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Calendar of Australian Events in Austria
The calendar does not claim to be exhaustive. If you know of any forthcoming 'Australian' event, we would appreciate if you could send us an email or write to us.
“Begegnungen” - Art from Australia at the Galerie Judith Walker
Permanent exhibition
Aboriginal Art at the Galerie Judith Walker in Carinthia. Open every Fri, Sat, Sun from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
Galerie Judith Walker
Schloss Ebenau
9162 Feistritz im Rosental
Ph: 04228 2110
Email: office@galerie-walker.at
Dance and Music Festival "grossARTig"
5 and 6 July
The Australian Cranbrook School of Music and the Australian Hunter School of Music will be performing live during their European tour at Grosschoenau's "grossARTig" dance and music festival. For further information, please refer to www.gross.schoenau.at/musik/
3922 Großschönau
www.gross.schoenau.at/musik
Email: josef.gratzl@gmx.at
Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival
5 to 9 July
Since its premiere in 2007, the Summa Cum Laude International Youth Music Festival (SCL) has evolved from a first-class competition in one of the most
renowned music locations in the world to a festival that also hosts events in some of Vienna's most notable historical venues. More than 1200 young musicians from all over the world and have entered into co-operations with several renowned cultural institutions in Vienna and its vicinity. Numerous Australian ensembles will be participating at this year's festival, such as The Methodist Ladies' College Choir as part of their 2008 European Tour, Methodist Ladies' College Chorale, Canterbury College Cantabile Choir, Methodist Ladies' College Senior Symphony Orchestra, Hunter Central Coast Regional Wind Ensemble Band and the Cranbrook Mixed Wind Ensemble.
For more information, venues and the full program, please refer to www.sclfestival.org
"context" - Finissage
6 July, 04:00 to 07:00 pm
Join Australian artist Heather Winter and Helga Cmelka at the finissage of their exhibition "context". Both artists will be present.
Kunststation Kollmitzberg
3321 Kollmitzberg 8
Ph: 0676/3258197
Email: kuko@aon.at
PAM ANN - Come fly with me
9 to 11 July, 08:00 pm
Pam Ann, alter ego of Australian comedian Caroline Reid, will be performing live at the Wiener Metropol. Pam Ann’s shows are a mixture of drag, camp and glamour and a pun on the airline Pan Am. For more information, please refer to www.wiener-metropol.at
and www.pamann.com
Theaterverein Wiener Metropol
Hernalser Hauptstraße 55
1170 Wien
Tommy Emmanuel live in Concert
8 July, 08:00 pm
Two-time Grammy nominee Tommy Emmanuel has a professional career that spans over four decades and continues to intersect with some of the finest musicians throughout the world. A household name in his native Australia, Tommy will be playing in Austria on during his current world tour at the Burgarena Finkenstein.
Burgarena Finkenstein
9584 Finkenstein
Ph: +43 - 676 401 17 93
Email: burgarena-finkenstein@carinthia.com
www.burgarena.at
www.tommyemmanuel.com
MOYA Annuale 08 - Young Art Global
17 July, 07:30 pm - Official Opening
Exhibition running until 3 August 08
Australian Wayne Quilliam, an Indigenous photographer, will be participating in "Young Art Global" with eight photographs from the "Lowanna Emergence" series, "a metaphoric abstraction of Aboriginal culture and spirituality". His works explores "the intimate relationship between the human form and the unique patterns of nature". Wayne will be one of several international artists featuring in the group exhibition. Other countries represented include Brazil, Columbia, China, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Panama, Philippines, Russia, South Africa and South Korea.
Venue: MOYA
Loewelstrasse 20
1010 Vienna
www.moya-vienna.at
Email: office@moya-vienna.at
40th Anniversary - Australia-Austria Society
1 Aug, 07:00 pm
Join the Australia-Austria Society on their 40th Anniversary birthday party trip at the MS Admiral Tegetthoff to Greifenstein. With live music and Australian food buffett. Reservation required.
Australia-Austria Society (ÖAG)
Mag. Hubert Heine
Email: heine69@at@yahoo.de
Ph: 0676 500 3058
www.australia-austria.at
“Philharmonisches Konzert”
7 Aug, 07:30 pm
Australian member of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Tobias Lea (viola), and his wife Arabella Lea (piano), will be performing works by Dvorak, Schumann and Mozart at Schloss Esterhazy. For more information,
please refer to www.haydnfestival.at
Haydn Festspiele Eisenstadt, Schloss Esterhazy, 7000 Eisenstadt;
Ph: 02682 - 61866 Email: office@haydnfestival.at
Wild Marmalade at the Austrian Didgeridoo Festival
23 August
Austria's biggest didgeridoo festival will be featuring Australian Wild Marmalade live on stage. Inspired by both indigenous sounds and the grooves of the present, Wild Marmalade's high energy shows uplift audiences with their display of powerful, joyous and infectiously danceable music. Form more information, please refer to www.didgeridoo-festival.at and www.myspace.com/didgeridoo_festival
Venue: Schlossberg, Bruck an der Mur
For information how to get there, please refer to the festival's website at: www.didgeridoo-festival.at
Australian Rules Football "Battle of the Roos"
30 Aug, 04:00 pm
The Vienna Kangaroos will be playing against the Munich Kangaroos at Koessen's airport Fliegerbar-Oval, with Live music, airshows and much more.
Venue:
Fliegerbar-OVAL am Landeplatz
Koessen
Tyrol
Maribor Festival 2008
4 to 14 Sep
Australian Richard Tognetti has been appointed artistic director of one of Slovenia’s major classical music festivals, the Maribor Festival. Under Tognetti’s leadership, the festival will launch into a new phase to build momentum towards Maribor’s future title of Cultural Capital of Europe in 2012. Music events have a long tradition in Maribor. For 45 years concerts have been taking place in Maribor each September.
The Festival has grown from the earlier baroque music to a Chamber music festival. The main objective of this year’s festival is to show musical diversity of different cultures. Altogether, there will be 21 concerts, including morning matinees, classical music recitals, afternoon concerts, some featuring unusual instruments and evening concerts, bringing together the jewels of classical
music, interactive projects and Roma musical heritage with some of the finest musicians from the Eastern European Gypsy diaspora.
The venues of the Maribor Festival 2008 will be various halls in Maribor, such as the Maribor Cathedral, open air places (Rotov? Square, Castle Square…) and at the Ptuj Castle, Dornava Mansion and elsewhere.
Apart from Richard Tognetti, there will also be numerous other Australian artists performing at the festival, such as William Barton, renowned didgeridoo player (picture below left), Bill Henson, photographic contemporary artist, vocalist Katie Noonan or leading artists on ethnic musical instruments, as well as James and Joseph Tawadros, lute and Egyptian percussionists of Arab-Australian descent
(picture right).
For a detailed list of the concert programmes and the musicians, please visit the
festival’s website at
www.festivalmaribor.si