Should dogs be kept ‘on-leash’ at the wetlands in Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi (Park 16)?
Park Lands visitors and Councillor Keiran Snape want to see the change to protect bird life in the wetlands, including ground-nesting birds.
The campaign to protect Adelaide's heritage Park Lands has reached a major milestone, securing 13,500 physical signatures. This achievement officially triggers the 10,000-signature threshold required to prompt a Parliamentary Committee inquiry in the Legislative Council.
Spurred by growing community concern over state-backed development projects on public green spaces, the grassroots movement relies entirely on paper petitions distributed by volunteers across South Australia.
"This is bigger than any one person; this is a movement," said City Councillor Keiran Snape. "The fight for our Park Lands isn't a local, city-centric issue, it is a South Australian-wide demand for transparency."
With over two weeks remaining before the petition closes, organisers have set a new stretch target of 18,000 signatures to further strengthen the call for an independent parliamentary inquiry.
What isn't the Government telling us about John E. Brown Park? While a new driving range has been confirmed, the Government has not answered basic questions about parking, fencing or when detailed plans will be made public. With around 185 trees expected to be removed, the community deserves transparency before work begins, not after.
Hundreds of artists, inspired by your Adelaide Park Lands will need to wait for another few weeks, before learning which art works will be selected as finalists in this year’s Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize.
The chair of our Art Prize Committee Nataliya Dikovskaya is thrilled by the quality of hundreds of entries that have been received from artists across Australia, who are inspired by your Park Lands, and hoping to inspire you.
The second of six Park Lands attacks by the Malinauskas Labor Government is well under way. The last patch of green that was left on the eastern side of Frome Road in your Park 11, has now disappeared.
Artists are using a variety of media as they take inspiration from your Park Lands, and inspire you to Love Your Park Lands. While some prefer photography or other digital forms of art, a new group is finding joy in one of the oldest forms of creating imagery, putting your Park Lands onto paper with simple sketches.
Ecological consultants and arborists have identified the dangers to 457 trees (many of which provide habitat to cockatoos, possums, falcons and other species) from the State Government’s proposed Aquatic Centre attack on your Park 2.
Documents released for purposes of sham “consultation” have signalled the risks which could be avoided if the Government heeded community calls to build on a brownfield site instead.
Photographer Lyndon Stacy recently has been highlighting lesser-known parts of your Park Lands, including the wetland in G.S. Kingston Park / Wirrarninthi (Park 23) and biodiversity carbon offset plantings in Reservoir Park / Kangatilla (Park 4).
This month, we put Lyndon in the hot-seat to learn more about what makes him tick.
Have you got your entry in for the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize, yet? (Entries close 31 Jan!) Perhaps painting en plein air (i.e. outdoors) could spark inspiration for you.
France-born Charlotte Pelletier, 26, guides small groups – of all ages and levels – in painting and drawing “in the landscape”, including in your Open Green Public Park Lands.
More and more people are stepping up to urge construction of a new Aquatic Centre on a near-city brownfield site, rather than on your Park Lands.
Two separate campaigns are under way: one to persuade the State Government; the other to persuade the City Council. The aim of both campaigns: PROTECT and RESTORE.
As the deadline approaches for entries to the 2023 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize, some words of advice have come from someone who’s learned how to succeed, with works inspired by your Park Lands.
$20,000 first prize-winner from 2021, Dan Withey has offered his thoughts to those hoping to emulate his success this year.
Deputy Premier, Susan Close, has stopped short of offering any timeline for long-delayed action to list your Adelaide Park Lands as a State Heritage Area.
More than four years after a State Heritage Council recommendation, the State Government is still relying on the same tired excuses for its failure to act.
It’s possible for a single artwork to win more than one prize in this year’s Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize. Categories include young artists, digital artists, First Nations artists, new (emerging) artists and others.
With 16 prizes on offer, and a total of $50,000 in prize money, your art work could win, if it INSPIRES.