Tag: Green Room
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Green Room: Adelaide Festival Centre closure, new gig for Conservatorium director
Adelaide Film Festival returns An Adelaide-made 80s thriller and a documentary capturing the final journey of an Australian film legend are among the first titles confirmed for the 2025 Adelaide Film Festival program. Journey Home, David Gulpilil by director Maggie Miles and Trisha Morton-Thomas will make its world premiere at the festival, continuing the festival’s…
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Green Room: New leader for Theatre Republic, Stella Prize longlist, canine photography
Theatre Republic Steels itself Independent South Australian theatre company has named award-winning playwright and dramaturg Emily Steel as its new artistic director. Since it was founded in 2018 Theatre Republic has become an important player in the local arts landscape, giving a platform to new, original work and an important outlet and sandpit for local…
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Green Room: Awe-some art, jazz meets hip-hop
Art in nature Awe is the theme of 2024 Nature Festival, which this week launched a line-up of more than 400 events ranging from folk music in a forest to seven-minute “awe talks” at the Art Gallery of South Australia. The festival will take place across the state from September 28 until October 13. One…
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Green Room: Dance opportunity, Queen’s upgrade, cabaret callout
Wanted: one dancer Australian Dance Theatre is seeking a new artist to join its current ensemble of five professional dancers. Daniel Riley, artistic director the Adelaide-based company, says roles for company dancers are “incredibly rare” in Australia’s contemporary dance sector. “I know that there’s an exciting generation of artists emerging and practising their craft all…
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Vitalstatistix welcomes new artistic director
Greer Holmes, a producer, curator and artist who has worked with a range of arts companies and independent artists across Australia, has previously held the roles of general manager / CEO (2009-2011) and executive producer (2021) at Vitals. She returned to the organisation in April this year as creative producer, and now becomes its eighth…
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Green Room: Choirs on a high, art prizes, poster callout
Soaring success While sport is hogging the spotlight ahead of the upcoming Olympic Games, two Adelaide choirs have just had their golden moment on the world stage with impressive wins in separate competitions in Aotearoa New Zealand and France. For the Festival Statesmen Chorus, formed 15 years ago by Jonathan Bligh as a way for…
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Green Room: SALA sees the light, celebrating excellence
All set for SALA News of a new SALA hub to be based at ILA in Light Square accompanied the launch of the festival’s program online this week. Taking over from the Queen’s Theatre, which has served as SALA’s hub in recent years, ILA will host several workshops and events including the SALA slide night…
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Green Room: She Speaks, ‘unruly’ art, back on the bus
She Speaks, we listen Female composers have long been under-represented on concert programs but their voices will take centre-stage during a diverse series of concerts being presented this weekend by the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. The She Speaks series is now in its third year and the 2024 program curated by composers Anne Cawrse and Belinda…
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Green Room: ‘The longer you look the more Moore you see’
Tom Moore’s ‘Dandy Lion’ takes the prize Renowned Adelaide glass artist Tom Moore has scooped the $20,000 FUSE Glass Prize with a work described by the judging panel as a “virtuosic composition of beguiling characters”. Moore is known for his elaborate and often humorous glass sculptures featuring hybrid life forms, and the panel said his…
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Green Room: Rueful Ben, Blak Futures, The Art of Dying
Benjamin’s Concrete Connection Benjamin Roberts, a familiar face to many music lovers as the founder of the Ukulele Death Squad and The Timbers, is hitting the streets of Adelaide’s CBD – all 577 of them – in support of mental health. The self-described “Australian folk balladeer” has dubbed his fundraising journey The Concrete Connection Project…