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Visual Arts Studio Residency 2025: Nadera Rasulova

We are thrilled to announce Nadera Rasulova as the recipient of the Visual Arts Studio Residency in the second half of 2025. Nadera Rasulova will receive 6-months of studio space and an exhibition outcome in Gallery II, as part of our 2026 Visual Arts Program.

Our Visual Arts Studio Residency is supported by donors Geoff Martin and Sorayya Mahmood Martin.

Photo: Courtesy of the artist.


 

The Visual Arts Residency is presented with support from donors Geoff Martin and Sorayya Mahmood Martin.

 

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Exhibition: Fragments, Erin Daniell

Image: Erin Daniell

October 25, 2024 - January 17, 2025

Finissage: Friday January 17, 4:30-6:30pm

The Mill Foyer, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

We are excited to present Fragments, a new Showcase exhibition featuring studio artist and jeweller Erin Daniell.

The exhibition features wearable sculptures inspired by the natural South Australian landscape, in particular the Fleurieu Peninsula.


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Exhibition: Between Dream and Reality, Gough Pitawat and August Porter

Image: August Porter

October 25, 2024 - January 17, 2025

Finssage: Friday January 17, 4:30-6:30pm

Gallery II, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

We are excited to present Between Dream and Reality, a new exhibition in Gallery II featuring studio artists Gough Pitawat and August Porter.

The exhibition features landscape paintings by these two emerging artists, whose individual styles create dreamlike, hazy and abstract interpretations of the natural world. We're thrilled to be able to profile these two artists alongside each other, with their distinct practices that compliment each other. 


This exhibition has support from

 
 

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Exhibition: Glister in the Sun

Belinda Wilson, Teaching lakun (weaving), detail, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 45cm

October 25, 2024 - January 17, 2025

Finissage: Friday January 17, 4:30-6:30pm

Gallery I, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

We are excited to present Glister in the Sun, a new group exhibition featuring Emiko Artemis, Michael Carney, Chelsea Farquhar and Belinda Wilson, curated by Adele Sliuzas.

The exhibition explores the role of the artist within the creation of folklore through visual art, written text and photography. Their work shows that folklore is still alive today, popping up in the stories we tell, songs we sing, and the way we remember and share these traditions. This captivating exhibition encourages viewers to reflect on their connection to tradition, exploring how customs shape personal identity and create a sense of belonging.


This exhibition has support from

 
 

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Adelaide Fringe: The Mill 2025 Program

February 21 - March 23, 2025

We’re back with a jam-packed season for Adelaide Fringe 2025!

Expect everything from theatre to spoken word, comedy, music, cabaret, exhibitions and workshops. This year, our intimate black-box theatre, The Breakout, will play host to shows from 13 incredible companies.

Make sure to throw your support behind these acts and grab your tickets!

PSYCHOPOMP

February 28-March 16

The God Between Life and Death, Conductor of Souls, Usher of Oblivion, is visiting living souls for the first time through the vessel of a lowly mortal - Poppy! Existential as heck, real Stygian energy,  a divine exploration of the meaning human beings bring to their own precious, fleeting existence.

With the support of The Mill, Poppy has enlisted a dream team of local Adelaide theatre-makers, artists and Intense Characters to bring the full production of PSYCHOPOMP screamingly to life. Audiences can expect bodily functions, games, storytelling, all through the eyes of an insensitive, arrogant god and a upsettingly human intermediary.


Art is the Medium

February 28-March 16

“Dear Lover”, she begins to speak, unseen, her disembodied consciousness extending an invite into a world of creation. The music plays, each string and key carefully woven as the words are truthfully spoken…”no longer just an incarnation, I am the threads in words that spell out the birth of Nubian Queen”. 

Curious? Come and see Praise Mangena in a collaborative project of music, movement and spoken word poetry.


Courier

February 26-March 8

One courier. One impossible delivery. How far will he go to complete his order?

Written & performed by Piers MacKenzie, fresh off his starring role as Daniel Radcliffe in Edinburgh Fringe 2024’s most talked-about show, TERF. This dark comedy, inspired by his time as a Deliveroo cyclist, dives into a fractured mind where reality and imagination collide as the brakes come off.

Strap on your helmets and grip those handlebars tight—this ride is full of sharp twists, sudden turns, and plenty of bumps along the way.


Administration

March 19-22

A one-person darkly comedic play about growing up autistic (and not knowing it). 

Stumbling into a therapist’s office with a stack of paperwork, (and stories to match) Addy recounts what it was like to grow up in a small town catholic school. 
Through vignettes from Addy’s life, we come to realise the impact your environment can have on coming to accept who you are. We experience how someone may learn to abandon their childhood curiosity and natural expression in favour of an exterior mask: the polar opposite of the internal world. 

Administration welcomes you into a space where we can come together and laugh at some shared experiences. 


CAST LIST

March 8-15

Get ready for a wild ride this Adelaide Fringe! Cast List: A Theatre Kids Cabaret is here, and it’s bursting with the incredible stories of talented teens in the performing arts scene.

Join us for a night of unforgettable performances by seven young artists from the AK Creative Scholarship Program! This amazing program empowers local youth creatives to explore their talents and produce their own cabaret. You’ll experience a journey filled with laughter, passion, and a sprinkle of teenage drama—think powerful monologues, catchy original songs, and dazzling dance numbers!

Don’t miss your chance to witness the next generation of stars shine bright on stage. Bring your friends and come support our local youth as they share their dreams and challenges in this one-of-a-kind cabaret experience!


Part of Fringe

March 21

Join Part of Things and regional storytellers from Port Lincoln, Mount Gambier and the Riverland for a behind the scenes sharing of new works in development. 

This will be the first sharing of work in development through the Part of Fringe x Playwright Pals program developed and presented by Part of Things in collaboration with Adelaide Fringe. 

Part of Fringe x Playwright Pals is a three-year strategy to build the skills, confidence, networks, and capacity of regional storytellers to develop, create, and present new original performance work.


DUST

March 5-22

A man fights for each breath, determined to make it home to Dot. In his isolated, morphine-fuelled delirium, we witness a frail man reliving his fragmented past: a boxer, a soldier, a boilermaker, a miner—dancing with Lady Luck as he battles to win. But is it fate, or sheer will to survive that determines when we return to dust?

Dust is one man’s unforgettable journey, examining generational trauma, resilience, and survival against the backdrop of post-World War II England. Dust is dedicated to the servicemen who fought for their country, the seven men who tragically lost their lives in the 1973 Lofthouse Colliery disaster, and to every miner who lived their lives in darkness, so we could live in the light. Based on a true story.


POPERA: Sex Death and Politics

March 13-22

Uma Dobia is your game show host for the evening as we spin the wheel, shake our maracas and ding our dong. Spotify playlists collide in Popera with questions such as "Why did Trevor leave? What’s cockrockera? And, who will win the air fryer?". Directed by Bronny Lane, get ready for opera, original pop songs, video and on-stage chaos coated in pop culture. If you love your cabaret dirty with an intellectual twist thrown you will definitely want to play POPERA: Sex, Death & Politics as we stomp on the patriarchy and ageism in a pair of red knee-high sparkly boots. 

Get ready to spin the wheel, shake your maracas and ding your dong as Popera delivers the most iconic moments of opera coupled with pop! Spotify playlists collide in this game show shining a lense on entrenched misogyny and ageism. 


An Age To Remember

February 21-March 1

Just before her 20th birthday, Abby asked the world (Facebook) advice for the decade of her 20s. Flooded with guidance from well-meaning friends, enemies, and that person she forgot to block. It’s time to check the comments and compare where life took her. Did she - Invest in property? Get that rash looked at? Shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die? Let's find out through song and a Facebook deep dive.

Simultaneously, with a new decade unravelling before her, Abby is again seeking guidance - off the internet. So come in person to dish life advice to the best friend you never knew you didn't want. Bring your hopes and dreams for the 30s. Whether they’re behind you, in front of you, or you’re smack bang in the middle… let’s reminisce, plan and discuss the decades behind and before us.


Fruition

March 5-8

Cherese is just a girl, standing in front of an orange, asking it to make out with her.

Join citric acid daredevil, Cherese Sonkkila, for her debut solo show.

Fruition is a silly smoothie of ridiculous characters, hot dance moves and useless fruit facts. But also asks the serious question: what if all your juiciest dreams came true?

This show is her Fruition. But it is also yours.

Come and get a taste of this zesty, thirst-quenching hour of laughs.


Kook

February 21-22

A comical feast of visual music absurdities. Surreal and just plain stupid, it plays with our dark, our light and our overblown ego through theatrical, musical and physical pieces, that draw upon the questions “what unites us and what separates us?”

Collaborating with award winning visual artist extraordinaire Ray Harris, we experiment with illustrations and play with our projections. We dance with the shadow, sing with the dark, absurd ego talk, Patti Smith spark, of musical humour, live visual effects, varied sketches of human aspects, with light and shade and whacked out dismay, of original song, of covered tunes with a cracked view, skewed for you, to peek through. Physical and musical humour at its best. 


Hag-ia Workshops

March 1-21

Hagia means holy.

Hag: a once sacred word, turned into a slur by powerful men of history who disparaged, demonised and burned women at the stake because they had the temerity to be independent. Their knowledge was erased.

In this workshop we reclaim this word and ask ourselves: can we recover a sense of connection to our women ancestors whose voices were silenced? Can we uncover their lost wisdom? This is a remembering. A relearning. You will gain the language and the time to connect to those who informed who you are. You will experience a successful method of dialogue, making, journalling, and embodying to encounter the stories and wisdom of our women ancestors.

We, our conversations, and what we create together, is the art.


 
 

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Finissage: Glister in the Sun, Between Dream and Reality and Fragments

Photo: Daniel Marks.

January 17, 2025

Finissage: Friday January 17, 4:30-6:30pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

Please join us for the closing event for our three exhibitions Glister in the Sun, Between Dream and Reality and Fragments.

Glister in the Sun is a new group exhibition featuring Emiko Artemis, Michael Carney, Chelsea Farquhar and Belinda Wilson, curated by Adele Sliuzas. The exhibition explores the role of the artist within the creation of folklore through visual art, written text and photography.

Between Dream and Reality is a new Showcase exhibition featuring studio artists Gough Pitawat and August Porter. The exhibition features landscape paintings by these two emerging artists, whose individual styles create dreamlike, hazy and abstract interpretations of the natural world.

Fragments is a new Showcase exhibition featuring studio artist, jeweller Erin Daniell. The exhibition features wearable sculptures inspired by the natural South Australian landscape, in particular the Fleurieu Peninsula.


These exhibitions have support from

 
 

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Artist talk: Bri Hammond, Object Permanence

Artist Talk

When: Friday, March 7, 12-1pm

Where: The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free

Join Bri Hammond and The Mill's Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas for a chat about Bri’s new solo exhibition Object Permanence showing in Gallery I.

About the exhibition

We are excited to present Object Permanence, a new exhibition by Bri Hammond developed through our Photographer in Residence program, presented with support from the Ana and Christopher Koch Foundation.

For Object Permanence Bri has developed a personal project examining the relationship between objects and memory, connecting generations of her family through unlikely treasures. Bri’s signature bright colours and playful aesthetic elicit common memories of childhood.


This exhibition has support from

 

The Mill’s Photographer in Residence program is presented with support from the Ana and Christopher Koch Foundation.

 

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Artist talk: Oriana Julie, Head in the Clouds

Artist Talk

When: Friday, February 14, 5:30-6:30pm

Where: The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: Free

Join Oriana Julie and The Mill's Visual Arts Curator Adele Sliuzas for a chat about Oriana’s new solo exhibition Head in the Clouds, showing in Gallery II.

About the exhibition

We are excited to present Head in The Clouds, a new exhibition by Oriana Julie developed through our Visual Arts Studio Residency presented with support from donors Geoff Martin and Sorayya Mahmood Martin.

Head in The Clouds is an exploration of creative play, embracing spontaneous method making in order to form a hybrid, affective sanctuary. Oriana uses foraged objects - discarded furniture, vintage glassware, beads, synthetic fibers, and organic matter - turning everyday items into objects of divine contemplation.


This exhibition has support from

 
 
 

The Mill’s Visual Arts Studio Residency is presented with support from donors Geoff Martin and Sorayya Mahmood Martin.

 

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Workshop: Beading with Oriana Julie

Image: Oriana Julie

Workshop

When: Saturday March 1, 12pm-2pm

Where: The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $45 (+ booking fee)

Join artist Oriana Julie for a beading workshop where you’ll learn about Oriana’s approach to art-making while creating a unique beaded object.

This workshop is presented as part of Oriana's solo exhibition Head in the Clouds, currently showing in Gallery II, presented with support from donors Geoff Martin and Sorayya Mahmood Martin.

What to expect:

Seated within Oriana's exhibition, guests will spend two hours learning basic techniques and creating their own small-scale beaded fruit object. All materials provided, participants can take their fruit home on the day.

Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be available.


This program has support from

 
 
 

The Visual Arts Residency is presented with support from donors Geoff Martin and Sorayya Mahmood Martin

 

brand x residency

Brand X Residency 2025: The Kinetik Collective

We are thrilled to announce The Kinetik Collective as the recipient of the 2025 Brand X Residency, presented in partnership with Brand X, Sydney.

This residency offers place and space as part of a vibrant arts community, for artists to develop and show new or existing work and then take that work interstate for further development, presentation and networking opportunities.

The Kinetik Collective will be in residency and performing as part of Brand X’s Flying Nun season March 10-15, 2025.

About the artists:


This project has support from

 
 

centre stage residency

Centre Stage Residencies: Announcing the successful 2024 recipients

We are thrilled to announce Poppy Mee and Praise Mangena as the recipients of the 2024 Centre Stage Residencies.

The Centre Stage Residencies are presented in collaboration with Adelaide Fringe as part of their Arts Industry Collaborations program. This unique incubator program is for South Australian artists to progress a new performance work in its second or third stage of development to the next level, culminating in a season at The Mill as part of the 2025 Adelaide Fringe Festival.

About the artists:


 

The Mill’s Centre Stage Residencies are presented in collaboration with Adelaide Fringe as part of their Arts Industry Collaborations program

 
 
 

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Exhibition: HELD, Youth Inc. SALA exhibition

August 30 - September 19, 2024

Free entry, all welcome


The Mill is pleased to host HELD, an exhibition of artworks by Youth Inc. students. Inspired by Maira Kalman’s book Women Holding Things, this exhibition features artworks and creative writing that explore the things we hold physically and metaphorically.


This exhibition is presented by

 
 

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First Nations Dance Residency: Caleena Sansbury, 'Mullamar'

Photo: Supplied by Caleena Sansbury.

Showing and Q&A

When: Friday, September 13, 6-7pm

Where: The Breakout at The Mill, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $10 (+ booking fee)

Note: Please arrive 15 minutes early to grab a drink. This event will be 1 hour (including a Q&A). 


Mullamar is a new project by Caleena Sansbury, in collaboration with Adrianne Semmens and Kaine Sultan Babij, aiming to create a rich, multidimensional exploration of her great-grandmother Mary Cooper’s life.

By blending storytelling, physical movement, and projection, this creative development will investigate the personal and systemic challenges faced by Aboriginal people in the 1940s, highlighting their resilience and cultural significance.

About the artist:


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LIMITLESS: The Mill Fundraiser Exhibition

October 4-11, 2024

Exhibition event: Friday, October 11, 5:30-8pm

The Exhibition Space, 154 Angas St, Kaurna Yarta

Free entry, all welcome

Please note we are not open on Monday, October 7, due to the public holiday.


The Mill is excited to be hosting LIMITLESS, a fundraising exhibition shining a light on over 100 local artists.

This fundraiser exhibition will raise funds for our multi-arts hub while celebrating the abundance of artistic talent within the South Australian visual arts community, including work by established artists, visual arts students and graduates, local artist studio collectives, The Mill resident artists and The Mill alumni artists.

The exhibition invites audiences to find their favourite piece to add to their collection. All A5 artworks are priced at $100, with artists working in diverse mediums and styles. The exhibition features emerging alongside established artists, with all artists’ names kept anonymous in the exhibition. Artist’s names and details will be revealed when the buyer takes the work home. 

Sales from this fundraising exhibition support the artist and The Mill, helping us to achieve our vision for a thriving and prosperous arts culture in South Australia.


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Workshop: Tufting Tapestries with Liliana Pasalic

Photo: Daniel Marks.

Workshop

When: Saturday, September 28, 12:30-3:30pm

Where: The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $125 (+booking fee)


Join artist Liliana Pasalic for a tufting workshop where you’ll learn to make your own tufted tapestry artwork.

You’ll not only experience hand tufting and machine tufting, you’ll also learn about what materials can be used and non-traditional mediums that can engage your creativity.

What to expect:

This 2.5 hour session will combine hand tufting, machine (gun) tufting and painting. You’ll create a stretched, ready-to-hang, mixed-media artwork that you will take home!

Hear from Liliana about the techniques she uses when creating her stunning tapestry artworks. You will learn how to make your own tufting frame from reclaimed materials and gain knowledge about which fabrics can be used for tufting. Participants will talk about the possibilities of combining non-traditional mediums, boosting creativity and the benefits of a regular creative output.

Additionally, participants will contribute to a collaborative machine-tufted piece that will stay in the gallery and be exhibited as part of a future event in the gallery.

All materials included.



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Movement Workshop: Exploring Sound from a D/deaf Perspective

All images: Chisato Minamimura, Scored in Silence, by Mark Pickthall.

Workshop

October 27, 11am-1pm

The Breakout at The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta

$35 (+ booking fee)


Join Deaf artist Chisato Minamimura for a workshop that will explore your movement and senses.

What to expect:

Drawing on improvisation and her unique way of exploring sound and movement as a Deaf artist, Chisato Minamimura will lead participants through an exploration to focus and use their senses to create movements that are unique to them. The group will also investigate the importance of personal space and relationships with others, using patterns and geometric shapes.

Chisato speaks in British Sign Language and will be accompanied by two interpreters.

Experience level:

All ages and all people who are comfortable with movement, as the workshop will involve a lot of moving around. Wear relaxed clothing and be prepared to move barefoot.


 

Scored in Silence is showing as part of OzAsia Festival 2024 and is supported by the Playking Foundation.

 

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Centre Stage Residency: Praise Mangena, 'Art is the Medium'

Photo: Supplied by the artist.

Showing and Q&A

When: Friday, November 1, 6-7pm

Cost: $10 (+ booking fee)

Note: Please arrive 15 minutes early to grab a drink. This event will be 1 hour (including a Q&A). 

Praise Mangena, Jack Green and Jade Ianella collaborate in this work-in-progress showing, weaving together music, movement and spoken word poetry.

“Dear Lover”, she begins to speak, unseen, her disembodied consciousness extending an invite into a world of creation. The music plays, each string and key carefully woven as the words are truthfully spoken…”no longer just an incarnation, I am the threads in words that spell out the birth of Nubian Queen”.

Art is the Medium is being developed as part of The Mill’s Centre Stage Residency, in collaboration with Adelaide Fringe, and will be presented as part of The Mill’s 2025 Adelaide Fringe program.

The showing will be followed by a short Q&A with Praise, hosted by The Mill CEO / Artistic Director Katrina Lazaroff. Audiences will have the opportunity to ask questions about the development and provide feedback about the performance.

About the artist:


 

The Mill’s Centre Stage Residencies are presented in collaboration with Adelaide Fringe as part of their Arts Industry Collaborations program

 
 
 

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Dance Residency: Tanya Voges, The Score: A Dance Work-in-Progress

Photo: Morgan Sette.

Showing and Q&A

When: Friday, November 15, 6-7pm

Cost: $10 (+ booking fee)

Note: Please arrive 15 minutes early to grab a drink. This event will be 1 hour (including a Q&A). 

The Score is a new work by dance artist Tanya Voges developed and performed with musician Belinda Gehlert and emerging dancers Alix Kuijpers, Fern Mines, Amelia Watson and Queenie Wu.

Current neuroscience research supports the theory that memories of life events are held in the fibres of our being, embodied pre-verbal states and memories written on the body. The work of polyvagal theorist Stephen Porges and neuroscientist Bessel Van Der Kolk - who wrote “The Body Keeps the Score” - as well as the work of seminal dance movement therapists and somatic practitioners all influence Tanya's new suite of works.

The Score is a contemporary dance work with live music that will draw audiences in to reflect on their physical experiences of navigating life and propose the role of the body in holding memories and in the development of the sense of self.

The showing will be followed by a short Q&A with Tanya, hosted by The Mill CEO / Artistic Director Katrina Lazaroff. Audiences will have the opportunity to ask questions about the development and provide feedback about the performance.

About the artists:


This program has support from

 
 

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Workshop: Screen Printing with Bob Window

Photo: courtesy of the artist

Workshop

When: Saturday, November 9, 12:30-3:30pm

Where: The Mill, 154 Angas Street, Kaurna Yarta

Cost: $125 (+booking fee)


Join artist Bob Window for a screen printing workshop where you’ll learn to print on fabric!

This beginner level workshop will explore Bob’s signature styles with shapes, layers and stunning colours.

What to expect:

In this 3 hour session you will learn the basics of screen printing, and learn two different techniques for creating amazing prints! Master screen printer Bob Window will share his expertise, and guide participants through the process of printing using pre-exposed screens, followed by printing with blank screens and butchers paper.

Bob will provide participants with 1m of fabric, but you are welcome to bring along additional fabric, tshirts or totes - natural fibers only please.

This can be a messy process, so please wear covered shoes and studio clothes or an apron.

At the end of the day you will get to take home your amazing screen printed artworks!



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Centre Stage Residency: Poppy Mee, PSYCHOPOMP

Photos: Jamie Hornsby.

Showing and Q&A

When: Thursday, November 28, 6-7pm

Cost: $10 (+ booking fee)

Note: Please arrive 15 minutes early to grab a drink. This event will be 1 hour (including a Q&A). 

PSYCHOPOMP depicts a titular character, a temperamental god who inhabits the interstitial space between life and death, and ferries human souls across the breach.

Poppy will seek to explore various new methods of audience participation and emotional and physical intimacies between performer and audience. Poppy invites audiences to join her in a playful exploration that will involve participatory games, dancing and moving in the space, and a post-showing conversation about intimacy and physical touch in a theatrical/performance environment. 

PSYCHOPOMP is being developed as part of The Mill’s Centre Stage Residency, in collaboration with Adelaide Fringe, and will be presented as part of The Mill’s 2025 Adelaide Fringe program.

The showing will be followed by a short Q&A with Poppy, hosted by The Mill CEO / Artistic Director Katrina Lazaroff. Audiences will have the opportunity to ask questions about the development and provide feedback about the performance.

About the artists:


 

The Mill’s Centre Stage Residencies are presented in collaboration with Adelaide Fringe as part of their Arts Industry Collaborations program