New chair for Adelaide Festival

Tracey Whiting, who sits on the boards of Solstice Media (the writer of InDaily), the Australian Nationwide Museum and the Adelaide UNESCO Metropolis of Music, will take over the function from Judy Potter, who has been on the Pageant board for eight years.

“I’m thrilled to hitch the Adelaide Pageant Board and stay up for working carefully with the Minister, Board, Government, employees, companions and all stakeholders, to proceed to consolidate this Pageant as our nation’s pre-eminent worldwide arts competition,” mentioned Whiting, who can also be the previous chair of the Artwork Gallery of South Australia.

Former Adelaide Pageant inventive director Stephen Web page, a famend choreographer and Nunukal/Ngugi man of Qandamooka Peoples and Munaldjali man of the Yugambeh Nation in Southeast Queensland, has additionally been appointed to the seven-member board.

Web page was inventive director of Bangarra Dance Theatre for 33 years the place he developed that firm’s celebrated canon of works. He was inventive director of the Adelaide Pageant in 2004.

Minister for Arts Andrea Michaels congratulated Whiting on her appointment.

“I stay up for working along with her to steer the nation’s premier worldwide arts competition,” Michaels mentioned.

“Her management and vital contributions to South Australia’s cultural panorama exhibit her ardour and dedication to the sector.”

Michaels additionally welcomed Web page to the board and thanked Potter for her management of the Adelaide Pageant Board and “her persevering with contributions to the state’s arts and tradition sectors”.

Potter mentioned it had been an honour to guide the board.

“It has been an honour and a privilege to function chair alongside such a passionate board and administration group and, through the years, to assist the occasion go from energy to energy, firmly establishing itself as one of many world’s best festivals,” she mentioned.

Supported by the Authorities of South Australia