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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.

A World BEYOND War Australia symposium (in association with the Victorian Quaker Centre) Monday 15 June 2026 from 9:00am-1:00pm AEST (find the time in your time zone) This event will be livestreamed. Please register on this page for the Zoom link.

Between the two periods of Taliban rule (roughly 2001–2021), Afghanistan saw a dense landscape of civil society initiatives around peacebuilding, women’s rights, and gender equality, led by Afghan NGOs, informal community groups, and international partners.

Afghans who fled after August 2021 have become key actors in keeping Afghan peace, social justice and gender equality struggles alive from exile, combining direct support to people inside Afghanistan with advocacy, movement-building and institution-building abroad.

This symposium, organised by World BEYOND War Australia (the Australian chapter of the international World BEYOND War movement), will explore a number of themes related to Afghans promoting peace and social justice in new lands.

We have three impressive keynote speakers:

• Dr. Mujib Abid, a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Initiative for Peacebuilding at the University of Melbourne, is an Afghan-Australian scholar of modern Afghan history, peace studies and political theory whose current work focuses on the Afghan diaspora in Australia.
• Efat Abulfazil, a peace advocate now living in Italy, has a long history of promoting mental health, gender equality, and nonviolence in communities affected by conflict and displacement. Efat is the founder of the Malika Soraa Foundation.
• Nemat Ahangosh, a peacebuilder, poet, and activist now living in the UK. Nemat is the founder of Stretch More, a UK registered charity dedicated to empowering disabled individuals in conflict zones and disaster-prone areas.