Adelaide is world-renowned as the Arts capital of the Southern Hemisphere, with a series of important arts, cultural, music, food and wine festivals throughout the year. Feast takes the best from this festival tradition, giving it a twist for the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender communities.

Feast is Adelaide's annual Lesbian and Gay Cultural Festival and features 23 exciting and culturally-diverse days of theatre, cabaret, film, forums, literature, dance, visual arts, tourism, sporting and community events. Feast was founded in 1997 by professional arts and community cultural development workers Helen Bock, Bamien Carey, Luke Cutler and Margie Fisher. From its inception, Feast was a multi-faceted, multi-art form cultural festival involving the diversity of Adelaide's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex and Queer communities.

This year it is happening in November from the 10th to the 25th, 2007. For further details, check it out on www.feast.org.au

Other festivals and events occur with remarkable frequency for a city of Adelaide's size. Opening a few months before the Sydney Opera House, the Adelaide Festival Centre was the first of its kind in Australia. The Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts began 44 years ago and has long been recognised as one of the most innovative arts festivals in the world. Another festival which puts Adelaide on the map is the Adelaide Fringe Festival. Now the second biggest in the world after Edinburgh's, it will for the first time in its history it will be presented annually. Visit www.adelaidefringe.com.au for details.

The Clipsal 500 Adelaide V8 race attracts more than 200,000 people annually, and has been named Australia's best major event. Adelaide's international music festival, WOMADelaide, has the Adelaide Botanic Garden as its backdrop. Add to this the Tour Down Under, which is the biggest road-cycling event in the land.

South Australians take their culture outside, too. In summer you can sit on a picnic rug in the Adelaide Botanic Park and view movies after dark. Watch trapeze artists perform high above Torrens Parade Ground during the Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts, or join 100,000 of your closest friends for the Adelaide Fringe Festival opening party in Rundle Street. Another choice is to celebrate Adelaide's multicultural diversity at Greek, Italian, German and Polish festivals in the city parklands.