Adelaide’s Queer Culture Festival is getting ready to mix it up.
Feast, the annual (LBGITQ) Queer Arts and Cultural Festival, has revealed its 2013 gender-bending theme ‘Gender: Mix it up’, as well as its official festival home and four special events that are set to hoist a vibrant rainbow across Adelaide this November.
Music, theatre, film, literature, queer ideas, cabaret and drag will fill the ANZ Cluster; a creative space comprised of the Lion Arts Centre Courtyard (Courtyard Cluster), Fowlers Live (The Blender), Nexus Cabaret (Queer Nexus), The Mercury Cinema and The University of South Australia (The Tank).
According to Feast’s new artistic director Catherine Fitzgerald, ‘Gender – Mix It Up will explore gender, sexualities, power, patriarchy, government, feminism, and culture through the festivals electric mix of festivities; examining what role and influence gender has on our lives.’
Headlining the artistic program will be boot scootin’ country darling and winner of nine golden guitars, two entertainer of the year awards and three golden records Beccy Cole. Her show was a sell-out last year, so it’s wise to book early for this one.
Also at the cluster will be all-male cabaret review Le Male. Fishnets and heels will rule the stage with Rhys Bobridge getting steamy at the helm.
If you seek something at a different pace, deaf and hearing audiences alike can experience a moving theatrical piece ‘Monologue of a deaf woman’. The show explores themes of love, life and the universe from the perspective of a deaf, gay woman.
For those with a party animal inside them howling to get out, ‘Bedlam’, Feast’s new DJ party will help tame the beast. Up and coming acts such as DJ Josh, Little Miss K, DJ Stephen Craddock & Nelson De Sousa will join some of Australia’s hottest queer DJ’s including DJ Kate Monroe, DJ Kitty Glitter and Alex Taylor in a quest to get you on the dance floor.
On top of these events, more festive opportunities are set to come that will ensure an eclectic and action-packed festival.
‘I have mixed up discussion, forums and critical thinking with content and form throughout the program. It will challenge and confront, but also sustain the playfulness, celebratory fun that is Feast. I hope that the program entices a whole new audience to come and mix in and mix it up,’ says Fitzgerald.
Feast will run from 9-24 November. Visit FEAST for tickets and information.
