In This Place: Relaxed Performance

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ASO Relaxed Concert: This concert is for children with additional needs and their families

This concert has been carefully developed in partnership with Can:Do 4Kids, Beyond Bank, Access2Arts and Tutti Arts to provide a sensory-friendly environment for families of children with a range of sensory, communication and learning needs.

The concert includes:

• a visual storybook you can download before booking tickets
• break out spaces and adjusted lighting
• an AUSLAN presenter
• advice from the concert presenter on whether the next piece is loud or energetic, so that children can either go to a break out space or put on headphones if they need to
• adjusted seating including bean bags, rugs and cushions. There is plenty of space to move around or leave the room without interrupting other people or their experience

A Visual Storybook has been created to help prepare you and your family for this ASO concert experience.
Download it here. 

Joe loves gazing at the stars.

Join the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra as they lead you through one boy’s life-changing journey from the family farm to the unfamiliar city. Leaving behind the golden wheat fields, burning sunsets and dusty red creeks he must face the grey city streets where bright lights steal away the brilliance of the stars he loves.

Through the wonder of music, images, songs and storytelling, you will follow Joe as he comes to learn the importance of resilience in a world that is ever-changing. With the strength of family, community and friendship, Joe will find his way.

In this newly commissioned work, award-winning South Australian author Phil Cummings draws inspiration from his own lived-experience, with moments and memories from his childhood, while local composer Glyn Lehmann creates a vivid soundscape influenced by his many years working in theatre, television and live performance.

Come and discover for yourselves what it is like…In This Place.

In This Place is based on Joe and the Stars and Through the Smoke – Adapted by Glyn Lehman and Phil Cummings from the books by Phil Cummings, Connah Brecon and Andrew McLean.