2025 Gather Round will run from Thursday April 10 to Sunday April 13, which will coincide with school holidays in South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland.
Heading to Adelaide for Gather Round weekend and looking for the best events, activities, and things to do? From AFL match schedules to family-friendly attractions, live entertainment, festivals, and more. Whether you’re a footy fan or just soaking up the city’s vibrant atmosphere, find out where to eat, drink, and explore during this exciting weekend. Stay updated with all the action right here!
AFL Gather Round is back for another action-packed weekend in South Australia! With 18 teams, 9 games, and one massive Festival of Footy, this year brings exciting new venues, including the Barossa and the return of the Norwood Food & Wine Festival. Come for the footy, stay for the holiday—explore SA’s wine regions, bustling bars, and late-night eats.
Soak up all the footy action with every game, right here in South Australia.
Who says you need to spend money to have a good time! There's no shortage of free events for kids in Adelaide. Join your local community for a stroll around a local market, enjoy dancing to live music, lay out a picnic rug at a park event or food truck festival, take a free tour. If you're looking for things to do in Adelaide for free with your little peeps, check here to find events that won't cost you a cent! School holidays don’t have to cost a fortune either. Museums, shopping centres, councils and community centers are just a few of the places who host FREE and FUN programs, activities and events that won’t break the bank. There’s FREE sports, arts and crafts, science, nature play activities, workshops, family days and more. Find a FREE school holiday event below.
We will be doing our best to keep up with updating our website with cancelled or postponed events during this time. Please let us know via FB message if you have an event on our website that needs updating.
In case you missed the memo, it's going to be a HOT weekend so we thought we'd give you a few ideas where and how to stay out of the heat and cool those kids down. Go See a Movie There are a few kids movies to choose from showing at Event Marion this weekend. Click here to see what's onA Dog's Way Home (PG)Flying the Nest (G)How To Train Your Dragon (PG)Spiderman (PG)Storm Boy (PG)Ralph Breaks the Internet (PG)Check out the Saver and Family Saver sessions where you can catch a movie for as little as SIX BUCKS! Visit a Museum We have so many great museums here in Adelaide and whether your kids are into planes, train, cars, boats, history, animals there's something for everyone. Click here to read more about our many museum Wild Rumpus is on Saturday and Sunday at the National Wine Centre Find a Fringe Show in an Air Conditioned Venue Don't forget the Adelaide Fringe is happening all over Adelaide, not just in the city and there are quite a few venues that are air conditioned. The Best Worst Kids Birthday Party is at The Griffins HotelJelly or Jam - Little Theatre at…
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