Puffio

There's a fair sized bucketload of stuff (that is, performances) at the Festival Centre, where CEO and Artistic Director Douglas Gautier has just launched their programme for next year, more than living up to an earlier promise to "keep the lights on at the Centre". Even without any mention of some of the bigger items for 2008, such as festivals the like of the Cabaret Festival, OzAsia Festival and the Guitar Festival, it's a pretty full programme, encompassing everything from the latest installment of the cutting edge 'InSpace' programme, a full volume of music scattered throughout the year (including jazz electronica outfit The Bird, and the return of WOMADelaide sensation Yasmin Levy), and some really fine theatre. As was expected by those in the know, this includes a season of Keating The Musical (which made a soft debut at the Cabaret Festival) and a Bob Ellis play, 'A Local Man', on the life of Ben Chifley.

Hip hip hooray for the South Australian Film Corporation who on Fri 26 Oct celebrated their 35th anniversary, a wonderful age to be. Having produced some Australian cinema classics ('Breaker Moran't, 'Storm Boy'). And been involved in the rather splendid 'Look Both Way' and the spooky 'Wolf Creek', and a whole bunch more, it's to be hoped the SAFC will keep on keeping on, producing and assisting in developing high class cinema for us all.

Working from a rather nice three roomed gallery located in the centre of Adelaide in Gays Arcade, T'Arts is a collective of some 35 artists, most of whom hail from Adelaide and country South Australia. The collective has been working together for some eight years now, and seen their combined business grow, both in sales and scope. Why are you reading this? Because T'Arts is currently interviewing for new members for 2008. A selection process is involved, and new members begin their activities in March 2008 (perfect timing - not really - just as the Festival of Arts gets underway). If you're interested in knowing more email Liz Wauchope at liz.wauchope@internode.on.net.

He's right, you know! Aldo Iacobelli's current exhibition is entitled 'From Time To Time One Talks To The Moon', which is as fine a way of expressing the simple dialogue of life as Puffio's heard for many a long year. The exhibition opens on Thurs 15 Nov.

The highly acclaimed South African township drama 'Sizwe Banzi Is Dead', whose subject deals with the apartheid regime, opens its Adelaide season as part of the CentreStage program at the Festival Centre on Tues 6 Nov. The play, directed by Peter Brook (he's worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company and directed films like 'Lord Of The Flies' and 'The Mahabharata') stars Pitcho Womba Konga (a rapper and hip-hop artist from the Congo) and Habib Dembele (writer and political activist who once stood as a presidential candidate for the Republic of Mali).

It's a busy time of the year at the Flinders University City Gallery, in the State Library of South Australia (North Terrace, city) since they are right in the middle of opening of two exhibitions. 'Ceremony Of Meaning - Negotiating Pathways' is the exhibition from Darryl Pfitzner Milika which is now on display. Opened at the same time was 'Luminaries', curated by Rhana Devenport for Jewellers and Metal Smiths Group of Australia NSW Inc and featuring works by six prominent jewellers and metalsmiths. Both exhibitions run until Sun 2 Dec.

Opening in the Artspace at the Adelaide Festival Centre on Wed 7 Nov is 'Momentum', an exhibition which will showcase the motivation and drive that a mentorship can create for an emerging artist's career. Curated by Heather Young, the exhibition will showcase artwork by dynamic emerging artists Roy Ananda, Anna Austin, Bianca Barling, Kim Beaman, Aurelia Carbone, Georgia Gabrielle, Jillian Gregurke, Sue Michael, Jason Milanovic, Tis Milner-Nichols, Sophie Newland, Joshua Pearce, Rossanne Pellegrino, Monica Prichard, Simon Williams, Laura Wills and Holly Wilson. This is Joshua Pearce's Honey Eaters on oil and enamel on board.

On the eve of its Australian release 'Control' the movie directed by Anton Corbijn, about Joy Division singer Ian Curtis, topped the nominations for the 10th annual British Independent Film Awards (BIFAs). 'Control' received a very impressive 10 nominations, including Best Independent British Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Newcomer (Sam Riley), and Best Screenplay. Read Luke Ramsden's interview with Corbijn in this very issue of dB Magazine.

On Mon 5 Nov at the Wheatsheaf Hotel you'll find the electro-acoustic temptation of Hidden City, featuring Luke Harrald, Derek Pascoe, Sebastian Tomczak, Lauren Sutter and Stephen Whittington. Wait a moment, is that the same Lauren Sutter who writes visual arts reviews for dB Magazine, performing onstage surrounded by electronic trickery and hardware? Puffio bets it is!

Adelaide Centre for the Arts Graduating Visual Artists present the intriguingly entitled 'Article #19', which opens on Wed 14 Nov, in the Light Square Gallery at the Adelaide Centre for the Arts, which seems to be a seething hotbed of activity at this time of the year. The many creative juices that flow from that many students and graduates enclosed in such a relatively small space makes for a heady whiff and mix indeed! 'Article #19', it seems, is about the right to freedom of opinion and expression. It is derived from the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and it has perhaps been taken as something of a mantra by the 18 graduating artists whose work is shown in the exhibition. This is Dinner, a photograpic Giclee print by Thomas Brice.

When local playwright Stephen House was in India on research and study earlier this year he took time out to stop and consider his surroundings. Equipped with a digital camera he began recording some of his impressions, through documenting his location, and though photographing the many and varied faces of India. Now, as part of the Feast Festival, his exhibition 'Men Of India' opens on Wed 14 Nov at the Men's Room Barber Shop on Hindley Street.