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Adelaide Fringe
Adelaide Fringe, formerly Adelaide Fringe Festival, is Australia’s biggest arts festival and is the world's second-largest annual arts festival (after the Edinburgh Festival Fringe), held in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. Between mid-February and mid-March each year, it features more than 7,000 artists from around Australia and the world. Over 1,300 events are staged in hundreds of venues, which include work in a huge variety of performing and visual art forms. The Fringe features many free events occur alongside ticketed events for the duration of the festival. In 2023 Adelaide Fringe became the first festival in Australia to sell 1 million tickets. This has doubled from 500,000 tickets in 2015. The main temporary venue hubs are The Garden of Unearthly Delights, Gluttony and the Wonderland and 500 other temporary and permanent venues hosting Fringe events are scattered across the city, suburbs and region. In a period in Adelaide's calendar referred to by locals ...
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Adelaide
Adelaide ( , ; ) is the list of Australian capital cities, capital and most populous city of South Australia, as well as the list of cities in Australia by population, fifth-most populous city in Australia. The name "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre; the demonym ''Adelaidean'' is used to denote the city and the residents of Adelaide. The Native title in Australia#Traditional owner, traditional owners of the Adelaide region are the Kaurna, with the name referring to the area of the city centre and surrounding Adelaide Park Lands, Park Lands, in the Kaurna language. Adelaide is situated on the Adelaide Plains north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, between the Gulf St Vincent in the west and the Mount Lofty Ranges in the east. Its metropolitan area extends from the coast to the Adelaide Hills, foothills of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and stretches from Gawler in the north to Sellicks Beach in the south. Named in ho ...
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Department Of The Premier And Cabinet (South Australia)
The Department of the Premier and Cabinet (DPC) is a department of the Government of South Australia. It is the main agency supporting the Premier and Cabinet by developing policy and delivering their programs, and also carries the arts portfolio. Purpose and role , DPC's purpose and role included the following: * Delivering specialist policy advice to the Premier * Helping Cabinet to function effectively as a decision-making body * Overseeing Commonwealth-state and international diplomatic relations * Providing a single agency focus in delivering core functions for: ** Aboriginal community support and advice, including reconciliation and employment opportunities **multicultural affairs **leading, developing, funding and coordinating the arts, cultural and creative sector, including the care of the state's collections, buildings and other assets within this sector * Leading whole-of-government reforms and initiatives based on the Premier's vision for South Australia * Leading po ...
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Spiegeltent
A spiegeltent (Dutch language, Dutch for "mirror tent", from ''wikt:spiegel#Dutch, spiegel''+''wikt:tent#Dutch, tent'') is a large travelling tent, constructed from wood and canvas and decorated with mirrors and stained glass, intended as an entertainment venue. Originally built in Belgium during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, only a handful of spiegeltents remain in existence and continuing to travel predominantly around Europe. Often as a feature attraction at various international arts festivals. Two tents used by Teatro ZinZanni have been in semi-permanent locations in Seattle and San Francisco for several years. The Melba Spiegeltent spent the better part of a century touring Europe, but is now permanently located in Melbourne, Australia. The Famous Spiegeltent, built in 1920, is now owned by Australian jazz piano player David Bates. On April 1, 2011, Spiegelworld opened ''Absinthe'' at Caesars Palace, Paradise, Nevada in the 26-metre Salon Marlene spiegeltent. I ...
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Rundle Park / Kadlitpina
Rundle Park / Kadlitpina (formerly spelt Kadlitpinna), also known as Park 13, is a part of the Adelaide Park Lands in Adelaide, South Australia. It was known as Rundle Park until its Kaurna name was assigned as part of the dual naming initiative by Adelaide City Council in 2003. The park is bounded by East Terrace (to the west), Botanic Road (north), Dequetteville Terrace (east) and Rundle Road (south). Naming John Rundle (1791–1864) was a British Whig politician and businessman who was one of the original directors and financiers of the South Australia Company. Kadlitpina (earlier rendered Kadlitpinna), known as "Captain Jack" by the early colonial settlers, was one of the three Kaurna ''burka'', or elders well known to the colonists at the time of the colonisation of South Australia. (The other two were Murlawirrapurka ("King John") and Ityamai-itpina ("King Rodney"), whose names are used for the two parks to the south of this one). His name was derived from ''kadli' ...
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Adelaide Park Lands
The Adelaide Park Lands comprise the figure-eight configuration of land, spanning both banks of the River Torrens between Hackney and Thebarton, which encloses and separates the City of Adelaide area (including both the Adelaide city centre and North Adelaide) from the surrounding suburbia of greater metropolitan Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. They were laid out by William Light, Colonel William Light in his design for the city, and originally consisted of "exclusive of for a West Terrace Cemetery, public cemetery". One copy of Light's plan shows areas for a cemetery and a Post and Telegraph Store on West Terrace, Adelaide, West Terrace, a small Government Domain and Barracks on the central part of North Terrace, Adelaide, North Terrace, a hospital on East Terrace, a Botanical Garden on the River Torrens west of North Adelaide, and a school and a storehouse south-west of North Adelaide. Over the years there has been constant encroachment on the Park Lands by th ...
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Adelaide City Centre
Adelaide city centre () is the inner city locality of Adelaide, Greater Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. It is known by locals simply as "the City" or "Town" to distinguish it from Greater Adelaide and from the City of Adelaide local government area (which also includes North Adelaide and from the Adelaide Park Lands, Park Lands around the whole city centre). The residential population was 18,202 in the , with a local worker population of 130,404. Adelaide city centre was planned in 1837 on a Greenfield land, greenfield site following a Grid plan, grid layout, with streets running at right angles to each other. It covers an area of and is surrounded by of park lands.The area of the park lands quoted is based, in the absence of an official boundary between the City and North Adelaide, on an east–west line past the front entrance of Adelaide Oval. Within the city are five parks: Victoria Square, Adelaide, Victoria Square in the exact centre and four other, smal ...
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Rundle Mall
Rundle Mall is a pedestrian street mall located in Adelaide, South Australia. It was opened as a pedestrian mall in September 1976 after the closing of the western section of Rundle Street between King William Street and Pulteney Street, to vehicular traffic. The street continues as Rundle Street (as before) to the east and Hindley Street to the west. By annual foot traffic, it is the busiest shopping precinct in Australia. At long, with over 1000 retail outlets, 300 services, 3 department stores, and 15 arcades, Rundle Mall is the longest outdoor mall in the southern hemisphere. It is the centrepiece of Adelaide's city centre, and home to some of the most expensive commercial real estate in the state. Description Rundle Mall is long, the largest pedestrian mall in the southern hemisphere. The mall welcomes over 800,000 visitors per week, with approximately 54 million annually, making it by far the busiest and largest shopping precinct in Australia. In 2024, spending ...
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Sandy Verschoor
Sandra Maaike Jayne Verschoor is an Australian businesswoman who was the Lord Mayor of Adelaide in South Australia from 12 November 2018 until November 2022. Prior to this, she was Deputy Lord Mayor and a general manager at the City of Adelaide. She is now the chair of both the Art Gallery of South Australia and the South Australian Heritage Council. Early life and education Verschoor is the second daughter of Dutch immigrants to Australia and grew up in Elizabeth. She is of Dutch, French, Portuguese, and Ceylonese descent. She has a Master of Arts, an MBA and a PhD in Business Administration from Kennedy Western University. Career Verschoor worked in broadcasting and marketing in the early 1990s, and became marketing manager of the Adelaide Festival of the Arts in 1995 and Marketing & Development Director 1996-1999. As the Associate Director of Arts Projects Australia 2001 - 2006 she worked on WOMADelaide and helped establish the Adelaide Film Festival. She was CEO of the ...
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InDaily
Solstice Media is an Australian publisher based in Adelaide, South Australia. Established in 2004, it was known for publishing the weekly tabloid newspaper ''The Independent Weekly''. Solstice publishes ''InDaily'', which was initially the online subscriber daily news service of the weekly newspaper but replaced the printed version entirely in November 2010. Solstice also publishes ''CityMag'', a weekly digital magazine and quarterly print magazine established in 2013; ''SA Life'', a monthly print magazine; the arts and culture webzine, ''InReview''; ''The New Daily''; '' The Southern Cross''; ''InQueensland''; and other online products. History ''The Independent Weekly'', established in September 2004, was a weekly independent newspaper published and circulated in Adelaide, released on Saturdays. The newspaper's owners were Solstice Media. The newspaper launched an online subscriber daily news service called ''InDaily'' on the anniversary of its first year in operation. In ...
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Heather Croall
Heather Ann Croall (born 1967) is an international arts CEO, artistic director and documentary producer, best known for leading Sheffield Doc/Fest which she grew to be one of the best documentary festivals in the world and Adelaide Fringe where she has taken ticket sales from 500,000 a year to a million each year and won many awards for the festival. She is also known for her work on live music / archive films including The Big Melt, '' From the Sea to the Land Beyond, Girt By Sea, From Scotland With Love, Atomic, Living in Dread and Promise'' In 2024 Heather Croall AM was awarded an Order of Australia for her services to the arts and film. In 2023 Croall graduated from MIT Sloan School of Management. In 2022, Croall won the Festival Management CEO of the Year 2022 (Australia) as voted by CEO Monthly magazine. Heather Croall won the Leadership Award at the 2020 SA Woman Awards and in 2021, Croall was nominated as Leader of the Year in the South Australian Woman of the Year ...
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