VOL 14 | NO 4 ISSUE 53 | OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2006
H E L P M A N N A C A D E M Y U P D A T E

W ith their dynamic energy and crisp blend of sounds
Skyline Quartet aim towards new heights in the art of string quartet.
Sharing a passion for chamber music and a vision for outstanding ensemble playing, the Skyline Quartet made their debut performance in 2005. The group is formed from Elder Conservatorium of Music graduates: Jason Thomas
(violin), Holly Bennett (violin), Neil
Thompson (viola) and Kim Worley
(cello).
This year as part of the Optus
Mentorship Scheme the group began working with Jeremy Williams former viola player of the Australian
String Quartet and soon-to-be member of the new Grainger
Quartet. Through the scheme the
Skyline Quartet meet regularly for sessions that Williams has designed specifically to make the group play as an ensemble rather than four separate musicians.
Update Arts Magazine is published five times a year by the Helpmann
Academy. The magazine features news on Helpmann Academy partner school staff, students and recent graduates.
Submission of articles is welcome.
Please send articles of no more than
300 words in MS word format and an image (300dpi) as a jpg or tif via email to Lynda Allen: lallen@tafe.sa.edu.au
Articles may be edited.
Lynda Allen
Editor, Update Arts Magazine
PO Box 8037, Station Arcade,
Adelaide SA 5000.
Tel: (08) 8463 5015
Fax: (08) 8463 5016
Email: lallen@tafe.sa.edu.au
2 H E L P M A N N A C A D E M Y U P D A T E
Jason Thomas says, “The mentorship is going well! The quartet has had a number of sessions with Jeremy in the form of tutorials to work towards helping us with our current works and to produce the optimum ensemble sound.”
With an interest in ongoing study and development the group recently had the opportunity to attend the
Australian Festival of Chamber
Music in Townsville as part of the
Elder Conservatorium Winterschool program. They participated in numerous masterclasses with distinguished artists from Australia and abroad.
The Skyline Quartet is focussed on creating regular public performance opportunities for the group and will be performing on Sunday 15
October at the Pilgrim Church as well as Sunday 21 January as part of the Sunday Spectrum program at the
Adelaide Festival Centre.
See page 6 for more on the Sunday
Spectrum program and page 8 for the
Optus Mentorship Scheme including its recent AbaF win.
Skyline Quartet
SALA Awards
Border Crossings
Vizarts - Moving On
The 'Academy' Awards
Foundation Front Partners
Sunday Spectrum at AFC
Baby Face at Choreolab
6
Mozart's Vesperae
Directional Debut - Two 7
Optus Mentorships Awarded 8/9
6
7
5
5
2
3
4
4
AC Arts Graduate Showcase 10
Norway.Today
10
The Sum of Everything 11
Luke Harrald in Paris
Dancing in the South-East
Elder Evening Concerts
11
12
12
Adelaide Central Gallery
Hometown Musical
Partner Schools
Board/Foundation Members 14
Helpmann Sponsors 15
Diary Dates 16
13
13
14
Helpmann Academy Staff
The Helpmann Academy is a not for profit organisation that provides support to its partner school staff, students and recent graduates.
Support is provided through individual and collaborative grants, awards, visiting artist grants, mentorships and special projects, along with free publicity for events and exhibitions.
Throughout the year the Helpmann
Academy holds numerous events to raise funds in order to provide support to its partner schools. Funds are also raised through individual and corporate sponsorship.
Executive Director
Libby Raupach Phone: (08) 8463 5014
Marketing and PR Manager
Lynda Allen Phone: (08) 8463 5015
Administrator
Pam French Phone: (08) 8463 5013
Project Officer
Edward James Phone: 0421 971 517
Executive Assistant
Margo Ongley Phone: (08) 8463 5014
Wednesday 11 October - The Business of Art
The Friends of the Helpmann Academy present an enjoyable and informative evening to discover the success of local artists and how they ‘made it’. Unravel the mystery of collecting, buying and selling art. 6.30pm for 7.00pm start at Peter Walker Fine Art Gallery, 101 Walkerville Terrace,
Walkerville. Refreshments and finger food will be served. Limited to 60 guests. Tickets Members
$10, Non-Members $40 (includes a 12 month Friends membership).
RSVP Pam French (08) 8463 5013 or email: pfrench@tafe.sa.edu.au
Friday 17 November 2006 - Optus Mentorship Deadline
Opportunity for arts graduates to be mentored by a professional artist. Contact the Helpmann
Academy for an applicaton form.
Need more information? Contact (08) 8463 5013 or go to: www.helpmann.edu.au

By Lynda Allen
Y oung and emerging artists were recognised for their talents at this year’s South Australian Living
Artist Festival.
The award winning SALA Festival is a great opportunity for students and graduates to showcase their work to a wide audience. This year recent graduates from Helpmann Academy partner schools were recognised for their talents with wins in a range of
SALA Award categories.
Acknowledged for her outstanding photography, South Australian School of
Art Honours graduate Bethany Ashley received two awards for her work
Ruru (tied together) at Higher Ground: the Duckpond Award for photo-based artwork and the Centre for Creative
Photography Emerging Artist Award.
Inspired by her Maori background,
Bethany’s experimental photography involved attaching gel mediums of old black and white family portraits to glass, with an image from a travel brochure placed behind it to create a second layer. The work depicts the layers involved in Bethany’s search to piece together her family history which she began researching during her Honours year.
“When I began researching I realised there were lots of holes in my documented family history and I wanted to fill in these gaps,” says
Bethany. “The travel brochures show the places where I have been able to trace my ancestors back to, and portray the way researching my Maori family history from Australia makes me feel like I am a tourist to my own culture.”
A second Duckpond award was presented to Adelaide Central School of Art graduate Kveta Deans. The award in the category of 'All non-photographic mediums' was awarded to Kveta for her work presented at the twinBEE Studios.
The Print Now Award was presented to Vizarts, O’Halloran Hill photography
Grandpa xo by Bethany Ashley student Scott James. Based on the submission of images for this year’s
SALA program, Scott’s photograph of a fellow student was exhibited in A
Sparrow in Hand exhibition at Bruce
Wilson Gallery. The image was also included on the cover of the SALA program.
The award is worth $500 of printing at
Print Now which Scott says he will save for the photographs he includes in his graduating exhibition next year.
Registrations for the 10th SALA
Festival from 3-19 August 2007 are already open. To help raise funds for the 2007 Festival come along to the annual SALA Arts
Ball on Friday 20 October at the
Masonic Hall. Featuring a 10-piece band and a delicious menu of food and drinks it will be a night of partying, fun and absolute swing!
Contact the SALA Festival Office for registrations and SALA Ball tickets (08) 8218 8450 or email office@salafestival.com
H E L P M A N N A C A D E M Y U P D A T E 3

W ith the assistance of a Helpmann
Academy grant, printmaking students from
Adelaide Centre for the
ARTS and Adelaide Central
School of Art recently had the opportunity to travel to
Melbourne to soak up the local art scene and attend a print workshop. The two partner school groups bonded quickly to become the ‘Border
Crossings’ group.
alongside professional printmakers such as Ray Arnold and Martin King.
The location of the Australian Print
Workshop proved convenient for visiting speciality art supply shops and many of us stocked up on materials not available in Adelaide. Of course the surrounding boutiques and cafes were thoroughly explored as well!
“We came by land, sea and air, well not by sea, but we all found our own way to
Melbourne. ‘We’ are ten students from
Adelaide Centre for the ARTS and the
Adelaide Central School of Art along with lecturer and excursion supervisor
Dianne Longley.
On Monday 31 July we met at the
National Gallery of Victoria to see the
Picasso Love and War lecture, which gave us valuable background knowledge with which to view the associated exhibition.
While we were in Melbourne we also had the opportunity to attend the biannual Melbourne Art Fair featuring over 80 national and international galleries. At the Art Fair we were treated to a comprehensive look at the contemporary art scene and a valuable overview of commercial galleries.
Border Crossers L-R: Anna Austin, Di Longley,
Beth Evans, Liam Sankey and Mei Sheong Wong
Photograph: Lynda Allen
Our ‘Border Crossing’ excursion gave us new skills in collaborating in a professional access workshop and inspiration from the latest contemporary art. However, I think the most valuable aspect of the excursion was the friendships that were made between students from different partner schools.”
The next day we began our project at the Australian Print Workshop in Fitzroy.
Dianne had previously photographed the Royal Melbourne Exhibition Building and we worked to divide the image and reproduce it as a collaborative dry point. The two and a half day workshop gave us the opportunity to work
Beth Evans
Printmaking Student
Adelaide Centre for the ARTS
V izarts, O'Halloran Hill graduating students present their final showcase of work.
by Bachelor of Visual Art & Applied
Design students at Vizarts, O’Halloran
Hill.
Symbolising the transition from graduating student to emerging artist
Moving On is the graduating exhibition
To celebrate their graduation the students have curated the exhibition which features a diverse range of works including drawing, printmaking, jewellery, photography and painting. The work is the completion of at least three years of intensive study, and the emotive search to find a place in the world of professional artists.
I Will Meet You in 5 Minutes by Jeremy Piert
Many of these talented students have exhibited successfully during their time at Vizarts and viewers will be delighted with the high standard of works presented in Moving On.
Moving On opens at Gallery M on
Friday 13 October and will continue until Sunday 5 November 2006.
Gallery M is at 287 Diagonal Road,
Oaklands Park. Gallery hours:
Monday to Friday 11am-4pm,
Saturday 12-4pm and Sunday 1-
4pm. For more information contact
Mary Pulford 0414 361 817.
4 H E L P M A N N A C A D E M Y U P D A T E
I Like Barbies by Karin Walker

By Lynda Allen
W ith a bevy of sequins and sparkling tiaras
The ‘Academy’
Awards was recently presented at Higher Ground by the Helpmann Academy’s
Foundation Front.
The Foundation Front’s annual showcase event The ‘Academy’ Awards was a farcical evening of performances, film, music and more by talented performing and visual artists from the
Helpmann Academy’s partner schools.
With a theme based on the trashy and ludicrous side of award events such as the Academy, Logies and MTV Awards, actors, singers, dancers, visual artists and musicians created an alternative awards extravaganza.
Welcomed by a red carpet and cohosts Lori Farmer and Tim Solly who looked like they’d just stepped off a plane from the real thing, guests were treated to a night of highs and lows of awards night entertainment. With a large sprinkling of inflated egos, disheveled clothing, sexual taboos and sparkling tiaras the event was a successful part of the South Australian
Living Artists Festival.
Prizes were awarded to the three best acts on the night with the top prize of
$1,000 from the Adelaide City Council awarded to Flinders Drama graduate
Alirio Zavarce. The Tits Out Tango performed by AC Arts acting students
Renee Gentle, Ruth Buttery and Emily
McMahon received second prize of
$300 from the Helpmann Academy. A slightly altered but highly entertaining operatic rendition of We are the
Champions by Queen won third prize for Elder Conservatorium of Music
Honours graduate Sky Ingram.
A visual art exhibition in the foyer of
Higher Ground was also a feature of the night, with awards presented to the four artists. First prize of a $200 voucher from STA Travel, Rundle Street was awarded to AC Arts Screen Student
Nick Eades for his moving image work
Beneath it all: What’s done is done. AC
Arts jewellery graduate, Sun Woong
Bang’s intricate silver brooches won the second prize of a $50 Dark Horsey book voucher, with third and fourth visual art prizes going to Lorelei Siegloff and Catherine Edgell.
But on the night of nights, sparkles were the outright winner with the tiara
Dressing up for the 'Academy' Awards
Photograph: Keren Asser competition won by the Helpmann
Academy’s very own Pam French.
The ‘Academy Awards’ is an initiative of the Foundation Front committee, the student/graduate body from the
Helpmann Academy’s partner schools.
To join Foundation Front or find out more go to www.helpmann.sa.edu.au/
FoundationFront
Formed by visual and performing arts students and recent graduates from the Helpmann Academy’s partner schools, the Foundation
Front is a great way to connect with other art students and graduates and to access vital career information on grants, mentorships and gaining exposure. Becoming a member of the Foundation Front also means you’ll get discounts at its partner organisations including:
Dark Horsey Bookshop
> 15% off the cost of the special book title of the month (see website for monthly titles).
> 50% discount off the same book to the 20th Foundation Front customer each month.
Sprouts Vegetarian Restaurant
> 15% off the cost of food and drinks.
Higher Ground
> 15% discount at the Higher Ground café.
> $5 entry fee to any Supermegafashion! event at Higher Ground.
STA Travel Rundle Street
> 5% discount on tours and accommodation within Australia.
> Up to 5% discount on International Flights.
> A FREE Student (full time)/ or Youth to 26yrs/ or Teacher (full time) card - when booking an international flight with STA (this card entitles holders to a wide range of further discounts in Australia and overseas i.e. galleries/accommodation).
3Ply Events
> 15% discount on services provided (art direction, styling, make up & hair, costume & set designs)
Irving Baby!
> 10% discount on full-price clothing and accessories at both Irving Baby! stores.
For more information including locations, hours and contacts go to www.helpmann.sa.edu.au/FoundationFront
If you are a current student or graduate (finished study at the end of 2002 or sooner) then you can join the Foundation
Front by sending an email to: helpmann@tafe.sa.edu.au with your: name, address, Helpmann Academy Partner School, course, current level of study/year graduated.
H E L P M A N N A C A D E M Y U P D A T E 5

S park up your Sunday afternoons with a spectrum of great music featuring outstanding musicians from the Elder Conservatorium of Music.
Beginning on 8 October and continuing every Sunday afternoon, Sunday
Spectrum at the Adelaide Festival
Centre will present a diverse mix of fi ne music and visual art. The themed program of exhibitions and performances includes a range of emerging musicians from the Elder
Conservatorium of Music eager to showcase their talents on a new stage.
“With such a wide variety of musical styles in a short, sharp and shiny hour, and at such an accessible price the
Spectrum program will be fantastic,” says opera singer Sky Ingram. “I’m really looking forward to being part of the program because it’s such a great project with the potential to continue for a number of years.”
Sky Ingram recently won the State
Final and Vocal Prize of the MBS Young
Performers’ Award and will compete for the national honours in November.
As part of the Colour My World theme on Sunday 15 October Sky will perform a selection of songs from comedy to opera and sexy French numbers with spicy, snappy and soothing sophistication.
In the Cultural & Music Interpretations program the talented Jamie Adam will perform Japanese and European compositions on the marimba. Jamie was the winner of this year’s Adelaide
Bank Award for the top arts graduate and the runner up in the first ever international concerto competition for marimba players held in Slovenia in
2005.
On 10 December the Kshema Flute
Quartet will perform an eclectic mix of musical genres portraying the nature of the human spirit, including the ethereal musing of Schocker’s Nymphs and the discord of Mower’s Fictions. The uniquely expressive vocalising of the
Kshema Flute Quartet will portray the soul’s journey through despair, joy, suffering and ultimately to tenacious survival.
The Kshema Flute Quartet performing on Sunday 10 December
Award winning Jazz artists from the
Elder Conservatorium are also a feature of the Sunday Spectrum program with the Jonathan Hunt Trio (17 December) and Brendan Lim and Sam Zerna
(14 January), mixing their individual styles into new musical collaboration and original works. And when you’re looking for something to enjoy on a Sunday in late January the Skyline
Quartet will entertain you on 21
January with their passion for chamber music, dynamic energy and vision for outstanding ensemble playing.
From 8 October throughout summer the Sunday Spectrum program will be held in the
Artspace, Adelaide Festival Centre
(via upper plaza) from 2.30-3.30pm with fine wine and antipasto plates available for purchase from 2pm.
Tickets $15 Adult/$10 Concession.
Book at BASS 131 246 or at the
AFC BASS counter on the day. For the full program of performances contact (08) 8216 8557.
A delaide Centre for the
ARTS Dance graduate
Kelly Alexander is currently choreographing a new work for Fresh Bred, the SA
Youth Dance Ensemble.
From 2004 Kelly Alexander spent
18 months in Europe, where she performed in numerous dance theatre works throughout Germany, Spain,
Hungary and Finland. During this time she was also privileged to undertake a professional attachment with
Tanztheatre Wuppertal Pina Bausch.
Kelly now brings her European
Kelly Alexander experiences to the creation of her new work titled Baby Face. The performance explores the nature of courage, change,
6 H E L P M A N N A C A D E M Y U P D A T E and transition as, during one moody day at high school, the lives of the students are altered forever.
Baby Face features music by local composer Adam Page with rehearsal assistance from Veronica Shum. The work is supported by the South
Australian Youth Arts Board.
Baby Face will be presented at
7.30pm in Ausdance’s new Atrium
Studio, Level 3, Station Arcade, 136
North Terrace, Adelaide from 19-
21 October, as part of Choreolab.
Tickets $10/$5. Bookings through
Ausdance SA on (08) 8212 0825 or email sa@ausdance.org.au

O n 28 October the St
Peter’s Cathedral
Choir and Adelaide Art
Orchestra (AdAO) will combine for the first time to celebrate the 250th anniversary of
Mozart’s birth with Vesperae .
The performance which will include
Mozart’s Solemn Vespers and Exultate ,
Jubilate, will be conducted by the
Adelaide Art Orchestra’s Artistic
Director Timothy Sexton as part of the
2006 Cathedral Series of concerts.
“The Cathedral Choir is one of the state’s oldest musical institutions, while the AdAO is Adelaide’s newest orchestra,” he said. “It’s also exciting to have performers like Anthony Hunt
(organ) and Jessica Dean (soprano) featured.”
Elder Conservatorium graduate
Anthony Hunt recently won the prestigious Geoffrey Parsons Award and is a featured performer in the 2006
Cathedral Series as an organist, pianist and director.
The Choir and Orchestra are made up of musicians from a variety of backgrounds, including a number of students and graduates from the Elder
Conservatorium of Music, both Anthony and Jessica, and AdAO Concertmaster,
Carolyn Lam, all of whom are first-class honours graduates.
Timothy Sexton, himself a graduate of the Conservatorium, notes the importance of mixing young musicians with experienced talent. “For the young trebles in the Cathedral Choir, working with singers like Jessica and seeing professional orchestral players at work is an experience they will never forget,” he said.
The Cathedral Choir and director
Leonie Hempton were recently featured in a recording of a S ervice of
Nine Lessons and Carols for ABC TV, to be broadcast nationally on Christmas
Eve to an estimated audience of one million people. Later this year the choir will release its fifth CD before setting off on its inaugural overseas tour to
England.
Vesperae will be performed on 28
October at 7.30pm in St Peter’s
Cathedral, North Adelaide. Tickets
$25/$20 primary school students free. Bookings can be made online www.stpeterscathedralchoir.org/ book with ticket sales at the door.
By Lynda Allen
I n her professional debut as an independent theatre director Two by Jim
Cartwright will be directed by
Flinders Drama graduate Toni
Main.
Set in a pub owned by an endlessly bickering couple Two is a sharp and touching slice of life. Over the course of a night a range of strange and wonderful characters drop into the pub for a drink but leave their mark in humour and sadness with the audience.
A little boy is left behind by his father, a young couple search for meaning in their lives, an old man still talks to his dead wife and of course the publican and his wife bring their own issues to life on the pub stage as they move towards reconciliation.
Just four actors skillfully weave fourteen characters into story: Tanya Kaploon,
Scott Fraser, Margot Politis and Tim
Lucas - all graduates of Flinders Drama
Centre. Costume design is by AC Arts design graduate Giovanna D’Angelo and for a real-life pub feel Rick Foster has composed music for a live band.
“I read Two while I was studying and loved the beautiful study of relationships and of individuals,” says
Director Toni Main. “The play portrays a community that has fallen together, a community that is taken for granted but may in fact be just the support system the characters need.”
Toni Main graduated with Honours in
Directing at Flinders University Drama
Centre in 2005. She directed Out of the
Boot with Urban Myth in July this year and in June was Assistant Director for
Windmill’s production of Two Weeks
with the Queen. This performance will mark her debut as an independent theatre director in Adelaide and the beginning of her professional career.
Two is supported by the Helpmann
Academy and SAYAB.
Two will be performed at 7.30pm on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Saturday 11-22 October 2006
(preview Tuesday 10 October, all tickets $12) at the Wheatsheaf
Hotel, 39 George Street,
Thebarton. Tickets $18 Adult/$12
Concession. Bookings 0402 301 710.
H E L P M A N N A C A D E M Y U P D A T E 7

By Lynda Allen
S upporting young and emerging artists, the
Optus Mentorship Scheme has now been recognised with a
Giving Award from AbaF.
However, the flexible nature of the scheme allows some mentorships to run as an intensive period over one week, or from interstate and overseas
- depending on the needs of both the mentor and mentoree.
Going from strength to strength since
2002 the Optus Mentorship Scheme has established 55 partnerships between emerging artists and mentors.
The program assists emerging artists to gain the necessary support and networks to further their career in the arts by placing them into meaningful professional partnership relationships with established leadership artists and arts industry professionals.
“Through the mentorships the emerging artists have received encouragement and support, increased their professional networks and received valuable real world survival tips as well as artistic feedback,” says
Libby.
Now in its fifth year the Optus
Mentorship Scheme was recently awarded the Giving Award by the
Australian Business Arts Foundation in the South Australian state finals of their annual awards. The Mentorship Scheme is now in the running for a national
AbaF award.
Printmaker Anna Austin
(mentored by Bill Young)
Photograph: Heidi Linehan
Feedback from both the mentors and mentorees in the scheme has almost universally been positive, and the mentor is often challenged and inspired as much as the mentoree. Many relationships established during the scheme have continued past the official mentorship period and developed into working together on larger projects.
“The Mentorship Scheme is a success due to the flexible and individual nature of the mentorship relationships and also a result of the ongoing support and involvement of individual patrons, Optus and Arts SA,” says Libby Raupach,
Executive Director Helpmann Academy.
Once selected for the program the emerging artist nominates a professional artist they would like to be mentored by. The Helpmann Academy then brings the mentor and mentoree together to discuss the mentorship arrangement which usually consists of a minimum of 20 hours over 12 months.
This year the Optus Mentorship
Scheme will run a second round.
Applications close Friday 17
November. Forms are available from the Helpmann Academy (08)
8463 5013 or www.helpmann.sa.edu.
au/services/mentorships
Mentor Amanda Phillips with Alison Currie
Photograph: Heidi Linehan
8 H E L P M A N N A C A D E M Y U P D A T E

A together.
n Optus Mentorship team now has the opportunity to exhibit
During November the Contemporary
Art Centre of South Australia will present an exhibition featuring three mentorship teams based in Adelaide, in Mentor Mentored2. Aimed at providing both the exhibitors and the audience with valuable insights into the approaches, techniques, and concerns of emerging and established artists, the exhibition includes photographic artists
Mark Kimber and Aurelia Carbone.
In 2005 Adelaide photographer Mark
Kimber and South Australian School of
Art Honours graduate Aurelia Carbone embarked on an Optus Mentorship.
Their time spent together through the mentorship scheme has provided
Aurelia with the opportunity to develop her digital photographic work. Over the past year she has had work in a range of exhibitions but the upcoming
Mentor Mentored2 exhibition at CACSA will be the pièce de résistance of her mentorship.
“The mentorship with Mark was an overwhelmingly positive experience.
It’s remarkable to have such a knowledgeable person to help me
Aurelia Carbone with mentor Mark Kimber
Photograph: Toby Richardson hone my skills as a visual artist,” says
Aurelia Carbone. “Mark has encouraged me to enter competitions to promote my work and we have outlined a plan of attack for me to find an interstate exhibition venue and we are working steadily towards that goal.” who have support from key figures in the South Australian visual art industry.
A catalogue essay will accompany the exhibition.
The Mentor Mentored2 exhibition, conceived and curated by Alan
Cruickshank, is the second exhibition at CACSA to feature emerging artists
Mentor Mentored2 will be held at the Contemporary Art Centre of
South Australia from 3 November to 10 December. CACSA is at 14
Porter Street, Parkside. Gallery hours: Tuesday to Friday 11am-5pm and weekends 1-5pm.
F rom undertaking a
Helpmann Academy Optus
Mentorship to working on two major collaborations this year, dancer and emerging choreographer Alison Currie is taking the right steps.
In 2004 Alison Currie was awarded an
Optus Mentorship from the Helpmann
Academy to work with independent
South Australian choreographer Amanda
Phillips. The mentorship has created many successful performance outcomes and seen their working relationship continue over the last three years
– beyond the usual time frame of the mentorship scheme.
“The mentorship has given Alison the opportunity to work closely with me and has also provided me with a twoway exchange to nurture and research my choreography with a dedicated performer,” says Amanda Phillips.
“Alison and I now work together as a continuum of our mentorship because we believe in each other. There’s a passion and drive for what we do and what we want to achieve here in South
Australia.”
In October Alison will perform Crush, a new work co-directed by Amanda and Frances d’Ath, as part of the I
Hear Motion Festival at Golden Grove
Arts Centre. In this project Alison will perform with Lisa Griffiths, Gala Moody and Adam Synnott all currently working with Leigh Warren and Dancers. The work will bring together the unique collaboration of Amanda Phillips and
Alexander Mitchell, a current Masters in Composition student at the Elder
Conservatorium of Music.
Alison and Alexander will also be part of the team working with Amanda in
Shanghai, China, for her program of
Shifting Horizons a performing arts cultural exchange between China and
Australia. Held between October and December this year, the program includes international workshops, lectures and performances.
“Amanda has allowed me to explore creative and performance opportunities that are now taking me internationally.
She has always given me inspiration, support and direction to pursue new career outcomes and new and innovative approaches to performance,” says Alison.
The premiere of Crush will be performed at 7.30pm Thurs-Fri
12-13 October at Golden Grove
Arts Centre, Cnr The Golden Way and Tenison Place, Golden Grove.
Tickets $18/$12. Bookings (08)
8289 5111.
H E L P M A N N A C A D E M Y U P D A T E 9

A delaide Centre for the ARTS visual art students present their end of year graduating exhibitions.
The Road Less Travelled and Merge will showcase the graduating students’ work and depict their diverse journeys at AC
Arts.
At least three years of hard work and dedication for Adelaide Centre for the
ARTS Bachelor of Visual Arts & Applied
Design students will culminate in two exhibitions in the Light Square Gallery during October and November.
The Road Less Travelled
26 October to 9 November
Opening 6pm Wednesday 25 October
Merge
16 to 30 November
Opening 6pm Wednesday 15 November
The exhibitions will feature a range of disciplines including painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, jewellery, printmaking and sculpture. Each artist will exhibit work from their major discipline, representing years of intense learning, practice and conceptual pursuit.
“From this exhibition our artistic paths may diverge but we all hope that they will, at times, cross over again to allow future collaborations,” said graduating student Talia Wignall.
Kate by Alice Potter from the Merge exhibition
Sediment Lines by Erin Lykos from The Road Less Travelled exhibition
The exhibitions will be held at Light
Square Gallery, Adelaide Centre for the ARTS, 39 Light Square,
Adelaide. Gallery hours: Monday to
Friday 9am-5pm. Gallery contact
(08) 8463 5032.
A cting graduates portray the search for the meaning of life in
Norway.Today.
Antje Gunther and Nathan O’Keefe will perform the Australian premiere of Norway.Today by Igor Bauersima at Bakehouse Theatre from 3-18
November. Translated from German by
Dr Marlene J. Norst the performance is directed by Justin McGuiness with sound and lighting design by Peter
Neilson and Nic Mollison.
Julie (played by Flinders Drama graduate
Antje Gunther) from Germany is looking for someone to join with her in a suicide pact, and through her website meets August (AC Arts graduate
Nathan O’Keefe) from Australia.
Julie proposes that he meet her on a mountain in Norway equipped with a tent, food and video camera. They are two people from different continents who come together, fall in love and say goodbye.
Julie and August suffer from a form of post-modern illness that has emerged from a lack of meaning and purpose in their lives. They are reacting against an empty middleclass existence where nothing is easy, because everything has always been too easy. They long to feel something real and intense and on the edge of the cliff from which they plan to jump they catch a glimpse of what’s missing and what life could be.
Igor Bauersima’s play was inspired by a newspaper article in the German Spiegel
10 H E L P M A N N A C A D E M Y U P D A T E magazine about a 24-year Norwegian looking for someone to commit suicide with. Through an Internet chat-room he found a young Austrian girl and ten days later they both jumped off the
Norwegian Prekestolen Rock into a
600m deep revine. Based on the shock of this premise Bauersima has written his play as an investigation of how an event like this could even occur and how their relationship could evolve throughout their endgame.
Norway.Today examines the tensions between what is real and what is fake, what defines a sense of identity between a virtual reality and the reality of being alive. A teen angst cliffhanger for the twenty first century.
Norway.Today
will be performed at 8pm Wednesday to Saturday from 3-18 November at Bakehouse
Theatre, 255 Angas Street,
Adelaide. Tickets $18/$14 Adults/
Concession & Fringe Benefits.
Bookings (08) 8227 0505.

W ith the assistance of a Helpmann
Academy grant Elder
Conservatorium of Music PhD student Luke Harrald spent the
European Summer in Paris for the CCMIX Summer Intensive.
The centre for electronic and computer music was a hotbed for Luke’s creativity. Here he writes about the experience.
“The Centre de Création Musicale
Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX) is a centre for new music founded by the composer
Iannis Xenakis in 1985. Established to promote Xenakis’ research, the centre has become a key hub for electronic and computer music in France, and is now known the world over.
The month long CCMIX Summer
Intensive included nine international students from: Australia (me!), Greece,
Ireland, Malta, Taiwan, the UK and the
USA.
I met several internationally renowned composers including, Gerard Pape,
Horaccio Vaggione and Trevor Wishart, and had the opportunity to work with the UPIC system. UPIC is a visual electronic music system developed by
Xenakis (there are only three left in the world and the only one of these
Luke Harrald in Paris in public use is at CCMIX). As an electronic musician, using the UPIC was very interesting in that it interprets graphic scores created by the composer and turns them into sound waves.
The main emphasis of the summer intensive was the combination of sound and visuals. There were many lively discussions on the successes and difficulties of collaboration between sonic and visual artists. These discussions allowed me to share my own experiences in this area, as well as learn some other strategies which may work well in the future.
A highlight of the course was a presentation of films by the experimental American filmmaker Stan
Brakhage. The late filmmaker’s wife,
Marilyn Brakhage, presented these from the original prints at a local cinema.
Brakhage’s films are predominantly silent as he considered them ‘visual music’. Brakhage studied with John
Cage and Edgard Varese in order to gain deeper insight into music, with musical ideas featuring prominently in the structures of his films. Viewing the films in their original format, shown as he intended, was a rare experience.
The main goal of the course was the creation of new work so the intensive culminated in a concert. I created an audio/video work entitled Monuments which paid homage to the architecture of Paris, something I found extremely foreign and inspiring at the same time.”
Luke Harrald
PhD Student
Elder Conservatorium of Music
By Lynda Allen
W hile ‘A picture paints a thousands words’ could be true, Prue
Gramp discovers that words can paint a thousand pictures.
In The Sum of Everything exhibition
South Australian School of Art Honours student Prue Gramp looks beyond the conventional meanings of language to delve into the similarities between writing and drawing, to compare their quality of process, gesture and imagery.
“I have been investigating illegible writing and exploring work that distances writing from reading and its function as a visual semiotic,” says Prue Gramp. “It is the process of writing and its power to represent the desire to communicate that I am interested in, rather than works which centre on communicating particular ideas or meanings in the text.”
Showing elements of transition, movement, decay and destruction, the work in The Sum of Everything has been created through Prue’s development of an experimental technique. The technique involves painting with ink and mixed media in the bottom of cardboard boxes and on the back of canvases which are then cast with plaster to lift an image from the original surface.
“The process involves the decay and destruction of the legibility of the original ‘drawing’ and has links with different systems in the history of painting, drawing and writing,” says Prue.
Supported by the Helpmann Academy, the South Australian Youth Arts Board,
Fox Creek Wines and Urban Cow
Studio the exhibition also includes some experimental works on paper.
Untitled by Prue Gramp
The Sum of Everything will be held until 22 October at Urban Cow
Gallery, upstairs 11 Frome Road,
Adelaide. Gallery hours: Monday to
Thursday 10am-6pm, Friday 10am–
9pm, Saturday 10am–5pm, Sunday
12–5pm. Gallery contact (08) 8232
6126.
H E L P M A N N A C A D E M Y U P D A T E 11

By Lynda Allen
A delaide Centre for the
ARTS dance graduate
Gavin Clarke is working to increase awareness of contemporary dance in the
South East.
Spurred on by his successful dance classes for boys at Mount Gambier
High School in 2005, Gavin Clarke has returned to his hometown once again to develop a new dance work and present a series of workshops to high school-aged students.
With the assistance of an Arts SA grant and the South-East School’s Dance
Network Gavin will present a series of 16 workshop programs from late
September to October.
The workshops will be presented by dancers and choreographers from national dance companies, including Zac
Jones (former Qld Ballet, Expressions),
Tim Harvey and Alistair MacIndoe
(Balletlab) and local dancers Jose
Gonzalez, Kelly Alexander and Carlie
Angel. Through the students’ access to these professional dancers Gavin aims to increase awareness and interest in dance in the South-East.
“Growing up in the South-East I wasn’t exposed to much dance performance, the focus was really on sport,” says
Gavin. “But through the workshops I would really like to bring to the region a more ‘rough and tumble’ style of
Dancing in the South-East L-R Gavin Clarke, Carlie Angel and Kelly Alexander
Photograph: Tim Harvey dance – something which the local kids can relate to.”
The workshops will include elements from contact improvisation and contemporary dance, along with material derived from Gavin’s experience of dance growing up in a rural area, and will culminate in a public showing.
and get excited about it.”
Working with Mt Gambier High School to successfully implement dance classes for boys as part of their curriculum,
Gavin continues to promote dance to boys through example, with many of the workshops run by male dancers.
To find out more or to get involved contact Gavin Clarke on 0410 627
769.
“By involving the students in the process of creating a dance performance from start to finish we hope that the community will feel part of the event
12 H E L P M A N N A C A D E M Y U P D A T E

By Margot Osborne
P ortraits, landscapes and still lives feature in exhibitions at Adelaide
Central Gallery during October and November.
Rob Gutteridge is exhibiting a large body of new work Records of Affection at Adelaide Central Gallery until 14
October. His latest paintings and drawings continue his focus on body portraits and landscape but introduce a new experimental orientation in use of colour.
In a series of landscapes of the view to
Mount Lofty from North Adelaide the colours shift from muted greys to vibrant, almost fluorescent mauves and yellows.
Similarly in the figurative paintings we see a transition from tonal realism and montage to use of non-naturalistic colour and a pared-back abstraction of composition. Gutteridge has a highly analytical approach to figuration, underpinned by meticulous attention to anatomical accuracy.
From 20 October to 11 November fifteen artists from Central Studios will be exhibiting in a group show, simply titled Red . The studios which were moved from Norwood to a large old
B rooke Johnson’s lifetime dream to stage her own musical is finally taking shape in her rural Victorian hometown.
Based on Brooke Johnson's own experiences of growing up in a separated family The Woods of Rosedene musical will be performed in November in the surrounds of her family’s restaurant The
Rusty Nail near Warracknabeal, Victoria.
Growing up in rural Victoria, Brooke gained a vocal scholarship at Queens
Anglican Grammar School. While there she toured New Zealand as lead and sole singer of 18-member band Stage
Band. She later managed Ballarat and
Queens Chapel Choir before completing a Music Foundations course through
Box Hill TAFE. Then followed a Bachelor of Music at the Elder Conservatorium of Music in 2003 and the start of her career as a singing teacher.
Last year she returned home determined to write a musical, take on a
Bowl with Lemons and Spoon , still life by Don Rankin building near the Central Markets in 2003 have an enduring and close relationship with Adelaide Central School of Art.
Artists who currently have studios there and who will be taking part in Red include
Christopher Orchard (current chair), Lisa
Young, Nona Burden, Kirsty Martinson,
Laima Politis, Laura Wills, Yve Thompson,
Andreas Christensen, Paul Limpus, Areti
Devetzidis, Mervyn Cole, Monica Majzoub and Raels Shearer.
Opening on 17 November, S till Lives features three quite different approaches to the still life genre with paintings by
Lisa Young and Don Rankin and ceramics by Gerry Wedd.
Adelaide Central Gallery, 45 Osmond
Terrace, Norwood is open 9am-5pm
Monday to Friday and 11am-4pm
Saturday. For more information phone (08) 8364 2809.
few singing students and also work with her father at The Rusty Nail restaurant.
With an overwhelming response from the local community to be involved and to support the musical, Brooke is looking forward to presenting five nights of entertainment in early November.
Initially set inside the restaurant, further scenes will be performed outside the restaurant with a backdrop of large gums and the dry Yarriambiack Creek. The
Woods of Rosedene uses fantasy, colour and magic to send a positive message to young people brought up in separated families.
“The musical is based on the events of people in my life who have lived as part of a broken or combined family,” Brooke said. “It’s also based on the lives of all children who have believed in something magical and beautiful and sends a positive message of faith and courage.”
With an original musical score The
Woods of Rosedene is a humorous fastmoving musical with a cast of seven main characters and almost 30 minor roles.
Brooke Johnson outside The Rusty Nail restaurant near Warracknabeal, Vic
The Woods of Rosedene will be performed from 8-12 November
2006 at The Rusty Nail restaurant,
Warracknabeal. For tickets or more information contact: (03) 5398 1154.
H E L P M A N N A C A D E M Y U P D A T E 13

Patron: Her Excellency The Governor,
Marjorie Jackson-Nelson AC, CVO, MBE
Patron: Scott Hicks, Film Director
Chair: Ms Ginger Taylor Fitzpatrick
Ms Christie Anthoney
Director, 2007 Adelaide Fringe
Professor Michael Innes
Executive Dean, Faculty of Humanities &
Social Sciences, University of Adelaide
Professor Richard Maltby
Head, School of Humanities
Flinders University
Christopher Menz
Director, Art Gallery of South Australia
Professor Michael Rowan
Pro Vice Chancellor
Div. of Education, Arts & Social Sciences
University of South Australia
Mr Daryl Stillwell
Managing Director, Stillwell Management
Consultants Pty Ltd
Ms Ginger Taylor Fitzpatrick
Chair, Helpmann Academy Foundation
Board
Dr Geoff Wood
Representing DFEEST
Mr Michael Abbott QC
Mr Albert Bensimon
Managing Director, Transworld Jewellery
Mr James Bruce
Director, Bonhams & Bruce Auction House
Mr Ollie Clark AM
Ms Annette Coleman
Friends Committee
Ms Nicky Downer AM
Arts Consultant
Mr Thomas Gleghorn OAM
Artist
Ms Diana Jaquillard
Director, Graphic Language Design Pty Ltd
Ms Liz McGrice
Publisher, Advertiser Enterprises
Mr Daryl Stillwell
Managing Director
Stillwell Management Consultants Pty Ltd
14 H E L P M A N N A C A D E M Y U P D A T E
Michael Abbott and Sue Crafter
Ross Adler
James and Diana Bruce
Christopher and Margaret Burrell
Libby Dunsford
Envestra
Barry Fitzpatrick
Alan Greig
David Griffiths
David Hall
Michael and Kathy Harbison
Kerry Heysen-Hicks
John Irving
Diana and Philippe Jaquillard
Peter and Rebecca Kennedy
Carla Kertesz
Emma Lardner
Brian Lynch
Rosemary Michell
Chris and Julie Michelmore
Rainer and Hilda Mohaupt
Bill and Margot Phillipson
Judy and George Potter
Lyn and Sue Punshon
Arthur Raftopoulos
David and Janet Rice
Tim and Judy Rogers
Roger Sexton
Mark Sheppard
Michael Silberling
Ezekiel Solomon
John and Gale Spalvins
Jane Stillwell
Peter Walker and Caroline Webber
Graham Walters
Malcolm and Gail Wicks
Adam Wynn

Adelaide Convention Centre
Adelaide Research and Innovation P/L
Baron Partners
Billy Hyde - John Reynolds
Coriole dB Magazine
Document Services, UniSA
Edenhall
Eden Valley Wines
Envestra
Graphic Language Design
Heathvale
Henschke
Hill Smith Gallery
Irvine
Karl Seppelt
Linehan Scott Design
Motown Media
Peter Walker Fine Art
Rann Communications
Stillwell Management Consultants P/L
The Rolling Pin
Woodside Cheeses
Yalumba
M Abbott QC
Barry Alderson
S Beaumont
A Bensimon
Judge David and Charlotte Bright
Nicky Downer AM
T and E Gleghorn
Diana Jaquillard
A Kidman
Sue and Keith Langley
B Lynch
Sir Keith Michell
Hon Justice Kemeri Murray AO
Matthew O'Shaughnessy
J Phillips
Judith Roberts AO
Richard and Trish Ryan
Mary Lou Simpson
Jeffrey Smart
Tony and Helen Stacey
Ginger Taylor Fitzpatrick
Judith Wainwright
Tracey Whiting
P Williams
Roger Zubrinich
Patron: Kate Kendall, Actor
Graduate Representative:
Anna Goodhind
Annette Coleman - Coordinator
Kali Hunter Constantine
Nicky Downer AM
Beth Greiner
Sue Herald
Diana Jaquillard
Catriona MacLachlan-Lester
Andrew Steinwedel
Trish Storer
Margie Strathearn
Support young and emerging artists by joining the Friends of the Helpmann Academy.
Download a form from: www.helpmann.sa.edu.au/friends
Or contact the Helpmann
Academy on (08) 8463 5013.
H E L P M A N N A C A D E M Y U P D A T E 15

D I A R Y D A T E S O c t o b e r - N o v e m b e r 0 6
DANCE
ADELAIDE CENTRE FOR THE ARTS
4-9 December - Graduating performance by
3rd Year Dancers. Choreographed by Lina
Limosani. Main Theatre, AC Arts, 39 Light
Square, Adelaide. Tickets $10/$5. Bookings
(08) 8463 5005.
AC Arts related dance
19-21 October BABY FACE choreographed by Kelly Alexander will be presented as part of Choreolab, 7.30pm Ausdance, Level 3,
Station Arcade, 136 North Terrace, Adelaide.
Tickets $10/$5. Bookings through Ausdance
SA on (08) 8212 0825 or email sa@ ausdance.org.au.
DRAMA
ADELAIDE CENTRE FOR THE ARTS
8, 9, 11, 12 December - Graduating performance by 3rd Year Actors. Directed by
Rosalba Clemente. Xspace, AC Arts, 39 Light
Square, Adelaide. Tickets $10/$5. Bookings
(08) 8463 5005.
Flinders Drama Centre related drama
11 to 22 October - TWO directed by Toni
Main a slice of life and community spirit set in a pub. 7.30pm on Tues-Thurs and Sats at the Wheatsheaf Hotel, 39 George Street,
Thebarton. Tickets $18/$12. Bookings 0402
301 710.
3,4, 8 to11,15 to18 November – NORWAY,
TODAY directed by Justin McGuiness. A comedy about the meaning and meaningless of life; a suicide story that gives hope.
Featuring Nathan O’Keefe (AC Arts) and
Antje Guenther (Flinders) 8pm in Bakehouse
Theatre, 255 Angas Street, Adelaide.
Bookings (08) 8227 0505.
MUSIC
ELDER CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC
The University of Adelaide, North Terrace,
Adelaide. Ph. (08) 8303 5995.
Elder Evening Concerts Elder Hall, North
Terrace, Adelaide. Tickets $22/$17/$12 book at BASS 131 246.
Saturday 14 October 6.30pm - TRIBUTE showcasing the Elder Conservatorium Wind
Orchestra conducted by Robert Hower.
The works in this program are all Australian premières commissioned by the doyen of wind orchestra, conductor Timothy Reynish, in memory of his son William.
Saturday 25 November 6.30pm - FINALE will present the Elder Conservatorium
Symphony Orchestra under the baton of
Keith Crellin performing Rachmaninov’s sensational Symphony No.2, while rising star second year Bachelor of Music student
Louise McKay will perform the Dvorak Cello
Concerto, one of the greatest concertos in the cello repertoire.
FRIDAY LUNCH HOUR CONCERTS
1.10pm in Elder Hall, North Terrace,
Adelaide, tickets $5 at the door. More info
(08) 8303 5925.
Elder related performance
28 October - VESPERAE St Peter's Cathedral
Choir & Adelaide Art Orchestra/Timothy
Sexton 7:30pm, St Peter’s Cathedral, North
Adelaide. Tickets $20/$25 Primary School
Students FREE. Bookings can be made online www.stpeterscathedralchoir.org/book with ticket sales at the door.
VISUAL ART
ADELAIDE CENTRAL SCHOOL OF ART
Adelaide Central Gallery, 45 Osmond
Terrace, Norwood (08) 8364 2809. Hours:
9am-5pm Monday to Friday and 11am-4pm
Saturday.
Until 14 October – RECORDS OF
AFFECTION exhibition of paintings by Rob
Gutteridge.
20 October to 11 November – RED Central studios exhibiton in the Main Gallery, with
YVE THOMPSON exhibition in the Studio
Gallery.
17 November to 6 December – STILL LIVES exhibition of works by Lisa Young, Don
Rankin and Gerry Wedd in Main Gallery, with DI LONGLEY exhibition in the Studio
Gallery.
ARTIST TALKS - Adelaide Central School of Art presents Artspeak a regular series of fortnightly artist talks on Wednesday evenings from 6-7pm.
ACSA related exhibitions
Until 29 October - LA VIE EN ROSE exhibition featuring glass and sculpture by Jenny Pedlar, Jacqueline Coates, Jane
Smeets and Lincoln Kirby-Bell. Artistic
License Gallery & Studio, 48 Melbourne
St, North Adelaide. (08) 8367 0174, www.
artisticlicense.com.au
ADELAIDE CENTRE FOR THE ARTS
Light Square Gallery, 39 Light Square,
Adelaide Ph. (08) 8463 5032. Hours: 9am-
5pm Monday to Friday.
Until 19 October – CALENTURE an exhibition by Chris De Rosa, Michelle Nikou,
Marcin Kobylecki and Gerry Wedd.
26 October to 9 November – THE ROAD
LESS TRAVELLED Bachelor of Visual Arts &
Applied Design Graduating Exhibition.
16 to 30 November – MERGE Bachelor of
Visual Arts & Applied Design Graduating
Exhibition.
SA SCHOOL OF ART
SASA Gallery, Cnr Hindley Street and Fenn
Place, Adelaide. UniSA, City West Campus,
Adelaide. Ph. (08) 8302 0380. Hours: 11am-
5pm Tuesday to Friday and 1-5pm Saturday.
12 to 26 October - SURFACE, GIVEN THE
FACE exhibition will explore relationships between surface, appearance and meaning.
Features work by John Barbour, Linda Lou
Murphy, Andy Petrusuvics, Katie Moore, Akira
Akira, Aldo Iacobelli, Angela Valamanesh.
2 to 24 November - THE COOL SLOW is an exhibition of new works by Adelaide based artist Anton Hart that will explore the condition of contemporary painting and architectural space.
29 November to 3 December – BACHELOR
OF VISUAL ARTS GRADUATE EXHIBITION
Showcasing over 90 graduating students from the South Australian School of Art.
SASA related exhibitions
Until 22 October -THE SUM OF
EVERYTHING an exhibition by Prue
Gramp who looks beyond the conventional meanings of language. Urban Cow Gallery,
Upstairs, 11 Frome Road, Adelaide.
VIZARTS O'HALLORAN HILL
Bruce Wilson Gallery. Majors Road
O'Halloran Hill. Ph. (08) 8177 3481.
Hours: 9am-5pm Monday to Friday.
13 October to 5 November – MOVING
ON - graduate exhibition by Vizarts,
O’Halloran Hill students. GALLERY M,
Marion Cultural Centre, 287 Diagonal Road,
Oaklands Park. Hours Mon-Fri 11-4pm, Sat
12-4pm, Sun 1-4pm. More info (08) 8377
2904
HELPMANN ACADEMY EVENT
11 October – THE BUSINESS OF ART. The
Friends of the Helpmann Academy present an enjoyable and informative evening to discover the success of local artists and how they
‘made it’. Unravel the mystery of collecting, buying and selling art. 6.30pm for 7.00pm start at Peter Walker Fine Art Gallery, 101
Walkerville Terrace, Walkerville. Refreshments and finger food will be served. Limited to 60 guests. Tickets Members $10, Non-
Members $40 (includes a 12 month Friends membership). RSVP Pam French (08) 8463
5013 or email: pfrench@tafe.sa.edu.au
OTHER
3 to 13 October - I HEAR MOTION
- Dance Performances and Workshops including local choreographer Amanda
Phillips and Melbourne’s Frances d’Ath’s new-work CRUSH featuring some of
Adelaide’s brightest and talented dancers on 12 & 13 October. Golden Grove Arts
Centre, cnr The Golden Way & Tenison
Place, Golden Grove. For complete program and bookings (08) 8289 5111. Come watch, learn and participate!
HIGHER GROUND - You need culture? In just one building we’ve got music, dance, visual arts, theatre, cabaret, concerts, films, discussion groups, workshops, multimedia projects, games nights... Pick up a program or check the website: www.higherground.org.au for upcoming events. You need to relax? Get a bite to eat at The Culture Cafe, a drink from The Buddha Bar, take in an exhibition, or just read the paper.
Diary Dates compiled by
Pam French (08) 8463 5013
16 H E L P M A N N A C A D E M Y U P D A T E