At this year’s Adelaide Fringe, you can discover comedic performances by disabled creators, a comedic adult take on Disney classics, family-friendly shows to bring the kids too, and much, much more with over eighty Auslan interpreted performances to choose from.
Check out some Auslan interpreted shows we’ve highlighted at the 2024 Adelaide Fringe Festival below:
The beloved Fringe favourite ‘disability cabaret’ is back again! Join the freshly crowned Mx Burlesque Adelaide Diana Divine for four nights of cabaret, community, and catharsis. Talking disability theory, personal anecdotes, and pet peeves, Singin in the Pain presents a bevy of burlesque & cabaret stars ready to share in this soapbox-style performance.
Book tickets to Singin in the Pain here.
Step into the world of being Chronically Ill-Prepared. A talented troupe of emerging SA performers bring their lived experience of disability and chronic illness to the stage in an improvised theatre/comedy production. As an improvised show, the content is unscripted and the performances are created on the spot, using suggestions from the audience.
Book tickets to Chronically-Ill Prepared here.
Party Pooper is a circus-y reinvention of a classic birthday party; featuring three enthusiastic acrobats, partying like it’s past their bedtime! This fully scripted show features familiar classics: Pin the Tail on the Donkey as well as Hula Hoops, Pass the Parcel as well as Pass Juggling and Musical Statues as well as Handstands.
Book tickets to Party Pooper here.
If fabrics could speak what stories would they tell? In this inclusive, audio-described exhibition of paintings, photographs and digital stories, explore the memories bound within the weft and warp of the fabrics we treasure.
Book tickets to If fabrics could speak… here.
Fringe For Kids is the newest family friendly variety show, bringing the best acts for kids, performed by the most talented artists in town. Each show is different with a fresh new line up every day! Promising fits of giggles and awe-inspiring stunts, reach into the lucky dip that is The Fringe for Kids and be delighted by what you’ll find.
Book tickets to Fringe for Kids here.
There are two free shows to attend by Everyone Needs a Liam – Liam Adams talks on his novels in his Librarian Saga and his Autism at Ayers House and Liam Adams talks on his epic novel Shifting Dimensions and his Autism at the Adelaide Planetarium. In these shows, Liam – a self-described geeky and nerdy science fiction and fantasy writer (with a lot of comedy) and cartoonist – talks to you about himself as a writer with Autism and Intellectual Disability, as well as his epic creations.
Book tickets to Liam Adams talks on his novels in his Librarian Saga and his Autism here.
Book tickets to Liam Adams talks on his epic novel Shifting Dimensions and his Autism here.
After 2 years honing his craft in London and Edinburgh, Jacob Henegan returns to Australia with his finest hour of his distinctive, whimsical stand-up, featuring stories about scrapes, misunderstandings and one very weird house viewing.
Book tickets to Jacob Henegan: Room With A View here.
In this rare and exclusive literary event, join world-renowned children’s author JK (as played by transgender comedian Anna Piper Scott) for an exclusive, hard hitting one-on-one interview. Some consider her to be the saviour of modern feminism. Others consider her to be the face of a hate movement.
Book tickets to An Evening with JK here.
Ben bridges the gap between the Deaf and the hearing worlds through stories about his life growing up as a CODA (Child of a Deaf Adult) and now being a sign language interpreter. His life is very similar to the movie CODA except he was never an American teenage girl with dreams of singing. Ben was a 2002 RAW comedy national finalist and back then did jokes about having a Deaf mum and knowing sign language, he now makes jokes about having a Deaf mum and being a sign language interpreter.
Book tickets to Deaf Bridges here.
This is a show where Josh tidies up. Tidying up is not normally the stuff of gripping drama, it wouldn’t be a propulsive narrative for most people but for Josh it’s Everest, a fundamentally impossible task, like trying to defy the moon and control the tides.
Book tickets to Josh Thomas – Let’s Tidy Up here.
Great news – Companion Cards tickets are available for all events in the 2024 Adelaide Fringe season! There is an initial verification process to access these Companion Card tickets, which you can complete here. Please note that you will need to have a free MyFringe account for verification. If you don’t have a MyFringe account, you can create one here.
Check out what’s Auslan interpreted at Adelaide Festival below:
Private View invites audiences into a world of secret desires and dreams, exploring taboo subjects of love and sex through diverse personal experiences. A voyeuristic new work from Restless Dance Theatre, Private View was created by award-winning director and choreographer Michelle Ryan and the Restless dancers with composer and singer Carla Lippis.
Book tickets to Private View here.
Mark has always wanted to be a writer. His mum’s a writer too, and together they’d spend hours reading and writing in their garden. When Mark moves out of his childhood home and into his first share flat, he and his mum stay connected by exchanging letters. When Mark one day receives a letter with the news too painful to bear, he seeks solace in the sea – the source of his fondest yet most agonising memories.
Happy festival season!
Access2Arts and Illuminate present two tours of their City Lights (North Precinct) program: an audio-described tour, and a Deaf-led Auslan tour. Both will depart from the National War Memorial on the corner of Kintore Avenue and North Terrace, on Wednesday 19th July 2023.
We are sending a huge congratulations to local SA artist, Jacek Limanowka, also known by his artist name ‘SKEG‘, for having his works selected to be displayed at the ITSLIQUID Group (in collaboration with EGO’ Boutique Hotel and ACIT Venice ((Italian-German Cultural Association)) 2022 exhibition, ANIMA MUNDI, in Venice!
Jacek Limanowka is an Adelaide-based artist working primarily in oil on canvas. He has been painting for nearly 30 years following a life-changing accident that saw him receive physical and emotional scars. His artistic practice has been used as a means to heal him emotionally throughout his ongoing recovery. Because of his reduced mobility with one arm, but also as a form of emotional release, Jacek took up painting for occupational therapy. From the very start Jacek’s paintings were very ‘unusual’ and vivid, created with colourful oils and pastels.
Many years on, he is now sending a range of selected artistic works (including the work in the above and below images) all the way around the world to Venice to be presented in the ANIMA MUNDI exhibition. These five artworks, which are all oil on canvas, are from a grouping titled “Autumn Rhythms”.
Over the years, Jacek’s artistic style became more abstract, with plenty of experimentation with colour frequencies in different styles. He found inspiration in Mosaic painting, which has its origins in the many churches he visited during his childhood in Poland. Each church was filled with richly coloured stained glass windows, an influence that can definitely be found visually in the work Jacek has sent off to Venice, with his extra creative addition of random colour placement.
“How is form made – it follows a rhythm. There is an underlying rhythm to everything”.
Jacek Limanowka
From the outset, Jacek has been interested in frequencies in colour and the way in which different colours interact together in a random fashion.
ITSLIQUID is a communication platform for contemporary art, architecture and design and is based on fluidity, motion, connection and accessibility – making things easy to do. Their exhibition, ANIMA MUNDI, is an international exhibition of photography, painting, video art, installation/sculpture, and performance art, that will be held at Palazzo Bembo on the Venice Grand Canal, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello and in other prestigious venues during the 59th Venice Biennale of Art.
The festival focuses on the concept of ANIMA MUNDI, which, according to several historical cultures, religions and philosophical systems, is an intrinsic connection between all living entities on the planet, which relates to the world in a similar way as the human soul is connected to the human body. In relation to this, Jacek lists finding inspiration in a heart beat, ideas, brain function, the earth having rhythms, seasons and and multi-millennium changes.
Plato expressed his thought about the Anima Mundi in the Timaeus, “this world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence… a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related”. And Jacek’s work fits in beautifully with this theme!
You can head to Jacek’s Artist Profile here.
The IT’S LIQUID GROUP have another opportunity to exhibit in Europe for artists to enter – find the opportunity to exhibit in London here.
UPDATE: Through the Venice exhibition Jacek has had offers to further exhibit in Italy, Switzerland and France and we are thrilled!
Here are the fantastic artistic creations that we have been lucky enough to provide Audio Descriptions for this year – stay tuned for more additions to this list!
Adelaide Fringe:
This Tree Is A Story (about everything, including you, as told by me) – Saturday, February 26th at 6pm. Find more information here.
BOOP – Thursday, March 10th (School Show) and Friday, March 11th for General Admission. Find more information here.
Adelaide Festival:
Juliet & Romeo – Sunday, March 6th at 1pm. Find more information here.
The Picture of Dorian Grey (pictured above) – Thursday, March 17th at 8pm. Find more information here.
State Theatre Company:
Girls and Boys – Saturday, March 5th and Monday, March 7th. Find more information here.
Girl From the North Country – Saturday, April 2nd and Tuesday, April 5th. Find more information here.
Cathedral – Monday, May 16th and Saturday, May 21st. Find more information here.
Antigone – Saturday, June 4th and Monday, June 6th. Find more information here.
Chalkface – Saturday, August 13th and Monday, August 15th. Find more information here.
Sunshine Super Girl – Saturday, September 10th and Monday, September 12th. Find more information here.
Normal Heart – Saturday, October 8th and Monday, October 10th. Find more information here.
Single Asian Female – November 12th and November 15th. Find more information here.
Windmill Theatre Company:
Rella – Saturday, June 4th at 2pm. Find more information here.
Grug and the Rainbow – Saturday, October 8th at 2pm. Find more information here.
MOD.:
Invisibility – available to visit weekly, Tuesday to Saturday: 10am – 5pm. Find more information here.
Praxis ARTSPACE:
The Apparent Divide – the exhibition opens Wednesday, March 9th and the Audio Description will be available for visitors to access via the website on their mobile phones. On Saturday, April 2nd is the Audio Described tour. Find more information here.
After Auslan Interpretation?
For Auslan Interpreted events this festival season, you can check out DeafCanDo’s list here.
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