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| 2016 ADELAIDE FRINGE |
Welcome to Stories and Starting Points
For the first time, LinkAdelaide is proud to be INSIDE the Adelaide Fringe Program with a new concept for our coverage of the Fringe and Festival Season.
Stories and Starting Points seeks to discover the driving forces behind the 1000+ events in the Fringe. By interviewing artists, Stories and Starting Points seeks to enrich the audience experience by exposing some of the ideas behind the scenes, act as a FREE promotional tool for Fringe acts looking for an audience, and end up an exciting archive of the massive web of ideas that made up the 2016 Adelaide Fringe and Festival season.
We're ready to start interviewing now, so if you are involved in the Fringe in 2016 email us NOW at fringe@linkadelaide.com.au so we can start the conversation.
For details of EVERY act in the 2016 Adelaide Fringe, check out our dedicated Fringe Mini-Site today, or search any event in Adelaide via the Events Guide Above.
We'll also be keeping you informed as things are released via our social media channels on Facebook and Twitter.
In 2016, LinkAdelaide's embarked on an escalation of our previous coverage of Adelaide's Mad March season by creating our own event, Stories and Starting Points. Registered with the 2016 Adelaide Fringe Festival, Stories and Starting Points seeks to discover the stories behind the artists creating work at this year's Festivals.
Since 2011, we've interviewed artists, promoted their shows and presented their fantastic insights, ostensibly through audio interviews which have made up the LinkAdelaide Podcast (and briefly, the Fringecast). With each, LinkAdelaide has sought to expose the amount of tireless, often unpaid work, the creative ideas and people who are the driving forces behind the shows that fill Adelaide each summer. It is what we, nay, I, are and have always been passionate about, and in awe of, during my work in and around the arts and its practitioners.
Away from the website, when I started my working life in commercial radio, my passions were fuelled by a love of listeners, the capacity for the medium to inform and entertain, and the chance to work 'behind the scenes' and work out just how the magical connection between presenter and audient, one that had entranced my youngest self through the hours of telly I watched daily from before I could walk to when I was home during free lessons in High School, was constructed.
After radio, I sought live-er entertainment, starting with festival and theatre marketing, then moving (with training) backstage to become a Stage Manager, where my role affords me (and has afforded me) the very very great privilege of watching the creative process, and the astounding talents of creative people as they take the tentative steps needed, exposing their most vulnerable selves, for the creation of moments that, by an intoxicating alchemy, have the potential to lift, move, and change in their most deepest parts, a member of an audience they may never meet outside of an abstract moment.
I can't get enough of this process while I work. Mainly cause I still don't get it, and every time I take part in a new show, a new project, something new is revealed for me during the process that blows my mind. Some new way of looking at things, a new way of finding meaning from a script, developing moments for an audience, stitching the back of a splitting borrowed petticoat, using house music to make an audience emote even before the house lights come down, tapping their love of Patrick Swayze and 'that lift' from Dirty Dancing by playing Bill Medley and Jennifer Warne, or finding the most moving, cavernous emotion by exposing windows and the interior of an old chapel to the light from the street outside as you barely glow a garish yellow flood light on a sick man as he, and the play he is in, breathe their dying breath..
See, it's intoxicating, uncovering – or just watching as your colleagues uncover – new ways to make people emote. Move people. Or simply score a laugh as the comedian makes her punchline land once again as though for the first time ever. This discovery, that's my drive, and, for now, my passion. And I suppose with LinkAdelaide I've wanted to expose the passions of all the artists who have fought for months, years even, to make their work – from scratch – and bring it out, at their own expense, to Adelaide.
Because none of them are doing it for the money.
And how much more enriching the experience of sitting in an audience knowing that the stage hypnotist you are seeing has numerous degrees under his belt, and knows all the levels of hypnotism he can take you through – from a light sleep to almost full unconsciousness!
But I digress.
In 2016, LinkAdelaide embarked on an escalation of our previous coverage of Adelaide's Mad March season by creating our own event, Stories and Starting Points. Registered with the 2016 Adelaide Fringe Festival, Stories and Starting Points sought to discover the stories behind the artists creating work at the year's Festivals.
And as you can probably work out, so far, I've only looked at one story, one starting point, and that is my own. Ironically, given the mild depression I've been sulking in thus far this Summer, writing this has reignited some of the passions I've been writing about, and I kind of want to get out there and do what I set out to do at the start. But I know that right now I can't, and for the reason of needing to make sure that I can mentally get through future Summer seasons more healthily than I have this year, I mustn't.
I'm okay, I just came to the realisation a couple of weeks ago that, due to a number of things that have been going on in my life, I can't do this to the level of good that I want to do it. That kills me inside, but I owe it to the artists, all the thousands and thousands of them/you here now that I admire so deeply, to do this properly. One hundred percent focussed on the artist, and one hundred percent focussed on creating something for them, about them, that is interesting, informative, and will help someone make the choice to support their tireless efforts by supporting their work.
A story, in the most childish sense, has a beginning, a middle, and an end. A fairy tale starts with once upon a time and ends with happily ever after. A mystery contains a revelation.. and a few plot twists! A fable ends with a moral.
This is the Story and Starting Point of LinkAdelaide's Stories and Starting Points. For now, I, as LinkAdelaide, urge you to support ALL the artists who have fought harder than I to bring their ideas to fruition. There are well over 1000 acts in this year's Fringe alone. All of them have my personal apologies for not doing what I've done in the past. See their shows, admire their work. Be changed. Be moved. Be entertained. They have my utter respect, and I hope to serve them – and you – again in the future.
For now, LinkAdelaide rests.
You can see our body of work, listen to the interviews previously afforded to us, and events previously listed, on the site by starting at our – now archived – home page (click the logo above).
Thank you.
Stephen Moylan - LinkAdelaide. 13-02-2016
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