WOMADelaide Reveals The Planet Talks 2026 Program
WOMADelaide’s flagship three-day forum returns to the festival’s Frome Park Pavilion.
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WOMADelaide’s three day fourm The Planet Talks returns in 2026 with a host of international and local voices encouraging inspiring conversations on sustainability and the environment.
Taking place at Frome Park Pavilion from Saturday to Monday, The Planet Talks lineup features a total of 18 speakers, including multi-Walkley-winning journalist and author Marian Wilkinson, environmental scientist and advocate Tim Jarvis AM, leading Maori earth systems scientist Dan Hikuroa and UNICEF Pacific Ambassador Moemoana Schwenke.
Expect in-depth discussion around the state of the planet and how to sustain it from a range of speakers from all walks of life, including First Nations leaders, award-winning investigative journalists, leading scientists and more.
Check out some of the highlights of this year’s The Planet Talks 2026 program below.
River Listening
An exploration of how listening to rivers can transform our relationship with water, panellists share stories and strategies for protecting waterways through more-than-human perspectives and First Nations leadership.
Panellists: Dan Hikuroa, Grant Rigney and Leah Barclay
Moderator: Jo Schulman
Ocean’s Calling
From historical narratives to devastating modern algal blooms, and from polar expeditions to the futures of our coasts, an invitation to reckon with and act to protect our deep blue seas.
Panellists: Joy McCann, Tim Jarvis and Dominic Mcafee
Facilitator: Andy Lowe
Information Wars
How disinformation, fossil fuel influence, and deepening polarisation are undermining democracy and delaying climate action.
Panellists: Marian Wilkinson, Christian Downie and Don Watson
Moderator: Sarah Martin
Brave New Futures
From radical storytelling to ecological activism and speculative design, how do we reconnect with the natural world while navigating the digital one.
Panellists: Grace Vegesana, Richard King and Clare Marshall
Moderator: Lee Constable
Wayfinding Climate Justice
Pacific communities have long led the global climate fight. Hear how through the myriad of ways Pacific peoples have continued to shape the global response to climate change.
Panellists: Fenton Lutunatabua, Moemoana Schwenke and ‘Alopi Latukefu
Moderator: Tukini Tavui
No One Left Behind
What does a just climate transition looks like? Where workers, communities, and everyday lives are supported through change, not sacrificed to it.
Panellists: Sharan Burrow, Karrina Nolan and Rebecca Huntley
Moderator: Tory Shepherd
Tickets and more information can be found at womadelaide.com.au.
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The 2026 edition of WOMADelaide will feature more than 600 artists in 69 groups from 38 countries, highlighting the diversity of WOMAD and why it is constantly rated as one of the world’s best festivals.
Taking place across four days at Adelaide’s Botanic Park/Tainmuntilla over the March long weekend (6-9), the diverse lineup includes ‘80s disco and soul legend Grace Jones, hip hop trailblazers Arrested Development, legendary Aussie group Yothu Yindi, Canadian jazz-fusion outfit BADBADNOTGOOD, Yolngu rapper and dancer Baker Boy, American gospel family band Annie & The Caldwells and many more.
WOMADelaide is held on Kaurna Land at Botanic Park/Tainmuntilla from Friday 6 March to Monday 9 March. Tickets on sale now via womadeliade.com.
WOMADElaide 2026 Lineup
Åkervinda (Sweden)
Alcides Neto (Brazil/AUS)
Alfio Antico & Go Dugong (Italy)
Alogte Oho & His Sounds of Joy (Ghana)
Annahstasia (USA)
Annie & The Caldwells (USA)
Any Young Mechanic (AUS)
Arrested Development (USA)
Ashkan Shafiei (Iran/AUS)
Asmâa Hamzaoui & Bnat Timbouktou (Morocco)
Australian Art Orchestra with Kojoe & Hikaru Tanaka — Raw Denshi (Japan/AUS)
BADBADNOTGOOD (Canada)
Baker Boy (AUS)
Balaganesan & Bageswari (India)
BARKAA (AUS)
Beoga (Ireland)
Bhutan Balladeers (Bhutan)
Blinky Bill (Kenya)
Bobby Alu (Samoa/AUS)
Born in a Taxi – Higher Order, Illuminati, Please Wait Here, Sleep Keepers & Zebras (AUS)
BVT (Philippines/AUS)
Chloe Loftus Dance – The Air Between Us (NZ/Belgium)
Cie Hors Surface – Le poids des Nuages & HOME, Damien Droin (France)
Crazy P (DJ set) (UK)
Daughters of Donbas (Ukraine/Canada)
Derya Yıldırım & Grup Şimşek (Germany)
Džambo Aguševi Orchestra (Macedonia)
Fantastic Negrito (USA)
Ganavya (India/USA)
GANNA (Ukraine)
Georgia Knight (AUS)
Grace Jones (Jamacia)
Iron & Wine (USA)
Jalen Ngonda (USA/UK)
Jovanotti (Italy)
Jyoty (UK)
KAIIT (PNG/AUS)
Kankawa Nagarra (AUS)
La Perla (Colombia)
The Lazy Eyes (AUS)
Lewis Major Projects – Triptych REDUX (AUS)
MĀ (NZ)
Mama Kin Spender (AUS)
Mantis (Vanuatu)
Marlon Williams (NZ)
Maryam Rahmani (Iran/AUS)
Meganesia (PNG/AUS/West Papua)
Megatronic (UK)
Mungo's Hi Fi feat. Eva Lazarus (UK)
MY BABY (The Netherlands/NZ)
My Chérie (South Africa/AUS)
Nattali Rize (AUS/Jamaica)
The Necks (AUS)
Nusantara Beat (The Netherlands)
Obongjayar (Nigeria/UK)
Orange Blossom (France)
Osadía (Spain)
Oumou Sangaré (Mali)
Roberto Fonseca (Cuba)
Rosas – Rosas danst Rosas, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker (Belgium)
Sama' Abdulhadi (Palestine)
SAN DRAGAN (Myanmar/China/AUS)
Stan's Café – Of All The People In All The World & The Commentators (UK)
Troy Cassar-Daley (AUS)
Xylourides (Greece)
YASHA (Japan/AUS)
Yothu Yindi (AUS)
Yuka Okazaki (Japan/France)
The Zawose Queens (Tanzania)
Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange (AUS)
