This Winter, Francophone artists will Illuminate Adelaide 2023

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From the end of June and through July will see Adelaide lit up with various light installations as part of the Illuminate Adelaide 2023 program. It will also see the return of pop-up club-night over two nights for Unsound Club. Canada’s Moment Factory return for its third year and other Francophone artists also join the program this year. Read on to find out more about them and their installations coming to Illuminate Adelaide 2023.

 

Moment Factory

Since the festival’s inauguration in 2021, Canadian Moment Factory has lit up the Botanic Gardens (read our interview with them about that here) with Light Cycles. Moment Factory is returning in 2023 with two shows not seen before in Adelaide: Mirror Mirror and Resonate. They are also Artists in Residence for Illuminate Adelaide 2023

Mirror Mirror / Miroir Miroir Moment Factory Illuminate Adelaide 2023

Mirror Mirror

An Australian-first experience fresh from its premiere run in Montreal, Mirror Mirror is a playground of interactive technology inviting you to discover your own creativity.

 

Sharing a unique experience with everyone who enters, this series of immersive digital installations spanning from the forest of yourself to a reimagined hall of mirrors is specifically designed to awaken your consciousness with the latest cutting-edge interactive technology.

 

Inside the revamped and remodelled Illuminate Pavilion at its latest home in Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga, Mirror Mirror is a multi-room experience changing with every audience interaction.

 

Whether sharing your memories to pen digital poems, transforming your words into dazzling light displays, sending ripples through a river of time with your movements or simply marvelling at the possibilities that await inside, Mirror Mirror promises to ignite the sense of play and discovery in visitors of all ages.

 

Which journey will you choose?

WHERE: Illuminate Pavillion, Victoria Square, Tartanyangga

WHEN: 28 June – 30 July (except Mondays). Sessions available every 15 minutes.

Tuesdays – Thursdays 10am – 7pm

Fridays – Saturdays  10am – 9pm

Sundays 10am – 7pm

  • HOW MUCH: Ticket prices vary depending on the session chosen:
  • General Admission (Tuesday – Thursday, and until 5pm Friday) $39
  • General Admission (from 5pm Friday and all-day Saturday and Sunday) $49.00
  • Group (4 or more people) (Tuesday – Thursday, and until 5pm Friday) $36.00
  • Group (4 or more people) (from 5pm Friday and all-day Saturday and Sunday) $46 per person
  • Children four years and under are free for all sessions but a $0.00 ticket is required for entry.

A merchant service fee of 2% applies to all ticket purchases

HOW: Purchase your ticket via this link

Moment Factory Light Cycles Illuminate Adelaide
Moment Factory transformed the Adelaide Botanic Gardens with Light Cycles in 2021 and 2022.

 

Resonate

Moment Factory again transform the Adelaide Botanic Garden with this awe-inspiring new after-dark experience.

 

Beginning from the Gardens’ North Terrace gates and pushing technical innovation even further, Resonate promises to captivate by highlighting nature itself – brighter, bolder and more immersive than ever.

 

With six all-new installations along a brand-new night-time trail through the garden’s grounds, Moment Factory once again invite us to resonate deeply with our environment through their spectacular signature mix of light, technology and original soundscapes.

WHEN: 29 June – 30 July (except Mondays)

Sessions available every 15 minutes

Tuesdays – Thursdays 6pm onwards

Fridays – Sundays 5:30pm onwards (except 28 July when it will be open from 6pm)

WHERE: Adelaide Botanic Garden

HOW: Purchase your tickets via this link:

HOW MUCH:

Ticket prices are as follows:

  • General Admission $42.00
  • Groups 4+: $40.00 per person
  • 4 years and under: FREE – however a $0.00 ticket is required for entry

A 2% merchant service fee applies to each transaction.

 

Collectif Scale Ammonite Illuminate Adelaide 2023

Collectif Scale

As part of the free City Lights program, Adelaide’s Queens Theatre will be transformed by Paris based Collectif Scale, who are bringing their Ammonite installation to Illuminate Adelaide 2023. The Collectif Scale is a team of 10 passionate friends who don’t define themselves as Artists but come from more technical educational and professional backgrounds and describe themselves as having a cable and soldering iron culture.

 

Ammonite is made up of kinetic visual light structure that is fully responsive to music. It was initially created by Collectif Scale in Brussels in 2017. It’s been used in music videos, and on stages around the world and we’re lucky enough to have it coming to Adelaide for Illuminate Adelaide 2023.

 

An immersive experience combining light, music, and movement, Ammonite must be seen to be believed creating an unforgettable, entrancing spectacle of everchanging strobe, patterns, and forms.

WHERE: Queens Theatre, Playhouse Ln & Gilles Arcade

WHEN: 7 – 23 July 6pm to 11pm

HOW MUCH: FREE


UNSOUND ADELAIDE

Unsound Adelaide celebrates its 10th year in 2023 and now falls within the Illuminate Adelaide program. They are bringing back their pop-up nightspot named Unsound Club to The Lab on Light Square. The two nights of this club are curated by both the Illuminate Adelaide and Unsound Adelaide teams and they have invited artists hailing from Mali, and with Lebanese, and Ghanian-Filipina backgrounds to name just a few.

 

Unsound Club Night #1

WHERE: The Lab @ Light, 63 Light Square, ADELAIDE

WHEN: Unsound Club Night #1, 14 July, 11:45pm – 5am

HOW: Purchase your tickets via this link

HOW MUCH: $50 for standing General Admission tickets when purchased online, or $60 on the door. Or if you’re keen to experience Unsound Club over both nights it is on (different line-up each night), you can buy a 2 night pass for $80.

A 2% merchant service fee is applied to all online purchases.

 

C.FRIM

Blending global sounds that are urgent and forward-thinking, Naarm-based DJ C.FRIM has a singular, confident, boundary-pushing vision. Drawing from her experience in the Ghanaian-Filipina diaspora, C.FRIM’s musical style is eclectic and hybridised, collapsing walls between cultural silos and never skipping a beat.

 

You can get an idea of what to expect via the clip below:

 

DJ Diaki

Direct from Mali, DJ Diaki is Diaki Kone, a balani show DJ and radio animator in Sanakoroba, Mali. One of the originators of Balani Show sound system sound, DJ Diaki plays in the style of Balani mix with high energy balafon samples, crashing drums, and live remixes that he calls Balani Fou (Crazy Balani). He is a Nyege Nyege affiliate (a collective in Kampala, Uganda that promotes outsider music, primarily electronic, by African artists).

 

You can get a feel for his sets in the clip below:

 

Unsound Club Night #2

WHERE: The Lab @ Light, 63 Light Square, ADELAIDE

WHEN: DJ Plead plays on Unsound Club Night #2, 15 July, 11:45pm – 5am

HOW: Purchase your tickets via this link

HOW MUCH: $50 for standing General Admission tickets when purchased online, or $60 on the door. Or if you’re keen to experience Unsound Club over both nights it is on (different line-up each night), you can buy a 2 night pass for $80.

A 2% merchant service fee is applied to all online purchases.

 

DJ Plead

Playing at night two of Unsound Club is DJ Plead, a Melbourne/Naarm-based producer who draws on his Lebanese background to create tough, percussive, functional tracks.

 

His unique style references the rhythms, scales, and timbres of Lebanese pop and traditional Lebanese wedding music, blending them with contemporary RnB, club, and other dance styles.

 

DJ Plead released his debut EP Get in Circle through air max 97’s DECISIONS label in March 2018, and has since toured Europe and China. DJ Plead is also half of drum-workout duo Poison, a member of high-energy trio BV, and founder of the SUMAC label.

 

Check our his set from Boiler Room Festival 2019 here:

 

KEY INFO FOR ILLUMINATE ADELAIDE 2023

WHAT: Illuminate Adelaide 2023

WHERE: Various locations across Adelaide

WHEN: 28 June – 30 July 2023

HOW: View the full Illuminate Adelaide program here or click on the links above to purchase tickets for those shows.

HOW MUCH: There are free events as well as ticketed events and the prices vary from event to event.

 

What are you looking forward to seeing at Illuminate Adelaide 2023?

 

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Bon Fromage 2023 is on next week: be Gruyère or be square

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Come to Sydney Overseas Passenger Terminal next week, where a 30 metre long table topped with a tonne of French cheeses overlooking the Sydney Opera House will be the centre point of Bon Fromage 2023. The most Brie-lliant of festivals returns with its celebration and promotion of many varieties of French cheese including creamy Camembert, tangy Fourme d’Ambert, nutty Comté, smelly Langres to name but a few. Take our curd for it, these are free festivi-cheese you don’t want to miss!

Bon Fromage 2023

The Bon Fromage festival was created by CNIEL (Centre national interprofessional de l’économie laitière) France’s National Dairy Interbranch Organization)) to their great credit in 2016. It is part of its commitment, aided by the European Union, to showcase the vast variety and distinctiveness of French cheeses in Australia. After all, France’s very own Charles de Gaulle said “how can anyone govern a nation that has 258 different kinds of cheese”.

 

It seeks to expand the knowledge and appreciation of French cheeses among Australian consumers and to inform and guide attendees on how to pair cheese, or how to integrate cheeses into daily cooking. At Bon Fromage 2023, you’ll have the opportunity to taste, discover, and learn about French cheeses.

 

BON FROMAGE 2023 MASTERCLASSES

As with almost everything at this festival, the masterclasses are also free! Some are already full so we recommend you sign up to any that you’re interested in, and that aren’t full, ASAP.

Bon Fromage 2023

Masterclasses that still have places available at time of publication are:

 

BON FROMAGE 2023 EXHIBITORS

The only paid part of Bon Fromage is the food stalls selling cheesy creations and you’re going to want to try these! Here’s just a taste of some of the cheesy creations you will find at Bon Fromage 2023:

  • A_B_Cheese shop will be selling its French cheese range for you to take your new favourites home
  • Take it cheesy will be serving creamy cheeses on sticks with homemade bread crumbs which have been lightly fried
  • The French Cob Loaf puts melted French cheese in sourdough
  • French Cheese Australia will be serving Raclette (perfect for Bon Fromage 2023’s coinciding with the official start of Winter)
  • Hot Dog Savoyard – cheeses from the French Alp region of Savoy are used to create gourmet cheesy hot dogs
  • Croque-Monsieur – the quintessential French take on the humble ham and cheese toastie – choose from Comte, Emmental or Brie
  • Meraki Eats has created a savoury choux made with European cheese
  • Orléans will be serving Moules-Frites, French Coquille St-Jacques with Gruyère, baguette loaded with Gruyère or raclette
  • French Kiss crêperie will be serving a range of crêpes and galettes including a galette with raclette cheese
  • Saucissons Australia brings its Produit du Terroir range of curated cheeses, pâté and homemade dried sausages. They will also be selling cones filled with Saucissons and Cheese
  • Fromager D’affinois will be showcasing its Pavé d’Affinois
  • Madame and Yves will showcase its authentic French treats with a modern edge

Bon Fromage 2023

CHEESEMONGER AMBASSADORS

Each year, Bon Fromage selects a few cheesemongers as its Ambassadors. This year it has selected Aurore Ghigo and Victor Persinette-Gautrez.

 

Aurore co-founded Cheese on Wheels in 2012. At Bon Fromage 2023, she will teach you that cheese is a creation that engages all the senses, encouraging customers to taste, smell, and feel it in order to develop your own opinions and refine your taste buds.

 

Victor, who owns K-SEIN Fromagerie at South Melbourne Market, is a master cheese maker and has spent years perfecting his craft. He uses only the finest ingredients to create the most delicious and unique cheeses that you won’t find anywhere else.

 

ENTERTAINMENT AT BON FROMAGE 2023

At night, The Bon Fromage stage will switch to a French Disco. Groove to the beats of talented DJs and enjoy the musical stylings of French jazzy bands, adding to the festive and cheesy ambiance.

Bon Fromage 2023

Is it brie you’re looking for? You’ll be feeling bleu if you miss out, so make sure you put Bon Fromage in your plans for next week! Com-té Bon Fromage 2023

 

KEY INFO FOR BON FROMAGE 2023

WHAT: Bon Fromage 2023

WHEN: Thursday 1st to Saturday 3rd June 2023

  • Thursday 1st June 2:30pm – 10pm
  • Friday 2nd June 11am – 10:30pm
  • Saturday 3rd June 11am – 5pm

WHERE: Cargo Hall, Sydney Overseas Passenger Terminal, THE ROCKS

HOW: Just go there! Or for Masterclasses, you will need to pre-book and can do so via this link

HOW MUCH: Entry to Bon Fromage and to its tastings is free. The Masterclasses are too but you need to reserve your spot in advance.

SOCIAL MEDIA:

Tag Bon Fromage Festival via its @Europeancheeses and Facebook profiles @EuropeanCheesesAustralia

Suggested Hashtags for your Bon Fromage 2023 posts: #BonFromageFestival2023 #EuropeanCheeses #FrenchCheese #EnjoyitsfromEurope

 

For events with French and Francophone links happening this month, check out our What’s on in May

 

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