ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CENTRE ANNUAL REPORT 2005-06 18 September 2006 Adelaide Festival Centre King William Road ADELAIDE SA 5000 GPO Box 1269 ADELAIDE SA 5001 Telephone: (08) 8216 8600 Facsimile: (08) 8212 7849 Website: www.afct.org.au ABN: 90940 220 425 Contents Our Vision: ...........................................................................................................4 Our Mission is to: ..............................................................................................4 Introduction..........................................................................................................5 Highlights of 2005-06......................................................................................6 Chairman’s Report ...........................................................................................7 Chief Executive Officer’s Report ...............................................................9 Adelaide Festival Centre Trust Act 1971.............................................10 Trustees ..............................................................................................................11 The Objectives of Arts SA ..........................................................................12 The Objectives of the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust ..................12 Objective 1.........................................................................................................14 ENGAGE........................................................................................... 14 Education Program (CentrEd)...........................................................................15 Behind the Arts Lunch Series ...........................................................................17 Objective 2.........................................................................................................18 INVITE and WELCOME.................................................................... 18 Adelaide Cabaret Festival 2006........................................................................18 Something on Saturday ....................................................................................20 Morning Melodies .............................................................................................21 Adelaide’s Big Backyard ...................................................................................22 Performing Arts Collection ................................................................................22 Visual Arts.........................................................................................................25 Solar Trees .......................................................................................................29 Business Events ...............................................................................................29 Marketing Collaborations ..................................................................................29 Keeping People Informed .................................................................................30 Disability Action Plan ........................................................................................31 Mentoring Students...........................................................................................32 Objective 3.........................................................................................................33 RESPECT and COLLABORATE...................................................... 33 Australian Performing Arts Market ....................................................................33 Cultural Diversity...............................................................................................33 Multicultural Programming ................................................................................34 Learning and Leadership ..................................................................................36 Adelaide Festival Centre Season 2005-06........................................ 36 Objective 4.........................................................................................................48 INNOVATE........................................................................................ 48 iNSPACE ..........................................................................................................48 WODLIPARRI ...................................................................................................50 Objective 5.........................................................................................................50 SERVE .............................................................................................. 50 2 Patron Services ................................................................................................50 Showbitz ...........................................................................................................50 Catering ............................................................................................................51 Car Park............................................................................................................52 Production Services..........................................................................................52 Objective 6.........................................................................................................53 FINANCE .......................................................................................... 53 BASS ................................................................................................................53 Workshops........................................................................................................54 Development.....................................................................................................55 Risk Management.............................................................................................58 Fraud ................................................................................................................58 Freedom of Information ....................................................................................58 Energy Efficiency Action Plan ...........................................................................59 Account Payment Performance 2005-06 ..........................................................60 Asbestos Management .....................................................................................60 Our People ........................................................................................ 61 3 Our Vision: The Adelaide Festival Centre is considered one of the world’s best performing arts centres. Our Mission is to: Provide leadership and a visible focus for development and collaboration in the arts in South Australia. Engage with people and create opportunities to learn. Be focused on creative innovation. Work with, welcome and be accessible to the whole community. Provide outstanding customer service. 4 Introduction The Festival Centre was established as a statutory authority under the Adelaide Festival Centre Trust Act 1971 and charged with the responsibility for encouraging and facilitating artistic, cultural and performing arts activities throughout South Australia, as well as maintaining and improving the building and facilities of the Festival Centre complex. The Festival Centre is the creative heart of South Australia delivering artistic, educational, social and economic outcomes for locals and visitors from around Australia and the world. Our philosophy is one of excellence, access, learning and sustainability. Our corporate plan focuses on innovation, facilitation, collaboration and education, as the means of delivering these outcomes. At the Adelaide Festival Centre, we are driven by a passionate belief in the arts. We believe that all people have a need and the right to participate in arts and culture to provide opportunities for creative expression and a deeper understanding of the world we live in. We are proud of our leadership role within the Australian and international arts sector and of our contribution to a vibrant and healthy community. We respect our customers and value their feedback. We value and support our staff and as a team, in collaboration with other artists and arts organisations, we constantly strive to improve our work. We are working very hard to be more relevant to more people and to increase our visitor numbers dramatically through significantly increased programming. We want more people to find us more relevant and to visit us more often. Free and low-cost programming, including Something on Saturday for children aged three to ten and their families, Morning Melodies, an affordable day-time program, and a comprehensive visual arts program, continues to be a cornerstone of what we do as do our learning opportunities – both curriculum-based learning for students and informal learning activities. The Festival Centre is committed to establishing closer links with young people recognising that they are our audiences of the future. We have recently launched, with seed funding from the Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation, a Young Friends Scheme offering activities and events for young people to enjoy creative activities with each other, and Student Tix, a program offering discount tickets to full-time students. Through a combination of a renewed artistic and programming vision and partnerships with government, tourism, the arts sector and business we believe we can make a larger contribution