The MyState Breath of Fresh Air Film Festival 2011
Date and Location
23-27 November, 2011
Inveresk Railyards,
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Themes
New Horizons
New and positive perspectives on contemporary themes such as new technology, social issues, third world issues.
Food for Thought
Food themes ranging from celebration of food to positive perspectives on food security, treatment of animals etc.
Vision
The MyState Breath of Fresh Air (BOFA) Film Festival aims to be an important player on the
Australian film festival circuit and the premier Australian celebration of:
Fresh perspectives and innovative approaches to contemporary issues (such as
social, environmental, indigenous, third world, economic and technological) and film industry issues (such as funding, developing, making, distributing and marketing)
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Using screen based story telling (film, digital media, stills, podcasts)
. To inspire change (via individuals, organisations, philanthropists).
→ PURCHASE TICKETS
→ DOWNLOAD 2011 PDF PROGRAM
→ Download 2011 PDF Programme Directory Guide – The Directory will have all event codes, venues and times.
 BOFA Extra Your MyState BOFA schedeule is not filled up? Take a look at these other events. → Yoga @BOFA → Cinema, Theatre Publics Colloquium → Sundown Cinema @BOFA → Interstices Symposium |
 Opening Night Party5.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS The red carpet is being rolled out for the Gala Launch of the MyState BOFA Film Festival and the opening of the QVMAG Museum Stories of Cinema exhibition. →more |
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 Happy Happy8.00PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Despite her misogynist husband, to Kaja, family is the most important thing in the world. However, when "the perfect couple" moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check. →more |
 Cinema, Theatre Publics Colloquium9.00AM-5.00PM Join the UTAS Schools of Architecture and Design and Visual and Performing Arts roundtable. →more |
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 Stories of Cinema10.00AM An exhibition celebrating the stories and history of film making – past, present, future – on display daily. →more |
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 The Challenges of Writing in and for Tasmania10.30AM → PURCHASE TICKETS A forum discussion on the challenges of writing in and about Tasmania for TV and for cinema. →more |
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 Magic Trip: Ken Kesey’s Search For A Kool Place11.00AM → PURCHASE TICKETS Kesey intended to make a documentary about their trip, shooting footage on 16MM, but the film was never finished. →more |
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 Burning in the Sun11.00AM → PURCHASE TICKETS 26-year-old charmer Daniel Dembélé is looking to make his mark on the world. At a crossroads in his life, he decides to return to his homeland, Mali, to build solar panels – the first in his sun-drenched nation. →more |
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 Jeffie Was Here1.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Alan Mangold is a tightly-wound professor in his 30s who dreams of a better life beyond his shoebox apartment… if only he could complete his opus, “Orphan Bastard.” →more |
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 Home1.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Narrated by Glenn Close, Home takes you on a visually stunning, spectacular voyage around the world. Filmed entirely from the air, it is a unique film that gives viewers the opportunity to see for themselves how our earth is changing. →more |
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 MyState Student Film Competition2.00-5.00PM Watch the films from this year’s MyState Student Film Festival. Free entry. →more |
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| Minimal Gear, Maximum Message 2.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS How can we make the most with minimal equipment? Today’s technology means anyone can be a fi lm-maker. With Glenn Fraser from the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS). →more |
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 Van Diemen’s Land3.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Van Diemen’s Land is an Australian thriller set in 1822 in colonial Tasmania. The true story of Alexander Pearce (Jason Glover), Australia’s most notorious convict. →more |
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| Australian Short Films 3.30PM Be delighted by a collection of quality Tasmanian and Australian short films, which are winning awards and delighting audiences here and overseas. →more |
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 The Fall5.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS A psychologically complex tale of a hospitalized paraplegic with a curious knack for storytelling. Confined to his sterile environment, the immobile patient’s deepest fears form the basis of a dark story that he shares with his young companion. →more |
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| Festival Hub 5.00PM-Late Mingle with fellow cinephiles over drinks and nibbles. The place to be from 5pm every day during the festival. →more |
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 Meat the Truth5.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS A high-profile documentary, presented by Dutch MP Marianne Thieme, which examines one of the most important causes of climate change: livestock farming. →more |
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 Face to Face7.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS From Australia’s most acclaimed playwright, David Williamson, the moving story of a young construction worker who rams into the back of his boss’s Jaguar in a fit of anger at being sacked. →more |
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 Big Ideas Debate “A Tax won’t Fix Climate Change”7.30PM – Recored debate → PURCHASE TICKETS Simon Longstaff of the St James Ethics Centre will host this important and topical debate with a panel of climate change crusaders and sceptics. →more |
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| BOFA @ BOAGS 9.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Enjoy the full range of James Boag’s famous award-winning brews at Boag’s historic brewery in William Street. Quality Tasmanian snacks provided. Ticketed entry only. →more |
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| After Party 9.30PM Mingle with fellow cinephiles over drinks and nibbles. The perfect place to end a BOFA day– see you there! →more |
| Stories of Cinema 10.00AM An exhibition celebrating the stories and history of film making – past, present, future – on display daily. →more |
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| Tasmania, The perfect location 10.30AM → PURCHASE TICKETS Tasmanian locations have much to offer to fi lm makers as discussed by Vincent Sheehan (producer of recent hit, The Hunter, set in Tasmania’s Central Highlands) →more |
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 My America11.00AM → PURCHASE TICKETS As a child, filmmaker Peter Hegedus was obsessed with Hollywood movies – Barack Obama’s stirring post-election speech inspired Hegedus to rediscover his American Dream. →more |
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 I Am11.00AM → PURCHASE TICKETS I Am is about issues and dilemmas that bruise the modern Indian society. The film unfolds many a tale of individuals struggling to find their identity, and uphold their dignity in a world that is callous, cold and unsympathetic. →more |
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 The Hunter1.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS The Hunter is a powerful psychological drama that tells the story of Martin (Willem Dafoe), a mercenary sent by a mysterious biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a dramatic hunt for the last Tasmanian Tiger. →more |
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 Passengers1.30PM Passengers is a film where looks, glances and moments of introspection reveal so much about character. A compulsive viewing experience. →more |
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 Little Sparrows1.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Beautiful and poignant, Yu-Hsiu Camille Chen’s brilliantly written debut feature is a hyper -realistic family tale focusing on the relationship between Susan, a mother dying of cancer. →more |
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 Medianeras8.00PM → PURCHASE TICKETS This modern tale of serendipity and hope will warm your soul. Martin and Mariana are lonely people living in opposite buildings, towering over Buenos Aires, Argentina. →more |
| BOFA Short Film Competition Finalists 3.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS MyState BOFA’s Digital SLR Short Film Competition is a showcase for short fi lms under 12 minutes in length and shot on Digital SLR camera. →more |
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 Interstices Symposium: Technics, Memory and the Architecture of History4.00PM-7.30PM Join UTAS School of Architecture and Design and Interstices: A Journal of Architecture and Related Arts at the opening session of an international symposium into the connections between images, art, language, technology, architecture and how we remember the past and how history is written. →more |
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| Festival Hub 5.00PM-Late Mingle with fellow cinephiles over drinks and nibbles. The place to be from 5pm every day during the festival. →more |
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 20 Cigarettes5.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Based on director Aureliano Amadei’s 2003 experiences in Iraq, 20 Cigarettes is the gripping story of a twenty eight year old anarchist and anti-war activist who receives an offer to fly to Iraq as assistant director. →more |
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 The Hungry Tide5.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS An average two meters above sea level, the central Pacific nation of Kiribati is one of the countries in the world most vulnerable to climate change. →more |
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 Whistleblower7.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Kathy Bolkovac (Rachel Weisz) is a Nebraskan police officer who takes a job working for the United Nations as a peacekeeper in post-war Bosnia. →more |
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 33 Postcards7.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS For ten years, Chinese orphan Mei Mei dreams of meeting her Australian sponsor, Dean Randall, (Guy Pearce) and his ‘perfect family’. →more |
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 The Guard7.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drug- smuggling gang – one, a maverick Irish policeman and the other, a straitlaced FBI agent (Don Cheadle). →more |
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 Face to Face7.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS From Australia’s most acclaimed playwright, David Williamson, the moving story of a young construction worker who rams into the back of his boss’s Jaguar in a fit of anger at being sacked. →more |
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| MyState BOFA Devil Awards Dinner 7.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS A night to remember in the Balcony hosted by MyState in the Inveresk Precinct grounds. Contestants, finalists, celebrities, and film fans will celebrate the winners of the MyState BOFA Devil Awards for best short fi lms while enjoying fine Tasmanian food and wines. →more |
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| After Party 9.30PM Mingle with fellow cinephiles over drinks and nibbles. The perfect place to end a BOFA day– see you there! →more |
| Interstices Symposium: Technics, Memory and the Architecture of History 9.00AM-1.00PM Join UTAS School of Architecture and Design and Interstices: A Journal of Architecture and Related Arts at the opening session of an international symposium into the connections between images, art, language, technology, architecture and how we remember the past and how history is written. →more |
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| Stories of Cinema 10.00AM An exhibition celebrating the stories and history of film making – past, present, future – on display daily. →more |
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 Here I Am10.30AM → PURCHASE TICKETS Karen (Shai Pittman) is a beautiful young woman, fresh out of prison, with a burning desire to turn her life around but no one to call for help. →more |
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| Best of Flickerfest Australia & International Short Films 10.30AM → PURCHASE TICKETS Flickerfest’s best short films from the 2011 line-up are being brought to Tasmania to delight audiences and instruct film-makers. The program includes two 2011 Flickerfest award winners, AFI’s Best Short Fiction winner and the Academy Award winner of the Oscar for the Best Short Animation. →more |
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| The Director’s Art 10.30AM → PURCHASE TICKETS Successful Australian directors, Rowan Woods (Little Fish) and Gregor Jordan (Two Hands), will share with you their approaches to, and experiences, with the challenges and opportunities of filmmaking in Australia. →more |
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 Beaconsfield12.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Beaconsfield is a Southern Star production for the Nine Network and producer John Edwards will talk about the film and show excerpts for the MyState BOFA audience. Be the first to see a preview of one of the biggest TV events of 2012. →more |
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 More 4 Me12.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Why do we have a craving for more? In the face of the global financial crisis, More 4 Me follows (Writer/Director) Lincoln Fenner around the world as he asks everyone from actors to orphans, ‘What’s the one thing they can’t live without?” →more |
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 The Balcony, Hosted by MyState1.00PM MyState invites you to complete your BOFA experience at The Balcony – a place to relax, connect and be entertained. Intimate and sophisticated, The Balcony features exclusive performances from selected solo and ensemble artists. →more |
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| Interstices Symposium: Technics, Memory and the Architecture of History 1.00PM-4.30PM Join UTAS School of Architecture and Design and Interstices: A Journal of Architecture and Related Arts at the opening session of an international symposium into the connections between images, art, language, technology, architecture and how we remember the past and how history is written. →more |
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| MyState Student Film Competition 2.00-5.00PM Watch the films from this year’s MyState Student Film Festival. Free entry. →more |
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| Big Ideas Debate “The Screen is Mightier than the Sword” 2.30PM – Live debate → PURCHASE TICKETS Live audience and voting. Can films change lives? Or is the power of money, military might and political deals the real source of power? You will be provoked, stimulated and informed. Then you decide, when a vote will be taken on the outcome. →more |
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 Cloudburst2.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Dotty and Stella have been together for more than 30 years. After Dotty takes a painful fall and is moved into a nursing home by her granddaughter, the duo break her out and pull a Thelma and Louise, hitting the road to Nova Scotia. →more |
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| Acting the Part 2.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Join a group of successful working actors as they share the secrets of making a character come alive on screen. A Q&A session will allow interaction between the actors and those who aspire to be actors as well as those just interested in finding out how they “do it”. →more |
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 Chasing Legends4.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Chasing Legends touches on the rich history, passion and true grit of The Tour as seen through the eyes of Team HTC Columbia throughout the 2009 Tour de France. →more |
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 Bill Cunningham New York4.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS For decades, 80 year old photographer Bill Cunningham has been obsessively and inventively chronicling fashion trends and high society charity soirees for the Times. →more |
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| Festival Hub 5.00PM-Late Mingle with fellow cinephiles over drinks and nibbles. The place to be from 5pm every day during the festival. →more |
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 Skeletons7.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS In this surreal comedy, a mismatched pair of travelling salesmen/operatives are in the business of cleaning skeletons out of closets. Together they travel across Britain, performing the ‘Procedure’, whereby hidden secrets and lies are exposed. →more |
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 Caught Inside7.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS A surf charter to a remote paradise. A bunch of mates, uncrowded waves and one rule; leave your girlfriend at home. When this rule is broken, sexual tension, manipulation and deceit erupt into violence. →more |
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| Happy Happy 8.00PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Despite her misogynist husband, to Kaja, family is the most important thing in the world. However, when "the perfect couple" moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check. →more |
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 Eye of the Storm7.30PM (TBC) → PURCHASE TICKETS Elizabeth Hunter controls all in her life – society, her staff, her children; but the once great beauty will now determine her most defiant act as she chooses her time to die. Based on Patrick White’s novel, this is a savage exploration of the love and hate, comedy and tragedy of family relationships. →more |
| Sundown @ BOFA 8.00PM Grab a blanket and a few friends to experience film under the stars. Featuring a mix of winners from MyState Student Film Festival and 48 Hour Cinema, plus clips from the great food and wine films of the past. →more |
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| The Balcony, Hosted by MyState 9.30PM MyState invites you to complete your BOFA experience at The Balcony – a place to relax, connect and be entertained. Intimate and sophisticated, The Balcony features exclusive performances from selected solo and ensemble artists. →more |
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| After Party 9.30PM Mingle with fellow cinephiles over drinks and nibbles. The perfect place to end a BOFA day– see you there! →more |
| Stories of Cinema 10.00AM An exhibition celebrating the stories and history of film making – past, present, future – on display daily. →more |
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 How I Ended This Summer10.30AM → PURCHASE TICKETS A film of exceptional performances and unforgettable cinematography, set against the spectacular, alien landscape of the windswept Arctic Circle. →more |
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 The War You Don’t See10.30AM → PURCHASE TICKETS Renowned filmmaker and award-winning Australian journalist, John Pilger, explores the role of media in war in this commanding and timely documentary. →more |
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 El Bulli12.45PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Three-star chef, Ferran Adrià, is widely considered the best, most innovative and craziest chef in the world. For six months of the year, Spanish chef, Ferran Adrià, closes his 3 Michelin star restaurant El Bulli, repeatedly voted the world’s best, and heads to Barcelona with his team to create a new menu for the coming season. →more |
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 If A Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front12.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS The remarkable story of the rise and fall of an Earth Liberation Front cell, described by the FBI as America’s “number one domestic terrorism threat”. Part coming-of-age tale, part cops-and-robbers thriller. →more |
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| Skeletons 12.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS In this surreal comedy, a mismatched pair of travelling salesmen/operatives are in the business of cleaning skeletons out of closets. Together they travel across Britain, performing the ‘Procedure’, whereby hidden secrets and lies are exposed. →more |
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| The Balcony, Hosted by MyState 1.00PM MyState invites you to complete your BOFA experience at The Balcony – a place to relax, connect and be entertained. Intimate and sophisticated, The Balcony features exclusive performances from selected solo and ensemble artists. →more |
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| MyState Student Film Competition 2.00-5.00PM Watch the films from this year’s MyState Student Film Festival. Free entry. →more |
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 We Need To Talk About Kevin2.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Chilling but absolutely captivating, We Need To Talk About Kevin is directed by visionary filmmaker Lynne Ramsay – a mesmerizing, intimate piece of cinema. Tilda Swinton turns in a stunning performance as Eva, a concerned mother with a troubled, angry son – Kevin. →more |
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 Norwegian Wood2.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Tokyo, the late 1960s… Students around the world are uniting to overthrow the establishment and Toru Watanabe’s personal life is similarly in tumult. At heart, he is deeply devoted to his first love, Naoko, a beautiful and introspective young woman. →more |
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| Chasing Legends 2.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Chasing Legends touches on the rich history, passion and true grit of The Tour as seen through the eyes of Team HTC Columbia throughout the 2009 Tour de France. →more |
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 The Recipe4.30PM → PURCHASE TICKETS When a renowned bloodthirsty killer reveals his last wish: to eat his favourite Korean stew, television producer CHOI Yu-jin instantly smells a scoop. Will he decipher the mystery behind the killer’s cravings? →more |
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 Tomorrow Will Be Better4.45PM → PURCHASE TICKETS Three boys drift across the wintry Russian landscape towards Poland, scavenging their way from city to city with ingenuity and humour. The wonderful landscapes of their travels contrast with the harsh realities of their lives… →more |
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| Closing Night Drinks 5.30PM Join us and mingle with fellow cinephiles for closing night drinks. See you there! →more |
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| The Balcony, Hosted by MyState 6.00PM MyState invites you to complete your BOFA experience at The Balcony – a place to relax, connect and be entertained. Intimate and sophisticated, The Balcony features exclusive performances from selected solo and ensemble artists. →more |
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