Festivals
The Adelaide Botanic Garden will be seen in a whole new light with a magical night-time experience by Canada’s internationally renowned Moment Factory that uses technology to amplify and transform the beauty of nature.
News
A museum administrator who has worked for cultural institutions across Australia and the United Kingdom has been announced as the new director of the South Australian Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium.
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SA arts and culture news in brief: a new classical music series launches at The Lab, nominations open for prestigious literary awards, after-dark events in the Botanic Garden, the return of Cabaret Fringe, a chance to air your grievances and more.
A raised boardwalk down an avenue of Moreton Bay figs, new glasshouses and visitor centres and a bridge across the Main Lake are part of a proposed new Adelaide Botanic Garden masterplan released for public feedback.
From the stately Plane Trees that border Botanic Park to the buttress roots of the park lands’ Moreton Bay Figs, Adelaide’s exotic and native tree registry is brimming with stories of historical, botanical and sentimental significance.
Through a synthesiser and a sapling river redgum, artist Heidi Kenyon has found voices in the trees of the Adelaide Botanic Garden and brought life into the Museum of Economic Botany.
Climate change, saving threatened plant species and keeping gardens relevant in a modern world will be among issues tackled when plant scientists, botanists, administrators and educators from around the world meet in Adelaide next week.
