Saturday, February 27 (day one)
OPENING NIGHT
6pm Launch – all over the Space, 9pm Bands – the McKeague Space
Come to the Format Festival Opening Night Party. The bar will be open. Your mouths will be open. The front door will be open. Come mingle, come say hi, come look cool...er! Don’t say you didn’t have fun...
Live Music information coming soon...
LITTLE WEEDS – SMALL ACTS OF TENDERNESS & VIOLENCE: 27 Feb – 3 Mar
6pm – the Zine Shop and the Fausto Coppi Space
Little Weeds – Small Acts of Tenderness & Violence is curated by Lisa Harms.
It comprises a series of installations and documented projects: art that occurs outside prescribed function; art that proliferates, entangled amongst the fabric of everyday life. Projects will be linked via an interactive Google Maps interface, providing an evocative platform for artists and viewers to interact outside of traditional gallery conventions.
Featuring: Sally Arnold, Sonia Donnellan, Sarah Eastick, Carolina Facelli, Joe Felber, Sasha Grbich, Hannah Harms, Julie Henderson, Elizabeth Hetzel, Anna Hughes, Jessie Lumb, Sally Parnis, Michelle Kelly, Stephanie Radok, Renee Ugazio, Sera Waters, and Lyn Woods.
Sunday, February 28 (day two)
NEO_LIFE by LOGAN MACDONALD: 28 Feb – 2 Mar
6pm – the McKeague Space
An exhibition that explores the forms of nature and landscape, with the artists involved having an intense sense of materiality in their processes and work.
FORMAT FESTIVAL OF SONG: TWEEFEST!: 28 Feb
9pm – the McKeague Space
Around six months ago, Humble Bee frontperson Carly Whittaker came up with the idea to have a festival of all of Adelaide’s nice-young-pop-bands. We’ve not quite gotten to that, but here’s a teaser: the Bee, Hawks Of Alba, The British Robots and The Keepsakes.
LEAVE YOUR HARD SHELL OVER THERE: 28 Feb
6pm – the McKeague Space
Leave Your Hard Shell Over There features the TwoPercent art collective. We’ve left our practices at the door to collaborate: leave your hard shell over there and step into the space we have altered just for you. A short lived installation from the TwoPercent art collective created for relaxation and contemplation: a moment of calm in a busy festival.
Monday, March 1 (day three)
PASH FIGHTS: 1 Mar – 2 Mar
8pm – the McKeague Space
Do you have embarrassingly awkward vanilla sex? Have you ever had a crush on someone for eight years and still never made a move on them? Do you get confused by which way to unravel the condom, EVERY TIME? Then PASH FIGHTS is the sex festival for you. PASH FIGHTS is two nights and two days of awkward people, talking about awkward sex.
DICKOTOMY – COCK/BALLS: 1 Mar
8pm – the McKeague Space
Curators: Peter Drew, Andrew Potter & Peter Adams.
Dickotomy is a study of the conversation between totemic masculinity and art in the public space. Dickotomy is a mixed media exhibition featuring the work of some of Adelaide’s up and coming young artists, revealing the enduring potency of phallic representation as a core mode of human expression.
PASH FIGHTS TALKS SEX: 1 Mar
1 -3 pm – the McKeague Space
This is a series of talks, forums and workshops helping you to improve or get confused in the bedroom. Writer and performer Tom Doig (from 2009’s Hitlerhoff) will lead discussion in the topics of sex-fail stories, fringe sex confessionals, guilty masturbation and more.
THE DIGITAL DATE PROJECT: 1 Mar
6pm – the McKeague Space
The project will involve the construction and performance of a date, played out both in the physical space of the Format venue and live online. Our goal is to harness the awesome power of the internet to help our romantically inept friend Stan find love.
One-Arm and Three-Arms Teach You How to Have Monster Sex Like a Hot Pink GrandMILF: 1 Mar
4pm – the McKeague Space
Join your two favourite mutant clowns, One-Arm and Three-Arms, for a skull-fucking Sex Ed session. These polymorphous perverts put the “Ass Master” in “Masterclass”. Learn: genital ventriloquism! Mankini incest! Self-rape! One show only. WARNING: Not suitable for children or humans. Presented by Tom Doig and Laura Jean McKay.
SKIN & THREAD, STITCHES & LIGAMENTS: 1 Mar – 2 Mar
6pm – the Zine Shop
Sarah Pearce and Margaret Lloyd have created a series about identity through sex. The works consider both the bodies we have, and what we do with them. In each work, the artist has set herself a personal challenge in order to produce the most openly honest and often uncomfortable exploratory painting.
Tuesday, March 2 (day four)
LUKE TOOP presents...: 2 Mar
6pm – the McKeague Space
Spatial Sound Experiment
For one day only, we set up 20 speakers. Every hour, another performance begins: performances of tonal pieces or polyrhythms to complete surround sound overload... The room is an instrument, never again to be available.
Glitch Orgy
Rick Moreira makes dark ambient music. Luke Toop makes cryptic geometric video. They are in a room with speakers, projectors and smoke machines. You are there too.
Voiceworks magazine presents “Birthmark”: 2-3 Mar
3pm - 5pm – the Fausto Coppi Space
Come to this workshop to find inspiration, to meet other writers or to help your piece stand out from the rest. Talk about your work, write from idea generating exercises and get inspired.
It's a great opportunity for young writers to gain confidence in their writing and develop their skills. Come along and get advice on getting published, it’s also a great stepping stone to getting your stories and poems into “Voiceworks,” a nationwide publication sold in bookstores.
Workshop leader: Former Voiceworks editor Ryan Paine
Cost: $20.
For more information or to book a place at the workshop, please visit: www.expressmedia.org.au or call 0432 920 416
Wednesday, March 3 (day five)
LOOKING AT THEM SIDEWAYS: 3 Mar – 4 Mar
6pm – the Zine Shop
Artists: Christopher Arblaster with Nick Moran.
Looking at things in profile is an odd way of seeing things/people because it isn’t how we really see ourselves. Chris (the kid with the camera who is often around) and Nick (the beard-faced painter/craftsman) are collaborating with sets based on this little idea.
QUIET POP: 3 Mar
6pm – the McKeague Space
Hosted By Tristan Newsome.
Featuring: Live performances by Self Preservation Society, Luke Ashby, Matt Reiner, and Friends of the Band. Photographic exhibits by John Goodridge and Janine Matheson. Art exhibits by Steve O’Connor and Mercedes Mangnall. The installation work entitled The Pipecleaner Petting Zoo. Kemp Life: draw the Kemp brothers Sean and Drew from real life as they stand very still, drinks in hand! The screening of the 20 minute documentary Lines Are Drawn, directed by Matt Hill.
SNIPPET: 3 Mar – 4 Mar
6pm – the McKeague Space
Snippet features Laura Haigh. Snippet is an audience-participation driven live sewing performance. So (Sew?) what is it about? I ask you, visitors to the Format Festival space, to come and sit with me, talk to me, share a 'snippet' of your life. Your time and your stories are to be sewn, creating a wall of different images, sewn with the same thread, weaving us all together...
Thursday, March 4 (day six)
STREET DREAMS: 4 Mar – 7 Mar
See the Street Dreams event guide for more information.
Come along on our guided WALKING TOUR through Adelaide’s hidden backstreets to see and hear about the illegal artwork all around us. AND, with the help of our mobile projector, we’ll be reserecting “buffed” street art from Adelaide’s better days.
NOISE FEST 8PM: 4 Mar
8pm – the McKeague Space - $8 @ the door
Token Gesture presents a jam-packed night of noise, drone, electro-acoustic and other exploratory sounds, featuring a swathe of Adelaide's experimental music practitioners performing in solo and group modes. With a veritable smorgasbord of avant artistes playing their wares, it promises to be unlike any other gig on the Festival calendar!
The line-up will feature sets from; Patrick Saracino, Dane Hirsinger, Lenin Simos, Staci Wilson, Daniel Varricchio, InterZone eXpress, Kynan Lawlor & Bitches of Zeus.
MYTHOLOGIES: 4 Mar – 8 Mar
6pm – the Fausto Coppi Space
Marlaina Read, Laura Willis and Laura Haig (AUS), and Yuula Benivolski (CAN) present works in photomedia, sculpture, and installation. Curated by Marlaina Read, Mythologies explores strange topologies, speculative spaces and reinterpretations of known places through ritual, imagination, as well as personal and historical inspired storytelling.
Friday, March 5 (day seven)
STREET DREAMS: 4 Mar – 7 Mar
See the Street Dreams event guide for more information.
The weekend kicks off with the official OPENING PARTY. Music, projectors, paint, what-have-yous. What could go wrong?
A PICTURE OF US: 5 Mar
6pm – the McKeague Space
Presented by Taryn Dudley.
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso.
Children see wonderment throughout the world: the tiny, the great and everything in between. Grown ups search for pictures, perfection, messages and meaning. I want to exhibit the difference between my own photographic pursuits and my daughter’s: to show what we both see in the world and how similar – and different – we really are.
FORMAT FESTIVAL OF SONG: THE HOMECOMING: 5 Mar
9pm – the McKeague Space
Former Adelaide residents, gone chasing dreams in the big smoke, return to play us their large-city songs. Featuring Koto (aka Kirsty Morphett from Lamplight), Wiley Red Fox (aka Clemmie Wetherall, formerly of Zeta), and as local support, the wonderful Our Husband.
Saturday, March 6 (day eight)
STREET DREAMS: 4 Mar – 7 Mar
See the Street Dreams event guide for more information.
10:30AM // Venue T.B.A.
Come watch Adelaide’s finest street artists and graffitists put up a large MURAL PRODUCTION and give Adelaide walls some much needed character. The work is set to be a permanent fixture on the city – to celebrate our talents and enrich our community.
11AM // Union St – In front of the Everfresh mural
At the sidelines of the mural, its an open-invitation ART JAM for anyone who wants to flex their art talents. Materials provided!
9PM // Format Space
The day of painting will finish up with a T-SHIRT PARTY – come with a plain white T and get friends and strangers to trace and deface it. All while dancing your buttocks off to DJs in the Format Festival’s venue warehouse.
Live Music: 6 Mar
9pm – the McKeague Space
Information coming soon...
Sunday, March 7 (day nine)
STREET DREAMS: 4 Mar – 7 Mar
See the Street Dreams event guide for more information.
10AM – 5PM. WORKSHOP // At Format Space (15 Peel Street, Adelaide)
If you’ve ever wondered how to decorate your city with fresh artwork (and get away with it), then come on down to the all-day WORKSHOP! All run by experienced street and graffiti artists.
$10 for unlimited workshops
6PM DUMPSTER EXHIBITION // At Format Space (15 Peel Street, Adelaide)
Finish the festival with our CUSTOMISED-DUMPSTER GROUP EXHIBITION. If you still think street art and graffiti is a load of rubbish, come check out how artists from Adelaide and interstate can decorate model trash receptacles!
6PM // Atrophia - The decline of the urban structure
By Adam Wood
Today, once-bustling structures lie dormant while others are ripped down to make way for growth and expansion. They were the apple of their designer's eye - something to tell the kids about. Now they rust, crack, crumble and decay as everything around them moves on. The new world springs up in their place, relegating these classic edifices. Atrophia will let you remember them or perhaps introduce you to some long lost textures, patterns and colours.
Atrophia delves into the gritty side of life in an industrial zone that once was the beating heart of the city, but sadly is now a target for redevelopment and renewal. A unique collaboration with the Treehouse Studio will fuse these textures and colours of the old world with modern street art, to produce a creative and visually dynamic artwork.
Monday, March 8 (day ten)
YOUR RIPE FLESH WILL DECAY by MELANIE GLAVIMANS: 8 Mar – 9 Mar
6pm – the Zine Shop
Glavimans’ works explore the sensuality and gore of the horror aesthetic, teasing out its absurdity whilst highlighting its obvious power. Her skin is smooth, and her body is fine, but it will soon decay. When she meets the putrid demon who has come to kill her, her ripe flesh will tear and rot.
VISUAL ARTS FILM NIGHT: 8 Mar
6pm – the McKeague Space
This night showcases a collection of local, national, and international video and moving image works. It includes the premiere of Messages from Paradise #1 Egypt: Austria, a documentary film by Dutch filmmakers Daniela Swarowsky and Samuli Schielke about the permanent longing for elsewhere. This film night will show work that deals with longing, desire, obsession and access into ideas through moving image. Including works by Amy-Jo Jory, Jimmy M, Kyriaki Maragozidis, Joey Cassar, Ray Harris, Danielle Freakley, and Sam Songailo.
HUMAN RIGHTS ARTS & FILM FESTIVAL: 8 Mar
8.30pm – the McKeague Space
The Human Rights Arts & Film Festival will feature a screening of a locally produced film that examines issues relating to human rights in Australia. This is a taste of what the HRAFF program has to offer when it makes its Adelaide debut in May 2010.
SCALES by LIZ PRATT: 8 Mar
6pm – the McKeague Space
Scales is an interpretation of balancing one’s beauty and the harsh reality of trying to fit into a world of cultural difference. It follows the life of a beautiful mermaid surrounded by fish-lipped freaks and her struggle to be accepted by those around her and most importantly by herself.
Tuesday, March 9 (day eleven)
LET ME IN: 9 Mar – 13 Mar
6pm – the Fausto Coppi Space
Let Me In is curated by Brigid Noone & Chloe Langford.
At the core of the Format Festival are the concerns of accessibility and participatory culture. Curated by the Format visual arts directors Brigid Noone & Chloe Langford, Let Me In deals with the notion of artists embracing multiple entry points to let friends and strangers into their work.
MATT HUPPATZ: ART ACTION PARTY ADELAIDE: 9 Mar
6pm – the McKeague Space
Art Action Party Adelaide (AAP-ADL) present the city’s finest, mashing it up in a quest for all new, real-life art experiences. Wonder at the mysterious formations; find your body enmeshed in impromptu art passages; be dazzled by the lights and music! Come as that thou art.
Wednesday, March 10 (day twelve)
MI CASA ES TU CASA: 10 Mar – 11 Mar
6pm – the Zine Shop
Mi casa es tu casa by Madison Bycroft.
For two years, freelance photographer Madison Bycroft has been without a home. She searched small corners of the world instead, for things that made her feel quite nice. Unnoticed walls, sweet trees and Indian mud have given this nomad a home to share. Simple things become extraordinary in her diverse collection of images.
SONGS TO DANCE TO / SONGS TO DIE TO: 10 Mar – 11 Mar
6pm, performances start at 7pm – the McKeague Space
Curated by Alanna Lorenzon.
Songs To Dance To/Songs To Die To is a collection of performances and Sound Installations from Melbourne artists exploring the dyad of dancing and dying. We explore shallow graves, dancing to your death, music from the afterlife, rebirth and the deathly pain of heartbreak in a mix of interpretation ranging from the contemplative to the experimental, to the exuberantly kitsch.
Featuring Anna Buchanan, Jake Carter, Laura Castagnini, Rachel Feery, Ed Gould, Kirsty Hulm, Olle Holmburg, HAPPY COOL = Juan Oldmeadow + Lisa Stewart, Alanna Lorenzon, Matthew Lorenzon, Riki-Mettisse Marlow, Carl Scrase, Lachlan Tetlow-Stuart, Kent Wilson.
Thursday, March 11 (day thirteen)
PIXEL WORKSHOP: 11 Mar
3pm-5pm – the McKeague Space
Pixel art has existed for over 30 years, since the glorious age of the Commodore Amiga. Since then, a motley vanguard of artists around the world are keeping the spirit of retro computer art alive with bold colours, supersized pixels and the spirit of digital youth. Join c64-generation artists Dan Monceaux and Emma Sterling of danimations and Dead Pixel Designs for a primer in how to make pixel art with cheap consumer electronics and free software tools – for print, screen, and the Rundle Lantern!
Creative urge essential, no prior experience necessary. Drawing and/or camera skills a definite bonus. Ages 10+.
What to bring: A laptop if you can muster one (even if it's 12 years old!), also any digital camera devices (mobile phone, digital still camera, digital video camera). We will be sharing our picks of free and opensource software on the day, and linking to the Format Festival website.
Where it'll go up: The biggest pixellated canvas in the country is right here in Adelaide's CBD, and your fresh pixel art is destined to display on it, thanks to the generous support of the Adelaide City Council.
BENT BUT NOT BROKEN: Lo Fi Hacking for Everyday People: 11 Mar
6pm-8pm – The McKeague Space
Sebastian Tomczak presents "Bent But Not Broken: Lo-fi Hacking for Everyday People"
Car-boot treasures and back-of-the-cupboard discoveries finally put to use: exploring obsolete video games and circuit-bent toys for art-making. Participants will pull apart and repurpose noisy children's toys as manic music machines and discover the possibilities of chip-music with an introductory course of composition for Game Boy.
Ages: All ages
Cost: $10 (you get to keep any circuit bent toys!)
Experience Needed: None
What to bring: Nothing. Laptops would be helpful but not necessary.
little–scale live: 11 Mar
9pm-late – The McKeague Space
Fresh from playing the internationally-renowned Blip Festival in New York City, Adelaide-based musician little-scale (Sebastian Tomczak) invites you sit back and enjoy a live DJ set, complete with obsolete video game consoles, from the SEGA Mega Drive to the Atari 2600. With home-brew hardware and chipmusic tunes, this is a night of experimental electronica and 8bit beats.
DIY, Super-Sized. Or, Why Are Artists Afraid to Get Rich? 11 Mar
4pm – the Fausto Coppi Space
A workshop/doco/roundtable on ways to actually make money out of being creative and clever. Featuring the clip-montage-umentary ‘Adam’s Apartment’, a record of how two arty types took their skills beyond making wallets out of soy milk cartons and into the big wide world of real estate.
Friday, March 12 (day fourteen)
THIS IS YOUR CITY: 12 Mar – 13 Mar
6pm – the Zine Shop
Curated by Ben Revi and Brigid Noone.
From hidden rooms to epic landscapes, This Is Your City is a collection of photographs by people who take a lot of photographs, but who have never shown their work before. Featuring the curators’ work, along with photos by Christopher Arblaster, Hugh Langlands-Bell, Christopher Boha, and Myf Kemp.
RENEW ADELAIDE: SPACE, THE ARTS & ADELAIDE: 12 Mar – 13 Mar
6.30pm – Allan Scott Auditorium, UniSA City West Campus
Featuring Marcus Westbury, Christie Anthoney, Stephen Yarwood, Brigid Noone and Ianto Ware.
Marcus Westbury, founder of Renew Newcastle, joins Fringe director Christie Anthoney, Adelaide City Councilor Stephen Yarwood, and Renew Adelaide members Brigid Noone and Ianto Ware to discuss the importance of small arts and creative spaces for the life of a city; why those spaces don’t exist in Adelaide and what we can do to change the situation. This is the feature panel of the 2010 Format Festival and the official launch of the Renew Adelaide project. Space may be limited. To ensure a seat email: brigid@brigidnoone.com
FORMAT FESTIVAL OF SONG: FOLK: 12 Mar
9pm – the McKeague Space
From Melbourne, the handsome and brooding Owls Of The Swamp and the sweet storytelling song-smith Ellen Kibble; and from Adelaide, the tortured troubadours Matt Banham and Ben Revi (Cheer Advisory Council).
THE WEIGHT OF MY CONSUMPTION: 12 Mar – 13 Mar
6pm – the McKeague Space
The Weight of my Consumption features Brooke Randall.
The site in which the Format Festival will be held this year was once used as a St Vincent de Paul. Drawing on the history of the establishment I have accumulated a mass of disused garments. From these garments I will shred, sew and weave a new form. The installation will not only embody the inherent nature of the space provided but represent the collective weight of my own consumption.
Saturday, March 13 (day fifteen)
FORMAT ACADEMY OF WORDS: 13 Mar
11am-6pm – all over the Space
Criticism and reviewing
Personal attacks vs regurgitating press releases... what makes a good review? What are the challenges of writing criticism in Australia? And what's it like to be a critic... is it true they have no friends?
It's all gone Dave Eggers: the current state of literature in Australia
Independent publishing is hip, Melbourne is the new capital of Literature, small mags are flourishing... is this current publishing explosion all thanks to the success of McSweeney's? Or are there other forces at play? And what does it mean for writers?
The Great Zine Explosion
They said blogs would kill zines - they were wrong. Come find out about Australia's flourishing zine culture, talk collation and distribution, get to the bottom of Why Zines Matter and maybe even shift a few units.
Mining the Personal
They say “write what you know”, but how easy is it to write about yourself or draw material from your life? Do you feel exposed when people read your words, and how do you deal with the fallout? And what happens when people mistake your characters for you?
Non-paper publishing
Books are great, but what are other avenues for writers to be heard and distributed? What are the challenges of writing for digital, audio and live audiences? Is it all about the words or is it all in the delivery?
A deeper kind of anger: the problems of metal music & culture
Confused by how metal – that most intense and transgressive of musical genres – is also all too often a gathering ground for conservative politics and shallow-mindedness? Do you still think it rocks so hard? Come on down - let's talk this shit out.
Plus:
EDITORIAL AGONY AUNTS...
LITERARY ACTIVISM...
TEEN ANGST DIARY READINGS...
With special guests Paper Radio, Clementine Ford, Metal as Fuck, Sticky, Susy Pow, Dion Kagan, Leticia Supple, Maddy Phelan, Format zine shop, Estelle Tang, Myk Mykyta, Sam Wise, Bel Schenk, Caroline Hamilton, Cutwater, The Lifted Brow, Ryan Paine, Stu Hatton, John Stevens, Ianto Ware, Angela Meyer, Lisa Dempster... and more... and YOU!
Literary Friction (7.30pm)
Two teams made up of Format Festival panellists and audience members will go head-to-head to be the literary champions of the world! (...Or, the room). This RockWiz-style lit-game will have all the fun of trivia, write-offs, pick the fake blurb or character, identify the opening line, who am I? questions, finish this book title, charades and much more. There will be many chances for audience participation. Hosted by MCs Estelle Tang and Angela Meyer.
You can't stop the musing: Disco-lecture & DJ Set (9pm)
Everybody knows disco is fun. But is it good for you? Now that Disco is back (trust us, it is), the time has come to determine, once and for all, whether it’s part of the problem or part of the solution. Triple J's Craig Schuftan presents the case for and against in You Can’t Stop the Musing – the world’s first Disco-lecture. Expect to hear from The Silver convention, The Chic Organisation and the Frankfurt School, and don’t be surprised if you start doing that which both Theodor Adorno and the adherents of the Disco Sucks movement considered an impossibility – thinking and dancing. (CONTINUES ON NEXT PAGE)
Saturday, March 13 (day fifteen - continued)
CREATIVE COMMONS: 13 Mar
2pm- 5pm – the McKeague Space
The internet has revolutionised the way people make, share and access creative products. Suddenly anyone can get anything, anywhere, anytime. But this raises a host of legal, ethical and funding dilemmas: what can you use? Who can use your stuff? Will anyone ever give you money again?
Join Jessica Coates and Elliott Bledsoe from the Creative Commons Australia team to discuss new approaches to supporting digital culture. Fee Plumley, Digital Program Officer at the Australia Council for the Arts will talk about the work being done through its two funding schemes, Geek in Residence and Digital Culture Fund. The digital program aims to provide funding and infrastructure support appropriate to the convergence of content/platform that has occurred over the last 15 years. Meanwhile the Creative Commons Australia team will look at alternative models for sharing, remixing and making money from digital projects – legally..
RENEW ADELAIDE WORKSHOPS: 13 Mar
10am-1pm – the Fausto Coppi Space
Marni Jackson, Maddy Phelan, Marcus Westbury and Brigid Noone.
A crash course for those looking to run spaces as part of Renew Adelaide. If you’re interested in setting up and running a non- or low-profit, artist, community or creative focused space in the city area, email brigid@brigidnoone.com to book a place. The aim of these workshops is to get a group of people who understand the project, the legal framework it’s built upon, and the various ins and outs required. We’ll be looking to place participants in space sometime in May.
Sunday, March 14 (day sixteen)
ZINE & DIY FAIR: 14 Mar
12pm – 5pm – all over the Space
It’s happening… again! The Adelaide Zine and DIY Fair hosts zinesters and craftspeople from all over Adelaide and Australia. We didn’t count last year, but we’re sure we’re probably the third biggest fair of its kind in the country, which is saying… stuff! All we know is that we had over 500 people meander around the trestle tables looking, swapping, and buying these very exclusive wares last year, and we expect a whole lot more this time round. There might even be a dance competition during the day, or at least you’ll see the organiser shake his groove thang to an imagined soundtrack.
CLOSING NIGHT!: 14 Mar (Facebook invite)
8pm - All over the Space - $7 for bands in the basement.
Closing night of the festival, but we have the Format venue for a year. To celebrate, come to the official FORMAT FESTIVAL CLOSING NIGHT party featuring Naked On the Vague (Sydney - punk, industrial and psychedelic), FKN Tutts (Catchy garage rock), Fair Maiden (reverb-drenched minimalist pop), Burnt Skulls (Experimental/noise/drone/pop/psych), Dud Pills (crybaby garage punk) & Chairman of the Broads DJs.
A Note on Disability Access
It’s terrible. We’re sincerely sorry but we didn’t have the money to get a more disability-friendly venue. If we can keep the space going, we’d like to apply for funding from ArtsSA to install disability toilets and access lifts. If you’d like to help us achieve that goal, or you know someone who’d install those facilities for free (we really, really don’t have any money) please get in touch.
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The FORMAT spaces:
Front room = the Zine Shop
Basement = the McKeague Space
Mezzanine = the Fausto Coppi Space
The ZINE SHOP:
The Format Zine Shop opened in June 2009 and has had various locations around the Adelaide CBD. Did you manage to find it? If not, here’s your chance! We’re open from 3pm every day of the Format Festival. You can find over 300 titles in store. We’re also running a small food and beverage cafe to make the experience all the more enjoyable. Come in and browse!
The MCKEAGUE SPACE:
The basement of the Format Space has been lovingly named after a dear friend of the 2009 festival, Jillian McKeague. Without her, we may or may not have been arrested last year.
The FAUSTO COPPI SPACE:
Named after the “world’s greatest cyclist” (Ianto Ware, the Exeter, January 2010), the mezzanine of the Format Space will play host to rotating art exhibitions during the festival.
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