A Message from From Artistic Director

Shedding sharp new Also, the Festival’s ethos Welcome to the 2008 Over the past 24 Festivals, creative light, spoiling of innovation – along with Bank Festival Adelaide has seen a the senses, and bringing ’s of Arts. wonderful celebration of together some of the international leadership in In the past few years there has music. This we continue for th world’s finest artists, the field of climate change been considerable discussion our silver 25 anniversary the 2008 Adelaide Bank – will be demonstrated by and debate about the shifting in 2008, undertaking an Festival of Arts promises practical measures to make landscape of Australia’s in-depth exploration of the to thrill and inspire us as this Festival environmentally international arts festivals, contemporary canon, with never before. friendly (see page 70 for more particularly about what Musical Mavericks, an Encompassing the best details). distinguishes each from examination of classical in theatre, dance, , I invite you to embrace this the others. music with Australia’s and literature, music, film and the latest impelling, absorbing the world’s greatest living I am happy to report that composers. visual arts, this 25th Festival incarnation of the Festival we are now one of the again makes Adelaide a place of Arts, and I look forward few festivals in the nation Presenting the compositions of of pilgrimage for art-lovers. to seeing you in Adelaide in which has retained a strong Pärt, Kats-Chernin, Gorecki, The enlarged program of 80 February – March 2008. dedication to producing works Farr, Adams, Sculthorpe, events and 280 performances across all artforms – opera, Hosokawa, Glass, Adès, is characterised by great classical music, literature, Golijov, Hindson, Westlake, breadth and artistic daring, visual arts and film included – MacMillan, Meale, and and it will so often use the and this dedication to the full Roumain in one Festival and its spectrum of art sees us lead program is admittedly Mike Rann ambitious, but only through surrounding band of lush Premier of South Australia the way nationally in parklands as a stage. this regard. such an analysis of the Minister for the Arts contemporary classical The quality and renown of As well, we remain Australia’s milieu can we appreciate the the individual productions is ‘destination festival’ – the place direction in which this 21st matched by the international to which tens of thousands Century is heading musically. standing of some of the major of people make the biennial components of the Festival pilgrimage to experience the Other threads woven through – such as the unmissable best of current national and the 2008 program include Adelaide Writers’ Week, and international artistic practice. an exploration of light and the glorious explosion of With our sister festival – the enlightenment. sound and movement that is – along with ‘Light’ through various visual WOMADelaide. WOMADelaide, the holistic arts projects including the festival experience which Festival-curated Speed of Light Adelaide delivers every two exhibitions across several years is unparalleled in this galleries, and Northern Lights, country. celebrating the entire North Terrace precinct as one of the great cultural boulevards of the world, complemented by events in every major venue along the strip.

Cover Artwork features go, you little dynamo, go! 2007 by Michael Kutschbach. 1

And ‘Enlightenment’ through between Australian audiences corporate partners. These Symbols used in this Guide many of the works inspired and key artistic voices, far Adelaidians have given us by Eastern arts and religions, beyond any single festival immeasurable and unqualified Wheelchair Access with ’s Sacred experience. support, and your Festival Monsters, Cohen and Glass’s As a metaphor for the depth of exists only because of them. Hearing Loop Buddhist-inspired Book of these experiences, we return Personally, I also want Longing, the Indian/Sri to celebrating the artwork of to thank my astonishing Premium Hospitality Option Lankan A Midsummer Night’s an eminent South Australian colleagues from the Festival Dream, the Mahavishnu artist for the Festival’s ‘look’. Team, and our Board, who Orchestra’s Meeting of the Our 2008 motto “What are over four years have given Fringe Benefits (Under 30) Spirits, and ’ you seeing?” begins with our uncalled for commitment, Buddhist/Kerouac-inspired cover design – the ambiguous, loyalty, professionalism, General Admission Dharma at Big Sur to name biomorphic sculpture by wisdom and friendship. It’s but a few. Michael Kutschbach (go, you been an utter joy working Family Friendly We also look this year at work little dynamo, go). After a with them all, and one of from across every continent tradition of a two-dimensional the best experiences of my – and include theatre from image representing the life. And to the dozens of Signed Performance South Africa and India, dance Festival, we take you for Adelaidians who have made from Israel, opera and visual the first time into the third me feel welcome from day art from Argentina, visual dimension with a sculptural one, and whom my partner art from Taiwan, Chile and object to surprise, confound and I now count amongst our , and an exploration of and delight. friends for life – my deepest fundamentalist religion across In asking “What are you thanks. the globe. seeing?” I’d encourage us all To our audiences, those of you Your Festival again debuts to see not only the new, but who take the plunge every for Australia the work of a also to see ‘anew’ – looking at two years with trust and faith number of extraordinary the world around us in a new in your Festival, thanks for artists, as I believe is our light. having me and I hope my brief. It also contributes to Finally, as I farewell Adelaide colleagues and I have done Australia’s critical ongoing for now, I want to thank a you proud. dialogue with a number of number of people whose And now, come aboard, open key international artists and support has been invaluable your eyes and your hearts, and companies, among them during my four-year tenure. see. Just turn the page and let Thomas Ostermeier and the The Premier, Mike Rann, there be… Schaubühne of Berlin, Marius and his Government have von Mayenburg, Akram relentlessly worked to ensure Khan, Sylvie Guillem, Lloyd your Festival is worthy of Newson and DV8, Leonard South Australia carrying the Cohen, Russia’s AES+F Group moniker of the “Festival State”, and many of our Musical as have the Adelaide City Mavericks. These on-going Council, and the members and conversations ensure the staff of Adelaide Bank, and development of deeper more than 50 very generous relationships, and a legacy, 2 World Premiere Free Spectacle Every Night The Electric Canvas Australia

Celebrating one of the acclaimed The Electric Canvas Event information most beautiful cultural will transform their facades. North Terrace Cultural boulevards in the world Through a constantly changing Precinct, Adelaide for the duration of the array of perfect, jaw-dropping Every night of the Festival Festival, the city’s historic architectual projection, 29 February–16 March, architectural icons will reflecting the heritage and 9pm–2am be painted with light and function of these beautiful FREE coloured with life. buildings, Colonel Light’s 19th- The State Library of South century vision will become a Australia, The South 21st-century vision in light. Australian Museum, The Art Gallery of South Australia on North Terrace are the sandstone cornerstones of With thanks to The State Library of our culture, illuminating South Australia. and enlightening each generation. For two weeks, they themselves will take the spotlight every night of the Festival from dusk till 2am, the artists from the internationally Ignition! Free Festival Opening

All of Adelaide, the “City of Light”, is invited to leap into the 2008 Festival in glorious fashion with the ignition of the public light installation Northern Lights. In preparation for Ignition! on 29 February, North Terrace will be closed to traffic from 6pm. From 6pm to 9pm you are invited to re-discover North Terrace’s public institutions, sampling Festival exhibitions and events in State Library of South Australia (page 44), Flinders University City Gallery (page 55), (page 52), Migration Museum (page 53) and Art Gallery of South Australia (page 57). Also visit The Imaginary Menagerie – A Musical Circus at Elder Hall, where classical music, jazz and computer technology combine in three 20 minute sets from 7pm onwards. Then at 9pm, gather along North Terrace and brace yourselves for the theatrical igniting of Northern Lights, from the smallest spark, growing into a unique pyrotechnic display, all synchronized to a live soundtrack of beats and rhythms performed by DBR & THE MISSION (see page 9). USICAL 4 MAVERICKS Australian Premiere

International

An Opera in Three Images

2007 Grammy Award – The Spanish Civil War, Graeme Murphy, and 1936: one of the 2,137 featuring an international Best Classical Composition civilians in Granada cast including Jessica murdered by the Fascists Rivera and Kelley O’Connor. 2007 Grammy Award – was Federico Garcia Lorca, Golijov’s mesmerising score is ’s revered poet, saturated with Spanish music Best Opera Recording musician and playwright tantalisingly mingled with the who dared to speak of rival Christian, Jewish and “Golijov will change the way music freedom. Muslim influences of Iberia. Ironically, the spot where he relates the story is played and heard.” was killed was an ancient through Margarita Xirgu, the New York Times well named Ainadamar, the actress who collaborated with ‘Fountain of Tears’. Lorca’s life Lorca and tried to persuade inspired many artists, among him to escape with her to Latin them the brilliant Argentinian America just before his fatal composer , arrest. At the end of her life, who created this critically she is about to take the stage acclaimed opera in his to perform one of his plays, honour. and finds herself haunted by his memory. In this stirring new staging, directed by the legendary “Golijov’s score is “Its power lies in “A rare and special amazing – opening its pure emotional thing – a new distant trumpet authenticity. opera that works calls, insinuating Hauntingly because Golijov dance rhythms, beautiful.” can’t seem to write vital percussion, Washington Post music that isn’t full arrestingly of life, passion and beautiful arias. drama.” A theatre of Boston Herald delirium.” Times

Osvaldo Golijov David Henry Graeme Murphy Giancarlo Kelley O’Connor Leanne Hwang Guerrero Kenneally

Composer Assistant Conductor/ Event information Osvaldo Golijov Chorusmaster Festival Theatre, Centre Timothy Sexton Librettist 29 February, 2 & 4 March, 7pm Cast 75 mins, no interval Spanish translation Jessica Rivera/Margarita Xirgu Premium Res $179 Friends $152 Osvaldo Golijov Kelley O’Connor/Federico Garcia Lorca A Res $159 Friends $135 Director Leanne Kenneally/Nuria B Res $129 Friends $110 Conc $95 Graeme Murphy Jamie Allen C Res $99 Friends $85 Conc $65 Assistant to the Director Stephen Bennett Book at BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au Janet Vernon James Egglestone Conductor Adam Goodburn Giancarlo Guerrero Adelaide Symphony Costume Designer Orchestra Presented by Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts in association with State Opera of South Australia. Jennifer Irwin Featuring Sung in Spanish with surtitles. Lighting Designer Slava Grigoryan See pages 60 & 61 for The Disappearance of Garcia Lorca as part of Damien Cooper Leonard Grigoryan Festival on Film. Video Designer Adelaide Vocal Project Tim Gruchy Set Pieces Designed by

Brian Thomson Image: Tim Gruchy USICAL 6 MAVERICKS “The freshest, most supple and varied World Premiere Season score Glass has written in several years. Alludes to Bach’s Solo Cello Suites; Canada/USA has the bravura quality of a romantic Concerto Cadenza; draws on the expressive phrasing and chromaticism of jazz. A hypnotic collaboration.” New York Times “Listening to what Phil has done has provided me with a very special and rarefied pleasure. This is just like Bach asking if he could use your lyrics.”

A spectacular union of to suggest a collaboration that A new work by living legends as composer celebrated the poems musically. interprets the And so in this world premiere Philip Glass based on the poetry of Leonard Cohen. commissioned production, In 2006, Leonard Cohen the Festival is privileged to poetry and images of concluded two decades welcome Glass as he presents of work, publishing his these two remarkable concerts Leonard Cohen, ruminative poetry and in spoken word, instrumental sketches in the Book of music and song, with an co-commissioned by Longing. The result is a ensemble of eight musicians sweeping series of ballads, (including the composer Adelaide Bank Festival love poems, retrospectives and himself) and four singers unexpectedly comic pieces, as under the staging of acclaimed of Arts well as some deeply spiritual American choreographer Susan meditations written during the Marshall. Cohen also makes eight years Cohen spent in a guest appearances via recorded Buddhist monastery. spoken word selections of the work, and through his own When Cohen read these works visual artworks incorporated to his friend and mutual into the production. admirer, the enthusiastic response from Philip Glass was Leonard Cohen Glass & Philip

Meditative, playful, erotic Set Event information and provocative: Cohen’s Christine Jones Festival Theatre, words find their sonic syntax Costumes 14–15 March, 8pm in Glass’s elegant and hypnotic Kasia Walicka Maimone score. 100 mins, no interval Original Lighting Design Premium Res $119 Friends $101 Music Scott Zielinski Philip Glass A Res $99 Friends $84 B Res $89 Friends $76 Conc $65 Lighting Design adapted by Fringe Benefits $25 Lyrics,Images & recorded voice Doug Witney Leonard Cohen Book at BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au Music Direction Performed by Michael Riesman Will Erat, Tim Fain, Philip Stage Direction Glass, Tara Hugo, Daniel Susan Marshall Keeling, Megan Marolf, Eleonore Oppenheim, Producer Linda Brumbach Book of Longing was commissioned by: Luminato Festival of Arts Dominique Plaisant, Michael and Creativity, ; Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts; The Barbican Riesman, Mick Rossi, Andrew Production Management Centre, ; Lincoln Center Festival 2007, New York; Stanford Lively Sterman, Wendy Sutter Pomegranate Arts Inc. Arts, Stanford University; University of Texas at Austin Performing Arts Center with support from the Topfer Endowment for Performing Arts Note: Leonard Cohen will not be Production; Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff; with additional support from appearing in person. the Ravinia Festival. See pages 60 & 61 for films relating to Leonard Cohen and Philip Glass as part of Festival on Film and page 8 for Philip Glass documentary glass a portrait of Philip in twelve parts. 8 Australian Premiere

Australia/USA

From the Director of “Shine”

In 1984, at his son’s Filmed by Hicks himself, the Event information bidding, Scott Hicks saw a result is a unique glimpse Piccadilly Cinema midnight screening of the into the private world of a 181 O’Connell Street, cult film KOYAANISQATSI, surprising and complex man, and a remarkably intimate and immediately became a 9 March, 7pm (Champagne fan of the film’s composer, ‘mosaic portrait’ of one of the on arrival & film introduction by Philip Glass. greatest – and at times most Director Scott Hicks) Years later, the acclaimed controversial – artists of 10 March, 11am Australian director got to our era. 119 mins know Glass through film Kino Films And Adult $25 Friends $20 Conc $20 collaborations and in 2005 Independent Media 10 March session all tickets $15 was invited to make a Present (Film only) documentary to mark his 70th A Mandalay Motion Pictures Production Book through Venue*TIX anniversary in 2007. In association with (08) 8255 8888 or Over an 18 month period, Kojo Pictures adelaidefestival.com.au Hicks followed Glass across three continents with unprecedented access to his working process, family life, spiritual teachers and long-time collaborators. USICAL 9 MAVERICKS “One minute you’ll Australian Premiere think he is a classical musician, the next a jazz DBR & THE MISSION improviser. USA Then you’ll think he’s into electronica or ambient noise. Truth is, all of these descriptions apply. Brilliant.” Boston Globe

Composer, concert and Inspired by Bach’s Well- Event information club performer, violinist, Tempered Klavier and Festival Theatre and bandleader, the neo- Philip Glass Music in 12 Adelaide Festival Centre Parts, DBR’s 24 Bits: Hip- polymath DBR (Daniel 1 March, 8pm Bernard Roumain) creates Hop Studies and Études dramatic, soul-inspiring is a program of 24 musical 90 mins approx pieces that stretch vignettes (one in each key) Premium Res $69 Friends $59 music’s boundaries and that put hip-hop music into A Res $59 Friends $50 break down its disparate a classical context. In Event B Res $49Friends$42Conc$35 barriers. Pieces, DBR & THE MISSION Fringe Benefits $25 Featuring amplified strings, create improvised musical Book at BASS 131 246 or DJ, bass, keyboard, drum fragments that bring together adelaidefestival.com.au kit and laptops, DBR & THE everything from Bach and The MISSION will play selections Beatles to Björk with a nod to from their two most acclaimed . recent works. USICAL 10 MAVERICKS Australian String Quartet

Enchantment In this further celebration Finally, the Festival presents Event information Additional concert, Australian of Musical Mavericks, Richard Meale’s quartet, String Quartet with guest with the five movements artists Ilya Konovalor, violin the ASQ tackles three 1 March, 6pm important compositions of the Australian’s work and Kristian Chong, piano. 65 mins, no interval from three corners of the encompassing quite different Mozart globe. emotional responses: from A Res $49 Friends $42 String Quartet in B flat major Gorecki’s atmospheric first deep grief inspired by the loss B Res $39 Friends$33 Conc $29 K458 Hunt of a friend to a lyrical sense of C Res $29 Friends$25 Conc$20 string quartet was inspired peace and nostalgia. Fringe Benefits $20 by a folk song about dusk; String Quartet No. 9 Henryk Gorecki Book at BASS 131 246 or ironically, it was written Chausson Already it is Dusk adelaidefestival.com.au by the Polish composer just Concert for violin, piano and String Quartet No. 1, Op. 62 as his homeland’s political string quartet in D major emancipation was dawning. Philip Glass Op. 21 Company Philip Glass’s Company Event information was originally written for a String Quartet No. 2 Adelaide Town Hall dramatisation of the Samuel Richard Meale Broadcast live by ABC Classic FM. Beckett poem of the same String Quartet No. 2 12 March, 7pm name. This profound piece 120 mins, including interval underscores the soliloquy of a Adult $58.30 Friends $50.05 man looking back and coming Conc $44.30 Student/Fringe to terms with his life. Benefits $23.30 USICAL 11 MAVERICKS “Living Toys: Adelaide Symphony Brilliantly orchestrated, this Orchestra was daredevil USA/Australia composing: in turns raucous, funny and luxuriously spacious.” Globe and Mail (Toronto)

“With James MacMillan, Judith Weir, Julian Anderson and Jonathan Dove, Adès is one of the five greatest living British composers.” The Times (UK) Jonathan Stockhammer

Welcome to a playground Zip and audiences are set for Event information of musical riches, as an evening of trail-blazing Adelaide Town Hall musical interrogation. the ASO takes on four 13 March, 6pm of the most compelling Adelaide Symphony 60 mins, no interval contemporary classicists. Orchestra A Res $49 Friends $42 The first treasure is an Conductor B Res $39 Friends$33 Conc $29 explosion of ideas in Living Jonathan Stockhammer Toys, the acclaimed toy-box C Res $29 Friends$25 Conc$20 fantasia of precocious British Fringe Benefits $20 poet-composer, Thomas Program Book at BASS 131 246 or Adès. The scene switches to Thomas Adès adelaidefestival.com.au Argentina for Osvaldo Golijov’s Living Toys fiery, passionate Last Round, Elena Kats-Chernin based on the tempestuous life Zoom and Zip of tango great, Astor Piazzolla. Osvaldo Golijov Presented by Adelaide Bank Festival Add to that two Australian of Arts and Adelaide Symphony Last Round Orchestra. works: Hindson’s Comin’Right Matthew Hindson Atcha, inspired by the funk Broadcast live by ABC Classic FM. music of James Brown, Comin’ Right Atcha and Kats-Chernin’s offbeat Russian romance, Zoom and USICAL 12 MAVERICKS World Premiere

International

Billy Cobham & Colin Towns A Celebration of the Mahavishnu Orchestra with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra

The polyglot,genre-bending Mahavishnu as a major are re-interpreted for the 21st Event information Mahavishnu Orchestra influence. Century. Festival Theatre pioneered jazz/rock fusion For the Adelaide Bank Festival Percussion Adelaide Festival Centre and created unique music, of Arts, one of the foundation Billy Cobham 7–8 March, 8pm years ahead of its time. members, Billy Cobham, Guitar 120 mins, with interval With its high-volume, edgy who is acknowledged as Frank Gambale the master of percussion Premium Res $89 Friends $76 electrified sound, complex Keyboard with his dazzling dexterity, A Res $79 Friends $67 rhythms, unconventional time Jukkis Uotila signatures and influences has collaborated with rock B Res $ 69 F r iend s $ 59 C onc $ 49 that included Indian, funk, keyboardist turned TV-theme Bass Fringe Benefits $25 jazz and even classical music, composer, Colin Towns. Phillipe Chayeb Book at BASS 131 246 or Mahavishnu breached the Together, they have re-formed Trumpet adelaidefestival.com.au walls of pop and led the a stunning celebration of Guy Barker ‘prog rock’ invasion. While the Mahavishnu Orchestra Saxophone the band only existed for a alongside a group of world- Ernie Watts class musicians to present very short time in a couple of Trombone Presented by Adelaide Bank Festival different guises, albums like this world premiere scored of Arts and Adelaide Symphony Marshall Gilkes Orchestra. The Inner Mounting Flame and arranged by Towns for have transcended the decades full symphony orchestra. See pages 60 & 61 for Sonic Mirror with stars including Sting and The Mahavishnu’s spirit and as part of Festival on Film. Branford Marsalis crediting messages of enlightenment Billy Cobham USICAL 14 MAVERICKS Adelaide Chamber Singers

One of Australia’s most of life. Christus Vincit written Event information accomplished and by James MacMillan in 1994 St Peter’s Cathedral respected choirs gives full features a stunning soprano 27 King William Road, voice to three inspirational solo which perfectly suits the North Adelaide magnificent acoustic. Tomás works in the soaring 8 March, 10.30pm majesty of St Peter’s Luis de Victoria’s beautiful Cathedral. Lamentations will fill the Adult $30 Cathedral with glorious, Friends $24 Miserere is sacred to Conc $20 Christians and Jews alike as soaring Renaissance lines to a prayer of confession and provide a musical reflection of Book at BASS 131 246 or repentance. In 1989, Arvo its architecture. adelaidefestival.com.au Pärt created this new poetic Conductor musical expression for voices Carl Crossin and chamber ensemble Arvo Pärt including electric guitar and Miserere percussion. Tomás Luis de Victoria Broadcast live on ABC Classic FM. From its pure and Lamentations Presented by Julian Day. unpretentious opening, Pärt plunges us climactically to the James MacMillan Day of Wrath, only to sweep Christus Vincit us up again towards the light USICAL 15 MAVERICKS “A heartbreakingly “Played with fleet Australian Premiere beautiful work.” agility and tangy Wall Street expressivity by Journal Tracy Silverman. Adelaide Evokes Appalachian fiddle music, Symphony Indian sitar, wistful jazz riffs Orchestra with wailing hints with Tracy of Jimi Hendrix.” Silverman New York Times USA/Australia

mind turned to the precipitous as the Big Sur surf itself in a Event information coastline at Big Sur. Here, the full evening of music inspired Festival Theatre ironically named Pacific Ocean by the sea. Adelaide Festival Centre pounds the landmass with a Adelaide Symphony 16 March, 7.30pm slow, lazy rhythm of terrifying Orchestra Tracy Silverman Tracy violence. For inspiration, 90 mins, no interval Conductor Adams re-read the Buddhist- Premium Res $79 Friends $67 Jonathan Stockhammer coloured insights into Big Sur by A Res $69 Friends $59 1950s Beat poet, Jack Kerouac. Electric Violin B Res $59 Friends $50 Conc $45 Tracy Silverman It was at this time that he also Book at BASS 131 246 or first heard the incomparable Program adelaidefestival.com.au sliding jazz improvisations Toshio Hosokawa Pulitzer Prize-winning of electric violin virtuoso, Circulating Oceans composer, John Adams, Tracy Silverman. Karma Gareth Farr was commissioned to had brought it all together. From the Depths Sound the Presented by Adelaide Bank Festival write this opus for the For this incarnation, LA- Great Sea Gongs of Arts and the Adelaide Symphony 2003 opening of the Los born conductor, Jonathan Orchestra. John Adams Angeles Philharmonic’s Stockhammer, leads the Dharma at Big Sur See pages 60 & 61 for The Death of new concert hall. ASO and Silverman in a Klinghoffer as part of Festival on Film. With a Californian’s performance as rhapsodic, preoccupation for the sea, his breathtaking and exhilarating Broadcast live by ABC Classic FM. USICAL 16 MAVERICKS “One of the last of Australian Premiere the truly imposing Season figures from a generation of jazz players that was full of them.” New York Times

For more than five guitarist, Pat Metheny, and the Event information decades, alto saxophonist/ Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia. Festival Theatre, composer, Ornette Now aged 77, his presence Adelaide Festival Centre Coleman, has played a is as vibrant and creative as 3 March, 8pm seminal role in American ever. This is a truly once-in-a- Premium Res $129 Friends$110 music. lifetime opportunity to see one A Res $99 Friends $84 of the great jazz legends of our Starting with his pioneering B Res $ 89 Fr iends $76 Conc $ 65 time. album, Free Jazz, in the Fringe Benefits $25 1960s, he put a name to the revolutionary movement that Book at BASS 131 246 or has steered the course of adelaidefestival.com.au modern jazz. Described as “the most recognisable sound on the planet” (BBC), Coleman’s unorthodox playing has been emulated but never equalled by a tide of musicians, drawing collaborations with people as diverse as jazz/rock

18 Australian Premiere Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz Berlin “A profound and “Though based on compelling work one of the world’s which is an most familiar exciting argument literary works the about current play is completely problems in re-invigorated. society.” A surprise hit for World Express Ostermeier!” The World

The 2006 Festival This searing Pulitzer Prize- Event information saw the Australian winning drama is set in a Her Majesty’s Theatre sleek, modernist cage of debut of Germany’s 11, 12, 14 March, 8pm mendacity woven around astonishing Schaubühne 15 March, 2pm & 8.30pm money, family, greed, sex and – one of the world’s great 16 March, 5pm contemporary theatre mortality. Truth eludes the companies –with Nora, grasp of all except, perhaps, 120 mins, no interval the visceral deconstruction the ever-watchful buzzard in A Res $99 Friends $84 of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. the physical cage hovering B Res $79Friends$67Conc$59 The company now returns above – a startling image and Fringe Benefits $25 to Australia with director metaphor for our times. Book at BASS 131 246 or Thomas Ostermeier’s With extraordinary adelaidefestival.com.au companion production: the performances and the great American classic Cat on bold stage aesthetic and a Hot Tin Roof. Like Nora, imaginative conception for this Tennessee Williams which the Schaubühne is masterpiece features one of renowned, Cat on a Hot Tin theatre’s most compelling Roof enables Adelaide to more Performed in German with English deeply explore its relationship surtitles. Presented by Adelaide Bank dysfunctional couples, Festival of Arts in association with Maggie ‘The Cat’ and Brick. with one of the most lauded the Adelaide Festival Centre. theatre ensembles in the Festival’s history. 20 “I have the feeling World Premiere that explaining the past will be much easier than explaining the Australia fish.” excerpt, When the Rain Stops Falling

When The Rain Stops Falling by Andrew Bovell

A collaboration with Hossein Valamanesh and Brink Productions Photo: Jacqui Way

Set against the wonder of parents… and the legacy we Event information the Australian landscape leave behind for our children. Scott Theatre and a dramatically Writer Andrew Bovell Previews 23, 25, 26, 27 February, 7.30pm changing climate, Director Chris Drummond Season 28–29 February, 1, 6–8, 13–15 March, 7.30pm When The Rain Stops Designer Hossein Valamanesh Sunsets 3–5, 10–12 March Vision Impaired 4 March, 6.30pm Falling weaves together Matinees1, 5, 8, 15 March Hearing Impaired 5 March, 1.30pm Composer Quentin Grant four generations of Post Show Discussion with Director and Cast 3 March, 6.30pm interconnected stories, Lighting Designer 120 mins, no interval revealing the patterns of Niklas Pajanti Previews/Matinees/Sunsets/Adult $55 Friends $50 Conc $50 betrayal and abandonment Cast Season Adult $60 Friends $55 Conc $55 within a family over eighty Paul Blackwell, Michaela Mid week Matinee Adult $45 Friends $40 Conc $40 years, from 1959 to 2039. Cantwell, Carmel Johnson, Fringe Benefits $25 to all shows. Limited tickets available. Brink Productions joins forces Kris McQuade, Luke Mullins, with State Theatre Company Anna Lise Phillips, Book at BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au of SA to present an epic and David Tredinnick and powerful piece of storytelling Quentin Grant (musician) from one of Australia’s greatest writers and one of its most Presented by Brink Productions, State Theatre Company of South Australia Major Commissions acclaimed visual artists. It tells and Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts. a new Australian story about Supported by Maureen Ritchie and the legacy we inherit from our the Pratt Foundation. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts’ New Australian Stories Initiative. 21 “Yes, grief can be funny, and it is Kassys’ Australian Premiere success at finding this funniness that makes ‘Kommer’ truly extraordinary.” Kassys Seattle Times The Netherlands “At once manipulative, comical and wonderfully peculiar. One of the most discussed theatre companies of our time.” Freiburger Nachtrichten

(Sorrow) Photo: Klaas Paradies

“How are you?” We voyeuristically trace them Event information “I’m fine, considering the discovering their individual Space Theatre circumstances. stories and private pain. Adelaide Festival Centre And how are you?” Using few words, precise 12–15 March, 7pm, 16 March, 5pm physicality, and humour, “Yes.” 75 mins, no interval Kommer captures the Kommer traces the sadness and accompanying Adult $49 Friends $42 Concession $35 Fringe Benefits $25 intersecting paths of six people awkwardness inherent in Book at BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au as they respond to the news these moments, and reflects of the death of a loved one. with uncanny truth the For the first half of the show, human community in times we witness their acute grief of grief and stress. as they try to give and receive Live section in English; film section in Dutch with English subtitles. comfort by saying words well- Structurally daring, KOMMER is a Kassys production, co-produced with Productiehuis [Frascati] meant but, at the same time, emotionally resonant and in Amsterdam, Productiehuis Rotterdam (Rotterdamse Schouwburg) and misplaced and clichéd. touching, Kommer sees Kunstencentrum de Vooruit in Gent, Belgium. Funded by Fonds voor de the Australian debut of the Podiumkunsten, hetveemtheater Amsterdam, wpZimmer Antwerpen, Seamlessly, in the second half, Terschellings Oerol, VSB Fonds, Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and OC&W ground-breaking Dutch the play is replaced by a film (Ministry of Culture). ensemble Kassys, as they that follows the ‘real’ lives of demolish boundaries between these people after the curtain the virtual, the real, the stage, has dropped. the screen, truth and illusion. 22 A Dash Arts Production Presented at Royal Shakespeare Company’s “The Complete Works Festival” India/UK

by William Shakespeare directed by Tim Supple “Ravishing and “The most magical “SENSATIONAL. enchanting. Tim dream – will be The most life- Supple’s all-Indian remembered for enhancing production is a decades.” production of dream as you’ve The Telegraph Shakespeare’s never seen it.” (UK) play since Peter Mail On Sunday Brook’s. The kind of dream that leaves you wishing you never had to wake up.” The Guardian

A theatrical event like in Stratford-upon-Avon Event information no other, Tim Supple’s followed. Now audiences Her Majesty’s Theatre in Adelaide can experience acclaimed production 29 February, 1, 7, 8 March, 8pm this breathtaking production of Shakespeare’s A 1, 8 March, 2pm performed in English as Midsummer Night’s 2 March, 5pm well as Tamil, Malayalam, Dream is an incredible 4 March, 6.30pm (including pre-performance talk) Sinhalese, Hindi, Bengali, spectacle combining the 5 & 6 March, 7.30pm skills of actors, dancers, Marathi and Sanskrit, musicians, martial arts drawing on theatre traditions 150 mins, incl interval experts and street acrobats both ancient and modern. A Res $99 Friends $84 from across India and Sri A magical, unforgettable B Res $79 Friends$67 Conc $59 Lanka. “must see”. Fringe Benefits $25 Two years in the making, this Book at BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au visually ravishing production, using live music and song, is a playful and sensuous re- imagining of Shakespeare’s best loved comedy. Presented with the support of the British Council. Originally commissioned It caused a sensation in India and presented by the British Council and a sell-out season at the Presented in association with Arts Projects Australia by arrangement with Royal Shakespeare Company Roger Chapman, Matthew Byam and Act Productions. 24 World Premiere

Germany/Australia

Coming ready or not! Hide and seek, like theatre, is Should the parents call the Six people wait in a concerned with appearance hotline? non-descript room: dirty and disappearance, with Is it ok to torture a child for walls, an old carpet, a becoming strange for a time, information? sofa, a small table, a with metamorphosis. It taps Could a ten year-old plot few chairs, a sleeping into archaic terrors of being murder? Or could an entire bag. Without warning, found or forgotten, of being generation of children kill? someone walks to the hunted, or trying to escape. Hilarious and horrific, this corner and counts to 100. Amid the anarchy of these world premiere production The room is ripped apart obsessively replayed games, of Moving Target has been and turned inside out as the people in the room report created by playwright Marius the others desperately try on unnerving behaviour of von Mayenburg (Fireface, to disappear. prepubescent children in Parasites, Eldorado) and their community. The local director ‘tweenies’ are developing (Eldorado, Julius Caesar, terrifying powers. Lamps are The Season At Sarsaparilla, flickering, strange stains are Who’s Afraid Of Virginia appearing, mysterious green Woolf) in collaboration with packages are being planted in an exceptional Australian shopping centres. Questions cast. Andrews and von are being asked: Mayenburg work together “German theatre has always occupied a central role in the cultural life of the country, but now contemporary theatre is experiencing something of a renaissance and von Mayenburg is having a large influence on a generation of 20-something writers who have been inspired by his courage and success in exploring new territory.” The Age

“von Mayenburg’s collaborator (for Eldorado) is Benedict Andrews, an extraordinarily imaginative director. The productions I’ve seen of his, so far, have been unforgettable.” Herald Sun

at the Schaubühne* theatre Set Design Event information in Berlin where they created Robert Cousins Odeon Theatre, 57A Queen Street Norwood productions of Sarah Costume Design Preview 28 Feburary, 7.30pm Kane’s Cleansed and von Fiona Crombie Season 29 February, 1, 4–8 March, 7.30pm Mayenburg’s The Ugly One Lighting Design 2 March, 6pm together. Spawning from this Paul Jackson distinctive creative friendship 90 mins approx Moving Target will mark von Sound Design Preview all tickets $35 Mayenburg’s first premiere Hamish Michael Adult $49 Friends $42 Conc $35 Fringe Benefits $25 outside of a European theatre. Assistant Director Book at Venue*TIX (08) 8225 8888 or adelaidefestival.com.au Haille Shellam *See Schaubühne production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof on page 18. Stage Manager Millie Mullinar Performed By Alison Bell, Julie Forsyth, Rita Kalnejais, Robert Presented by Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts, Malthouse Theatre and Menzies, Hamish Michael, Opera House. A Malthouse Theatre and commission. Matthew Whittet This project has been assisted by the Goethe Institute and the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

Photo: Garth Oriander, pictured Hamish Michael 26 “Extraordinary. “At a time Australian Premiere Demands to be when so much seen.” contemporary New York Times dance in Britain DV8 Physical seems to have hit a dead end, it’s Theatre “Tender, focussed heartening to find International and humane.” DV8 blazing a Sunday Times fresh, dangerous trail and taking a large, enthusiastic audience with it.” The Observer

DV8 Physical Theatre is and sexuality. DV8’s newest Incorporating dance, text, Event information renowned for breaking creation is based on hundreds documentary, animation Dunstan Playhouse down the barriers between of hours of audio interviews and film, DV8 refuses to be Adelaide Festival Centre dance and theatre and collected throughout the defined. 13 & 14 March, 8.30pm personal politics, and United Kingdom with people 15 March, 2pm & 8.30pm above all communicating directly affected by these 16 March, 6pm ideas and feelings clearly issues. Approx 70 mins and unpretentiously. It is To Be Straight With You determined to be radical yet comes to Adelaide direct from A Res $79 Friends$67Conc$55 accessible and to take its work its world premiere season in Fringe Benefits $25 to as wide an audience as Berlin. Book at BASS 131 246 or possible. “The persecution of people adelaidefestival.com.au For their first appearance because of their sexual in Adelaide since the ’96 orientation is every bit as Festival’s Enter Achilles, unjust as that crime against director/choreographer humanity, apartheid. We Lloyd Newson leads an must all be allowed to love internationally hand-picked Co-produced by spielzeit’europa I with honour.” Berliner Festspiele and National multi-ethnic cast in a poetic Archbishop Desmond Tutu Theatre, London. but unflinching exploration of An Artsadmin associated project. tolerance, intolerance, religion

28 Australian Premiere Akram Khan Company with Sylvie Guillem International

At the peak of their powers, this rebel alliance of dance superstars smashes conventions and creates inventions that show us what dance might become. Sylvie Guillem: the prima ballerina of our age and ex-étoile with the Paris Opera Ballet. Akram Khan MBE: one of the most gifted choreographers and dancers of his generation. In the 19th century, the French dubbed such luminaries (like Sarah Bernhardt) ‘les monstres sacrés’: sacred monsters. But there is irony in the title. Set to live music by a five- member ensemble, in Sacred “A five-star display “Sacred Monsters of speed, precision unites two and power.” ravishingly The Guardian beautiful movers from opposing classical disciplines– ballet and kathak– and takes them to amazing places neither has gone before. An extraordinary meeting of minds and bodies.” The Times (UK) Photo: Nigel Norrington

Monsters Guillem and Khan inspirational work drew rave Composer Event information have turned on their classical reviews and standing ovations Philip Sheppard Festival Theatre roots to create a pas de deux in London, LA and Hong Kong. Light Designer Adelaide Festival Centre unlike anything you’ve Sacred Monsters promises to Mikki Kunttu 11–12 March, 8pm witnessed before, a new provide Adelaide audiences Set Designer language of classical ballet 75 mins, no interval with perhaps their only Shizuka Hariu and the Kathak Indian dance opportunity ever, to see Premium Res $119 Costume Designer style. West and East, male and these two legends of the Friends $101 Kei Ito female, yin and yang. For 75 international stage together in A Res $99 Friends $84 minutes, the dancers never one astonishing evening. Musicians B Res $89 Friends$76 Conc$65 leave the stage, trading solo Alies Sluiter/violin C Res $69 Friends$59 Conc$50 Artistic Direction & riffs, exchanging confessions, Coordt Linke/percussion Fringe Benefits $25 Choreography baring their souls and finally Faheem Mazhar/male vocal Akram Khan Book at BASS 131 246 or melding into an exquisite Juliette Van Peteghem/ adelaidefestival.com.au hybrid vision of dance and Dancers female vocal humanity as one. Akram Khan & Sylvie Guillem Laura Anstee/cello Guillem performs feats of Additional choreography lithesome fluidity; Khan Lin Hwai Min Ms Guillem’s solo whirls and chops with Additional choreography Presented by Adelaide Bank Festival speed, precision and power. Gauri Sharma Tripathi of Arts and Adelaide Festival Centre. Little wonder this fresh and Mr Khan’s solo 30 World Premiere Season Force Majeure Australia

The Age I’m In “ “Testing themselves is a rare talent, to the limits and whatever she of athleticism does next must and speed. The be immediately daring of these labelled DON’T performers takes MISS.” your breath away.” The Bulletin Sydney Morning Herald Photo: William Yang

Its not how old you are Drawing on interviews with Event information but how you are old. Australians aged nine to 83, Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre The Age I’m In highlights How old would you be if you 5–8 March, 8pm Friends of the Adelaide Festival who book for 5 March didn’t know how old you how predictable and performance receive a free pre-show drink at Persian Garden and a ‘behind surprising our opinions and the scenes’ talk. Drinks commence at 6.30pm. Money raised by the Friends were? Do you ever truly feel helps support the development of new Australian work. your age? experiences really are. 60 mins, no interval Five generations of Australians Fusing state of the art on stage. Are their fears, audio-visual technology and Adult $49 Friends $42 Conc $35 Fringe Benefits $25 hopes and joys the only thing the physical actions of 10 Book at BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au they have in common? performers, Force Majeure’s new dance/theatre event is a The acclaimed Force Majeure reflection of our contradictory premieres at the Adelaide shared humanity. Bank Festival of Arts with their new creation The Age “It takes a long time to become young.” I’m In exploring unique This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Major intergenerational differences Pablo Picasso Festivals Initiative, managed by the Australia Council, its arts funding in a compelling dance/theatre and advisory body, in association with the Confederation of Australian Presented by Adelaide Bank Festival International Arts Festivals, Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts and Sydney production. of Arts and and Festival. Force Majeure is assisted by the Australian Government through Force Majeure. the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body and by the NSW Government through Arts NSW. This project has been assisted by the Keir Foundation and the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts’ New Australian Stories Initiative.

32 “An astonishing Chunky Move performance, Australia tackling Obarzanek’s thrashing, flailing, joint-crunching action like a high-velocity missile, with only occasional respite.” The Age

“A tour de force that will live long in the memory.” The Australian

“The creative team has hit its mark. Bullseye.” Herald Sun Photo: Antonis Rom

A digital landscape creates with German interactive Event information a kaleidoscopic setting that software engineer, Frieder Space Theatre interacts with the dancer’s Weiss, to imagine a virtual Adelaide Festival Centre world in which the body is body in real time. 29 February, 1–3 March, bathed in light and takes At first, the human form 6pm, 7pm, 8pm & 9pm on unfamiliar, sensual and appears to trigger the music, 28 mins light and animation that grotesque creature states. surround and envelop it. Every gesture is amplified and Adult $25 But is the dancer the master extended by the world around Friends/Conc $20 or the puppet? In this totally it, creating unexpected effects Fringe Benefits $20 entrancing, award-winning on the electronic environment. Book at BASS 131 246 or new work, Chunky Move So every performance of this adelaidefestival.com.au Artistic Director, Gideon illuminating choreographic Obarzanek, has collaborated essay on the interface of humanity and technology is uniquely unrepeatable. Photo: Rom Antonis Israel/ Australian Premiere 33 choreographer. life as a dancer and civilian started and service military compulsory completed Israel’s At 23, Emanuel Gat masterful jazz version of the of the version jazz masterful toportrait John Coltrane’s self- ameditative in solos My Favourite Things In different dance/musical works. very personal, powerful and debut, Gat presents three company’s Australian his Forand artists. and his dancers Palestinian with collaborating regularly tolerance and understanding, and ingenuity to build artistry used his determinedly Since then, he has , he dance dance vocabulary. our nation’s international new choreographic voice into presentation launches a fresh Australian exclusive This Winterreise synchronicity to Schubert’s hypnotic in duo dances like Winter Voyagein And masterpiece. Stravinsky’s of strains the to salsa for a sensuously suspenseful women) two and men (two joined by four other dancers Rite of The Spring In song. Hammerstein and Rogers . , atrance- , he is “ Amazing, hypnotic hypnotic “Amazing, adelaidefestival.com.au 131 at BASS Book or 246 $25 Benefits Fringe Supported byNormetals. A Res 74 6pm 2 March, 7.30pm March, 1&3 Feburary, 29 Centre Festival Adelaide PlayhouseDunstan Event information New York Times impressive.” remarkable. Deeply command was dancers’ bodily fascination. The – a constant mins, no interval mins, 5Fins$0Cn $45 Conc $50 $59Friends

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34 “This is a fantastic Australian Premiere piece of work in Season its ability to create atmosphere, inspire and constantly surprise. dreamthinkspeak A triumph.” UK The Guardian

“Marvellously atmospheric. Beautifully orchestrated production. Akin to being inside a dark, dreamy film. Sublime.” The Times (UK) Photo: Gideon Mendel

Don’t Look Back is a As you wander through Event information site-responsive promenade rooms, corridors, hallways performance inspired by and stairwells, you will 220 Victoria Square experience an accumulation the myth of Orpheus and Previews 27 & 28 February, 7.30pm of sounds, shadows, whispers, Eurydice. 29 February–2 March, 4–9, 11–16 March, 7.30pm landscapes, musical fragments The moment he turns his head 1, 8 & 15 March, 2.30pm and fleeting film images, to see Eurydice slipping down 45 mins into the underworld, Orpheus conveying a heightened, is locked into a perpetual dreamlike state that lingers Preview Adult $29 Fringe Benefits $25 limbo – yearning for the long in the subconscious. Season Adult $39 Friends $32 Conc $29 past, aspiring to an uncertain Book at Venue*TIX (08) 8225 8888 or adelaidefestival.com.au future, unable to exist in the present.

Presented by Arts Projects Australia and Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts in association with Adelaide Centre for the Arts, TAFE SA a Helpmann Academy Institution and supported by the British Council Australia.

The audience will be admitted in groups of three, at five minute intervals. Book a departure time when purchasing tickets.

dreamthinkspeak is co-produced by ArtsAgenda. Photo: Gideon Mendel 35 Big Big her decks. her decks. soundscape wafting from woven together with a portraits and text are Films, photographs, maps, filledwith movingimage. by with setsails and Chinese Junk drift will a beautiful traditional Adelaide Festival Centre, Torrens outside the floating onthe River At dusk each night, h ART presents ART another. another. is seen as less valuable by retribution as one culture anger,creating fear and sometimes that are changing, communities in Australia many symbolise to came Sydney suburb of Cronulla value In again. 2005, the redundant and then gains new, loses value, becomes why that something was once explores of Junk” “Theory The and ugliness beauty. beachside suburb its in all iconic of an representation Junk Theory is an evocative company Big h Big company Produced by acclaimed arts ART,

Jack Barton and Bianka Göbel Bianka and Jack Barton animations and Mapping Meyer Olaf Projectionist Multimedia Bates Michael Filmmaker Wei Ho Zen Composer Saunders Keith Photographer Kotevski Michelle Producer Creative Rankin Scott Created by

Season 8.30–10pm Previews Centre Festival outside the Adelaide Torrens River Event information FREE 1–9 8.30–10pm March, 29 9.30–11pm February, sail when weather permits. weather when sail Please note Junk willTheory only 29 February–9 March 29 February–9 25–28 February,

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The nomads have shifted like the sands to a new Bedouin oasis on the Torrens.

Come, meet your friends and Event information Exotic sounds chill out in our lounge pods Amphitheatre in lush every balmy night under the Adelaide Festival Centre stars or hit the dance floor to 29 February, 10pm–late surrounds the sounds of the best bands, 1–2, 5–8, 12–15 March, DJs and surprise Festival 9pm–late Described as a “Garden artists from Australia and of Temptation” (The around the world. Featuring $7 at the door Advertiser), in 2006 the the masters and mistresses of Persian Garden proved hip-hop, funk, jazz, dance, the place to see and to be global, electronic beats and seen. everything in between. And in 2008, it’s back, bigger The Persian Garden is your and better located: nestled very own oasis during the between the Festival Theatre Festival – an intimate, unique and the Dunstan Playhouse, and exotic outdoor club. spilling down through Elder Look out for the pleasure Park to the banks of the domes which mark the gates . to Persian Garden. You’ll wish it could last 1001 nights! “Designer Geoff Cobham has unveiled a triumph… cool, relaxed, sensuous – just what I want my city to be.” The Advertiser

“Comic verse is in Persian Garden Poets Event information featuring Luke Wright Amphitheatre rude health, and Adelaide Festival Centre the spearhead of The Persian Garden presents a unique evening of poetry 6 March, 7pm its revival is Luke from around the globe for a 120 mins, with interval Wright.” celebration of verse. Guest Adult $25 poets include Dorothy Conc/Friends $20 Critics’ Choice, Porter, Paul Durcan and Fringe Benefits $15 John Kinsella, with ABC’s The Guardian Book at BASS 131 246 or Poetica anchorman Mike adelaidefestival.com.au Ladd compering. The evening concludes with performance poetry star of the 2006 and 2007 Fringe, Luke Wright. In Luke Wright, Poet & Man Luke presents an hour of witty stand-up and sharp acerbic poetry on what it means being a bloke in the modern world. Image: Shane Reid 38 “Join one of Australian Premiere ’s leading Season children’s theatre companies on their magical carpet for a mesmerising TPO journey far away Italy to a lush and vivid world.” The Guardian

The Japanese Garden The Kurdish Garden The Italian Garden

In these gardens, the seed Children’s Cheering Carpet Event information of imagination makes may be enjoyed as a full Space Theatre, Adelaide Festival Centre trilogy or as individual the impossible grow. 1 March, 2pm Kurdish Garden productions – From Italian company, 2 March, 12pm Italian Garden The Japanese Garden, TPO, comes an enchanting 2 March, 2pm Japanese Garden The Kurdish Garden or and engrossing experience 3 March, 11am Kurdish Garden The Italian Garden. for anyone who is – or 3 March, 2pm Italian Garden ever was – a child. The If you’ve ever dreamed that a 4 March, 11am Japanese Garden Children’s Cheering Carpet storybook could come to life, 4 March, 2pm Kurdish Garden is technologically enthralling; come and discover the wonder 4 March, 7pm Italian Garden of the Children’s Cheering the ‘carpet’ itself creates 60 mins an immersive interactive Carpet. environment. In a trilogy of General $25 Children under 12 $15 works, the performers share Friends $20 their stories on a magical Fringe Benefits $15 Conc $15 stage so that together you Book at BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au can explore, play and dance amongst the animations.

Presented by arrangement with Arts Projects Australia and Crying Out Consulate of Italy Loud. 39 “One of the most Australian Premiere remarkable Season pieces of theatre to emerge from post-apartheid South Africa. The South African Extraordinary. State Theatre Compelling.” in association with UK Arts The Guardian International “A high-spirited and ferociously memorable show. Shakespeare would have recognised the place, not only for its horror and pity, but for its sheer vibrancy of life.” The Scotsman

A nail-biting thriller set Ironically underscored by Event information against the backdrop of a collage of vintage Louis Royalty Theatre life in a post-apartheid Armstrong, Paul Simon, 65 Angas Street Tracy Chapman, Norah South African township. P r e v i e w Jones and traditional music, A schoolgirl flees her home 26–28 February, 9.30pm Township Stories takes you only to find solace in the arms Season 29 February–1 March on an emotional rollercoaster of a gangster who believes 4–8 March, 9.30pm through the sordid underbelly life’s ills can be solved with Matinee 1, 2, 8, 9 March, 2pm of contemporary urban life. violence… 2 hrs 35 mins, incl interval The hit of the 2006 Edinburgh On the fringes of the township Adult $56 Friends $49 a serial killer is on the loose… Festival and the Vienna Festwochen. Matinees, Previews & Conc $46 And amidst the chaos, the Written by Book at Venue*TIX police investigation is always (08) 8225 8888 or one step behind… Paul Grootboom and Presley Chweneyagae adelaidefestival.com.au Directed by Paul Grootboom, the ‘Township Tarantino’, Directed by Township Stories is an Paul Grootboom unexpurgated take on life in Presented by Arts Projects Australia South Africa today. Contains graphic scenes of sex and in association with Adelaide Bank violence. Recommended age 18+ Festival of Arts. Vast Productions

In this new Australian- Antonio Vivaldi’s well known Producers Event information produced film, in four The Four Seasons is given a Joanna Buggy and Tim Slade Palace Nova Cinemas corners of the globe, brilliant and bold new lease of Executive Producer 5 March, 7pm in the four seasons, life by the musicians, as the Susan Mackinnon four outstanding timeless stories his music tells Adult $20 Director of Photography violinists guide us on an form the backbone to this bold Conc $15 Pieter de Vries, ACS extraordinary journey and engaging celebration of Friends $15 through their four very friendship, homeland and the Editor Book at Palace Nova Cinemas different homelands. cycles of life. Lindi Harrison 251 Rundle Street From the springtime blossoms Director Music (08) 8232 3434 or of , into the blistering Tim Slade Antonio Vivaldi and others palacenova.com.au heat and thunderstorms of an Violinists on film Australian summer; from a Sayaka Shoji/Japan joyful autumn in New York, Niki Vasilakis/Australia 4 was financed by the Film Finance to the unforgiving cold and Cho-Liang Lin/New York Corporation Australia, the Film and Television human warmth of a Finnish Finland Pekka Kuusisto/ Office, SBS Independent, ITVS winter. International, NHK Japan, YLE Finland and ESEK/LUSES.

“Riley can touch Event information World Premiere Adelaide Centre for the Arts our heartstrings Main Theatre without them Previews 26 & 27 February, Oddbodies Theatre going out of key.” 7pm 28 & 29 February, 7pm The Australian 1 March, 7pm On the verge of greatness, 2 March, 5pm Antonio Vivaldi needs one 4 & 5 March, 7pm final achievement to prove 6 March, 5pm & 9pm his virtuosity and release him Matinee 1 March, 2pm from the priesthood once and 70 mins for all. Preview/Matinee $30 Featuring music by Vivaldi Adult $39 Friends $33 Conc $28 performed live by a soprano Fringe Benefits $28 and a quintet of baroque Book at Venue*TIX musicians. (08) 8225 8888 or Written and Directed by adelaidefestival.com.au Sean Riley Musical Direction Gabriella Smart Design Dean Hills Lighting Design Sue Grey-Gardner Cast Andreas Sobik, Johanna Allen, Presented by Arts Projects Australia Kim Liotta, Stephen Sheehan in association with Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts. Dramaturgy David Ryding For the 2008 Festival, Musica Event information Musica Viva Viva presents the dynamic Adelaide Town Hall musical partnership of the 6 March, 8pm UK/Australia Goldner String Quartet and acclaimed Scottish pianist A Res $62.30 Friends $53.45 Steven Osborne. Conc $54.30 B Res $49.30 Friends $42.40 This electrifying combination Conc $43.30 perform two popular piano C Res $40.30 Friends $34.75 quintets, Schumann’s surging Conc $35.30 romantic masterpiece and Shostakovich’s neo-classical Book at BASS 131 246 or work. The Quartet performs adelaidefestival.com.au Musica Viva’s 2008 Featured Composer Richard Mills’ first String Quartet while Osborne explores the sensual world of Debussy’s best-known Préludes. Richard Mills String Quartet no 1 revised 2007 Dmitri Shostakovich Piano Quintet in G minor, Op 57 Goldner String Claude Debussy Préludes (Book 1), Nos 6-10 1910 Steven Osborne Quartet & Robert Schumann Piano Quintet in E flat major, Steven Osborne Op 44 Australian Chamber Orchestra

The captivating beauty mysteries and majesty of Artistic Director and Lead Event information of Katie Noonan’s voice England. Violin Adelaide Town Hall joins with the Australian Originally written for the Richard Tognetti 11 March, 8pm Chamber Orchestra for strings of the then recently Voice A Res $72Friends$62Conc$55 an exploration of English founded London Symphony Katie Noonan song. B Res $55 Conc $44 Orchestra, Sir Edward Elgar’s Songs by Gibbons, Dowland, Melancholic, nostalgic and Introduction and Allegro is Book at BASS 131 246 or Britten, Drake, Lennon/ adelaidefestival.com.au at times mystical – centuries an epic yet succinct work. The McCartney and others are traversed with songs from concert is brought to a stirring Vaughan Williams Gibbons and Dowland through conclusion, as this piece Five Variants of ‘Dives and to the present day. showcases the extraordinary Lazarus’ At once sombre and soaring, talents of the Australian Elgar the sensuous Five Variants of Chamber Orchestra strings. Introduction and Allegro, ACO’s National Touring Partner ‘Dives and Lazarus’ by Ralph Op. 47 is the Commonwealth Bank. ACO Vaughan Williams continues is also supported by the Australia this exploration of the folkloric Council and Playing Australia. World Premiere

In the seven years G converts the dancers Event information Photographer: Chris Herzfeld since ADT’s Artistic from characters into ADT Studios Director Garry Stewart visceral explorations of 126 Belair Road, Hawthorn hysteria, sex, death, loss and premiered his celebrated 1 & 2, 5–9, 12–16 March, 6pm deconstruction of Swan metamorphosis. Approx 70 minutes Lake – Birdbrain – he Fusing the technical prowess has become one of and technique of classical Adult $27 Friends $22 Conc $22 Graffiti Australia’s most highly ballet with his explosive and Book at BASS 131 246 or regarded contemporary enthralling choreography adelaidefestival.com.au choreographers. for G, Garry Stewart has A work in For the 2008 Festival Futures further extended the intensely physical dance for which Research program, Stewart presents G, progress he and ADT have become G has been co-commissioned by the a non-linear re-composition of Joyce Theatre (New York) and South Giselle. internationally renowned and Bank Centre (London). revered. Dislocating and transcending This performance may contain nudity. Giselle’s romantic narrative, Lab

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A glimpse behind the priceless cultural heritage of Libretto Event information scenes at the development the Central Australian Aranda Ros Horin & Gordon K Williams Netley Studio, State Opera of a powerful new people from obliteration. Music 1–2 March, 2pm Australian opera – the But what happens when your Gordon Kerry, David Bridie, All tickets $25 second Festival Futures culture – defined as “dead” – Nokturnl, Warren H Williams presentation for 2008. continues to adapt, transform Book through State Opera of SA Conductor (08) 8226 4790 Ingkata is a bi-cultural and evolve? Timothy Sexton opera based on the life of Ingkata is a passionate Producer/Director brilliant South Australian cultural encounter between Ros Horin anthropologist Ted Strehlow Western contemporary opera, and his fascinating and popular Aboriginal music controversial relationship with Produced by Racing Pulse This project has been assisted by (‘blackfella’ hip-hop, blues, Productions, Adelaide Bank Festival the Australian Government’s Major the Aranda people of Central rock), and traditional Aranda of Arts and State Opera of South Festivals Initiative, managed by the Australia. song and Lutheran chorale – Australia. Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body, in association Ingkata charts Strehlow’s a heady mix. See pages 60 & 61 for Mr Strehlow’s with the Confederation of Australian heroic quest to save the Films as part of Festival on Film. International Arts Festivals, Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts and Darwin Festival. In their first visit to Event information Australian Premiere Australia, New York’s Artspace Graffiti Research Adelaide Festival Centre USA Lab (GRL) present a 5–16 March, for times check masterclass and public art www.anat.org.au/ interventions throughout graffitiresearchlab the city of Adelaide. Artists’ Week Throwie Graffiti Research Lab are Workshop 4 March – see pg 50 artists, programmers and for details urban activitists who work FREE with open source technologies, light and projection to create temporary public art and graffiti. Two members of GRL, Evan Roth and James Powderly, will bring their Presented by Carclew Youth Arts unique approach to civic in association with the Australian intervention to Adelaide, Network for Art and Technology and the Adelaide Festival leading a week-long creative Centre, Artspace. Supported by exchange for Australian Nanotechnology Victoria, Bridge8, artists. Audiences are the Independent Arts Foundation and the South Australian Youth Arts invited to keep an eye on Board. Graffiti the daily blog to find out GRL’s movements, with opportunities to watch the masterclass, participate in Research open access workshops, view the creative outcomes and to document and celebrate this unique event – www.anat.org. Lab au/graffitiresearchlab World Premiere

Lovers & Haters celebrates Event information the Dunstan Decade in a Norwood Concert Hall controversial new play. 175 The Parade, Norwood Under ’s dynamic Preview 5 March, 8pm leadership South Australia Season 6–8 & 12–15 March, was transformed from a 8pm conservative backwater into a Sunsets 10–11 March, 6.30pm beacon of social reform. Matinees 8 & 15 March, 2pm Don Dunstan’s private life 120 mins (approx) incl interval placed great pressure on Adult $55 Friends $45 Conc $45 his public position, and his Matinee personal passions – for the Adult $50 Conc $40 Friends$40 arts, dining and social justice Preview $40 all tickets – drove his reformist political agenda. Book at BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au Lovers Don Dunstan brought a brilliant flash of colour to the grey world of politics. Love him or hate him, there has Strong language and adult themes. never been another politician & Haters like him. The turbulent times of Writers Rob George & Don Dunstan Maureen Sherlock 44 State Library of South Australia Photograph: Tom Roschi, Image Manipulation:Photograph: Tom Orbit Design Group

A library where the books Come into the historic Event information are human beings! Borrow Mortlock Chamber of the State Mortlock Chamber a fire fighter, a footballer Library on North Terrace, State Library South Australia, or a government minister. browse the catalogue, make North Terrace, Adelaide your selection and then Find out what it’s like to 1–9 March, 10am–1pm daily climb a mountain, play enter into a conversation sport at an elite level, or with a Living Book. Themes Ring (08) 8207 7239 to register as a borrower or for more live and serve in a war include sport, politics, history, information zone, not by reading religion, the arts, sexuality, Open 3 hours daily. Borrowing periods 30 minutes a book but by talking science and technology. FREE to someone who has Artistic Director experienced it. Maude Davey Discover the extraordinary capacities and experiences of ordinary people, and the Presented by Office for Volunteers, State Library of South Australia and courage and humanity of Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts. some of the remarkable people who live and work in South The Office for Volunteers, State Library of South Australia and Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts have joined together in presenting Living Books Australia. to showcase and celebrate volunteering. All Living Books are volunteering their time to share their special stories and provide this unique experience. Register as a borrower on (08) 8207 7239 to receive your library card or just come and browse. 45 World Premiere

Who’ll make an exhibition Then it’s over to you, if you’re Event information of themselves in the game, to have your 15 minutes Harris Scarfe windows of Harris Scarfe of fame. The best drawings each day will be rewarded in in Rundle Mall? 1–15 March, 11am–2pm, daily Harris Scarfe’s daily draw. Throughout the Festival, the FREE shopfront windows of Harris Scarfe will be transformed into an animated art exhibition of light and live drawing. Come and watch as young and established artists alike create an electronic work of art before your eyes on a digital canvas that instantly transmits the image to other screens located around town. Once a day, the professionals will stand aside for celebrities to try their hand. 46 International/Australia Writers’ Week – Overseas Writers Australian Writers Event information Australia’s most Anita Amirrezvani/Iran Randa Abdel-Fatteh Pioneer Women’s Memorial anticipated literary Daniel Arsand/France Azhar Abidi Gardens festival. It is now nearly Paul Auster/USA Georgia Blain 2–7 March daily half a century since Peter Carey/Aust Geraldine Brooks FREE Writers’ Week first Thomas H Cook/USA Marshall Browne emerged as one of the Enrique de Heriz/Spain Janine Burke highlights of the Adelaide Richard Davenport-Hines/UK Anson Cameron Festival. Paul Durcan/Ireland Inga Clendinnen Since its beginnings in the Deborah Eisenberg/USA Peter Corris 1960s, Adelaide Writers’ Peter Godwin/USA Robyn Davidson Week has come to be Linda Grant/UK Garry Disher recognised and acclaimed, not Kristy Gunn/ Nick Earls This project has been assisted by the only at home but around the Richard Holmes/UK Gideon Haigh Commonwealth Government through Siri Hustvedt/USA John Harms the Australia Council, its arts world, for the distinction and funding and advisory body. diversity of its contributors. Moses Isegawa/Uganda/ Lian Hearn Netherlands Barry Jones Writers’ Week is also Special Thanks: Daniel Kehlmann/Germany John Kinsella Allen & Unwin celebrated for creative Culture Ireland Ian McEwan/UK Mike Ladd encounters with splendid Flinders University Patrick McGrath/UK Marilyn Lake writing and eminent writers The French Embassy Bill Manhire/NZ Margo Lanagan Harper Collins Publishers Australia in the shade of tents and plane Hodder James Meek/Scotland Amanda Lohrey trees, in a park setting where Independent Arts Foundation Denise Mina/Scotland Gabrielle Lord an amiable late-summer mood Innovative Universities European Deborah Moggach/UK Roger McDonald Union Centre prevails. Here readers mingle The Production and Translation of Tim Parks/UK William McInnes with some of the world’s most Dutch Literature Miranda Seymour/UK David Malouf exciting literary figures, in Little, Brown Roma Tearne/Sri Lanka Robert Manne Murdoch Books a meeting place between a New Zealand Book Council Paul Torday/UK Melina Marchetta memorial garden for women Dr Richard G Num David Marr and a colonial parade ground, Orion Gerald Murnane Pan Macmillan Australia on Kaurna country. Penguin Australia Doris Pilkington Random House Australia While 2008 Writers’ Week Scottish Arts Council will feature writers from a Henry Reynolds Simon & Schuster (Australia) number of nations around Text Publishing Deborah Robertson The State Library of South Australia the world, this year we will Hazel Rowley The hear rather more voices from Matt Rubinstein University of South Australia the United States of America Jared Thomas A detailed program of events with and from Scotland. Poets Carrie Tiffany full information on sessions and and novelists, historians Kate Veitch participating writers is available and biographers, journalists, in early February 2008. To reserve See also Persian Garden Poets your copy of the Adelaide Writers’ editors, writers of literary page 37. Week Program Guide, please send fiction and publishers will your name and address together engage, as we have come to with a cheque or money order for $8.00 (made payable to the Adelaide expect, in a free and easy Festival) to the Adelaide Writers’ exchange. Week Program, PO Box 8221 Station We look forward to catching Arcade, Adelaide SA 5000 Australia up with you at one of the world’s most stimulating literary events. Evening One Evening Two With visiting writers With visiting writers Linda Grant/UK Paul Auster/USA Denise Mina/Scotland Peter Carey/Aust Deborah Moggach/UK Siri Hustvedt/USA Tim Parks/UK Ian McEwan/UK Adelaide Town Hall Adelaide Town Hall 3 March, 8pm 4 March, 8pm 100 mins, no interval 100 mins, no interval Adults $28 Friends$24 Conc$15 Adults $28 Friends$24 Conc$15 Book at BASS 131 246 or Book at BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au adelaidefestival.com.au 48

WOMADelaide, where the world breathes deeply in perfect cultural harmony, returns in 2008 to Adelaide’s beautiful Botanic Park for another joyous three-day celebration of the world of music, arts and dance. Extraordinary artists come together to create a unique weekend, their performances complemented by a diverse program of workshops, visual arts, culinary sessions, children’s activities and a global village of food, drink, arts and crafts.

The preview line-up for with Bosco Mann and the International , Black Grace/New Zealand 2008 is: Dap-Kings – the star-studded Murundak draws on the Black Grace has cut an house band of the Daptone history of Indigenous struggle Cesária Évora/Cape Verde imposing figure on the Nicknamed the barefoot diva, Records label and icons of and the music it inspired. world stage for 12 years Cesária Évora is a legendary New York’s Deep Funk scene. Presented in association with Arts as New Zealand’s leading By arrangement with Billions House. contemporary dance singer. Her soulful, evocative Australia. songs are in a style known Taraf de Haidouks/Romania company, thanks to the robust as morna – sung in Creole The in From Europe’s largest athleticism of Neil Ieremia’s Portuguese and related to ‘MURUNDAK’/Australia Gypsy community comes a dynamic choreographic vision. Portuguese fado and Brazilian Murundak, a powerful masterful Lautari ensemble. Supported by Creative New Zealand. musical event with This “band of outlaws” – a modinha. Since recording Titi Robin/France her first hit album in 1988, accompanying film dozen ace players from the Thierry “Titi” Robin plays Evora has enjoyed a stellar images, features a 32-piece village of Clejani – generate oud, bouzouki and guitar and international performing ‘super-band’ of Australian irresistible rhythms propelled borrows from the sounds of career. Indigenous artists, including by twin accordions and a Andalusia, North Africa, the Stephen Pigram, Archie rocking slapped bass, fiddles, Middle East and India. With a Sharon Jones & the Roach, Ruby Hunter, Lou cimbalom and pyrotechnic Dap-Kings/USA career that spans 20 years his Bennett, Joe Geia and Kev vocals. stage performances with his Singer Sharon Jones has Carmody. Assembled by earned the title of America’s six-piece ensemble are exotic, musical directors Shane exuberant and free-spirited. Queen of Soul since Howard and David Arden collaborating in the late-1990s in 2006 for the “As close to heaven as we can hope for in this lifetime.” Sydney Morning Herald Photo: Tony Lewis. Photo: Tony

Terem Quartet/Russia Billy Cobham Septet/USA Event information Injecting fresh life into Iconic jazz drummer Billy Botanic Park traditional Russian folk music, Cobham delighted 2007 7–9 March Terem Quartet weaves its audiences with his masterly performances with humour 50-minute unaccompanied 3-Day Festival Pass* and breathtaking musical drum solo and as Musical Adults $195 Conc $145 **Groups (10+) $165 Friends $165 phone bookings only. energy. This St Petersburg Director of the All-Star Gala. Full Program Line-Up and schedule out in January. ensemble returns to Adelaide He returns with a new septet, *Gate Price Adults $225 Conc $175 after triumphant 1990s creating free-flowing musical **Cut off date for Groups & Friends 22 February. WOMADelaide performances. improvisations. Single session tickets on sale with full program release in January. Children under 12 admitted free when accompanied by an adult. Dr Natesan Ramani/India La Compagnie Revered as one of the most Carabosse/France Book at .com.au or Venue*Tix 1300 30 40 72 and eminent modern flute players This extraordinary ensemble selected Australia Post outlets in the Carnatic (South Indian) – working with hundreds of tradition, Natesan Ramani candle-pots – will create a mesmerises audiences with spectacular flame sculpture the piercing clarity of his each evening, transforming simple bamboo soprano flute. Botanic Park into a beautifully By arrangement with the Nataraj illuminated, surreal world Produced and presented by the WOMADelaide Foundation and managed Cultural Centre and with support of flames, lit ceremonially at by Arts Projects Australia and Womad Ltd. Presented in association with from the Indian Council for Cultural the Government of South Australia and proudly supported by United Water. Relations. sunset. Presented as part of Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts. For further information visit womadelaide.com.au 50

Artists’ Week celebrates the visual arts in a program brimming with opportunities for debate, discussion and participation. Artists are always at the centre of this specially curated week and the 2008 program focuses on conversations and current issues in contemporary practice.

1 March 3 March 5 March Event information • Gallery Floor Talks • 2008 Adelaide Biennial of • Continental Drift Elder Hall and other venues Artists exhibiting in the Australian Art A panel of ex-pats and 1–6 March Festival’s Visual Arts Panel discussion with artists who divide their time Program and 2008 Adelaide curator, Felicity Fenner, and between here and abroad. FREE Biennial of Australian Art. artists. • In Conversation • Contemporary Collectors’ • In Conversation • Play it Loud Masterclass • Art and the City Can artists reach different See opposite page for details. Is art enjoying a audiences combining visual • Critics’ Masterclass for promiscuous fling in our arts and music? Assisted by the Commonwealth Young and Emerging urban spaces? • The Gloves Come Off Government through the Australia Writers Is there enough healthy Council, its arts funding and See opposite page for details. 4 March advisory body. • Playing it Safe debate in Australian Full Artists’ Week Program and 2 March Where are the strong art art? Are we too polite to ruffle feathers and egos? Visual Arts Guide released in • Gallery Floor Talks images to jolt us out of January 2008. Artists exhibiting in the complacency? Ringmasters, Alexi Glass Register for a free copy at and Julianne Pierce, unleash adelaidefestival.com.au 2008 Adelaide Biennial of • In Conversation Australian Art. some fiery souls to start the • Contemporary Catastrophes sparring. • Art Compass 2008 How are artists responding A new initiative connecting to global tragedies and 6 March contemporary art phenomena? • NAVA Perspectives exhibitions across the Asia Hot topics presented by • Graffiti Research Lab Pacific in 2008. Discussion National Association for Throwie Workshop with guest speakers the Visual Arts (NAVA) in Join New York artists GRL including Artistic Director of association with the Arts in a free workshop to create the 2008 Sydney Biennale, Law Centre of Australia. your own LED throwies, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. open to all and suitable for • Light is a Messenger • In Conversation children and non-tech savvy. Programmed by the Bragg Special guest: American 7pm, Artspace, Adelaide Festival Initiative, an exploration collector, Dennis Scholl Centre, Free. of aesthetics and cultural (USA). Presented in association with ideas associated with the Carclew Youth Arts. • Artists’ Week Party phenomena of light. See opposite page for details. Artists’ Week Party Event information Featuring Chicks first@Hotel Richmond 128 Rundle Mall on Speed 2 March, 8pm–midnight Artists’ Week launches in outrageous style with the Adult $40 international queens of art, Fringe Benefits $25 electro-pop and fashion, Entry includes 1 drink and canapés Chicks on Speed. Book at BASS 131 246 or Chicks on Speed are an ever- adelaidefestival.com.au changing collective with Tickets strictly limited a punk-inspired DIY ethic to creating music, art and original fashion statements. In what will be a night of Supported by first@Hotel Richmond. colourful frivolity, infectious dance tunes and fabulous outfits, Chicks on Speed will bring their unique and revolutionary brand of entertainment to Adelaide. The 2006 Artists’ Week Party was a sell-out – with Chicks on Speed headlining in 2008, you’d better be speedy too. Critics’ Masterclass Contemporary Collectors’ Masterclass for young and A special event for lovers and collectors of Australian and international contemporary art, this Masterclass features emerging writers John Kaldor exclusive presentations by two leading lights of the This hands-on, five-day international art community about the business of collecting, Masterclass will give young including what to look for, when to buy and when to sell. and emerging writers the John Kaldor AM has assembled one of the most important chance to work with and private collections of contemporary art in Australia. He was learn from established writers a major force behind Australia’s recent representation at the and critics by reviewing Venice Biennale and was commissioner for the Australian exhibitions and events during exhibitions in 2005 and 2007. the Festival and have their work featured on the Artists’ Dennis Scholl is a highly regarded and respected Miami- Week blog. The Masterclass based collector of contemporary art. Dennis was the founding is open to applications from chair of the Guggenheim Museum Photography Acquisition South Australian and national Committee and the Tate Museum American Acquisition emerging writers, with some Committee. places reserved for students A unique opportunity to meet two prominent collectors and and recent graduates of the gain invaluable insights, not to be missed! Helpmann Academy.

Event information Event information Bradley Forum, Hawke Centre 1–6 March

Dennis Scholl University of South Australia (enter via Fenn Place) FREE (participation by application 1 March, 4–6pm only) $35 (includes light refreshments) For further information, Book at BASS 131 246 or adelaidefestival.com.au contact ahughes@ Strictly limited seats adelaidefestival.com.au

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Australia

Michael Riley

This exhibition centres on Event information World Premiere the great Ngurrara canvas, ETSA Utilities Gallery painted by Great Sandy Desert South Australian Museum traditional owners during 11 February–16 March, Exhibition National Native Title tribunal daily, 10am–5pm hearings in 1997. 29 February 10am–9pm In counterpoint to the FREE installation of Michael South Australian Riley’s cloud, this imposing painting will be exhibited with paintings and films Museum made during recent site visits, Supported by Visions Australia. juxtaposed with artefacts, See pages 60 & 61 for Jila: Painted crayon drawings and regional Waters of the Great Sandy Desert maps gathered during a 1952 as part of Festival on Film. anthropological expedition. Image: detail of Ngurrara Canvas, The exhibition runs a thread Ngurrara Artists, 1996. through this material, Ngurrara revealing enduring links to land and the overlapping The Great Sandy Desert Canvas roles of Aboriginal elders and anthropologists in enabling cultural transmission. Artists Ngurrara Artists Curators Karen Dayman, Daniel Vachon, Philip Jones, David Kerr 07

“You just really keep your eyes open and look for things that other people don’t see. You just see things and then take the picture.” Michael Riley, 1996

The late Michael Riley was In 2000, he produced his last Event information one of the most important and most significant work, Adelaide CBD indigenous artists of the cloud: a poetic meditation 29 February–16 March past two decades. on past and present history, FREE Over his career, he produced assimilation and the variety of meanings one image can Michael Riley an impressive body of work Australia 1960–2004 ranging from early black-&- hold for different cultures. Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi peoples white portraiture to film, video The nine images create Nine works from the cloud series, a glorious montage 52 2000/2005, chromogenic pigment and large-scale digital works. prints, National Gallery of Australia, Throughout, he celebrated metres long, one of the Canberra. the spirit of the Wiradjuri/ largest artworks created in © Michael Riley Foundation. Licensed Australia, that will remain as by VISCOPY, Australia, 2007. Gamilaroi people and had By arrangement with Michael Riley a deep commitment to the a free public art installation Foundation. process of reconciliation. welcoming audiences for the duration of the Festival. For further information visit adelaidefestival.com.au in January 2008

A major research project Event information World Premiere with young people on the Migration Museum margins of society becomes 82 Kintore Avenue, Adelaide a challenging exhibition 29 February–June, at the Migration Museum. daily, 10am–5pm The exhibition documents Migration Museum responses by ‘young people FREE at risk’ to ideas about ‘hopefulness’ and ‘the future’. It will feature original material which graphically illustrates This exhibition results from a collaboration between the Migration their lives, hopes and dreams. Museum and the University of South Hope aims to expand and Australia research project ‘Doing challenge notions of social Social Sustainability’ which has been funded through the Australian sustainability by including Research Council Linkage grants those identities and ideas that program. are normally marginal to it. Curators Simon Robb and Catherine Manning The Utopian Imagination of Artistic Consultant Young People on the Margins Anton Hart of Society 54

Reflecting the Festival’s theme of light and Adelaide’s mantle as the City of Light, the Festival presents international contemporary artists who work with light as both medium and metaphor. In Last Riot Speed of Light, each brings their own AES+F Group unique and imaginative manifestation Russia of light as sculpture, projection, photomedia and installation, evoking powerful statements about emotion, The hit of the Venice Biennale 2007, Last Riot is a three-screen video installation and five-metre photographic panorama by communication, sensuality, the urban four Russian artists, together known as AES+F Group. environment, war and power. In collaboration, Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovitch, Evgeny In addition to this, many of the Svyatsky and Vladimir Fridkes have created this shockingly assertive new work, inspired by Caravaggio. Within its virtual exhibitions throughout the 2008 Visual 3-D world of baroque-tinged madness, we witness a war Arts program also celebrate artists develop between anonymous, androgynous teenagers. As the working with light. group explains: “…everyone is fighting against the others and against themselves. There is no difference between victim and aggressor, male and female.” “Last Riot elicited the only prolonged round of applause I’ve ever witnessed at the Biennale.” Art in America “I did not meet a single person who wasn’t impressed by Last Riot. One of the three Biennale highlights for me.” The Telegraph (UK)

Event information JamFactory Contemporary Craft and Design Lion Arts Centre, 19 Morphett Street 29 February–16 March Monday–Saturday, 10am–5pm Sunday & Public Holiday, 1–5pm FREE

Proudly supported by the Frolich Family and Tynte Flowers, Core Collaborative, Candy Bennett and Dick Quan.

AES+F Group, Last Riot 2, Panorama N.4 2005–2006, digital print on canvas. Collection: Australian Private Collection. Courtesy: Marco Noire Contemporary Art, Italy. ReMix/Broca II Elisa Sighicelli Iván Navarro (Letters/Numbers) Italy Chile/USA Mischa Kuball Germany

From Düsseldorf, Germany, Mischa Born in Turin, Italy, Elisa Sighicelli Echoing the minimalist works of Dan Kuball has worked conceptually currently divides her time between Flavin, Iván Navarro light sculptures with light for more than 20 years, Turin and London. Fluctuating between subvert the cool detachment of florescent using it uniquely to make social and the media of video and photography, bulbs with their arrangement into political statements. This installation, her work scrutinises ordinary things recognisable objects. Using lighting and ReMix/Broca II (Letters/Numbers), intensely: while light reveals the images, industrial materials, Navarro builds is a development of an earlier work, darkness transforms their reality and pieces that tell a story both visually broca’sche areal. With both, the titles allows new interpretations. Sighicelli and politically. For his first exhibition refer to brain regions that form language has participated in various solo and in Australia, Iván Navarro will screen a capability and the basis for human group exhibitions in Milan, New York, series of video works plus a selection of communication. Rotating projectors cast Los Angeles, London, Paris and Turin. recent light sculptures. letters and numbers across the gallery Here, she is exhibiting lightboxes from “Navarro’s dazzling sculptural forms wall onto sculptural elements modelled her Billboard series and three video suggest utopian longings of Modernist on the artist’s digitised brain waves. works: Phi Building (2006), Altimetry design… their seductively glowing light Curator of Stripes (2006), and Non-stop Exotic surges with undercurrents of darkness.” Melentie Pandilovski Cabaret (2007). John B. Ravenal, Curator, Virginia Museum of Fine Art Event information Event information Experimental Art Foundation Flinders University City Gallery Event information Lion Arts Centre, State Library of South Australia, Greenaway Art Gallery North Terrace (West End) North Terrace 39 Rundle Street, Kent Town 29 February–16 March, daily 10am–5pm 1–16 March, 28 February–16 March, daily 11am–5pm 18–28 March, Tuesday–Friday, 11am–5pm weekdays, 10am–6pm 18–30 March Saturday, 2–5pm weekends, 12–5pm Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–6pm FREE FREE FREE

Iván Navarro, Backstage, 2005. Photo: Rodrigo Pereda Consulate of Italy The EAF is supported by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, the Elisa Sighicelli, Untitled (White), 2006. South Australian Government through Arts SA and through the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, State and Territory Governments. Mischa Kuball, ‘Broca Re:Mix’ 2007, Foto © ONUK /MNK/ZKM Karlsruhe Multimedia Installation, dimensions variable. Art and technology will Event information World Premiere mesmerise you into Adelaide Festival Centre Plaza believing that you have in front of Artspace the universe before you. 1–16 March, daily Felix Larreta’s optical noon–5pm, 7–10pm Speed of Light sculpture – Spherescent, FREE gives us a new glimpse into our senses; software analyses Presented by Fundación María Felix Larreta for the harmonics of music, found Elisa Mmitre (Argentina) and GAG Projects, in association with Adelaide sound or movement and Bank Festival of Arts. transforms it into a universe GAG Projects of infinite abstract patterns Argentina through computer-generated images in real time. Enter the geodesic dome on Adelaide Festival Centre Plaza and be spellbound by an orb of light, sound and movement. This unique public art project is the inaugural event of Greenaway Art Gallery – GAG Projects, Berlin. Image: Hassan - A

Never before seen in Event information Australian Premiere Australia, renowned Greenaway Art Gallery German artist Thomas 39 Rundle Street, Kent Town Rentmeister’s work has 28 February–16 March aptly been described daily 11am–5pm GAG Projects as a kind of “Dirty 18–29 March Minimalism”*. Tuesday–Sunday, 11am–6pm Germany His monumental installation FREE at Greenaway Art Gallery will be made of dozens of used refrigerators and other whitish materials, like Thomas Rentmeister is represented styrofoam, underwear and in Europe by Otto Schweins Gallery, baby cream. The fridges will Cologne. Ellen de Bruijne Projects, be piled on each other in a Amsterdam. way that makes you think of *This term was used by Ursula a landscape of ancient ruins. Panhans-Bühler in her text “Sweet Heaviness and Gravitational Thomas Rentmeister creates Sweetness” in the catalogue for the a white world civilization of exhibition “brown” in the Kölnischer glued together garbage – Kunstverein in 2001. a manifestation of an absurd Presented by GAG Projects in recycling architecture. association with Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts. Image courtesy the artist Image courtesy the artist Image: Hassan - A political issues. issues. political of socio- arange in engages work whose artists emerging and by artists, immigrant and known Australian-born by well- installations and photography, painting video, is explored in sculpture, in today’sanxiety society of undercurrent An debate. that generate disquiet and of contemporaryaspects life considers Art Australian of Biennial Adelaide 2008 the Care with Handle In Australia. byfrom artists around featuring recent work of current practice, art of majorthis survey 2008 is the tenth edition South Australia Art Gallery of 57 James Newitt, Bronwyn Bronwyn Newitt, James Múller, Dorothy Napangardi, Anthony Tom Mannix, Del Favero, Janet Laurence, Forwood, Dennis Lesley Northey, James and Darling Connelly- Lorraine Christanto, Dadang Aquilizan, Isabel and Alfredo include Care with Handle in exhibiting Artists which we live. in environments natural and relationships the with cultural our of nature fragile the – form material and content thematic exhibition –describe both in Collectively, works in the as psychological borders. racial, national as well between ofcultures, crossing of transiting experience the is A sub-theme of the exhibition

Felicity Fenner Felicity Curator Biennial. Adelaide previously shown in the featured have the artists none time, of For first the of LightSpeed exhibitions. to complement the Festival’s using light as their medium, explore the work of artists Care will with Handle of elements Additionally, filmmakers. Australian of young collection Woo, Ken Yonetani and a Victor, Guan Wei, Catherine Hossein Valamanesh, Suzann Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri, Kate Rohde, Selig, Sandra Oliver, Pryor, Gregory

Australia. of South Gallery Art and of Arts Presented by Adelaide Bank Festival body. advisory and funding the Australia Council, its arts through Government Commonwealth This project has been assisted by the FREE 10am–5pmdaily May,1 March–4 29 February, 7–9pm Terrace North Australia of South Gallery Art Event information

Image: Janet Laurence, Birdsong, 2006 to walk on Two major exhibitions Event information by eminent Australian Contemporary Art Centre of artists Rosemary Laing South Australia and the collaborative duo 14 Porter Street, Parkside a sea of salt of Susan Norrie and David 28 February–16 March Rosemary Laing Mackenzie. daily 10am–5pm Rosemary Laing’s series 17 March–6 April, to walk on a sea of salt, Tuesday–Friday, 11am–5pm photographed entirely within Weekends 1–5pm South Australia, examines our FREE sense of national identity with Twilight reference to the journeys made by early European explorers Susan Norrie & and recent immigrants and David Mackenzie refugees. Twilight by Susan Norrie The Contemporary Art Centre of and David Mackenzie records South Australia is supported by the the Aboriginal Tent Embassy Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, the South in the fading light of day’s Australian Government through end, drawing attention to the Arts SA and through the Visual Arts uncertain future of the Tent and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australia, State and Territory Embassy and indigenous Governments. rights in Australia. Photo: Rosemary Laing, 5.10am, 15 This presentation is a December 2004, courtesy the artist satellite exhibition to the and Tolarno Galleries. 2008 Adelaide Biennial of Norrie and Mackenzie would like Australian Art Handle With to acknowledge the support and Care curated by Felicity co-operation of the community at the Fenner. Aboriginal Tent Embassy. This Lawrence Everything Daws Paintings, Drawings & Prints Water 1946–2007 This Everything Water This major survey exhibition explores material qualities and will celebrate the work of metaphorical resonances of Lawrence Daws, a painter pearl shell through the work of and printmaker who has been Kay Lawrence, Aubrey Tigan inspired by light, grandeur and Butcher Joe Nangan. and geographic forms during his career spanning more than Presented by South Australian School of Art Gallery and Adelaide Bank sixty years. Festival of Arts. Works will also be on view at the Kay Lawrence, No Work for a White Hilton Adelaide on Victoria Square, Man. Photo: Michal Kluvanek. daily 10am–6pm. Event information Event information SASA Gallery, University Greenhill Galleries Adelaide of South Australia, Kaurna 140 Barton Terrace West, Building, Hindley Street North Adelaide 28 February–27 March, 24 February–18 March daily 11am–5pm daily, 10am–5pm FREE FREE

Image: Fleurieu Peninsula III 59 World Premiere Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art Image: Wang Ya-hui Visitor 2007 Video Visitor 2007 stillImage: Ya-hui Wang

Penumbra: Contemporary Penumbra features a range of Event information Art from Taiwan explores the new media and installation Anne & Gordon Samstag dynamic spaces and shifting works by established and Museum of Art shadows of contemporary life emerging contemporary artists University of South Australia in Taiwan. The exhibition in Taiwan, including Wang 55 North Terrace, Adelaide examines how contemporary Ya-hui, whose work Visitor 29 February–16 March artists negotiate and define (2007) received international daily, 10am–5pm public and private space, critical acclaim at the 2007 18 March–4 April reflecting upon the recent LOOP International Video Art Tuesday–Friday, 11am–5pm, impact of Taiwan’s dramatic Festival. Sunday, 2–5pm, or by economic and socio-political Curator appointment transformations. Sophie McIntyre FREE

Presented by Anne & Gordon Samstag Museum of Art and Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts.

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Complementing the Festival’s program of events, Festival on Film presents documentary and feature films created by or about artists and subjects represented in the 2008 program. All screenings at Mercury Cinema.

The Disappearance of Sonic Mirror Kurtal: Snake Spirit Leonard Cohen: Garcia Lorca Director Mika Kaurismäki Producer/writer Nicole Ma I’m Your Man Director Marcos Zurinaga 29 February, 7pm & 8 March, 4pm Co-directors Nicole Ma and Director Lian Lunson 2 March, 4pm & 10 March, 3pm English/German/Swiss-German/ Michelle Mahrer 16 March, 7.30pm Spain/France/USA/Puerto Rico/ Portuguese/2007/80 mins/Film yet Australia/2005/98 mins/G to be classified Cinematographer Warwick 1997/142 mins/Film yet to be Witness impassioned and classified Dive into the world of rhythm Thornton thrilling performances from A young Puerto Rican in three different places, Australia/2002/28 mins Sydney’s Leonard Cohen journalist risks everything spaces and beats: from jazz A rare documentary of a tribute concert and hear to discover if the poet, drum legend, Bill Cobham, journey undertaken by intimate interviews with the Federico Garcia Lorca, “really” to sufferers of autism in members of an Aboriginal very private man himself. was assassinated by the Switzerland and the kids in a community going back to Fascists for his passionate Brazilian favela. country to perform an ancient The Death of Klinghoffer ceremony. Celebrating the revolutionary poetry. DV8: The Cost of Living Director Penny Woolcock strong tradition and culture 13 March, 7.30pm KOYAANISQATSI Director Lloyd Newson through the spirit of the next Canada/UK/2003/120 mins/M15+ Director Godfrey Reggio 14 March, 5pm generation. An cinematic realisation Music Philip Glass UK/2004/35 mins/Film yet to be classified May contain scenes of deceased of the John Adams opera 15 March, 1pm persons. about the 1985 hijacking USA/1982/87 mins/G Directed by Australian, of the Achille Lauro by the Extraordinarily prescient, this Lloyd Newson, this award- Peace, Propaganda and Palestinian Liberation Front cult film is uniquely wordless winning film centres on two the Promised Land: US and the subsequent murder of and hypnotically scored by street performers: the tough, Media and the Israeli/ a passenger, Leon Klinghoffer. Philip Glass. confrontational Eddie and Palestinian Conflict David, a legless dancer. FREE. Director Bathsheba Ratzkoff & Cantata Journey POWAQQATSI Sut Jhally Director Dr Hart Cohen Director Godfrey Reggio Jila: Painted Waters of the Great Sandy Desert 14 March, 5.45pm 2 March, 2pm Music Philip Glass US/2004/80 mins/Film yet to be Australia/26 mins/Film yet to be Welcome to Country as prelude to classified 15 March, 3pm screening. classified USA/1988/99 mins/G An exposé of how US political Director David Batty Follows the Ntaria Ladies’ A visual celebration of elites – influence news 12 March, 3pm Choir from Hermannsburg, traditional ways of living that 1998/26 mins/Film yet to be reporting about the Middle central Australia, to the Opera are passing as technology classified East conflict and how their House where they perform threatens our humanity. 70 Aboriginal artists in the distortions have affected with the Sydney Symphony NAQOYQATSI Great Sandy Desert produce public opinion. Gordon Williams and Andrew a painting that becomes the Director Godfrey Reggio Reel Bad Arabs: How Schultz, Journey to Horseshoe conduit for explaining the Music Philip Glass Hollywood Vilifies a Bend Cantata. local people’s attachment to Accompanied by Mr St rehlow’s Films 16 March, 3pm People their country in the Ngururra USA/2002/89 mins/G Director Sut Jhally Mr Strehlow’s Films title claim. A cinematic concert to 15 March, 5pm Director Dr Hart Cohen May contain scenes of deceased experience the allurement, USA/2006/50 mins/Film yet to be 2 March, 2.30pm persons. classified seduction and sanctioned Accompanied by Kurtal:Snake Australia/2001/52 mins/Film yet to terror of everyday living. Spirit A fascinating cinematic be classified voyage through the distorted The late TGH Strehlow was representation of Arab people Australia’s most controversial in Hollywood films. anthropologist. This Point of View: documentary examines An Anthology of the 2008 SA Short Screen Strehlow’s extraordinary Moving Image legacy. 4 March, 3pm Awards Produced by Bick Productions and Proudly Driven By Toyota Who the Fuck Is Jackson New Museum of Contemporary Art Pollock USA/2004/Film yet to be classified Director Harry Moses An innovative commissioning Three screenings of the year’s best short films made in 5 March, 7pm and publishing project South Australia and an awards night and party with USA/2006/74 mins/Film yet to be containing 11 new video the who’s who of the SA filmmaking community. classified and film art works by 11 When a long haul truck driver The awards celebrate SA’s short filmmakers working in contemporary international drama, animation, documentary and comedy. Achievements bought a $5 painting at a artists. FREE. thrift shop, she didn’t know are also recognised for editing, cinematography, design and This film screens with I Could Be composition. Major awards include Best Film, Best Director that it would lift the veil on Me. how art is bought and sold in and Innovation in Digital Media. America. I Could Be Me This film screens with I Could Be Director David Bromley Event information Me. 3, 4, 5 March Best Of The Awards Public Screenings Australia/2005/5 mins Who Gets to Call it Art? A series of 5 minute short 1, 3 & 4 March, 7.30 pm Director Peter Rosen films directed by artist David Tickets $11/9 per session 5 March, 5pm Bromley. “This film tells a Awards Gala USA/2005/78 mins/Film yet to be 6 March, 7.30pm classified story using a camera instead Tickets $25 A look at the New York of paint & canvas… I think City art scene in the 1960s, I’ve just filmed a few pages of Book at MRC on (08) 8410 0979 or purchase from the MRC through the eyes of Henry a sketch book.” offices – above the Mercury Cinema, 13 Morphett Street. Geldzahler, who championed For further information visit mrc.org.au the careers of Andy Warhol Event information and his contemporaries. Adult $11 A fascinating look at the birth Conc/Friends $9 The 2008 South Australian Short Screen Awards proudly driven by Toyota of modern American art. Fringe Benefits $9 are presented by the Media Resource Centre and Mercury Cinema. This film screens with I Could Be Me. Book at MRC on (08) 8410 0979 or purchase at Off the Canvas Mercury Cinema at the time of Director Marcia Urbin the session. Raymond and Joyce Zylberberg 2004/colour/57 mins/Film yet to be classified A documentary profiling 9 Presented by Adelaide Bank Festival maverick New York women of Arts and Media Resource Centre. art dealers. Some films yet to be classified. This film screens with I Could Be Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts Me. reserves the right to change the program without notice. The Lunchtime Forum series Event information is back in 2008, with robust Piano Bar debate, lively discussions, Adelaide Festival Centre fiery opinions and profound 3–7 & 10–14 March, 1pm observations to challenge your views, excite and inform you 60 mins during this year’s Festival. FREE Presented by a panel of the Visit adelaidefestival.com.au Festival’s who’s who, experts for daily schedule and commentators, this is the most intelligent and Ringside insightful in-the-know guide you’re likely to see. Held every weekday lunchtime during the Lunchtime Forums Festival at Bar in the Adelaide Festival Centre. Facilitated by Festival Eminence Grise, Anthony Steel AM.

The Australian Performing Around 400 delegates from Arts Market (APAM) is a one- over 25 countries attend stop opportunity to experience APAM’s vibrant Spotlight the best in contemporary live performance showcase, performing arts from the Searchlight pitch sessions, Australian region. On Display exhibition The 8th APAM will be held booths, industry forums over five days at the Adelaide and networking functions. Festival Centre, to coincide The keynote address will with the Adelaide Bank be presented by the leading Festival of Arts and the international director Adelaide Fringe. . Event information Adelaide Festival Centre 25–29 February For further information visit performingartsmarket.com.au or contact the Event Manager, Arts Projects Australia, tel +61 8 8271 1488 or [email protected] www.performingartsmarket.com.au

APAM is funded by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts and the South Australian Government through Arts SA. It is presented with the support of the Australia International Cultural Council, an initiative of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and the Adelaide Festival Centre. Pg Event Venue 24 Feb 25 Feb 26 Feb 27 Feb 28 Feb 29 Feb 1 Mar 2 Mar 3 Mar 4 Mar 5 Mar 6 Mar 7 Mar 8 Mar 9 Mar 10 Mar 11 Mar 12 Mar 13 Mar 14 Mar 15 Mar 16 Mar music SUN MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT SUN 06 Book of Longing FestivalTheatre 8pm 8pm 09 DBR & THE MISSION Festival Theatre 8pm 10 Enchantment Adelaide Town Hall 7pm 10 Already it is Dusk Adelaide Town Hall 6pm 11 Living Toys Adelaide Town Hall 6pm 12 Mahavishnu Orchestra Festival Theatre 8pm 8pm 14 Miserere St Peter’s Cathedral 10.30pm 15 Dharma at Big Sur Festival Theatre 7.30pm 16 Ornette Coleman Festival Theatre 8pm 41 Goldner String Quartet & Steve Osborne Adelaide Town Hall 8pm 41 Sublime Adelaide Town Hall 8pm 48 WOMAD – World Music Botanic Park Various Various Various opera 04 Ainadamar Festival Theatre 7pm 7pm 7pm 42 Ingkata In workshop Opera Studio Netley 2pm 2pm theatre 18 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Her Majesty’s Theatre 8pm 8pm 8pm 2pm,8.30pm 5pm 20 When The Rain Stops Falling Scott Theatre 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 1.30pm,7.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 1.30pm,6.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 1.30pm,7.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 1.30pm,7.30pm 21 Kommer Space Theatre 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm 5pm 22 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Her Majesty’s Theatre 8pm 2pm,8pm 5pm 6.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 8pm 2pm,8pm 24 Moving Target Odeon Theatre 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 6pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 34 Don’t Look Back Torrens Building 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm,7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm,7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm,7.30pm 7.30pm 38 Children’s Cheering Carpet Space Theatre 2pm 12pm,2pm 11am,2pm 11am,2pm,7pm 39 Township Stories Royalty Theatre 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 2pm,9.30pm 2pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 2pm,9.30pm 2pm 40 The Angel and the Red Priest AC Arts Theatre 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm 2pm,7pm 5pm 7pm 7pm 5pm,9pm 43 Lovers & Haters Norwood Concert Hall 8pm 8pm 8pm 2pm,8pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 2pm,8pm dance/physical theatre 26 To Be Straight With You Dunstan Playhouse 8.30pm 8.30pm 2pm,8.30pm 6pm 28 Sacred Monsters Festival Theatre 8pm 8pm 30 The Age I’m In Dunstan Playhouse 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 32 Glow Space Theatre 6,7,8,9pm 6,7,8,9pm 6,7,8,9pm 6,7,8,9pm 33 Emanuel Gat Dance Company Dunstan Playhouse 7.30pm 7.30pm 6pm 7.30pm 42 G Wonderland Ballroom 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm special events 02 Northern Lights North Terrace 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 03 Ignition! – Opening Night North Terrace 7pm 35 Junk Theory River Torrens 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 9.30–11pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 36 Persian Garden Amphitheatre 10pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 36 Persian Garden Poets featuring Luke Wright Persian Garden 7pm 44 Living Books Mortlock Chamber State Library 6–9pm 10am–1pm 10am–1pm 10am–1pm 10am–1pm 10am–1pm 10am–1pm 10am–1pm 10am–1pm 10am–1pm 46 Adelaide Writers Week Evening Sessions Adelaide Town Hall 8pm 8pm 46 Adelaide Writers Week Day Sessions Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily 62 Ringside Lunchtime Forums Piano Bar 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm film 08 glass a portrait of Philip in twelve parts Piccadilly Cinema 7pm 11am 40 4 Palace Nova 7pm 60 Festival on Film (refer pg 60–61 for sessions) Mercury Cinema 7pm 2pm,4pm 2pm 3pm 3pm 5pm,7pm 4pm 3pm 3pm 7.30pm 5.30pm 1pm,3pm,5pm 3pm,7.30pm 61 SA Short Screen Awards Mercury Cinema 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm visual arts 43 Graffiti Research Lab Artspace Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various 45 Living Window Harris Scarfe 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 50 Artists’ Week Elder Hall Various Various Various Various Various Various 51 Artists’ Week Party first@Hotel Richmond 8pm 51 Contemporary Collectors’ Masterclass Bradley Forum 4pm 52 cloud – Michael Riley Adelaide CBD 52 Hope Migration Museum 10am–9pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 53 Ngurrara – The Great Sandy Desert Canvas SA Museum 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–9pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 54 AES+F Group JamFactory 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 1–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 1–5pm 1–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 1–5pm 55 Mischa Kuball Experimental Art Foundation 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 55 Elisa Sighicelli Flinders University City Gallery 7–9pm 12–5pm 12–5pm 10am–6pm 10am–6pm 10am–6pm 10am–6pm 10am–6pm 12–5pm 12–5pm 10am–6pm 10am–6pm 10am–6pm 10am–6pm 10am–6pm 12–5pm 12–5pm 56 Iván Navarro, Thomas Rentmeister Greenaway Art Gallery 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 56 Spherescent AFC Plaza Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various 57 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art Art Gallery SA 7–9pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 58 to walk on a sea of salt, Twilight CACSA 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 58 This Everything Water SA School of Art Gallery 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 58 Lawrence Daws Greenhill Galleries 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 59 Penumbra – Contemporary Art from Taiwan Samstag Museum of Art 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm Pg Event Venue 24 Feb 25 Feb 26 Feb 27 Feb 28 Feb 29 Feb 1 Mar 2 Mar 3 Mar 4 Mar 5 Mar 6 Mar 7 Mar 8 Mar 9 Mar 10 Mar 11 Mar 12 Mar 13 Mar 14 Mar 15 Mar 16 Mar music SUN MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT SUN 06 Book of Longing FestivalTheatre 8pm 8pm 09 DBR & THE MISSION Festival Theatre 8pm 10 Enchantment Adelaide Town Hall 7pm 10 Already it is Dusk Adelaide Town Hall 6pm 11 Living Toys Adelaide Town Hall 6pm 12 Mahavishnu Orchestra Festival Theatre 8pm 8pm 14 Miserere St Peter’s Cathedral 10.30pm 15 Dharma at Big Sur Festival Theatre 7.30pm 16 Ornette Coleman Festival Theatre 8pm 41 Goldner String Quartet & Steve Osborne Adelaide Town Hall 8pm 41 Sublime Adelaide Town Hall 8pm 48 WOMAD – World Music Botanic Park Various Various Various opera 04 Ainadamar Festival Theatre 7pm 7pm 7pm 42 Ingkata In workshop Opera Studio Netley 2pm 2pm theatre 18 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Her Majesty’s Theatre 8pm 8pm 8pm 2pm,8.30pm 5pm 20 When The Rain Stops Falling Scott Theatre 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 1.30pm,7.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 1.30pm,6.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 1.30pm,7.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 1.30pm,7.30pm 21 Kommer Space Theatre 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm 5pm 22 A Midsummer Night’s Dream Her Majesty’s Theatre 8pm 2pm,8pm 5pm 6.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 8pm 2pm,8pm 24 Moving Target Odeon Theatre 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 6pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 34 Don’t Look Back Torrens Building 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm,7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm,7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm 2.30pm,7.30pm 7.30pm 38 Children’s Cheering Carpet Space Theatre 2pm 12pm,2pm 11am,2pm 11am,2pm,7pm 39 Township Stories Royalty Theatre 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 2pm,9.30pm 2pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 9.30pm 2pm,9.30pm 2pm 40 The Angel and the Red Priest AC Arts Theatre 7pm 7pm 7pm 7pm 2pm,7pm 5pm 7pm 7pm 5pm,9pm 43 Lovers & Haters Norwood Concert Hall 8pm 8pm 8pm 2pm,8pm 6.30pm 6.30pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 2pm,8pm dance/physical theatre 26 To Be Straight With You Dunstan Playhouse 8.30pm 8.30pm 2pm,8.30pm 6pm 28 Sacred Monsters Festival Theatre 8pm 8pm 30 The Age I’m In Dunstan Playhouse 8pm 8pm 8pm 8pm 32 Glow Space Theatre 6,7,8,9pm 6,7,8,9pm 6,7,8,9pm 6,7,8,9pm 33 Emanuel Gat Dance Company Dunstan Playhouse 7.30pm 7.30pm 6pm 7.30pm 42 G Wonderland Ballroom 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm 6pm special events 02 Northern Lights North Terrace 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 9pm–2am 03 Ignition! – Opening Night North Terrace 7pm 35 Junk Theory River Torrens 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 9.30–11pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 8.30–10pm 36 Persian Garden Amphitheatre 10pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 9pm 36 Persian Garden Poets featuring Luke Wright Persian Garden 7pm 44 Living Books Mortlock Chamber State Library 6–9pm 10am–1pm 10am–1pm 10am–1pm 10am–1pm 10am–1pm 10am–1pm 10am–1pm 10am–1pm 10am–1pm 46 Adelaide Writers Week Evening Sessions Adelaide Town Hall 8pm 8pm 46 Adelaide Writers Week Day Sessions Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily Daily 62 Ringside Lunchtime Forums Piano Bar 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm 1pm film 08 glass a portrait of Philip in twelve parts Piccadilly Cinema 7pm 11am 40 4 Palace Nova 7pm 60 Festival on Film (refer pg 60–61 for sessions) Mercury Cinema 7pm 2pm,4pm 2pm 3pm 3pm 5pm,7pm 4pm 3pm 3pm 7.30pm 5.30pm 1pm,3pm,5pm 3pm,7.30pm 61 SA Short Screen Awards Mercury Cinema 7.30pm 7.30pm 7.30pm visual arts 43 Graffiti Research Lab Artspace Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various 45 Living Window Harris Scarfe 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 11am–2pm 50 Artists’ Week Elder Hall Various Various Various Various Various Various 51 Artists’ Week Party first@Hotel Richmond 8pm 51 Contemporary Collectors’ Masterclass Bradley Forum 4pm 52 cloud – Michael Riley Adelaide CBD 52 Hope Migration Museum 10am–9pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 53 Ngurrara – The Great Sandy Desert Canvas SA Museum 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–9pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 54 AES+F Group JamFactory 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 1–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 1–5pm 1–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 1–5pm 55 Mischa Kuball Experimental Art Foundation 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 55 Elisa Sighicelli Flinders University City Gallery 7–9pm 12–5pm 12–5pm 10am–6pm 10am–6pm 10am–6pm 10am–6pm 10am–6pm 12–5pm 12–5pm 10am–6pm 10am–6pm 10am–6pm 10am–6pm 10am–6pm 12–5pm 12–5pm 56 Iván Navarro, Thomas Rentmeister Greenaway Art Gallery 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 56 Spherescent AFC Plaza Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various Various 57 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art Art Gallery SA 7–9pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 58 to walk on a sea of salt, Twilight CACSA 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 58 This Everything Water SA School of Art Gallery 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 11am–5pm 58 Lawrence Daws Greenhill Galleries 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 59 Penumbra – Contemporary Art from Taiwan Samstag Museum of Art 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 10am–5pm 63 Art in the City :-)

Pennington Terrace 29 19 31 City of Adelaide Golf Links

Adelaide Oval Botanic 05 Park

Victoria Drive Bicentenary 32 Conservatory River

Torrens Elder King William Road Park Botanic

16 Road Hackney 27 01 15 Gardens

07 21 02 22 06 04 Road Frome Montefiore Street Montefiore Kintore Ave North Terrace 08 30 North Terrace 12 28 09 25 26 24 Hindley Street Rundle Mall Rundle Street Rundle Street 03 10 Dequetteville Tce Rymill u Park Currie Street Light Grenfell Street 14 Square Hindmarsh Ellis Park Square Waymouth Street Pirie Street Bartels Road 18

Franklin Street King William Street Flinders Street

11 West Terrace Morphett Street 13 Grote Street Victoria Wakefield Street Wakefield Road Square

Gouger Street Angas Street 20 Pulteney Street Pulteney Frome Street Hutt Street Wright Street Carrington Street Whitmore Square Sturt Street Halifax Street

17 Gilbert Street Gilles Street King William Street Hutt Street East Terrace West Terrace South Terrace South Terrace 23 Veale Gardens

01 Festival Theatre 08 The Anne and Gordon 17 Opera Studio 25 Greenaway Art Gallery Adelaide Festival Centre Samstag Museum of Art 216 Marion Road, Netley 39 Rundle Street, Kent Town King William Road University of South Australia 18 Adelaide Town Hall 26 South Australian School City West Campus, Fenn Place 01 Dunstan Playhouse 128 King William Street of Art Gallery Adelaide Festival Centre 09 first University of South Australia, 19 Hotel Richmond, 128 Rundle Mall St Peter’s Cathedral City West Campus, Kaurna 01 27 King William Road The Space Building, Fenn Place Adelaide Festival Centre 10 Nova Cinema 20 Royalty Theatre 251 Rundle Street 27 Persian Garden 01 65 Angas Street The Piano Bar AFCT Amphitheatre, Adelaide Festival Centre 11 Her Majesty’s Theatre 21 State Library of SA 58 Grote Street 28 Experimental Art 01 Art Space North Terrace Foundation Adelaide Festival Centre 12 Mercury Theatre 21 Lion Arts Centre, corner North Lion Arts Centre, corner North Flinders University 02 Terrace & Morphett Street SA Museum Terrace & Morphett Street City Gallery North Terrace State Library of SA, North Terrace 29 Piccadilly Cinema 13 Torrens Building 03 22 181 O’Connell Street, Adelaide Centre for the Arts 220 Victoria Square Art Gallery of SA 39 North Terrace North Adelaide (venue: Main Theatre) 14 Odeon Theatre 23 Corner Queen Street Contemporary Art Centre 30 Bradley Forum 04 University of South Australia, North Terrace Cultural & The Parade, Norwood of South Australia Precinct 14 Porter Street, Parkside City West Campus North Terrace 14 Norwood Concert Hall 23 175 The Parade, Norwood Wonderland Ballroom 31 Greenhill Galleries 05 Botanic Park 126 Belair Road, Hawthorn 140 Barton Terrace West, Plane Tree Drive 15 Pioneer Women’s North Adelaide 24 JamFactory Contemporary 06 Memorial Gardens 32 Elder Hall King William Road Craft and Design River Torrens Adelaide University 19 Morphett Street Elder Park 16 Scott Theatre 07 Migration Museum Kintore Avenue 82 Kintore Ave 66

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Concession Stay Informed fax, phone or in person, tickets During the Festival, the Festival Full-time students, pensioners will automatically be taken Centre BASS outlet will be open If you would like to receive and unemployed persons are regular updates and Festival from these reserved seats. from 9am to 30 mins after the entitled to concession price Friends can also book online by last show commences from news, join our mailing list by tickets. Please include your becoming a Festival Insider at downloading the booking form Mon–Sat, and from 10am on concession card ID number on from the Festival website at Sunday 24 February, 2 March, adelaidefestival.com.au, the booking form or present send an email to adelaidefestival.com.au 9 March & 16 March. Visit any your card at BASS or Venue*TIX and emailing it to Venue*TIX outlet (check White [email protected] or when purchasing or collecting phone (08) 8216 4444. [email protected] Pages for locations). Open your tickets. If you are not already a Friend 9am–5.30pm Monday–Friday you can join up when you book and 9am–4pm Saturday. T-Shirts your tickets, or on the booking NOTE: Advertised ticket prices Fringe Benefits To pre-order your Festival form along with your ticket include GST and all booking fees. If you are aged 30 years or T-shirt visit adelaidefestival. booking. under you can purchase tickets com.au. Don’t miss this one Ticket vouchers – to selected Festival events for and only opportunity to show $25 or under. Simply show your the world you love the Festival! How to Book great gift idea! Fringe Benefits keyring at BASS Tickets to world-class Orders required to be in by 1. By mail or fax! or Venue*TIX. Limited tickets Friday 14 December 2007. Simply make your event entertainment are a great gift are available to these events. selections, fill out the booking idea. You can purchase Festival The information contained in this form including your credit ticket vouchers in $20, $50 and $100 denominations and give guide is correct at the time of print. card details and post or fax it Group Bookings For any last minute changes visit to BASS. BASS accepts Visa, them as Christmas or birthday Groups of 10 or more may book adelaidefestival.com.au MasterCard, Diners Club and gifts, as a special thank you or for any performance at the American Express. keep them for yourself and Group price, which is equivalent For further booking conditions, Post to: decide which shows to see later. to the Friends’ price for each please visit adelaidefestival.com.au BASS Festival Bookings event. Available to selected events. GPO Box 1269 Join the Friends/Angels Adelaide SA 5001. For information, call BASS Fax to (08) 8231 0550. of the Adelaide Festival Group Bookings on Get the best seats in the house (08) 8205 2220 or Venue*TIX on for less! (08) 8225 8888. 2. By phone When you join the Friends/ Phone BASS on 131 246 (from Angels of the Adelaide Festival anywhere in Australia). you contribute to our artistic Dial’n’charge bookings are open program and receive great 9am–6pm Monday to Saturday. Festival benefits: Dial’n’charge will also be open on Sunday 24 February, • Ticket discounts (Friends can 2 March, 9 March & 16 March purchase 2 tickets per event* 10am–8pm. Phone Venue*TIX at the Friends price) on (08) 8225 8888. 67

Contact Details Name: Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms/Dr Address Postcode Telephone (day) Telephone (night) Telephone (mobile) Email

Concession Details – If Applicable ❒ I am a Friend/Angel of the Adelaide Festival Member no. (Friends can purchase up to 2 tickets to each event at the Friends’ price) ❒ I am a pensioner Pensioner no. ❒ I am unwaged or unemployed Healthcare card no. ❒ I am a full time student Institution Student ID no.

Booking Details Event Name Date Time Prem/ Full price Friends Conc. price Total A/B/C No.@ $ price No.@ $ Reserve No.@ $

Total Ticket Cost PLUS ❒ Adelaide Writers’ Week programs @ $8 each ❒ Angels Membership @ $750 ❒ Friends Membership $150 ❒ Carbon Credit donation (For more information see page 70) Total Due

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Group Bookings cannot be made on this form, please phone (08) 8400 2222.

Payment Details ❒ Cheque payable to BASS ❒ Visa ❒ Diners ❒ MasterCard ❒ American Express Expiry date /

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Last Step Post this booking form with payment and copies of concession documentation (if applicable) to BASS Festival Bookings, GPO Box 1269, Adelaide SA 5001 or fax with credit card details to (08) 8231 0550. 68 Staff & Supporters Angels Friends of the Adelaide Business Development Production Coordinator Mr Ross Adler AC & Mrs Fiona Festival Executive (Outdoor) Adler Thank you to our Friends. Sarah Fitzharris Mark Pennington Mrs V. Aldridge The Friends of the Adelaide Program Executive Visual Arts Manager Prof Robert Baxt AO Festival are the community Lucy Guster Julianne Pierce Ms Candy Bennett supporting body of the Production Coordinator, Marketing Coordinator Mr Ivor Bowden Adelaide Festival of Arts. Visual Arts Kristy Rebbeck Mr Leon T. Boyle The Friends have played an Lisa Hill Program Executive Mr David Bright integral role in the history Finance Assistant David Roberts Ms Beth Brown of the Adelaide Festival Meredith Holden Dr Roger & Mrs Beverley Brown since the 1960s and were the Design Assistant Ms Trudyanne Brown founding financial supporters Production Assistant Wendy Todd Mrs Francene Connor of the event. The Friends AFCT Venues Persian Garden Club Curator Mrs Jane Doyle provide local support through Gabby Hornhardt Donna Tripodi Ms Libby Dunsford integrated involvement Visual Arts Coordinator Project Officer,Writers’ Week Mr Leigh Emmett including fundraising and Anna Hughes Lyn Wagstaff Mr Dean H. Fidock volunteering. IT Officer Marketing & Development Ms Marjorie M. Fitz-Gerald Aziz Khatri Assistant OAM Adelaide Festival Production Manager – Amanda Whitehead Mr Barry Fitzpatrick AM Corporation – Board Special Projects Executive Producer, Mrs Ginger Fitzpatrick Members Alan Knox Mr Frank Ford Writers’ Week Mr Carrillo Gantner Mr Ross Adler AC (Chair of Board) Publications Coordinator Rose Wight Mr Donald S. George Mr Brett Rowse (Chair of Finance Anna Le Poidevin Miss Patricia Grattan-French Committee) Production Coordinator Organisations Mr Bob Angove AM (to August AFCT Venues Mr George Gross Travel and Accommodation 2006) Gus Macdonald Ms Diane Hart Showgroup Enterprises Pty Ltd Mr Martin Keith Ms Amanda Blair Executive Officer Graphic Designers Mr Robert Kenrick Dr Judith Brine AM Charné Magor Ms Margaret Oates Fusion Mrs Anne Kidman Strategic Marketing Mr Richard Ryan AO PR Mr Keith C. & Mrs Sue K. Consultant Ms Sandra Sdraulig Communikate & Langley Lucy Markey Mr Bob Lott Mr Leigh Warren Imogen Corlette Persian Garden Ms Martha Lott Mr Colin Dunsford (to April Media Buyers Club Program Coordinator Mrs Joan Lyons 2007) Starcom Olivia Maros Ms Arlene MacDonald Print Broker Production Administrator Mrs Skye McGregor Adelaide Bank Festival PSSA Mrs Mariann R. McNamara of Arts Staff Brianna Meldrum Mr Pete Muller Copywriting Artistic Director Production Coordinator Hon. Dr. Kemeri Murray AO Wholly Mackrell Brett Sheehy David McLean Mrs Margaret Oates Receptionist General Manager & Associate The biennial Adelaide Festival of Mrs Susan Rogerson Heidi McLean Ms Gillian Rubinstein Artistic Director Arts is produced by the Adelaide Protocol/Special Events Festival Corporation. Mr Richard Ryan AO Kate Gould Level 9, 33 King William Street or PO Ms Gosia Schild Marketing Coordinator Coordinator Box 8221 Station Arcade, Adelaide Mr Norman Schueler Hilary Abel Jeanette McLeod SA 5000 Mrs G. Scott Operations Manager & Telephone +61 8 8216 4444 Systems Administrator/ Facsimile +61 8 8216 4455 Mr Paul & Mrs Thelma Facilities Coordinator Artistic Administrator [email protected] Taliangis Tammy Bands Lesley Newton Ms Karen Thomas Senior Finance Assistant Financial Controller Mrs Sue Tweddell Wendy Bennett Ed Parker Dr Barbara Wall Program Executive, Mr Harry Watt Production Manager and Festival Designer Performing Arts Ms Daniela Valmorbida Beck Pearce Mr Ian & Mrs Hanna Wilkey Geoff Cobham Ms Jane Yuile Marketing & Business Program Executive, Music Mrs Pamela Yule Development Director Anthony Peluso Heathgate Resources Colin Coster Toop & Toop Real Estate VIP Hospitality Packages Invite your clients to enjoy the very best of the Festival

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Enlisting your help to make the Festival environmentally sustainable

This year the Festival has Through a new partnership Help make the Adelaide Bank begun a new initiative with carbon emission reduction Festival of Arts environmentally through a partnership with company, Carbon Planet, the sustainable by donating money Carbon Planet and we’d like Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts is when you purchase your tickets. your help. making a long term commitment to The money will be used to acquire remove the carbon footprint of the certi ed carbon credits, removing Global Warming is the Festival and establish sustainable the carbon footprint of the Festival, greatest challenge now carbon emissions practices. making the Adelaide Bank facing our global community. Festival of Arts 2008 CO2 free™.

CO2 free™ means that: Help us oӽ set Other things you can do to 1) The Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts has The Festival invites you to help remove reduce your Festival footprint: completed a comprehensive greenhouse the carbon footprint of the Festival • Walk to the Festival events or take public gas emissions audit, accurately measuring through the purchase of certi ed carbon transport the Festival·s emissions. credits. You can do this when you purchase your tickets online, over the • If travelling from overseas or interstate 2) The Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts has phone or when you  ll in your booking please oӽ set your  ight emissions at: committed to implementing emissions form. Each carbon credit costs $23, and http:// ights.carbonplanet.com reduction behaviour. oӽ sets one tonne of carbon dioxide. Give 3) The Adelaide Bank Festival of Arts will as much or as little as you can to help oӽ set any remaining greenhouse gas oӽ set the footprint of the Festival. emissions with fully certi ed carbon credits.

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