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Welcome to the fifth Port Festival as the City of
Port Adelaide Enfield celebrates its 175th anniversary –
making 2015 most definitely the ‘Year of the Port’.
This year’s Festival is brimming with new ideas and
new features as we set out to broaden the appeal of
Adelaide’s biggest and most successful celebration of
community arts and culture.
We’ve always had a strong sense of our local culture and
identity, which this year is reflected in our Festival theme –
Message in a Bottle, providing a wide variety
of opportunities for artistic interpretation.
We’ve brought in local schools whose students have
created a stunning series of super-size bottles, while we’ll
be sending our own message in an equally gigantic bottle
direct to the United Nations as part of its 70th birthday
celebrations – a wonderful and innovative way to draw
attention to our City.
With Port Adelaide undergoing major regeneration,
the Festival is a tremendous opportunity for us to build
community awareness of what’s happening and all that
the entire region has to offer. It’s also our way of supporting
a growing and highly valued arts community that adds so
much to our sense of belonging and place.
Creating festivals requires a great deal of commitment and
hard work and I congratulate the Festival and Council staff
who’ve brought it all together again this year, and on your
behalf I thank the artistic and business communities of our
City for their continued support of the Port Festival.
Gary Johanson
Mayor
City of Port Adelaide Enfield