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Oui, oui to French film

newsLocal News11 Mar 10 @ 10:00am by Emily Charrison

OH la la it’s French film time. French cinema lovers have just a week to wait until the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival opens at the Palace Nova East End Cinemas.

Featuring 43 films and documentaries, the 14-day festival is the largest foreign film festival in Australia. Besides marking its 21st year in the country, the festival will also celebrate the 100th anniversary of SA’s own Alliance Francaise, a club which promotes French conversation, literature and art.

A third more screenings have been added to the program this year due to demand, including some of the finest productions released by the French film industry in the past 12 months.

Alliance Francaise director Philippe Marse says the festival covers a range of genres, from action to comedy, and aims to showcase the French way of life.

“I think the festival is quite representative of a lot of different movies,” he says. “It’s very open so you can enjoy all types of movies, some you might love but others might not be your cup of tea.”

Alliance Francaise French Film Festival, Palace Nova East End Cinema, March 18-31. See frenchfilmfestival.org.

Will wrote:Although things will now quieten down a bit (name a place which doesn't quieten down over winter?), Adelaide will most definately not 'fall asleep', 'go into hibernation' or 'roll up the footpaths' as suggested by our own members on SSC.

Indeed, the onus is on us to keep the momentum. When you visit a show for the fringe for example, very few people just visit the show and go home immediately afterwards. Instead, people have a meal, drink a beer at a bar/pub or go to a nightclub. These things don't dissapear between April-December. They are still there. Instead of staying in your living room and complaining how you have nothing to do, go into town and visit those places which you enjoyed so much during the first 3 months of the year.

I also recommend people read the Adelaide Review or the City Messenger. There are still plenty of arty and cultural things to do and attend between April and December.

For example, Tasting Australia will be on 29 April - 6 May 2010. Tasting Australia is the premier food and wine event in Australia.

http://www.tasting-australia.com.au/

Presented by the Adelaide City Council and the Capital City Committee, Earth Ride - Adelaide 2010 calls out to everyone on Sunday 28th March, 9am-2pm to participate in this FREE community event. Earth Ride - Adelaide 2010 is part of a global initiative empowering the community to make a difference by engaging in sustainable solutions, to think globally and act locally. It coincides with the global initiative Earth Hour, with cities all over the world turning off their lights on March 27th at 8.30 to show their support towards a "greener" earth.

Earth Ride - Adelaide 2010 is themed WATER (river Murray, the Coorong, rainfall patterns, home harvesting and storage, urban planning, urban wetlands), AIR (wind power generation, air quality, ozone, greenhouse gas emissions), EARTH (sustainable land care, threatened species, home garden and food production) and FIRE (Solar power, solar heating, bushfire ready).

Commencing from the Event Village in Victoria Square, thousands of participants will take the opportunity to walk or ride their bike through the city (passing the 4 themed squares) and soak up the atmosphere of 'car-free' city streets, before returning to the event village for food, entertainment, bike demos and most importantly to meander through the Sustainability Expo. Here you will be able to learn about key issues and solutions around building a more sustainable community - options for sustainable transport, better health outcomes through increased physical activity, healthy natural foods and sustainable use of our environment, to name a few.

Xaragmata wrote:Maybe I imagined it, or maybe it happened, but at about 11:30pm it sounded and felt like a minor earth tremor here - enough to jolt my chair.
Back to my cup of tea.

The official launch of Bogie Open Combination tram E 118 will take place at 2.00pm on Sunday 23 May 2010. The Museum will be opening at 10.00am.

The Tasting Australia 2010 event program is available now. It promises a wide array of stunning main courses - and plenty of tasty side dishes - featuring top international and national food and drink professionals. The event takes place in Adelaide and South Australias regions.

Among first-time international visitors from the United Kingdom are Rosemary Shrager and Antony Worrall Thompson. Irish born Paul Rankin will be joining us again for the second time. Another previous and highly popular star coming to Tasting Australia is the legendary Antonio Carluccio, who will be making his third visit to the event. These are just some of the top international names who will be joined by many of Australia's top chefs, writers and television presenters including Joanna Savill, Will Studd, Manu Feildel, Maeve O'Meara, Shannon Bennett, Ben O'Donoghue, Pete Evans, Anna Gare, Stephanie Alexander, Maggie Beer, Lyndey Milan, Paul Mercurio, Poh Ling Yeow, Ed Halmagyi, Jill Norman, Darren Simpson, Frank Camorra and Simon Bryant. This is your chance to mix with these icons of flavour over eight delicious days and some 45 different events including demonstrations, tastings and cooking classes.

iTouch(myself) wrote:Kates Party is happening!! its on May 1 in Adelaide!!! Be there because over 30,000 people are going to be.

Omicron wrote:Do tell me what on earth this means! I've seen countless references on the Interspot, but for the life of me I haven't a clue as to what is going on.

Food fest helps stir up the pot

newsLocal News27 Apr 10 @ 11:00am by Chloe Kennedy




Ready to serve: Ande Ursini of Masterchef 2009 with Renae, George and Harry. Picture: Noelle Bobridge




TASTING Australia hits town this week as more than 30,000 people are expected to attend the eight-day food festival.

Among the headline drawcards are Poh Ling Yeow, of Masterchef and now ABC TV, and French-born chef Manu Feildel.

The public can attend 45 different events including demonstrations, tastings and classes.

The Miele Celebrity Cooking Classes with Maggie Beer, Antonio Carluccio and Shannon Bennett are already booked out.

Renae, 10, Harry, 10, and George, 6, (pictured Page One) are among the children who will take part in IGA Kids in the Kitchen, a program teaching the principles of food preparation.

Masterchef’s Andre Ursini will join 22 celebrity and up-and-coming chefs in running the children’s program.

Ursini said more young children were now embracing cooking.

“I have seen the reaction Masterchef has had with young kids and it is huge in schools,” he said.

Ursini said the festival was not just for “food snobs”.

“It’s entertaining, as a lot of the people that are giving demonstrations are performers and chefs.”

Tasting Australia runs Thursday, April 29 to Thursday, May 6, with many of the events held at Elder Park, King William Rd, Adelaide.

http://www.tasting-australia.com.au