Feast's Light Square
May 24th 2010 15:16
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Feast 2010
Monday 24th May 2010
Feast Launches 2010 Theme and Poster
Feast in Light Square, it's a no-brainer really. Feast, Adelaide's queer community festival has announced its 2010 theme Our Place, launched its 2010 poster a bubbly pink triangle and announced the plan for Feast to base its performance and entertainment venue in Light Square, a new possie within the city mile.
Although the Festival is spreading the word that it's creating an Australian first by creating a Hub, that's just spin - and historically wrong spin at that if you have followed the Queers arts of the East Coast, which Adelaide tends to ignore; but not to worry, the Feast Festival is stepping up somewhat and trying harder to be more than a curiously positioned local roundabout, more of a local event on the national scene.
In order to do that it's reaching for the stars and, let's all hope it grabs the big brass ring while there's hope in the wind and funding on offer. The theme Our Place hopes to raise questions: what and where is the place for the queer community in Adelaide.
The new hot pink poster designed by web designer Thanh Vu displays the Our Place theme to provoke thought about what 'Our Place' means to queers, the home, the class, the social position, queer culture in and out of Adelaide.
Feast has needed its own venue for ever; to host the Opening Night Party and Picnic After Party and now with Higher Ground and Light Square, up to nine shows per evening, in three purpose built venues over Feast's two weeks in November. Think a mini Garden of Unearthly Delights.
Light Square has a lot of local traffic, close to the busy Christian bookshops and City TAFE Campus a little hop skip and jump down to the dirty sleaze of Hindley Street, Adelaide's aggro nightclub strip; the Adelaide Centre for the Arts is also in Light Square, with it's proven record of hosting a good deal of arts activity.
During the 2010 Fringe there was a good deal of activity in Light Square and it seemed to work well, so now, Feast have grabbed it; keeping it open to the public (not just queers) enables the queers to centralise and showcase many of their key acts and iconic activities in one city location and allows the hidden army of bisexuals and men who have sex with men but don't identify as gay an opportunity to mingle and loiter without being too far off a straight path well beaten by cops and the general punters. After all it was only a couple of decades ago that Fringe would have been a block away down at the Lion Factory, that glorious hum and bustle of a Fringe Hub way way back in the 1990's children.
FeastÂs new Hub would have four primary performance areas including: The Ballroom - a 200 seat tiered air conditioned performance tent; The Lounge venue seating 60 - 80 patrons will be within the walls of shipping containers, which also double as the Visual Arts Exhibition Space to be named The Halls.
All the venues would host the Feast Literature Program featuring panel presentations, book launches and sales, reading and meet the author sessions and be one of the venues for FeastÂs National Queer Thinkers Forums.
The Patio will be the open air emerging Artist and Busking Stage and the The Toolshed would accommodate 20 - 30 patrons in an intimate air-conditioned shipping container, as used in the 2010 Fringe.
Feast's on-site bar - The Cellar will have outdoor seating for approx. 60 people and The Pantry is our undercover, on-site catering and cafe area serving coffee and light meals. The Window Box, Feast's Ticketing office will also be located on-site.
All this is part of the new look and contracted but expansive Feast 2010.
Previously on this page
November 2008
HIGHER GROUND, LIGHT SQUARE
8PM Monday 24th of November 2008
*100 minutes
All Tickets $5
*Includes a set of original music from the duo SONTAGE; trippy multimedia and music.
Part of the Feast Festival Just a Nibble Program of works-in-development, allowing artists to test out their work in front of an audience; it is hoped that this work will then be realised into fully fledged productions in future Feasts.
erect on stage, has been devised and directed by David Jobling; a saucy show and tell with some of Adelaide's most dynamic young actors presenting scenes from the Queer Australian Theatre in a rehearsed reading. Join Bartholomew Csorba, Nick Ely, David Jobling, Simon Lancione, Graham Self, Matt Scales and SONTAGE (try this link) as they present a live trattato to inform, engage and entertain you.
What is a trattato? It's a gathering where someone explains something.
Bart: Here's the thing-
David: I wanted to get erect on stage-
Graham: It's not what you think-
Nick: And then I say-
Bart: No you don't not yet; take a hold of yourself
David: Oi! I want to work on my hard bit for a moment-
Nick: Wanker!
Graham: You can't do that-
David: That's exactly why I wanted to get erect on stage
Bart: The reading-
David: -sorted.
David Jobling is a seasoned arts practitioner. As a writer and director with companies such as StraightFace Productions, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Pride Centre (Performance Positive), Club Bent (The Performance Space) he has been among the cutting edge of queer Australian theatre for two decades; David created readings for Barry Lowe's Queer as Fuck Festival, Griffin Theatre Company's Development Week, was writer-in-community for the Darwin Gay & Lesbian Society and in Adelaide directed Bittersweet and Pastiche for the 2006 Feast Festival
.
Feast Launches 2010 Theme and Poster
Feast in Light Square, it's a no-brainer really. Feast, Adelaide's queer community festival has announced its 2010 theme Our Place, launched its 2010 poster a bubbly pink triangle and announced the plan for Feast to base its performance and entertainment venue in Light Square, a new possie within the city mile.
Although the Festival is spreading the word that it's creating an Australian first by creating a Hub, that's just spin - and historically wrong spin at that if you have followed the Queers arts of the East Coast, which Adelaide tends to ignore; but not to worry, the Feast Festival is stepping up somewhat and trying harder to be more than a curiously positioned local roundabout, more of a local event on the national scene.
In order to do that it's reaching for the stars and, let's all hope it grabs the big brass ring while there's hope in the wind and funding on offer. The theme Our Place hopes to raise questions: what and where is the place for the queer community in Adelaide.
Light Square has a lot of local traffic, close to the busy Christian bookshops and City TAFE Campus a little hop skip and jump down to the dirty sleaze of Hindley Street, Adelaide's aggro nightclub strip; the Adelaide Centre for the Arts is also in Light Square, with it's proven record of hosting a good deal of arts activity.
During the 2010 Fringe there was a good deal of activity in Light Square and it seemed to work well, so now, Feast have grabbed it; keeping it open to the public (not just queers) enables the queers to centralise and showcase many of their key acts and iconic activities in one city location and allows the hidden army of bisexuals and men who have sex with men but don't identify as gay an opportunity to mingle and loiter without being too far off a straight path well beaten by cops and the general punters. After all it was only a couple of decades ago that Fringe would have been a block away down at the Lion Factory, that glorious hum and bustle of a Fringe Hub way way back in the 1990's children.
FeastÂs new Hub would have four primary performance areas including: The Ballroom - a 200 seat tiered air conditioned performance tent; The Lounge venue seating 60 - 80 patrons will be within the walls of shipping containers, which also double as the Visual Arts Exhibition Space to be named The Halls.
All the venues would host the Feast Literature Program featuring panel presentations, book launches and sales, reading and meet the author sessions and be one of the venues for FeastÂs National Queer Thinkers Forums.
The Patio will be the open air emerging Artist and Busking Stage and the The Toolshed would accommodate 20 - 30 patrons in an intimate air-conditioned shipping container, as used in the 2010 Fringe.
Feast's on-site bar - The Cellar will have outdoor seating for approx. 60 people and The Pantry is our undercover, on-site catering and cafe area serving coffee and light meals. The Window Box, Feast's Ticketing office will also be located on-site.
All this is part of the new look and contracted but expansive Feast 2010.
Previously on this page
November 2008
Erect on Stage
HIGHER GROUND, LIGHT SQUARE
8PM Monday 24th of November 2008
*100 minutes
All Tickets $5
*Includes a set of original music from the duo SONTAGE; trippy multimedia and music.
Part of the Feast Festival Just a Nibble Program of works-in-development, allowing artists to test out their work in front of an audience; it is hoped that this work will then be realised into fully fledged productions in future Feasts.
erect on stage, has been devised and directed by David Jobling; a saucy show and tell with some of Adelaide's most dynamic young actors presenting scenes from the Queer Australian Theatre in a rehearsed reading. Join Bartholomew Csorba, Nick Ely, David Jobling, Simon Lancione, Graham Self, Matt Scales and SONTAGE (try this link) as they present a live trattato to inform, engage and entertain you.
What is a trattato? It's a gathering where someone explains something.
Bart: Here's the thing-
David: I wanted to get erect on stage-
Graham: It's not what you think-
Nick: And then I say-
Bart: No you don't not yet; take a hold of yourself
David: Oi! I want to work on my hard bit for a moment-
Nick: Wanker!
Graham: You can't do that-
David: That's exactly why I wanted to get erect on stage
Bart: The reading-
David: -sorted.
David Jobling is a seasoned arts practitioner. As a writer and director with companies such as StraightFace Productions, Sydney Gay & Lesbian Pride Centre (Performance Positive), Club Bent (The Performance Space) he has been among the cutting edge of queer Australian theatre for two decades; David created readings for Barry Lowe's Queer as Fuck Festival, Griffin Theatre Company's Development Week, was writer-in-community for the Darwin Gay & Lesbian Society and in Adelaide directed Bittersweet and Pastiche for the 2006 Feast Festival
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