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Festival of the Spoken Word
Sunday 2 August 2026 - Sunday 30 August 2026Across music, theatre, live podcasts, conversations and performance, Jewish artists use the spoken word to explore the diversity of Jewish life.
Tickets available, bookings required.- Poetry
- Festival of the Spoken Word
Voices of the Tribe
Thursday 13 August 2026
7:00pmAn intimate evening of spoken word, live music and Jewish storytelling, Voices of the Tribe brings together poets tracing pride, grief, humour, longing and the strange feeling of recognition when language suddenly feels shared.Tickets available, bookings required.- Music
- Festival of the Spoken Word
Out of the Depths
Saturday 15 August 2026
7:30pmDrawn from Mima’amakim (Out of the Depths), one of the earliest collections of Holocaust songs, this event brings those works to life through live performance alongside stories of the composers, lyricists and the remarkable effort to preserve their voices.Tickets available, bookings required.- Music
- Festival of the Spoken Word
Who By Water
Sunday 16 August 2026
6:00pmA new body of songs by multidisciplinary artist Anita Lester, informed by Jewish memory and the cultural rupture of recent years, these unreleased works sit between liturgical cadence and folk storytelling.Tickets available, bookings required.- Music
- Festival of the Spoken Word
Fugitive
Thursday 20 August 2026
7:00pmMusic and language meet as equal partners in this live performance built around Sergei Prokofiev’s Visions Fugitives and excerpts from Simon Tedeschi’s memoir Fugitive.Tickets available, bookings required.- Social
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Adamama Young Families Retreat – Aug 2026
Friday 21 August 2026 - Sunday 23 August 2026
4pm Friday - 11am SundayThe Adamama Young Families Retreat is low-key, joyful, and meaningful — with structure when you need it, and freedom when you don’t.
Tickets available, bookings required.- Theatre
- Festival of the Spoken Word
Wake
Saturday 22 August 2026
7:30pmThrough the voices of four women — Mileva Marić, Martha Freud, Alma Mahler and Katia Mann — familiar histories are retold from an entirely different perspective, laying bare the emotional wreckage left in the pursuit of genius, ambition and public greatness.Tickets available, bookings required.- Theatre
- Festival of the Spoken Word
The Border | Sacrifice
Sunday 23 August 2026
6:00pmTwo new plays exploring conflict, identity, power and belonging through intimate encounters shaped by pressure, memory and survival.Tickets available, bookings required.- Theatre
- Festival of the Spoken Word
Groyse Tsores
Sunday 23 August 2026
2:00pmPart performance, part creative development, Groyse Tsores offers a rare encounter with original contemporary Yiddish theatre in formation. Blending live music, movement, puppetry and conversation, the event presents songs and scenes from Der Griner Giraf, a new intergenerational work exploring childhood through Yiddish language and song.Tickets available, bookings required.- Music
- Festival of the Spoken Word
Hineinu: Songs for This Time
Thursday 27 August 2026
7:00pmHebrew and English song, prayer, chant, niggunim and spoken word come together in this live gathering responding to the aftermath of the Bondi attack and the long shadow of October 7.Tickets available, bookings required.- Comedy
- Festival of the Spoken Word
You Were Great in Shule!
Saturday 29 August 2026
8:00pmYou Were Great in Shule! turns the awkwardness, chaos and emotional intensity of Jewish coming-of-age culture into a live comedy podcast recording packed with storytelling, nostalgia and communal oversharing.Tickets available, bookings required.- Poetry
- Festival of the Spoken Word
On Having Been Here
Sunday 30 August 2026
7:00pmAn intimate poetry reading with music bringing together three distinctive Jewish Australian voices whose work is shaped by long lives, deep memory and a restless curiosity about the world.Tickets available, bookings required.- Comedy
- Festival of the Spoken Word
A Jewish Guide to Surviving History
Sunday 30 August 2026
2:00pmFrom Torah to TikTok, Amalek to Kanye West, A Jewish Guide to Surviving History races through thousands of years of Jewish history in an expansive one-woman performance blending spoken word, storytelling and comedy.Tickets available, bookings required.- Environment
- Adamama
Community Garden Project
Sunday 30 August 2026 - Thursday 31 December 2026
Multiple Dates/TimesAdamama Community Garden Project – Join Us in 2026!Waitlist- Adamama
Book the Succah 2026
Saturday 26 September 2026 - Sunday 4 October 2026At Adamama, we are deeply intertwined with the Jewish harvest festival of Succot.
During the week-long festival of Succot, we spend time in an impermanent ‘home’ known as a ‘Succah’.
Our Succah is available for the community to utilise throughout the week of Succot.
Tickets available, bookings required.- Social
- Adamama
Off The Grid – Young Adult Nature Retreat 2026
Friday 23 October 2026 - Sunday 25 October 2026
3pm Friday - 12pm SundayLeave the city behind and reconnect with nature, community, and yourself at **Off the Grid** — a 3-day, 2-night hiking and camping retreat designed for young adults seeking adventure, connection, and a chance to slow down.
Tickets available, bookings required.- Environment
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Jewish Roots Festival 2026
Sunday 29 November 2026
10am - 4pmSAVE THE DATE – Sunday 29 November – Celebrate Jewish culture, nature, and community together
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