Fernando the duck has become a bit of a celebrity at the Adelaide Botanic Garden in your Park 11.
Despite his broken wing, he seems to be thriving, but please DON’T feed him!
Cards inspired by nature and love
Valentine's Day picnic spots
Council joins Aquatic Centre brownfield push
Long delays restoring Victoria Park
On-leash for wetlands?
Art Prize: record field of entries
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.
Frome Park disappears
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.
Sketching in your parks
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.
Gov't to chop falcon, possum, cockatoo habitat
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.
We are hiring! Wanted: a weekly, short video
Meet photographer Lyndon Stacy
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.
Painting your Park Lands
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.
Become a Park Ambassador
Aquatic Centre double press
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.
Wetlands: not sparkling through summer
Create What Makes You Happy
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.
Waiting for State Heritage listing
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.
