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Jun 20, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Theodora Galanis |Michelle Wakim |PHIL BROWN |Henry Wolff
“Halo-halo is a sweetened dish made with sweet beans, shaved ice and fruit,” SA-based multi-disciplinary artist Alyssa Powell-Ascura explains. “Typically, you eat it as a mixture, but you can also pick at it in layers… and this made me think about myself as a ‘halo-halo’ of identity, a mixed identity.
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May 31, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Abdulrazak Gurnah |Theodora Galanis |Michelle Wakim |Rachael Mead
“I’m so excited to be back. I think it’s one of the best festivals in the world,” Christie Whelan Browne says ahead of her return to this year’s Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Whelan Browne (Britney Spears: The Cabaret, ) brings her comedic flair and real-life experience to Life in Plastic, a sparkly new show about womanhood. “It’s basically a journey of womanhood, and the different phases that we all go through.
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May 21, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Abdulrazak Gurnah |Theodora Galanis |John Miles |Heidi Maier
JM Coetzee has said that . It is a “unique world” with “unique skies” and “unique heavenly constellations”. But what does he mean by “the South”? And how may it help us address some of the most pressing concerns of our time? Hosted by the University of Adelaide, Speaking from the South is an unprecedented multi-day public event that brings together leading thinkers and storytellers from diverse regions across the world to ask: What does it mean to speak from the South?
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Apr 16, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Abdulrazak Gurnah |Theodora Galanis |John Miles |Rachael Mead
The Stories from the South Book Club is a series for book lovers to explore what it means to inhabit the unique world of the “South”. We will meet live at Dymocks Bookstore Rundle Mall on Tuesday, April 30, 6-7.30pm, for a discussion of Abdulrazak Gurnah’s novel By the Sea with Kai Easton, David Ishaya Osu, and Morgan Nunan. Register here for this free public event. Use this guide to enrich your reading.
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Apr 10, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Abdulrazak Gurnah |Theodora Galanis |John Miles |PHIL BROWN
“For centuries, intrepid traders and sailors, most of them barbarous and poor no doubt, made the annual journey to that stretch of coast on the eastern side of the continent, which had cusped so long ago to receive the musim winds.” – Abdulrazak Gurnah, By the SeaIn Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah’s sixth novel, By the Sea, two men hailing from the Zanzibar Archipelago off the coast of east Africa reconnect in the United Kingdom where each has sought asylum.
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Mar 15, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Courtney Jaye |Farrin Foster |David Simmons |Theodora Galanis
A theatre show scripted using Google searches somehow quietly transforms into a tender reflection on people and the ways they stay the same, even as technology changes. ★★★½ This confessional theatre performance by ‘serial nudist’ Frankie van Kan is a poetic and exhilarating exploration of sexuality and womanhood.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Theodora Galanis |Jo Case |John Miles |Ken Haley
The Stories from the South Book Club is a series for book lovers to explore what it means to inhabit the unique world of the ‘South’. We will meet live at Dymocks Bookstore Rundle Mall on Tuesday, March 26, 6-7.30pm, for a discussion of Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner’s poetry collection Iep Jāltok with Jill Jones, Mandy Treagus, and Theodora Galanis. Register here for this free public event. Use this guide to enrich your reading.
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Mar 12, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Theodora Galanis |David Simmons |Megan Koch
Melbourne actor and writer Isabella Perversi tells the audience – a small group huddled in Ruby’s, an intimate venue at Holden Street Theatres’ Arts Park – that she can’t not write a melancholic play. But, she’s going to try. A step away from her previous work (Canary, What Rhymes with Orange? and Ember), Cry Baby is an “experiment” in writing something that’s not sad and not autobiographical, Perversi declares.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Suzie Keen |Theodora Galanis |Jim Plouffe |Helen Karakulak
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
inreview.com.au | Theodora Galanis |Stephen Vagg |John Miles |Jane Ring Frank
The Stories from the South Book Club is a series for book lovers to explore what it means to inhabit the unique world of the ‘South’. After our summer break, we return by reading Alexis Wright’s Praiseworthy. We will meet live at Dymocks Bookstore Rundle Mall on Tuesday, February 27, 6-7.30pm for a discussion with Alexis Wright, alongside Nicholas Jose, author of The Idealist, and Theodora Galanis from the University of Adelaide. Register here for this free public event.
