Feast launches first live festival program since COVID-19 lockdown
Feast Festival organisers and artists are shaking off COVID-19 – and their winter attire – to return to live performance and present one of its biggest program line-ups ever in November.
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Feast will become the state’s first festival to launch a full line-up of live shows since COVID-19 restrictions began when it unveils its 2020 program on Thursday.
The 24th annual LGBTIQ+ festival will feature more than 100 arts, cultural and social events from November 7-29, which has been rebranded as “Pridevember”.
Drag artists Dita Vanderbooben (alias performer Kyal Blake) and Kristina International (Andrew Bassi) prepared for the launch by casting off their pyjamas and regular winter attire to add a touch of glamour to the proceedings.
Organisers said this year’s Feast program would give new meaning to the term “coming out” for artists after months of self-isolation in what they have dubbed the “COVID coma”.
The eagerness of artists wanting to return to work is reflected in the largest Feast program for five years.
“Honestly, so many people have just assumed Feast wouldn’t happen,” said the festival’s chief executive Helen Sheldon.
“So to see the LGBTIQ+ and ally communities rally together for the festival … we have collectively created one of our biggest programs yet.”
Program highlights will include the premiere play How To Kill Your Hamster by Ladylike Theatre Collective, at the Rumpus venue in Bowden from November 10-22.
The Capri cinema at Goodwood will also host a program of queer films.
Other events will include stand-up comedy, literary functions, community happenings and the annual Picnic in the Park at Pinky Flat/Tarntanya Wama.
Full program details will be available from 9am on Friday at feast.org.au