A double celebration of 50 years
Published on 16 July 2024
The Portland Arts Centre has been a key part of the city for five decades, and it will bring up a milestone in style this weekend.
PAC will celebrate its 50th birthday with two high-energy events on Saturday 20 July – a fitting tribute to the venue, which opened for the first time on Saturday, 20 July 1974.
Since that opening the Portland Arts Centre has hosted artists from all around the world, to inspire and entertain the Portland region.
Now 50 years later, PAC invites you to the party for a special celebration, with a show that epitomises what it does best; bringing together the community and professional artists.
Shower Songs is a show by the internationally-acclaimed multi-award winning legends of provocative variety Finucane & Smith, and it’s jam packed with gorgeous glamour, breathtaking burlesque and singalong smash-hits – a great way to celebrate a 50th birthday.
It has everything – a bathtub boogie you’ll never forget that is funny, surprising, breathtaking, heart-warming, bubbly, sexy, teary, wet and wild.
Join an all-star cast of cabaret and burlesque superstars such as steamy diva Kate Foster, cabaret icon Maude Davey, burlesque goddess Miss Maple Rose, Parisian club kitten Iva Rosebud and operatic roof raiser Piera Dennerstein – and you may even recognise a local face or two...
From disco ducks to opera arias, flying fans to raining men, when that bubble machine lights up, you know it's gonna get hot and steamy.
So grab your shower cap and your disco duck, and after the show get ready to join everyone in the karaoke lounge.
But that’s not all – in the tradition of bringing artists and the audience together PAC will also host (at the Drill Hall next door) the Shower Songs Dance Fitness Extravaganza on Friday, 19 July, and the following day as well.
Lead by Kate Foster from Shower Songs, this free workshop will get your blood pumping and your muscles jumping.
You'll shake off the pressures of the week, and learn a little simple choreography to impress your friends – what more could you want?
Join PAC for an all-ages, all-abilities high energy dance fitness extravaganza – this class is for everyone who wants to move, sweat and sing along.
Details
Shower Songs
Portland Arts Centre
Saturday, 20 July
Drinks on arrival from 7pm, show starts 7.30pm
Tickets $25 to $35, book at the PAC website
Shower Songs Dance Fitness Extravaganza
Portland Drill Hall
Friday, 19 July 5.45pm to 6.30pm or Saturday, 20 July 10.30am to 11.15am
FREE event, but bookings required at PAC website