What brings a bookworm to the Royal Adelaide Zoo in your Park 11, over and over again?
Could it be the chance to hand-feed giraffes, and meerkats?
Living in Adelaide’s northern suburbs hasn’t stopped St Columba College students Alexa, Emily, and Olivia from speaking up for the Park Lands. Through conversations with fellow students, they collected sixty-eight petition signatures and shared why these spaces matter to their generation.
Sue Wincott shares the delight of spotting her first Australasian Grebe at Victoria Park/Pakapakanthi (Park 16). With adults diving nearby and a tiny youngster on its nest among the reeds, this memorable introduction to the wetland and the birdlife that makes it special.
What will the proposed MotoGP mean for community health? Margaret Brown looks beyond the economic arguments to the potential impacts of increased noise, air pollution, traffic congestion, tree loss and the disruption of green space. She argues that the health costs of bringing more motor racing into the Adelaide Park Lands deserve much greater scrutiny.
Australia loves sport. But should major sporting events come at the expense of our public green spaces? In Brisbane and Adelaide, communities are fighting to protect precious park lands from major developments. Different governments, different projects, but remarkably similar battles.
As the South Australian Government pushes ahead with plans to bring MotoGP to Victoria Park / Pakapakanthi, a leading birdwatcher says the State could be overlooking another growing tourism opportunity, one that depends on protecting our natural environment rather than building racetracks through it.
Tens of thousands of flying foxes were outnumbered earlier this month by people attending WOMADelaide, but the bats are still a huge crowd in Botanic Park. Fortunately there is a team of about 40 volunteers who look after, rescue or foster sick, injured or orphaned flying foxes and microbats around Adelaide.
The State Government has backed away from its own warning, last month, that most of Bonython Park / Tulya Wardli would be subjected to construction activity over the next eight years.
The project team, planning to build a $3 billion hospital on Park 27 is playing down earlier Government advice that 19 hectares of your Park Lands would be subject to “large-scale excavation works” for the next eight years.
A two-million dollar State Government grant is likely to lead to a new two-storey sports building being erected on Mary Lee Park (Park 27B) off Park Terrace near Bowden.
There’s been no official announcement but there seems little doubt that the expansion will go ahead, subject to the West Adelaide Soccer Club getting approval for a new building design.
You can sleep in for an hour, on the first day after daylight saving ends, and still be in time to join the Park Loop collective: walk, run or cycle around Adelaide on the Park Lands Trail.
An additional hour’s sleep will help you feel energised for a stroll, starting at 9am around the world’s only City in a park; a jaunt of about 15 km with your fellow loopers!
With just days to go before the official opening, all of the finalists artworks in the 2023 Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize are now available for viewing on-line.
The exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre will open to the public from Saturday 25 March, after the invitation-only opening event and announcement of prizes on the evening before.
The exhibition is being prepared! After receiving a record number of entries this year, the Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize is gearing up for the finalists’ exhibition at the Adelaide Festival Centre.
Finalist artists, VIPs and sponsors have received invitations to the official opening, on Friday 24 March, when the prize winners will be announced.