IAF Fundraising Events 2025 - Everyone Welcome
The IAF is run entirely by volunteers and all money raised goes to supporting emerging artists in South Australia
If you would like to support the arts in South Australia, please join us. Event listings below in date order
All proceeds go to supporting emerging artists in South Australia!
The Independent Arts Foundation thanks ticket buyers in advance for paying the ticket fee and purchasing fees
Literary Dinner Tuesday 17th June
Tim Reeves has published widely in the general and academic press, and is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of South Australia. His books include the award-winning 100 Canberra Houses: A century of capital architecture (co-authored with Alan Roberts), Winning Homes: 75 Australian house design competitions and The Death of Dr Duncan (also from Wakefield Press). His newly released book is Adelaide Modernism: 101 houses.
Modernism was a movement that swept the world and dramatically impacted Australia's built environment in the process.
This book explores 101 Adelaide modernist houses over 35 years from 1939 to 1974, many of them outstanding examples of the style. Featuring over 50 suburbs and over 70 architects - with nearly half their own home - designs comprise stunning bespoke houses but also blocks of flats as well as public and project housing, and competition entries. Tickets are $40 for IAF members and $45 for non-members. The price includes a choice of main course, a quiz, and an entertaining speaker. To book, click here or use the QR code opposite.
This book explores 101 Adelaide modernist houses over 35 years from 1939 to 1974, many of them outstanding examples of the style. Featuring over 50 suburbs and over 70 architects - with nearly half their own home - designs comprise stunning bespoke houses but also blocks of flats as well as public and project housing, and competition entries. Tickets are $40 for IAF members and $45 for non-members. The price includes a choice of main course, a quiz, and an entertaining speaker. To book, click here or use the QR code opposite.
Literary Dinner 15th July
Our next Literary Dinner on 15th July 2025 will be at the Osmond Terrace Function Centre, Norwood Hotel at 6.30pm
Our next speaker is John Davis, author of Harry Hodgetts:The flawed broker behind Don Bradman's move to Adelaide. From 'Big Shot' to 'Swindler'. From 'palatial two-storey Kensington Park home' to 'the cold cells of Adelaide Gaol'. Racier newspapers gloated when Harry Hodgetts was convicted of fraud and false pretences in September 1945.
Hodgetts was Adelaide's leading stockbroker, with 4000 clients, including a governor and governor-general. He gave outstanding service to lacrosse and cricket, educational institutions and the Royal Institute for the Blind but he is best remembered as the man who struck a deal to have the young Don Bradman move to Adelaide, play cricket for South Australia and work part-time in his office.
How did things go so wrong for Hodgetts? With his wealth of historical knowledge, John Davis has written the complex and riveting story of this hard-working, gifted social climber, his fall into bankruptcy and a prison cell, and the scandal that haunted Bradman's reputation. About the author Raised and educated in Adelaide, South Australia, John Davis taught History, Australian Studies and Theory of Knowledge at Pembroke School, Kensington Park, and is a life member and a former trustee. He is the author of Principles and Pragmatism, a history of Pembroke School and its antecedents - Girton Girls' School and King's College. In retirement, he volunteered at the History Trust of South Australia and at Pembroke School. In 2014, the school published his updated second edition of Principles and Pragmatism. When researching the history of Girton in 1989, he first learned of Harry Hodgetts and his intriguing life story. To book, click here, or use the QR code opposite
Our next speaker is John Davis, author of Harry Hodgetts:The flawed broker behind Don Bradman's move to Adelaide. From 'Big Shot' to 'Swindler'. From 'palatial two-storey Kensington Park home' to 'the cold cells of Adelaide Gaol'. Racier newspapers gloated when Harry Hodgetts was convicted of fraud and false pretences in September 1945.
Hodgetts was Adelaide's leading stockbroker, with 4000 clients, including a governor and governor-general. He gave outstanding service to lacrosse and cricket, educational institutions and the Royal Institute for the Blind but he is best remembered as the man who struck a deal to have the young Don Bradman move to Adelaide, play cricket for South Australia and work part-time in his office.
How did things go so wrong for Hodgetts? With his wealth of historical knowledge, John Davis has written the complex and riveting story of this hard-working, gifted social climber, his fall into bankruptcy and a prison cell, and the scandal that haunted Bradman's reputation. About the author Raised and educated in Adelaide, South Australia, John Davis taught History, Australian Studies and Theory of Knowledge at Pembroke School, Kensington Park, and is a life member and a former trustee. He is the author of Principles and Pragmatism, a history of Pembroke School and its antecedents - Girton Girls' School and King's College. In retirement, he volunteered at the History Trust of South Australia and at Pembroke School. In 2014, the school published his updated second edition of Principles and Pragmatism. When researching the history of Girton in 1989, he first learned of Harry Hodgetts and his intriguing life story. To book, click here, or use the QR code opposite
John Davis
