RCC 2020 has officially launched, featuring an array of local and international talent and an epic food line-up and a huge art sculpture Luminarium: Daedalum, as it returns to the University of Adelaide for a second year.

Open Tuesday till Sunday the 2020 program, curated by Artistic Director, David Sefton (former Artistic Director of Adelaide Festival, London’s Meltdown Festival and UCLA Live) and Creative Director, Stuart Duckworth (RCC Founder), focuses on MUSIC, SHOWS, ART and CHOW, with something for everyone.

Highlights this season include Luminarium: Daedalum, an inflatable structure filled with radiant colour, labyrinthine tunnels and cavernous domes, where no two visits are alike, and the 2019 runaway smash hit, Frankenstein: How to Make A Monster featuring a cast of mind-bogglingly skilled young beatboxers performing a reimagined version of Mary Shelley’s original.

We also have Jonny Woo, as the legendary Lou Reed in The Wild Side and The Dollar Bin Darlings in Disco Conversion Therapy, an edifying history lesson of radical music, sexed-up dance floors and those people your mother warned you about.

“We are thrilled to be hosting RCC at the University of Adelaide again in 2020, with this year’s event set to be even more exciting, engaging, and inclusive,” explains Inga Davis, Chief Executive, External Relations, University of Adelaide.

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Utopia is RCC’s late-night playground of music, a festival within a festival, open every weekend on the University’s Maths Lawns. Housed within the Utopia walls will be Dusk Till Dawn main stage and NEON with an alleyway of bars and eateries connecting the two.

Dusk Till Dawn is the beating heart of Utopia, and kicked off the party recently with Baker Boy and Tkay Maidza joined by Levi’s X RCC Emerging Artist Program winner Busseys and hiphop trio East Av3.

Performing over the five weekends of the festival main stage are heading acts including Cut Copy, Haiku Hands, Kllo, Methyl Ethel, Northeast Party House, Motez & Friends, Running Touch, SAFIA, Cub Sport and Sampa The Great. Expect amazing music, dancefloor madness and guaranteed good times.  

Neon returns reincarnated as a multi-storey mansion housing a genre-bending line-up of electronic, techno and house music. András, Andy Garvey, Fantastic Man, FJAAK (live), J.Hennessy, Project Pablo, Sleep D, Strict Face, SPFDJ and Wallace & Malone are just a few of the headliners taking over Neon this season. 

A new addition to Neon is Awakening – a performance installation that rings in the night as the sun goes down. Awakening is a curated light spectacle from Mapped with an accompanying soundscape composed by Motez. Head to Neon before 9:30pm to witness the Awakening.

Joining the aptitude is Chow Town, an outdoor food hall taking over the Cloisters area of the University with an electric atmosphere blowing the standard festival food precinct out of the stratosphere with tantalising menus from local favourites and new kids on the block.

Open Tuesday – Sunday from 5pm till late, Chow Town will host some Adelaide favourites such as Antica,  Buk Buk, Fire x Soi.38, RCC’s own plant-based Happy Burger and La Buvette’s SUPERBANGER.

Roberta’s returns as Roberta’s Italian Disco Diner. Dine, drink and dance while enjoying aperitifs with river reviews, plus, this year diners are welcomed (and encouraged) to book via RCC’s website.

“Our iconic University grounds have been transformed in anticipation of the broad spectrum of artistic and cultural endeavours set to take place over the next month. Thousands of our students, staff and alumni – as well as the broader South Australian community – will experience our campus as the beating heart of Adelaide.” States Inga.

The RCC 2020 program can be found on our website with tickets are on sale now at theRCC.com.au and through FringeTIX.