Festival of Unpopular Culture program highlights
August 9th 2011 03:35
August 9th 2011
INFO: The Festival of Unpopular Culture
The Festival of Unpopular Culture is supported by Adelaide City Council, Format Collective, Renew Adelaide, TedX/Bridge8, Adelaide Thinkers in Residence, Adelaide Festival of Ideas and ANAT.
The comprehensive Festival of Unpopular Culture program boasts conversations about sex work legislation, the "sociology of getting plastered", the politics of punk, a hypothetical shake up of Australian arts funding and loads of other topics to be released in early September via a
limited edition printed program, social media and the Festival website. A swag of interstate guests will descend upon Adelaide for a ten-day talk-fest, peppered with live music, bizarre art happenings and ill thought out quasi sporting events.
Housed in the institution responsible for educating Adelaide's future cultural leaders; the festival will fill the Adelaide College of the Arts with thinkers, doers, makers and shit-stirrers.
Making full use of the atrium, galleries and lecture theatres, the Festival of Unpopular Culture invites audiences to buy a drink from the bar, sit down, speak up and engage in over a week of sometimes disturbing, sometimes hilarious, but always motivating and stimulating discussions and events.
ARTS
From Melbourne, the Festival welcomes Ester Anotalis (CEO, Melbourne Fringe) who, joined by Sandy Verschoor (EP, Adelaide Festival of Ideas),
Gavin Artz (CEO, ANAT) and Jane Howard (arts blogger, No Plain Jane), will be asked: What would happen if every arts funding body in the nation was shut down? What if our entire funding system was rebuilt from scratch?
What if everybody - opera directors, street artists, concert pianists and hardcore collectives - had to reapply for the right to one big cultural slush fund? What would we do?
SEX
Also from Melbourne, Karen Pickering (host of Melbourne's feminist salon, Cherchez La Femme and editor of the Emerging Writers' Festival reader) will facilitate a discussion led by the Sex Industry Network's Ari Reid, on the law reforms being proposed for South Australia, sex positive feminist perspectives and the impact of social media on sex work.
DRUGS
We have a fixed way of looking at alcohol and drug abuse as a medical and psychological issue and a fixed culture of drug and alcohol use, which becomes particularly notable at the extremes. This panel features Chris Raine (Hello Sunday Morning), Lisa Dempster (AD, Emerging Writers' Festival), Dr Joseph Borlagdan (Australian Drug Foundation National Youth
Spokesperson), Jon Jurideini (head of the Department of Psychological Medicine, Women's and Children's Hospital).
MORE DRUGS
Social justice, rights and self-advocacy for drug users is the business of the Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League and we've invited Annie Madden (EO, AIVL) and her team to discuss the representation of drug users, harm minimisation, drug culture and law. Hear from a panel of users representing the peak organisation for people who use or have used illicit
drugs in Australia.
GOVERNMENT
On this panel we've gathered together Government Engagement experts, including many who have been working productively with the Government Sector for decades, to talk about how we can better include Government in community decision making processes and visions for the future. Experts on Government Engagement and Collaborative Policy Design will discuss
how to get the Government Engaged, what role they can play in your initiatives and projects and how we can break down the sense of 'Us' and 'Them' to truly include the Government in the decision making process.
This panel features Adelaide's Thinker in Residence, John McTernan, who will be joined by a select group of current and former members of the
Australian Government Sector.
MUSIC
Live music - especially Hip-Hop, Metal and Punk - engages communities in a way that state subsidised cultural institutions can never hope to do. Live music is often a thinly-veiled excuse for subcultures to collide and foment. This panel features Dave Graney (lately of the Lurid Yellow Mist), Nicci Reid (Melbourne-based booking agent), and former Adelaide Thinker in
Residence and self-proclaimed aging punk, John McTernan.
VISUAL ART
In addition to panels and forums, a hefty visual arts program curated by Ray Forrester features interstate artist Diego Bonetto and his attempt to elevate the social status of disregarded botanical species. A selection of emerging and professional artists will be invited to create work in response to the ideas discussed at the Festival, the fruits of which will gradually fill our Festival Club, right in the heart of the Adelaide College of the Arts.
The Festival of Unpopular Culture will release its full program in September, including twitter hashtags for each event. If you can't be in Adelaide between October 7th and 16th, you can take part in the discussion online, with live tweeting of most sessions planned.
Follow the Festival on twitter: www.twitter.com/Unpop_Culture and
like the Festival on facebook to keep abreast of all the bad behind the scenes festival photos, tacky competitions and late night drunken witticisms.
WHAT: The Festival of Unpopular Culture.
WHEN: October 7th to October 16th, 2011.
WHO: Dr Ianto Ware, Stan Mahoney, Ray Forrester, Jennifer Greer Holmes & others
WHERE: Adelaide College of the Arts, Light Square & various city venues
INFO: The Festival of Unpopular Culture
The Festival of Unpopular Culture is supported by Adelaide City Council, Format Collective, Renew Adelaide, TedX/Bridge8, Adelaide Thinkers in Residence, Adelaide Festival of Ideas and ANAT.
Debate. Dissent. Delinquency. Drugs. Debauchery.
Festival of Unpopular Culture
program highlights
program highlights
INFO: The Festival of Unpopular Culture
The Festival of Unpopular Culture is supported by Adelaide City Council, Format Collective, Renew Adelaide, TedX/Bridge8, Adelaide Thinkers in Residence, Adelaide Festival of Ideas and ANAT.
The comprehensive Festival of Unpopular Culture program boasts conversations about sex work legislation, the "sociology of getting plastered", the politics of punk, a hypothetical shake up of Australian arts funding and loads of other topics to be released in early September via a
limited edition printed program, social media and the Festival website. A swag of interstate guests will descend upon Adelaide for a ten-day talk-fest, peppered with live music, bizarre art happenings and ill thought out quasi sporting events.
Housed in the institution responsible for educating Adelaide's future cultural leaders; the festival will fill the Adelaide College of the Arts with thinkers, doers, makers and shit-stirrers.
Making full use of the atrium, galleries and lecture theatres, the Festival of Unpopular Culture invites audiences to buy a drink from the bar, sit down, speak up and engage in over a week of sometimes disturbing, sometimes hilarious, but always motivating and stimulating discussions and events.
ARTS
From Melbourne, the Festival welcomes Ester Anotalis (CEO, Melbourne Fringe) who, joined by Sandy Verschoor (EP, Adelaide Festival of Ideas),
What if everybody - opera directors, street artists, concert pianists and hardcore collectives - had to reapply for the right to one big cultural slush fund? What would we do?
SEX
Also from Melbourne, Karen Pickering (host of Melbourne's feminist salon, Cherchez La Femme and editor of the Emerging Writers' Festival reader) will facilitate a discussion led by the Sex Industry Network's Ari Reid, on the law reforms being proposed for South Australia, sex positive feminist perspectives and the impact of social media on sex work.
DRUGS
We have a fixed way of looking at alcohol and drug abuse as a medical and psychological issue and a fixed culture of drug and alcohol use, which becomes particularly notable at the extremes. This panel features Chris Raine (Hello Sunday Morning), Lisa Dempster (AD, Emerging Writers' Festival), Dr Joseph Borlagdan (Australian Drug Foundation National Youth
Spokesperson), Jon Jurideini (head of the Department of Psychological Medicine, Women's and Children's Hospital).
MORE DRUGS
Social justice, rights and self-advocacy for drug users is the business of the Australian Injecting & Illicit Drug Users League and we've invited Annie Madden (EO, AIVL) and her team to discuss the representation of drug users, harm minimisation, drug culture and law. Hear from a panel of users representing the peak organisation for people who use or have used illicit
drugs in Australia.
GOVERNMENT
On this panel we've gathered together Government Engagement experts, including many who have been working productively with the Government Sector for decades, to talk about how we can better include Government in community decision making processes and visions for the future. Experts on Government Engagement and Collaborative Policy Design will discuss
how to get the Government Engaged, what role they can play in your initiatives and projects and how we can break down the sense of 'Us' and 'Them' to truly include the Government in the decision making process.
This panel features Adelaide's Thinker in Residence, John McTernan, who will be joined by a select group of current and former members of the
Australian Government Sector.
MUSIC
Live music - especially Hip-Hop, Metal and Punk - engages communities in a way that state subsidised cultural institutions can never hope to do. Live music is often a thinly-veiled excuse for subcultures to collide and foment. This panel features Dave Graney (lately of the Lurid Yellow Mist), Nicci Reid (Melbourne-based booking agent), and former Adelaide Thinker in
Residence and self-proclaimed aging punk, John McTernan.
VISUAL ART
In addition to panels and forums, a hefty visual arts program curated by Ray Forrester features interstate artist Diego Bonetto and his attempt to elevate the social status of disregarded botanical species. A selection of emerging and professional artists will be invited to create work in response to the ideas discussed at the Festival, the fruits of which will gradually fill our Festival Club, right in the heart of the Adelaide College of the Arts.
The Festival of Unpopular Culture will release its full program in September, including twitter hashtags for each event. If you can't be in Adelaide between October 7th and 16th, you can take part in the discussion online, with live tweeting of most sessions planned.
Follow the Festival on twitter: www.twitter.com/Unpop_Culture and
like the Festival on facebook to keep abreast of all the bad behind the scenes festival photos, tacky competitions and late night drunken witticisms.
WHAT: The Festival of Unpopular Culture.
WHEN: October 7th to October 16th, 2011.
WHO: Dr Ianto Ware, Stan Mahoney, Ray Forrester, Jennifer Greer Holmes & others
WHERE: Adelaide College of the Arts, Light Square & various city venues
INFO: The Festival of Unpopular Culture
The Festival of Unpopular Culture is supported by Adelaide City Council, Format Collective, Renew Adelaide, TedX/Bridge8, Adelaide Thinkers in Residence, Adelaide Festival of Ideas and ANAT.
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