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Heather Ann Croall AM (born 1967) is an international arts CEO, artistic director and documentary producer, best known for leading Sheffield Doc/Fest which she grew to be one of the best documentary festivals in the world and Adelaide Fringe where she has taken ticket sales from 500,000 a year to a million each year and won many awards for the festival.
The Adelaide Fringe and Adelaide Festival of Arts are separate organisations, with different philosophies and intent. The Adelaide Fringe is governed by the Adelaide Fringe Board, [1] which employs a director and CEO, a deputy director and a large team of adjunct staff to manage various aspects of the festival.
She was CEO of the Adelaide Fringe from 2006 to 2010. In 2011, she became the executive producer of the Festival of Ideas . In 2012, Verschoor worked as general manager for the Adelaide City Council for three years [ 1 ] before being elected to council at a by-election in 2015.
It developed a number of incorporated events including Adelaide Writers' Week, Australia's original literary festival; [3] WOMADelaide, the world music festival; and, the Adelaide Festival of Ideas. The Adelaide International was a curated international contemporary visual arts program held in partnership with the Samstag Museum from 2010 to 2014.
Arts SA was created primarily as a funding body around 1996, [1] [Note 1] at which time it fell under the Department of Transport, Urban Planning and the Arts (DTUPA). [2] It was responsible for the development of and funding for the arts sector within South Australia, and was responsible for nine statutory corporations and a number of not-for-profit arts organisations.
In 2013 Duthie delivered her first Adelaide Film Festival, and the 2013 Adelaide Festival of Ideas. Over her six years in the role Duthie delivered eight major events including five Adelaide Film Festivals (2013, 2015, 2016 Rogue mini-fest, 2017 and 2018), the inaugural Hybrid World Adelaide in 2017 and again in 2018, and the 2013 Festival of ...
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Adelaide Fringe director Greg Clarke claimed responsibility for suggesting the adoption of a giant Australian cuttlefish as a festival mascot. [1] He said that the festival team "wanted to create a creature unique to South Australia and were inspired by the uniqueness and beauty of the giant cuttlefish that inhabits the gulf waters of South Australia."