Adelaide Festival Centre Annual Report 2004-05
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ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE ANNUAL REPORT 2004-05 16 September 2005 Adelaide Festival Centre King William Road ADELAIDE SA 5000 GPO Box 1269 ADELAIDE SA 5001 Telephone: (08) 8216 8600 Facsimile: (08) 8212 7849 Website: www.afct.org.au Our Vision: The Adelaide Festival Centre is considered one of the world’s best performing arts centres. Our Mission is to: Provide leadership and a visible focus for development and collaboration in the arts in South Australia. Engage with people and create opportunities to learn. Be focused on creative innovation. Work with, welcome and be accessible to the whole community. Provide outstanding customer service. 2 Introduction..........................................................................................................5 Highlights of 2004-05......................................................................................6 The Ring Cycle .................................................................................. 6 Open Day 2004................................................................................... 7 Adelaide Cabaret Festival................................................................. 7 Long-running favourites................................................................... 8 Chairman’s Report ...........................................................................................9 Chief Executive Officer’s Report .............................................................11 Adelaide Festival Centre Trust Act 1971.............................................14 Trustees ..............................................................................................................14 The Objectives of Arts SA ..........................................................................15 The Objectives of the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust ..................16 Objective 1.........................................................................................................17 ENGAGE........................................................................................... 17 Objective 2.........................................................................................................18 INVITE and WELCOME.................................................................... 18 Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2005........................................................................19 Adelaide’s Big Backyard ...................................................................................20 Morning Melodies .............................................................................................21 Something on Saturday ....................................................................................21 Education Program (CentreEd).........................................................................22 Arts and Culture Learning at the Centre ...........................................................23 Performing Arts Collection ................................................................................23 Visual Culture ...................................................................................................23 Membership......................................................................................................24 Disability Action Plan ........................................................................................24 Objective 3.........................................................................................................25 RESPECT and COLLABORATE...................................................... 25 Cultural Diversity...............................................................................................26 Aboriginal Reconciliation Statement .................................................................27 Client Partnerships ...........................................................................................27 Adelaide Festival Centre Season 2004-05........................................................27 Objective 4.........................................................................................................43 INNOVATE........................................................................................ 43 iNSPACE Program ...........................................................................................44 Objective 5.........................................................................................................45 SERVE .............................................................................................. 45 Patron Services ................................................................................................45 Showbitz ...........................................................................................................45 Catering ............................................................................................................45 Car Park............................................................................................................46 Production Services..........................................................................................46 Corporate Communications ..............................................................................46 Objective 6.........................................................................................................48 3 FINANCE .......................................................................................... 48 BASS ................................................................................................................48 Workshops........................................................................................................48 Business Partnerships and Corporate Hospitality.............................................49 Risk Management.............................................................................................52 Fraud ................................................................................................................52 Freedom of Information ....................................................................................52 Energy Efficiency Action Plan ...........................................................................53 Account Payment Performance 2004-05 ..........................................................54 Asbestos Management .....................................................................................54 Our People.........................................................................................................55 Structural Efficiency ....................................................................... 55 Organisation Structure .............................................................................................57 Staff List 2004-05..............................................................................................59 Executive Employment, Staff Employment and Other Human Resource Matters ..........................................................................................................................67 Occupational Health and Safety and Injury Management.................................71 Overseas Travel ...............................................................................................75 Consultants.......................................................................................................76 ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT .......................................................................................................... 77 Chairman’s Report .......................................................................... 77 Members of the Board .................................................................... 78 Committees...................................................................................... 78 Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation Activities ........................... 80 Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation Supporters ........................ 82 4 Introduction The Centre was established as a statutory authority under the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust Act 1971, charged with the responsibility for encouraging and facilitating artistic, cultural and performing arts activities throughout South Australia, as well as maintaining and improving the building and facilities of the Centre complex. The Centre is committed to delivering artistic, educational, social and economic outcomes of the highest order, for the people of South Australia. Our philosophy is one of excellence, access, learning and sustainability. Our corporate plan focuses on innovation, facilitation, collaboration and education, as the means of delivering these outcomes. At the Adelaide Festival Centre, we are driven by a passionate belief in the arts as marking some of the finest achievements of human civilisation. We believe that all people have a deep-seated need - and a fundamental right - to participate in the arts. The arts serve as a vehicle for the expression of our common humanity, as a way of understanding the world in which we live and as an occasion for sharing that understanding with others. We are proud of our leadership role within the Australian arts sector and of our contribution to a vibrant and healthy community. What is meant by ‘the arts’ is a continually evolving phenomenon. Across the world, in every society, one of the challenges facing each generation is to give shape to our dreams, our hopes and fears. Within the cultural fabric of each of our many and diverse traditions, arts practices are continually