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Puffio Theatro.
The Australian International Animation Festival is still on
at the Mercury, so you'll want to head down there. On Fri 12
Aug you can catch 'Wonderful Days', a new Korean anime feature,
at 7:30, followed by a showcase of computer and digital animation
at 9:00. Here's an example of what you can see:
The Barossa Gourmet Weekend is back, and it's gourmet-ier than
ever! This time, not only can you gorge your fat, bourgeois*
faces on the best local produce and wine that Australia's Tuscany**
has to offer, but you can listen to music and stuff while doing
it! Over 20 wineries will host Saturday night entertainment,
but if you're to have any hope of getting accommodation in the
area, you should book now. Don't drive home tipsy, else they'll
take it away from us again! Sat 20 Aug and Sun 21 Aug are the
dates, and Puffio highly recommends the Hartwig Eden Valley
Old Vine Shiraz, available from Barossa Cottage in Nuriootpa.
* Just kidding. Puffio loves each and every one of you!
** Trademark pending.
The Adelaide Festival poster was launched on Tue 26 July amid
much pomp and fanfare. Those invited to the lunch enjoyed a
lightly spiced Moroccan-style medallion of chicken escorted
by a wild rice pilaf, followed by a nougat ice cream sandwich
with a praline and Frangelico glaze. Those who weren't invited
to this backslapping secret-handshake feed had to content themselves
with the thought that they were among the first to espy the
retro-futurist black-on-silver poster design. Festival director
Brett Sheehy gave a speech about the many inspirations behind
and implications of the new design: at least, that's what Puffio
thinks he was talking about. It was a little difficult to hear
over the rumbling of one's stomach.
The Art Gallery is holding an exhibition of the work of Australian
painter Grace Cossington Smith, or 'Mrs Van Gogh' as she is
adorably and somewhat patronisingly known in those circles where
they tend to have nicknames for people like Grace Cossington
Smith. It is important to remember that she is so named because
of perceived similarities between her work and that of the Dutch
madman, not because they were ever married. (Puffio knows where
her heart truly lay. Those heady days in 1920s Paris... those
eyes... that wistful half-smile... Oh, Grace! But perhaps Puffio
has said too much....). The exhibition runs until Sun 9 Oct.
Flinders University's City Gallery is hosting a National Gallery
of Australia traveling exhibition, 'No Ordinary Place: The Art
Of David Malangi'. Malangi is one of the most important Australian
artists of the last 30 years, and this collection of his sculptures
and bark paintings can been seen from Fri 12 August until Sun
2 Oct. On Tuesdays throughout August at 1:30 pm, the staff of
the gallery will be giving special talks on Malangi's work.
Again, there is a veritable smorgasbord of visual arts to delight
the connoisseur this week. The Jam Factory is hosting exhibitions
of furniture, lighting and ceramics design until Sun 18 Oct.
Aaron March, Kathy Spears and Jennifer Greer Holmes present
an exhibition of paintings and poetry at Chi Chi bar on Gouger
St, while the work of Laura Amos, Mark Siebert and Jack Wilde
can be seen at Carclew Youth Arts Centre in North Adelaide.
'Of Littleness, Triviality And Vanity' is an exhibition of pieces
by Nicholas Thomas and is on at the Chesser Gallery in the city.
There's 'Nightblind', by Greg Donovan and Doreen Imhofer, at
Flightpath on Hindley St until Fri 20 Aug. Aurelia Carbone presents
'Urban Love Story', a collection of her digital photography,
at the Rhino Room from now until Tue 30 August.
The Helpmann Academy's Foundation Front is offering a night of 'low-brow' fun at Jive on Fri 12 Aug. 'Better Out Than In' features dance, performance, music, stand-up and visual arts. There'll be prizes for performers - and even for the audience, so all you straightlaced non-Boho types can get in on the act too!
Those angry young men of Adapt Theatre Company are staging a new production of Edward Albee's 'The American Dream', accompanied by two short plays of their own devising. It's on at the Worldsend Hotel (Hindley St) from Fri 20 Aug to Fri 26 Aug (call 0433 133 548 for tickets). On the other hand, the angry young ladies of new company Scylla Productions would like you to come and see their new comedy 'Low Level Panic' at the Promethean from Fri 19 Aug until Sat 27 Aug (call 0431 899 495 for tickets). Meanwhile, Bluetongue Theatre are in rehearsals for their next production, 'Vigil', a Canadian black comedy starring Bridget Walters and local rep mainstay Geoff Revell, which opens Thu 11 Aug at the Bakehouse Theatre. They had some unexpected visitors drop in on their rehearsals: a camera crew from ABC-TV's 'Beat The Chef', upon which director Cathy Adamek was recently chosen to appear as a 'local celebrity'. Cathy hopes to (insert theatre-related pun here) the competition with her Russian-influenced cuisine. To Puffio's mind, this whole cooking-as-competition dealie reached its apex with 'Iron Chef': if ABC hopes to rival SBS, they'll really need a stadium-sized arena and a flamboyantly-dressed Chairman to preside over it.
For the month of August, all Greater Union cinemas will be offering
$5 film tickets. Maybe if enough people take advantage of this
reasonable price, they'll keep it on permanently. Puffio thinks
this kind of economical price structure should be applauded:
Greater Union may be a soulless corporate behemoth, but clearly
they're the good kind of soulless corporate behemoth.
Seven Arty Things To Do This Fortnight
1. The Mercury's 'Cinematheque' for August features the films of acclaimed Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi. You should attend if you have even the slightest interest in modern cinema: his films are very difficult to get hold of. 'Shin heike monogatari' ('Tales Of The Taira Clan') is the first Mizoguchi film, and it's on Thurs 11 Aug.
2. The next Inspace production is 'This Uncharted Hour', a collaboration
between Brink Productions and music collective The Firm. Book
your tickets at BASS.
3. This issue, Wade Howland interviews Cameron Goodall from STC's new production of 'The Goat' by Edward Albee, so obviously you'll want to go to see it now. It's on until Sat 20 Aug.
4. Recitals Australia recommence their lunch-hour concerts on
Wed 10 Aug with a performance by the Kingston Piano Quartet
of pieces by Schumann and Faure. It's on at the Pilgrim Church
in Flinders Street in the city.
5. The good people at the University of Adelaide Theatre Guild present 'Saturday Sunday Monday' by Eduardo de Filippo, a spicy tale of love Italian-style, at the Little Theatre until Sat 20 Aug.
6. For those of a bent literary, Geoffrey Robertson QC will
be in Adelaide to discuss his new book The Tyrannicide Brief
with those lucky enough to be at the Grainger Studio in Hindley
St on Wed 17 Aug. Tickets are available from Imprints Booksellers
on 8231 4454.
7. Brett Allen-Bayes interviews the director of State Opera South Australia's new production of Puccini's tale of tragic love, 'La Boheme', which starts on Sat 13 Aug at the Festival Theatre.
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