Events

Social Events

Welcome Reception

Monday, 9 July 2012
5.30pm-7.00pm
‘The Hub”
University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus

Conference Dinner

Thursday, 12 July 2012
7.00pm- 11.00pm
The National Wine Centre of Australia
Corner of Hackney and Botanic Road, Adelaide Post Graduate Function
Further information to come.

Tours

                                              
Art and Wine in the Adelaide Hills Tour

Wednesday, 11 July
1.00pm – 5.00pm    
Cost: $110.00pp
Min No: 15 Max No: 40

This is a guided Coach tour through the Mount Lofty Ranges. It begins with the spectacular panoramic view of Adelaide from the Mount Lofty Lookout. It features a visit to ‘The Cedars’, home and studio of the late Sir Hans Heysen, one of Australia’s finest landscape artists. This gracious “State Treasure” has remained unchanged since the 1930s and features a comprehensive collection of Heysen’s work hanging on the walls in every room.  The tour finishes with a wine tasting at a well-known Adelaide Hills winery.

Pubs and Pulpits Tour

Wednesday, 11 July, 2.00pm – 5.00pm
Cost:   $80.00 p.p. (inc 1 drink)
Min No: 10  Max No: 20

This is a guided walk through some of the historic landmarks and watering holes of North Adelaide. It includes a view of the City from Colonel Light’s Lookout and a taste of its history, a visit to St. Peters Cathedral with its stunning stained glass windows, a taste of the local brew at The Queens Head Hotel, and a stroll around some of the beautiful streets of North Adelaide with their beautiful sandstone mansions, finishing at the Wellington Hotel in Wellington Square.

 

Adelaide’s Cultural Heritage Tour

Wednesday, 11 July, 1.30pm – 4.00pm
Cost: $70.00 p.p.

Min No: 10 Max No: 20 This is a guided walk through Adelaide’s cultural boulevard of North Terrace, an elegant thoroughfare lined with seats of government and learning, grand repositories of art, books and historic treasures as well as courtyards and public statuary. A feature of the walk will be a visit to Artlab Australia for a private tour to view this specialised and talented team of conservators restoring works of Art – from paintings to porcelain, rare books to historic outdoor sculptures, artefacts and family treasures.

 

Free Public Lecture

Wednesday, 11 July, 1.10pm
Function Room
Art Gallery of South Australia

The lecture is free but registration is essential Max No: 100 DR Philip Jones, 'George French Angas: Colonial and Transcolonial'. During the 1840s George French Angas had unprecedented access to three colonial frontiers, in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. His South Australian watercolours of Aboriginal people, landscapes and natural history were part of this broader ‘trans-colonial’ project, but they also reflect key moments in our history, captured by a gifted opportunist. Philip Jones is an historian working at the South Australian Museum who has long had an interest in Australian colonial art. His book, Ochre and Rust: Artefacts and Encounters on Australian Frontiers (Wakefield Press), won the 2008 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Non-Fiction. This public lecture is presented in association with the Art Gallery of South Australia and complements their new exhibition South Australia Illustrated: Colonial Painting in the Land of Promise (2 June- 5 August).

 

Adelaide is a compact city of approximately 1.2 million people, situated between the beautiful Adelaide Hills and the long white beaches of the Gulf of St Vincent. Adelaide retains much of the charm and tranquillity of the past while offering all the vigour, multicultural diversity and conveniences of a modern city. Adelaide is known for its biennial Arts Festival, its many churches and graceful stone buildings and its location within an hour’s drive of some of Australia’s most famous and beautiful wine producing regions.

South Australia has a healthy Mediterranean climate with cool wet winters and hot dry summers. The average winter temperature is a mild 15 degrees Celsius. 2,500 hours of sunshine a year means South Australians enjoy outdoor living almost year round.

Outdoor sports, eating and events are easy to enjoy because of the weather, excellent facilities and easy accessibility. South Australia has many contrasts with rugged outback wilderness, scenic mountain ranges, an extensive coastline, offshore islands and a large, meandering river.

Surprisingly, the driest State in the driest continent has more than 3,700 kilometres of varied coastline and the Murray River weaves its magic through 650 kilometres of South Australia.

There are also national parks and world heritage listed areas to explore and an outdoor adventure to suit everyone.
South Australia is known as a wine and food centre with 13 wine regions and a higher ratio of cafes and restaurants to residents than any other city in Australia.

The wine industry in South Australia benefits from a variety of terrain, character and climate. Few other regions of the world can match our range of warm and cool-ripening conditions.

For all information about Adelaide and South Australia please visit our official website: www.southaustralia.com