welcomeCover: Photo, Pedro Greig. Dancer, Yap. Charmene Above: ThePopularMechanicals We lookforward toseeingyouin2017. best possibleartsexperiences. provide regional SouthAustraliansthe to flourishandproduce great artand opportunities forartistsateverylevel we workwithinspire ustocreate The artists,communitiesandpartners family andindividual. engage andinspire everycommunity, opportunities, there’s somethingto Artsexperiencesandfunding Visual Screen, toShowsontheRoad From ourseasonshows,toArtson Arts SAandouractivitiesin2017. aboutCountry range ofinformation In thisstatewideGuideyouwillfinda and prosperous regional communities. development contributingtoresilient tourism, employmentandeconomic livesandaretransform acatalystfor culture. Theartshavethepowerto deserve aliferichinartsand that allregional South Australians to theartsisauniversalrightand At CountryArtsSAwebelieveaccess CEO, CountryArtsSA Steve Saffell 3
Jack Snelling MP Rob Stobbe WELCOME Minister for the Arts CEO, SA Power Networks
The arts are an important part of In 2017 we are celebrating our 20th the cultural glue that binds a year partnering with Country Arts SA! community together and Country Over this time we have helped more Arts SA is invested in providing and than 250,000 people attend a wide producing quality arts experiences variety of arts events in regional across the state. locations right across South Australia. In regional areas especially, the arts By contributing to the communities can be effective in linking people we live and work in ourselves, we to a broader community by offering are able to build a strong presence new perspectives and providing in each region through organisations stimulating and entertaining insights like Country Arts SA that reflect our into the world around us. values by being ethically and socially The sector provides positive activities responsible. for young people in regional areas While we look forward to further and is beneficial for the whole celebrations for Country Arts SA’s region by generating jobs, income, 25th birthday next year, 2017 infrastructure investment and tourism. promises to be a year featuring a Supporting hardworking small to stimulating program and activities medium organisations such as for people of all ages to enjoy. We Country Arts SA means we are hope to see you at an event near boosting creativity, reach and access you over the year to come. to the arts for all South Australians based outside our capital city.
Join me in supporting the work of Country Arts SA this year by taking part in the opportunities they offer and experiencing some theatre, dance, visual arts exhibitions, cinema screenings and interactive events right here in your own region. 4 Country Arts SA is a dynamic arts organisation committed to bringing the arts to life in regional CONTENTS South Australia. This guide is an overview of just some of the activities we are delivering in 2017.contents We support artists to develop their practice and make art. We present shows and workshops for people of all ages at our arts centres and elsewhere.
By providing grants and professional advice and working with galleries across the State to curate visual arts exhibitions and residency projects we showcase work from regional artists to state, national and international audiences.
Regional artists, communities and partners inspire us daily to produce great art that shares our stories with each other and the rest of the world.
Country Arts SA recognises and respects that we are living and creating on Aboriginal Lands and we are committed to working together to honour their living cultures.
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Shows on the Road 20 contentsMorning Melodies 24 On Screen 26
Visual Arts 33
Grants & funding 38
Arts & Health 40
Thank you 42
Connect with us 46
Index 47 Eyes Presented by Country Arts SA and Sandpit Hold on to your 6 You are one of the ‘remaining few’ headphones... the on this earth, what will be preserved? universe is about What will be destroyed? Eyes to expand! investigates our myths, beliefs and survival tactics for the end of the Mt Gambier – 23-26 February world in a highly immersive and Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre charged experience.
This is participatory theatre work that begins as an outdoor tour for 20 people, guided by one actor and an interactive audio device.
From the team that brought you the sell-out hit Ghosts, Toasts, and the Things Unsaid at the 2016 Fringe. We are the World
Presented by Country Arts SA and Intimate Spectacle 7
“The sheer, manic drive of the performance, its bracing informality, the self-belief, its mad poetry” Realtime
POST have made a new show. It’s Come and have a play on their about the world. Nat and Mish have database, internet thingy, better been on a road trip and have talked to described as a digital bingo machine hundreds of people the old-fashioned and find the extraordinary in the way - face to face, over cups of tea, everyday. We Are the World is part to get their take on what the world town hall meeting, part Wikipedia looks like. What do they do with all wormhole, where you navigate your this information? Obviously, ask a high own adventure. end digital technology laboratory to create the slowest search engine Mt Gambier – 23-25 February imaginable! Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre
Post-show talk GO BEHIND THE SCENES CONNECT 24 February COUNTRYARTS.ORG.AU Our Corka Bubs Presented by Country Arts SA 8 An interactive ‘play’formance for 4-24 month olds
Our Corka Bubs creates memorable moments where child, carer and dance meet in the first ever Aboriginal contemporary dance work for babies.
Grounded in Australia’s First Nation’s culture, Our Corka Bubs is captivating storytelling through movement and music choreographed specifically for babies under 2 years and their carers.
Made by renowned South Australian Aboriginal choreographer Gina Rings, a small audience of babies and their carers are transfixed through movement and play that draw strongly from aspects of Australian Aboriginal culture.
Adelaide – 18 February Tandanya
Barmera – 21 February Wellbeing Centre
Renmark – 22 February Chaffey Theatre
Mt Gambier – 24-25 February Mt Gambier Library
Raukkan – 1 March Raukkan Community Space
Murray Bridge – 2 March Ninkowar
Port Augusta – 4 March LG Riches Building
For 4-24 month olds & their carers
Illustrations by Nellie Rankine Mortal Condition
Presented by Country Arts SA, 9 Larissa McGowan & Insite Arts
Inspired by Mike Patton’s (Faith No More) ground-breaking album Adult Themes for Voice and from observing gamers, Mortal Condition explores how human interactions might materialise in a virtual gaming world.
Larissa McGowan’s choreography mixes martial arts and gaming references with escapism and technology. Mortal Condition is an extraordinary journey into a virtual world of contemporary dance.
Mount Gambier last saw Larissa’s work Fanatic as a part of Sydney Dance Company’s De Novo and her Dance Jungle Gym through Country Arts SA’s DanceXtend program.
Mt Gambier – 25 February Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre
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Image: Peter Grieg, Tom Roschi and Rodeo One of Australia’s most adventurous street- style performance companies Branch Nebula Snake Sessions has trained up skaters, BMX-riders, dancers Presented by Country Arts SA, PADA and parkourists in the art of free improvisation and Intimate Spectacle and they are taking up residence in three skate
10 parks across South Australia. A new site-specific performance developed over a week-long In the mornings these professional street-style artists train their improvisational muscle at the residency in a local skate park skate park and in the afternoons they invite you to come participate in their sessions.
Snake Sessions is spontaneous, fun, anarchic, inter-generational and captures the spirit of what parkour street-style is all about.
Grab your board, skates, blades, bike and body (if you’re into parkour) and meet us at the park!
Adelaide – 11 March Community Area Park 27 Skate Park, Bonython Park / Tulya Wardli
Residency & sessions: 6-10 March
Whyalla – 18 March Risk It Skate Park, Civic Park, Nicholson Ave
Residency & sessions: 13-17 March
Bordertown – 25 March Memorial Park, Cnr Park Tce and Cannawigara Rd
Residency & sessions: 20-24 March
Photo: Adam Scarf Two young women meet face to face for the first time across the bed of a
dying man. Strangers to each other but 11 Sista Girl bonded by blood and grief. Sisters. Presented by Country Arts SA and State They break the cold silence of the Theatre Company South Australia hospital room to start a difficult By Elena Carapetis and Alexis West conversation. About the past and secrets. About the women who were their mothers. And about why this man, their father, abandoned one family to make another. When the past is dying and can’t say sorry, how do you move on?
Sista Girl explores the relationship between indigenous and non- indigenous Australians, via the story of two women who share a white father. Co-written by Elena Carapetis (Gorgon) and Alexis West (Echoes... of Knowing Home) especially for the brilliant Natasha Wanganeen (Rabbit Proof Fence, The Shadow King) and Nadia Rossi (The Memory of Water), the play raises questions of identity, grief and the complex nature of family.
Noarlunga – 9 May Hopgood Theatre
Renmark – 11 May Chaffey Theatre
Mt Gambier – 15 May Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre
Port Pirie – 17 May Northern Festival Centre
Whyalla – 19 May Middleback Arts Centre
Port Lincoln – 22 May Nautilus Arts Centre
Also touring to: Tanunda, Goolwa, Keith, Port Augusta, Ceduna, Tailem Bend
Visit countryarts.org.au for details
For ages 15+ Adelaide Cabaret Festival Roadshow
12 Presented by Country Arts SA and Adelaide Festival Centre
Two spectacular evenings of variety, direct from the world’s biggest Cabaret Festival!
Now in its 17th year, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival brings together artists from all over the world, for 13 huge nights featuring some of the most outrageous, raw, fun and fierce performances around.
The Adelaide Cabaret Festival Roadshow brings some Festival favourites on the road to you, featuring amazing acts of musical prowess, comedy and character- fuelled performances supported by a great band and a vivacious host.
Come enjoy the glitz, soak up the glamour, drink in the frivolity and get involved with this year’s Cabaret Festival Roadshow!
Warning: Some coarse language, possible nudity and many musical antics… anything may happen!
Port Pirie – 11 May Northern Festival Centre
Port Lincoln – 13 May Nautilus Arts Centre
CALLING ALL BUDDING CABARET STARS! Applications for the 2018 Nathaniel O’Brien Class of Cabaret Scholarship are now open to students in years 10 & 11 from Port Pirie and Port Lincoln and surrounding regions.
The successful applicants will perform at the Adelaide Cabaret Roadshow in their respective region in May 2017.
YOUR CHANCE TO PERFORM AT THE ROADSHOW Visit adelaidecabaretfestival.com.au for more information. Photo: Claude Raschella Tetris South Australian Premiere
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Presented by DreamBIG Children’s Festival and Country Arts SA
Inspired by the classic electronic Goolwa – 23 May game Tetris, Arch 8’s incredible Centenary Hall acrobatic quartet explores how we connect with one another through Mt Gambier – 30 May movement, humour and some Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre awesome audience participation Renmark – 1 June where kids become part of the action. Chaffey Theatre The extreme physicality, energy and enthusiasm of the performers For ages 5-12 is contagious, delighting audiences as they watch what begins as a game For bookings visit of interlocking shapes unfold. www.dreambigfestival.com.au
Receiving enthusiastic responses everywhere they appear, and winner of ‘Best Show’ at the International Performing Arts for Youth 2016 (Canada), Tetris is for the kids who can’t sit still, for the ones who like to climb the walls, for the ones who like seeing patterns and those who can imagine further than they can see.
Photo: Jeroen Bosch 14 Frame of Mind Presented by Country Arts SA and Sydney Dance Company
«««« “A potent blend of technique, daring and playfulness.” Sydney Morning Herald
Mt Gambier – 2 August Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre
Port Pirie – 5 August Northern Festival Centre
Whyalla – 9 August Middleback Arts Centre
Renmark – 12 August Chaffey Theatre
Workshops available
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Photo: Pedro Greig Sydney Dance Company’s Frame of 15 Mind is a wildly powerful double bill featuring the smash hit Wildebeest by South Australia’s own Gabrielle Nankivell and the multi award-winning Frame of Mind from Rafael Bonachela.
Bonachela’s Frame of Mind features a dramatic contemporary-classical soundtrack by Bryce Dessner (from American hit rock band The National), recorded by San Francisco’s virtuosic Kronos Quartet. Winner of all four categories for the 2015 Helpmann Awards including ‘Best Choreography’, ‘Best Dance Work’, ‘Best Male Dancer’, and ‘Best Female Dancer’ for its critically acclaimed premiere season.
Having premiered as part of Sydney Dance Company’s inaugural New Breed season, choreographic prodigy Gabrielle Nankivell’s eloquent Wildebeest showcases the power of dancers as individuals and strength en masse. Moody and animalistic, it’s backed by a stormy and industrial score by Luke Smiles.
Don’t miss this gripping evening of dance in its limited Australian season. Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday
16 Presented by Country Arts SA and Performing Lines
By Roslyn Oades & Collaborators
Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday celebrates two epic birthdays – “One of the most charming eighteen and eighty - major transition shows of the year” points in adult life. ABC Arts One represents untold potential and opportunity; the other a lifetime of experiences, aspirations, fears and memories. Scripted from intimate real-life conversations with people either side of these milestones, Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday is a beautifully warm and human show from Roslyn Oades & Collaborators.
Mt Gambier – 18 & 19 August Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre
Renmark – 22 & 23 August Chaffey Theatre
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Photo: Jeff Busby Prehistoric Aquarium 17 Presented by Country Arts SA and Erth - Visual & Physical Inc.
Written by Scott Wright with Drew Fairley and Catherine McNamara
Directed by Scott Wright Dive into the historical depths Head of Design, Steve Howarth of the ocean and unlock nature’s greatest mysteries.
Deep below the surface of the At Erth’s Prehistoric Aquarium, ocean, submerged below time, children will step into the action swam some of the world’s most of the performance: at each show amazing prehistoric marine reptiles. performers will invite a small number Following the internationally loved of carefully selected young divers and applauded show Erth’s Dinosaur to join them on their quest to the Zoo™, the team at Erth have spent bottom of the ocean, to ‘swim’ with years scouring the seven seas, an amazing array of aquatic creatures collecting playful prehistoric creatures from bygone eras. of the deep in their giant aquarium. For the very first time, you are Whyalla – 5 September invited to dive in and meet these Middleback Arts Centre aquatic critters in person. Port Pirie – 7 September What does a Plesiosaurs skin feel Northern Festival Centre like? How big are a Kronosaurus’ teeth? And do Kimberella even wear Renmark – 9 September shoes? Skilled handlers will be able Chaffey Theatre to answer all these questions and more in this once-in-a-lifetime For ages 5+ interactive theatre experience. Photo: Heidrun Lohr Presented by Country Arts SA and State Theatre Company South Australia
By Keith Robinson, William Shakespeare and Tony Taylor. Original Direction by Geoffrey Rush.
18 Port Lincoln – 13 September The Popular Nautilus Arts Centre Whyalla – 19 September Mechanicals Middleback Arts Centre “Monty Python eat your heart out; Tanunda – 22 September what a hoot this show is...” Barossa Arts and Convention Centre Stage Whispers Port Pirie – 23 September Northern Festival Centre A funny thing happened to me on the way to the theatre this evening, Shakespeare’s greatest Renmark – 26 September clowns – the rude mechanicals from A Midsummer Chaffey Theatre Night’s Dream – take centrestage in this wild Mt Gambier – 1 October reimagining of what might have happened off- Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre stage during the Bard’s most loved comedy.
Perhaps the most famous group of amateur Workshops available thespians of all time, the cast of the play-within- a-play Pyramus and Thisbe, bumble their way Connect post show talk
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Photo: Shane Reid Grug and
the Rainbow 19 Presented by Country Arts SA and Windmill Theatre Co.
More stories based on the Grug began his life as the grassy much-loved picture book top of a Burrawang tree. Fascinated character created by Ted Prior by the world around him and never short of an adventure, now he’s back by popular demand. Port Lincoln – 25 October Nautilus Arts Centre Embarking on his own epic journey to find a rainbow, it always seems just Whyalla – 31 October beyond his grasp. But Grug is full of Middleback Arts Centre determination and his adventures are Port Pirie – 2 November always full of surprises. Northern Festival Centre Featuring exquisite puppetry and Renmark – 4 November more of the gentle storytelling that Chaffey Theatre has delighted audiences around the world, this new show has been Mt Gambier – 7 November especially created for the next Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre generation of our littlest theatregoers Noarlunga – 10 November (and those who just love Grug). Hopgood Theatre
For ages 1 – 5 years Shows on the Road HELPMANN AWARD WINNER brings the performing SOUTH AUSTRALIA’S arts to smaller regional 20 communities across Michael the state. Griffiths A network of presenter Presented by Country Arts SA groups is supported to present high quality, Cole professional performances Explore the colourful life and timeless independently in their songs of Cole Porter including You’re The Top, It’s De-Lovely, Let’s Do It and own community. Night and Day. Porter’s life was one of hedonism, grave misfortune, enduring love and he left a legacy that sparkles with wit and wisdom.
Strathalbyn – 26 April Strathalbyn Town Hall
Yankalilla – 27 April Club Fleurieu
Port Augusta – 6 May Institute Theatre
In Vogue Songs by Madonna Michael Griffiths IS Madonna. No accent, costume or wig.
Just ‘Madge’ leading you on a journey through her tough life and tender songs. Strike a pose, get into the groove and express yourself as Madonna opens her heart.
Tintinara – 28 April Tintinara War Memorial Hall
Ceduna – 2 May Ceduna Memorial Hall
Streaky Bay – 3 May Streaky Bay Institute
Port Lincoln – 5 May the road Boston Bay Wines shows on “Griffiths’ singing was superb. His intricate attention to detail, from the keyboard to the storyline he was imparting, was masterful.” Rip It Up Sweet Dreams Songs by Annie Lennox As Annie Lennox, Griffiths takes you from the gender bending early days as one half of 80s new wave sensation Eurythmics through to her stunning solo career. Annie’s bittersweet lyrics share stories of her triumphs and her heartbreak. This acclaimed one-man cabaret will play with your heart.
Barossa – 29 April Nuriootpa Soldiers Memorial Hall
Cummins – 4 May Cummins Hall
Photo: Kurt Sneddon Rumpelstiltskin Australian National Presented by Windmill Theatre Co and State Theatre Company South Australia, directed and created by Theatre Live Rosemary Myers and writer Julianne 22 O’Brien, Rumpelstiltskin is based on the tales by the Brothers Grimm. Two Presented by Country Arts SA and people, once best friends, torn apart by Australian National Theatre Live desire for the things they cannot have. This is the story of the ultimate price See great Australian theatre of greed. Full of twists and turns, it’s a wherever you are, with the whole new spin on a heart of gold. launch of Australian National Theatre Live’s Play in a Box Tour Mt Compass – 9 July Mt Compass War Memorial Hall
Tintinara – 18 July Tintinara War Memorial Hall
Burra – 21 July Burra Town Hall
Goolwa – 29 July Centenary Hall
Liberty Equality Fraternity Presented by Ensemble Theatre. Written by Geoffrey Atherden (Mother and Son), Liberty Equality Fraternity is a laugh-out-loud parody of our surveillance society. Australian culture and politics are put under the microscope in a very comedic way.
Goolwa – 29 July Centenary Hall
The Wharf Revue Presented by the Sydney Theatre Company, by Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsyth and Phillip Scott.
Paul Keating once said that politicians come in three varieties: straight men, fixers and maddies. All of them will be knocked down a peg or two when The Wharf Revue comes rolling back into town.
Goolwa – 29 July Photo: Shane Reid Centenary Hall Paul Capsis as Rumpelstiltskin Eleanor’s Story is an adaptation of Eleanor Ramrath Garner’s autobiography Eleanor’s growing up as an American girl caught in World War II Berlin.
Story 23 In the fall of 1939, at 9 years old, Presented by Country Arts SA and Jally Entertainment Eleanor and her family left New York on the SS Hamburg bound for Germany. A true tale of an American girl A new job and a secure financial future trapped in Nazi Germany awaited her father in Berlin. Half-way across the Atlantic, Hitler declared war Mt Compass – 18 October on Poland and their return to America Mt Compass War Memorial Hall became impossible.
Bordertown – 19 October This is the true story of Eleanor Ramrath Tatiara Civic Centre Garner growing up as an American trapped in Nazi Germany during WWII. Lameroo – 20 October Adapted for the stage and performed by Lameroo Memorial Hall her granddaughter Ingrid, Eleanor’s best- Yankalilla – 21 October selling autobiography details her youth Club Fleurieu struggling to maintain stability, hope, and identity in a world of terror and contrasts. Streaky Bay – 24 October Her family faces hunger, Gestapo threats, Streaky Bay Institute carpet bombing, the final fierce battle Port Lincoln – 25 October for Berlin, the Russian invasion and the RSL Club horrors of Soviet occupancy. The play exposes audiences to an entirely unique Clare – 27 October story about World War II and provides St Michael’s Hall insight into the seldom reported lives Tintinara – 28 October of civilians in wartime. Tintinara War Memorial Hall Enjoy wonderful shows Magic Moments and savour the full theatre The Music of Burt Bacharach experience, without the The music of Burt Bacharach has 24 late night. inspired fans worldwide for over 50 years and this fandom continues Don’t miss our selection today as his music is recreated by of classic productions and John Lidgerwood and Style Music musical performances. This Theatre. is daytime entertainment With top musicians including at its best! specialist singers in the Bacharach style and instruments ranging from tenor saxophone and piano to guitar and drums, this is sure to be a morning to remember.
Mt Gambier – 21 March Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre
Noarlunga – 22 March Hopgood Theatre
Port Pirie – 24 March Northern Festival Centre
Night & Day The Doris Day/Shirley Bassey Show
After rave reviews for her shows The Women of the 60’s and The Belles of Broadway, the fabulous Gina Hogan returns to the stage with another standout show.
Night & Day features classic Doris songs like Secret Love and On Moonlight Bay, and from the Shirley collection, Diamonds are Forever, Big Spender and I Who Have Nothing.
Port Pirie – 30 June Northern Festival Centre
Mt Gambier – 5 July Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre
Noarlunga – 6 July Hopgood Theatre Don’t Shoot Basie to Buble Me, I’m only the Band of the South Australia Police Piano Player Join the Band of the South Australia Police as they take you on a swingin’ Can you play Bach on the piano with musical journey featuring some classic your left hand and Andrew Lloyd tunes from the big band and jazz era, Webber with your right and it still and some newer songs of modern sound good? Don’t worry; you don’t jazz composers. Listen to standards have to because David Scheel has of Count Basie, Glenn Miller, Tommy already done it! Dorsey, Gordon Goodwin, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra If you want to enjoy technically and Michael Buble. brilliant piano music and laugh yourself silly between each song, then a morning with David is just Mt Gambier – 1 November what you need. This one-man smash Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre hit has now been touring the world for 15 years, selling out in the West End and three consecutive Edinburgh Christmas Concert Festivals. Band of the South Australia Police
Get into the Christmas spirit with Noarlunga – 1 September Hopgood Theatre Australia’s oldest police band. Enjoy their extensive repertoire of classic carols and sing-a-longs of The Life & Hit Songs traditional cheer just in time for Santa. It’s the perfect way to kick of Peter Allen off the festive season for the young and the young at heart. A name like Peter Allen is synonymous with famed musical The Boy from Oz, but did you know Allen, whose Noarlunga – 21 November Hopgood Theatre music was made popular by recording artists such as Olivia Newton-John, Renmark – 26 November also won an Academy Award for Best Chaffey Theatre Original Song in 1981? Allen had quite a life which included being the Port Pirie – 1 December first husband of Liza Minelli, and now Northern Festival Centre it’s your chance to relive the highlights Whyalla – 2 December and the music that made him a Middleback Arts Centre household name live on stage.
Noarlunga – 5 October Hopgood Theatre
Port Pirie – 6 October Northern Festival Centre No Man’s
26 Land Presented by Country Arts SA’s Arts On Screen Captured by National Theatre Live ON SCREEN By Harold Pinter
Following their hit run on Broadway, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart return to the West End stage in Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land, captured live to cinemas from Wyndham’s Theatre, London.
One summer’s evening, two ageing writers, Hirst and Spooner, meet in a Hampstead pub and continue their drinking into the night at Hirst’s stately house nearby. As the pair become increasingly inebriated, and their stories increasingly unbelievable, the lively conversation soon turns into a revealing power game, further complicated by the return home of two sinister younger men.
««««« “Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart are unmissable” Daily Telegraph
Whyalla – 7 March Middleback Arts Centre
Port Pirie – 8 March Northern Festival Centre
Mt Gambier – 9 March Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre
Renmark – 16 March Chaffey Theatre
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Diggers SCREEN ON Presented by Country Arts SA “My vision is to enable these stories to be told and to hear the voice of our veterans by providing ANZAC soldiers have hero status in a supportive and safe platform to express and Australia but what about past and capture their untold stories through the arts. This present Aboriginal war veterans? will also enable audiences to connect with and Their stories are often left untold. honour the ANZAC legacy of our Aboriginal and Aboriginal Creative Producer, Torres Strait Islander service men and women.” Lee-Ann Tjunypa Buckskin and Lee-Ann Tjunypa Buckskin cinematographer Allan Collins come together with the Raukkan Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal community to uncover the experiences of Aboriginal Diggers.
While in residence the artists will provide film making workshops to build future artistic capacity.
The residency culminates in three screenings. The film will first be shown to the Raukkan community. It will then have a public presentation in Adelaide on ANZAC Day at the Mercury Cinema in partnership with Media Resource Centre, prior to screening at Black Screen events in seven regional centres across the state in May.
This is stage one of a three year residency program supporting Aboriginal film artists, playwrights and visual artists.
Raukkan – 23 April Raukkan Town Hall
Adelaide – 25 April Mercury Cinema
Image: James Gordon Harris. Photo courtesy of Ros Frogley. Black Screen Taking Indigenous Films
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Presented by Country Arts SA ON SCREEN You are invited to attend a free screening of Indigenous films during Reconciliation Week (27 May to 3 June), in celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and culture.
Black Screen features short films by local Indigenous community members and family films from the National Film and Sound Archive.
In 2017, Country Arts SA is again working in partnership with the Give Up Smokes for Good campaign.
Mt Gambier – 24 May Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre
Port Pirie – 30 May Northern Festival Centre
Whyalla – 30 May Middleback Arts Centre
Roxby Downs – 31 May roxbylink cinema
Renmark – 1 June Chaffey Theatre
Goolwa – 2 June Centenary Hall
Noarlunga – 2 June Hopgood Theatre The Mikado
Presented by Country Arts SA’s Arts On Screen «««« SCREEN ON 29 Captured live from English National Opera “Irresistible… a brilliant Nanki-Poo loves Yum-Yum. Just one comic performance” snag. She’s betrothed to Ko-Ko, the The Stage new Lord High Executioner. And Ko- Ko needs to find someone to execute – chop chop! Otherwise, it’s his own neck on the block. Maybe Ko-Ko and Nanki-Poo can come to some arrangement… without anyone losing their head?
Set in an ever-so English 1930s seaside hotel, Jonathan Miller’s Marx Brothers-inspired song- and-dance Mikado is a popular hit with audiences of all ages.
The combination of Gilbert’s virtuosic wit, Sullivan’s memorable melodies and Miller’s hilarious antics is irresistible.
Port Pirie – 8 June Northern Festival Centre 30 The Sleeping Beauty Presented by Country Arts SA’s Arts On Screen Captured by Cinema Live ON SCREEN Fairies, a prince and a spell-shattering Be swept into a world of magical kiss: don’t miss the world premiere fairies and bluebirds with Aurora and of David McAllister’s The Sleeping her Prince, as they dance their way Beauty in cinemas. This highly through rose gardens and Imperial anticipated new production by the Courts, to Tchaikovsky’s enchanting Artistic Director of The Australian score to celebrate their love. Ballet takes history’s most loved fairy tale into the modern age, with Mt Gambier – 14 June lavish sets and costumes by Gabriela Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre Tylesova and never-seen-before staging, designs and choreography. Renmark – 15 June Chaffey Theatre In a supernatural world of good and evil, Princess Aurora becomes Whyalla – 27 June cursed by a sorcerer on her sixteenth Middleback Arts Centre birthday, but by some fast thinking by The Lilac Fairy she falls into a deep sleep and is saved from death. One day, a lonely Prince searches for his true love and awakens the princess with a kiss. Michelangelo: Love and Death SCREEN ON 31 Presented by Country Arts SA’s Arts on Screen
To coincide with a glorious new Port Pirie – 26 July exhibition at the National Gallery Northern Festival Centre of London, this film offers a full and fresh biography of Michelangelo who, Whyalla – 1 August with Leonardo, is considered one of Middleback Arts Centre the greatest artists of the Renaissance Renmark – 5 August – and perhaps of all time. Chaffey Theatre This film explores his relationship with Mt Gambier – 24 August his contemporaries and his immense Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre artistic practice that included painting, sculpture and architecture. Among the works explored are the universally Connect pre-film talk (evenings only) adored David in Florence, the Sistine GO BEHIND THE SCENES Chapel in Rome and the Manchester CONNECT Madonna (today at the National COUNTRYARTS.ORG.AU Gallery).
This major new film goes to the heart of just who was this tempestuous, passionate giant of art history. Amadeus Presented by Country Arts SA’s Arts on Screen
32 Captured by National Theatre Live
By Peter Shaffer
ON SCREEN ««««« “Epic. Wonderful. A stupendous revival” Time Out
Music. Power. Jealousy.
Lucian Msamati (Luther, Game of Thrones, NT Live: The Comedy of Errors) plays Salieri in Peter Shaffer’s iconic play, captured live from the National Theatre, and with orchestral accompaniment by Southbank Sinfonia.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and he’s determined to make a splash. Awestruck by his genius, court composer Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his talent or destroy his name. Seized by obsessive jealousy he begins a war with Mozart, with music, and ultimately, with God.
After winning multiple Olivier and Tony Awards when it had its premiere at the National Theatre in 1979, Amadeus was adapted into an Academy Award-winning film.
Renmark – 17 October Chaffey Theatre
Whyalla – 17 October Middleback Arts Centre
Mt Gambier – 18 October Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre
Port Pirie – 8 November Northern Festival Centre
Photo: Marc Brenner Craft Anonymous
Featuring artists Louise Byrne, Annabelle 33 Collett, Cindy Durant, Robyn Finlay, VISUAL ARTS Wayne Mcara, Deborah Prior, Patricia Rose, Sera Waters and Meg Wilson.
Curated by Polly Dance as part of Adelaide City Council’s 2014/15 Emerging Curator Program, Craft Anonymous brought together regional and metropolitan textile, glass, metal and ceramic artists to exhibit in the iconic Adelaide Town Hall in 2015. In 2017, the exhibition continues its tour of regional South Australia.
Traditional handicraft techniques such as weaving, embroidery, knitting, felting, enamelling and hand-dying are showcased within a contemporary art context where old meets new. The works address themes of adornment, embellishment, desire/disgust, and identity, family history and a sense of belonging.
Bordertown – Walkway Gallery 3 February – 19 March
Millicent – Millicent Art Gallery 24 March – 7 May
Berri – River Lands Gallery 12 May – 18 June
Burra – Burra Regional Gallery 23 June – 23 July
Tanunda – Barossa Regional Gallery 28 July – 10 September
Hahndorf – Hahndorf Academy 15 September – 29 October
Moonta – Moonta Gallery of the Arts 3 November – 3 December
Whyalla – Middleback Arts Centre 8 December – 21 January
Image: Sera Waters, Going Bush: Bloatee, linen, crewel, cotton, beads & sequins, hand-dyed cotton string, 120 x 57 x 10 cm. Photo courtesy the artist and Hugo Michell Gallery, Adelaide. Handheld Commissioned by Country Arts SA,
34 each of the four artworks has been designed to fit inside a suitcase for easy transportation. Each artist, Nic VISUAL ARTS VISUAL Brown, Brad Lay, Lilly Buttrose and Cathy Sarles, was asked to explore ideas of home, travel and place. Brown has gone back to her family home, a farm near Naracoorte, and documented this journey and the sense of place it now invokes for her.
Millicent – Millicent Art Gallery 2 February – 12 March
Burra – Burra Regional Gallery 23 March – 25 April
Image: Cathy Sarles, Homeward, 2014, suitcase, fur, blanket, dyes; dimensions variable. Photo: Michael Kluvanek.
Mount Renouf A truly Unbelievable History
Mount Renouf, the quintessential country town somewhere in Australia, is celebrating its sesquicentenary! View the town’s precious archive of objects; experience the stories of its famous and notorious characters; wonder at the importance it has played throughout our history and ponder why we have never heard of this town before!
Pt Augusta – Yarta Purtli 10 February – 11 March Our Stories Our Way: VISUAL35 ARTS Our Mob 2015 on Tour
Our Stories Our Way: Our Mob 2015 on Tour is a collection of works by South Australian Aboriginal artists who exhibited in Our Mob 2015, presented by Adelaide Festival Centre and TARNANTHI Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art.
The exhibition aims to engage the public with reconciliation and cross cultural understanding by showcasing Aboriginal artists’ visual expressions of their own stories.
2015 marked the tenth anniversary of Our Mob. Over this time, it has grown to include several new exhibitions presented by the Adelaide Festival Centre such as Our Mob Contemporary, Our Young Mob and Ripple Effect, a capsule exhibition by Anna Dowling, winner of the second Don Dunstan Foundation Our Mob Emerging Artist Award.
Port Pirie – Regional Gallery 10 February – 19 March
Burra – Burra Regional Gallery 24 March – 30 April
Goolwa – Signal Point Gallery Apply for Our Mob 2017 5 May – 11 June 20 October – 2 December Jamestown – Belalie Art Gallery Artspace Gallery, Adelaide Festival Centre 16 June – 16 July Entries to Our Mob are open to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists living in South Australia. Tailem Bend – Coorong Council Gallery Including young, emerging and established artists. 21 July – 3 September The work of South Australian Indigenous artists are as diverse as the environments in which they live. This Hahndorf – Hahndorf Academy exhibition offers the chance to view and purchase 8 September – 8 October artworks by South Australian Indigenous artists.
Roxby Downs – Roxby Downs Regional Gallery Applications open: April – August 2017 13 October – 19 November For more information or to download an entry form visit Port Lincoln – Nautilus Arts Centre countryarts.org.au or adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au 23 November – 7 January
Image: Anna Dowling, Gugurdung Gurdaya (Dreaming of Everlasting Wild Flowers) (detail), 2015, ink on paper, 73 x 73cm Handheld II Handheld II brings together five
36 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across South Australia to create works of art responding to VISUAL ARTS VISUAL themes of home, travel and place. The artists – Jacob Stengle, Debra Rankine, Sandra Saunders, Christopher Crebbin and Peter Sharrock – have each been challenged to fit their pieces within a vintage suitcase, which will then be used to transport the works of art to various venues throughout regional South Australia.
Mt Gambier – Riddoch Art Gallery 17 February – 2 April
Also touring to: Tanunda, Murray Bridge and Port Pirie For details, visit countryarts.org.au Artist Debra Rankine’s Handheld suitcase arrives at Camp Coorong. Photo: Jelina Haines
2017 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), including moving image works.
$25,000 major prize 2017 Entries open: 2 February – 29 May
Enter online at countryarts.org.au
For more information 08 8444 0425 [email protected] Island to Inland VISUAL37 ARTS Islands are by nature isolating, and that isolation coupled with majestic natural surroundings can be inspiration galore to the creative soul.
Thus the symmetry of Kangaroo Island: 4500 square kilometres, half of it natural ecosystems and, 4500 residents, half seemingly artists in some form.
Ten of the island’s visual artists are bringing ‘mainlanders’ a glimpse of the isolation and inspiration of island life in Island to Inland.
Adelaide – Flinders Uni City Gallery 1 July – 3 September
Artwork by Maggie Welz (work in progress)
Shed Wizard James Dodd’s practice has meandered across investigations of urban space, creative interventions in public space and notions of high and low art. Having spent a large period of time immersed in Australia’s street art movement of the early noughties he has since pursued a practice that borrows graffiti for gallery outcomes and hijacks conceptual pursuits for application in suburbia.
Bordertown – Walkway Gallery 9 July – 26 August
Murray Bridge – Regional Gallery 1 September – 15 October
Goolwa – Signal Point Gallery 8 December – 21 January
James Dodd, Abstract Cruiser, 2015 GRANTS & FUNDING 38 grants arts idea? great have a Do you & funding opportunities. individual artiststoundertakeprofessional development small project leadingtoalarger culturalproject orfor to undertakesmallculturalprojects, ortodevelopa Who for?Artists,organisations andcommunitygroups 15 Augustforprojects commencingafter1January 15 March forprojects commencingafter1July close: Applications How much?<$5000 Step Up short notice. communities withsmallproject opportunitiesthatariseat development andtrainingopportunities,ororganisations/ Who for?Regionalartiststoaccessprofessional arts (closed foraperiodoverChristmas). Applications are acceptedatanytimeduringtheyear How much?<$1500individuals$3000organisations Quick Response the developmentstageofmajorartsprojects. artist(s) orguestspeaker(s)toassistcommunitygroups in visitbyan supporting costsassociatedwiththeshortterm for thedevelopmentofproject ideasandconceptsby development through workshopsorprovide opportunities whichprovide in anyartform opportunitiesforskills Who for?Groups andindividualstoundertakeprojects 15 Augustforprojects commencingafter1January 15 March forprojects commencingafter1July close: Applications How much?<$3000 Development Skills professional developmentandemployment opportunities. networks, buildsustainable culturalactivityandincrease encourage community engagement,developnew cultural to create highqualityanddiverseartsprojects that Who for?Individuals,communitiesandorganisations 15 Augustforprojects commencingafter1January 15 March forprojects commencingafter1July close: Applications How much?<$10,000individuals$20,000organisations Step Out
Yes! Who do I & FUNDING GRANTS 39 talk to? Adelaide Hills, Fleurieu and Riverland & Mallee Kangaroo Island Rebecca Farrant Sam Yates [email protected] [email protected] 0401 126 355 08 8444 0421 Tatiara Barossa Naomi Fallon Leah Blankendaal [email protected] [email protected] 08 8752 1044 0400 197 087 Whyalla Eyre & Western Far North Deb Hughes Jayne Holland [email protected] [email protected] 08 8640 3444 08 8626 1049
Limestone Coast & Statewide Statewide Arts & Health Merilyn de Nys Alison Howard [email protected] [email protected] 08 8723 8742 08 8444 0402
Murraylands & Coorong Di Gordon Statewide Aboriginal Arts [email protected] and Cultural Program 08 8574 0064 Mandy Brown Port Augusta [email protected] Ellenor Day-Lutz 08 8444 0407 [email protected] Sam Yates 08 8641 9175 [email protected] 08 8444 0421 Port Pirie Sheila Duncan [email protected] General enquiries 08 8633 9777 Monica Hart Renmark [email protected] Alex Randall 08 8723 8763 [email protected] 08 8586 4777 Arts & Health Country Arts SA delivers a Statewide Arts &
40 Health program in partnership with Country Spinback Health SA Mental Health Network and seeks This intergenerational project invites the to increase opportunities for social connection Riverland community into the world of aged care using arts and culture as a means to improve and dementia through a multi art form project health and wellbeing and creating pathways to which aims to raise awareness of the isolation resilience. experienced by many aged care residents unable to connect with their broader community. With sufficient evidence to demonstrate that arts participation benefits the health of individuals Sound producer DJTR!P, performance artist in community and health care settings, Country Jessica Foster and dancer Tanya Voges will join Arts SA is committed to producing arts initiatives forces with local photographer Terry Marter, in that are high quality, accessible arts experiences a ten week residency that will bring students across regional South Australia. from Renmark Primary School into the Renmark Paringa Aged Care Unit, to explore the power For information about projects and events in of music to provoke memory in those with your community visit www.countryarts.org.au dementia. A multi-artform exhibition where old Are you an artist who wants to know and new technology merge, will celebrate the more about the program? new memories created. Contact Community Arts and Cultural Flinders University will be conducting research Development Producer, Alison Howard and evaluating outcomes of the project. [email protected]
SPINBACK Exhibition Renmark – Chaffey Theatre and arts and cultural sites across Renmark
June 2017
Free Barngarla Acknowledgement 41 of Country Film An Acknowledgement of Country film The film will be made by Aboriginal reflects a commitment to Aboriginal filmmakers Kym Hamann and Allan people and their connection to lands Collins. Allan has been recognised and waters. In 2017, Country Arts SA for his work with awards for Dust and will produce a film with the people Mistake Creek. of the Barngarla Nation. The film The film will be launched in NAIDOC will focus on the lands and waters Week on Monday 3 July at the predominantly around Whyalla for Middleback Arts Centre, Whyalla. screening at the Middleback Arts Centre, Whyalla. Whyalla – 3 July This film acknowledgement is an Middleback Arts Centre important component of Country During NAIDOC week Arts SA’s Reconciliation Action Plan. It demonstrates a respect to the More information traditional custodians of the lands we [email protected] work on and the Aboriginal people we support and work with in regional South Australia. 42 funding andadvisorybody. Council fortheArts,itsarts throughGovernment theAustralia Assisted bytheAustralian thank Media Partner Vehicle Sponsor Principal CorporatePartner you Adelaide Cabaret FestivalRoadshow Erth’s Prehistoric Aquarium Amadeus Aboriginal Diggers Eyes for theArts,itsartsfundingandadvisorybody. throughNSW andtheAustralianGovernment theAustraliaCouncil IN DEVELOPMENTprogram, through theNSWGovernment Arts Erth’s Prehistoric AquariumhasbeensupportedbyCarriageworks’ Craft Anonymous Black Screen AcknowledgementofCountryFilm Barngarla Australian NationalTheatre Live Arts &Health Barngarla Aboriginal Barngarla Corporation
Frame of Mind Our Mob
Sista Girl Grug and the Rainbow
Handheld II
Sleeping Beauty
Hello, Goodbye & Happy Birthday
Snake Sessions
Island to Inland
Michelangelo: Love and Death
Spinback
Mortal Condition
Tetris
Mount Renouf
The Mikado
No Man’s Land
The Popular Mechanicals
Our Corka Bubs
We Are The World
SA Power Networks — proudly connecting communities.
SA Power Networks is proud to be a significant corporate citizen in South Australia, and not only as a long term supporter of Country Arts SA.
Whether it is in the arts, improving our environment, supporting grass roots sport or helping those in need, we are proud to help make a difference to communities throughout the State.
To find out more, visit us at www.sapowernetworks.com.au/sponsorship General Arts Centres Mt Gambier Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre 46 enquiries 10 Watson Terrace, Mt Gambier 2 McLaren Parade 08 8723 8741 [email protected] Port Adelaide Arts Centre Manager Frank Morello 08 8444 0400 [email protected] Noarlunga Hopgood Theatre Stay up to date Ramsay Place, Noarlunga countryarts.org.au 7009 4400 [email protected] Arts Centre Manager Sussan Baldwin CountryArtsSA
@CountryArts_SA Port Pirie Northern Festival Centre 106 Gertrude Street, Port Pirie @CountryArts_SA 08 8633 8500 [email protected] Arts Centre Manager Jenny Stephenson
Riverland Chaffey Theatre via Seventeenth Street, Renmark 08 8586 1800 [email protected] Arts Centre Manager Sharlene Martin
Whyalla Middleback Arts Centre 141a Nicolson Avenue, Whyalla 08 8644 7300 [email protected] Arts Centre Manager Ryan Sutherland
Community Circle Thank you to the ongoing support from local Community Circle businesses: 23rd Street Distillery, Act FasTraining, Barry Maney Group, Eyre Hotel, Herbert Real Estate, Hotondo Homes Port Pirie, Lavis Real Estate, Magic 105.9, McLeods Whyalla Motor Company, McMahon Services Australia Pty Ltd, Midstate Hardware, Patrick of Coonawarra, PRP Group, Quest Apartments, RA Augheys Accountants, Rockford Homes, Renmark Hotel, The Murray Pioneer, Wilkadene, Whyalla Automotive with us connect All information correctAll information attimeofprinting. Noarlunga Murray Bridge Mt Gambier Mt Compass Moonta 33 Millicent Lameroo 23 Keith 11 Jamestown 35 Hahndorf Goolwa Cummins 21 Clare 23 Ceduna Burra Bordertown Berri 33 8 Barmera Adelaide 16, 18,19,24,25,26 11, 13,22,28,35,37 6, 7,8,9,11,13,14 11, 19,24,25,28 28, 30,31,32,36 22, 33,34,35 10, 23,33,37 8, 10,27,37 22, 23 33, 34 33, 35 11, 20 8, 37 Yankalilla Whyalla Tintinara Tanunda Tailem Bend Streaky Bay Strathalbyn 20 Roxby Downs Renmark Raukkan Pt Lincoln Pt Pirie Pt Augusta Nuriootpa 21 19, 25,26,28,30 10, 11,14,17,18 28, 30,31,32,40 17, 18,19,25,26 19, 24,25,26,28 11, 12,14,17,18 8, 11,13,14,16 11, 12,18,19, 31, 32,33,41 29, 31,32,35 8, 11,20,34 20, 22,23 11, 18,33 20, 23,35 20, 23 11, 35 20, 23 28, 35 8, 27 index 47 THE ART OF INSPIRING COMMUNITIES