On AVCon’s opening night the performers danced us the story of ‘Ayvee and Switch’. In this scene Ayvee, performed by Alice Willamsen, spins a gift of silk cloth for her rescuer Switch. Ayvee, in the form of a beautiful magical crane been caught in a trap set by the people of Switch’s village. Despite the […]
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The opening night of AVCon at the Adelaide Convention Center was a spectacle I’d been waiting for several months now and finally it arrived. I’m not really a big anime fan or gaming enthusiast. In fact I felt just a little bit fraudulent waiting in the long snaking queue surrounded by excited individuals and groups […]
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When the street music of the Adelaide Fringe have faded to barely remembered echos you don’t have to go to far to get back into that festival feel. We took a whirlwind weekend to visit Melbourne in the midst of the Comedy Festival and the street music was alive and jam’n. I never got his […]
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I know absolutely nothing about this man sitting here under this tree. There he was in his strange garb with with his collection of potatoes just watching the world go by. Strange perhaps! Not here in the Garden of Unearthly Delights. Photo: Robert Rath, ‘My Potatoes’ 1/250s f/2.8 ISO800 200mm
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I first experienced Marcia Hines on stage at … well let’s just say a long time ago. So it was a wonderful surprise to see the once crowned Australian Queen of Pop again after all these years fronting the Fringe Festival show Velvet. Velvet was as a spectacle I would have paid money to go […]
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