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Puffio.
It must be that time of the year when a young person's fancy turns to matters of a cinemagraphic nature... and that means The Adelaide Film Festival 2005 has announced the Gala Opening and Closing Night films. The Festival will open with the World Premiere of Sara Watt's 'Look Both Ways' (Australia 2005) and close with the Australian Premiere of Wong Kar-Wai's international award winning 2046 (Hong Kong 2004). Can't wait!
Puffio was lunching the other week with assorted
media from around the city and discovered quite by chance that
critic and lecturer Myk Mykita had quietly and without fanfare
retired from the Uni of SA at the end of 2004. After many years
of sterling service at the Magill campus in his position as
Senior Lecturer in Drama Studies, Mykita terrorised more than
one generation of students with his fearsome and incisive critique,
a gift which Puffio feels sure will be fully exploited in the
outside world as his time is freed up. Mykita has been a theatre
reviewer on Radio Adelaide for a good few years, and will have
more time to devote to his passion - the development of good
local theatre. Be afraid, be very afraid...
At the aforementioned luncheon, Puffio was a guest of Windmill Performing Arts Company, Australia's only professional theatre company who produce their work for children. It was a thrill to discover that not only will 2005 see a remount of their excellent opening piece ('Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge'), they will open the year with a piece written exclusively for them by their patron, Mem Fox. To celebrate 'The Green Sheep', for that is the piece in question, Windmill were at pains to ensure that every media representative took with them a small fluffy green toy sheep. Imagine Puffio's shock to discover the sheep was originally blue and had been dyed with green food colouring, thus rendering its fleece somewhat errrr, rougher. What's this? Surely not a wolf in sheep's clothing?
If you have made a short film in the last
twelve months and are resident here in South Australia, you
might wish to consider entering it in the 2005 Zoom! Awards.
After six years of doing it for the film-makers of SA the Zoom!
Awards are stepping up for another big night with big prizes
and massed accolades. Entries close this Friday, however, so
get onto it right now through the Media Resource Centre's website
at www.mrc.org.au
Also up for the taking is the 'Young Filmmaker's Human Rights Award' for anyone aged between 12 and 25 years who is passionate about Human Rights, and who has created a production between 1 December 2003 and 11 February 2005. The Minister for Youth is awarding a prize of $5,000 for "Best representation of human rights in any medium". Once again, the deadline is this Friday 11 Feb.
You may have caught up on the news that the
coffee shop and cafˇ at the Festival Centre has a new name -
mutandi ku - which is 'eating place' in the Kaurna language.
That seems to be about it: Puffio will report in further editions
if anything really has changed apart from a name which will
be used by just about no-one. A quick sneak around the Fez Centre
suggests 99% of all staff are furtively saying "the caf" when
arranging their incessant meetings. Perhaps a memo insisting
on correct use of the new name is needed.
At the Art Gallery of South Australia they're rather thrilled at the public reception and are therefore equally pleased to announce extended seasons of its Summer exhibitions, including the extremely popular 'Australians In Hollywood', which is showing until Sunday 20 February. Coming in March 2005 is 'Island To Empire: 300 Years of British Art (1550-1850)', an exhibition curated by former Director Ron Radford.
You've missed Matt Byrne Media's 'Carole
King Tribute RevueTapestry' in its exclusive two night season
down at the Tapestry Winery in the Southern Vales, but there's
still time to catch the show in its city unveiling at The Studio
at the Holden Street Theatres (Hindmarsh) until Sat 12 Feb.
'Tapestry' was of course the massive selling 1971 album for
Carole King, and the show is a tribute to this most prodigious
songwriter, who wrote hits for pop artists over four decades,
as well as sustaining her own career as a performer.
'INSTANT: Approaches to snap shot photography' is an exhibition now open at Avalon Gallery on Hindley Street and on Thurs 10 Feb at 4pm the individual artists (Rebecca Dawson, Deborah Ciric, Annalisa Feleppa, Sue Lupton and Claire Thompson - Richards) will be holding artist talks to explain their visions leading to the creation of 'INSTANT'. It's an exhibition of real and pseudo snap shot photographs.
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