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As a Festival Friend, you become a part of a special community who support our exciting and ambitious program!
Become a Festival Friend and you'll be granted priority access to the best AF tickets at the best price - and you will be first in line for the world’s most exciting theatre, opera, dance, music and visual arts!
Festival Friends enjoy exclusive benefits:
- Discounted adult ticket prices to select Adelaide Festival shows (limit of two discounted tickets per event)
- Access to a priority booking period on shows presented by the Adelaide Festival (seating note: opening nights performances will have limited availability)
- Option to exchange tickets to another performance of the same event, subject to terms and conditions
- An invitation for you and a guest to the Program Launch event
- 10% off Archie Rose gin and vodka purchased online (redeemable until 19 March 2023)*
- 15% off InterContinental Adelaide bars and restaurants from 1 - 20 March 2023*
- 15% off accommodation at Hotel Indigo Adelaide Markets*
- 5% off best available room rates for accommodation at Eos by SkyCity*
Terms and Conditions are listed below. Information about how to access discounts is shared once you become a Festival Friend.
*Conditions apply. For further information, please email insider@adelaidefestival.com.au.
Photo Opening night of The Golden Cockerel at Festival Theatre for the 2022 Adelaide Festival. Credit: Frankie the Creative.
Terms & Conditions for Festival Friends memberships
The Adelaide Festival 2023 Friend membership is valid until 30 June 2023.
The cost of the membership is $180. Transaction fees apply when purchasing tickets.
Friends are entitled to 15% discount on adult ticket prices to select Adelaide Festival events, limited to 2 tickets per event.
Friends can access the best seats in the house during the priority-booking period, on events presented by the Adelaide Festival (excludes opening nights). For a full list of exclusions, please click here.
Friends are entitled to exchange tickets to events presented by the Adelaide Festival. Exchanges will attract an $8.95 transaction fee per booking. Exchanges can be made by contacting Adelaide Festival (boxoffice@adelaidefestival.com.au), and are subject to the following conditions:
- The performance that tickets are being exchanged from is not sold out
- The performance that tickets are being exchanged into must have available capacity
- Tickets can only be exchanged into a different performance of the same event (i.e., exchange from A Midsummer Night’s Dream to another performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream)
- If the new performance selected has a higher ticket price or seating in a higher price category is chosen, the difference in cost between the original tickets and the new tickets, is payable by the Friend
- There are no refunds given if cheaper tickets are selected or for failure to attend the performance
- Ticket exchanges must happen in advance of the performance, and cannot be made once the performance has taken place
Festival Friend benefits vary annually at the discretion of the Adelaide Festival Corporation, and are subject to change depending on the Adelaide Festival program each year.
To access Festival Friend prices and priority seating online, please log in via the Adelaide Festival website before selecting a performance. Applicable discounted prices and seating will then become available for purchase. Tickets are also available for purchase by calling Adelaide Festival on 1300 393 404 from 9 November once the full Adelaide Festival 2023 program is launched.
To discuss venue and seating accessibility, please contact the Adelaide Festival (boxoffice@adelaidefestival.com.au) or phone 8216 4444.
Standard terms and conditions of sale apply to all Adelaide Festival tickets and Friends of the Festival tickets which are sold in accordance with Live Performance Australia guidelines. For further information, please click here.