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Current Events

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2016 Events

  • JAN - DEC 2016: FREE GUIDED WAITE ARBORETUM WALKS on the 1st Sunday of each month at 11am starting from Urrbrae House
  • JAN - DEC 2016: Tuesday morning volunteering, 9.15am - 1pm, meet at the volunteers room behind Urrbrae House
  • 14 FEBRUARY 2016: URRBRAE HOUSE FRINGE FESTIVAL EXHIBITION "ASSEMBLAGE" Opening
  • 20 FEBRUARY 2016: Waite Arboretum Native Bee Hotel story in program SCOPE on Channel Ten
  • MONDAY 11 APRIL 2016:  Friends of Waite Arboretum Inc. 21st AGM at 7.30pm in Urrbrae House, Guest Speaker Viesturs Cielens
  • " Viesturs Cielens is a designer, gardener and landscape planner whose work in South Australia now spans some 40 years. His work practice specialises in small intimate projects, school-play environs and community projects. These often with collaborating artists, which extend into regional communities redefining themselves over a longer period of time through a synthesis of art, narrative and the landscape – a place making process which embodies a strong sense of identity within the genius lociof each community”. (http://www.landscapeconference.com/speakers/viesturs-cielens/, 9 March 2016)
  • THURSDAY 5 May 2016: A function is being planned to celebrate and honour Dr Jennifer Gardner's thirty years as Curator of the Waite Arboretum and for her contribution and commitment to the Waite Arboretum, The University of Adelaide and the wider community.
  • 7 MAY 2016: World Labyrinth Day - Saturday 7 May 2016 "Come and walk the Waite Arboretum Labyrinth on World Labyrinth Day Saturday 7nd May 2016 then explore the Arboretum with the Waite Arboretum app".
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Waite Arboretum Labyrinth  -  YouTube video (29 April 2015)                             https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZbdhQrmTiA
  • THURSDAY 2 JUNE 2016: Concert by Alex Tsiboulski, at 5.30pm in Urrbrae House
  • WINTER FILM AFTERNOON: Details to be announced
  • SEPTEMBER 2016: Volunteers Concert in Urrbrae House
  • MONDAY 5 DECEMBER 2016: Christmas Celebration Function in Urrbrae House
  • OTHER 2016 EVENTS: may include twilight concerts, movie afternoon fundraiser, Volunteer Recognition Event, Treenet Symposium participation, special events, Arboretum picnic                                                    

Newsletters

Friends of the Waite Arboretum current and past Newsletters:
> Number 78, Summer 2014 (pdf link) 

> www.adelaide.edu.au/waite-historic/friends/arboretum/newsletters/