The South Australian Living Artists Festival, better known as SALA Festival, is a statewide festival of visual arts held each year during the month of August.
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.
Each year, SALA takes the work of around 8,000 emerging, mid-career and established South Australian artists to more than 500 venues across the state (from sheds, cafés, offices and retail spaces to wineries, schools, public spaces, galleries and major arts institutions) to reach local and inter/national audiences of more than 850,000 people, and many more online.
We’re excited to be hosting a number of events in our City this year (click on the links for dates and times):
Art in our Libraries https://www.charlessturt.sa.gov.au/community/arts,-culture-and-history/art-in-the-libraries
- Enchanted Garden by Woodville High School Year 9 Visual Arts, Ngutungka West Lakes
- Art from the Heart by Our Lady Queen of Peace School Students
- Stories from the Brush by The Blend Collective
Plan Be - Exhibition by City of Charles Sturt Staff, Elected Members and Volunteers.
We are also pleased to support the following events through our Arts Fund:
SALA Art by the Sea in Henley Beach
SALA Festival Westside Art Bus Tour
To acknowledge the roles artists and local venues play in our City, we have supported the following artists in the costs of registering in the SALA Festival under our Artist Registration Subsidy Scheme:
- Trunks n Beaks by Jean Kemp, John Palmer.
- Windows by Tatiana Chechurova, Dasha Lytvynov, Clare Scheer, Jadranda Sunde, Veronika Venetulis
- Stories from the Brush by Ann Gill, Karen Kesby, Maryjane Liebelt, Steve Sutton
- 10A Atkin…By The Sea by Henley and Grange Art Society
- Creative Souls 2023 Showcase by Keith Broadbridge, Ryan Cantwell, Marek Czaplinski, Caitlyn Davies-Plummer, Louisa Djuric, Grant Dolphin, Kate Lewis, Ashley Pope, Rachel Ross, Anna Tarasiuk
- Creation Within Art by Dean Wilson
- Flow by Judith Klavins
Visit the SALA website to discover more events in our City and for the full program.