OPAL EVOLUTION is a grass roots community art and culture initiative, in Andamooka, South Australia that began in 2024. Conceived by local artist Leila Day, and developed in partnership with OSCA Artistic Director Paul Gazzola, its annual series of creative workshops and yearly festival event, focuses on the unique opal fields, the towns history, opalized fossils, ecological formations and its rich palaeontological connections of the area when it was once the inland Eromanga Sea over 100 million years ago.
By promoting cross-community collaboration and the fostering of artistic, cultural, and social engagement, Opal Evolution reignites and strengthens the bonds between people through a common purpose.
2026 OPAL EVOLUTION is on the 3rd October as part of the 2026 Nature Festival. MORE INFO HERE
Also check out the Andamooka Airport Kaleidoscope Garden Party on the same day
Come along and take part in this new and exciting regional festival of light, projection, visual art and community parades that brings outstanding local and regional SA artists and community together.
CURRENT and PAST WORKSHOPS
- Digital Drawing with Laura Wills / April 2023
- Projection Design with Nic Mollison / May 2024
- Lighting Design with Nic Mollison / Jun 2024
- Costume making and mobile puppets with Tony Hannan / July 2024
- Digital Drawing with Amber Archdale / Every Sunday from the 8th to 29 Sept
- Inflatable sculptures with Tony Hannan / 14 & 15 Sept
- Lighting and projection design with Nic Mollison / 3 – 5 Oct
- Mobile puppets, inflatables, costumes and parade with Tony Hannan / 1 – 5 Oct
- PLUS MORE! STAY TUNED
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We would also like to acknowledge the growing number of event sponsors
- Andamooka Observatory
- Dukes Bottle House Motel, Andamooka
- BSH Waste Solutions, Roxby Downs
- Kinetic, Olympic Dam
- Olympic Dam Football Club
- Roxby Downs Council
- Roxby link, Roxby Downs
- Kennards Hire, Roxby Downs
- Raine and Horne, Roxby Downs
- Andamooka Opal showroom and Underground Opal and mineral museum
- Andamooka Primary School
- Andamooka Community Library
- Roxby Link Library
- Cal the Stoner
- The Tuckabox Hotel
- Arid Recovery
