Adelaide Festival Centre's 2014 SOMETHING ON SATURDAY Runs Now thru 30 August

Mums and Dads can give a sigh of relief as Adelaide Festival Centre and National Pharmacies announce the highly anticipated 2014 Something on Saturday season, which this year celebrates its 37th year. The program runs every Saturday from today, 26 April - 30 August.

Adelaide Festival Centre's Something on Saturday program continues to delight and entertain thousands of people every year, providing an opportunity to beat the winter blues with many South Australian children enjoying their first theatrical experience through the program.

The 2014 program is as big as ever and covers everything from slapstick humour, mime, puppetry, percussion, live music, ventriloquism, storytelling, magic, magic and more magic, ballet, modern dance to rock n roll, swing and jive, African drums and dance, science, circus, juggling, comedy, games, bubbles, jazz, opera, cabaret and literature, theatre and Japanese story-telling. Kids are encouraged to sing, dance and have good old fashioned fun as Something on Saturday presents artists from New Zealand, Africa and Australia.

Tickets are on sale to subscribers who purchase tickets to four or more shows on 6 March, and tickets go on sale to single ticket purchasers from 31 March. Performances sometimes sell out, so patrons are encouraged to book quickly to avoid disappointment.

Mixing up the start of this year's Something on Saturday season is New Zealand company Theatre Beating's The Magic Chicken who will deliver a slapstick treat of culinary chaos.

Further highlights from this year's program include:

• A good dose of cabaret for kids as Adelaide Cabaret Festival artist Ali McGregor makes her Something on Saturday debut with Jazzamatazz, an hour of jazzy beats and pop classics performed by her jazz trio and accompanied by two dancers who'll teach the kids some classic moves. Lullabies will come alive as Jessica Wilson performs Still Awake Still! based on the much-loved songs from the bedtime book I'm Still Awake Still! by Elizabeth Honey and Sue Johnson.

• Join the Darling children when they receive a visit from Peter Pan, who takes them to Never Never Land with local favourites the Australian Classical Youth Ballet's production of Peter Pan. It will star TV's Brenton Whittle and Book Worm as narrators along with some of the best young ballet dancers in Adelaide.

• Dr Froth is back with his The Incredibubble Show, a bubble bonanza of comedic, absurd, simple and sophisticated bubble tricks.

• Don't miss Andy and Terry's hair raising tree house adventures as award-winning playwright and author Richard Tulloch brings to the stage the bestselling book by Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton The 13-Storey Treehouse.

• The season will finish on a high note with Toddlerthèque. Zepher Quartet with DJ/MC Astrid Pill have created a daytime dance party for the whole family.

The popular Foundation Kids Corner craft workshops will remain a mainstay, thanks to the Adelaide Festival Centre Foundation, which is committed to inspiring and stimulating young people with a great selection of fun activities themed to each week's performance, and best of all they're FREE!

Adelaide Festival Centre CEO & Artistic Director Douglas Gautier says, ""Something on Saturday is 37 years strong. Where else in Adelaide do children have the opportunity to experience the joy of live performance and express their own creativity as they do in the city's arts and entertainment hub: Adelaide Festival Centre? If you haven't experienced Something on Saturday, get out of your winter wellies and blow away the winter blues, we invite you to come and experience this wonderful program that is now entertaining its fourth generation of South Australians."

National Pharmacies is once again the principal sponsor of Something on Saturday, bringing the association to its fifteenth year.

Tony Wojciechowski, National Pharmacies Managing Director, says, "National Pharmacies is proud to continue our relationship with this iconic South Australian program which exposes so many children to the delight of live performance, and this year's wonderful program provides affordable access to all families."

Tickets are from $11.50 per person when purchasing tickets to four or more Something on Saturday performances (plus a $6.60 handling fee per booking, not per ticket), and single tickets are from $14.50 per person (inclusive of handling fee).

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