The centre of the festival and a whirlwind of activity day and night. Capital City is a magical environment of theatres and stages, cafes and clubs, craft villages, tents, water sculptures and technology installations. In the middle of the City sits the festival Circus Tent, venue for a huge array of shows from around the world, parties, film, broadcasts, and bands. The Boatshed Theatre is home to more intimate performances while the Festival Centre, taken over and transformed by young people, hosts a thrilling program of theatre, dance and comedy. Take part in the literature program at the Allwrite! tent. Try Tech Over's amazing range of technical and computer interactive spaces. Visit The Kids Village and its eight magical hands-on activity tents for 3-12 year olds. Watch a film while floating out on water. Enjoy the Living Health Adventure Park Area, see the water sculptures, or visual exhibitions. Enjoy the free performances on the Cafe Stage, in the Amphitheatre or around the site. Take part in the debates at the Capital City Congress Enter the Ecomaze. Party till late then chill at Blink, the 1st Site Festival Club or the Tepee Village. Capital City is for all ages and all tastes and runs from 10.00am till late, everyday of the festival (except Good Friday)
The festival sees performers and young people visit Adelaide from around the world. The festival has chosen to particularly focus on Indonesia, as our closet neighbour and Canada, that shares so much with Australia in terms of size, the challenges of a geographically dispersed people, issues of its past and reconciliation with its indigenous people.
At Congress, Capital City's Parliament, the most fundamental issues that confront Australia today are explored and discussed by young people who have the chance to listen and cross examine each other and a range of witnesses ranging from environmental gurus to the State Premier.
DAY 1: WHOSE AUSTRALIA ?
in a year when questions of race and immigration have inflamed Australia the Capital City Congress looks at the different kinds of society that young Australians want to be a part of. Do we have room for refugees from areas of war and famine and what price social justice? Is Australia a land that needs new energy and imagination from around the world or should we close the doors and put up the house full signs? Does Pauline Hanson speak for the many of the few? Groups ranging from government ministers to recent young refugees give their testimony as the Congress tackles these fundamental issues.
DAY 2: THE FUTURE OF THE LAND
Australia is the world's driest and most fragile continent. For generations Australia has lived off the wealth of our natural resources-mining and agriculture. Is this life style still affordable? Should we mine our national parks if the gains are big enough? Should we be flexible in meeting world guidelines on green house emissions? What price a sustainable future? With witnesses invited from the mining industry, environmental groups, politicians and Indigenous Australia, the Congress asks what sort of environment can young Australians hope to inherit?
DAY 3: WHAT KIND OF GOVERNMENT?
Before coming to power the Howard Government promised the People's Forum on constitutional change. The Capital City Congress jumps the gun as young people discuss the sort of government they would like. Should Australian's head of state be the King or Queen of England or should Australia become a Republic? Do people care about politics and if not, why not? With the State Premier, monarchists and republicans, anarchists and a whole range of guest speakers, the Capital City Congress maps our future.
Allwrite! Tent, Elder Park
April 1, 2, 3 at 1.00 pm - 2.30 pm
Limited free entry for registered school students,
to register ph Kathy Whitta (08) 8226 8104
SCHOOLS
All tickets $ 3.00 on the day Capital City Box Office
Iron Garden
CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
Choreographer Juha Vanhakartano
Iron Garden is an exciting collaboration between the Centre for the Performing Arts Dance Department and Finnish choreographer Juha Vanhakartano. A dance theatre production full of irony, humour and the fresh physical power of youth, Iron garden exposes our fears of the dangers lurking beyond the fence, threatening our conventional suburban lifestyles. Performed outdoors in Capital City. Watch the Daily Diary for dates and times.
ONSHORE DRAMA
presents this bizarre performance which explores homelessness, the symbolism of water, cities and the landscape of women - through movement, voice and percussion will start at the Cafe Stage then wind through Elder Park
March 22 at 1,00pm, 5,30pm,
March 24 at 12.30pm, 6,00pm
THE SOUTH AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN'S BALLET COMPANY
Artistic Director Beverley Waters Choreographers Veena Deepak & Simi RochePancha Bhootas means 5 elements ... Earth, Water, Fire, Air & Space. The human body in it's entirety is constituted by these elements. They are constantly sung, danced, chanted, invoked and bargained with. Innumerable devotions have been composed and performed to appease them when angry or to praise them when harmonious. Watch the daily diary for dates and times.
Roving performances over the Easter weekend from these amazing environmental performance artists on stilts and behind smoke screens.
Presented by the Adelaide Festival Centre
Amphitheatre
FREE event
Rain or Shine (Circus Tent if raining)
The WRITERS COLLECTIVE (AUST)
Creator Michael Newbold, Nic Hurcombe, Joey Kennedy Director Michael NewboldStarring Nic Hurcombe & Marlo Grocke.
Sucked in Bad explores the subject of asthma, Full of visual magic and provides a fascinating insight into a condition which has reached epidemic amongst young people and the Australian population at large.
Boatshed Theatre
March 22, 23 at 12 noon, 2,00pm, 4,00pm.
A free performance brought to you by Living Health
SUCKED IN BAD was commissioned and originally produced by Magpie Theatre.
URBAN MYTH THEATRE OF YOUTH (AUST)
Beaming into Capital City these strange Young Aliens will be popping up when expect them. Sponsored by Alien Bolaffi.
Check out top local and visiting buskers while you're enjoying a great snack or meal in Capital City's food arena. Toss them some spare change if you enjoy their show - remember, this is how they make their living! On show right throughout Take Over.
AUSDANCE(AUST)
"DANCE TAKES OVER 97" in celebration of International Dance Day Over 300 performers celebrate International Dance Day in this colourful combining Arts, Health and Recreation, and dissolving the perceived barriers dance styles, cultural influences, ages, performers, audience members and including modern, jazz, tap, contemporary, ballet, funk and belly dance, to few! Performers come from professional dance, secondary school dance, dance, independent artists, multicultural dance, tertiary level dance. Christian and private studios. AUSDANCE showcases dance as a performance art recreational activity in a non-competitive, positive environment. For further information contact Mardi at Ausdance (SA) on phone 8231 9407 8212 5699
Amphitheatre
March 23 at 1.00 pm
Duration 3 hours (with interval)
All ages
Capital City provides a huge canvas for the talents, vision and imagination of tertiary students around the State, including ...
PAINTING BEYOND THE EASEL sees North Adelaide School of Art students create a huge fragmented painting crisscrossing the site using a variety of found objects
INFLATABLES, WEARABLES, MOVABLES, AUDIBLES shows foundation students at work creating structures and costumes, building and blending wild forms, shapes, and colours, to mingle with the Capital City crowds.
WATER WORKS involves lecturers and post-graduate students from University of South Australia's Urban Water Resource Centre joining the Cooperative of Research in Water Quality to show off their fascinating models of urban water recycling. Take a sample of water from the River Torrens and analyse it with a computer program!
Out on the water DIGITISED MEMORIES is a series of computerised images created by 20 final year Fine Art students from the University of South Austral a School of Art projected onto Capital City's River Gallery. using memory as a basis for dream like images. Students from the School of Art transform the Rotunda into a temporary open - air workshop, exhibiting their works and creating wonders on site. Rotunda, Elder Park March 21 - April 6.
In FUTURE DESIGN SITE graduating Architecture students from the University of Adelaide present their Visions and designs for Capital City, including models and computer-generated fly-throughs of imaginary cities.
ORCHESTRATION sees hundreds of musicians, quartets. soloists. trios and choirs in venues and on stages across CAPITAL CITY- drawn from the Elder Conservatorium. the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music and the Flinders Street School of Music- playing anything from Puccini to Pearl Jam
OzScreen students from the University of Adelaide’s Performing Arts & Technology Unit team up with Flinders University Drama students to create a series of startling and dynamic interactive performances using computer animation, video projection, closed circuit cameras, morphing and infra red triggers in the Tech Over Tent.
ART AFLOAT A brilliant combination of aesthetics and engineering trickery on the River Torrens from final year students from the University of SA`s faculty of Industrial Design.
BEHIND THE SCENES
Catch the Centre for the Performing Arts technical students working with professionals to keep TAKE OVER productions running smoothly and professionally. Teams of MBA students from the University of SA researched and advised the TAKE OVER team on the logistics of the creation of Capital City as part of a Project Management course. Students from the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music and Tauondi. the Aboriginal Community College contribute their talents to Ngunyawaieti.
Prepare yourself for the most amazing feast of technological treats at Tech Over, the technology hub of the Capital City. Four Pods feature a host of new, amazing and fun activities related to technology, communications, video, sound and visual arts.
Pod 1- the Tech Over theatre. University students, under the banner of the Flinders University Drama Centre and The Performing Arts and Technology Unit, stretch the boundaries of the digital media in a series of new performances pieces. Between shows, the space will be available to discover a range of visual and sound images provided by school students throughout the State.
Pod 2-explore the demonstration area. The Investigator Science and Technology Centre presents the new world of multimedia. Join a representation and become part of a multimedia creation that grows over the Festival, to become a Tech over CD.
Pod 3-enter the Tech Over web-deli. A space to surf the Internet with expert help at hand. Check out the latest software in the multimedia, educational and entertainment areas!
Pod 4-preview POWERPLAY a brand new technology exhibition about to premiere at the Investigator Science and Technology Centre, presented by Santos. Manipulate photos of your own body, fly through a virtual electronic world, create a story of sound, put together a mini-movie, create extraordinary patterns and images using an enormous body-sized trackball and explore the world of numbers on a 1.5 metre high joystick plus a host of other creative technological treats. Tech Over will be previewing 10 of the activities from the final exhibition, which will open at the Investigator in April prior to touring Australia. And also in Pod 4 check out OzScreen, a display of works from students throughout the State, presented on video, incorporating a range of young people's reactions to technology, society and their combined future, but with an emphasis on humour and wit.
Proudly sponsored by MFP Australia, INVESTIGATOR Science and Technology Centre, Santos, Megafun
SCHOOL SHOWS (including Investigator Workshop)
Tech Over Tent, Capital City
March 24-27, April 1-4 at 10.00am (Primary), 12.30 (Secondary)
$6.00/$5.50 disadvantaged
GENERAL PUBLIC
March 24-27, April 1-4 at 2.30pm to 8.00pm
Weekends and Easter, 10.00am to 8.00pm
All tickets $5.00 (no Investigator presentation)
additional $3.00 per person for Investigator presentation
Weekends and Easter only at 2.00pm
