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Adelaide Festival of Ideas

In the age of the machines, when junk mail has become fake news, and space is but another frontier, some 90 invited thinkers, drinkers and doers will come together at the 2018 Adelaide Festival of Ideas, for a series of mainly free thought-provoking presentations, in-conversations, round tables and special events.

Over three nights and three days, 12-15 July, scientists of all kinds, policy wonks, historians, economists, educationalists, theologians and artists will share with us their wisdom. Who knows ‘Who’s at the Wheel’? Rug up and join us as the winter sun rises on Adelaide’s West End knowledge precinct.  Full program available end of June http://adelaidefestivalofideas.com.au

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Wintertime Snow & Shine!

Simply Click this link to find out about this FREE ENTRY Family Friendly Festival that unites South Australia’s Motoring Enthusiast Community, Small Business & Charitable Causes!

https://horsepowercrew.com/wintertime-snow-shine-2018/

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Blue Touch at Beaumont House

Acclaimed jazz improviser and saxophonist Derek Pascoe and multi-award winning pianist Gabriella Smart have been an improvising duo for three years. Ahead of their European tour, they delve into what they love to do most – stretching the boundaries of listening through improvisation in sound and technique. This Sunday, the duo will come together at the beautiful Beaumont House for a breathtaking sunset performance. Featuring a world premiere written for Pascoe and Smart by Soundstream Emerging Composer commission recipient Leah Blankendaal, and solos including an Australian premiere for solo piano by Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh.

This concert is made possible with the generous support of Chamber Music Adelaide, Prelude National Network of Residencies, and the following organisations.

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Louise Devenish – Music for Percussion and Electronics

Enter a breathtaking world of percussive sound in Adelaide’s most haunting location, as one of Australia’s foremost percussionists extends the comprehensive sounds of the glockenspiel, the beauty of the vibraphone, and the deep resonance of gongs, through electronic processing, samples and sub woofers.

In association with South Australia’s history festival, Louise Devenish performs in Glenside’s Z-Ward – Adelaide’s decommissioned prison for the criminally insane. Featuring the work of Australian composers Andrián Pertout, Stuart James, Cat Hope and Kate Moore, Devenish’s ‘breathtakingly deft delivery and sculptor-like attention to detail’ will be complemented by visual projections mapped to the instruments on stage by New York artist Ross Karre.

Louise Devenish is the Head of Percussion at the University of Western Australia Conservatorium of Music, and regularly performs throughout Australasia, Europe, North America and the UK as a soloist and with ensembles including the Decibel New Music Ensemble and Speak Percussion. She was awarded the 2016 Australian Music Centre and APRA/AMCOS Art Music State Award for Performance of the Year.

In Adelaide for one night only.

 

$20 Adult/$15 Concession

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Soundstream presents: Blue Touch – with Jon Rose

Join Soundstream for an afternoon to remember as acclaimed pianist Gabriella Smart and violin genius Jon Rose come together at scenic Beaumont House for a special improvisatory sunset performance.

 

“There’s not much Rose doesn’t know about the violin. The rest, he has invented.” – Artforce Magazine

Jon Rose is a central figure in the development of Free Improvisation and sound art in Australia. Rose has been an innovator in the fields of new instrument design and new instrumental techniques (including interactive electronics), and regularly performs in the main international festivals of New Music, Jazz, performance and Sound Art. He has appeared on over 100 albums and CD’s.  In 2017 Rose was the composer in residence at The Peggy Glanville-Hicks house in Sydney. For more information on Jon, visit: www.jonroseweb.com

Gabriella Smart is one of Australia’s leading exponents of new music having performed extensively in Australia and overseas. Smart has worked with some of the world’s leading new music practitioners including Tan Dun, Michael Nyman, Alvin Curran, Carl Vine, Elena Kats Chernin, Erkki Veltheim, Erik Griswold, Paul Grabowsky, Brian Ritchie and Mary Finsterer, and regularly performs for ABC Classic FM. She is the recipient of a Churchill Fellowship (2010), and was described as “one of South Australia’s most influential women” (The Advertiser).

 

Book here: https://www.trybooking.com/VOJE
$20 Adult, $15 Concession

 

 

 

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