ARID - A Sculptural Event # 4
"Adapt or Die"
Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden, Stuart Highway, Port Augusta West
Phone: 08 8641 1049 - Email: ellenor.day@portaugusta.sa.gov.au
Saturday 18 September to Saturday 9 October 2010
The Gardens are open daily from 7.30am until sunset.
The ARID biennial event, held at the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden in Port Augusta, brings together art and landscape in a celebration of art forms in a uniquely Australian environment.
Primarily a showcase of sculptural works at the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden, this event also offers workshops, exhibitions and events that connect the Garden with the community through art, education and participation.
The arid zones of Australia are regarded as some of the harshest and most inhospitable places on the planet. To survive, the animals and plants that live there need to cope with extremes of temperature and almost no water - conditions that would be fatal for most other life forms. Over the millennia these plants and animals have developed a vast and surprising array of ways to not only cope with this harsh environment but to actually thrive in it.
The theme of the 2010 ARID Sculptural Event #4 is Adapt or Die. It will explore the amazing and diverse adaptations demonstrated by the lifeforms that call our deserts home. From the heat reflective leaf properties of many arid zone plants or the opportunistic population explosion of budgerigars to the traditional nomadic lifestyle of Aboriginal people, survival of the species means very simply that they must adapt or die.
For further information or if you would like to get involved, please contact:
Ellenor Day
Arts Officer
Port Augusta City Council & Country Arts SA
Phone: (08) 8641 9175
Email: ellenor.day@portaugusta.sa.gov.au
