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FEAST JOIN THE CONVERSATION @FEASTFESTIVAL #FEASTFEST TICKETING & ACCESS INFORMATION CONTENTS HOW TO BOOK Online: Tickets can be purchased 24/7 via credit card at www.feast.org.au Ticketing Enquiries please telephone: 2 MESSAGES OF SUPPORT 08 8463 0684 Please note: Proof of ID, concession or 8 FLYING THE RAINBOW FLAG eligibility of discounts will be required when you enter specific events. All tickets will incur booking and 10 ENTRÉES transaction fees. 14 SPECIAL EVENTS For more information please check out Trybooking’s terms and conditions 18 CABARET online at www.trybooking.com 22 THEATRE Tickets available at the door at all events 24 DANCE unless sold out. 26 PLAY READINGS AND WORKSHOPS THE MAIN TICKET CATEGORIES ARE: 28 WRITING LIVE Full Price: People with no form of concession or membership. 30 CALENDAR Concession: Student, seniors, health 32 FILM FEAST care and pension card holders. 34 COMEDY Companion Card: For people with significant disability who need a 36 VISUAL ART companion to enable them to attend and participate in community based 40 MUSIC activities. 42 MULTI-MEDIA Wheelchair accessible events AUSLAN interpreted events 44 QUEER CONVERSATIONS Audio description events 50 LEATHER 51 BEARSTOCK 52 COMMUNITY & SPORTS FEAST FESTIVAL ACKNOWLEDGES 58 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS THAT THIS EVENT IS HELD ON THE TRADITIONAL LANDS OF THE KAURNA 60 PARTNER RECOGNITION PEOPLE AND RESPECTS THEIR SPIRITUAL 2017 RELATIONSHIP WITH THEIR COUNTRY. 02 1 FEAST Messages OF support JOIN THE CONVERSATION @FEASTFESTIVAL #FEASTFEST Welcome friends and feasters. Woot! Welcome to Feast 2017. Welcome to another amazing Feast A MESSAGE FROM Again, we will be celebrating diversity Festival. This year marks 21 years of and inclusivity with an outstanding I was there at the first Feast and I’m here South Australia’s very own Queer Arts THE PREMIER OF array of artistic endeavour. Whether producing Feast’s 21st Festival. and Cultural Festival and I am so very it be queer comedy, cabaret, parties, proud and honoured to be part of SOUTH AUSTRALIA literature, film, visual art, community Many of you remember Feast 1997. making it happen. and sporting events there is something Many Feasts between then and now. Welcome to the 2017 Feast Festival, A MESSAGE FROM THE A MESSAGE FROM wonderful for all to experience. Some of you weren’t born in 1997. Thank you to all our volunteers including which I am confident will be an Welcome to you all. the Board of Feast. The Feast team outstanding success and will attract MINISTER FOR THE ARTS THE LORD MAYOR With over 100 artists and collaborators, I’ve worked alongside and our interns visitors from all over the world. across more than 30 locations and 21 is the Key to the door, a time to Lucy Bull and Tayla Martin have been Welcome to the 2017 Feast Festival. OF ADELAIDE venues, our 21st birthday celebration reflect on the past, be present and look essential to producing Feast 2017. Besides being a brilliant showcase of offering is a back to community to the future. art, culture and performance, Feast Adelaide is renowned as the Festival I hope you’re ready to party because feast for all. Thank you to Margie for producing plays a vital role in uniting the LGBTIQ City and the State Government is proud The Feast Festival has received the 21st This year Feast will produce Opening a program of arts and cultural community and highlighting its to support Feast, as an important part of birthday key! A sincere thank you to our ongoing Night Party and Picnic In The Park. All events that showcase and celebrate concerns and objectives. our Festival calendar. supporters of our organisation. It is the other events are registered. Feast’s focus South Australian artists and queer The City of Adelaide is once again proud thousands of volunteer hours, many is promoting Feast 2017s brilliant array communities. The South Australian Government Whether you're a local, or from to support and to celebrate with the corporate sponsors and our wonderful of queer arts and community. is a strong, consistent and practical interstate or overseas, I hope you LGBTIQ community this very special 21st government partners that allow us to The world is a different place from 1997 supporter of Feast and of the LGBTIQ soak up the incredibly creative and Feast Festival as we reflect on the past, continue to provide such an important I acknowledge the thousands of but as much now as then, the LGBTIQ community generally. talented LGBTIQ artists that this festival celebrate the present and look forward platform for local and emerging committed, skilled, creative Feast teams, communities still need you to show your has to offer. to a bright future. queer artists. performers, artists, board members, support by attending as many Feast In recent times, for example, we have volunteers and audiences who have events as you can. established a relationships register, We should all be incredibly proud of Over the next two weeks you will have Having clearly solidified its position contributed to 21 Feasts. I remember allowed same-sex couples to adopt our city's growing global reputation as a the great opportunity to experience, last year amongst Australia’s great artists and community leaders who are Finally, I give a big thank you, and children and access IVF and surrogacy, centre for arts and creativity. This Festival create and enjoy queer arts culture. LGBTIQA arts and cultural organisations no longer with us. I am blessed to work virtual hug, as I thank State and Local simplified the process of changing provides great opportunities for artists across Australia, the Feast Board made with this years Feast team and Artistic Government funding bodies, Feast’s one’s sex on a birth certificate, protected from all corners of the industry to shine. You will enjoy a unique festival a conscious decision to focus our 21st and Community Advisory committees. returning and new sponsors and intersex status from discrimination and experience with a socially diverse and year on local and community based partners, benefactors, artists, community signed-up South Australia to the PrEP I encourage you to get out and to inclusive community, welcoming of programming. The Feast is served. groups and audiences. HIV-prevention trial. support these great artists and this people from all walks of life. wonderful Festival. Huge congratulations to all the artists I look forward to welcoming you all to Also, in December 2016, I delivered, in The Feast Festival encourages every and arts workers who feature in this Feast 2017, celebrating 21 years. State Parliament, a formal apology to sector of the community to get involved. years’ program. A sincere thank you to the LGBTIQ community for historical I hope you all enjoy everything on offer. the community leaders at the helm of Margie Fischer discrimination in my State. the Feast Board and the small team of Producer, Feast Festival tireless staff. I extend my very best wishes to all those Jack Snelling MP Helen Sheldon attending Feast and all those seeking to Minister for the Arts Happy Feast Festival. General Manager, Feast Festival make ours a better, fairer society. Martin Haese Lord Mayor Hon Jay Weatherill MP Joshua Rayner Premier of South Australia Chair, Feast Festival 2 3 FEAST Messages OF support JOIN THE CONVERSATION @FEASTFESTIVAL #FEASTFEST A MESSAGE FROM OUR AMBASSADORS A MESSAGE FROM THE MINISTER FOR TOURISM Welcome to Feast Festival – a Feast also has three terrific ambassadors Adelaide get ready, because I am on celebration of pride and diversity. A MESSAGE FROM THE this year with AFWL star, Erin Phillips, my way to you for the SA premiere of This year marks the 21st year of this genre-defying artist, Raymond Zada, Diamonds Are For Trevor! great festival in South Australia and EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF and celebrated cabaret performer, I am honoured to be an Ambassador for I’m excited to be an Ambassador for I congratulate everyone who has Trevor Ashley supporting the birthday Feasts 21st Festival. Feast celebrates the Feast for its 21st Festival. I love that I get to celebrate Feast’s contributed to its ongoing success. ARTS SOUTH AUSTRALIA festivities. The high calibre of each diversity of LGBTI arts and communities Birthday with you all – it is a testament ambassador is testament to Feast’s and I am thrilled to add sport to the Like many of us as we grew up, our to your incredible community that this Last year crowds turned out in force Happy Birthday Feast! ongoing mission to present artistic celebration. young festival was important to affirming wonderful festival continues in such for the Festival, with the street party excellence for the LGBTIQ community. who we were and expressing our art fabulous style year after year. featuring international icon Dannii 2017 is a turbulent year for the LGBTIQ I am happy to embrace being a positive and culture. Minogue. This year’s program will community. While we have made The festival has over 100 events taking role model, from a sporting perspective I’m already looking forward to ensure plenty of people will once again significant advances in State legislation place across the city of Adelaide, of same-sex unions. I’ll be spreading Feast has had its ups and downs, now experiencing all that Adelaide and take part in South Australia’s largest this year, other challenges to achieve actively engaging many local LGBTIQ the word about Feast nationally and it’s well and truly back on track. South Australia has on offer – there LGBTIQ event. equality remain both locally and venues and spaces, which makes a great internationally and look forward to always seems to be something to enjoy..