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Last Saturday, March 16th, our Citizens Orchestra performed, ending our participation in the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra’s Floods of Fire, at this year’s Adelaide Festival. A process that began more than a year ago, for the opening of the Adelaide Festival 2023, and which has touched thousands of different people, in dozens of workshops in very different spaces. We created a performance with completely new music, created from these workshops, and the culmination, at Maths Lawn, on Saturday, was a very beautiful moment for us.

Obrigado a todos os que decidiram abrir esta porta e participar, obrigado ao Airan Berg pelo convite, pelo esforço e pelo programa Floods of Fire, obrigado à Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, ao Adelaide Festival e à Universidade de Adelaide.
Um obrigado extra especial à Rachel Pittson e à Jessica Manning e ao Paul Cowley.
E claro, ao nosso Tim Steiner.
Foi um projecto marcante para a ondamarela, estamos muito orgulhosos do que se conseguiu fazer.
Thank you to everyone who decided to open this door and participate, thank you to Airan Berg for the invitation, for the effort and the Floods of Fire program, thank you to the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, the Adelaide Festival and the University of Adelaide.
An extra special thank you to Rachel Pittson, Jessica Manning and Paul Cowley.
And of course, our Tim Steiner.
It was a landmark project for ondamarela, we are very proud of what was achieved.

Ondamarela is back in Adelaide, to create what will be the closing performance of Floods of Fire, at this year’s Adelaide Festival. From the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra, a giant orchestra, made up of everyone who wanted to participate, has been attending workshops in various areas of the city, to jointly mount this enormous challenge, which will be presented on the 16th. learning, emotion and music. Thank you all!

Tomorrow, the Citizens Orchestra debuts at the opening of the Adelaide Festival. It’s been a few days of incredible sharing and creativity and we already miss all the friends we’ve made here. A city where friendliness is the norm and people love to try new things, it is a city that ondamarela will never forget.
Thanks Adelaide!
Photos by Roy Vandervegt

The work of creating the Citizens Orchestra began. As part of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra‘s Floods of Fire programme, conceived and coordinated by Airan Berg, we are preparing a first performance this month at the opening of the 2023 edition of the Adelaide Festival. So far, it’s been wonderful working with the musicians in the orchestra, the people who signed up via the open call, the volunteer fire service, the members of Quirkestra and all the amazing groups we’ve come across.

Thanks Australia!

In 2023, ondamarela heads to the other side of the planet, for a project with the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.
As part of the Floods of Fire community project, directed by Airan Berg, we will be creating a citizens orchestra from February to March, which will perform at the incredible Adelaide Festival in 2023 and in 2024.
Registration here: https://www.aso. com.au/citizensorchestra/