Wednesday, May 31, 2006

jive highlights

Friday 2nd June THE CASIO BROTHERS, DES PERES, SUPAPHATASS  Doors 8pm - $10
Saturday 3rd June BLUEBOTTLE KISS, SPECIAL PATROL, NO THROUGH ROAD Doors 8pm - $12 @ venuetix or $15 at the door
JIVE    181 Hindley Street Adelaide SA 5000 PH: 8211 6683
10/6: Jen Cloher & The Endless Sea, Andrew Morris, Laura Jean
17/6: The Dumb Earth Album Launch
23/6: Special Patrol, Little Ice Age, The Battery Kids, The Unspoken Things
16/7: Don Walker Album Launch
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Vitalstatistix news

Master Classes with Netta Yashchin

Masterclasses for emerging/established actors and for dance/movement practitioners are being offered by Netta Yashchin and Vitalstatistix from 13 to 22 June.  An opportunity to expand the breadth and depth of your craft with a leading practitioner and teacher.  Limited places available, for details and booking form contact admin@vitalstatistix.com.au

 A New Sponsor for Vitalstatistix
“Public Trustee” means wills and estates to most people and it’s not so well-known that the Public Trustee manages the financial affairs of over 3,500 living clients, many of them with a disability.  “Public Trustee” now also means Major Sponsor for the next Vitalstatistix show, Unspoken which portrays the challenges and the love in families with disabled children - one of the kind of families that the Public Trustee deals with on a daily basis.
 Unspoken by Rebecca Clarke 5 to 8 July
The premiere season of Unspoken received rave reviews, won Best Independent Production and Best Newcomer at the 2005 Sydney Theatre Awards, and was nominated for the 2006 NSW Premier’s New Writing Award.
An exceptional piece of theatre, joyful and generous, rightly described as ‘one of those rare works that triumphantly affirms both art and life’.
Unspoken Adelaide Season: 5 to 8 Jul 8pm (5 & 6 July 1pm)
Vitalstatistix Waterside.  Tickets $20/$15: phone 8447 6211 to book.
 Adelaide Theatre Guide Curtain Call Awards
The Vitalstatistix production of Vanessa Bates’ Checklist for an Armed Robber has been nominated for Best Show – Drama and Best Technical.  Gala & Awards Dinner Saturday 22 July, visit www.theatreguide.com.au for full details.

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Vitalstatistix National Women’s Theatre
Waterside Worker’s Hall, 11 Nile Street, PORT ADELAIDE SA 5000  www.vitalstatistix.com.au   Phone +61 8 8447 6211
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CLASSICAL CHORAL MASTERPIECES - Adelaide University Choral Society 17 jun

The Adelaide University Choral Society is proud to present its major orchestral concert for 2006: Haydn’s triumphant Nelson Mass, together with Mozart’s youthful Litaniae Lauretanae (K.195).

The choir will be joined by a stellar line-up of soloists, featuring coloratura soprano Teresa La Rocca, who dazzled Adelaide audiences in the 2005 Bel Canto production of Lucia di Lammermoor, and Sally-Anne Russell, widely acclaimed as one of Australia’s finest mezzo sopranos.
AUCS is delighted to welcome both Teresa and Sally-Anne back home to Adelaide for this special concert.  They will be joined by highly accomplished local favourites Tasso Bouyessis (tenor) and Andrew Turner (baritone).
An orchestra led by concert master Carolyn Lam will complement the choir and soloists in the beautiful St Francis Xavier Cathedral.
AUCS was formed in 1960 with students and staff from the University of Adelaide, and other singing enthusiasts from around the city.  Earlier this year, AUCS hosted the national intervarsity choral festival (held in Adelaide about once every seven years).
The choir performs two or three full choir concerts each year, and has recently begun to extend its program to regional South Australia, with smaller group performances at Sevenhill and as part of the Coriole Live concert series in 2005.

What:        Haydn Nelson Mass
Where:        St Francis Xavier Cathedral, Victoria Square, Adelaide
When:        Saturday 17 June 2006, 8:00 pm
Tickets:        Available from Venue Tix (8225 8888) or at the door
                $25 (adults), $20 (students, concession, Friends of the Barr Smith Library),
                $15 (secondary students)

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AKIRA AKIRA * DOMINIC REDFERN * WILKINS HILL at the EAF

EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION
OPENS 6PM THURSDAY 1 JUNE
GALLERY TALKS 3.30PM FRIDAY 2 JUNE
TO 1 JULY TUES-FRI 11-5, SAT 2-5
AKIRA AKIRA paint that never dries
Akira Akira is an Adelaide-based emerging artist and curator who recently graduated from the SA School of Art, University of South Australia. He has been very active on the contemporary art scene in Adelaide and has had several solo exhibitions as well as a number of group exhibitions in Adelaide, Perth and Miami.
“paint that never dries” is an investigation into the notion of surface through the ideas evolving from highly viscous substances and particular characteristics of paint. Through incorporating two distinct phenomena of spillage and tidal wave with the reduced fluidity, continuous malleability and potentiality found in the idea of high viscous paint that never dries, Akira explores ways of expanding the notion of surface and contemplates possible implications of the fluid substances that are ’slow’.
This exhibition has been assisted by The Helpmann Academy, Adelaide.
DOMINIC REDFERN OW!
Melbourne-based artist, Dominic Redfern, uses his own image in splintered narratives to question the truth of video. Utilising cinematic and home video modes of representation to operate in the gap between self-portraiture, fiction and document, his work draws the attention of audiences to the artifice of screen language. Whilst always keeping a sense of humour his work gives _expression to contemporary anxieties surrounding the malevolent and angst-ridden energies that attend the hyper-real space of video.
During the last 12 months Dominic’s work has been shown widely, nationally and internationally, including at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, and in the US, Germany, UK, Turkey and Sweden. In July 2003, he travelled to Seoul to take part in ‘Parallel’, an exchange project involving young Korean and Australian artists, and spent November 2003 to February 2004 as Artist in Residence at the Australia Council Studio in Santa Monica, Los Angeles. In 2005 he travelled to Thailand to undertake a residency in Bangkok where his work was shown as part of the Thailand New Media Arts Festival. Dominic’s art practice is informed by his work as a Lecturer in Video at the School of Art at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT).
WILKINS HILL Sunny & Kids are Food
Wilkins Hill live and work in Brisbane. Their practice is predominantly installation based, incorporating sculpture, photography, video, sound and text. They are exhibiting two works at EAF including the photographic series ‘Kids are Food’ (2006) and the video installation ‘Sunny’ (2006).
This project was sponsored by NAVA’s Visual and Craft Artist’s Grant, managed by NAVA with financial assistance from the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council and private donations.
EXPERIMENTAL ART FOUNDATION
Lion Arts Centre, North Terrace (West End), Adelaide, South Australia * +61 8 82117505 * eaf@eaf.asn.au  * www.eaf.asn.au
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Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Conversations (Me…You…Us Together) Presented by Reconciliation SA. 4 jun

Conversations… is a chance to relax, refresh and reflect on the journey of reconciliation with ambient music throughout the afternoon by Baron Burns. 
Guest speakers include:

  • Glenn Giles, ANTaR SA
  • David Roberts, Head of Unaipon School, University of South Australia
  • Gerald McBride, Social Economist, University of South Australia

 Date:      Sunday 4th June
When:    2.15pm – 5.00pm
Venue:   Governor Hindmarsh
Contact: Louise Carnell, the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre
               Phone:  (08) 8302 0371               Fax:  (08) 8302 0420               Email: louise.carnell@unisa.edu.au

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Free and Fairer Trade: can trade be both free and equitable in a global economy? 6 jun

International alert series: the BIG issues
Free and Fairer Trade: can trade be both free and equitable in a global economy?
 
Jointly presented by World Vision Australia and AusAID
  
Speakers with very different perspectives will probe the thorny question of how to guarantee a free trade system with benefits for all. Mr Andrew Stoler, former Deputy Director–General of the World Trade Organisation; Mr Tim Harcourt, Chief Economist, Australian Trade Commission; and, Dr Patricia Ranald, Principal Policy Officer at the Public Interest Advocacy Centre, will discuss what is at stake, the barriers and the opportunities, and what is to be gained out of our global trade approach.  
 
Among the questions to be probed are: How do the choices we make about what we eat and how we live affect the trade, livelihoods and wellbeing of poor people? What are the things we can do in everyday life to improve outcomes for the less fortunate in our global community? How is the Australian government involved in world trade negotiations and at the Doha Round of the WTO and what role are NGOs playing in influencing the decision makers? And what can developing countries do?
  
A Schools Alert Forum will be held prior to this event from 4.00pm – 5.00pm at the same venue.  This is an informal session enabling senior students from schools around Adelaide to learn about and probe the issues raised.  Students wishing to attend should register via the Hawke Centre web site or RSVP phone line.
 
Date:      Tuesday 6th June
When:    5.15pm for 5.30pm start
Venue:   Adelaide Town Hall
Contact: Louise Carnell, the Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre

               Phone:  (08) 8302 0371               Fax:  (08) 8302 0420               Email: louise.carnell@unisa.edu.au

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Solstice Dinner

The St Marys Group invites you to a Solstice Dinner hosted by the Unley Group of Oxfam Australia

Format:                       Pre-dinner drinks, followed by turkey dinner and Christmas pudding

Location:           Unley Citizens Centre, 18 Arthur Street, Unley
 Time:                 Saturday, 24 June 2006        at 7 pm
 What to bring:    Dinner drinks
  Tables:              8 to 10 (maximum) per table
 Cost:                  $35 per person—pay at the door
 To book:             Table organisers please contact Jenny Buchhorn, 8277 5975, to book a table

 Raffle Funds raised will support Oxfam Australia’s nutrition project in East Timor

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Urgent Refugee Rally Sunday 4th June 1pm

On the 13th June the Federal Government will vote to again lock refugee children in detention. If you believe this to be unacceptable, please come along and let the government know Australia’s Shame! Not Again!
Sunday 4th June  1pm   Parliament House, North Adelaide

Contact:  Sarah Hanson-Young, Amnesty International Australia  sant@amnesty.org.au       Phone: (08) 8110 8100

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Australian Refugee Association Charity Film Nights – Da Vinci Code

Date:       Sunday 4th&11th June

When:     6pm

Venue:    Chelsea Cinema, Kensington Road, Kensington Park
Contact:  please phone ARA on 8354 2951 or visit ARA at 304 Henley Beach Road, Underdale during business hours.

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ARA Annual Charity Quiz Night 16 jun

The Australian Refugee Association (ARA) Quiz Night is coming around quickly and will be bigger and better than last year’s sold out event. As you know ARA relies upon community support so that we can assist refugees and asylum seekers to settle in and become part of the community. Your participation in our main fundraising event for the year is much appreciated and needed. 
Friday 16th June,   7pm       Unley High School Hall, Kitchener Street Netherby 
$15 per person (tables of 8)
Contact:   Nikki Marcel, Promotions Manager
               Australian Refugee Association Inc    Phone: (08) 8354 2951  Email:   reception@ausref.net
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