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Dannii Minogue Fronts Stellar 2016 Feast Festival Program

Fresher than a Sex On The Beach shaken by a tidy little French, the highlights of 2016 Feast Festival Program include the Australian style icon, UK Band Z-Star and a few Australian Premieres.

It’s here! The 2016 Feast Festival Program has arrived and it is filled with a range of International, Interstate and local Queer Art and Culture.

There was no denying the 2015 Feast Festival hosted some incredibly talented artists, including the fabulous Conchita Wurst, but Feast Festival is backing it up again with Australia’s very own icon, Dannii Minogue, who will perform at the Feast Festival Opening Night Party on Saturday 22nd October.

Dannii Minogue is a fashion icon and has graced the covers of international magazines such as Harpers Bazaar, InStyle and Marie Claire. She is known globally for her success in the entertainment industry, combining work on television, fashion, literary and music.

With an extraordinary list of UK #1 club hits, it just so happens that Dannii’s 1997 anthem All I Wanna Do co-incides with Feast Festival’s inception in the same year – so who knows what classics Dannii will be serving up for us to devour.

The book-end of the Festival will finish with the inaugural Picnic in the Park that sees over 2,000 people attend each year. In 2016 we are lucky enough to have a special performance by Z-Star Delta, a UK duo that features guitar prodigy Sebastien Heintz and the electrifying award-winning front woman Zee Gachette on acoustic guitar and drums, who effortlessly deliver a fascinating cinematic road trip of sound.

Following up this performance at the Picnic After party will be UK Band Z-Star, led by one of the most exquisite and powerful rock goddesses around, dubbed “a legend in her lifetime” by Diva Magazine. So expect to rock the funk out with dirty bass lines, phat blues beats, raucous riffy rock n roll guitars and delicious soul-soaked vocals.

With a huge beginning and end planned for Feast we have got even more artistic goodness threaded throughout the 15 days of Festival fun!

Other Program highlights include:
Cabaret and Theatre
LIVVIE & PETE (Saturday 5th Nov 8:30pm)
ADELAIDE PREMIERE
Internationally acclaimed cabaret artists Amelia Ryan and Helpmann Award Winner Michael Griffiths (and Feast Ambassador) bring to life the stories and songbooks of Olivia Newton-John and Peter Allen. From their humble small-town beginnings, to world domination in sequins and jumpsuits come along and revisit all of their sing-a-long classics from Tenterfield to Grease, all the way to Xanadu and beyond! A joyous, fun-filled celebration of two of Australia’s greatest icons.

SOUS TERRE (Thursday 3rd and Friday 4th Nov 7pm)
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Sous Terre is a queer, neo-bohemian adventure into reimagined dance music culture conceived by Adelaide-based boutique production house Adamek Anahata Productions. This high-camp dance-theatre piece is a fusion of ballet, Philippine ethnic dance, Adelaide house-style, breaking and voguing. With the multi-award winning Felicity Arts, the work explores contemporary voyeurism through new media and live VJing. It questions love, longing and cultural identity through transformative technology as dancers interact with real-time projections and live visuals to a soundtrack by DJ Tom Cotter.

Film
HAND GRENADE (Wednesday 2nd Nov 7pm)
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
Filmed here in South Australia in Port Adelaide and Semaphore this Australian film premiere is about a family relationship drama about adults wanting to have children and children wanting to be adults. It centres on a lesbian with her younger gay brother who live in one house with their respective partners. While trying to have a baby with her brother’s partner, they have a metaphorical hand grenade thrown into their lives with the unexpected arrival of a teenager on their doorstep.

Comedy
THE VICK VAN DYKE SHOW (Friday 28th Oct 7pm)
Last year, stand-up comedian Victoria Healy came out as queer and started to date a girl. Human sexuality is not black and white. Navigating it is tough. The ups and downs, the ins and outs. Victoria explores the new terrain with help from the bisexual’s mascot, Dick Van Dyke.

TOBY OR NOT TOBY (Saturday 29th Oct 9:30pm)
Toby’s a cultured, urbane, gentleman. Except when he’s a raging moron. Will you join him for an hour as he suffers the slings and arrows of his own outrageous fortune? That’s the question. Toby writes jokes for The Project and Legally Brown.

Visual Art
BEHIND THE SCENES (Friday 21st Oct – Sat 5th Nov)
How do we see ourselves and how are we seen? ‘Behind the Scenes’ by Robert Knapman is a fly-on-thewall
black and white photography project about everyday contemporary LGBTIQ Adelaide lives. You are invited into the worlds of drag queens in dressing rooms, lesbian love nests, being black and queer, trans suburban families, male fetish play scenes, the lovers and the loved, and holding hands in public. The images are often honest, thought-provoking or challenging, and in the seeing we see ourselves seen.

Sport
SAMESH VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT (Saturday 5th Nov 9am-5pm)
The annual tournament typically attracts over 100 participants both locally and interstate. This is an interstate affair with the Melbourne Spikers and Sydney Freezone making the trip over to Adelaide every year without fail. 2016 is expected to be the biggest tournament yet with the new affiliation with Volleyball SA, opening the door to university and community clubs dotted around the state to participate. If you thought that was good make sure you grab your program today to get the full run down of Feast Festival 2016.

Feast Festival starts earlier this year, running from the 21st October to the 6th November. For further details head to www.feast.org.au and head to our Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat for even more updates!

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