Ever wanted to learn Auslan - Australian sign language? If you’re aged 12 and over then this is for you.

No previous experience is necessary!

Sessions are free and will be run by a qualified Deaf instructor in collaboration with The Deaf Butterfly Effect.

The first hour will be a lesson on Auslan basics like the alphabet and simple vocab, then the second hour is more of a social time to practice, chat, and ask questions!

Everyone is welcome to attend either or both parts of the session depending on what suits you!

Location: West Torrens Library Sun Room, 1 Brooker Terrace, Hilton.

Time: 6pm - 8pm on the third Thursday of every month.

Join our Northern Suburbs Branch for our FREE Community BBQ! Free food and free giveaways, like clothing and other donated items. There are often other activities, like facepainting, or balloon blowing, and definitely some conversation and connecting!!

The BBQ area and playground are accessible, however be aware there is a large pond also if you have young children.

All welcome!!

Anti-Poverty Network SA is a volunteer-run community advocacy group, made-up of job-seekers, pensioners, carers, students, sole parents, and allies, advocating for dignity and justice for all low-income people. We are often joined at the BBQ’s by other organisation and are supported by the Playford Women’s Shed.

This event is sponsored by local businesses and is for members, supporters, and the community, to have a chance to socialise, have a chat about shared challenges, or maybe to seek some information on how to navigate the challenges associated with life, especially when living in poverty. You can also learn more about who we are; what we do; and how you can get involved.

If anyone would like to support the Northern Branch BBQ’s there are many ways to do so. Financial donations can be made on our website and if you would like to support the BBQ through other means, or if you have clothing or other donations, please email for more information.

Further Info: info@apnsa.org or 08 8451 1589

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Ever wanted to learn Auslan - Australian sign language? If you’re aged 12 and over then this is for you.

No previous experience is necessary!

Sessions are free and will be run by a qualified Deaf instructor in collaboration with The Deaf Butterfly Effect.

The first hour will be a lesson on Auslan basics like the alphabet and simple vocab, then the second hour is more of a social time to practice, chat, and ask questions!

Everyone is welcome to attend either or both parts of the session depending on what suits you!

Location: West Torrens Library Sun Room, 1 Brooker Terrace, Hilton.

Time: 6pm - 8pm on the third Thursday of every month.

Celebrate NAIDOC Week and help us restore indigenous biodiversity in the City of Holdfast Bay.

Do you live, run a business or are a school located in the City of Holdfast Bay? Want to reduce your water use in the garden whilst encouraging native birds, insects and animals? If so, bring along a bucket and claim 10 free local native plants for your garden (schools are entitled to 20 plants, please make 2 bookings if this is the case).

What you need to do:

Register to attend. Bookings are essential (schools can book 2 spaces)

Come along with a bucket or two, show us your rates notice or evidence of address, and we'll send you home with 10 free local native plants.

Book now to register your interest. Limit of 10 plants per household/business applies. Limit of 20 plants per school.

If this event sells out, we have another native plant giveaway on Saturday 18 July. See the link here for bookings.

For further questions, please contact the City of Holdfast Urban Greening Officer Sam Buxton Stewart on 8229 9999.

Get creative in a vibrant hands-on workshop with Aboriginal artist Nikki Carabetta.

Unleash your creativity in a hands-on art workshop led by Nikki Carabetta from Mawurdu Gaga Arts, a proud Aboriginal artist whose unique journey from the bush to the city shapes her vibrant work today.

In this workshop, Nikki will guide you to weave your own bangle, while sharing stories and insights from her life and creative practice.

Children must be accompanied by an adult, each participant requires a booking.

Bookings are essential.

Come and join the community to plant native species at Tweeddale Reserve!

The City of Holdfast Bay is working to increase local native plant species and diversity in this beautiful urban reserve. We would like to invite you to join us for a fun morning of planting, followed by light snacks.

Please arrive at 10.15am to allow time for registrations, and to hear the safety briefing. You are welcome to stay for as long or as little time as you like. Light snacks will be provided at the end of the activity.

Bring along gardening gloves, a small hand trowel and water. Wear long pants, a long-sleeved shirt, closed toe shoes, safety or optical glasses and a hat or rain jacket (depending on the weather). We will provide any additional tools and equipment that are needed. Under 18s will need to be supervised at all times by a parent or guardian.

Bookings are essential to make sure we have enough equipment.

Pesta Babi: Colonialism in our time has become so popular in Indonesia and abroad that on May 14 organizers recorded around 130 simultaneous viewing locations.

There were over 30 attempts by then Indonesia security forces to close it down. Rather than relying on commercial cinemas or subscription platforms, the documentary is circulated free of charge.

Any community able to gather at least 10 people can organize a screening and receive the film directly from its producers.

Since its release in March, screenings have spread rapidly across the country.

It had become so popular that some enterprising ( thieving ) people in Indonesia cloned the internet address of the film and sold it for $10 for a viewing.

To maximize the films viewing audience on 22nd May the film was made free to view on You tube and it went viral with over 2,459,508 downloads on that day.

We expect that as the film is free and highly popular that we will need to have several showings of the film.

The Event Cinema at The Exchange has seating for 155. If that books out, we will release details of additional showings.

Pesta Babi – Colonialism in our time, by Dandhy Laksono:

Synopsis of the film:

Yasinta Moiwend, a Marind Anim woman in Merauke, was startled when, on a quiet morning, a massive ship docked at her village pier. The vessel carried hundreds of excavators under escort by military forces, sent to Papua for a National Strategic Project for food production, palm-based biodiesel, and sugarcane bioethanol.

Vincen Kwipalo, from the Yei community, was likewise shocked when his clan’s land was suddenly marked with a sign reading: ‘Property of the Indonesian Army’. Only later did he learn that the land had been seized for the construction of a military battalion headquarters, at the very moment when sugarcane, a plantation company, was also encroaching on his ancestral forest.

‘Pig Feast’ combines detailed field recordings with in-depth research to examine the power structures behind the operation. It exposes how government and corporate entities—collaborating with military and religious groups—advance international and national goals of ‘food security’ and ‘energy transition’ at the expense of Indigenous communities and landscapes.

The documentary illustrates the networks of Indonesian elites, oligarchs, and multinational corporations that benefit from the project, providing a vivid depiction of the political ecology of Indonesian governance in Papua. ‘Pig Feast’ serves as a record of colonialism that remains intact today.

About the director: Dandhy Dwi Laksono is an Indonesian activist, investigative journalist, and filmmaker. He is known for his critical documentaries which look at how political and business interests collude to undermine democracy, infringe on human rights and destroy vulnerable natural and social environments in Indonesia. Born in East Java, Dandhy Laksono majored in International Relations at Padjadjaran University in Bandung, West Java, before founding the research-based documentary and audio-visual production house Watchdoc.

Come and join the community to plant native species at Kingston House Reserve!

The City of Holdfast Bay have been working to increase local native plant species and diversity in this beautiful urban reserve. We would like to invite you to join us for a fun morning of planting, followed by light snacks.

Please arrive at 10.15am to allow time for registrations, and to hear the safety briefing. You are welcome to stay for as long or as little time as you like. Light snacks will be provided at the end of the activity.

Bring along gardening gloves, a small hand trowel and water. Wear long pants, a long-sleeved shirt, closed toe shoes, safety or optical glasses and a hat or rain jacket (depending on the weather). We will provide any additional tools and equipment that are needed. Under 18s will need to be supervised at all times by a parent or guardian.

Bookings are essential to make sure we have enough equipment.

Country Arts SA Presents NUNGA SCREEN Celebrating 15 years Sharing First Nations Stories FILM | FOOD | CEREMONY

Restless Dance Theatre invites you to an evening celebrating First Nations culture, stories and language through a sharing of film, food and ceremony.

FREE EVENT

When: Friday 19th June 2026

Where: Restless Dance Theatre, 195 Gilles St, Adelaide Kaurna Country

5:30pm: Cleansing Ceremony & Welcome to Country by Luke Wilson

6:00pm - 8:00pm: Film Screening (with 15min interval)

Ever wanted to learn Auslan - Australian sign language? If you’re aged 12 and over then this is for you.

No previous experience is necessary!

Sessions are free and will be run by a qualified Deaf instructor in collaboration with The Deaf Butterfly Effect.

The first hour will be a lesson on Auslan basics like the alphabet and simple vocab, then the second hour is more of a social time to practice, chat, and ask questions!

Everyone is welcome to attend either or both parts of the session depending on what suits you!

Location: West Torrens Library Sun Room, 1 Brooker Terrace, Hilton.

Time: 6pm - 8pm on the third Thursday of every month.

Join us in Adelaide Botanic Gardens for a free picnic lunch to commemorate World AIDS Day. 

Observed every year on December 1st, World AIDS Day is our biggest opportunity to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS. Together, we’ll discuss the latest advancements in treatment, reduce stigma that still exists for people living with HIV and remember those who have died from AIDS related illnesses. 

This special event is a collaboration between Positive Life SA, SAMESH and Thorne Harbour Health. 

All people living with HIV and their community and allies are invited to mark the occasion with us. This event is free, register to let us know you’re coming.  

Join us for an online grant writing workshop with Access2Arts that will help you to prepare your upcoming grant applications.

Note: These grant writing workshops are only for people who identify as being disabled (disabilities can include identifying as neurodivergent, and living with mental illness and/or chronic illness).

Grant Writing Workshop Online Reservation Form

Join us for a fun and relaxed picnic to finish off the year!

Members, non-members, friends and family all welcome :)

Forestville Reserve - 100m from Goodwood train station

Optional things you may like to bring

• Food for yourself and/or to share

• Something refreshing to drink

• Cup, plate, cutlery

• A rug or something to sit on

• Name badge (if you have one)

• Games

This will be a great opportunity for volunteers, speakers and participants who attended the recent SA Permaculture Convergence to connect and reflect.

We hope you can join us!

Permaculture SA

“Do you like being offered free stuff?” “Yeah!”

Then like Lucy, you should come to this session!

To wrap up the year, we’ve got some gifts for you to riffle through, and like always, some fun conversations to be had! Happy new year!

As always, we’ll have some light snacks available.

Transfemme events are for the gender diverse community (including those who’re questioning their gender). If you need to bring a support person along, get in touch with us and we’ll do our best to make that happen while still making sure the community feel safe.

This event takes place on Kaurna land, Sovereignty was never ceded

• coworking bee @ 11
• palestine bike convoy @ 1:30 (if people want)

bring a project (or dont). 📝

think stitch and bitch, repair cafe, idea ideation, crafts corner, amateur consultancy, free wifi, pc/console gaming, zoomba gym, karaoke, uninformed tax advice, gardening, cooking classes, poetry writing and feedback, trinket trading and appreciation, swap meets, bike servicing, zine making, photography/film space, bad printing, you name it!!*

*some services subject to availability

come on downnnn 🤠

Our Quiz Master Chelsea is back and has another night of fun in store! Bring your friends & a sharp mind ‘cos this is going to be an awesome night!

As always, we’ll have some light snacks available.

Transfemme events are for the gender diverse community (including those who’re questioning their gender). If you need to bring a support person along, get in touch with us and we’ll do our best to make that happen while still making sure the community feel safe.

This event takes place on Kaurna land, Sovereignty was never ceded

Board game time! Come down, hang our with us & our besties over at Adelaide Queer Gamers and enjoy some Muffin Time, Peach Snaps, or so many of the other great games in the AQG collection 😃

As always, we’ll have some light snacks available

Transfemme events are meant to be exclusive to the gender diverse community (including those who’re questioning their gender). If you need to bring a support person along, get in touch with us and we’ll do our best to make that happen while still making sure the community feel safe.

This event takes place on Kaurna land, Sovereignty was never ceded

Adelaide rally as part of a national day of action, in support of Qld youths who have had gender affirming care banned by the state government.

Rally & Picnic Sunday 9 February.

Meet 10am Parliament House steps

Followed by a Community Picnic 11:30am at Pioneer Women’s Memorial Gardens, King William Road, Kaurna Yarta

This is a family-friendly event with kids activities included.

Come in at any time for the duration of the event; sessions will start at regular intervals throughout.

• Get your tech life secured
• Free workshops to set up secure and ethical software on your devices
• Password managers, browsers, messaging, social media, and your questions answered

This is a community run event aimed at building a strong foundation of digital security and self-sufficiency especially across the broader Adelaide activist community and for vulnerable demographics, and eventually aiming to diminish society wide reliance on corporate technology, while raising awareness of the real world effects of unjust digital technology.

Do you know anyone who has been talking about coming to one of our events but not actually managed it? Are you reading another one of these announcements wishing you had a good reason to go? This session is for you! There will be an extra treat for anyone who hasn’t come to an event before, or anyone who brings someone new!

During this session we’re going to let you all bring a +1 into the space, that can be a family member, friend, partner, support worker or whoever else.

For our regular attendees, the session will feel like a pretty normal social session, but we’ll split up into groups for a bit during the session to chat with the support people you bring along and give them the chance to have a judgement free conversation about how they can best support you & the other trans people in their lives!

As always, we’ll have some light snacks available.

This event takes place on Kaurna land. Sovereignty was never ceded

Often when community members find who they are or get started on HRT, people will do a lot of reflecting on their relationships and maybe look to peruse new ones. To give you the tools to do that in a way which is safe, healthy and fun, Tiffany from Shine SA’s WIth Respect will be joining us to talk all about healthy relationships.

Shine SA’s new With Respect service provides free professional and specialised counselling and support for LGBTIQA+ people who have been impacted by family, domestic or sexual violence.

As always, we’ll have some light snacks available.

Transfemme events are for the gender diverse community (including those who’re questioning their gender). If you need to bring a support person along, get in touch with us and we’ll do our best to make that happen while still making sure the community feel safe.

This event takes place on Kaurna land, Sovereignty was never ceded

Come along, chill out & make something cool! We’ll have Origami, Free Form Colouring in, Pet Rock Making - feel free to bring your own art projects along & let us know what else you’d like to see too 😊

As always, we’ll have some light snacks available.

Transfemme events are for the gender diverse community (including those who’re questioning their gender). If you need to bring a support person along, get in touch with us and we’ll do our best to make that happen while still making sure the community feel safe.

This event takes place on Kaurna land, Sovereignty was never ceded

Do you know anyone who has been talking about coming to one of our events but not actually managed it? Are you reading another one of these announcements wishing you had a good reason to go? This session is for you! There will be an extra treat for anyone who hasn’t come to an event before, or anyone who brings someone new!

Like usual for our transition chats nights, this is a chance to hang out with us, get some advice from our community on anything you’re unsure about with your transition, and (hopefully) celebrate the wins & exciting news from people who’re taking some big steps to feel more like themselves!

As always, we’ll have some light snacks available

Transfemme events are for the gender diverse community (including those who’re questioning their gender). If you need to bring a support person along, get in touch with us and we’ll do our best to make that happen while still making sure the community feel safe.

This event takes place on Kaurna land, Sovereignty was never ceded

Join us in celebrating Mother’s Day and Compost Awareness Week!

Listen to inspiring conversations with the Eco Discussion Group and get creative in art for your mum/mum figure. We’re also hosting the Semaphore Compost Network group who will share their work and have Worm Farms as giveaway.

10:00 AM – Morning Tea and Produce Share 10:00–11:00 AM – Eco Discussion Group topic: Why healthy eating may be the best way to reduce food waste 11:00 AM–12:30 PM – Compost Talk with Semaphore Compost Network  11:30 AM–1:30 PM – Create unique bouquets with handmade flowers and hearts for your mum

We’d love to see you!

The Port Environment Centre is funded by Green Adelaide with additional support from the City of Port Adelaide Enfield and the Suzanne Elliott Charitable Trust.

Attendee information may be used for follow up evaluation, in order to assess the longer term impacts of our events.

Marni ngadlu tampinthi ngadlu Kaurna yartanga inparrinthi It is good that we all acknowledge we are living on Kaurna Country.

Latecomers welcome, no RSVPs required!

This social group is great for anyone, from beginners to Native Auslan users. We provide a welcoming and positive atmosphere to foster development or maintenance of Auslan (if you don’t know a sign, just write it down!) It is also a great way to socialise and meet other people who are passionate and keen to be involved in the Deaf community. Voices Off meet monthly at various venues in Adelaide metro areas, and is an 18+ only group.

The Deaf Butterfly Effect collaborates with Sign Language Australia to sponsor drinks and food to share so that no one feels inhibited from joining in.

Please send any questions to kiara@deafbutterflyeffect.com.au

International Symposium 国際シンポジウム

Reimagining Nature Through Japanese Studies & Art: How to Think the Unthinkable Beyond Ecoanxiety

日本研究とアートで自然を再想像する: 思考の限界に挑んでエコ不安を超える方法

In the age of the climate crisis, ecoanxiety among young people has become a significant concern worldwide. Global warming, symbolised by the image of a polar bear clinging to a small piece of ice, evokes feelings of anger, sadness, and helplessness in young people. The question is not just how to reduce CO2 emissions. To address the challenges we face in the Anthropocene, we need to rethink the anthropocentric human-nature relationship that underpins modernity. However, imagining a non-anthropocentric world is difficult because we have few references in contemporary society that allow us to conceive of an alternative relationship with nature. In this context, what is the significance of Japanese Studies and art? In this international symposium, we explore the possibilities of reimagining the human-nature relationship through Japanese Studies and art, and its relevance for envisioning a sustainable future.

In partnership with Walking Together with Kaurna, join us for a day of cultural discovery and connection.

This family-friendly event features:

Guided walks along the Kaurna Interpretive Trail

Basket weaving at Canoe Scar Tree

Interactive games and activities

Experience and celebrate the knowledge passed down through generations of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples across Australia.

Free event!

TRANSGENRE – the largest grassroots initiative celebrating trans and non-binary voices in Australian music – is making its South Australian debut with TRANSGENRE Volume III. Free and all-ages, the festival’s biggest edition yet features a STACKED lineup of local icons!

SUNSICK DAISY

OSCAR THE WILD

PLACEMENT

STORMY-LOU

PITY LIPS

EMERAULD

PEARLY STARS

KILLED BY CUPID

THEMPATH

CYBERFAE

On top of all that, TRANSGENRE Volume III will feature stalls hosted by queer and trans artists/makers, a community resource hub, all the merch you could ever dream of, and a licensed bar and kitchen!

Proudly presented by Feast Festival, and supported by the Department of Human Services.

PPIA South Australia, with IndoPeduli Adelaide, KAGAMA, and the Adelaide Papuan Community (APC), will co-host “Pesta Babi (Pig Feast): Colonisation In Our Time” by Dandhy Laksono & Cypri Paju Dale.

Filmed discreetly under Indonesian military surveillance, this powerful 90-minute documentary exposes an ongoing ecocide in South Papua—the region closest to Australia. Filmmakers uncover the mass deforestation of 2.5 million hectares of ancestral land for corporate palm oil, sugar, and rice projects, displacing thousands of Indigenous people.

With foreign journalists banned and UN investigators blocked by the Indonesian government, this film breaks decades of media silence to reveal the brutal reality of West Papua’s struggle for land and independence.

Admission is free, and we invite you to stay after the screening for a deeper discussion on this ongoing issue in Indonesia, directly with the filmmakers involved.

Join the South Australian Film Corporation and The Mercury for a special National Reconciliation Week event celebrating some of South Australia’s most talented up-and-coming First Nations filmmakers and screen practitioners.

From 10.30am to 11.30am join us in the Mercury foyer and laneway for networking over complimentary coffee and light refreshments. All are welcome to catch up with screen industry colleagues and create new industry connections.

Following the networking hour, enjoy a special in-conversation event hosted by SAFC Head of First Nations Kirstie Parker with Yankunytjatjara creative Lilla Berry, producer of upcoming feature film The Debt; Ngarrindjeri creative Josh Trevorrow, co-producer on forthcoming documentary Kumarangk; and Wongutha filmmaker Travis Akbar, writer/director/producer and head of Wirra Distribution, Australia’s only 100% Aboriginal-owned and managed film distribution company.

Through discussion and personal reflection, these exciting screen creatives will share their stories and explore their pathways into the industry, the challenges and opportunities shaping their careers, and their perspectives on reconciliation, representation and truth-telling in Australia today.

Presented by the SAFC and the Mercury.

Presented by Country Arts SA, Nunga Screen is a curated program of short films by First Nations filmmakers, including animation, documentaries and scripted drama. This screening is co-hosted with Walkerville Primary OSHC and will be divided into two halves with a 10 minute interval. Please note the second half is not recommended for children under 15 years of age.

4pm-4.45pm - suitable for all ages

4.55pm-5.40pm - suitable for children over 15 years

Children must be supervised by an adult at all times.

Bookings essential. No need to print off your ticket.

If you have any issues booking online or any questions you can call the Town of Walkerville on 8342 7100.