What are your Adelaide Park Lands for? Community, social sport on Open, Green, Public fields? Or commercial, professional sport on fenced, walled, privatised arenas?

We invited the elite sporting bodies located on your Adelaide Park Lands to put their case in this 5-minute documentary by Patrick Prior.

A meeting on 9 December at the Box Factory Community Centre has led to the formation of a new team of “Park Guardians” who from 2025 will watch and report on many of the Open, Green, Public spaces of your Adelaide Park Lands.

An advisory board, tasked with making recommendations about your Adelaide Park Lands, has come up with a wish list for projects that it would like to see funded in 2025.

Memo to City Councillors: Propping up a bar, or taking private function bookings, are NOT sports.

The Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize is not only for established, professional artists. It’s also for “emerging artists”. Is that you?

The City of Adelaide is offering licences of up to five years duration over sports fields and other facilities in your Parks 15, 16, and 17. One private school, a long-term Park Lands licensee, might be required to share its playing fields with other groups.

After our final Guided Walk for the year on Sunday 15 December, our Guides will take a break over the festive season, and resume on 19 January 2025 for what will be our biggest-ever yearly program of events.

Memo to City Councillors: Propping up a bar, or taking private function bookings, are NOT sports.

Meet a slender and elegant bird, frequently encountered both along waterways including in your Adelaide Park Lands. Nick Munday answers the question: What Bird Is That?

The Adelaide City Council has backed the State Government’s gift to private developer, Walker Corporation of a second massive new office tower on the former Festival Plaza in your Park 26.

Is Art intended to express beauty, or is it intended to make us think?

The Adelaide Park Lands Art Prize is about both.

Paris and Adelaide are heading in opposite directions. One city values trees over car parks; the other values car parks over trees.

Earlier this year, our members and supporters told us, in a survey, that they wanted more opportunities for hands-on roles within your Adelaide Park Lands.

We’ve heard the message - and created a new volunteer role, of “Park Guardian”. Come to an introductory information session on Monday, 9 December.