Science@ THE
16 February - 18 March 2018
Science@ THE
WELCOME TO SCIENCE @ THE FRINGE Dear Fringe-folk, What a delight to find yet another way of enjoying the remarkable Adelaide Fringe! Our inaugural Science at the Fringe guide is not just for science-buffs. It’s for anyone and everyone who likes to discover and learn amazing things about the world we live in while having fun! And so we’ve compiled a concoction of the curious, amusing, fascinating and ingenious shows with science themes. We’ve selected eight shows for children and nineteen shows for grownups, so there’s bound to be something science-y for everyone. We hope you enjoy! And check out our website ( inspiringsa.org.au ) for all things science in South Australia! Dr Sheryn Pitman Inspiring South Australia
It is hard to believe, but Adelaide Fringe time is here again! As always, the Fringe program is jam packed with amazing shows from around the world that will play in venues all over the city ...and beyond. I am especially thrilled to see the first ever Science at the Fringe guide presented by Inspiring South Australia. This wonderful initiative offers people who have an interest in science a navigation short cut of the Adelaide Fringe program. I hope you all discover some real gems in this Science at the Fringe guide. Thank you to the team at Inspiring South Australia for pulling it together. Happy Fringe to all! Heather Croall Director and CEO | Adelaide Fringe
OPENING NIGHT Fri 16 Feb, From 5pm to Midnight NORTH TCE COMES ALIVE!
Free Event STREET PARTY NIGHT MARKETS FOOD AND WINE ARTIST PERFORMANCES FRUSIC (MUSIC SA STAGE) TINDO UTPURNDEE SUNSET CEREMONY 8pm, South Australian Museum lawns To officially open the 2018 Adelaide Fringe everyone is invited to this significant Sunset Ceremony to recognise the living culture of the First Nations and to pay respect to the spirit of the land. When you walk in someone else’s country it is always important to walk softly and with respect. This place holds many ancient stories and Tindo Utpurndee is one of these, which speaks of spirit and sharing of light.
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Photo - Seb Riebolge, Artist - Yellaka
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PARADE OF LIGHT Fri 16 Feb - 18 Mar, 8.30pm to Midnight
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ADELAIDE’S CULTURAL BOULEVARD SHINES FOR 31 AWE-INSPIRING NIGHTS
AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
“Borealis” by Dan Acher/Happy City Lab
The art installation Borealis brings the Northern Lights phenomenon to Adelaide. Come bask in a profound and ever-changing celestial expericence. Various locations along North Terrace.
Projections by
Parade of Light Partners
Photo - Cat on the Roof Studio
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EVENTS 16 February - 18 March 2018
dangerously obsolete
Circus & Physical Theatre | dr wrongatron Journey with Dr Wrongatron as he takes you through a mire of dangerously obsolete contraptions of yesteryear, involving high voltage medical quackery and absurd evolutionary dead ends of musical equipment and mechanical oddities, all against an amazing soundscape created with said equipment, delivered on dead format devices. vintage vulture | 18+ | 22 Feb, 3, 8 Mar at 9pm | From $15
Deep Creek A Landscape of the Senses Visual Arts & Design | Chris Webb
From an Honours research field trip emerges art works of natural pigments taken directly from the landscape. A performative abstraction of familiarisation, underpinned by a phenomenological methodology that uses the imaginative ingredients of the artists total sensory immersion within the unique coastal bushland of Deep Creek. City Library - Central Hanging Space | G | 16-28 Feb, 1-18 Mar at various times | FREE
Deep Space
Visual Arts & Design | Steph Fuller An immersive moving-image experience that explores the extraterrestrial.
FELTspace – Back Gallery | G | 7-10, 14-17, 21-24 Mar at various times | FREE
Doctor in the House Comedy | Dr Ahmed Kazmi
Dr Ahmed, the loveable GP, returns to Adelaide Fringe! After making a totally sold out debut in 2016, he is back with more titillating tales from the consulting room. Breaking every stereotype of what a doctor should be, take a cheeky peek with him, into what it’s REALLY like being a modern day doctor. Book fast! “Hilariously funny, disarmingly honest, intelligent, surprising” Stage Whispers. “This comedy doctor is one medicine man out-of-the-box” The Plus Ones. “Great Show! Amazing Voice!” The Advertiser. Garden of Unearthly Delights - Studio 7 | M | 7-11, 14-18 Mar at 7pm | From $30
Doctor Trek in Space Comedy | DamnitLeanne
3 of the best sci-fi series to ever grace the screens! 3 of the best improv actors we could find! No rules... Which show will rise to the top? DamnitLeanne are back with another of their signature part-improv, part-scripted, part-nonsense performances full of pop culture references, hats, puns and classic misdirection. Join us as we take your favourite characters from Doctor Who, Lost in Space and Star Trek through a Sci-Fi adventure that will make you laugh, gasp, and laugh again. Gluttony – The Bally | PG | 1-3 Mar at 10:30pm | From $18
Dr Chris’s Theory of Everything Comedy | Chris Lassig
After 20 years in the scientific wilderness, renegade physicist Dr Chris is ready to reveal the secrets of the universe. But are YOU ready? The truth might not be pretty, but it is pretty funny. “I would like to think this is the direction comedy is going” Squirrel Comedy. Tuxedo Cat at Broadcast Bar – Gate 1 | PG | 16-18 Feb at 7.15pm | From $15
EVENTS 16 February - 18 March 2018
Elixir
Circus & Physical Theatre | Head First Acrobats Winner – First and Foremost Entertainment Award Brighton Fringe. ‘Elixir’ is circus with a difference! Uninhibited by cliché or expectation, subversive and hilarious, the story follows three enthusiastic and acrobatic scientists who attempt to create the elixir of life. ★★★★★ The Outlier Scotland, ★★★★★ British Theatre People, ★★★★★ Rip It Up Gluttony – The Octagon | M | 27-28 Feb, 1-4, 6-11, 13-18 Mar at 6:30pm or 9:20pm | From $25
John Hinton’s Scientrilogy: Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking Theatre | John Hinton, Tangram Theatre and Holden Street Theatres
Join Albert, the genius behind the übercoolest moustache in science. A musical comedy lecture like no other. Warning: features the wurst sausage joke ever. Peer reviewed by Sussex University. Back in Adelaide by popular demand. “Something close to brilliance” ★★★★★ The Times. Winner: Brighton Fringe and Off-West-End Awards. Holden Street Theatres – The Arch | PG | 14, 18, 21, 24, 28 Feb, 3, 7, 10, 14, 17 Mar at various times | From $17
John Hinton’s Scientrilogy: Origin Of Species... Theatre | John Hinton, Tangram Theatre and Holden Street Theatres
International smash-hit musical comedy! Charles Darwin tells the remarkable story of how he came up with the idea that shook the world. Back in Adelaide by popular demand. Bring your monkeys! ★★★★★ Broadway Baby, ★★★★★ Entertainment Hive, ★★★★ Adelaide Theatre Guide. Nominated for ‘Best Show’ and ‘Best Performer’, Adelaide Fringe 2012. Holden Street Theatres – The Arch | PG | 13, 16, 20, 23, 25, 27, 28 Feb, 3,6, 9, 13,15 Mar at various times | From $15
John Hinton’s Scientrilogy: The Element In The Room Theatre | John Hinton, Tangram Theatre and Holden Street Theatres
The incredible life story of Marie Curie, arguably the most important woman in science, whose discoveries both saved and destroyed countless lives. Musical comedy, back in Adelaide by popular demand. ★★★★ Times, ★★★★★ Broadway Baby, ★★★★★ Musical Talk. Winner of Critics’ Awards at Edinburgh and Adelaide Fringe Festivals. Holden Street Theatres – The Arch | G | 15, 18, 22, 24-25 Feb, 4, 8, 11, 13, 15, 18 at various times | From $17
Kevin Quantum: And For My Next Trick Magic | Kevin Quantum
Comedy sketch-magic show with more tricks than you can shake a wand at. Scotland’s top magician-scientist hybrid, Kevin Quantum will rock your socks off. And you won’t even have to take off your shoes. “Bewildering sleight of hand” ★★★★ The Herald, “Takes your breath away, then makes it appear in someone else’s pocket” ★★★★ BroadwayBaby The Garden of Unearthly Delights – Studio 7 | M | 16-17, 23-24 Feb, 2-3, 9-11, 16-17 Mar at 10:45pm | From $25
Kevin Quantum: Anti-Gravity Magic | Kevin Quantum
2015/16/17 Edinburgh sell-out. Scotland’s top magician-scientist hybrid, tutored by Penn & Teller, returns with his new show. Enter an exotic space where the rules of gravity are bent and broken. “Epic stunts” ★★★★★ Broadway Baby, “Astonishing” ★★★★★ Edinburgh Evening News, “Will leave you picking your jaws off the floor” ★★★★ The Advertiser The Garden of Unearthly Delights – Corona Theatre | PG | 16-18, 20-25, 27-28 Feb, 1-4, 6-18 Mar at 7pm | From $25
EVENTS 16 February - 18 March 2018
New Alchemists
Visual Arts & Design | Flinders University City Gallery ‘New Alchemists’ explores ideas of futuristic biologies and post-human trysts within the nexus of art and science. Paralleling artists as contemporary alchemists, the works create narratives that collapse our sense of familiarity and embodied otherness with the world around us. A Salamanca Arts Centre exhibition toured by Contemporary Art Tasmania. Flinders University City Gallery | G | 17-18, 20-25, 27-28 Feb, 1-4, 6-11, 13-18, 20-25 Mar at various times | FREE
Nikola and I
Theatre | Geddes and Fay The Lux Concordia is malfunctioning. David our eccentric host, is hurled through the past, present and future. His past life Nick struggles with the disastrous consequences of the Philadelphia Experiment - but hey! Ola from the future knows where it’s at - dude. A night of frivolity, love, science, spirituality, sound, space and cosmic “woo woo”. Dream Well – The Zen Den & Adelaide Botanic Gdns - Noel Lothian Hall | PG | 26-28 Feb, 1-16 Mar, 6:15pm | From $10
[sic] Rose
Visual Arts & Design | praxis ARTSPACE and Arts in Health at FMC Curator, Dr Patty Chehade, invited artists to consider social, political, historical and personal encounters and changes in medicine. Artists: Margaret Ambridge, Silvana Angelakis, Aida Azin, Liz Butler, Patty Chehade, Sarina Diakos, Lisa Losada, Jessie Lumb, Marijana Tadic, Chris Thiel, Karlien Van Rooyen. Flinders Medical Centre – Promenade Gallery A | G | 16-28 Feb, 1-18 Mar, 9am - 5pm | FREE
SEA ME
Visual Arts & Design | Tutti Arts Inspired by Port Adelaide and the sea that surrounds it, SEA me features seascapes and the bizarre and intriguing creatures that live in its deep blue depths. SEA me is a body of work developed by four Tutti Arts visual artists based at the Fontanelle workshop in Port Adelaide and showcases colourful and lively 2D works in mixed media of various sizes and scales. Meet the artists at the Opening on 24 February at 5pm. Artists: Ellese McLinden, Josh Maloney, Scott Pyle and Matina Kallushis. Fontanelle Gallery & Studios | G | 19-20, 24, 26-27 Feb, 5-6, 12-13 Mar at various times | FREE
The Red Forge Publishing House Theatre | Keren Sutcliffe
Marla tries to get ‘The Red Forge Publishing House’ team to promote the concept of Brenda’s story about Max, an information agent from the Maxden Libary, and his sister Charlotte, owner of the Theodorus Spiral Company, who together with Kesbooks Skytower, the hologram, ignore the time travel ban and try to save Hypatia. Paradoxical fun for everyone. Semaphore Library & The Dockside Tavern – Main Stage | G | 22, 26-27 Feb, 6.30pm or 7:30pm | FREE & From $13
Time and Machines - Gymnastics in Motion Circus & Physical Theatre | Payneham Youth Centre
‘Time and Machine - Gymnastics in Motion’ introduces acrobats, gymnasts, dancers, aerialists and circus performers. Athletes will use their bodies to create and construct moving parts of machinery through time. Come and be part of the total experience of the constant workings of the machine, with the audience and the athletes moving as one. Payneham Youth Centre | G | 17 Mar at 4pm or 6:30pm | From $15
EVENTS 16 February - 18 March 2018
Yianni Agisilaou: Teaching a Robot to Love Comedy | alist.com.au & Serious Comedy
As seen on ABC’s Comedy NextGen. Perth Fringe Best Comedy Nom 2015 & 2017! Artificial Intelligence is coming! It’s going to take over our phones, then our jobs and eventually our lives. Award winning comedian, Yianni Agisilaou takes a light hearted look at the upcoming apocalypse. ★★★★ Time Out, ★★★★ The Scotsman, ★★★★ Glam Adelaide, ★★★★★ The Music Gluttony – The Piglet | M | 20-25, 27-28 Feb, 1-4 Mar at 7:10pm
| From $20
THE LAB
CLOSING GALA The Lab at Percy Court | Sat 17 Mar, 7pm | PG | $25 The Lab is a new 2018 Adelaide Fringe Venue with a theatre and art exhibition space. The venue will feature eclectic program of cabaret, music, theatre and art by Australian performers and visual artists. Come join us for a night of revelry and food & drink with our featured artists to celebrate the closing of this amazing space and the end of the 2018 Adelaide Fringe. It’s a night you won’t want to miss.
Events | Encoder Entertainment
11-19 August 2018
www.scienceweek.net.au
GAME CHANGERS AND CHANGE MAKERS National Science Week is back for another year. Celebrate Australian science and technology by coming along to one of the many events across South Australia. Whether you’re a science newcomer or mega enthusiast, you’ll find an event that intrigues, challenges and entertains.
CHILDREN’S EVENTS 16 February - 18 March 2018
A Fabulous Teleportation Experiment Children’s Events | Pierre Ulric / Global Mysteries
Trapped halfway in another dimension... Will he manage to teleport? How does he do it? Why are adults and kids having so much fun? All will be revealed in this crazy, dynamic show that is part magic & illusion, part science, all fun and learning! Perfect for schools & families. SOLD OUT and Nominated “Best Children Entertainment” Fringe World 2017. Gluttony – Cornucopia | AGES 6-12 | 9-12 Mar, 16-18 Mar at 5pm | From $12
Dinosaur Time Machine
Children’s Events | Highwire Events & Entertainment Best Children’s Show Award 2016! Buckle up and take a trip in a giant time machine to get up close and personal with a life sized T-Rex! Incorporating science with circus, puppetry and imaginative play in this unique educational theatre production for kids 3-9. “It is educational, well done, and extremely entertaining” Global Media 2016. Gluttony – The Speakeasy | AGES 3-9 | 17-18, 24-25 Feb, 3-4, 10-12, 17-18 Mar at 12.30pm | From $19
Dr Hubble’s Bubbles
Children’s Events | Stirling Fringe Everybody loves bubbles, but Dr Hubble REALLY LOVES bubbles and he wants to show you why! Let Dr Hubble take you on a funny and slightly educational journey into the world of bubbles. Witness the biggest bubbles you have ever seen, bubbles inside bubbles, a square bubble and even an explodabubble. You might even find yourself inside a giant bubble! Stirling Fringe – Rastelli | AGES 3-12 | 3-4 Mar at 12.30pm | From $20
Pop the bubblemans fantabulous Children’s Events | Tim Edie
The science of bubbles, a fun filled event full of soap bubble, smoke inside bubbles, giant bubbles, square bubbles, even kids inside bubbles. Pop explains to the children the science of bubbles, lots of fun, lots of bubbles. Reviews say don’t wear your Sunday best, be warned you will get soaked. Gluttony – La Petite Grande | AGES 3-12 | 17-18, 24-25 Feb, 3-4, 10-12, 17-18 Mar at 11.30am | From $18
Space Encounters
Children’s Events | Emma Knights Productions ‘Space Encounters’ is a 50-minute interactive family opera created by Sean O’Boyle and Ian McFadyen. We join astronauts Harris and Jefferson, and their robot Roland, who have set off to an unknown planet in search of the source of a strange signal. Woodville Town Hall | G | 1-2, 4 Mar at 12:30pm or 1pm | From $18
The Scientific Bubble Show Children’s Events | Marty McBubble
World record bubble-ologist Marty McBubble will blow you away with his incredible bubble creations, and the amazing science that makes them possible. Get ready for bubble cubes, rockets, volcanoes, carousels, caterpillars, children in bubbles and more! And all in air-conditioned comfort in Tandanya Theatre. More info at scientificbubbleshow.com Live From Tandanya – Tandanya Theatre | AGES 3-12 | 4, 11, 18 Mar at 12pm or 3:30pm | From $16
CHILDREN’S EVENTS 16 February - 18 March 2018
Wild Imagination...Drop and Go Nature Play Just for Kids Children’s Events | Wild Imagination
NO PARENTS ALLOWED! Grown ups, take a break and go see a show while your mini nature warrior will get into the wild world of nature play! We do water play, potion making, nature crafts, loose parts play, tree climbing, bush cubbies and more! Supervised by qualified teachers with Police Checks and First Aid. Kids 5-12 years. wildimagination.com.au Gluttony – It’s a park | AGES 5-12 | 16-18, 23-25 Feb, 2-4, 9-11, 16-18 Mar at 3:30pm | From $35
Wild Imagination...Nature Play for Families Children’s Events | Wild Imagination
Wild fun for the whole family! Cool off and splash around in our water play area, or brew potions with flowers and herbs. Make some amazing nature craft like magic wands, dream catchers, clay and teepees. Create with loose parts play in our huge Inventors Playground! Plus bush cubbies, tree climbing and more. Kids 1-12 years. wildimagination.com.au Gluttony – It’s a park | AGES 1-12 | 17-18, 24-25 Feb, 3-4, 10-11, 17-18 Mar at varous times | From $15
Inspiring South Australia, the Children’s Discovery Museum and Libraries of SA bring you the
Bang Little
Discovery Club
Young children are already great scientists without even knowing it. This fun-filled, hands-on program creates a journey of shared discovery, combining everyday objects and experiences with genuine scientific enquiry methods.
Science for children aged
3-5
Ask your friendly library staff about the Little Bang Discovery Club in your local library! For more information about what’s happening in science in South Australia go to
inspiringsa.org.au
“The World is full of wonders but they become more wonderful, not less wonderful, when science looks at them.” David Attenborough “Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.” Rosalind Franklin “I didn’t just want to know the names of things. I remember wanting to know how it all worked.” Elizabeth Blackburn “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” Marie Curie “We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.” Maria Mitchell “You dig deeper and its gets more and more complicated, and you get confused, and it’s tricky, and it’s hard, but … it is beautiful.” Brian Cox “Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.” Stephen Hawking “The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my homework up there, my books, I went up there if I was sad, and it just felt very good to be up there among the green leaves and birds and the sky.” Jane Goodall “I have steadily endeavoured to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved (and I cannot resist forming one on every subject), as soon as facts are shown to be opposed to it.” Charles Darwin “Beauty arises out of inspiration.” Richard Dawkins “Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.” Stephen Hawking “I think a scientist’s job is to explore the Universe, to explore the cosmos around us. People always want to know - why is that useful? Well, on just pure fundamental grounds, on some level it’s like art, it’s like umm, music, it’s aesthetics, it’s like philosophy. You want to know where you are in the Universe.” Brian Schmidt “It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.” David Attenborough “One might say science is the sum total of our knowledge of the universe, the library of the known, but the practice of science happens at the border between the known and the unknown. Standing on the shoulders of giants, we peer into the darkness with eyes opened not in fear, but in wonder.” Brian Cox “Nature composes some of her loveliest poems for the microscope and telescope.” Theodore Roszak “Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.” John Dewey “I don’t need to have answers to everything. I want to have answers to find.” Brian Cox “I don’t care how you get potassium out of kelp; I want to know how kelp gets potassium out of the sea.” Willis R. Whitney “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” Isaac Asimov “The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.” Thomas Berger “To me, mathematics, computer science and the arts are insanely related. They’re all creative expressions.” Sebastian Thrun “Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world.” Louis Pasteur “Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It’s posing questions and coming up with a method. It’s delving in.” Sally Ride “Science is too important not to be part of popular culture.” Brian Cox “Quantum physics makes me so happy – it’s like looking at the universe naked.” Sheldon Cooper -The Big Bang Theory, Season 5, Episode 20, spoken by the character
inspiringsa.org.au The Inspiring South Australia program is supported by the Australian Government through the Department of Industry, Innovation and Science, the South Australian Department of State Development, the University of Adelaide, the University of South Australia, Flinders University and the South Australian Museum.