This weekend, explore July’s Park of the Month in the Flinders Ranges or head to David Roche Gallery for Dancer: A National Portrait Gallery touring exhibition.
Dancer exhibition at David Roche Gallery
Put on your dancing shoes for Dancer: A National Portrait Gallery touring exhibition, showing at David Roche Gallery. Drawn from the National Portrait Gallery’s collection, this installation features 52 works celebrating the power of dance, with paintings and photographs depicting dance legends such as Irina Baronova, Robert Helpmann, Helene Kirsova, Graeme Murphy, Gideon Obarzanek, Anna Pavlova, Marilyn Rowe and Janet Vernon. “Adelaide has a vibrant dance culture, and we’re delighted to be a venue for this nationally significant exhibition,” says David Roche Gallery’s director, Robert Reason. This exhibition will be displayed during open hours at David Roche Gallery until August 16.
Park of the Month – the Ikara-Flinders Ranges
Discover our amazing backyard as National Parks and Wildlife Service South Australia spotlights the state’s natural beauty throughout winter with its Park of the Month scheme. Plan a trip to Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park – South Australia’s largest mountain range, which forms an ancient landscape of folded and faulted rock stretching over 430 kilometres. This Saturday, you can join a guided twilight walk with a ranger, where you will learn about the reintroduction of several locally extinct species of native marsupials to the region. You can also visit the Nilpena Ediacara National Park, with its ancient Ediacaran fossils preserving the earliest complex animal life.
The Galloway Hoard at the South Australian Museum
Now is your last chance to see the incredible Galloway Hoard collection at the South Australian Museum, which will be displayed until late July. This unique collection, described as “the richest collection of Viking Age objects ever found in Britain or Ireland”, has travelled from the United Kingdom for the first time as part of Treasures of the Viking Age: The Galloway Hoard. Highlights of the Galloway Hoard, buried around 900 CE, include a hacked and bent silver arm-ring. To celebrate the exhibition’s closing weeks, the South Australian Museum will be hosting Mint Your Mark this Friday, where children can stamp their own coin and learn about how coins were made and traded during the Viking Age. There will also be a whiskey tasting collaboration between the South Australian Museum and Nola on July 24 from 6pm-9pm.
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The Sleeping Beauty by The Australian Ballet
Princess Aurora has been cursed by an evil fairy to sleep for an eternity – but can a handsome prince save the princess from her fate? Charles Perrault’s beloved 1697 fairy tale, The Sleeping Beauty, will be transformed by the Australian Ballet this July in what has been described as one of its “most ambitious productions” ever. Set to Tchaikovsky’s famous score, this update to the classic 19th-century work has been conceived by former Australian Ballet artistic director David McAllister. This performance features hundreds of intricately designed garments, including tutus weighing up to five kilograms and 89 custom wigs designed by Alison Kidd. The Sleeping Beauty will be shown at the Festival Theatre from July 22 to 29.
Parklands walking tours
Did you know that Adelaide is the only city in the world surrounded by parklands? Or that the Adelaide Parklands are twice as big as Central Park in New York City? If you want to learn more fascinating facts like these, then join the Adelaide Park Lands Association for one of its regular guided walking tours. With a year-long schedule of walking tours, this is a great way to discover the 40 parks and six public squares that make up the Adelaide Parklands. This weekend, you can join a tour of the south-west parklands, taking you past courts that have been used by netballers for 90 years, future re-greening sites, a creek and a seasonal waterhole, as well as past an Indigenous cultural site and hidden dirt trails used by cross-country cyclists. The guided walks are free for association members, or $9 for non-members and $6 for concessions and children aged 7 to 15. The Adelaide Park Lands Association also offers 29 different free guided walks and online virtual tours of the parklands.
