Events around South Australia in 2025

bp Adelaide Grand Final, cars at the starting line with spectators.
Get your heart racing at this year’s bp Adelaide Grand Final. Image: South Australian Motorsport Board

Each month, sa move brings you our pick of SA events that everyone should have on their calendar.

November 2025

Wondering what to do to fill the warm days and nights of November? Here’s your guide to events happening in SA this month.

1. Feast Festival

When: 1–23 November
Where: Various locations

A feast for the senses and a toast to diversity, Adelaide’s LGBTQIA+ arts and cultural festival is back for another fabulous serving. From fierce fashion parades and drag bingo to book launches and craft workshops, the talented Feast Festival artists will take you on a heartfelt journey as they champion pride, inclusion and equality.

Gather your tribe for the free, all-ages Picnic in the Park, sit at Don’s Table to learn more about the part Don Dunstan played in the festival, or enjoy a night out at the cinema, with movies celebrating and uplifting the stories of the queer community. RAA members can also join the team from RAA taking part in the Pride March on 1 November.

2. RAA Foodbank Food Drive

When: 1–30 November
Where: Various locations

Skipping meals, reducing portion sizes or going entirely without food for days is a reality for more than 150,000 South Australians each month, with one in three of them children. 2025 marks the fifth year of the RAA Foodbank Food Drive helping families most at risk of food poverty in SA.

Across November, the RAA Mobile Food Hub will visit select shopping centres in Adelaide to collect donations of non-perishable goods for those in need. You can also drop off donations at select RAA Shops – look out for the purple bins in-store. Every donation counts, and will be shared with people and families who need it most.

RAA staff pushing trolley with tins of food to donate
Donate during November and help people and families experiencing food poverty. Image: RAA

3. National Pharmacies Christmas Pageant

When: 8 November
Where:
Adelaide CBD

What happens when you mix clowns, bagpipes, elves, choirs, enormous moving theatrical sets and the jolliest present giver in the world? You get the National Pharmacies Christmas Pageant – the largest in the Southern Hemisphere.

Dust off your tinsel and get your waving arm ready to welcome Father Christmas and his many helpers. The magical parade will jingle all the way through the heart of the city, concluding at Beehive Corner in Rundle Mall. Don’t miss this sleigh-load of fun for the whole family.

Christmas pageant float in Adelaide
The holiday season has officially started in Adelaide once the pageant has come to town. Image: SATC

4. Adelaide Strikers

When: 14 November – 17 January
Where:
Adelaide Oval

Don’t be caught out when the cricket season kicks off this November. RAA’s proud to be a new major partner of the Adelaide Strikers and to celebrate, there are loads of member offers to get you to every BBL and WBBL game for less.

Enjoy exclusive member game-day experiences, two-for-one tickets and ticket upgrade offers thanks to your RAA membership. You can even ring in the New Year with 10 per cent off all hospitality options when Adelaide takes on the Brisbane Heat, followed by a post-match light and sound spectacular featuring big hitters Birds of Tokyo. Howzat!

Adelaide Oval with fireworks during an Adelaide Strikers New Years Eve game.
You’ll be bowled over by the offers for RAA member. Image: South Australian Cricket Association

5. Sunset on Seppeltsfield Road

When: 21 November
Where: Seppeltsfield Road, Barossa Valley

Picture yourself gazing at the Barossa’s iconic palm trees as they become silhouettes against the pink and purple sunset sky. There are local producers and artisans nestled amongst the stretch of trees, offering the region’s finest food, wine and beverages.

Spend a fruitful evening sipping, savouring and strolling Sunset on Seppeltsfield Road. Now in its third vintage and continues to get better with age. The region is ripe for exploring, so why not make a weekend of it

6. South Australian Screen Awards Red Carpet Gala

When: 22 November
Where: Mercury Cinema, Morphett Street

Be ‘scene’ on the red carpet celebrating this year’s best screen works from the South Australia’s film industry. See emerging local talent and revered established movie makers in the spotlight at the South Australian Screen Awards (SASA) Red Carpet Gala as they showcase their work across several categories.

SASA will present awards for various categories, including Grand Jury Prize (Best Short), The Mercury Legend Award and Best Feature. To celebrate, RAA members will be able to enter a competition (running from 27 October to 9 November) to win tickets to the movies, as well as save on tickets and 12-month subscriptions. And the winner is…

7. bp Adelaide Grand Final

When: 27–30 November
Where: Victoria Park/Pakapakanthi

Buckle up for an action-packed, high-octane weekend of motorsport and music (pictured, top of page). From the RAA Grandstand, see who’ll go from zero (kilometres per hour) to hero at the bp Adelaide Grand Final.

Australia’s best supercar drivers race for glory on Adelaide’s iconic street circuit, tackling the iconic Turn 14 – now called RAA corner. Following the race, you’ll be thunderstruck by this year’s concert headliners, as AC/DC and Lenny Kravitz take to the stage. On your marks RAA members, get set and go to RAA Rewards for exclusive offers and competitions.

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