Feast Festival

The 'Picnic in the Park', held in Rymill Park, is a major event of the Feast Festival, usually held at its conclusion.

Feast Festival is an LGBTI Festival held annually in the South Australian capital of Adelaide. 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.[citation needed]

Feast was founded in 1997 (27 years ago) (1997) a by 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.[1]

In November 2009, the lineup of singer/songwriters for Sing Out at the festival included Emily Davis, Vicki Bennett, and Ziggie Zertophf.[2] In 2016, Dannii Minogue was the headline act for the opening night street party.[3] 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.

  1. ^ Susan Archdall (28 April 2001) From the outside, looking in. The Advertiser (Adelaide) Pg. 15
  2. ^ Jeff Crawford (11 November 2009) Sort of like Oprah to music. Portside Messenger Page 20.
  3. ^ McDonald, Patrick (September 2016). "Pop icon Dannii Minogue to headline Adelaide's Feast Festival of queer arts opening night street party | the Advertiser". The Advertiser.