Wednesday, March 29, 2006

higher ground

HIGHER GROUND (274a Rundle St: ex IM
AX premises)


Character Jam Every Thursday 7 – 10:30pm $5 entry (free gourmet toastie) Meet the wacky and the wonderful in this cabaret style setting!

Full of comedy, tragedy, drama, action, love, spite, anger, insanity, lust, peace…

Jazz Brunch Every Sunday from 10am Bloody Mary $7Coffee $2.80Tea $2.50Fresh Juice $3 Fresh Filled Croissant from $5.50Crisp Bacon Sandwich $6

Delicious Muesli $5

Feed the hair of your dog with all day breakfast and live jazz.

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Finalists Announced for SA Short Screen Awards 2006 - screenings

SA’s Premier Competition for Emerging Filmmakers

The Media Resource Centre (MRC) announced today the finalists for the 2006 SA Short Screen Awards, proudly driven by Toyota.  The SA Short Screen Awards (SASSA) is SA’s premier competition for local emerging filmmakers, with prizes for thirteen different genre and craft categories.  The finalists for the top prize of Best Film range from animation to drama to comedy, with filmmakers working on budgets from $500 to $200,000 and the ages of the directors ranging from 20 years old up to 50. The five finalists for 2006 are:

Azadi – Directed by Anthony Maras
Train Runner – Directed by Trevor Wright
Orange Lane - Directed by Jessica Asz
Carnivore Reflux – Directed by Eddie White & James Calvert
Belzhik – Directed by Nima Nabili Rad

The red carpet rolls out on Friday 21 April for the Black Tie Gala Awards Night, with Master of Ceremonies, SBS’ Movie Show host Jaimie Leonarder.

Some of these films have achieved international success with Azadi being screened at over ten international film festivals and Carnivore Reflux a finalist at this years’ Tropfest. However, many films will be receiving their world premiere at The Best Of the SA Short Screen Awards which are open to the public and will be held at the Mercury Cinema over 3 nights on 7, 14, 15 April at 7.30pm. Tickets for all screenings can be purchased in advance from the MRC or from the Mercury Cinema on the night. All tickets $9. Limited tickets are available for the Gala Awards Night, $17.  
Call 8410 0979 for details.

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Tuesday, March 28, 2006

HENRY MOORE from 4 apr

Gallery de la Catessen 9 Anster Street, Adelaide 12-4pm, Tues-Fri
0429 098 769
Announcing the launch of an exhibition of works by local artist -
HENRY MOORE.
6:30-8pm, Tuesday April 4th.
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BAKEHOUSE SEASON 2006

*April 21 to  May 6

Adult Entertainment by George F. Walker.

Comedy/Drama

An affair, a favour, a drunk and a ?……………………………..

Featuring Peter Green, Irena Dangov, Nathaniel Davison and Jaqueline Cooke.


*May 12 to27
The Night Before Christmas by Anthony Neilson.
A comic stab at the increasing commercialization of Christmas, the loss of innocence and an invitation on a wicked sleigh ride through it all.

Featuring Nathaniel Davison, Duncan Graham, Sarah Hund and Adrianna Bonaccurso.

 *June 2 to 17

Clowns Macbeth By Wayne Anthoney.

A light hearted version of Shakespeare’s Macbeth for 4 clowns.
Featuring  Tamara Lee, Eugene Suleau, Nathan O’Keefe and Wayne Anthoney.
*June 28 to July 15
 (presented byUnseen Theatre Company)

“Jingo”

Discworld Goes to War!
Another story from the best-selling pen of Terry Pratchett, adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs
*July 21 to. Aug 5
 Green D Men by Troy Mundy.
 A dance piece choreographed by Troy Mundy which asks
 “Do we slowly lose the abilities of our 5 senses through time as we evolve technologically?”
 *August 11 to 26 at 8pm

Arabian Nights by Roland Schimmelpfennig.

Featuring a cast to be advised from a workshop audition process.

 *September 1 to 16

Sanctuary by David Williamson   (Director and cast to be advised)

 *September 22,23,27,28,29,30. October 4,5,6,7 at 8pm
Just Like That  by Stephen House.
 A new play about a chance encounter, a sweet memory from the past and the choices human beings make in life.
Featuring Jacqy Phillips - and yet to be cast / confirmed 2 top Adelaide male actors
 *October 11 to 28
(Presented by Unseen Theatre Company)
(Play to be advised)
Another story from the best-selling pen of Terry Pratchett, adapted for the stage by Stephen Briggs
*November 3 to 18 at 8pm
Norway Today by Igor Bauersima.

Featuring Edward White and Antje Guenther.

A comedy about the meaning and meaningless of life; a suicide story that gives hope; an egotistical journey that leads to the other.
 *November 24 to December 9 at 8pm.
The Drawer Boy by Michael Healey.

Featuring Peter Green and Nathan O’Keefe

 An uplifting fable about the power of storytelling and friendship

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Stephanie Crase, Gray Hawk, Petra de Mooy and Craig English, Graham Fransella and Robert Jacks, Hilary Crawford

Art Images Gallery invites you and your friends to an exhibition of recent paintings by
 
Stephanie Crase
also
an exhibition of furniture by Gray Hawk, Petra de Mooy and Craig English
 
works on paper by Graham Fransella and Robert Jacks
 
and glass by Hilary Crawford
to be opened by Mr Mariano De Duonni Principal, Hassell, Adelaide
 
Friday 7 April 2006 at 6.00pm
 
32 The Parade Norwood SA 5067 Ph 08 8363 0806
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launch of HeadQuarters

 launch of HeadQuarters - a collective studio space that houses Unreasonable Adults.
Wednesday 12 April @ 15 Kingston Avenue, Richmond
Launched by Greg Mackie (Executive Director, Arts SA)
Unreasonable Adults is a hybrid performance company made up of 5 core ensemble members (Caroline Daish, Stephen Noonan, Kerrin Rowlands, Jason Sweeney and Julie Vulcan). Artistically led by Jason, this group has evolved from over a decade of national and international performance, new media, sound art and live art practices, residencies and works. We are proud to be based in South Australia and we want to share our new space with you.
HeadQuarters also houses the studios of Silvertrace, Road Movie, Room One Productions and Storyland Media. The space is available for hire for screenings, rehearsals, film/photo
shoots and small-scale events.
This night will also be the launch of our Unreasonable Adults program for the rest of the year and early 2007.
 From 6-7pm there will be screenings and performances by all HeadQuarters artists, including a micro-performance by Unreasonable Adults.
 From 7-9pm, Greg Mackie (Executive Director, Arts SA) will officially launch the space, followed by drinks and music.
Please email your rsvp by Monday 10 April to dubhustler@va.com.au - and let us know whether you will be arriving at 6pm or 7pm (for seating capacity and catering purposes).
Thanks - and look forward to seeing you!
We would like to thank City of West Torrens and Laminex for their fantastic support.
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ADELAIDE CINÉMATHÈQUE from 3 apr

A stirring mixture of the new and the old in film, from the groundbreaking filmmakers of today to the rarely seen films by acknowledged great filmmakers of the past, from documentary to drama to animation, Cinémathèque is Adelaide’s only curated program of the finest, rarest and most unusual filmmaking available.

Opening this year on Monday 3 April, Cinémathèque screens two nights a week (Mondays and Thursdays) at the Mercury Cinema till the end of the year.

Download Calendar.

Opening night: 7:30 Mon 3 April.

DARWIN’S NIGHTMARE (M)

Screened to acclaim at the Sydney Film Festival (FIPRESCI Award) and Melbourne International Film Festival, this film tells the story of the devastating effect on the people of Tanzania following the release into Lake Victoria for commercial harvesting of the voracious Nile Perch.

The director Hubert Sauper says:

In Darwin’s Nightmare I tried to transform the bizarre success story of a fish and the ephemeral boom around this “fittest” animal into an ironic, frightening allegory for what is called the New World Order. I could make the same kind of movie in Sierra Leone, only the fish would be diamonds, in Honduras, bananas, and in Libya, Nigeria or Angola, crude oil. Most of us I guess, know about the destructive mechanisms of our time, but we cannot fully picture them.

The film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at this year’s Academy Awards. Home Page

7:30 Thurs 6 April

GRIZZLY MAN (M)

Werner Herzog’s latest docudrama uses footage shot by bear lover Timothy Treadwell. Herzog makes relevant to the viewer the fatal passion/madness of Treadwell.

Winner at Sundance and winner of 10 other major Awards. Home Page

7:30 Mon 10 April

The Saddest Music in the World

Guy Maddin’s newest film is everything one might expect from one of cinema’s most creative and clever auteurs. Adelaides’s only screening. Maddin is the maker of Archangel (screened last year in the Mercury). Starring Isabella Rossellini.

7:30 Thurs 13 April

Peter Greenaway’s The Falls Part I

7:30 Mon 17 April

Peter Greenaway’s The Falls Part II

Web links: Cinémathèque home / Cinémathèque at the Mercury / Film Annotations / Download Calendar

Cinémathèque Passes:

4 session pass: $30 / $20

12 session pass: $65 / $48

Season pass: $85 / $70

ph 84101934
Mercury Cinema
13 Morphett St. City

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INDIVISION SCREENINGS 31 mar-1apr

IndiVision is aimed at energising low-budget filmmaking in Australia, the IndiVision Screenings present the best international low-budget cinema to inspire Australian filmmakers and audiences.

 

Indivision Tickets:

$11 per session / $9 (conc)

$20 weekend pass

ph 84101934
Mercury Cinema
13 Morphett St. City

 

 

 

Down to the Bone Friday 31 March 8.15pm. (18+)
Keane Saturday 1 April 4.00pm (18+)
Close to Home Saturday 1 April 7.30pm (18+)

Darwin's Nightmare

Indivision Site

IndiVision Seminar Friday 31 March 7.30pm with Megan Simpson Huberman, director of the AFC’s IndiVision Project Lab, and filmmakers from The Caterpillar Wish, a 2005 IndiVision Lab feature, produced in South Australia.

 

Down to the Bone - 8:15 Fri 31 March

USA 2004 104 min Mini DV(18+) Australian Premiere
Dir: Debra Granik, Budget AUD$665,000, Shoot 24 days; 34 crew

More info >

‘Down to the Bone is the kind of movie most independent films strive in vain to be: a small, beautifully faceted gem.’ – New York Times

Awards & festivals Director’s Award Sundance 2004; Special Jury Prize Performance Sundance 2004

Keane - 4:00 Saturday 1 April

USA 2004 100 min 35mm (18+)
Dir: Lodge Kerrigan; Producers Andrew Fierberg, Stephen Soderbergh; Budget AUD$1.35 mil; Shoot 33 days; 18 crew

More info >

Ferociously subjective and like an express train to the skull, Keane is a deeply unsettling and utterly singular film.

“Kerrigan is without peer at plumbing the violence of the mind. Keane means to shakes us, and does.” Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

Awards & festivals Directors’ Fortnight Cannes, Toronto, Telluride

Close to Home - 7.30pm Saturday 1 April

Israel 2005 90 min HD (18+) Australian Premiere
Dir: Vidi Bilu, Dalia Hager; Budget AUD$875k; Shoot 21 days; 23 crew

More info >

“Highly accessible pic, which mixes humor, tragedy, tenderness and political acumen into a well-observed coming-of-age format.”
Derek Elley

Awards & festivals Berlin, Jerusalem

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Sunday April 2nd Make Poverty History day of action

A reminder that Sunday April 2nd (next weekend) is the first Make Poverty History day of action for 2006. So dust off those white bands and get involved. See details below of the main event in
Adelaide being organised by the Make Poverty History coalition. This event focuses on the aid budget and is the first of 2 main days of action for the year. The next major day will be on November 17 – in the lead up to the meeting of the G20 Finance Ministers in Melbourne
 ‘Treasurer Hunt  - The Amazing Race Against Poverty’ Sunday April 2 – 1.00pm Hindmarsh Square Decipher clues. Race against time. Fill the Aid-o-meter and give the Treasurer our dream aid package! Like the Amazing Race TV show, your team of 3-4 will be given a set of cryptic clues. Each clue represents one of the Millennium Development Goals. Decipher the clue, find the location in your city centre, collect the token and when you’ve got all seven, race back to HQ and fill the aid-o-meter with your MDG tokens. Are you up to the challenge?  Get a team together and register today at www.makepovertyhistory.com.au  

See you all there for some political fun with Peter Costello

Join the campaign to MAKEPOVERTYHISTORY in 2005. Visit http://www.oxfam.org.au/campaigns  to get involved.

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LAST CHANCE TO CATCH THE GREEN SHEEP THIS SEASON!

Due to a sell-out season, Windmill Performing Arts are very excited to announce that two more sessions of The Green Sheep in Adelaide!
Date: Saturday 10 June
Times: 10am and 1.30pm
Venue: The State Library of South Australia, North Terrace, Adelaide
Tickets are available from 9am Wed 29th March through BASS 131 246, http://www.bass.net.au/events/sheep.php
If you haven’t got your tickets already then make sure you get in fast! Tickets will sell out.
Don’t miss out on this “cult classic” for children and toddlers!
The Green Sheep is also touring to The City of Playford (Elizabeth) 29 June - 1 July.
For all tickets enquiries, please call 8265 0338.
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