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Puffio.
It's all happening at ArtsSA; a quick prowl around the corridors of power down in Hindley Street reveals empty offices, frightened and abandoned staff members sobbing in corners, and dust motes gathering in formerly bustling thoroughfares and lunch rooms. Well, maybe not, but after the resignation of Senior Grants and Project officer Stephen Bowers (who went to head up the Jam Factory) comes the news of the resignation of Paul Rees, who is moving just a bit down the street to be the General Manager of Brink Theatre Company. It appears there is no truth to the rumour (started right here!!) that outgoing Brink GM Steve Mayhew is going to pop up at ArtsSA, thus completing a catastrophic feedback loop which would lead to the meltdown of the entire lead agencies apparatus in SA. That might happen anyway, since the carnivorous types at Brink have been busily scavenging talent wherever they might find it: their Artistic Director Chris Drummond (formerly at State Theatre Company) being a case in point. Is this some devilish plot? And is it true that the afore mentioned Mayhew might pop up in a new possie at a certain mid year festival?
Since they were celebrating their extra funding
success over at the Australian Dance Theatre, tails were up
over at the Wonderland Ballroom on Belair Road, ADT headquarters,
on Saturday night. It was a good night for the annual ADT Quiz
Night, obviously, and things were still running a little slower
than usual on Monday morning for the cleanup. With the driving
talents of MC and Quizmaster Helen Bock (who was adjudged "fabulous"),
the night raised lots of money and more than a few eyebrows,
not in the least for the antics of ArtSA CEO Greg Mackie, who
proved as a dancer and photographic subject he's a very good
CEO indeed. You see, ADT had decided along with bad jokes and
worse singing it might be a good idea to allow their quiz participants
a go at recreating the sort of images their dancers do during
a performance of 'Held', the award winning show with New York
photographer Lois Greenfield... Mackie decided he was up for
the challenge - that's him on the right, along with good friends
Alan Joyce (Marketing & Communications Manager, Festival Centre)
and Fulvia Mantelli (Curator, Visual Arts, Festival Centre).
Meanwhile over at Windmill, Adelaide based children's performing arts theatre, there are movements of another kind. General Manager David Malacari is heading out the door, having been appointed CEO of next February's second Auckland Festival. For Malacari, festivals are just a tad familiar, since he'd gone to Windmill after a stint of some twelve years at the Adelaide Festival for the Arts, including the less than stellar Peter Sellers years.
A communication from Tammy Franks, Young
Women's Program Manager at the YWCA of Adelaide is big on enthusiasm
and short on detail, but it doesn't matter - it's all in a good
cause! The Chicks Rock quiz night is coming, and it's a fundraiser
for Ladyfestadelaide (happening on the first weekend of December
2004). The quiz subject is "rock chicks and chicks who just
rock" (and that doesn't mean that it's chicks only - so guys
are more than welcome- and you can't tell me that there aren't
more than a few guys out there who are obsessed with chicks...)
says Franks, and she's right. Soo the details then: 7pm (sharp)
Fri 24 Sept at the Gate One Bar, University of SA City Campus.
Tickets are $10/$15 and it's a cash bar, BYO food. The prizes,
she assures Puffio, " will definitely rock (ah sorry but if
you didn't expect yet another crappy pun or two you just don't
know me that well) and no matter how much or little you know
you've got a pretty good shot at the door prize of a double
pass to the Big Day Out. There's also gonna be some auction
items." Book before the night on 8227 0155 or tammy.franks@ywca.com.au
A touching comedy by Alan Ball is 'Five Women Wearing The Same Dress', which opens at the Promethean Theatre in Adelaide on Thurs 16 Sept. Five feisty women are in the same room, and the collision of characters probably means they wouldn't be in the same space apart from the fact that they're all attending the same wedding. This delves in the complicated landscape of relationships between women, and their interactions with both each other, and the mysterious stud Tommy Valentine (there's usually one at every wedding, in Puffio's experience).
Congrats (we think) are due to the boss,
er, publisher of dB Magazine, Arna Eyers-White, who has been
elected President of the Adelaide West End Association, which
represents the traders, organisations and institutions of the
western quadrant of Adelaide. Something to do in her spare time,
Puffio assumes.
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