Puffio

Now hear this: in news just in from the front, founding partner and Publisher of dB Magazine Arna Eyers-White has announced she will be standing as a candidate for the forthcoming Adelaide City Council elections. Arna, who has been part of the dB Magazine experience for the past 16 years, and therefore the Adelaide arts community for at least that long, has also been President of the West End Association in the city for most of the past three years, and is currently also the Director of the West End Music Festival, being held in and around Hindley Street and North Terrace in two weeks, is running as a candidate for the Central Ward. City residents, Puffio says "use your vote wisely".

Pepper street Galleries host 'Garden Art', an exhibition of outdoor, alfresco, functional & decorative art pieces and currently on display - and for most of the month of Sept - at the Magill Road gallery. Swing into spring with a mixed exhibition of vibrant and flowing colour and style: this is Helen Taylor's Day Lily.

Each and every year through the past three, the 'Menage' series of concerts grows a little, intrigues a little more, stimulates a great deal more, and sells out a little quicker (often enough)... continuing this year with 'MŽnage 2007' again brings three exciting concert events to inspire and challenge Adelaide audiences. The first concert, 'Beyond Minimalism - Music To Entrance' introduces music of, and influenced by, the minimalist movement from its birth through to present day. Find the joys of minimalism from 7:30pm on Tues 11 Sept at †rtext Studios (that's level 2, 14 Grenfell St, Adelaide, for the uninitiated).

This one is so weird it might just work: Maurice Murphy is the man behind 'The Aunty Jack Show', 'The Norman Gunstan Show' and '15 Amore', a former Head Of Comedy at the ABC. In his one man show, the aptly titled 'Maurice', he serves up a warm dish of ripping yarns of family and friends, tall tales of television and amazing fables of film. All at the Bakehouse Theatre from Tues 4 Sept.

'Gesture' is considered thought and observations of the human condition through the artwork of Silvana Angelakis Sue Michael Tis Milner-Nichols Elizabeth Wojciak, and available to be scrutinized now at the Light Square Gallery, Adelaide Centre for the Arts, in Light Square. Employing painting, photography, drawing and sculpture, the four artists present their observations of the human condition in the everyday world.

The 2007 One Steel Young SA Artists Award is a $2000 acquisitive prize, which encourages young people to develop an appreciation for visual art, andis marketed as part of the Whaylla Art Prize, offered every two years in SA's steel town. Entries for pre selection for the 2007 City of Whyalla Art Prize close Fri 28 Sept, and there's $25,000 in prizes all told. Further details from Phil "Harry" Koch, Co-ordinator, City of Whyalla Art Prize on 08 8444 0425, or email phil.koch@countryarts.org.au , and if you do enter, perhaps you'd be so kind as to ask and let Puffio know why Phil's nickname is 'Harry'. Just asking.

Sam White, Managing Director of The People's Republic of Animation (PRA), has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Adelaide Film Festival, showing that the festival is not afraid of youth and new media. A brave and excellent move.

On the other hand, the news that Cate Fowler had recently announced her intention to step down as Creative Producer at Windmill Theatre has been met with muted mutterings. Fowler will say little on the matter, but Puffio understands there is some disquiet at the workings of the Windmill Board, such that patron Mem Fox has elected to withdraw her patronage, though it is understood she made her wishes known in somewhat fruitier language. There will be more to this story.

This one almost snuck through to the keeper, yet is well worth a mention: Vitalstatistix, in association with Adelaide Festival Centre's InSpace program presents a production of 'Cake', which was an unofficial winner in the Fringe last year when nearly everyone who saw the play thought it was bloody marvellous. 'Cake' is a delicious stories of love and obsession, all illustrated with lashings of cake and cream, delicately filled out with the musical accompaniment of Zoe Barry, who joins Astrid Pill in tracing a woman's experience of loss and distraction. It's great, and it's on for two nights only, at the Space Theatre on Wed 12 and Thurs 13 Sept.

What is being described as 'a significant sculpture' by well known South Australian artist Greg Johns is to be placed in the Park Lands by Torrens Lake. Is it big? Huge? Significantly good, and big? Made of cream cheese and yellowcake? The Art Gallery of South Australia has offered the Adelaide City Council a 10-year loan on the sculpture Fugue, which will be located at the northwest corner of the intersection of Frome Road and Victoria Drive. Lord Mayor Michael Harbison says the arrangement with the Art Gallery is an effective way of introducing large-scale artworks to the public, which is politician-speak for 'go and have a look at it'. The artist is reported to have said "Fugue conceptually makes reference to the notion of fugal systems - closed systems which at the same time have unending variation as a characteristic," but given that, it's probably better that he'd said nothing at all. A tip from the Puffer; let your art speak for itself.

'Rick!' is a new work from Adelaide based playwright Tony Moore, which opens its season at the Holden Street Theatres from Thurs 6 Sept. After 20 years the concert band members are reuniting to remember school days, and Rick was the coolest of them all... until someone at the reunion kills him, in a crime which can be traced back to the schooldays...

There's a new magazine for Australian art enthusiasts and it's out in the next few days, apparently. An innovative and informative magazine, 'Artist Profile' is a quarterly publication giving readers a look at both established and up-and-coming artists,

Eight aspiring young South Australian musicians will vie for a position in the National Final of the 2007 Music Broadcasting Society's National Young Performers' Award, when they line up against each other in the South Australian Final, to be held at 7.00pm Tues 25 Sept in the Cynthia Poulton Hall, St Peter's Cathedral. The National Final, incidentally, comes up in November, in Melbourne. Go! You good things!!

He's the Candy Man. He's Mo Award winner Wayne Scott- Kermond who is bringing a new musical show to Adelaide called Candy Man. It's a tribute to the career of Sammy Davis Jr, and will play at Her Majesty's Theatre from Wed 12 Sept. Starring Kermond, Candy Man is a feel good show that blends contemporary music theatre and cabaret with a cool retro groove. It looks colourful, it looks a movin' and a groovin'.

Australian Dance Theatre's Artistic Director Garry Stewart has been invited to create a new work for Britain's flagship contemporary dance company Rambert Dance Company. When he heads to Europe a little later this year with the ADT. The new work will make its debut in Manchester before performances in Edinburgh and London at the famed Sadler's Wells.

Amsterdam-based Romanian art critic, curator and artist Calin Dan will exhibit his work at the Experimental Art Foundation. Nomadic cultures, ephemeral architecture, urban sub-cultures and zones of conflict are just a few of the tags that can be used to think about Dan's video/film/installation work.