The official program guide for the 2011 Feast Festival has been launched in front of a capacity crowd at Garage Bar by Adelaide Lord Mayor Stephen Yarwood.
Feast, Adelaide’s annual festival of queer arts and culture, kicks off the Festival City’s festival season from 12 – 27 November 2011.
“This year Feast will be bigger and better than ever,” said Creative Producer Kerry Ireland. “Our theme is Coming Together, and people from across Australia and around the world will do just that.”
The Festival Hub in Light Square will be the focus for major Feast events, with a wide variety of events taking place across Adelaide.
“We launched the Hub last year and it was a huge hit,” Kerry said. “This year’s Hub has been expanded to include the whole of Light Square. We are creating a new venue in addition to our flexible circus tents and the number of shows and special events is amazing.”
Entry to the Hub is free, with entertainment and a unique carnival atmosphere every night of Feast.
Feast showcases a host of SA, Australian and international talent, producing a world-class program of theatre, cabaret, comedy, visual arts, literature and music.
With a brilliant blend of brand new shows and events plus classic Feast favourites, along with parties, balls, and special events, Feast 2011 will have something for everyone.
The high-profile theatre program includes Holding The Man by the State Theatre Company and The Dead Ones, the much awaited new show by Margie Fischer, plus offerings from the USA and interstate.
The substantial cabaret and burlesque program includes Libby O’Donovan’s sell-out show Some of My Best Friends Are Single, Pink Sinatra/Scott Free with his 20 piece big band in the Feast Ballroom, and the Starlets of Burlesque featuring Miss Burlesque Adelaide Chrissie Lyra LaBelle, Flavella L’Amour, Kristina Crème, Karneydoll and Jolie Mystique.
Feast’s comedy program features shows with intriguing names like Talking Poofy, Fag Hag, Free Sexy Love Money and Turns Out I Do Like Sun Dried Tomatoes, along with the return of Triple J’s Tom Ballard.
Daytime events at the Hub will include an outdoor garage sale, art market, free zumba, bellydancing and salsa lessons, an afternoon tea Feast baked by Adelaide gay community identities and more.
The visual arts program features exhibitions by Stephen House, Ben McKeown (winner of the 2011 Victorian Indigenous Art Award), Ian Wilding, Ali Baker’s show at Tandanya and a rich variety of established and emerging artists’ work.
The Camp Site, the new Hub venue, is an intimate space complete with a camp fire surrounded by murals depicting Light Square created by students from Adelaide College of the Arts situated on Light Square.
For more information, visit: www.feast.org.au for details.
