The Adelaide Festival is offering accessible opportunitities to support the participation of disabled audiences to the various Festival shows. Offering Audio Description, Assistive Listening, AUSLAN interpreted shows and accessible venues, there are so many ways for disabled theatre goers to enjoy this years Adelaide Festival.
For more info visit http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/.
You are invited to join Restless Dance Theatre and the Disability & Arts Transition Team for lunch and a question & answer session with Back to Back Theatre about Food Court, their 2010 Adelaide Festival production.
12 – 2pm, Friday 5 March 2010
The Restless Studio
234a Sturt St, Adelaide (enter off Arthur St)
Lunch will be provided
RSVP essential for catering by Thursday 4 March.
Disability & Arts Transition Team
Phone: (08) 8231 0900
Email: rsvp.datt@cansa.net.au
The Disability & Arts Transition Team have sent us a document outlining disability and arts related content at the Adelaide Festival this year. You can read the document here.
A Little More Light is a free Adelaide Festival pyrotechnic show held in Victoria Park that will be audio described and include an accessible viewing area hosted by the Disability Transition and Arts Team with electric wheelchair charging points, water for guide dogs and some seating.
The Audio Description will enhance the experience giving the visual details of the performance by Groupe F; the people who lit up the 2004 Athens Olympics and the 1998 French World Cup. All you need is a small radio receiver to listen to the description which will also be broadcast live on Radio Adelaide 101.5FM from 8.45pm. It’s recommended that you bring your own radio as only a limited number will be available on the night.
Designated parking and drop-off zones will also be available on Beaumont Road.
Large crowds are anticipated. A free shuttle bus will be available from Adelaide Train Station as well as public transport, parking and bike friendly services.
So take a blanket, take the radio, and take your places to celebrate the Adelaide Festival’s 50th anniversary with a bang!
WHERE: Victoria Park Racecourse (Southern End)
WHEN: 27 February at 8.45pm
DURATION: 45mins
You can view an accessibility map of the event here.
For more information about accessibility services at the Adelaide Festival visit:
http://www.adelaidefestival.com.au/servlet/Web?s=2290869&p=AF_Access_Information
For other enquiries please contact Gaelle Mellis on 0412098727 or gmellis@cansa.net.au.
The Adelaide Festival presents Australia’s leading disability theatre company, Back to Back Theatre and its production of FOOD COURT.
Back to Back Theatre is one of Australia’s leading contemporary theatre companies with an outstanding international reputation. Based in Geelong, Victoria, the multi-award winning company has toured performances to over 40 prestigious festivals and venues around the world.
Back to Back is driven by an ensemble of seven actors perceived to have intellectual disabilities and is uniquely placed to comment on the social, cultural, ethical and value-based structures that define the institution known as the ‘majority’. The ensemble create all of their own work through a process of research, improvisation and scripting in collaboration with the Artistic Director, Bruce Gladwin and guest artists.
Back to Back Theatre’s newest work FOOD COURT premiered in October 2008 as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival to sold out audiences and much critical acclaim.
Following presentations of FOOD COURT at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels and the Sydney Opera House in 2009, Adelaide Festival presents four shows only!
Set in the lush minimalism of an illuminated white void, a young woman is utterly victimised. Two actresses in gold leotards frolic across the stage and, with immense pleasure, abandon themselves to the humiliation of a third woman. A situation of merciless cruelty emerges, from which a fragile and moving beauty wells up.
Accompanied by a trance-like live improvisation by Sydney cult jazz trio, The Necks, FOOD COURT is visually and musically virtuosic, and at the same time takes us back to the essence of theatre.
The Adelaide Festival would like to offer friends of your organisation $35 tickets. To book tickets call BASS 131 246 or visit a BASS outlet and quote ‘The Necks’.
Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre
Wed 3, Thurs 4, Fri 5 of March at 8pm and Saturday 6 of March at 6pm
Thurs 4 March at 9:15pm
BASS: 131 246 or visit the Adelaide Festival Website.
Please be specific about your needs when making a booking to ensure the best viewing experience.
For the full Adelaide Festival program visit the Adelaide Festival website.
Performance contains adult themes, partial nudity and coarse language.
Opening Hours
Monday - Friday
9am - 5pm
The Disability Information and Resource Centre
195 Gilles Street, Adelaide SA 5000 Australia
Phone (08) 8236 0555 Fax (08) 8236 0566 SA only 1300 305 558
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