WOMADelaide

WOMADelaide is an annual four-day festival of music, arts and dance, which was first held in 1992 in Botanic Park, Adelaide, South Australia.

[1] In 2003, WOMADelaide became an annual festival, following a decision made by the Rann government to financially support the event.

[3] The Foundation presented subsequent festivals and special projects for remote Indigenous arts communities.

[8][9] The format was changed to a series of seated concerts on a single stage, opening with Archie Roach and closing with Midnight Oil and First Nations collaborators on their Makarrata Live project.

[10] This was also the first year of WOMADelaide x NSS Academy, a collaboration with the youth music centre Northern Sound System, which was established to provide training and development program for emerging Aboriginal South Australians and multicultural artists.

The program identified 10 artists in its first year or operation, with musical duo MRLN x RKM selected to support Vika & Linda and Midnight Oil at WOMAD.

[11][12] The event is hosted by the WOMAD festivals organisation, which aims "to excite, to create, to inform and to highlight awareness of the worth and potential of a multicultural society".

There are also visual arts exhibitions, a KidZone, a Global Village market area with over 100 food, crafts and display stalls, as well as several bars.

After the 2005 festival, some six tonnes of compost from WOMADelaide waste were returned to the Adelaide Botanic Garden, in an effort to preserve the delicate ecosystem in which the event is located.