The Arts Garden

Send us Fan Mail A road-worn guitar, a coconut horse, Jane Austen compositions and a karaoke bar turned art gallery. We open with folk artist Katie Milae , fresh off the Goodness Me Festival and deep into her Art of Wildflowering tour. From road train childhoods to van-life songwriting, she unpacks music as medicine, movement, and connection, plus a glimpse of her long-awaited debut album.  Then i...

Send us Fan Mail From indie music resistance to immersive painting and politically urgent cinema, this episode moves through art that refuses to sit still. We’re joined in-studio by San Dragan , unpacking a bold move away from Spotify and toward a grounded, community-driven music career; one built on live performance, connection, and creative autonomy.  Then, artist Grace Harper takes us inside he...

Send us Fan Mail Post-Fringe, the Arts Garden resets. In Episode 10, we trace the threads of creativity across generations, forms, and philosophies, moving from Adelaide’s jazz lineage to the radical history of modernist art, and into the inner worlds of sound, voice, and meaning. 🎷 We’re joined in-studio by James Muller and Lyndon Gray of The Exhibits, ahead of their upcoming album launch. They...

Send us Fan Mail It’s the final week of Adelaide Fringe and Festival, and Arts Garden brings together a powerful mix of artists exploring endurance, storytelling, and meaning. 🚴 Connor Delves joins us to talk about CADEL: Lungs on Legs:  a high-intensity solo performance where he rides live on stage while telling the story of Cadel Evans’ Tour de France victory. We explore the discipline of endur...

Send us Fan Mail We are beyond the Womad long weekend and have two weeks of festival season left. On this week's Art's Garden we talk shower burlesque thoughts, boy band dating parodies, Portuguese folktronica and making a career in circus.  New Zealand performer Gigi Cartier joins the show to talk about Showgirl Roulette: a wild, improvised cabaret where a spinning wheel decides the lin...

Send us Fan Mail From Brazilian futuristic dance to avant-garde magic, clown game shows, contemporary circus from Aotearoa, stand-up rebellion and the 50-year legacy of Friendly Street Poets – Episode 7 is packed We talk emotional regulation through dance, colonial language hangovers, speed-sewn circus couture, migration and magic, hot girl comedy politics, and why poetry might matter more than po...

Send us Fan Mail Adelaide Fringe is in full swing and Episode Six dives deep into joyful chaos, physical theatre and urgent storytelling. 🎭 …Earnest? (Say It Again, Sorry?) What happens when the lead actor doesn’t show up and the audience becomes the cast? Josh and Rhys unpack how Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest transforms into an interactive experiment in identity, ego and theatric...

Send us Fan Mail Fringe season is almost underway and so are the big cultural questions. In this pre-Fringe edition of The Arts Garden Podcast , James and Bronwin speak with artists confronting politics, identity, mental health and community in 2026. 🎭 Martha Lott (Holden Street Theatres) on The Debate , class satire in Eat the Rich , and why this year’s Fringe is bold, political and provocative....

Send us Fan Mail Fringe is almost here and Episode Four of The Arts Garden dives straight into the heart of it. We begin in the gardens with Sacred Resonance , exploring illuminated landscapes, heart-coherence installations and immersive sound baths that blur the lines between nature, frequency and connection. Then it’s dance, collaboration and creative risk with Alex Kuijpers , bringing three dis...

Send us Fan Mail This episode of Arts Garden dives head-first into Adelaide Fringe season , with conversations spanning grief, circus, comedy, and the realities of making creative work sustainable. We’re joined first by Melissa and Connor from CRAM Collective , who introduce their new Fringe work Meteors . Developed through a residency at The Mill , the show explores how young people experience gr...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 2 — Arts Garden: Fringe curation, cosmic art, comedy bodies, and expanded sound Episode Two of Arts Garden is firmly in Adelaide Fringe mode , moving between curation, creation, and the different ways artists make meaning in a noisy world. We’re joined by Joanne Hartstone (Joanne Hartstone Presents), marking 20 years at Adelaide Fringe , to talk through her 2026 program —...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 1 — Arts Garden: Fringe warm-up (Burlesque, Latin Surrealism, and theatre that moves) Welcome to Arts Garden with James and Bronwyn:  your weekly scan of what’s happening across Adelaide’s arts scene, with an eye on what’s coming up at Adelaide Fringe . In Episode 1, we’re joined by Miss Teaser Amore (Teaser Productions) to talk about two Fringe shows: RnB Burlesque (a Sun...