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UPDATED: A bid to stage music events with up to 15,000 people at Adelaide Oval No.2 could “saturate” the city’s outdoor concert market and threaten Botanic Park’s status as a revenue-earning venue for national and international artists, the Botanic Gardens’ board has warned.
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Green Room is your quick guide to what’s new and what’s happening in South Australian arts and culture. This week, the council unveils new city arts projects, Slingsby searches for its “flying squad”, a delayed art prize to open its exhibition on the weekend, and a new choral work set for its world premiere in Adelaide.
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The State Government has rejected a request from the Adelaide City Council to ban the consumption of alcohol at all times in the park lands, after the majority of respondents to the council’s own consultation claimed the idea was “discriminatory and racist”.
A proposal to build a koala sanctuary in Adelaide’s park lands has stirred up Adelaide City councillors, with staff accused of using “distorted” data in a report estimating the cost at up to $10 million.
A 24/7 dry zone trial in Blue Gum Park and Veale Gardens in the city’s south will be extended for one month, as the Adelaide City Council pushes ahead with its call to ban alcohol at all times across the park lands.
Park lands activists opposing the Adelaide Football Club’s proposal to build a $65 million new base at the Adelaide Aquatic Centre site have offered $50 to speakers to back the project at a public forum it has organised to debate it.
