Feast Festival
annual LGBT event in Adelaide, South Australia
Feast Festival is an LGBTQIA+ festival held annually in November in Adelaide, South Australia. The event is one of Australia's four major queer festivals, alongside Perth's Pride Festival, Melbourne's Midsumma and the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
History
Feast was founded in 1997 (1997) by a group of arts and community cultural workers. Margie Fischer, Damien Carey, Helen Bock, and Luke Cutler worked together to create a community arts festival for the lesbian and gay community in Adelaide. In 1999, cabaret theatre performer Paul Capsis performed at the festival's opening concert.
In November 2009, the lineup of singer/songwriters for Sing Out at the festival included Emily Davis, Vicki Bennett, and Ziggie Zertophf. In 2011 approximately 48,000 people attended Feast events, with another 40,000 tuning into the live radio broadcast from Picnic in the Park with Joy 94.9.
In 2016, Dannii Minogue was the headline act for the opening night street party.
A short documentary film was researched, created and exhibited as part of Feast’s 25th anniversary in 2022.
Financial and leadership difficulties
Between 2013 and 2014 Feast Festival accumulated a significant financial deficit, and in 2015 the organisation moved from curated model and made its Artistic Director, Catherine Fitzgerald, redundant.
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