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A road-worn guitar, a coconut horse, Jane Austen compositions and a karaoke bar turned art gallery.

We open with folk artist Katie Milae, fresh off the Goodness Me Festival and deep into her Art of Wildflowering tour. From road train childhoods to van-life songwriting, she unpacks music as medicine, movement, and connection, plus a glimpse of her long-awaited debut album.

Then it’s full absurdist throttle with the cast of Spamalot from the Metropolitan Musical Theatre Company. Expect Monty Python chaos, coconut percussion, and a reminder that great ensemble work is the backbone of any show (even one involving shrubbery).

We shift gears into classical and literary territory with Gillian Dooley, who brings Jane Austen set to music back to life, blending scholarship, performance, and new compositions that reveal Austen’s wit in an entirely new register.

Finally, we head into Chinatown for On Site, a boundary-pushing OSCA project curated by Kim Munro, Yusuf Ali Hayat and Alice McCool transforming a karaoke bar into an immersive, multi-room art experience. Think experimental film, sound works, audience participation and a reimagining of what an arts space can be.

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From indie music resistance to immersive painting and politically urgent cinema, this episode moves through art that refuses to sit still.

We’re joined in-studio by San Dragan, unpacking a bold move away from Spotify and toward a grounded, community-driven music career; one built on live performance, connection, and creative autonomy.

Then, artist Grace Harper takes us inside her Berlin residency and intuitive painting practice, where abstraction, emotion, and flow state collide in a deeply personal visual language shaped by memory, movement, and conversation with the canvas.

We also hear from Nasser Shakour, co-founder of the Palestinian Film Festival, on the power of film to build empathy and humanise stories beyond headlines.

And finally, ASO clarinetist and drifter Dean Newcomb brings two worlds together: classical music and motor racing, in a new concerto that captures adrenaline, risk, and performance across disciplines.

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Post-Fringe, the Arts Garden resets.

In Episode 10, we trace the threads of creativity across generations, forms, and philosophies, moving from Adelaide’s jazz lineage to the radical history of modernist art, and into the inner worlds of sound, voice, and meaning.

🎷 We’re joined in-studio by James Muller and Lyndon Gray of The Exhibits, ahead of their upcoming album launch. They reflect on collaboration, creative renewal, and building the next wave of jazz musicians through the Elder Conservatorium.

🎨 We revisit the legacy of Max Harris and the Angry Penguins movement with Samela Harris, exploring censorship, resistance, and the long arc of artistic defiance that still shapes Adelaide’s cultural identity today.

🎶 Spiritual author Alana Fairchild joins us to talk about music as regulation, voice as power, and how sound and ritual can help us navigate uncertainty in a rapidly shifting world.

🌏 Plus:

• Stephanie Rowe about a global poetry movement redefining publishing norms
• Brand SA's partnership with The Mill supporting South Australian artists
• SALA Festival registrations open for 2026

Mad March may end but the ecosystem doesn’t. What’s left is the deeper work: sustaining creativity, challenging systems, and finding meaning in the noise.