South Australia’s Largest Youth-Led Intercultural Festival is BACK once again for our 8th annual flagship event!

Due to popular demand with 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025 being sell-out events, MOSAIC Festival 2026 is already set to be even bigger and better. Check out what to expect here from last year’s flagship event: MOSAIC Festival 2025.

WHEN: Saturday, September 19th, 2026 EVENT TIMINGS: 3:30pm - 4:30pm = Doors Open 4:30pm - 9:30pm = MOSAIC Festival 2026 WHERE: Dom Polski Centre, 230 Angas St, Adelaide SA 5000 CONTACT: Lenard Sciancalepore | 0402 018 809 | contact@mosaicadelaide.org

TICKETS: Family Package - $100 (Limited Availability) General Admission - $50 Student (15+) - $40 (Student ID required) Child (5 - 14) - $25 Child (4 and under) - FREE Pay-It-Forward - Sponsor a ticket for a young person, or someone who cannot afford to attend! We will then allocate the ticket to a deserving person in our network.

If assistance is required to purchase tickets for the event, please email contact@mosaicadelaide.org or contact Lenard and we’ll be happy to help.

Here’s what’s involved:

Upon entry, attendees get a 'passport' with their ticket, an A5-sized card with 3 circles to visit different communities in the event's Food Corners, get their passport stamped up to three times and receive a serving of traditional food. Additional passports can be purchased in the event.

Attendees can visit Community Areas, sit down, have a conversation, participate in activities, listen to stories, and learn about different cultural traditions.

Participate in fun ice-breaker games that facilitate community connection - 'Speed Friending'.

Visit the MOSAIC Bazaar upstairs to enter a vibrant multicultural market filled with stallholders, henna, turban-wrappings, - and during the event's intermissions, Community Storytelling Corners, cooking demonstrations and for the first time..... The Living Library - a quiet space where attendees can listen to stories from cultural traditions, stories about migration, navigating between cultures, creating a home away from home, racism and discrimination, and the joys and challenges being experienced in our multicultural communities.

Performances throughout the evening including the Intercultural Fashion Show - audience participation also encouraged so dress to impress!

WHAT’S INCLUDED IN MY TICKET?

3 servings of delicious food with your event passport,

6 hours of nonstop entertainment, performances, and activities,

Competition entry to win amazing prizes for the best dressed (x2),

A donation to MOSAIC supporting our community development projects,

Access to the MOSAIC Bazaar - a vibrant multicultural market on the top floor of the venue,

the return of a MOSAIC staple and tradition - the famous Intercultural Fashion show,

PLUS a rich and spicy experience you won’t want to miss!

ABOUT…

MOSAIC Adelaide Inc. aims to celebrate the South Australian multicultural community with an annual charity event, ‘MOSAIC Festival 2026’, bringing together hundreds of members of Adelaide’s multicultural community: a colourful celebration of the rich multicultural element of South Australian identity, featuring stories, performances, food, language, customs, games, dance, and music.

The MOSAIC Festival is a grassroots annual event:

By the community.

For the community.

With the community.

This festival will also be doubling as a fundraiser supporting MOSAIC Adelaide’s community development projects and our Community Grants Fund.

This is us. This is who we are as South Australians - We all make up the rich fabric of South Australian identity, community and society - and this is something worth celebrating as we create a space for authentic connection, inclusion and belonging. All are welcome to participate in the event as we create a vibrant and inclusive space for connections to thrive, for people to learn, and for stories to be shared.

MEET THE ORGANISERS… MOSAIC Adelaide Inc. is a multicultural community organisation dedicated to creating intercultural experiences and fostering transformative inclusion, belonging and youth empowerment in South Australia. We build global citizens, empower young people, and bring communities together through events, stories, performances, food, music, dance, and celebration of humanity.

Established in 2017 as ‘Cultural Night’, a multicultural fundraising event of the Adelaide University Rotaract Club, MOSAIC Adelaide Inc. has grown to new heights in order to have more impact, and make a larger difference in the lives of others.

Get ready as the Australian Refugee Association (ARA) brings its award-winning Souk back to Tonsley Innovation District.

The Souk is part of the Australian Refugee Association’s Refugee Week celebrations. We are thrilled to be bringing the bustling and exciting vibe of a Souk experience to Adelaide again.

For the first time last June, we held The Souk, a multicultural market event. It won the 2023 City of Marion Community Event of the Year Award and created the most successful event in ARA’s history! Over 75 stalls and 3500 people attended.

People are still talking about what an amazing time they had and can’t wait for The Souk 2024. We would love you to join us and create that magic again!

Souks can be found in the Middle East, Africa and even in parts of Asia. Traditionally souks were on trade routes, marketplaces for Merchants to stop, rest, sell their wares, trade and meet old friends and acquaintances. Souks are a myriad of interesting, eclectic discoveries as you meander through the maze of laneways and nooks.

The Souk is very different from a normal Australian market. Indulge your senses as you immerse yourself in the atmosphere of merchants, music and mouth-watering cuisines. Sit back and take in the textures and patterns in this exciting celebration of culture and community. You will be delighted by roving cultural entertainers, performers and buskers. Stalls will be packed full of colour, interesting products and keep a memento from our Middle Eastern inspired photo booth styled and created by local Iraqi artist, Nooralhuda Aziz.

We have curated a wide variety of “merchants” selling fresh produce, spices, oils, plants and flowers, street food, artisan produce and handicraft products such as jewelry, textiles, gifts and paintings. It will be a feast for the senses and a place of gathering with your friends and family….and a VERY multicultural experience with no passport required!

The Souk is fully undercover so a wintery day won’t bother us. And for those who know the Tonsley Innovation District where the former Mitsubishi car factory used to be, The Souk is right next to the gorgeous Central Rainforest. Loads of parking and seating for a full family day out

Head over to our Facebook event for spotlights of our Merchants, entertainers and performers, and souk updates as we bring The Souk to life over the coming weeks!

See you Soon ~ Ksenija, The Souk Manager