Flinders in Touch is providing information about Adelaide Fringe performances and events involving Flinders students, staff and graduates.
For the first time, the University is offering a $500 prize open to everyone who works behind the scenes of Fringe shows including artists, producers, technicians, designers and other production staff. For applications for the Behind the Scenes Award, contact the Flinders Marketing and Communications Office.
IN THE FRINGE…
Winner of a Fringe Award for Best Visual Art, Testing Ground is the current exhibition at the Flinders City Gallery in the State Library of SA, and features works by Tasmanian artists in various media.
Flinders staff members Shakti Chakravarty and Professor Jorg Hacker are managing six Fringe venues and some 16 Fringe acts under the umbrella of The Garage International. The shows encompass music, dance and theatrical performances, and include Edith Piaf et Son Amour Fou and Movin’ Melvin Brown: The Ray Charles Experience. Shakti herself is performing her own dance-based shows Bharata Natyam and Beethoven and The Pillow Book, and will appear with actor Leof Kingsford-Smith in Bewitching Macbeth, all in the Town Hall venue. Several of the shows will also travel to the Birdwood Exhibition Centre.
Flinders screen graduate Mark Tremwith is presenting his one-man show for children, Mr Stinkbottom and the Curse of the Silly Stinky Zombie Babies.
Professor Leon Lack and former Flinders staff Dr Margie Ripper and Dr Jo Ankor are members of the a capella group The Solstice Singers, who will perform Boom, Bust and Love: 20th Century Songs on March 2 and 4.
Flinders staff are involved in presenting three shows in St Bartholemew’s Church, Norwood: No Compromise: The Music of Keith Green (original show sold out, with a second show now scheduled for March 9), Classical Wonderland at the Adelaide Fringe (March 1) and Cotton Fields – The Leadbelly Story (February 25). More information and bookings.
Flinders staff members Kenneth Pope and Melinda Pike are both in Lumina Vocal Ensemble’s two Fringe performances of A Medieval Adventure (February 16 and 23).
Flinders staff member Mandy Lumsden will sing in Mix-Tape with an ‘a capella’ vocal group. (February 22 and 23).
Flinders staff member Nikki Johnson is the sound technician for RED (March 14) by Cirque de Gymnastique.
Flinders University and Narungga Nation Aboriginal Corporation will be presenting an exhibition at the South Australian Maritime Museum called Children, Boats and ‘Hidden Histories’: Drawings by Aboriginal Children at Point Pearce Mission, 1939 for which Flinders staff Amy Roberts and Madeline Fowler are co-curators. The exhibition is free and open until July 31.
Flinders creative arts graduate Phi Theodoros is working with Adelaide Hills company Ink Pot Arts (alongside Artistic Director and Flinders graduate Jo-anne Sarre) and the Mt Barker District Council to present Cultivating Creativity on dates between February 15 and March 7. Phi is also producing and presenting six diverse shows with different audiences.
A free exhibition at Flinders University Victoria Square by Airborne Research Australia puts scientific data to artistic effect. Points – the hidden art in natural data is on display from February 17 to March 14.
Flinders creative writing graduate Chloe Eckert and Flinders staff member Hannah Fallowfield are in the theatre piece (finger)prints from February 15 to 23.
Flinders graduate Michael Wilkop is performer/illusionist Mickster the Trickster in Suck It Up, from February 15 to 27.
Flinders staff member and creative arts graduate Clare Mansfield is part of Gumption Productions ensemble theatre piece The Market, from February 15 to 23.