what’s on in Adelaide SA

Sunday Spectrum, Adelaide Festival Centre’s fine music program, returns after a winter sojourn to announce its third series, from 11 November 2007 – 24 February 2008. Sunday Spectrum is a unique program held in the Festival Centre’s Artspace every Sunday from 2pm – 3:30pm (performances begin at 2:30pm), where each week the musical performance is specially themed around the current visual art exhibition.

Thanks to sponsorship by Foster Group, guests will also be able to enjoy a complimentary glass of red or white wine each week, from popular wine brands Penfolds, Rosemount, Fisher’s Circle and Wolf Blass. This will be available from 2pm, or after the performance until 4pm.

Performance Theme: Eclectic Strings

Visual Art Exhibition: Momentum by Helpmann Academy Mentorship Artists
An exhibition of works by young visual arts recipients of the Helpmann’s Optus Mentorship Scheme who have been mentored by professionals in the arts industry. Work on display includes sculpture, drawing, jewellery, printmaking and painting.

               
·  11th Nov – Jody Fisher and Ben Brakenridge  Join Jody and Ben for a varied program of solo and duo works on classical guitar from the Renaissance, right through to the heart of romantic Spain, and even music from the East! In association with Helpmann Academy.              
                                                                

Visual Art Exhibition: Artificial Afrika by Vernon Reid  As part of the Adelaide International Guitar Festival 

With roots deep in New York’s jazz/ funk/ punk scene, Vernon Reid has turned his hand to a new media installation of poignant power. Intellectually exploring his African-American identity, Reid has created a fast-moving visually arresting video work accompanied by his own soundtrack. His images transform and morph from one to another in an astounding array that defies simple interpretation: an experience of sound, vision and energy.
 
· 18th Nov – Bouzouki Lounge Come and take an intriguing and intoxicating musical ride that will take you from the Casbah and the Coffee House to the Bouzouki Lounge! Featuring Con Dalagiorgos, Keith Preston, Jim Giannou, Dimitri Dalagiorgos and friends. 

· 25th Nov – Caliente Caliente play their own blend of Brazilian music, combining samba, bossa nova, baião and choro with jazz and original compositions, featuring classical guitars and cavaquinho (a small 4 stringed ukelele) as the core instrumentation. With Alain Valodze and Mike Bevan (7 string guitars), Dylan Woolcock (mandolin), Sharon Vicars (flautist), Gilli Atkinson (percussion) and Charmaine Jones (vocals). 

· 2nd Dec – Hugh Stuckey Quartet Drawing on the harmonies and textures of the European style of jazz and South American rhythms, Hugh Stuckey (guitar), Chris Soole (saxophone), Lyndon Gray (double bass) and Josh Baldwin (drums) present an afternoon of original music. In association with Helpmann Academy.

Art & Heritage Collections in collaboration with the School of Agriculture, Food and Wine and Property Services at the Waite Campus invite you to the launch of the Cultural Illumination - Keith Phillips: Selected photographic works from the University of Adelaide Visual Art Collection on
Thursday 8th November, from 4:30 to 6pm in the Charles Hawker Conference Centre of the University’s Waite Campus.
The Illumination will be launched by Professor Geoff Fincher, Director, Waite Campus and Deputy CEO of the Australian Centre for Plant Functional Genomics, the University of Adelaide.

Keith Phillips (1989-1973) was the official photographer for the University of Adelaide and the Waite Agricultural Research Institute from 1945-1963. During his time at the University, he produced a 16mm movie of the University to attract staff from the United Kingdom after World War II, and accompanied the University expeditions to the Pearson Islands and Central Australia. Phillips’ photographic work at the Waite included sites and events as well as scientific photography. Phillips was an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society and an Artiste of the Federation International de l’Art Photographique.

Phillips work will also be featured in the upcoming exhibition at the Art Gallery of South Australia - A Century in Focus: South Australian Photography 1840s - 1940s, from 9th November 2007 - 28th January 2008.

Please take this opportunity to visit the University’s beautiful and scenic Waite Campus and join in celebrating the stunning photographs by one of South Australia’s major mid 20th century photographers.

The event is free and everyone is welcome.

Please block out space in your diaries for our end of year event on November 26th from 6-8pm. The event will also take place at the Waite Campus… More details to follow soon

Thursday 22 to Sunday 25 November 7.30pm Departure from Waterside, 11 Nile Street, Port Adelaide
Vitalstatistix Theatre Company and Kurruru Indigenous Youth Performing Arts, both based in Port Adelaide, have jointly created Second to None, a celebration of the history of Port Adelaide, as new development takes The Port into the next stage of its history.
Second To None takes its name and its inspiration from the translation of the Latin motto Haud Pluribus Impar in the 1856 Port Adelaide Coat of Arms, which depicts a sailor and an Aboriginal man, representing the two communities that most clearly define the unique and distinctive character of the oldest working community in South Australia .
Second to None is a collaboration between directors Maude Davey, Sasha Zahra, Kaurna Cultural Director Karl Telfer and Cultural Director Diat Alferink (, Kurruru), leading a team of highly skilled indigenous and non-indigenous artists, based on an original concept by Janine Peacock.
At the heart of Second to None are stories of dispossession, resistance and resilience, industrialisation and the recognition that comes through shared participation in work. Tickets $25 (Concession $15) from Vitalstatistix 8447 6211

THE LAST DRAG:
This is the last night in the history of Australia that one is allowed to smoke in a pub…
There will be:Two smoking original musical acts
Smoke (the movie) showing on the big screen behind them
Cigarette girls
A free cigarette with every drink
A massive cigarette auction
Smoking jackets and cigars highly encouraged
A smoke machine in the front bar non-smoking section…

The Adelaide Festival Centre and Le Centre International de Créations Théâtres  (CICT) proudly present the

internationally acclaimed production of Sizwe Banzi is Dead in the Space Theatre from 6 - 17 November.

Directed by the legendary Peter Brook, one of the great figures of contemporary theatre, Sizwe Banzi is

Dead highlights the struggle of black workers during the apartheid era and is a humorous production of

beautiful simplicity. Sizwe Banzi is Dead focuses on themes of identity, humanity, truth and survival.  Peter

Brook’s moving, funny and deeply engaging production features Habib Dembélé, writer and political activist

who stood as a presidential candidate for the Republic of Mali, and Pitcho Womba Konga, a celebrated

rapper and hip-hop artist from the Congo.

Sizwe Banzi is Dead is the second of three ‘Township Plays’ created by Athol Fugard with John Kani and

Winston Ntshona.  These plays are based on the everyday life of the urban black community in South Africa

during Apartheid.  Sizwe Banzi is Dead began its life in the townships before touring the world to massive

critical and popular acclaim.  Created at a time when every black South African over the age of 16 was

required to carry an identity book, Sizwe Banzi is Dead was first performed in 1972, eight years after

Nelson Mandela was imprisoned.

Venue: Adelaide Festival Centre - Space Theatre

Dates: 6-10,13-17 Nov at 8pm / 7,10,14,17 Nov at 2pm

Cost: Adult $80,Conc.$65,Student $30,Groups (10+) $65

Bookings: BASS on 131 246 or online www.bass.net.au

  www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au

Syntony  Alchemy – Concert Series 2007   Water

Saturday 17th November, 8pm

Bethlehem Lutheran Church ,

Tickets $25/$15 (concession)   Book at BASS 131 246 (service fees apply) or purchase at the door

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Motets from “Song of Songs”

Quentin Grant: in the dying of the rain

Becky Llewellyn: Carol of the Font

Carl Crossin: “…a wave in the River of Darkness and Light” (Premiere)

Arvo Pärt: An den Wassen zu Babel

www.syntony.org

The Your Rights at Work Campaign are looking for volunteers to help leaflet the Adelaide train station in Adelaide every Thursday and Friday for the next five weeks. 

The times are : 7.30am to 9am , and  5 pm  to 6pm. 

The dates are: Thurs 1^st and  Fri 2^nd Nov,  Thurs 8^th and  Fri 9^th Nov,  

Thurs 15^th and  Fri 16^th  Nov    &   Thurs 22^nd and Fri 23^rd Nov.

If you would like to help get rid of Workchoices and the Howard Govt and can make any of the dates/times above, please contact Kayti Murphy at Sa Unions on 8279 2222 or e-mail kmurphy@saunions.org.au