2015 country arts sa guide far north & west

COUNTRY ARTS SA the art of inspiring communities Welcome

You’ll notice a lot has changed in the new 2015 Country Arts SA guide.

This year we bring together all that Country Arts SA does in one easy-to-access guide.

Here you will find what’s on throughout your region in 2015 from visual arts, theatre performances, available funding and grants for artists, workshops, cinema screenings, to new locally produced shows.

In 2015 we celebrate the 30th Birthday of the Middleback Arts Centre. Reflecting the increased role the theatre now plays in Whyalla since it was first commissioned in 1985, the complex will now be known as the Middleback Arts Centre. We will also be launching our special donations program – Project 30.

And, as every year, we have put together a great year of arts and entertainment for the whole family in the Middleback Arts Centre with our Season 2015 Mainstage program.

This program would not be possible without the continued support of our long term Principal Corporate Partner, SA Power Networks. For 18 years SA Power Networks has ensured we can bring the best Australian and international performing arts to our audiences across South Australia.

Country Arts SA’s new guide is your go-to resource for what’s going on in your community in 2015.

Steve Saffell CEO, Country Arts SA Jack Snelling MP Rob Stobbe Minister for the Arts CEO, SA Power Networks — — We want all South Australians to have access to arts wherever they live. As a SA Power Networks is proud to help bring strong part of culture and social fabric, the the arts to all South Australians, wherever arts have a way of bringing us together they live. and expanding our horizons. This year we celebrate a partnership of 18 Country Arts SA is committed to delivering years with Country Arts SA – a partnership South Australians in regional and that has helped hundreds of thousands of remote areas the same high quality arts people across South Australia see great experiences available in metropolitan areas. performances and many memorable shows.

We recognise the value in our major Our partnership with Country Arts SA cultural institutions and the need for that reflects our key role as the state’s electricity to extend beyond the borders of Adelaide. distributor - delivering safe and reliable Country Arts SA’s art centres attract some power so you can get on with life. of the biggest names in the arts and As a business with a significant presence entertainment industry. They and their across the state, we love the fact that we staff are a dynamic part of the community. are helping power up the arts in regional The dedicated networks of Arts and Cultural South Australia. Development Officers ensure that artists throughout the state are nurtured to Enjoy the great season in 2015! greater levels of success. The entire team at Country Arts SA works tirelessly for and season 2015 Principal Corporate Partner with regional communities to ensure that every community in South Australia is able to use the arts to enrich what they offer their citizens.

Country Arts SA’s guide is a great new way to discover arts activities through the Far North and West and thoroughly enjoy 2015. contents what’s in this guide?

Country Arts SA’s Reconciliation Action Plan 6

Middleback Arts Centre 30th birthday celebrations 8

Performing Arts program 10

Cinema program 40

Visual Arts program 48

Grants and funding 54

Try Something New 56

Thank you 61

Community support 67

Connect with us 69 our commitment to reconciliation

Country Arts SA believes that the relationship between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples can be enriched through the arts.

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get involved! Reconciliation is a priority for our organisation and inclusive of all the work we do. We recognise and respect Reconciliation Week that we are living and creating on 27 May – 3 June 2015 Aboriginal Lands in South Australia and we are committed to working together National Reconciliation Week is a to honour the living cultures of First time for all Australians to learn about Nations peoples. our shared histories, cultures and achievements and to explore how each We aim to increase respect, of us can join the national reconciliation understanding and equality of effort. opportunity between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and the wider www.reconciliation.org.au/nrw communities in which we work through partnership, dialogue and action.

We believe the arts have an important NAIDOC Week role to play in reconciliation. By 5 – 11 July 2015 promoting the culture of First Nations peoples through our touring NAIDOC Week celebrations are held productions, exhibitions and cultural across Australia each year to celebrate development activities, we strive to the history, culture and achievements increase understanding and knowledge of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander within the wider community. Through peoples. The week is a great opportunity a program of education and cultural to participate in a range of activities sharing activity for staff we will increase and to support your local Aboriginal and awareness and understanding of Torres Strait Islander community. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander www.naidoc.org.au culture in our organisation and enable our staff to share that knowledge with the wider community.

To download the complete Country Arts SA Reconciliation Action Plan go to www.countryarts.org.au

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Celebrating 30 years

This year the Middleback Arts Centre turns 30. Along with launching our new name we have a big year planned.

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We’re celebrating our birthday with a season full of live performances and Arts on Screen films as well as a number of special events supported by the City of Whyalla, which the whole community can enjoy.

We’ve organised a bumper program of school holiday activities and a trip back to the 80s with a 1985 Movie Extravaganza weekend.

The trip down memory lane continues with a special Retrospective Whyalla Art Prize exhibition up on the foyer walls in the first half of 2015.

And what’s a birthday party without music and singing? So we’re bringing you the Adelaide Cabaret Festival Roadshow and a City Of Whyalla Mayoral Gala.

Don’t miss the FREE open day when we celebrate what the Middleback Arts Centre has to offer and honour the many locals who have made this place a cultural hub over the past 30 years.

To cap off the party the Band of the South Australia Police will be on stage performing a Christmas concert in November.

There are so many ways to be involved and support the Middleback Arts Centre, including a special Project 30 fundraiser. Be sure to visit middlebacktheatre.com.au for full details.

I look forward to seeing you in 2015!

ryan sutherland Manager, Middleback Arts Centre

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presented by Country Arts SA and Queensland Theatre Company — by Matthew Ryan

Kelly Outlaw, larrikin, national icon. whyalla Meet the man behind the legend. tue 24 march, 7.30pm Middleback Arts Centre Kelly is a daring new stage production revealing the intimate details of Ned Kelly’s last night alive. bookings middlebacktheatre.com.au Ned Kelly sits in his prison cell. Tomorrow he is going to be 08 8644 7300 hanged. But his final night in prison is interrupted by the arrival of his brother Dan, disguised as a priest.

Adult $45 Supposedly killed at the siege of Glenrowan, Dan is intent Adult Friend $40 on moving north to Queensland and forgetting his past. Concession $40 Concession Friend $35 To do so, he needs Ned’s blessing and forgiveness. But the last time they saw each other, Dan tried to shoot Ned dead. Under 17 FREE with paying adult Additional Under 17 $17 So begins a brutal brotherly confrontation. Facing sins Groups 6+ $40 of their past, each blames the other for his downfall. And neither escapes unharmed. Duration: 80 mins History tells us that Dan and Ned never saw eye to eye Age: 15+ and there is also myth that Dan escaped the fire and Warning: Strong coarse language, disappeared to Queensland. This makes for a brilliantly sexual references and simulated charged premise, explored beautifully on stage, weaving violence Kelly fact, theory and myth while exploring masculinity, season 2015 brotherhood and the dangerous dynamic of mateship. Principal Corporate Partner

Photo: Justine Walpole theatre

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Athol Guy The Seekers Story

Written and narrated by one of The Seekers’ founding whyalla members, Athol Guy, The Seekers Story is a musical and wed 6 may, 8pm visual production that chronicles the amazing success of Middleback Arts Centre Australia’s first “supergroup”. bookings The Seekers’ audio/visual journey begins in the 1960s middlebacktheatre.com.au through to the modern day as the group celebrates its 50th 08 8644 7300 anniversary. Athol Guy – The Seekers Story features unique footage Adult $55 of live performances and hit songs from other iconic 60s Adult Friend $45 artists that influenced Athol and the group. It also features Concession $47 a special performance by 60s pop star Buddy England, who Group 8+ $47 joins musical director Michael Cristiano on guitar/vocals, Early Bird* $45 Jenny Blake on vocals and Rod Hulls on keyboards/vocals.

*Expires 13 March 2015 Take a trip down memory lane and be prepared to sing along and celebrate The Seekers Story.

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Country Arts SA and Adelaide Festival Centre present

Ali McGregor’s Jazzamatazz

Direct from smash hit seasons in whyalla Edinburgh and the UK, Ali McGregor’s sat 9 may, 11am Middleback Arts Centre Jazzamatazz is jumpin’, jivin’ jazz for the kids. bookings Ali and her 3 piece band deliver an hour of jazzy beats middlebacktheatre.com.au filled with early 90’s references that will get your kids 08 8644 7300 singing, prancing, twisting and dancing.

Adult + child $35 Parents, carers and friends can either join in or grab a Additional child $15 drink and let the two Jazzamatazz dancers swing and jive with the kids, tiring the little ones out! Duration: 55 mins With songs like Who Let The Dogs Out?, A-Tisket, Age: 2 - 10 years A-Tasket and Single Ladies, everybody will be shufflin’ to the be-bop beats and hep-cat treats. season 2015 Principal Corporate Partner family cabaret

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presented by Country Arts SA and adelaide festival centre — Hosted and Curated by Ali McGregor

Adelaide Cabaret Festival Roadshow

Join international cabaret sensation whyalla Ali McGregor and her hand-picked sat 9 may, 7.30pm Middleback Arts Centre selection of cabaret artists as they cook up an unforgettable night of bookings variety at its most thrilling! middlebacktheatre.com.au The Adelaide Cabaret Festival Roadshow is at it again 08 8644 7300 with a brand new line up of artists selected by this year’s insanely talented host and curator, Ali McGregor. Specially Adult $50 created to get you laughing, drinking, crying, eating – and Adult Friend $47 maybe even involved – the only sure thing is that anything Groups 6+ $47 goes and you’ll be sure to love it that way.

Duration: 120 mins, inc interval If you want even more cabaret in your life, come and experience the Adelaide Cabaret Festival from Age: 16+ 5 – 20 June at the Adelaide Festival Centre and Her Warning: Some coarse language, Majesty’s Theatre in Adelaide. possible nudity, anything may happen

season 2015 Principal Corporate Partner

Photo: Damian W Vincenzi cabaret

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presented by Country Arts SA, State Theatre Company of South Australia and Hothouse Theatre — By Vivienne Walshe

This Is Where We Live

Nobody’s looking back at me. whyalla I’m in the underworld, now. wed 20 may, 10.30am Middleback Arts Centre Brought up on the wrong side of the tracks with an unrelenting limp, Chloe has had to develop a vicious outer- bookings shell to shield against daily bullying. Moving to a new town middlebacktheatre.com.au in the middle of nowhere hasn’t made things easier. 08 8644 7300 Chloe has bleak hopes for her future until she meets ‘Odd port lincoln Boy’ Chris, the painfully unpopular son of her new English thu 21 may, 1pm teacher. An intense bond is forged and the two outsiders Nautilus Arts Centre begin to see the glimmer of new possibilities amidst their small town underworld. bookings Evoking the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice, Vivienne countryarts.org.au Walshe’s This is Where We Live is packed with vivid poetic 08 8683 5088 language that is brimming with as much life and energy as its characters. This is an exceptional piece of exciting new Adult $26 Australian writing. Adult Friend* $23 Concession $23 Concession Friend* $21 Under 17 FREE with paying adult Additional Under 17 $17 Groups 6+ $23 Age: 14+

*Whyalla performance only Post-show Q&A

Duration: 75 mins School bookings available - $9 per student [email protected] Photo: Kris Washusen theatre

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Country Arts SA presents a CDP Production — a play by RICHARD TULLOCH adapted from the book by ANDY GRIFFITHS & TERRY DENTON

The 26-Storey Treehouse

Andy and Terry had such a ball with their crash-landing whyalla entry into the world of theatre with The 13-Storey fri 29 may, 1 & 6.30pm Treehouse, they’re back for more. Thirteen storeys more, in Middleback Arts Centre fact. AND YOU’RE INVITED! bookings This means more INVENTIONS – like the 78 flavour ice- middlebacktheatre.com.au cream dispensing robot, the brain bamboozling Maze of 08 8644 7300 Doom (not to mention the self-inflating underpants) and more things to go WRONG – not least of which is the very port lincoln real possibility that the entire show is a complete and utter mon 1 june, 1 & 6.30pm disaster. Will Andy and Terry push their friend Jill to her Nautilus Arts Centre absolute limits? And who is this shady Hector Houtkop, with a really bad pirate accent? And what about ALL THOSE bookings PIRATES? countryarts.org.au Adapted by award-winning playwright and author Richard 08 8683 5088 Tulloch (The Book of Everything, Bananas in Pyjamas), The 26-Storey Treehouse is brought to you by the same cracker Adult $25 team that delivered the smash-hit stage version of The Adult Friend* $22 13-Storey Treehouse. Concession $22 Concession Friend* $19 Under 17 FREE with paying adult Additional Under 17 $17 Groups 6+ $22

season 2015 *Whyalla performance only Age: 6+ Principal Corporate Partner

Duration: 60 mins School bookings available $8 per student Children’s theatre

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presented by Country Arts SA’s Shows On The Road presenter groups — starring Damian Callinan

The Merger

The township of Bodgy Creek has seen better days. The p ort augusta mill’s closed, the Tidy Town sign has fallen into the long thu 18 june, 7.30pm grass and the weir is as dry as a spinster’s gusset. The Institute Theatre dying town is about to claim its next victim – the footy club. Unable to field a full side, the footy club will either roxby downs have to fold or merge with their arch rivals - the Hudson’s sat 20 june, 7.30pm Flat Cougars. roxbylink auditorium But prodigal son coach Troy Carrington has other ideas. streaky bay To save the club, he embarks on a plan to recruit players tue 23 june, 7.30pm from the Asylum Seekers Refuge Centre. Will the new Streaky Bay Hotel players cope with pre-season training while fasting for Ramadan? ceduna Damian tells the Roosters’ story through a variety of wed 24 june, 8pm characters in this show, which earned him his 3rd Barry Blues Sports Club Award nomination for the best show at the Melbourne Comedy Festival. The Merger is in development to be made port lincoln into a feature film. thu 25 june, 7.30pm Wayback Football Club

Adult $25 Groups 6+ $22 bookings Tickets on sale from Friday 15 May 2015. For your nearest ticket outlet visit countryarts.org.au. comedy

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Simonsez Entertainment & Productions presents Queens of Drag City

The queens are back! With more feathers, sequins and whyalla glitter eye shadow than ever before. wed 3 june, 8pm Middleback Arts Centre Following the outrageous musical comedy smash hit Queens of the Outback comes Queens of Drag City. bookings Having conquered outback Australia the queens now head middlebacktheatre.com.au for the glamour and glitz of the big city, only to find their 08 8644 7300 home at The Gayhound Hotel is closing down.

Adult $49.50 Simoana Luvzit, Emma Roids and Frayda Cocks sing live all Adult Friend $45.50 your favourite hits from Madonna to Dolly Parton, Jimmy Concession $47.50 Barnes to Donna Summer. With stellar dance moves and Early Bird* $42.50 a few hip grinds that will make your eyes water, it’s an evening to remember. And let’s not forget Simoana doing Warning: MA 15 + her famous ‘nipple pull’.

*Expires 13 March 2015 WARNING! These shows include audience participation, dance shoes recommended.

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Karise, Eden Things I ve Done Tour

Karise Eden first captured the nation’s attention in 2012 whyalla when she won the television series The Voice at the age thu 4 june, 8pm of 19 with a uniquely soulful yet powerful vocal style. She Middleback Arts Centre broke records for the most number of singles in the national sales chart (previously held by The Beatles) and went on to bookings have the biggest selling album nationally for an Australian middlebacktheatre.com.au artist that year. 08 8644 7300 Karise’s troubled past and the life experiences helped mould her astounding, soulful voice that she refers to as a “lion’s All tickets $55 roar”. The talented young singer will tour Australia with her new band performing songs from her new album Things I’ve Done, a selection of songs from her debut album My Journey, and a few surprises.

Karise is one of the world’s most promising young female singer-songwriters, don’t miss your chance to see her live in concert!

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presented by Country Arts SA and sydney dance company — Choreography by Rafael Bonachela, Alexander Ekman and Larissa McGowan

Sydney Dance Company’s De Novo Emergence, Cacti and F anatic – whyalla Three playful works from the wed 22 july, 7.30pm Middleback Arts Centre frontlines of dance Directed by Rafael Bonachela, Artistic Director of Sydney bookings Dance Company, Emergence features the alluring costume middlebacktheatre.com.au creations of Australian fashion designer Dion Lee and an 08 8644 7300 inspiring collaboration between internationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Sarah Blasko and composer Nick Wales. Adult $50 Irreverent, humorous and brilliant, Cacti is the critically Adult Friend $45 acclaimed brainchild of Swedish dance prodigy Alexander Concession $45 Ekman. Cacti is not only a subversive, entertaining Concession Friend $41 commentary on the pretentions of contemporary dance, it is Under 17 FREE with paying adult also a brilliantly conceived and bracingly physical piece of Additional Under 17 $17 choreography. Groups 6+ $45 From South Australian rising star Larissa McGowan comes Duration: 100 mins, inc interval Fanatic, a hilarious pop-culture collision that pits Alien vs Age: 12+ Predator in an interstellar dance throwdown between two sci-fi film franchises. This is dance for the digital age – Warning: Theatrical smoke, kinetic, immediate and exceedingly funny. strobe lighting and occasional stong language. Parental guidance recommended. season 2015 Principal Corporate Partner Dance workshops available. Enquiries and more information [email protected].

Photo: Wendell Teodoro dance

29 dig a little deeper into the work of country arts sa

read about works in development connect with the artists we work with discover how we fund, manage and produce work go online to find out the information, tools and ideas behind our projects – the things that allow Country Arts SA to do what it does best in regional South Australia.

get digging at www.thedirtsa.com.au music

Ben Maiorana Entertainment presents Roy Orbison & The Everly Brothers

Relive the magic and the classic hits of rock ‘n’ roll legends whyalla Roy Orbison & The Everly Brothers. fri 31 july, 8pm Middleback Arts Centre Internationally renowned artists Dean Bourne with special guests The Robertson Brothers will take you on a magical bookings celebration of the iconic hits in a night to remember. middlebacktheatre.com.au Dean Bourne has been described as having “The Spirit Of 08 8644 7300 Roy Orbison” within him as he performs iconic hits such as Pretty Woman, Crying, Dream Baby, Only The Lonely, Adult $69.90 In Dreams, Candy Man, You Got It, Workin For The Man Adult Friend $64.90 and many, many more. Concession $64.90 Concession Friend $59.90 The Robertson Brothers’ amazing voices and harmonies Groups 10+ $59.90 on hits such as Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Susie and All I Have To Do Is Dream have inspired rave reviews.

This two hour concert experience is a must for all rock ‘n’ roll fans.

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presented by Country Arts SA’s Shows On The Road presenter groups — Featuring Michaela Burger & Greg Wain

Exposing Edith

Exposing Edith is a breathtaking, intimate, original ceduna interpretation of vintage French pop songs made famous wed 19 august, 7.30pm by Edith Piaf. Performed by songstress Michaela Burger Anglican Church and accompanied on acoustic guitar by Greg Wain, Exposing Edith intertwines the authenticity of the era with streaky bay contemporary instrumentation. thu 20 august, 7.30pm Streaky Bay Institute The music is interspersed with stories of Piaf’s life; the origin of the songs and voice that made her one of the most acclaimed French artists of all time. The audience is cummins taken on a journey from the street to the great music halls, fri 21 august, 7.30pm through her loves and losses, her tragedies and successes Cummins Community Hall and a life driven by passion and a devotion to her audience. port augusta Exposing Edith features hits La Vie en Rose, Non, Je Ne sat 22 august, 7.30pm Regrette Rien and lets the audience decide who Edith Piaf Institute Theatre was. No longer will you see her songs simply through ‘rose coloured glasses’. Adult $25 Groups 6+ $22 bookings Tickets on sale from Friday 3 July 2015.

Visit countryarts.org.au for your nearest ticket outlet. music

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presented by Country Arts SA — By Libby O’Donovan and Beccy Cole

The Cowgirl & The Showgirl

The golden girl of country Beccy Cole and critically whyalla acclaimed cabaret and jazz performer Libby O’Donovan wed 19 august, 7.30pm take their audience on a journey of intertwining genres, Middleback Arts Centre swapping songs, sharing stories and breaking musical stereotypes. bookings middlebacktheatre.com.au The fusion of these two sassy, funny, engaging and 08 8644 7300 explosive entertainers is a match made on a stage in heaven.

Adult $55 Individually, these talented women have been known to Adult Friend $50 leave an audience breathless. From Cole’s energetic humour Concession $50 and honesty to O’Donovan’s diverse and astonishingly rich Concession Friend $46 vocal range, these two singer/songwriters play to each Under 17 FREE with paying adult other’s strengths on stage. Additional Under 17 $17 Groups 6+ $50 After wowing sellout crowds by guesting on each other’s shows at Tamworth, Sydney Mardi Gras, Barossa Vintage Duration: 70 mins Festival, Woodford and Port Fairy Folk Festivals and tours across regional Australia, they will present an unforgettable season 2015 Principal Corporate Partner performance in The Cowgirl and The Showgirl.

Photo: Gee Greenslade music

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presented by Country Arts SA — starring michael veitch

Flak True stories from the men who p ort lincoln flew in World War Two tue 13 october, 7.30pm Nautilus Arts Centre Based on his two best-selling books, Flak and Fly, Michael Veitch presents Flak, in which he takes on the roles of bookings former airmen, recounting their extraordinary, true and countryarts.org.au largely untold stories of combat in the air war of 1939-45. 08 8683 5088 Veitch’s passion has always been the air war, and over the whyalla course of three years and two books he interviewed more wed 14 october, 7.30pm than 50 pilots, bomb aimers and air gunners, almost all Middleback Arts Centre of whom had never revealed their wartime adventures to anyone, including, in some cases, their own families. bookings The stories they told are truly amazing. middlebacktheatre.com.au 08 8644 7300 Veitch has an academic background in history, but made his name with ABC’s cult hit The D Generation, followed by Adult $35 Fast Forward, Full Frontal and more. He is a regular guest Adult Friend $30 presenter and interviewer on ABC morning radio. Concession $30 Concession Friend $26 Under 17 FREE with paying adult Additional Under 17 $17 Groups 6+ $30

season 2015 Duration: 65 mins Principal Corporate Partner

Photo: Justin Stephens theatre

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presented by Country Arts SA — by the Band of the South Australia Police

Band of the South Australia Police Christmas Concert

Get into the Christmas spirit with whyalla Australia’s oldest police band! sat 21 november, 1pm Middleback Arts Centre In high demand across the state, the Band of the South Australia Police is a must during the festive bookings season calendar. middlebacktheatre.com.au 08 8644 7300 Enjoy their extensive repertoire of classic carols and sing-a-longs for a morning of traditional cheer just in time for Santa. Adult $25 Adult Friend $22 It’s the perfect way to kick off the festive season for Under 17 FREE with paying adult the young and the young-at-heart. Bring the whole Groups 6+ $22 family as this show promises to be a musical treat for everyone! music

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40 41 Country Arts SA’s Arts On Screen presents Of Mice and Men CAPTURED LIVE by National Theatre Live

Golden Globe winner James Franco (127 Hours, Milk) and whyalla Tony Award nominee Chris O’Dowd (Bridesmaids, Girls) star tue 28 april, 7pm in the hit Broadway production Of Mice And Men, filmed on Middleback Arts Centre stage by National Theatre Live. bookings This landmark revival of Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck’s middlebacktheatre.com.au play is a powerful portrait of the American spirit and a 08 8644 7300 heartbreaking testament to the bonds of friendship. Of Mice And Men is directed by Tony Award, Drama Desk Adult $25 and Outer Critics Circles award winner Anna D. Shapiro Adult Gold Friend $23 (Broadway’s August: Osage County) and features Leighton Concession $22 Meester (Country Strong, Gossip Girl) and Tony Award Concession Gold Friend $20 winner Jim Norton (The Seafarer). Under 17 $15 Groups 10+ $10

Duration: 150 mins, inc interval Age: 13+ Classification: Exempt

42 Country Arts SA and the Adelaide Festival Centre’s Come Out Children’s Festival present Little Big Shots

Little Big Shots showcases the best in professional roxby downs filmmaking for children by adults and excellence in fri 22 May filmmaking by kids from around the world. 9.30am, 11.30am, 1pm roxbylink auditorium An inspiring, meaningful and fun-filled festival,L ittle Big Shots features the best in local and international bookings children’s shorts, animations, documentaries and amazing 8671 2001 child-produced films. The films inspire discussion of world cultures, different languages, cultural diversity, emotional All tickets $8 intelligence and human values. Better still, they will make kids laugh, whoop, think and create.

Age: 2 – 12 The festival now stands as Australia’s only major stand- Classification: G alone kids’ film festival - a niche Australian event. With its focus on short films for kids plus plenty of competitions and School bookings available opportunities for involvement, Little Big Shots is one of the year’s most exciting experiences for kids.

43 Country Arts SA presents Black Screen An initiative of the National Film and Sound Archive

Black Screen invites everyone to attend this free screening whyalla of Indigenous films. As part of Reconciliation Week (26 May wed 27 may, 7pm - 2 June) Country Arts SA will also be playing short films Middleback Arts Centre made by local Indigenous community members. bookings This is a wonderful opportunity to see and experience middlebacktheatre.com.au Indigenous art and celebrate First Nations people and 08 8644 7300 culture. There is also the scope for local Aboriginal organisations to showcase their business and programs at the Black Screen event. FREE Bookings required If you are an Indigenous artist, group or organisation and would like more information regarding contributing In 2015 Country Arts SA to this event please contact Mandy Brown, Indigenous is working in partnership Arts and Cultural Engagement Officer on 8444 0407 or with the Give Up Smokes [email protected]. for Good campaign

44 Country Arts SA’s Arts On Screen and Exhibition on Screen present See the world’s most popular artists The Impressionists

The works of Cezanne, Monet, Degas fetch tens of millions of whyalla dollars. But just who were they really? Why and how did they thu 11 june, 7pm paint? What lies behind their enduring appeal? Middleback Arts Centre To help answer these questions, The Impressionists has bookings secured unique access to a major new exhibition focussing middlebacktheatre.com.au on the 19th century Parisian art collector Paul Durand-Ruel, 08 8644 7300 the outspoken champion of Impressionism. This eagerly anticipated exhibition is perhaps the most comprehensive ever held about the Impressionists. Adult $20 Adult Gold Friend $19 This energetic and revealing film will tell his remarkable story Concession $18 along with that of the Impressionists themselves. Concession Gold Friend $17 Groups 10+ $10 Filmed exclusively for cinema at some of the world’s greatest exhibitions, Exhibition on Screen is a ground breaking series Duration: 90 mins which allows art lovers worldwide to enjoy, marvel and delight at the works of some of history’s exceptional Classification: Exempt painters on the big screen, in stunning high definition. 45 Screen Ed Celebrating Australian film by offering students access to Australian feature films, documentaries and short films.

A Country Arts SA initiative, Screen Ed is free and suitable for primary and high school students. Babe FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

(G) 92 mins whyalla tue 27 october Babe is a little pig who doesn’t quite know Middleback Arts Centre his place in the world. With a bunch of odd friends, like Ferdinand the duck who SESSION TIMES thinks he is a rooster and Fly the dog he Babe 10.30am calls “Mum”, Babe realises that he has the Tracks + The Telegram Man 12.30pm makings to become the greatest sheep pig of all time... and Farmer Hogget knows it. bookings FREE – School bookings only Contact 08 8644 7300 for more information.

Screen Ed is supported by the Middleback Arts Centre’s Community Circle group.

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FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

(M) 113 mins BONUS SHORT FILM In 1977, Robyn Davidson (Mia Wasikowska) The Telegram Man 14 mins embarked on a 3200km trek from Alice Starring Australian screen legends Jack Springs to the West Australian Coast with Thompson, Gary Sweet and Sigrid Thornton, four camels and her faithful dog Diggity. James Khehtie’s award-winning The An adventurous outsider, Robyn reluctantly Telegram Man explores the impact of World accepts sponsorship from National War II on a close-knit Australian farming Geographic magazine to follow her trek. She community. has to put up with the sporadic presence of The Telegram Man contains no coarse photographer Rick (Adam Driver, Girls) but language, violence or sex scenes. The film mostly she is alone with her animals in the has been screened to a crowd of more outback. than 16,000 people just prior to the Dawn Based on Robyn’s memoirs chronicling her Service at the 2012, 2013 and 2014 ANZAC nine-month journey, director John Curran Day Commemorations in Gallipoli, and filmed Tracks predominantly in the Flinders will be screened at the 2015 Centenary Ranges, SA. Commemoration.

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2015 City of Whyalla Art Prize

The Whyalla Art Prize is a biennial prize open to all Australian residents for wall-based artwork in any medium (other than photography) and for the first time in 2015, moving image works.

$25,000 City Of Whyalla Art Prize $3,000 OneSteel & Arrium Mining Young SA Artist Awards

2015 Entries open: Sunday 1 March 2015 Entries close: Friday 29 May 2015

ENTer online Exhibition dates: 26 September – 14 November 2015 countryarts.org.au for more info 08 8444 0425 [email protected]

Whyalla Art Prize RETROSPECTIVE

2013 Whyalla Art Prize winner Grant Hill. Wattle Street, earth pigment on linen on board, 100 x 300 cm

Established in 1972 by the Whyalla Arts Council, the Whyalla Art Prize was originally designed to promote regional WHEN emerging artists. The prize has flourished and developed June - July 2015 into a significant award and is seen as an important exhibition of contemporary arts in Australia. WHERE Middleback Arts Centre Foyer Take a trip down memory lane and see a selection of works of Whyalla Art Prize winners from the past 42 years.

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2013 Breaking Ground winner Aleksandra Antic. Infinite Digression (detail), mixed media on paper, 100 x 60 cm

2016 BREAKING GROUND AWARD

$10,000 opportunity for A south IMPORTANT DATES australian regional artist Applications open: Open to all artists based in regional South Australia, Monday 16 February 2015 the Breaking Ground Award is provided to an artist – at any stage in their career – to develop a body of work for exhibition that marks a new direction in their career. Applications close: Wednesday 27 May 2015 The winning works will be exhibited in the Adelaide Festival Centre’s Artspace Gallery from July to August Winner announced: 2016, during the 2016 SALA Festival. Friday 3 July 2015 The recipient will also receive an additional $5000 to support a mentorship opportunity to further their career. WANT MORE INFO? Artists at all stages of their career are encouraged to Country Arts SA apply. Proposals must demonstrate how the award will www.countryarts.org.au allow the artist to move in a new direction or reach a new stage in their career, and show a rigorous commitment to a professional art practice. SALA Festival www.salainc.com.au For the second year in a row Country Arts SA will partner with SALA Festival to deliver the Award.

50 visual arts handheld luvanek Handheld brings together four South Australian artists; Nic K Brown, Lilly Buttrose, Brad Lay and Cathy Sarles, to explore ideas about place, home and the journey. The exhibition comprises four new artworks, commissioned by Country Arts SA, with each artist challenged to fit their artwork inside a vintage suitcase

1 - 31 JAnuaRY 2015 Elliston Community and Visitor Information Centre 6 Memorial Drive, Elliston OPEN: Mon - Fri 9am - 5pm | Sat - Sun 10am - 1pm

5 march - 5 april 2015 Port Lincoln Civic Hall Galleries 62 Tasman Terrace, Port Lincoln OPEN: Mon - Sat 10am - 4pm, Sun 1pm - 4pm (detail), 2014, suitcase, fur, blanket, dyes; dimensions variable. Photograph by Michael by Photograph dimensions variable. blanket, dyes; (detail), 2014, suitcase, fur, 13 November - 20 December 2015 Port Augusta Cultural Centre – Yarta Purtli Gallery 6 Beauchamp Lane, Port Augusta Homeward OPEN: Mon - Fri 10am - 4pm, Sat 10am - 1pm,

Closed Sun & public holidays Cathy Sarles, list of regional galleries

CEDUNA p ort augusta streaky bay Ceduna District Health Port Augusta Cultural Supper Room Studio Service Foyer Gallery Centre - Yarta Purtli Gallery 29 Alfred Terrace 3 Eyre Highway 6 Beauchamp Lane Streaky Bay Rural WestArt Gallery p ort lincoln Transaction and Visitor (Memorial Hall) Civic Hall Galleries Information Centre Gallery 31 Poynton Street 62 Tasman Terrace 21 Bay Road elli ston roxby downs whyalla Elliston Community and roxbylink art gallery Middleback Arts Centre Visitor Information Centre 1-15 Richardson Place Foyer Gallery 6 Memorial Drive 141 Nicolson Avenue

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Our Mob 2015 Art by South Australian Aboriginal Artists

Anna Dowling, passionfruit ink on paper 50 x 110 cm

C elebrating 10 years be part of our mob

Our Mob is a state-wide exhibition and program of events Applications close: at the Adelaide Festival Centre. It highlights the diversity of 12 August 2015 contemporary art by South Australian Aboriginal artists.

Our Mob 2015 is open to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Download an application: Islander artists living in South Australia. Artists of all ages adelaidefestivalcentre.com. and levels of experience are encouraged to apply. au/whats-on/exhibitions

Together with Adelaide Festival Centre and Ananguku Arts, exhibition dates Country Arts SA gather works from across South Australia including regional, remote and isolated communities. 15 oct - 6 dec 2015 Our Mob artists have many different stories to tell and Opening: 14 October their art is as diverse as the environments from which they come. Through Our Mob, people are learning about South Adelaide Festival Centre Australian Aboriginal cultures. King William St, Adelaide

Emerging artists who submit work to Our Mob 2015 are for MORE INFO also encouraged to apply for the Don Dunstan Foundation Our Mob Emerging Artist Award and the Country Arts Mandy Brown SA Regional Emerging Artist Professional Development 8444 0407 Opportunity. mandy.brown@ The winner will receive a $5,000 prize from the Don countryarts.org.au Dunstan Foundation, $1,500 from Country Arts SA and a Iain Morton year membership to Guildhouse. 8227 2788 [email protected]

52 visual arts our mob port augusta Aboriginal Artist workshops

Shayla Miller-Pickett, Dunes, acrylic on aanvas, Malka Aboriginal Art Prize 2014.

In 2015, the Port Augusta Cultural Centre – Yarta Purtli and Register your interesT Ananguku Arts Statewide Indigenous Community Artist Development program are running a series of visual arts FOR WORKSHOPS workshops for Indigenous communities in Port Augusta, Iain Morton Whyalla, Coober Pedy, Port Lincoln and Ceduna. The content 8227 2788 of the workshops will be decided following community [email protected] consultation with each of the communities to ensure that topics meet the needs of regional artists. FOR EXHIBITION Contact Ellenor Day-Lutz The aim of Our Mob Port Augusta is to create new works for 8641 9175 a special exhibition to be on display at Yarta Purtli Gallery ellenor.day@portaugusta. in Port Augusta, which will form part of the Art Gallery of sa.gov.au South Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Festival and the Adelaide Festival Centre’s annual Our Mob exhibition dates exhibition based at the Art Space Gallery in Adelaide. - Project partners include: regional communities that are part 4 September of the project, Arts SA, Country Arts SA, Adelaide Festival 3 october 2015 Centre, Art Gallery of South Australia, and Ananguku Arts and Cultural Corporation. Port Augusta Cultural Centre – Yarta Purtli Our Mob Port Augusta is supported by the Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art 2015, presented by the Art Gallery of South Australia.

53 grants & funding Woh d i talk to?

Arts and Cultural Development Officers are located within various communities around South Australia and are happy to discuss how Country Arts SA can support community projects or help emerging and professional artists to take the next step in their arts career.

For a list of Arts and Cultural Development Officers in your region, please see the Connect With Us section of this guide.

Please note, applications must now be submitted online. Visit countryarts.org.au/support-funding for more info.

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Do you have a great arts idea?

Quick Step step up

How much? How much? $1,500 individuals < $5,000 $3,000 organisations Applications close: 16 March for projects Applications: May be submitted anytime commencing after 1 July 2015 and 17 from 12 Jan to 11 Dec inclusive. August 2015 for projects commencing after 1 January 2016. Who for? Regional artists to access professional arts development and Who for? Artists, organisations and training opportunities, or organisations/ community groups to undertake small communities with small project cultural projects or to develop a small opportunities that arise at short notice. project leading to a larger cultural project or for individual artists to undertake professional development opportunities. step out

How much? Skills Development $10,000 individuals $20,000 organisations How much? < $3,000 Applications close: 16 March for projects commencing after 1 July 2015 and 17 Applications close: 16 March for projects August 2015 for projects commencing commencing after 1 July 2015 and 17 after 1 January 2016. August 2015 for projects commencing after 1 January 2016. Who for? Individuals, communities and organisations to create high Who for? Groups and individuals to quality and diverse arts projects that undertake projects in any art form encourage community engagement, which provide opportunities for skills develop new cultural networks, build development through workshops sustainable cultural activity and or provide opportunities for the increase professional development and development of project ideas /concepts. employment opportunities.

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56 57 Songbird Making Muna the Magpie take part in a muna making skills development workshop. Help create Songbird the Magpie, an inflatable, traditional story Aboriginal artists and community members telling space. will partake in a three day ‘Muna’ (beanie) making skills development workshop in In 2015, the township of Coober Pedy will Ceduna. become 100 years old. The Tjutjuna (Ceduna) Aboriginal Arts and To acknowledge the contribution of such a Culture Centre will engage Coffin Bay artist colourful community and to coincide with Lorraine Boomer offering opportunities for the Opal Festival, a project called Songbird up to 15 participants to join a crochet and the Magpie will engage and bring together sharing circle for learning, sharing culture many of the residents to help create an and stories; and to offer support and inflatable Magpie. bonding among Aboriginal women.

WHEN: FEBRUARY - APRIL 2015 WHEN: february - july 2015

WHERE: Coober Pedy School and WHERE: Ceduna Arts and Cultural Centre Coober Pedy golf Club MORE INFO: COST: Free Pam Diment 08 8625 2487 or 0427 715 029

MORE INFO: Monique Harding 0408 075 501

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Coober Pedy That was then Centenary Art D’ Y fACES outh Theatre workshop Project Whyalla Aged Care residents will collaborate with D’faces Youth Theatre two week landscape painting members through workshops to create a workshop for Indigenous artists short written piece and artwork facilitated by local artist Olivia White. Senior artists from the Hermannsburg School of painting will mentor local WHEN: may - september 2015 Indigenous artists in a two week landscape painting workshop culminating in an exhibition presented by Ananguku Arts WHERE: Whyalla and the Coober Pedy District Council celebrating 2015 Centenary of Coober MORE INFO: Pedy. Deb Hughes 08 8645 1265

WHEN: april 2015

WHERE: Coober Pedy

MORE INFO: Tony Collins 08 8227 2788 or 0427 957 001 try something new

Eyes

The world is an interesting place. Particularly places such ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE as Roxby Downs where you can discover that theatre May 11 - 22 2015 doesn’t need actors on a stage and the end of days could be much more than doomsday preppers and zombies. WHERE Roxby Downs The creative geniuses of Sandpit have teamed up with other cutting-edge artists to start developing a MORE INFO: completely new type of experiential theatre in Roxby For more information Downs. Following a residency and public consultations about the trial sessions for the team is inviting people to experience the works’ most the public and the residency current state of play. visit thedirtsa.com.au closer

to the date. Be prepared for state of the art sound design in your headphones while taking in the natural surrounds and find yourself deciding what should be preserved, what should be destroyed and what things you’d miss in the event of the apocalypse.

ARTISTS INVOLVED: Sandpit (Sam Haren, Dan Koerner), Matt Crook and Brendan Woithe

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middleback arts centre SHOWS ON THE ROAD Community Circle sponsors PRESENTER GROUPS

Quest Whyalla Serviced Apartments The Shows on the Road touring program The Whyalla News provides opportunities to communities for greater access to professional touring McLeods Whyalla Motor Co. Pty Ltd performances and to host performances. The Eyre Hotel Thanks to local volunteer Presenter Groups, Century 21 Myles Pearce Whyalla shows are taken to halls, sporting clubs Harvey Norman Whyalla and other venues in towns throughout the Swear By Safety state. For more infomation contact [email protected].

SPECIAL PROGRAM SUPPORT DONATIONS The Middleback Arts Centre 30th anniversary celebration year is proudly Thanks to donations made by local supported by the City of Whyalla. community members, more people can continue to discover the joy and wonder the arts has to offer.

To make a tax deductible donation, visit countryarts.org.au/about-us/philanthropy or see one of the friendly staff. 67 QUEST SERVICED APARTMENTS WHYALLA Quest Whyalla and Quest Whyalla Playford With internet access, Austar, on-site car offer the business and leisure traveller parking, restaurant chargeback facilities beautifully appointed apartment-style and breakfast packs, Quest Whyalla, accommodation. Offering studio, one, two located in ‘new Whyalla’ and Quest and three-bedroom apartments, complete Whyalla Playford, located in ‘old Whyalla’ with separate living and dining areas are the ideal home away from home for (excl. studios) and fully-contained kitchens both short and long term stays. (kitchenettes in studios). Quest Whyalla also offers an outdoor swimming pool.

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middleback arts centre Friends Club 141a Nicolson Avenue Whyalla SA 5600 Enjoy special offers and great savings throughout the year when you become a Arts Centre Manager Friends Club member. Ryan Sutherland [email protected] friends club MEMBER BENEFITS For $30, this membership entitles you to… T: 08 8644 7300 F: 08 8644 7399 • Access to the Friends ticket price [email protected] • Discounts on other selected shows • One complimentary ticket for the www.middlebacktheatre.com.au Whyalla Cinema • Regular updates on theatre activities MiddlebackTheatreandWhyallaCinema

For an additional $19, the GOLD Friends booking fees Club Membership entitles you to additional benefits including... Tickets for events at the Middleback Arts Centre purchased over the phone or online • Access to an exclusive VIP event incur a small transaction fee. • Discount on Arts on Screen screenings • 4 complimentary drinks GET INVOLVED! ARTS CENTRE REFERENCE GROUP

In 2012, an Arts Centre Reference Group was established to help ensure your arts Wheelchair Access is an important centre is a vibrant place for arts and culture aspect of Country Arts SA’s service to by offering a great mix of opportunities patrons. Mobility impaired patrons can and reflecting the local flavour of your be comfortably seated in the theatre, and community. there are dedicated toilet facilities and car parking spaces. If you’re interested in joining the group please contact Ryan Sutherland at If you have special seating requirements [email protected]. please talk to box office staff. We’d love to have you in the discussion.

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ARTS AND CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICERS

E yre & Western Jayne Holland [email protected] 08 8626 1049 port augusta Ellenor Day-Lutz [email protected] 08 8641 9175

Roxby Downs Ella McCarthy [email protected] 08 8671 0010 port lincoln and STATEWIDE Arts & Mental Health Simone Gillam [email protected] 08 8639 7907

STATEWIDE Indigenous Arts & Cultural Engagement Mandy Brown [email protected] 08 8444 0407 Sam Yates [email protected] 08 8444 0409