The Disability Information and Resource Centre

Do you want to learn to do Stand Up Comedy?

Starting in July the Mental Health Coalition will be commencing a 6 week Stand Up Comedy Course for Consumers (individuals who have experienced a mental health issue). The 6 week course will lead to a performance during Mental Health Week at the Mercury Theatre on the 13th of October.

Classes are free & lead by comedian Jo Coventry with special guest teachers during the 6 week period. So if you have ever wanted to do Stand Up, have always been the class clown or just have a story to tell we would like to hear from you.

Applications are available at the MHCSA via the web site www.mhcsa.org.au (see Mental Health Week section) or by contacting Tracey Davis at the MHCSA on 8212 8873 or email her at tracey.davis@mhcsa.org.au.

You can have a look at the flyer for the event and also an application form.

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.

When and Where

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.

Contact

Disability & Arts Transition Team

Phone: (08) 8231 0900

Email: rsvp.datt@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.

Special Offer

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’.

Venue

Dunstan Playhouse, Adelaide Festival Centre

Date/Time

Wed 3, Thurs 4, Fri 5 of March at 8pm and Saturday 6 of March at 6pm

Festival Talk

Thurs 4 March at 9:15pm

Bookings

BASS: 131 246 or visit the Adelaide Festival Website.

Accessibility

• Companion cards will be accepted.
• Wheelchair access is limited.
• A hearing aid loop is available.
• Seating can be arranged for the vision impaired.

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.

Show Warning and Instructions

Performance contains adult themes, partial nudity and coarse language.

Do you have a brother or sister with a disability?
Are you aged between 15 – 27 and have an interest in the performing arts?
Want to get involved in a creative project?

The Siblings Project is an opportunity to use dance, theatre, music, photography or film to engage with Australia’s leading youth dance company that works with disabled and non-disabled people to create unexpectedly real dance theatre.

When: Wednesday evenings from 6.00 – 8 pm
29th July – September 23rd
Where: Restless Studio, 234a Sturt St Adelaide SA 5000 (entrance off Arthur St).
Cost Free.

For bookings and more information:
Telephone: (08) 8212 8495
Email: info@restlessdance.org

Restless Central is a series of dance workshops for young people with or without a disability aged 15 – 26. You don’t have to have a lot of experience to join these sessions, just a desire to have fun and meet new people in a creative and supportive environment.

This program will run throughout Terms 3 and 4
When: Tuesday evenings from 5.30 – 7pm
Where: Restless Studio, 234a Sturt St Adelaide SA 5000 (entrance off Arthur St).
Each session costs $6 per person.

For bookings and more information:
Telephone: (08) 8212 8495
Email: info@restlessdance.org

Tutti Ensemble has branched out in a desire to bring the opportunity to participate in creativity and music to an even wider audience. They now have five classes for children and young people with a disability to participate in to learn about music and drama. The classes run for approximately one hour. Tutti caters for children and young people aged between 2 and 15. Classes are run for groups of varying ages.
The classes meet at Parafield Gardens on a Friday, Christies Beach on a Tuesday, two groups at Lower Mitcham (Monday and Thursday) and a new class at Brighton on a Saturday. The class at Brighton caters for children with a disability aged eleven to fourteen years.
The pre-school group that meets at Lower Mitcham on a Monday and the group for older children that meets at Christies Beach on a Tuesday both have vacancies – two places for pre-schoolers at Lower Mitcham and four places at Christies Beach. This is an exciting opportunity for a child to be involved in developing their musical ability and in the process improve their rhythmic, movement, speech and coordination skills while having fun!
Phone Karen on 0412 548 889 for more details. Click here to see the Tutti Kids flyer