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ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide lights up for the festival season

Tuesday, 14 February 2017

An interactive light display will shine brightly each night throughout this year's Adelaide Fringe festival, illuminating the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide's North Terrace frontage.

Called LightWorks, the intelligent and adaptive LED light show will feature a motion-sensing wall mounted along the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s North Terrace fence. Capable of interacting with and following people’s movements, LightWorks is a playful display, enabling the audience to take control and become maestros of light.

"We're proud to be presenting LightWorks to the people of Adelaide, which is part of our ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s partnership with and commitment to the Adelaide Fringe," says Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Warren Bebbington.

"This latest in a series of light-based installations continues a long-running festival theme of shining a light on some of Adelaide's greatest cultural icons. Seeking the light of new knowledge is core to the very existence of the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide, which makes this a very fitting display both for the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ and for the Fringe," he says.

The free nightly event starts 8.30pm until midnight this Friday 17 February, and will run until Sunday 19 March.

As in previous years, the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥'s historic Elder Hall will also be brought to life with a digital wall of animated lights and music during the opening weekend of the Adelaide Fringe (17-19 February). This year’s theme is , with a series of vibrant environmental themes, such as beaches and endangered species.

ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide graduates, staff and students will also be involved in numerous other Adelaide Fringe and Adelaide Festival events, including:

Adelaide Fringe (17 February–19 March)

• The Adelaide ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Choral Society will perform at the Latvian Hall, Wayville, 25 February and 4 March
• , a selection of multimedia drawings and collage, is curated by ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide alumna Kate Pulford Filsell, and will be shown every Tuesday-Saturday from 14 February-18 March

Adelaide Festival (2-19 March)

• Alumna Rachel Healy heads up the Adelaide Festival as Co-Artistic Director
• ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide alumna and award winning presenter, writer and journalist Annabel Crabb will discuss festivals, feminism, fragrance, food and everything in between, in her show , 6-7, 9-10 March

Adelaide Writers' Week (4-9 March)

• Join ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide graduates and poets Dr Cath Kenneally, the inaugural Coetzee Centre Writer in Residence, and Dominic Symes, who will be performing on 6 March
• Amrita Malhi, Visiting Research Fellow at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide and historian of South-East Asia will speak at on 8 March
• Musician, writer and alumna of the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide Zoe Morrison will explore the theme of violence against women in on 9 March

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