learnt a lot, made great friends and enjoyed performing. Please pass our thanks on to your team for such a great program, we are so appreciative. We enjoyed seeing Leyla thrive during the 2 weeks of On Stage and enjoyed the performance so much, it was so smooth, professional, relevant, vibrant, thought provoking and was so wonderful to see young people expressing and enjoying themselves through dance, movement and theatre.

  • Every time my daughter participates in an On Stage workshop she comes away with so many new skills. She meets new people, has oodles of fun and always ends the week feeling really good about herself. The encouragement you all give her does her confidence the world of good. I find that this confidence flows through into Iris' school life and positively impacts on her academic results.

  • I just wanted to say huge thank you for the brilliant program you run through On Stage. It’s a highlight and a priority of the school holidays for my son. I send you a classic teenager and you return to me each day a happy, engaged, bright, energetic and enthusiastic human being that can’t stop talking, taking me through minute by minute what has happened that day.


Want to learn more about On Stage?

View the program Terms and Conditions.

On Stage Program Scholarships

Proud­ly fund­ed by the Ade­laide Fes­ti­val Cen­tre Foun­da­tion.

The Ade­laide Fes­ti­val Cen­tre offers a lim­it­ed num­ber of schol­ar­ship oppor­tu­ni­ties to par­tic­i­pants at no cost. These posi­tions are avail­able to young peo­ple who would not nor­mal­ly have the oppor­tu­ni­ty to par­tic­i­pate in arts learn­ing due to finan­cial or remote loca­tion rea­sons. Remote appli­ca­tions are also eli­gi­ble to apply for trav­el assistance. 

Please con­tact our On Stage Pro­gram Exec­u­tive to find out more.

Program Executive

On Stage


Past programs

Community Program

Arts program for young people who have experienced out of home care

Term 4 - Tuesday 24 October - Tuesday 12 December 2023 (8 weeks)

Young people aged 12 to 16 years old met on Tuesday afternoons between 4:30pm and 6pm for 90 mins at the Adelaide Festival Centre.

Parents, Guardians, Carers and Social workers were encouraged to stay for the duration of the program. Weekly sessions were run by experienced arts educators with additional support and training provided by program partners.

If you would like to participate arts opportunities for young people who have experienced out of home care please register here.

The On Stage Community program was made possible thanks to our program partners:

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