Nature Festival

Nature Festival 400+ events, encounters, and experiences celebrating our love of nature in South Aus:
26 Sept - 12 Oct 2025

Join us to celebrate Durkhanai Ayubi launching her book alongside a limited edition series of scarves and prints at the ...
03/09/2026

Join us to celebrate Durkhanai Ayubi launching her book alongside a limited edition series of scarves and prints at the Art Gallery South Australia.

It is sure to be a richly sensory spring afternoon of conversation and live music, where musicians Gelareh Pour’s (VIC) improvisations and Durkhanai Ayubi’s poetry mingle with spices gifted by Parwana to each attendee, inviting seeds, stories and new ways of seeing to take root.

Germinating the Unseen:
Tasting Memory, Cultivating Belonging
📅 Sunday 27 September, 3-4.30pm
📍 Art Gallery of South Australia

🌱 Book now → naturefestival.org.au

Join our friends at .kind.studios and .circular.initiative for a Landcare Day this Saturday 2 September.Learn new skills...
02/09/2026

Join our friends at .kind.studios and .circular.initiative for a Landcare Day this Saturday 2 September.

Learn new skills. Get your hands dirty. Connect to place, community, and our collective evolution. Step onto the land in Myponga and you’ll instantly experience the big sky. With the polycrisis drawing on our collective capacity, the time is now to seed a space of reciprocal community and environmental care for the future when we’ll need it most.

Everyone welcome. The half-days typically involve light physical work, a touch of free roaming, and plenty of nourishing food and cold drinks.

RSVP here: https://loom.ly/u9oAezE

📸 .aye

31/08/2026

Spring is finally here! What better was to celebrate than to listen, sort and share with seed steward Keitha Thuy Young, leaving with seeds in your pockets and stories to help tend what matters through changing times on the final weekend of the festival.

SEED STORIES: Lessons for These Times
📅 Saturday 10 October, 10.30am-12pm
📍 Art Gallery of South Australia

🌱 Book now → naturefestival.org.au

Join acclaimed Aboriginal writer and thinker Bruce Pascoe for the Adelaide launch of his new book, The European Mind. Br...
31/08/2026

Join acclaimed Aboriginal writer and thinker Bruce Pascoe for the Adelaide launch of his new book, The European Mind.

Bringing a First Nations perspective to the intertwined histories of colonialism, capitalism and Christianity, Pascoe examines the ideas that have shaped the modern world and asks how we might rethink our relationship with Country, community and one another.

📅 Tuesday 6 October, 5.30-7.30pm
📍 Art Gallery of South Australia

🌱 Book now → naturefestival.org.au

🌿 SILENT COUNTRY: Opening + Panel Talk + Electric FieldsJoin us for a powerful opening night exploring the ecological an...
30/08/2026

🌿 SILENT COUNTRY: Opening + Panel Talk + Electric Fields

Join us for a powerful opening night exploring the ecological and cultural impacts of buffel grass through art, music and conversation.

Experience Silent Country, a group exhibition featuring new works by visual artists from Tutti Arts, developed through research and exchange with scientists and field researchers. Through visual art, sound, moving image, textiles and sculpture, the exhibition explores buffel grass, environmental change and the future of Country.

Then, hear from voices across culture, science, land management and community in a timely panel discussion, before a special live set from Electric Fields. Bringing First Nations language, storytelling and living culture to the stage, Zaachariaha Fielding’s connection to the event is deeply personal - he grew up in Mimili in the APY Lands, where buffel grass is transforming Country, culture and community.

📅 Friday 25 September
📍 Tandanya (Aboriginal Cultural Institute)
🎨 Exhibition open from 4.30pm
💬 Panel talk 6.30pm
🎶 Electric Fields 7.30pm

Presented by Invasive Species Council as part of Nature Festival 2026.

🌱 Book now → naturefestival.org.au

Over the past few months, we've been sharing stories from our six Seed Stewards, whose lives and work engage the idea of...
25/08/2026

Over the past few months, we've been sharing stories from our six Seed Stewards, whose lives and work engage the idea of ‘Seed’ from distinct perspectives, including through food, cultural memory, cultivation, and conservation. Here's a look into their 2026 Nature Festival events:

🌾 Quahli Newchurch
Kardla: A Journey of Healing Country Through Fire
Fri 9 Oct 2026 / Carriageway Park
🌼 Join Kaurna Kardla for a walk through the Adelaide Park Lands as they share Traditional Knowledge Systems in Aboriginal Land Management and Cultural Fire.

🌾 Durkhanai Ayubi
Germinating the unseen: Tasting Memory, Cultivating Belonging
Sun 27 Sep 2026 / Art Gallery of South Australia
🌼 Hear Durkhanai Ayubi in conversation with Gelareh Pour and Amber Cronin to celebrate her new book She Who Tastes, Knows.

🌾 Mitchell Livingston
The Mysteries and Marvels of Seeds
Wed 7 Oct 2026 / Online Webinar
🌼 Join Green Adelaide flora ecologist Rhys Morgan, and Trees For Life Seed Bank Manager Mitchell Livingston, for a fascinating talk exploring the incredible world of seeds.

🌾 Bradley Bianco
From Seed to Survival: Inside the Seed Conservation Centre
Wed 7 & Thu 8 October 2026 / Adelaide Botanic Garden
🌼 Go behind the scenes to learn how a small seed can make a big difference to the future of South Australia's rare and threatened flora.

🌾 Keitha Thuy Young
SEED STORIES: Lessons for These Times
Sat 10 Oct 2026 / Art Gallery of South Australia
🌼 Listen to Seed Stories which bring significant lessons for our present day challenges, both local and global.

🌾 Karri Rushworth-Nott
Spring Dinner: From Seed to Plate
Sat 26 Sep 2026 / Bar Pin
🌼 Bar Pin and Common Acre come together this spring for a special dinner exploring the theme of seed.

🔎 Search for these events on our website to learn more and book: https://loom.ly/AADWrE4

23/08/2026

Introducing our final Seed Steward, Keitha Thuy Young.

Keitha is a mother, farmer, seedkeeper and food sovereignty organiser whose work explores the deep connections between seeds, culture and healing. She sees plants and their seeds as living archives, and her practice includes telling their stories of survival, migration and adaptation, as well as the stories of the people who have tended them for generations.

Drawing on her mixed Vietnamese and Scottish heritage, Keitha’s practice is rooted in the belief that healthy food systems depend on healthy relationships: between people and plants, culture and Country, memory and place. Through seed saving, agroecology and folk herbalism, she works to preserve biodiversity while sharing the cultural knowledge held within the plants that nourish us. She believes in more just, equitable access to land and food, supporting this vision by presently helping to build a national land trust that will bring agricultural land back into the commons.

Keitha reminds us that seeds are storied vessels of cultural significance, carrying the flavours, medicines and traditions that connect us to the land and our ancestors which, when collectively tended, can offer hope for more diverse and resilient futures.

Keitha gratefully stewards on unceded Kaurna Country.

23/08/2026

Introducing our final Seed Steward, Keitha Thuy Young.

Keitha is a mother, farmer, seedkeeper and food sovereignty organiser whose work explores the deep connections between seeds, culture and healing. She sees plants and their seeds as living archives, and her practice includes telling their stories of survival, migration and adaptation, as well as the stories of the people who have tended them for generations.

Drawing on her mixed Vietnamese and Scottish heritage, Keitha’s practice is rooted in the belief that healthy food systems depend on healthy relationships: between people and plants, culture and Country, memory and place. Through seed saving, agroecology and folk herbalism, she works to preserve biodiversity while sharing the cultural knowledge held within the plants that nourish us. She believes in more just, equitable access to land and food, supporting this vision by presently helping to build a national land trust that will bring agricultural land back into the commons.

Keitha reminds us that seeds are storied vessels of cultural significance, carrying the flavours, medicines and traditions that connect us to the land and our ancestors which, when collectively tended, can offer hope for more diverse and resilient futures.

Keitha Keitha Thủy Young gratefully stewards Seed Medicine Garden on unceded Kaurna Country.

🌱 The seeds of this year’s Nature Festival have emerged!Showcasing over 350 events across the state, Nature Festival wil...
20/08/2026

🌱 The seeds of this year’s Nature Festival have emerged!

Showcasing over 350 events across the state, Nature Festival will transform South Australia into a living celebration of possibility, renewal and connection.

Our theme this year is Seed, inviting South Australians to consider the small beginnings that shape our future: the seeds we plant in gardens, in communities, in culture, in children, and in our collective relationship with nature.

Explore the full program: https://loom.ly/AADWrE4

We are excited to announce that this year’s Festival will feature a ‘Seedling Exchange’ - a temporary public pavilion wh...
19/08/2026

We are excited to announce that this year’s Festival will feature a ‘Seedling Exchange’ - a temporary public pavilion where visitors plant a seed, water it, and contribute to a growing shared garden. Small acts of propagation gradually become a collective nursery of care, participation and future possibility.

Seedling Exchange will be located outside the State Library of South Australia, on North Terrace, and will be open from 11am to 3pm every day of the Festival (longer hours apply on select dates, see program for details).

🌱 Find out more about Seedling Exchange - including our invitation to you to plant the first seeds of this year’s Festival - here: https://loom.ly/kqRkq5Y

The Nature Festival program goes LIVE tomorrow Friday 21 August at 9am.

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