Join us at sunset and venture into the proud Waterside Workers Hall, for a night of ceremony, performance, supper, art, ideas and transformation. This special occasion celebrates and toasts that most ungraspable of places, the future. Created and hosted by a team of artists, Port locals and guests, Cutaway – a ceremony o!ers ten never-to-be-repeated events that complete the Cutaway trilogy, a series of site-specific performances and arts works made about the past, present and future of Waterside Workers Hall over the last three years.

Each night guests will be treated to a ceremonial journey traversing the physical space of the hall and its surrounding landscape. Guests will share a series of beautiful performance experiences and a river sunset before sitting down to shared late supper.

Cutaway – a ceremony includes a speakers program of twenty passionate locals and South Australian leaders. Each event will include two of these orators – a local resident and a non-local guest – who will inspire us to consider the future. Each evening’s speeches will be podcast the next day: see vitalstatistix.com.au.

WEDNESDAY 20 NOVEMBERChristie AnthoneyLyn Hay

THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBERBrad ChilcottAaron Machado

FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBERJim JacobsRosa Matto

SATURDAY 23 NOVEMBERPhill Cassey Lindl Lawton

SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBERStuart Gi!ordTory Shepherd

WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBERUni CarnegieSimon Hackett

THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBERRamla and Lucky GiirreGreg Mead

FRIDAY 29 NOVEMBERKristin AlfordRosemary Wanganeen

SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBERNici CumpstonBrian Samuels

SUNDAY 1 DECEMBERDaniel Spencer Waniki Gibuma-Marr

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CHRISTIE ANTHONEYChristie Anthoney was the former creative director of the Adelaide Fringe and oversaw its transition from a biannual to annual event. She has a long standing and much applauded background in events management, having worked for, managed or otherwise shaped not only the Adelaide Fringe, but Edmonton, Melbourne and Edinburgh Fringe, the Glastonbury Music Festival and Womadelaide. She is currently the director of the!Adelaide College of the Arts.

LYN HAYLyn Hay is the General Manager of the Adelaide Business Hub.! Lyn has supported entrepreneurs and businesses to be successful for over 20 years.! In 1999 she created Port Adelaide’s own Todd Street Business Incubator, which is now recognised internationally for its work hatching 120 new businesses to produce combined annual revenues of $185M.

BRAD CHILCOTTBrad Chilcott has gathered together like-minded people and organisations to introduce what he describes as a positive voice in the national conversation on asylum seekers, refugees and multiculturalism. He called his apolitical idea Welcome to Australia and it began as a way of connecting people through regular meetings. jA pastor at Activate church, Brad’s dream of a national Walk Together campaign was realised in 2012 when events were held in 11 cities around Australia attracting thousands of participants. Brad’s contribution was recognised when he was named a People of Australia Ambassador in 2012.

AARON MACHADOAaron Machado is the President and Founder of AMWRRO (Australian Marine Wildlife Research Rescue Organisation). AMWRRO activities include the rescue, rehabilitation and release of marine wildlife, educational programs, community clean up events, revegetation programs and restoration of sensitive habitats within the Port River Estuary. Aaron started AMWRRO at 18 and it is currently the only volunteer organisation in Australia that is licensed to carry out this important work.

JIM JACOBSJim Jacobs (known to most as ‘Jim the snip’) has lived and worked in Port Adelaide and Semaphore for around 40 years. His passion and his trade as a hairdresser have allowed him to contribute to the well being of the people of the port.

ROSA MATTORosa Matto has been a chef, cookery teacher and writer for the past 30 ‘odd’ years. !Her mission is to simplify the process of growing or buying ingredients and preparing healthy, imaginative meals. A dedicated ‘culinary traveller’, Rosa aims to re-place the experience of cooking where it belongs – in a convivial kitchen to be shared with family and friends.

PHILL CASSEYPhill Cassey is Associate Professor in Invasion! Biogeography at!the University of Adelaide’s!School of Earth & Environmental Sciences. He is a core member of the University of Adelaide’s Environment Institute and Assistant Director for ACEBB, the Australian Centre of Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity. Hailing from New Zealand, Phill has now settled in Adelaide with his young family.!

LINDL LAWTONLindl Lawton has worked in museums in Queensland, NSW, ACT and Victoria. She manages the SA Maritime Museum’s program of changing exhibitions exploring new areas of history. Lindl also manages the Museum’s collection: how it is conserved and researched and what new artefacts are added to it. Lindl works with a wonderful crew of volunteers, particularly in caring for and researching the collection.

WEDNESDAY 20 NOVEMBER THURSDAY 21 NOVEMBER FRIDAY 22 NOVEMBER SATURDAY 23 NOVEMBER

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STUART GIFFORDStuart Gi"ord graduated from design studies at SAIT and SA School of Art before working in Monarto (New City) design o#ce. He worked on The Port Redevelopment plan 1975 and co-authored The Port (Wakefield Press) in 1998. Stuart has a strong interest in Kaurna and ‘European’ heritage. He is currently the manager of Sarah’s Sisters Sustainable Cafe as well as the co-founder and sponsor of Fringe @ Semaphore, Sema4seasons and The Semaphorium.

TORY SHEPHERDTory Shepherd studied anthropology, then travelled, then studied some more, then travelled, then ended up with a cadetship at The Advertiser in 2006. She covered police rounds, politics, general news and health, while working at The Punch on the side. Now Tory is political editor at the Advertiser. She is passionate about words, wine, chilli, soccer, and people.

UNI CARNEGIEUni Carnegie has Scottish ancestry, an upbringing in a fishing port, and has lived in Adelaide’s western suburbs for more than 35 years, including the last 9 in Port Adelaide. She regularly joins the Port Adelaide Environment Forum. Retired from full-time employment, she is now writing a book about the first steamships to sail from England to Australia.

SIMON HACKETTSimon Hackett helped to create the Australian Internet, back when it was a University experiment called AARNet, in the mid 1980s. In 1991 he started Internode. By the time he sold it to iiNet in 2012, it had nearly 500 sta" based in South Australia, serving customers nationally. Simon loves electric vehicles, and imported the world’s first fully-electric supercar,!the Tesla Roadster, to Australia in 2009, and his daily driver has been a Tesla electric car ever since. He is also a passionate and active pilot, having flown gliders and powered aircraft for more than 25 years.

RAMLA AND LUCKY GIIRRERamla Giirre is a Social Work and International Relations alumni at the University of South Australia. Lucky Giirre is a Law and Health Sciences (majoring in Public Health) alumni pursuing further studies in the area of law and legal studies. As Somali refugees their passion is grass-roots community development. In 2008, they co-founded the Muslim Girls Kollective South Australia (MGKSA), an initiative aimed at giving young Muslim and refugee women the opportunity to access educational and recreational activities in their community. Lucky and Ramla have represented Australia at international conferences in the Czech Republic, Kenya, USA and Switzerland. The sisters gained attention by introducing the burkini, Islamic swimwear, to South Australian surf lifesaving clubs.

GREG MEADGreg Mead SC has been a legal aid criminal lawyer for the last 27 years and has defended clients charged with various criminal o"ences in the courts of SA. He has an interest in the concerns of Aboriginal people and in 1995 published a critique of the Hindmarsh Island Bridge Royal Commission entitled ‘A Royal Omission’. Greg has a broad interest in social justice issues generally and is the editor of a quarterly social justice newspaper called Adelaide Voices. Greg has been involved in all 32 of the annual musical productions of the Romero Company, which raises funds for overseas aid projects.

KRISTIN ALFORDKristin Alford uses foresight and strategy frameworks to help organisations and individuals discover new insights. She established Bridge8 in 2004 following careers in engineering, human resources and product development across sectors including mining, R&D, aviation, agriculture and nanotechnology. Kristin holds a PhD in process engineering and a Masters of Management in Strategic Foresight. Kristin is the licensee and organiser of TEDxAdelaide.

ROSEMARY WANGANEENRosemary Wanganeen founded the Australian Institute for Loss and Grief in Adelaide 2005 which evolved out of the Sacred Site Within Healing Centre she set up in 1993. Devoting 20 years to loss and grief as a new therapy, her passion has accumulated a body of work that’s contributed to her becoming a published author. Her ‘Seven Phases to Integrating Loss and Grief ’ as a model has been presented at national and international forums.

SUNDAY 24 NOVEMBER WEDNESDAY 27 NOVEMBER THURSDAY 28 NOVEMBER FRIDAY 29 NOVEMBER

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NICI CUMPSTONNici Cumpston is the curator of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art at the Art Gallery of South Australia. She has recently been appointed as the Artistic Director of the 2015 Aboriginal and Torres Strait visual art festival. Nici is an artist, writer, educator and curator who is passionate about nurturing creativity and providing meaningful opportunities for artists to have their work shown and their voices heard.

BRIAN SAMUELSBrian Samuels is a fourth-generation Portonian who is passionate about both local and South Australian history. He has written many articles, been involved with numerous voluntary community groups and worked for State government heritage and history organisations. He is especially interested in maintaining and strengthening a sense of community and feeling of belonging at the local level.

DANIEL SPENCERDaniel Spencer is a community organiser with the Repower Port Augusta Alliance and the Australian Youth Climate Coalition. For the last year Dan has been working on a campaign to replace Port Augusta’s ageing coal-fired power stations with concentrated solar thermal. Dan has been recognised for his work receiving the inaugural Bob Brown Young Environmentalist of the Year award in 2012.

WANIKI GIBUMA!MARRWaniki Gibuma-Marr is in her final year of primary school at Largs Bay. She loves the ocean, swimming in it, photographing it, and making it safe for others as part of her local surf lifesaving team. She is contributes to her community through the Aboriginal Youth Action Committee (AYAC), activities at Kura Yerlo and Born on Monday Choir. When she finishes school, Waniki hopes to train as a personal trainer or a photographer.

SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER SUNDAY 1 DECEMBER

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