WEA adult learning

06/09/2026

LEARNING JAPANESE ISN’T JUST FOR THE GROWN-UPS!

Know a young person who loves Japan, is fascinated by Japanese culture, or would love to learn the language?

Japanese for Fun and Travel is one of the WEA courses now open to younger learners! 🎉

👧 Students aged 12–13 can enrol when accompanied by an adult who is also enrolled in the course.

🙋 Students aged 14–18 can enrol and attend on their own.

So this could be a fantastic opportunity for a young person to start learning Japanese independently, or something for a parent, grandparent or other adult to learn alongside them.

This friendly introductory course is all about practical Japanese. Students will learn greetings and everyday phrases, how to order food and drinks, go shopping, ask questions, use language for hotels and transport, and begin reading and writing Japanese.

There are conversations, role plays, exercises and games along the way, plus plenty of fascinating insights into Japanese culture, etiquette and traditions. 🇯🇵

The course is taught by Emiko Kobashi, who was born and raised in Japan and has extensive experience teaching Japanese to learners of all ages.

And adults are still very welcome too!

📅 Tuesdays from 13 October, 5:00pm–7:00pm
OR
📅 Thursdays from 15 October, 10:00am–12:00pm
📚 8 weeks x 2 hours
📍 WEA Centre, Adelaide

Age eligibility is based on the student’s age on the first day of the course.

👉 Find out more and enrol at https://wea-sa.com.au/63301

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☎ 8223 1979
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03/09/2026

🎁 WHAT DO YOU GET DAD FOR FATHER’S DAY?

Another pair of socks? A new coffee mug? Or how about something you can actually enjoy together? 😊

With Father’s Day this Sunday, why not give Dad an experience this year and book yourselves into a WEA course?

Learn to cook something delicious together, try your hand at a new creative skill, learn a language, discover some fascinating history, take up a new hobby or choose something completely outside your comfort zones.

The best part? You get to spend some quality time together while learning something new and having a bit of fun along the way. 💙

Not sure what Dad would choose?

🎁 A WEA Gift Voucher lets him browse hundreds of courses and pick his own next adventure.

So this Father’s Day, skip the socks and give Dad something a little different.

👉 Browse upcoming courses or purchase a gift voucher on the WEA website.

And if you find a course you’d both love, why not book two places and make some memories together?

📘 Where learning meets belonging
📲 https://www.wea-sa.com.au
☎ 8223 1979
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02/09/2026

🎉 WEA ISN'T JUST FOR GROWN-UPS ANYMORE!

If the new WEA Course Guide has just landed in your letterbox, you might notice something NEW as you start browsing... 👀

For the first time in many years, selected WEA courses are now open to students under 18!

For more than 110 years, WEA has been a place where South Australians can follow their curiosity, discover new interests and learn simply because they want to. Now we're delighted to extend that opportunity to younger learners too.

Perhaps there’s a budding artist in your family who’d love to try portrait drawing, photography, watercolour, illustration or Pop Art. A future traveller keen to learn French or Japanese. A young strategist ready to try their hand at chess, or someone who’d love to learn more about social media. They could even get creative in the kitchen and build their own 3D gingerbread house!

It's also a great opportunity for parents, grandparents and other family members to enrol and enjoy learning something new together. 💙

Look for the U18 symbol throughout the new Course Guide, then check the individual course description on the website for the applicable age and attendance requirements.

👉 Explore the new course guide here: https://online.flippingbook.com/view/644821235/

So, when you're deciding what YOU might like to learn next, pass the guide around the family too.

Because curiosity doesn't have an age limit. 💙

📘 Where learning meets belonging
📲 https://www.wea-sa.com.au
☎ 8223 1979
🚶‍♂️ 223 Angas Street, Adelaide

WEA Course Guide

01/09/2026

📬 TODAY’S THE DAY!

Keep an eye on your letterbox because the brand-new WEA Course Guide is being distributed across metropolitan Adelaide from today! 🎉

And this edition is packed with reasons to start planning your next learning adventure.

✨ 50 brand-new courses
🎨 Creative arts, craft and textiles
🍴 Food and cooking
🌏 Languages, history and travel
💼 Business and personal development
🌿 Health, wellbeing, gardening and recreation
🎭 Performing arts and plenty more

There are new courses covering everything from Sinhala and Italian to dragon boating, watercolour, acting, textile arts, business, cooking, history and armchair travel. And, for the first time, you’ll also spot the U18 symbol throughout the guide, identifying selected courses now open to younger learners.

There really is something for almost every curiosity.

📖 If your copy hasn’t arrived yet, or you’re outside our metropolitan Adelaide distribution area, you don’t have to miss out. You can browse the new September–December Course Guide online now.

👉 Click here to explore the brand-new course guide: https://online.flippingbook.com/view/644821235/

Now comes the hard part... deciding what to enrol in first! 💙

📘 Where learning meets belonging
📲 https://www.wea-sa.com.au
☎ 8223 1979
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01/09/2026

📬 TODAY’S THE DAY!

Keep an eye on your letterbox because the brand-new WEA Course Guide is being distributed across metropolitan Adelaide from today! 🎉

And this edition is packed with reasons to start planning your next learning adventure.

✨ 50 brand-new courses
🎨 Creative arts, craft and textiles
🍴 Food and cooking
🌏 Languages, history and travel
💼 Business and personal development
🌿 Health, wellbeing, gardening and recreation
🎭 Performing arts and plenty more

There are new courses covering everything from Sinhala and Italian to dragon boating, watercolour, acting, textile arts, business, cooking, history and armchair travel. And, for the first time, you’ll also spot the U18 symbol throughout the guide, identifying selected courses now open to younger learners.

There really is something for almost every curiosity.

📖 If your copy hasn’t arrived yet, or you’re outside our metropolitan Adelaide distribution area, you don’t have to miss out. You can browse the new September–December Course Guide online now at the link in our bio.

Now comes the hard part... deciding what to enrol in first! 💙

📘 Where learning meets belonging
📲 https://www.wea-sa.com.au
☎ 8223 1979
🚶‍♂️ 223 Angas Street, Adelaide

31/08/2026

✈️ WE’RE HIRING! JOIN THE WEA TRAVEL TEAM

Are you an experienced travel professional with a passion for creating memorable journeys?

WEA Adult Learning is looking for a Senior Travel Consultant to join our Adelaide-based team and help develop and deliver our educational and cultural tours throughout Australia and around the world. 🌏

This varied role includes developing and coordinating tour itineraries, working with travel suppliers and tour leaders, assisting our guests with enquiries and bookings, and helping to grow the WEA Travel program.

We’re looking for someone with travel industry experience, excellent geographical and tourism knowledge, great organisational and communication skills, and a genuine love of working with people.

📍 Based at WEA Adult Learning, 223 Angas Street, Adelaide
⏰ Permanent part-time
📆 Available for immediate start
📅 Applications close 5pm, Sunday 6 September 2026

Know someone who would be perfect for the role? Please tag them or share this post with them!

👉 For further information or to apply, visit https://au.seek.com/job/94128395

30/08/2026

✈️ NEW WEA TRAVEL TOUR: KATI THANDA – LAKE EYRE & THE FLINDERS RANGES

There are some sights that really need to be seen from the air to appreciate their sheer scale, and Kati Thanda – Lake Eyre is certainly one of them.

Join WEA Travel in June 2027 for a spectacular five-day journey into South Australia’s outback, combining the natural beauty of the Flinders Ranges with an extended scenic flight over Australia’s largest ephemeral lake. Every passenger on the 12-seat aircraft will have a window seat as you take in incredible views over Kati Thanda – Lake Eyre, the Marree Man and Cooper Creek.

Along the way, you’ll also explore some wonderful outback destinations, including:

🌿 Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden
🚂 Historic Quorn
🏞️ Aroona Dam and Leigh Creek
🐪 Marree and its fascinating outback history
🏚️ The historic settlement of Farina
🍴 The famous Prairie Hotel at Parachilna
⛰️ Rawnsley Park and Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park
🏡 Old Wilpena Station
⛏️ Blinman
📸 Stokes Hill Lookout
🎨 Hawker and the Jeff Morgan Gallery
🌿 Clare Valley

Accommodation includes Rawnsley Park Station on the edge of Wilpena Pound, with the tour fully escorted and transport, accommodation, sightseeing, entrance fees and meals as specified in the itinerary included.

📅 8–12 June 2027
🚌 5 days
💰 $5,590 twin share
🛏️ Single supplement $480
👤 Tour Host & Leader: Kim Pierce

If seeing Kati Thanda – Lake Eyre from above has been sitting on your Australian travel wish list, this could be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for.

👉 Find the full itinerary and tour details here: https://www.wea-sa.com.au/tour-473

✈ WEA Travel is a licensed travel agency offering small group, fully escorted, interstate and overseas cultural and educational tours

📲 https://www.wea-sa.com.au/tours.php
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27/08/2026

🎶 Small instrument. Big fun!

There’s a reason the ukulele has become such a popular instrument around the world. It’s portable, approachable for complete beginners and, perhaps best of all, incredibly social.

Learning in a group makes it even more enjoyable. You can practise chords and strumming together, play familiar songs, learn from each other and have a few laughs along the way. There’s no pressure to be perfect, just plenty of encouragement as everyone develops their skills.

At WEA, we have ukulele courses for different stages of your musical journey:

🎵 Ukulele Basics – Level 1
Never picked up a ukulele before? Start here! Over four weeks, you’ll learn five of the most useful chords and three beginner-friendly strumming patterns. It’s a great way to give the ukulele a try.

🎵 Ukulele Basics – Level 2
Ready for a few more chords? Build on the skills from Level 1 while exploring new chords and strumming styles including island/calypso and reggae.

🎵 Ukulele: Chord Twins and More
For those with some experience, this course takes things further with more chords, common strumming patterns, tuning, reading song sheets and chord diagrams, all while playing plenty of songs together.

Your tutor is Dr Chris Waite, an experienced musician and trained ukulele teacher who is also the musical director of UkestraSA, a community ukulele orchestra.

Whether you’re looking for a new hobby, a musical challenge or simply a fun way to spend time with other people, perhaps it’s time to discover why the ukulele has so many fans. 🎶🌺

Search “ukulele” on the WEA website to find your next course.

📘 Where learning meets belonging
📲 https://www.wea-sa.com.au
☎ 8223 1979
🚶‍♂️ 223 Angas Street, Adelaide

26/08/2026

🏛️ A rare opportunity to step inside one of South Australia's historic treasures...

Dating back to 1840, Anlaby is one of South Australia's most significant historic estates and was once home to the wealthy Dutton pastoral family.

Now the property is up for sale, and what happens next is unknown. Public access may not continue under future ownership, making this WEA day tour a particularly special opportunity to experience Anlaby while you still can.

And there are just TWO dates available for this unique tour:

📅 Sunday 20 September
📅 Sunday 8 November

Join Dr Denis Binnion AM for a fascinating day exploring the history of the region before arriving at Anlaby, where you'll enjoy lunch in the historic stables followed by a tour inside the homestead with the current owners.

Along the way, you'll also:

⛪ Explore the early German Lutheran settlements of Freeling and picturesque Nain
🏘️ Discover historic Daveyston and its connections with Nain
📚 Learn about the region with extensive history notes prepared by Denis
🌿 Enjoy some free time in Kapunda on the return journey

With more than 40 years spent developing and leading historical tours throughout South Australia and around the world, former WEA CEO Denis Binnion brings an extraordinary depth of knowledge to the day.

Our Anlaby Lunch and House Tour offers something that may not be possible for much longer: the chance to step inside this remarkable property and experience an important piece of South Australian history before it changes hands.

🚌 Depart WEA Centre at 9:00am sharp
🏠 House tour and lunch included
🕠 Return approximately 5:35pm

If Anlaby has always been on your list of places to visit, this could be the time to do it.

Book your place now at https://www.wea-sa.com.au/67299

📘 Where learning meets belonging
📲 https://www.wea-sa.com.au
☎ 8223 1979
🚶‍♂️ 223 Angas Street, Adelaide

25/08/2026

✨ SPOTLIGHT ON SRI LANKA

Ancient cities, spectacular landscapes, incredible wildlife, fragrant cuisine, warm hospitality... and perhaps a few useful words of Sinhala!

This November, we're putting the spotlight on the Pearl of the Indian Ocean with two brand-new WEA courses exploring the language, culture and experiences of Sri Lanka.

🌴 Sri Lanka – The Pearl of the Indian Ocean
📅 Monday 2 November | 6:00pm – 9:00pm

Travel through Sri Lanka without leaving Adelaide! Discover ancient civilisations and UNESCO World Heritage Sites including Sigiriya, Dambulla, Anuradhapura and Kandy, journey through the tea plantations aboard the famous Blue Train, explore wildlife and beautiful coastal regions, and learn more about Sri Lankan food, festivals, music and everyday culture.

You'll also pick up plenty of practical insights for planning your own Sri Lankan adventure.

Find out more and enrol now at https://www.wea-sa.com.au/67146

🗣️ Sinhala Bare Essentials
📅 Mondays from 9 November | 5:30pm – 8:30pm | 2 weeks

A little bit of language can go a long way when you travel!

This fun and friendly introduction will give you some useful Sinhala survival phrases while also introducing cultural do's and don'ts to help you communicate and connect with greater confidence.

Find out more and enrol now at https://www.wea-sa.com.au/63365

Take one course or make it a Sri Lankan double and do both!

📘 Where learning meets belonging
📲 https://www.wea-sa.com.au
☎ 8223 1979
🚶‍♂️ 223 Angas Street, Adelaide