Fireworks to mark arts festival anniversary

Updated Sat Feb 27, 2010 1:36pm AEDT

Arts Minister and Premier Mike Rann is encouraging families to come to the free event. (ABC News : Keith Andrew)

A French pyrotechnics company will light up the sky in Adelaide tonight with a fireworks display in Victoria Park from 8:45pm (ACDT).

The company Groupe F will create a 45-minute display to mark the 50th anniversary of the Adelaide Festival of Arts.

Arts Minister and Premier Mike Rann is encouraging families to come to the free event.

"It's just an extraordinary group, they did the Eiffel Tower for the millennium night, they did the Athens Olympic Games, they also did the New Years celebrations in London," he said.

"So we're talking about a display in the sky over Victoria Park of the likes of which we haven't seen in South Australia before, it's a free event."

Tags: community-and-society, community-and-multicultural-festivals, sa, adelaide-5000

First posted Sat Feb 27, 2010 1:19pm AEDT