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  Adelaide Festival of Arts - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Adelaide Festival of Arts is a prestigious arts festival held biannually in Adelaide, South Australia.
One of the world's greatest arts Festivals, it is internationally renowned and its cultural significance is unmatched within Australia.
The Adelaide Festival Theatre, Elder Park, the State Library of South Australia, the South Australian Museum, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the University of Adelaide, the University of South Australia and the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and Park are located on North Terrace, and the Festival takes full advantage.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adelaide_Festival_of_Arts   (336 words)

  
 Adelaide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Adelaide was established as the centre of a planned colony of free immigrants, promising civil liberties and freedom from religious persecution and as such does not share the convict history of other Australian cities, like Sydney and Hobart.
Adelaide is connected to Port Wakefield Road and the Sturt Highway in the north, and the South Eastern Freeway in the South East.
Adelaide is the midpoint of the Indian Pacific railway between Perth and Sydney, as well as the terminus of The Overland to Melbourne and The Ghan via Alice Springs to Darwin.
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 Adelaide Fringe Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Adelaide Fringe Festival is one of the world's biggest arts festivals and is held biennially in Adelaide, South Australia.
The Adelaide Fringe evolved in the early 1970s as a reaction against the establishment and the then 'mainstream' Adelaide Festival of Arts.
The Adelaide Fringe is renowned for fresh ideas, risk, imagination, spontaneity and fun, and is widely regarded as one of the best events of its kind in the world.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adelaide_Fringe_Festival   (173 words)

  
 Adelaide Festival of Arts -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Adelaide Festival of Arts is a prestigious arts festival held biannually in (The state capital of South Australia) Adelaide, (A state in south central Australia) South Australia.
One of the world's greatest arts Festivals, it is internationally renowned and its cultural significance is unmatched within (A nation occupying the whole of the Australian continent; aboriginal tribes are thought to have migrated from southeastern Asia 20,000 years ago; first Europeans were British convicts sent there as a penal colony) Australia.
Begun in 1960, the Adelaide Festival of Arts occurs in Adelaide's warm (The season when the leaves fall from the trees) autumn every 'even' year (2000, 2002, 2004 etc.).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/A/Ad/Adelaide_Festival_of_Arts.htm   (326 words)

  
 Adelaide Film Festival - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Adelaide Film Festival is a biennal and non-competitive film festival held on alternate years to the Adelaide Festival of Arts over two weeks in late February, in Adelaide, South Australia.
In 2005, the festival was held in collaboration with both the Australian International Documentary Conference and WOMADelaide.
The second biennal Adelaide Film Festival was held between February 18 to March 3, 2005 and recorded total screening attendances of more than 33,000 across the 13 days, and a further 6,300 across Festival's other events, rising by approximately 96% from 2003.
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Adelaide_International_Film_Festival   (369 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Adelaide Festival of Arts
The Adelaide Parklands are the parklands that surround the City of Adelaide, the capital of South Australia.
Main Lake, Adelaide Botanic Gardens Adelaides Botanic Gardens is a 125 acre area of land inside the north east corner of Adelaides parklands, encompassing a fenced garden, open parklands and the Adelaide Zoo.
Considered one of the worlds pre-eminant literary events, Adelaide Writers Week is traditional part of the Adelaide Festival of Arts fornight where festival attendees meet and discuss literature with Australian and international writers in Meet the Author sessions, readings and lectures.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Adelaide-Festival-of-Arts   (1028 words)

  
 Adelaide Festival of Arts
The biennial Adelaide Festival is acknowledged as one of the world's great arts festivals, with a tradition of innovation since 1960.
Adelaide is planned on a unique system of open parklands and squares and it contains many performing arts venues and galleries within walking distance.
The Adelaide Festival is a chance for everyone to leave ordinary life behind and celebrate, discuss, renew, and party.
www.festivals.on.net /adelaide.html   (162 words)

  
 Adelaide Hotels, Adelaide Tourism, Adelaide Travel, Hotels in Adelaide, Adelaide Vacations.
Adelaide the capital of South Australia, is situated on the eastern shores of Gulf St Vincent.
Adelaide is also famous for its museums, most famous being the Port Dock Station Railway Museum, which has a collection of steam engines, diesel locomotives, some very interesting rolling stocks, special display of railway signals and safe working, and a huge model layout -- “The Long Journey”, depicting the social history of South Australian Railway.
Adelaide Domestic and International Airports are situated at a distance of around 5 km west of the city centre.
www.travelershub.com /destination_guide/australia/adelaide.html   (1070 words)

  
 Flinders University: News, events and notices - The future of Adelaide's Festival of Arts: stodgy or staggering?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Adelaide's 2004 Festival of Arts has been a definite success in terms of filling seats but as a result the event is facing a dilemma of identity, according to Flinders University drama lecturer Murray Bramwell.
Adelaide's Festival was modelled on the Edinburgh Festival, and is in fact only a few years younger.
Mr Bramwell said the recent prominence of the Melbourne Festival was due largely to Robyn Archer, who learned her trade directing two successive festivals in Adelaide.
www.flinders.edu.au /news/articles?fj04v15s02   (606 words)

  
 classical music - andante - peter sellars' adelaide festival: on the cutting edge or the edge of an abyss?
His left-wing festival vision is one of a community dialogue about contemporary issues with people who are not usually heard, and he derides the comfortable model in which audiences file into theatres to be served the best from abroad.
She believes the latest Melbourne Festival is a fantastic example of the old model but is a consequence of a Centenary of Federation funding windfall.
The chair of the Friends of the Festival Council, Margaret Oates, said this week the festival was a challenge that had made some on the council unhappy because of the lack of high art, while others were excited to look at life in a different way.
www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=14734   (1228 words)

  
 Adelaide - Capital City of South Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Adelaide was named after Queen Adelaide, wife of William IV, the King of England who reigned from 1830 until his death in 1837.
Adelaide's City Centre is surrounded by the Park Lands and its metropolitan area extends west to the Southern Ocean, east to the Mt Lofty Ranges, northwards along the Adelaide plains in the direction of the famous Barossa Valley and south to the side of the Willunga basin.
Adelaide is generally regarded as one of the most compact, elegant and attractive of Australian cities with a population of 1.2 million people including the surrounding metropolitan area, Adelaide is a blend of modern development and distinguishing nineteenth century architecture.
www.capcity.adelaide.sa.gov.au /html/adelaide.html   (619 words)

  
 South Australia Major Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Feast is Adelaide's lesbian and gay cultural festival, established in 1997 as a multi art-form cultural festival, which has quickly become a major Australian cultural festival and one of the top three gay and lesbian events in Australia.
Adelaide is world renowned as the arts capital of the Southern Hemisphere with a series of important arts, cultural, film feast, music, food and wine festivals throughout the year.
The biennial Adelaide Festival of Arts is acknowledged by critics, artists and the public as one of the world’s great festivals.
www.southaustralia.com /content.asp?page_id=4   (1367 words)

  
 Adelaide Festival of Arts - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Adelaide Festival of Arts - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Adelaide Festival Theatre, Elder Park, the State Library of South Australia, the Museum of South Australia, the Art Gallery of South Australia, the University of Adelaide, the University of South Australia and the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and Park are located on North Terrace, and the Festival takes full advantage.
Adelaide Festival of Arts, Features of the Adelaide Festival of Arts:, Highlights of Festival 2004 and External links.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Adelaide_Festival_of_Arts   (370 words)

  
 Adelaide, South Australia travel guide - Australian Tourism Net
The Come Out Youth Arts Festival has grown from a limited program of workshops and performances for young people as a part of the 1974 Adelaide Festival of Arts, to an independent biennial festival for, by and with Young people which embraces the entire state.
It is a major event in the arts calendar of South Australia considered one of the three foremost youth arts festivals in the world.
The Adelaide Festival, a three week biennial festival, is held in March of each even numbered year and has grown into Australia's major cultural event.
www.atn.com.au /sa/south/events-g.htm   (681 words)

  
 CNN.com - Hitler images cost arts festival funding - October 28, 2001
ADELAIDE, Australia -- The use of Adolf Hitler's image to advertise Australia's most prestigious arts festival has triggered a $500,000 snub from the country's largest telco.
But this year's Adelaide Arts Festival is now under a cloud because the Telstra telco pulled its sponsorship of more than $500,000 after organizers hesitated to cancel the Hitler advertisements immediately.
The festival, regarded as Australia's finest, has already been cut by almost half following a cost blowout, a decline in international tourism since the September 11 terrorist attack, and the demise of the country's second carrier, Ansett airlines.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/10/28/aust.hitler   (298 words)

  
 Governor of South Australia - Selected Speeches
Part of the excitement of the Adelaide Festival is the anticipation of the unexpected.
The Festival vein continues at Government House tomorrow morning, when we provide the venue for a Writers' Week breakfast, and over the period of the Festival I will be hosting two luncheons at here for Festival artists, sponsors and supporters.
The first weekend of the Festival always has about it a great sense of expectation and vitality, and I am pleased that I have been able to offer the grounds of Government House as a contribution towards this great cultural celebration.
www.governor.sa.gov.au /html/speeches_04/040228_festivalarts_samstag.html   (556 words)

  
 Festivals Worldwide. Australia.
The Melbourne Art Festival is held free of charge on the fourth full weekend in April each year in historic downtown Melbourne, Florida.
The UWA Perth International Arts Festival, the oldest annual international multi-arts festival in the southern hemisphere, is Western Australia's premier cultural event.
The first Adelaide Festival of Ideas was held in 1999 (July 9 —11) and explored the themes of reconciliation; ethics and the law; democracy, survival and cooperation and speakers participated in such sessions as Democracy, Survival and Co-operation, Life, The Universe and Everything and Hello Dolly: cloning, ethics and the law.
www.festivals-worldwide.com /docs/oz.htm   (1671 words)

  
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The Adelaide Festival of Arts is a biennial event with 2004 being a Festival year.
In reviewing the financial performance of the Corporation it should be noted that, although the predominant role of the Corporation is to conduct the Adelaide Festival of Arts, its functions also extend to the promotion and conduct of other festivals and events such as the Festival of Ideas.
Given the biennial nature of the Adelaide Festival of Arts, the financial results for the event are recorded mainly over a cycle of two financial years.
www.audit.sa.gov.au /03-04/b/afc.html   (815 words)

  
 RealTime I Adelaide Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
There is no doubt that the arts can seem unimportant—even trivial—in the wake of traumatic events, including September 11, the refugee crisis, the war in Afghanistan and ongoing but pressing Indigenous issues in our own country.
Many complaints around the festival focussed, somewhat bizarrely it seems to me, on the apparent role reversal between the Adelaide Festival and the Adelaide Fringe.
Surely it is the much touted ‘universality’ of art that has been so celebrated by those who prefer their art classical and their heritage European.
www.realtimearts.net /rt48/admiller.html   (622 words)

  
 Sightseeing South Australia - Adelaide
Adelaide is a relaxed city of pubs, cafes, restaurants, fresh produce and wine.
Adelaide is a wonderful place to experience the heritage, culture and convenience of a larger city, without all of the frustrations.
Adelaide is Australias fifth largest city with a population of more than 1.1 million.
www.sightseeing.com.au /Adelaide   (350 words)

  
 AdelaideCriticsCircle
Adelaide critics are among the most feared in the world - and extremely educated in their art because of their exposure to the city's long history as home to famous arts festivals, and the fecundity of arts in the state of South Australia.
The Adelaide Critics Circle is GST exempt as a non-profit body and the appropriate forms are lodged with Arts SA.
The Adelaide Critics Circle funds are held in an arts auspiced trust account.
www.adelaidecritics.com   (383 words)

  
 Adelaide Festival of Arts
Sydney, Melbourne and Perth may all have their arts festivals, but none compares in size, prestige or sheer excitement to Adelaide’s.
Adelaide’s world-famous Festival of Arts is held in even-numbered years (don’t ask me why, mate) for three weeks in February/March.
The focus tends to be around the bars and restaurants of Rundle Street East where festivities continue until dawn at the Fringe Club, but buskers and performers spread throughout the city.
www.upfromaustralia.com /adfesofar.html   (222 words)

  
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Since its inception in 1960, the biennial Adelaide Festival has grown to become an internationally acclaimed arts event with an impressive reputation for artistic leadership.
This growth and success is not possible without the loyal commitment of the Festival's corporate partners, donors and volunteers who make a direct investment in Australia's arts community, its audiences and the social, economic and cultural well-being of the state.
There are a number of ways for you to become involved and to contribute to a bright future for the Adelaide Festival of Arts.
www.adelaidefestival.org.au /friends   (157 words)

  
 Adelaide Festival of Arts 2004: In the Adelaide City region of South Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Adelaide Festival of Arts 2004: In the Adelaide City region of South Australia
One of the highlights of the 2004 Festival of Arts is “Night Letters” by the State Theatre Company.
The Festival sees the world premiere of Night Letters in which an Australian - recently diagnosed with an incurable disease, leaves home, his lover and his old life to travel through Europe.
www.postcards.sa.com.au /features/adelaide_festival_night_letters.html   (227 words)

  
 ADELAIDE FESTIVAL CORPORATION
The Corporation replaces the Adelaide Festival Board which had delegated power from the Minister for the Arts to operate and manage the Adelaide Festival of Arts.
The Adelaide Festival of Arts is a biennial event with 1999 not being a Festival year.
The assets and liabilities of the Adelaide Festival Board as at 31 March 1999 were vested by the Minister for the Arts in the Adelaide Festival Corporation pursuant to clause 2 of the Schedule to the Adelaide Festival Corporation Act 1998.
www.audit.sa.gov.au /98-99/suprep/adefescorp.htm   (494 words)

  
 Adelaide on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Univ. of Adelaide (1874) and the multicampus South Australian College of Advanced Education (1982) are among the institutions of higher education located in the city and its suburbs.
The Adelaide Festival of the Arts has been held biennially since 1960.
Surgery and repair: Stuart Niven outlines Adelaide's plans for the recovery of its public edge.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/A/AdelaideA1us.asp   (531 words)

  
 City Guide for Adelaide in Australia - The Adelaide Festival Of Arts And Womadelaide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Adelaide Festival of Arts, which takes over the city for three weeks at the beginning of March in even-numbered years, is a huge event, attracting an extraordinary range of international and Australian theatre companies, performers, musicians, writers and artists.
Twenty-four hour licensing laws are taken advantage of, as the Sydney and Melbourne arts scenes join the locals for some serious partying: late through the hot night the Fringe Club has bands, cabaret and comedy, and there are free outdoor shows and activities (www.adelaidefringe.com.au).
Advance programmes for both the main and the fringe festival and further information is available from the offices of Tourism South Australia, or from all Bass outlets.
www.cityguides-worldwide.com /Australia/94066.htm   (446 words)

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