This poetry workshop is about sowing new seeds, hearing nature speak in her different tongues. Growing into the person you know you want to become.
Artwork made from plants, with eco art & craft paints & watercolour technique. Materials provided.
The Southern Flinders: A Celebration of Wildlife and Landscapes is a non-fiction book by award-winning writer and photographer Dr Annette Marner.
From seed to ancient grass tree, this miniature landscape celebrates regeneration, resilience and the diversity of Australian flora.
Explore paths and projections where nature and digital technology converge, tracing the germination of creative ideas from seed to renewal.
Music & philosophy for nature
Join New Zealand artist Dr Tabatha Forbes and create elegant botanical drawings inspired by specimens from the beautiful gardens of Carrick Hill.
See Ballara through a new lense with photographer Steph Ball and watercolour artist Rachelle Plazeriano
Discover the hidden music of the landscape and weave your voice into a communal song of place.
Explore Brinkworth Reserve with Sandy, mapping seeds, shadows and hidden wonders. Turn your discoveries into art, painted words and a story of place.
Tour Germinal Sculptures in St Marys and Pasadena while learning how to nurture Greybox Grassy Woodland in public settings and home gardens.
Look down and discover our critically endangered native grasslands with therapeutic horticulturalist and artist Emma Lewellyn.
Take part in an art workshop led by Meintangk artist Tanya Hartman
Sharing seed stories and sorting seeds, to help us remember to tend what matters...
Experience Takayna through food, art and conversation at this unforgettable immersive lunch.
Botanical Skin Care. Creating your own Healing Creams made from Nature's Natural Plant Base and Oils.
Workshop will guide participants using the basketry techniques of two-ply string, twining and weaving with seeds, sticks and natural fibres from local gardens.
Discover our beautiful, hidden community garden and build an insect hotel to take home for your garden.
Get creative, learn the secrets of healthy seedlings, and paint and plant your own edible seed bowl to take home at Paint and Sow.
Explore the natural world through intimate mark making using simple materials.
Now in its seventh year the 'Be Natural Poetry Slam' is open to either compete or to simply watch and enjoy.
Join us for the SAARG Corroboree as part of Nature Festival 2026, inspired by this year's theme: Seeds. Come along to share stories and build connections,
Walking tours, displays, native coastal plant sales, and hands-on activities for you to connect with nature in this rare dune ecosystem in Adelaide's west.
A conversation between artists and scientists exploring how creativity, systems thinking and environmental science help communities navigate ecological change
An exploration of the cultural, mythological, & spiritual significance of the sacred seed as the source of life.
The world around us is always communicating. Ecosomatics allows the wisdom of the more than human to guide dynamic relationships between humans & nature.
You're invited on a rural ramble out to Robertstown as we host Wandering Tales to hear some local yarns & enjoy a light afternoon tea.
a songwriting practise to deepen connection with the natural world - facilitated by local singer-songwriters Naomi Keyte and Jamie Lena Kerslake,
Storytellers sow beautiful seeds: seeds of growth, hope, reflection, creativity and learning. Join us for the love of a good story - and afternoon tea!
Harp Among the Gum Trees: A pleasant Sunday afternoon of live harp music in a natural setting.
Filmmaker Sophie Hyde joins marine scientists, conservationists and creatives to explore ecological crisis, restoration and the making of a new feature film.
Share Egg & Orchid Time with Burrandies Aboriginal Corporation and Friends of Seaweed South East. Understand the value of seaweed in Spring to migrating birds. Record seasonal changes.
Hear from Sophie Hyde, film director, writer, producer and artist, in conversation with Leigh Robb, Curator Contemporary Art.
Slow down, look closely and discover the wonder of the natural world through journaling.
Join us for a special Story Time in the beautiful Netley Community Garden. Enjoy stories, songs and nature play with Mel and Pamela.
Join author Kristin Martin as she reads her new book, Belle and Bea’s Beautiful New Home and discover how bilbies help seeds to grow.
Step outside and slow down with Start, in an en plein air program connecting creativity, community and the natural world.
Drop-in any time and get messy with Climbing Tree’s mud kitchen!
Join us for a playful and relaxed adventure creating art in the beautiful nature of the Memorial Gardens.
Create a seed-inspired mosaic pathway, celebrate local biodiversity, learn creative skills, and help make our native garden beautifully accessible.
From your garden to your skin — a hands-on workshop crafting natural skincare from South Australian botanicals, guided by a natural perfumer
My Tree Project engages schoolchildren in propagating seeds, planting seedlings at their school, home or in the community, and creating nature inspired artworks
Art meets action to protect one of Earth’s last wild places.
Meet curious alpacas, explore a working farm, plant beautiful seeds and experience Nature Festival through all five senses at Quentin Park Alpacas.
Plant a seed in the heart of the city at Seedling Exchange. Take it home or leave it to grow in a living pavilion shaped by thousands of small acts of care.
Be guided to explore 'The Botanical Cemetery' through creativity and play in this unique workshop celebrating nature, connection and place.
The Naomi Keyte Trio and Tessa Leon perform a mesmerising night of live music in the ILA Studio.
We are offerings workshops in pottery, abstract painting, printmaking and basket weaving.
A family spring nature play gathering in the hills where children will get to make their own flower posies, play fizz and watercolour paintings to take home.
Join us for a morning of nature and art where both kids and big kids (aka grown-ups) will create their own nature-inspired artwork.
Slow down, connect with nature, and learn the timeless art of weaving a beautiful basket using sustainably foraged fibres in a restful and mindful setting.
Bring a small natural treasure—a leaf, shell or seed pod, transform it into a unique fine silver pendant or earrings in this special Nature Festival workshop
Come explore the Waite Arboretum, the historic garden of Urrbrae House & inside a gallery of South Australian work from the Botanic Art Collective.
Nature Dough is just the activity you 'knead' for children!
Seedlings Nature Play at Woodhouse A morning of nature, creativity and curiosity for little explorers. Slow down, step outside and discover the magic.
Join local artist Janet Haydon for a relaxed evening of guided watercolour painting creating greeting cards - and inspired by our community seed swap.
Slow down, notice nature and spark creativity through guided nature journalling.
A family event that explores how tiny beginnings create thriving marine ecosystems. Visitors receive a "Nature Passport" and complete a series of stations.
Nature-based outdoor play session including potions, crafts & more!
Slow down, connect with nature and connect with yourself through a guided EcoArt Therapy experience.
Drawing on deep ecology and creative practices, this event offers a space to explore our grief, love and hope for the changing natural world around us.
Move, wander and connect with nature. Join Restless Dance Theatre for a playful dance workshop exploring body, landscape and place.
A creative experience. Make unique nature-inspired artworks. Through observation, pattern and design, participants will explore the beauty of seeds and pods.
Hands-on beginner sewing workshop making a reusable bento bag from natural fabric. Two session dates available, each with a different secondary project.
What Grows Here is a youth-led photography walk and public night projection event taking place in Peterborough during the 2026 Nature Festival.
Join us for the opening exhibition of the weaving, yarning and sculpture project Kingston Weaving by First Nations artists Sonya, Suzy and Sarah Smith and OSCA.
Learn how to craft natural incense from the herbs and botanicals in your garden and local bioregion.
Exploring South Australian Plant & Seed Science at the Botanic Gardens
Immerse yourself in making your own kite and collect either vegetable or flower seeds to let nature take flight as you grow & go these school holidays.
An intimate curator's introduction talk on the 'Sporus gestaltioides' art exhibition and forecourt installation. Talk occurs at 11am and also at 2pm
Join Tanya from Nature Creative in a relaxing botanical art class
Bring a mini garden to life using pop-up techniques, tabs and hidden flaps!
Design an illustrated seed packet with a turning mechanism that reveals the journey from a seed to something unexpected!
Dave McEvoy performs live in the ILA Studio with Lauren Henderson and Tasha Stevens.
Discover native foods, herbs and cooking methods with artist Kelly Wallace and wellbeing practioner Nakita Charlton.
Join Sandhya Mulchandani to shape clay islands as we think with our hands and reflect on Australia’s 8,222 vulnerable island environments.
Pods are a holding vessel for the seeds within, a space of nurturing and protection for potential life.
Acclaimed director Sophie Hyde (Good Luck to you Leo Grande, Jimpa) is exploring the work of local scientists and underwater cinematographers who are recording the impacts of the algal bloom on the South Australian coastline.
Try your hand at still-life drawing native flora in our free Art Studio activity.
Take a self -guided tour of AGSA and discover artists and works that explore the theme of SEED.
Through small, repeated acts of repair on degraded land, a form of quiet activism emerges.
Turrangka…in the shadows surveys over a decade of James Tylor’s practice and brings together a selection of his unique photographs and Kaurna cultural objects.
Experience a captivating photographic exhibition by The Wilderness Society SA, showcasing South Australia's remote wilderness and why it deserves protection.
South Australians are invited to step outside, slow down, and paint their surroundings.
The Commute is a multidisciplinary, site and community-responsive project which draws deeply on the 15+ years of the artist living near the Port Noarlunga coast
Integrating her fieldwork and studio-based processes, Gardener explores local birds and their song stories in the Onkaparinga region.
Investigating the human condition and our fragile relationship to the natural, built and personal environments are core themes in Ambridge’s work.
Be part of a world where art and nature merge: experience multi-disciplinary works from Australian and International artists.
Exhibitions, and community engagement events exploring emergence.
Check out the outdoor art installation in the large forecourt of 109 Grote Street right next to China Town.
Sculptures and works exploring the 'gestalt' of seeds and flora in its myriad of forms.
Two artists come together to co-create art exploring connection to nature, Country, community, and the cosmos.
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