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ARTS NEWS
Staging a protest
!['Rockin' the Boat'](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/12/02/1225964/636478--039-rockin-039-the-boat-039-.jpg)
THE spirit of the arts community rises bright and feisty to mark the end of the year with a message for Port Adelaide developers.
Bush sees the best
![The Adventures of Alvin Sputnik](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/11/30/1225963/257278-the-adventures-of-alvin-sputnik.jpg)
COUNTRY Arts South Australia has just completed its whistlestop tour of the regions, unveiling the 2011 season.
Playing on a sticky wicket
![Boxing Day Test](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2010/11/30/1225963/257076-boxing-day-test.jpg)
IT is Boxing Day. The family is just a bit fraught post-Christmas and the Test match is on the telly.
Life on ships of dreams
![Hjalmar Svenna](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/11/25/1225960/778182-hjalmar-svenna.jpg)
TODAY'S young have a hunger for history, for their own stories, for a sense of who they are and who came before them
Set to take flight
![Mikaila Roe](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2010/11/22/1225958/602296-mikaila-roe.jpg)
MIKAILA Roe has just been recognised as a Rising Star of South Australia - one of the four recipients of $1000 Minter Ellison Awards for 2010.
All aboard
![I Pagliacci](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2010/11/18/1225955/745812-i-pagliacci.jpg)
THE Adelaide Art Orchestra is hitting the end of the year full steam ahead, almost literally.
Harvey opens up
![Out in the Open](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2010/11/18/1225955/768840-out-in-the-open.jpg)
GAY British writer Jonathan Harvey says his play Out in the Open simply couldn't be set in the straight world.
Love for flamenco
![Rosalie Thomas](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/18/1225955/774871-rosalie-thomas.jpg)
A PASSION for flamenco and Spain has had Adelaide dancer Rosalie Tomas living and studying in Madrid for the past eight years.
Brilliance from Brazil
![Yamandu Costa](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2010/11/18/1225955/768805-yamandu-costa.jpg)
UNTIL he was 15, Latin guitar great Yamandu Costa's only influences were folk music from the south of his native Brazil and its neighbours.
In the steps of giants
![Jeff Lang](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2010/11/18/1225955/768808-jeff-lang.jpg)
JEFF Lang has powerful memories that drive the trademark finesse, rhythm and blistering guitar crescendos that leave his audiences agog.
Fight lost as Union Hall is ripped up
![Theatre building goes down](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2010/11/18/1225955/466797-demise-of-union-hall.jpg)
THE wreckers started knocking down Union Hall yesterday, ending an eight-month fight for its preservation.
Festivals flex appeal
![The Town Bikes](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/11/17/1225955/083190-the-town-bikes.jpg)
CABARET performers Carla Yamine and Gabi Barton yesterday had great fun flaunting their figures in front of city fitness trainer Jim-Bob Rose.
Womadelaide 2011 line-up announced
![Womad 2011 - Creole Choir of Cub](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/16/1225954/507419-womad-2011-creole-choir-of-cub.jpg)
PUNK-reggae icon Don Letts, pioneering British DJ Norman Jay and Nigerian singer-songwriter Asa head more than 50 acts for next year's Womadelaide.
![Mikaila Roe](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/11/22/1225958/602798-mikaila-roe.jpg)
Mikaila Roe has just been recognised as a Rising Star of South Australia - one of the four recipients of $1000 Minter Ellison Awards for 2010.
REVIEWS
Theatre- Boxing Day Test
![Boxing Day Test](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2010/12/02/1225964/603433-boxing-day-test.jpg)
AS the audience files into the theatre, they must sidestep the fierce game of cricket being whacked out on stage.
Guitar Festival - Other Worldly Sounds
![Richard Bona](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/23/1225959/647979-richard-bona.jpg)
THIS concert demonstrated its appropriate title with seven musicians of worldwide extraction.
Adelaide Guitar Festival - highlights
![Shawn Mullins](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/30/1225963/258587-shawn-mullins.jpg)
THREE nights at the Adelaide International Guitar Festival epitomised the breadth of director Slava Grigoryan's leanings away from his classical playing.
Feast - Out in the Open
![Out in the Open](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/25/1225961/059455-mixed-salad-actors.jpg)
ENGLISH playwright Jonathan Harvey often grazes in the verdant fields of the gay community, with plays like Beautiful Thing and Out in the Open.
Australian Chamber Orchestra
![Australian Chamber Orchestra](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2010/11/22/1225958/602320-australian-chamber-orchestra.jpg)
IS it a virus? Conspiracy? or Coincidence? Something funny happened to four separate chamber ensembles this year.
Leonard Cohen seduces Adelaide
![Leonard Cohen](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2010/11/07/1225949/074185-leonard-cohen.jpg)
A PRACTICALLY full house at the Entertainment Centre last night was royally seduced by one of the best.
Dance - Next of Kin
![It's all in the family](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2010/11/11/1225951/897872-it-039-s-all-in-the-family.jpg)
RESTLESS Dance’s new Director Philip Channells makes his directorial debut with Next of Kin.
Music - Australian String Quartet
![Australian String Quartet](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2010/11/15/1225953/842388-australian-string-quartet.jpg)
I HAD a dream in which a string quartet played a program by Sciarrino, Hosokawa and a composer from Uzbekistan I had never heard of.
Music - George Benson
![Singer song writer George Benson](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/15/1225953/835751-singer-song-writer-george-benson.jpg)
SYDNEY vocalist Grace Knight was support act for this show, and accompanied by a piano trio she worked over some rather tired standards .
Music - The Firm
![Tenor Robert Macfarlane](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/11/15/1225953/827146-tenor-robert-macfarlane.jpg)
FOR the singer of German Lieder, Schubert's song cycle Winterreise (Winter Journey)is Mount Everest.
Feast - My Stories, Your Emails
![Ursula Martinez](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources3.news.com.au/images/2010/11/15/1225953/798599-ursula-martinez.jpg)
URSULA Martinez didn't want her outrageous, uproarious - and surprisingly sexy - striptease magic routine Hanky Panky to end up on the internet.
Carrie Fisher - Wishful Drinking
![Carrie_Fishe](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2010/11/11/1225952/190713-carrie_fishe.jpg)
MAY the farce be with you for the way Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher tells it, her life has been one, long, hysterical comedy of errors.
A few light lessons of life
![Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2010/10/28/1225944/656316-six-dance-lessons-in-six-weeks.jpg)
TWO lonely people meet, and over six weeks teach each other a few steps and a few life lessons in this light and amusing entertainment.
Theatre - The Give and Take
![The Give and Take](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2010/11/08/1225949/507149-the-give-and-take.jpg)
TONY McNamara's The Give and Take is not one of the world's great plays but it is a jolly diversion with a few raunchy bits.
Entertainment Highlights
Heath 'on screen from beyond grave'
![ledger](http://web.archive.org./web/20101202212411im_/http://resources2.news.com.au/images/2010/12/02/1225964/369714-ledger.jpg)
HEATH Ledger's character the Joker could be resurrected in the next Batman movie.
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