The creative mind behind Illuminate Adelaide | Interview with IA Co-Founder and Co-Creative Director Rachael Azzopardi

Illuminate Adelaide has officially returned to the streets of Adelaide, and one of the feel-good events on this year's program is the Pause Walk in support of the RSPCASA.

Here to tell us all about that and more of the Illuminate Adelaide program is co-founder and creative director Rachel Azapati.

Rachel, welcome to the show.

Thank

you.

Okay, it kicked off this week.

We've been to a few events.

We touched on it at the beginning of the show.

Talk to us about Illuminate Adelaide.

For the listeners that aren't familiar with the festival, talk to us about what Illuminate Adelaide has to offer and why they should get down there to any of the events that are on.

Yeah, sure.

Look, it's a fantastic...

Festival of Light, Art, Music and Technology.

And as you said, we opened this week and we're on until July 19.

And it really is different events around our city.

It's lighting up our city in different ways.

So we've got ticketed events in Botanic Gardens.

We've got a fantastic Universal Kingdom at the Adelaide Zoo.

We've got augmented games, which is a fantastic sort of gaming event.

experience at the Ridley Centre at the showgrounds and of course last night we opened City Lights which is really the heartbeat of Illumina Adelaide it's completely free over 40 different installations right throughout the city and this year we've gone down into Rymel Park and you just wander it's like a beautiful light trail that you wander through the city and And from 5.30 to 10.30. And as I said, it's free.

And it's just great to just walk around and be outside in winter.

Absolutely.

And we

said this at the beginning of the show.

A huge thing for us in Adelaide is that summer has so many festivals and so many things on that we love about Adelaide.