Cardboard City
2025-04-23 10:00 - 18:00, 2025-04-24 10:00 - 18:00, 2025-04-25 10:00 - 18:00 (Australia/Adelaide) | Nautilus Art Centre, 66 Tasman Terrace, Port Lincoln, South Australia, 5606, Australia
Returning to Port Lincoln for the 2025 SALT Festival, Cardboard City invites children, parents, and local artists to transform humble cardboard into a vibrant, imaginative community.
Join us for this hands-on, family-friendly event where regional South Australian artists guide participants in creating incredible sculptures, buildings, and artworks—all made from cardboard! Whether you’re a seasoned creator or a curious beginner, Cardboard City promises an unforgettable experience of collaboration and creativity.
Opening Times:
Saturday 19th – Sunday 27th
10am – 1pm and 2pm – 6pm
Please note Sunday 27th will close at 1pm

The Collaboration
2025-04-23 10:30 - 15:30, 2025-04-24 10:30 - 15:30, 2025-04-25 10:30 - 15:30 | United We Made It, 5-7 Harwill Court, Port Lincoln, SA, 5606, Australia
United We Made It has been working as a team to create artworks using many different mediums. Many are large and use recycled materials. The pieces are very different and unique and show imagination and individuality while they have been created by the whole team.
Please join us to enjoy the works created through collaboration.

ABC My Place
2025-04-23 12:00 - 22:00, 2025-04-24 12:00 - 22:00, 2025-04-25 12:00 - 22:00 | Jumpship Brewing, 11-13 Edinburgh Street, Port Lincoln, 5606, Australia
In the wake of the My Place exhibition in 2024 ABC Eyre Peninsula team brings you the chance to get arty with Salty Spaces. Where is your favourite salt space? Is it an inland dry lake, is it in the salt damp rising in your grandparents brick home, or perhaps in your unrinsed wetsuit in the back of the ute after a particularly good surf session. This year we want you to get visual and in paint, pen, pencil, ink or multi-media create a representation of your favourite.

Stacker Rings
2025-04-23 16:00 - 18:00, 2025-04-24 16:00 - 18:00 | ArtEyrea, 25 Mortlock Terrace, Port Lincoln, SA, 5606, Australia
Create a set of three custom sterling silver stacker rings in this hands-on workshop. Silversmith Jasmine Swales will guide you through various techniques including sawing, forming, soldering, texturing, and polishing, to help you craft a personalised set of rings to fit your measurements.
No prior experience required.

Any Colour You Like
2025-04-23 19:00 - 20:00 | Nautilus Art Centre, 66 Tasman Terrace, Port Lincoln, South Australia, 5606, Australia
Any colour You Like’ is a solo dance performance exploring Pink Floyd’s renowned Dark Side of the Moon album, translating the bridge of sound to motion. Just like the album itself having no distinct explanation, the audience may be left simmering on their own ideas once consuming the experience. After years of ploughing through the album for a deeper meaning of the human experience, themes such as mortality, the delicate balance of the sun and moon and the emphasis of requiring darkness to understand light emerge. The sounds and subjects wake this innate reaction in the body, actualised through performance art, create an visceral environment for audiences to spiral into existential, deep questioning.

Love Notes To The Laundromat
2025-04-24 09:00 - 15:00, 2025-04-25 09:00 - 15:00, 2025-04-26 09:00 - 15:00 | Nautilus Art Centre, 66 Tasman Terrace, Port Lincoln, South Australia, 5606, Australia
Love Notes to the Laundromat is a celebration of the shared spaces that bring people together. Part creative response, part placemaking experiment, Love Notes to the Laundromat began as a collection of love notes written by local artist Eliza Wuttke to Third Places across Port Lincoln. A third place is a communal space outside of home and work or school where people spend time, common examples include places like the library, cafes and parks as well as more obscure spaces where people pass time, like the laundromat on a wet Sunday evening.
Love Notes to the Laundromat was first shown at SALT Festival in 2024 before visiting Barmera for SALA Festival. What began as an experiment in place attachment has now grown into an ongoing project centered on celebrating connection, community and the places that we gather.
Visitors to the exhibition are invited to pause, read the notes left b0y others and add their own love note to the slowly growing collection.

Feature Exhibition: This Moment
2025-04-24 09:00 - 22:00, 2025-04-25 09:00 - 22:00 | Nautilus Art Centre, 66 Tasman Terrace, Port Lincoln, South Australia, 5606, Australia
This moment is a snap shot of the world through the eyes of our young people. A curated collection of work by local artists aged 12 -26.
This moment is a provocation and an invitation to audiences. It’s a moment to pause, to listen, to reflect and to act. This moment is the one that creates the future.
Like the SALT Festival Feature exhibitions that came before it, This Moment, is a must-see. Open in the SALT Shaker for the duration of the festival.

Red Brolly Studio
2025-04-24 09:00 - 22:00, 2025-04-25 09:00 - 22:00 | Nautilus Art Centre, 66 Tasman Terrace, Port Lincoln, South Australia, 5606, Australia
Red Brolly Studio presents an exhibition of varied scale and content. Large,ceramic sculptures explore the power of facial expression and unspoken communication. Paradoxically, at the same time they emit a calm silence.
Fired in a gas kiln to 1300c with crackle and ash glazes. You can’t help wanting to feel them. At the other end of the spectrum various themes are pursued with oil on canvas.
Quirky paintings, frivolously explore what are often the hard won lessons of our lives. It started with “The Rabbit of Truth”, and 20 paintings later finished with “Dare to be Playful”. Recently inspiration has come from Tumby Bay and the significance of its channel markers. These works certainly lean on the abstract side. My natural tendency is to ‘tidy things up’, but some of the artists I most admire, achieve engagement, boldness and messy all at the same time. Like my first foray into ceramic sculpture, I am finding it is not as easy as one would think Every painting is a teacher

Evolving Horizons
2025-04-24 10:00 - 17:00, 2025-04-25 10:00 - 17:00 | Boston Bay Winery, 615 Lincoln Hwy, Boston, South Australia, 5607, Australia
e are thrilled to present ‘Evolving Horizons’ a dynamic, multi-sensory art experience led by renowned visual artist Thom Buchanan in collaboration with Boston Bay Wines. Throughout the festival, Thom will engage audiences in a variety of activities, both free and paid, that will showcase his exceptional talent while highlighting the interplay of art and community.
Festival goers can look forward to a captivating exhibition of Thom’s past and present works, an immersive workshop “Collaborative Creativity: Crafting a Shared Vision” for youth and adults, and a mesmerizing live mural painting of a 20 foot shipping container over 3 consecutive days – offering festival-goers a rare chance to witness Thom’s creative process as it unfolds before their eyes. This will culminate in an outdoor ‘Gala Event’ featuring locally produced wines, delicious food and a visual/sonic duel between Thom Buchanan and a local musician.
‘Evolving Horizons’ is more than just an art event; it is a celebration

Megafauna of the Great Southern Reef VR Experience
2025-04-24 10:30 - 15:30, 2025-04-25 10:30 - 15:30 | Nautilus Art Centre, 66 Tasman Terrace, Port Lincoln, South Australia, 5606, Australia
Megafauna of the Great Southern Reef! Experience the magic of the Great Southern Reef like never before with our immersive VR headset event!
Join us for an extraordinary virtual dive, featuring stunning 360° footage of iconic marine life, including grey nurse sharks, humpback whales, eagle rays, dolphins, sea dragons, octopus and more! This unique experience is brought to you by Experiencing Marine Sanctuaries, and acclaimed 360° underwater videographer and storyteller, Carl Charter.
Event Highlights:
Great Southern Reef MEGAfauna: Marvel at the majestic marine giants that inhabit the Great Southern Reef, from humpback whales and grey nurse sharks to sea lions, eagle rays, and playful bottlenose dolphins. Learn about their essential role in the ecosystem.

Upwelling
2025-04-24 18:00 - 22:00 | Nautilus Art Centre, 66 Tasman Terrace, Port Lincoln, South Australia, 5606, Australia
Experience the best of the Eyre Peninsula’s world-class seafood at Upwelling, a one-of-a-kind dining event at SALT Festival. This special feast brings together top local chefs, Jay Fajardo from Santi’s, Nic Carlsn from Hotel Boston and a Mystery Suprise Chef! Who will collaborate to create an unforgettable menu featuring King Fish, Oysters, Prawns, Abalone, Sardines, and more.
Set against the stunning Port Lincoln coast, Upwelling is a celebration of the region’s rich seafood industry, sustainable practices, and culinary excellence. Proudly supported by the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association, Spencer Gulf Prawn Association, South Australian Oyster Growers Association, Eyre Peninsula Seafood, Cleanseas, and the Sardine Association, this is an unmissable event for food lovers.

ANZAC Day Commemorations Copy
2025-04-25 06:00 - 17:00 | Port Lincoln RSL, 14 Hallett Place, Port Lincoln, SA, 5606, Australia
ANZAC Day Commemorations
Join us as we commemorate and honour those who have served and sacrificed for our community.
📍 Dawn Service – 6:30 AM at Eyre Park Memorial🥞 Gunfire Breakfast – from 7:15 AM at the clubrooms ($5 per head)
🎖 Mid-Morning Parade – Marching along Hallett Place to Eyre Park Memorial. The Salute will be taken in front of the RSL Hall, followed by the Mid-Morning Ceremony. Emergency Services & First Responders are invited to participate.
🎉 Festivities continue at the clubrooms until late with traditional games, including Two-Up.
📻 Can’t make it in person? Tune in to 5CC for a live broadcast of the Dawn Service.
Lest We Forget.

Sea Country Knowledges and Marine Art
2025-04-25 10:30 - 11:30 | Nautilus Art Centre, 66 Tasman Terrace, Port Lincoln, South Australia, 5606, Australia
Join Aunty Emma and daughter Lyndah of Maba Idi Cultural Services as they take you on a journey of seacountry discovery, share local cultural knowledges of the Barngarla and coastal people of the EP, explore coastal cultural sciences and creative arts activity’s, embrace and enjoy knowledges and dreaming of storytelling, ancient language and culture of Galinyala, Port Lincoln (Place of Sweet Water)

Behind The Songs - A Youth Songwriting Workshop with Jodi Martin
2025-04-25 11:00 - 12:00 | Nautilus Art Centre, 66 Tasman Terrace, Port Lincoln, South Australia, 5606, Australia
Join ARIA Award-winning songwriter Jodi Martin, from South Australia’s west coast, for a magical journey into the craft of storytelling through songs. Known for her heartfelt country-folk style, Jodi’s been following her dreams, honing her craft since age 3 and holds a BA in Contemporary Music Composition (SCU). Mentored by legends like Pat Pattison (Berkeley University), Arlo Guthrie, and Grammy-winner Steve Leslie, Jodi brings 25+ years of touring and songwriting expertise. She’s guided aspiring songwriters across Australia, helping create classics like ‘Malpa Wiru,’ ‘Ocean in My Soul’ and ‘Doing What I Love.’
Fresh off tours with her radio hits Country Mile and Tommy the Toyota, Jodi shares the stories behind her songs and reveals tools like sense-bound writing, structure, and metaphor to transform good songs into goosebumps. Whether you’re a beginner or advanced, Jodi’s passion will inspire you with fresh ideas, a fresh perspective, and the courage to honour the creator you are!

Friday Wine-Ups
2025-04-25 16:00 - 18:00 | Port Lincoln Hotel, 1 Lincoln Highway, Port Lincoln, 5606, Australia
EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT join us in Bayside from 4pm – 6pm!
$12 Eyrespresso Martini’s $7 House Wines
Stick around live music kicks off 8.30pm every Friday night!

Jodi Martin
2025-04-25 18:30 - 20:00 | Nautilus Art Centre, 66 Tasman Terrace, Port Lincoln, South Australia, 5606, Australia
Get ready to be swept away as South Australia’s own Jodi Martin hits the stage with her Never Say Die! Tour‘25. Known for a blend of heart, humour, and raw talent, Jodi delivers more than a show – it’s a journey through life, love, and stories that make us human.
Fresh from a stella national tour, 2025 marks Jodi’s debut book launch and an arsenal of singles from her 25th Anniversary Best Of Album, Jodi returns home with energy forged by open roads and shared stories. With soulful melodies & lyrics that linger, she turns every show into a heartfelt connection. Featuring songs like ABC Grassroots playlisted duet “Country Mile” with Lachlan Bryan and fan-favorites “Tommy the Toyota” and “Saltwater in my Hair.”
Described by Josh Cunningham of The Waifs as “heartwarming & honest,” Jodi’s live shows resonate deeply. Don’t miss this exclusive celebration of connection, resilience, and music that makes your heart sing.
Never Say Die! Tour‘25 – an unforgettable afternoon of stories & songs!

Gin, Oysters & Photography
2025-04-25 19:00 - 21:30 | Boston House, 25 Boston Street, Port Lincoln, South Australia, 5606, Australia
Indulge in a feast for the senses at Gin, Oysters & Photography—an evening of fine local gin, fresh oysters, and stunning photography, all set against the picturesque backdrop of Cobble and Stone at Boston House.
Sip on handcrafted gin, savor the freshest Eyre Peninsula oysters, and admire the work of talented local photographers in an atmosphere of elegance and charm. Whether you’re a gin enthusiast, an art lover, or simply looking for a memorable night out with friends and loved ones, this event is the perfect way to celebrate the region’s incredible artistry and produce.

Join us for an unforgettable evening of taste, beauty, and community.
