You’re invited to awaken your senses with a live performance at Adelaide Festival Centre’s year-long season of theatre, dance, music and festivals.
Adelaide Festival Centre’s 2011 season showcases some of the finest Australian and international performers on the arts scene today. In 2011 the Adelaide Festival Centre will present a diverse and exciting program with a range of experiences for visitors, from smaller scale productions in intimate venues to large scale mainstream musicals in the Festival Theatre.
Festival fever continues with the Adelaide Festival Centre presenting its eleventh
Adelaide Cabaret Festival in June and the fourth
OzAsia Festival in September. An early allocation of tickets to the popular Variety Gala that opens the Adelaide Cabaret Festival can be purchased when buying 4 or more shows in the season subscription (the remaining tickets for the Gala will go on sale when the Cabaret Festival program is launched in April).
From its early days, when the public came together and contributed towards creating Australia’s first multi-purpose arts centre in the heart of Adelaide, the
Adelaide Festival Centre remains committed to ensuring audiences have the opportunity to experience a selection of quality arts throughout the year.
With vibrant costumes and raw energy,
West Side Story kicks off the 2011 season bringing us into the New Year, followed by American singer-songwriter
Sufjan Stevens who will be performing in Adelaide for the first time. It’s mad March at the Festival Centre with the
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra joining forces with comedy rock superstar
Tim Minchin,
The Australian Ballet’s beautiful
Madame Butterfly and the
Come Out Festival will fill the venues in late March with fun for the family. April brings some superb shows starting with
Nancye Hayes &
Reg Livermore in
Turns, the much anticipated smash hit Broadway Musical
Wicked will play in the Festival Theatre and other shows include
Children’s Cheering Carpet SALTBUSH and
World War Bob.
Katie Noonan and
Karin Schaupp perform in May in a rare music collaboration, inSPACE and Mobile States present
Africa and
Soweto Gospel Choir are back due to popular demand. The second half of the year sees inSPACE present dance piece
Side To One and the
Paco Peña Flamenco Dance Company return. August is a busy month with
Australian Dance Theatre teaming up with the
Adelaide College of the Arts in
Worldhood,
Neil Armfield’s production of
The Book Of Everything and inSPACE’s
A Mini Festival of New Performances. Under the light of the full moon the OzAsia Festival takes place in September featuring
Leigh Warren & Dancers in
Dreamscape. The enchanting
Gruffalo’s Child comes to Adelaide early October and
Urban Myth Theatre of Youth present
The Girl Who Was A Hundred Girls. No program would be complete without the tinsel twinkling
Christmas Proms in December featuring the
Adelaide Art Orchestra and guest performer
Bernard Walz.
Celebrating 34 years of entertainment for 3 – 10 year olds, the surprising and charming
Something On Saturday will be back during the winter months. Also returning will be the innovative children’s film festival
Little Big Shots, along with a family program for young and old and after 25 years
Morning Melodies still offers the best daytime entertainment. Our distinctive and free
Visual Arts program will continue to exhibit in the Artspace Gallery and theatre foyers and the
Performing Arts Collection will be digging up past treasures, sourcing new artefacts and displaying them around the Festival Centre.
A new free event
In Conversation With, will be hosted by ABC personality Fenella Kernebone (presenter on
Arts Nation on ABC). In Conversation With are free forums with topics about arts and culture. Each session will feature a panel of industry leaders participating in discussion and debate (those attending will be able to sit back with a glass of wine and join in the discussion through an informal Q&A).
Encouraging and developing new audiences has always been a priority for the Festival Centre and in 2011 the
GreenRoom program (16 – 30 year olds) and
centrED program (primary and secondary students) will continue to give young people the opportunity to participate in a number of workshops, events and forums. The
Student Tix program offers discounted tickets, enabling younger audiences to access the arts and is supported through the generous donations of the Festival Centre’s Foundation program.
Adelaide Festival Centre CEO & Artistic Director, Douglas Gautier, says
“We look forward to welcoming audiences to another year of exciting performances and events. With a variety of shows and everything from musicals, family programming, dance, music and visual arts, we hope to be able to offer our audiences new experiences they will remember for years to come.”www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au