You can adapt suggested activities within Adelaide Festival Centre’s teaching resources to your own classroom context.
Each resource has been designed to connect the curriculum with collection items, performances and programs included in Adelaide Festival Centre’s centrED School Program.
Explore our range of resources for schools below:
Costumes of the Performing Arts Collection
Suitability: Secondary students

Dance Geometry
Suitability: Years 1 to 6

Kaleidoscope: Playing with Colour
Suitability: Years 3 to 8

Kaurna Reconciliation Sculpture
Suitability: All years

Legendary Textile Tales
Suitability: Years 5 to 9

Career Guide
Created for students, parents, teachers, and counsellors to use as a guide to careers in the festival and event industry.

Read more about centrED
Foundation Impact Stories: A Cabaret Journey from Port Lincoln
Funded by Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation, the scholarship provides regional students with the opportunity to participate in Adelaide Cabaret Festival's highly sought after Class of Cabaret program, designed to nurture young performing arts talent.

Disney supports Arts for All at Adelaide Festival Centre
Before opening night, 550 students and teachers from 11 schools, and 150 community-supported members of the public, were welcomed to a special final dress rehearsal of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast at Adelaide Festival Centre.

Foundation Impact Stories: 2024 Nathaniel O’Brien Class of Cabaret Scholarship Recipient
Waikerie High School student Ellen Kroehn has been named the recipient of the prestigious 2024 Nathaniel O'Brien Class of Cabaret Scholarship.

Foundation Impact Stories: "Thank you, Thank you very much"
With the generous support of David Venn Enterprises and Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation, schools and communities from across Adelaide were given the opportunity to see a performance of Elvis: A Musical Revolution.

Foundation Impact Stories: Nathaniel O’Brien Class of Cabaret Scholarship 2023
Since 2016, regional students in Years 10 and 11 have been given the opportunity to apply for the Nathaniel O’Brien Class of Cabaret Scholarship program.

Foundation Impact Stories: centrED hosts a magical Mary Poppins experience!
Adelaide Festival Centre’s centrED Schools Program hosted 200 students, teachers and caregivers from five NASSSA (Northern Adelaide State Secondary Schools Alliance) schools at Mary Poppins.
