Program
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Aboriginal People, Plants and Culture
Adelaide Botanic Garden
Explore the history, plants and landscapes of Australia through the eyes of experienced Aboriginal cultural instructor Trent Hill.
Schools and Families
Adelaide Noir
Alex Frayne
This photographic exhibition by award-winning photographer Alex Frayne, captures the solitude and affection the artist has with South Australia.
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Belonging in a Greener Future
COME OUT Festival and Adelaide City Council
Adelaide City Council and COME OUT Festival 2011 are inviting students to explore the Festival theme belonging by creating simple animations for the Rundle Lantern to be screened as part of the Festival.
Families
Big Family Outing by the River
COME OUT Festival 2011 and Adelaide Festival Centre
Free family fun on the banks of the River Torrens
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Collecting Colour / Women with Clever Hands
Flinders University City Gallery
Flinders University City Gallery present two exhibitions. Kylie Dunstan’s award-winning illustrations from her book Collecting Colour and a spectacular collection of fibre works called Women with Clever Hands.
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Diabolica Jones
Leave the Cat Alone Productions
This is a story about leaving your comfort zone. It encourages taking risks and trying new things - event if it means sometimes making mistakes.
Schools and Families
Dinosaur Petting Zoo
Erth Visual and Physical Inc
Meet a menagerie of life-like insects, mammals and dinosaurs in this fun, educational and unique performance event.
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Dogs Life:Dion Beasley
Dion Beasley
Dogs Life is a delightful exhibition of hand coloured prints that provide a humorous glimpse into the life of Canteen Creek’s camp dogs and other animal characters.
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Escape from Peligro Island
Windmill Theatre in association with The Border Project
Everything was normal on your flight over the ocean…until the plane went down and you crashed on an unknown island!
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Hans Christian, You must be an Angel
Teatret Gruppe 38
Winner of the Best Children's Theatre Award in the 2006 Danish Theatre Awards.
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Home is Where the Art Is - Workshop
Carclew Youth Arts
Inspired by the COME OUT theme of belonging, students will utilise an array of visual arts techniques and mediums to create their own distinctive diorama - a modelled miniature world where their favourite things and wildest imaginations co-exist.
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Home is Where the Art Is - Exhibition
Carclew Youth Arts
A dramatic exibition of dioramas made during Home is Where the Art Is workshops
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In Conversation - Think Small: putting children's confidence in their unique creativity at the centre of our thinking
Presented in association with Adelaide Festival Centre
Join ABC's Art Nation presenter Fenella Kernebone for a creative conversation with special guests.
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Instant Orchestra
Nico and Martin
In this fun workshop students will learn to master the angklung, a tuned bamboo rattle from Indonesia. This is a great group activity and no musical experience is required.
Schools and Families
Keynote Address: Children and Creativity in Education - Professor Guy Claxton
COME OUT Festival 2011
Join Guy as he examines the cultivation of creativity and where it can be discovered in everyday lessons in the classroom.
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Kids and Docs
International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA)
Join us for this selection of the best documentaries from around the world made about kids, for kids.
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Knitted City
Gemma Sneddon, Georgie Davill, Troy-Anthony Baylis, Deborah Prior and Laura Haigh
Knitted City will bring warmth, fun and colour to the streets of Adelaide, when a group of artists take to the streets with their, well…knitting.
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Little Green Tractor
Patch Theatre Company
If there’s a challenge to meet, a job to be done, The Little Green Tractor says 'Yes We Can!'
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Living Library
Presented by Tandanya and COME OUT Festival 2011
At the Living Library you’re invited to sit with an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and hear their individual story.
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Look, Look and Look Again
Dromkeen
An exhibition of original preliminary and finished artwork featuring picture book characters by Australian illustrators.
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Masterclass: Sean Williams & A.J. Mackinnon
Sean Williams & A.J. Mackinnon
This incredible once-in-a-lifetime Masterclass provides an opportunity for ten outstanding young speculative fiction or fantasy writers to spend a week being inspired, challenged and guided by best-selling authors Sean Williams and A. J. Mackinnon.
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Meet the Author: Andy Griffiths
COME OUT Festival 2011
This is your chance to meet Australia's most popular children's writer.
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Message Sticks - Understanding where we live
Adelaide Botanic Garden and SA Water
An outdoor, environmental exhibition in the beautiful SA Water Mediterranean Garden at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens.
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Our World-My Home
Little Picassos
Our World – Our Place is an exhibition of artworks that reflect the world, friends, family, places, and rituals that give us a sense of belonging; as seen through the eyes and imagination of children.
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Play Me, I'm Yours
by artist Luke Jerram
More than 20 pianos will be delivered to the streets of Adelaide for the COME OUT Festival. Each piano will be adorned with the simple invitation ‘Play Me, I’m Yours.’
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Putting Down Roots
COME OUT Festival 2011
This simple project invites schools to plant a garden (if you haven’t already!) of herbs and fast-growing vegetables and tend to the produce as it grows. Decorate your garden and your schools can go in the running to win a ZEN Home Energy System.
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Reko Rennie
Reko Rennie
A kamilaroi/Gamilaraa/Gummaroi man, born in Melbourne, Reko Rennie explores what it means to be an urban Aboriginal in contemporary Australian society.
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Stari Most
Various People
A beautiful orchestral and choral work featuring 100 young performers.
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Steam Island
Southern Youth Theatre Ensemble
On our island we worked, we played and we danced...until the stranger landed on our shores.
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Stop(the)Gap: International Indigenous Art in Motion
BigPond Adelaide Festival and Samstag Museum of Art
A major moving image project exploring the fertile ground between cinema and visual arts.
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Take Me There
Restless Dance Theatre
Poignant, hilarious and engaging, this production not only transports the performers but the audience as well, into a world where there is freedom to be wherever you want, whenever you want. The results are exhilarating and astounding. Where would you go?
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The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik Deep Sea Explorer
Weeping Spoon Productions
Winner Outstanding Solo Show, New York International Fringe Festival.
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)
State Theatre Company of South Australia
If your students have been allergic to Shakespeare up until now, this show is the perfect remedy!
Schools and Families
The Lonely Mouse
D'faces of youth arts
An all-Whaylla production about belonging and not belonging.
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The Mighty Choir of Small Voices
COME OUT Festival
A wonderful choral collective that will unify children and young people across the state by song.
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The Search for Nanuk
Gaia Theatre
Set some time in a magical future, when ‘The Last Zoo in the World’ is the only place to see many of earth’s animals; a young girl Zia and the King of the World, set out together to travel across land and sea in the search for Nanuk, the Polar Bear.
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Thick Skinned Things
Stella Den Haag
A deeply moving production about the feelings we have when everything seems to be going wrong.
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This [Baby] Life
Sally Chance
Baby: “Woke up. Smiled. Called for my tall ones. Travelled. Arrived in yet another strange room. Heard music, saw dancing…many more smiles.”
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Tour De Force: In Case of Emergency Break Glass - Exhibition
JamFactory
Tour De Force presents progessive and provocative works, set to both challenge and inspire
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Tour De Force: In Case of Emergency Break Glass - Workshops
JamFactory
Jam Packed Schools' Workshops!
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Vuil Kind [Vile Child]
Stella Den Haag
Vuil Kind [Vile Child] explores the fleeting nature of relationships and the transcience of beloning.
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We Are The People We've Been Waiting For
Presented by COME OUT Festival 2011
The world is changing rapidly – but are our education systems keeping up with the pace?
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When the Pictures Came
Terrapin Puppet Theatre and the Children's Art Theatre of China Welfare Institute
This is an absurd and comic story by Finegan Kruckemeyer about four hapless characters that learn to work as a team, to overcome a formidable opponent who seeks to prevent them from living in harmony.
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Wulamanayuwi and the Seven Pamanui
Darwin Festival
A new Australian play with songs and puppetry.
