Vitalstatistix: November 2010

Monday, November 29, 2010

Rockin' the Boat

A musical celebration and protest in true Port style
8, 10 & 12 DECEMBER
at WATERSIDE WORKERS HALL (11 Nile St, Port Adelaide)
Tickets at BASS

Presented by the Rockin' The Boat Collective, Born on Monday and Vitalstatistix.

Rockin’ the Boat is an eclectic night of stories and songs – from Brecht to Guys and Dolls, Nick Cave to Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell to John Lennon – in a celebration and protest inspired by the independent spirit of Port communities. Rockin’ the Boat evokes the culture and folklore common to many port cities - internationalism, peace, rebellion, love lost and found, storytelling, rat-baggery, drama and a steadfast self-determination.

Rockin’ the Boat is partly a response to the multi-million dollar Port Waterfront Redevelopment which will significantly change the built, natural and cultural landscape of the Port over the next fifteen years. In the face of many examples of more appropriate development models of ports around Australia and the world, the New Port Quays development, managed by the government’s Land Management Corporation, has seen things such as: the destruction of 150+year old working boat sheds; closure of access to much of the inner harbor of the Port River; handing over of heritage listed iconic buildings such as Harts Mill to developers for private use within the waterfront redevelopment; and contaminated dust piles left to waft across the local primary school from the one of the development sites.

The high-calibre artistic team includes such local favourites as Eileen Darley, Heather Frahn and Stephen Sheehan, with a host of Adelaide’s best instrumentalists including guest pianist Michael Morley who combine with the 35 voices of Port Adelaide’s choir, Born on Monday.

Conceived and produced by Emma Webb; Directed by Catherine Fitzgerald; Featuring Eileen Darley, Heather Frahn, Rosalind Aylmore, Jenna Bonavita, Peter Douglas, Stuart Day, Emma Luker, Stephen Sheehan, Michael Morley, the poetry of Geoff Goodfellow and Port Adelaide’s community choir, Born on Monday. Design by Kathryn Sproul; Lighting design by Sue Grey Gardner.

Download the Rockin' the Boat poster

7:00PM WEDNESDAY 8 DECEMBER
8:00PM FRIDAY 10 DECEMBER
5:00PM SUNDAY 12 DECEMBER

WATERSIDE WORKERS HALL

11 NILE ST, PORT ADELAIDE

$20 waged, $15 concession, $15 fringe benefits

Tickets at BASS

Monday, November 15, 2010

Wrong, dirty and amazing.

Vitals serves up the cream... in denim.

NOVEMBER 27

4am-4pm AT WATERSIDE (11 Nile St, Port Adelaide)

Tix $10 at the door

It’s your favourite pair of jeans, but after they’ve been lost, shoved guiltily down the back of someone else’s couch. It’s that denim jacket that fell off its hanger and balled up at the bottom of your wardrobe. It’s those platform shoes you coveted at Vinnies, but never quite understood what they’d go with. A little bit wrong, a little bit dirty, but completely amazing at the same time. Just make sure to shake it out before you wear it; an electro-pop cabaret comedy duo, a mu-mu wearing granny and a 3 piece indie-pop band might have taken up residence in the folds of your denim…

Cream Your Denim is a 12 hour club-night for the ladeez and their peeps, serving up music from DJs and local musos, cabaret and comedy. Waterside Workers Hall in Port Adelaide will be pumping; filled with people who aren’t easily offended, waiting for the unpredictable results of throwing these acts together for a one night only queer extravaganza as part of Feast Festival.

Expect to be offered a hair cut by our pop-up art hairdresser complete with glamorous assistant (we’re sure your hair is really lovely as it is, but maybe it’s time for a change?), and why not then take part in the denim parade – cameltoes and stonewash are never out of fashion; if you can prove it, you are invited to wear it with pride and you could win a prize. Steamy songstress, Libby O’Donovan will commentate the dirty denim cat-walking and sing some sultry numbers to get you in the parading mood. Add a flowing bar with awesome drink specials and you’ve got yourself a pretty creamy party.

Feast 2010

The Feast of Argentina Gina Catalina
& Salon de Dance
17-21 November at the Feast Hub

We are very excited to be co-presenting a Finucane & Smith double bill at this years Feast Festival. With only five shows of each we recommend you book your tickets asap!

The Feast of Argentina Gina Catalina
Book tickets

Moira Finucane, star of Burlesque Hour, the woman who has sent everyone from London to Tokyo into a riotous frenzy, the woman the French call "uniquely exquisitely demented" sweeps you off your feet with a sumptuous, spellbinding and delicious new work.

This is Finucane as you have never seen her; as wild Spanish adventuress Argentina Gina Catalina in a feast for the palate and the senses that serves up rapacious and erotic adventures, delectably abdundant food and drink, stupendous costumes and stunning writing. Sangria flows, charcoal meats sizzle, seafood tumbles and audiences lick their fingers, toss back tequila and cheer widly!

Salon de Dance

Book tickets

The stars of Burlesque Hour swing into Feast to create the cult hit; seedy, magnificent, intimate dark dance hall, drenched in acid green and gothic noir decor; table seating, lightbulb swinging, liquor sipping, dance lessons during interval. With gorgeous, seedy dancers and physical artistes from Melbourne, Sydney and Paris - volcanic Moira Finucane, handsome Paul Cordeiro, iconic Maude Davey, tuxedoed Rob McCredie, butoh star Yumi Umiumare, wild felines Kitten Ko and No Strings Attached stars Rachel High and Emma J Hawkins - Salon de Dance is packed to the rafters with provocative, sensual and unexpected physical displays.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Welcome to our new site!

Hello Vitals friends! We have moved our virtual selves to this new blog/website. We will blogging and updating regularly so make sure you follow us to keep up to date with everything that's happening at Vitals and Waterside.

We are all feeling very happy at Vitals at the moment, after having just finished the first season of Ruby Bruise. We hope you were lucky enough to see it (some weren't because it sold out nearly every night!).