Turn a pair of old denim jeans into a bucket hat you can wear inside out. With the Wild Woman of Willunga, you cut and sew a reversible hat from preloved fabric, learning the upcycling tricks along the way. One less pair of jeans headed for landfill.

James & Oz fill the hall with a full band, big vocals, driving drums and a rock 'n' roll light show. Sing along to Are You Gonna Be My Girl, Kryptonite and I Love Rock n Roll with a drink from the bar. Their biggest local show yet.

Sit among the candlebark and let a Celtic soprano and her harp fill the valley. Siobhán Owen sings traditional ballads and contemporary Celtic songs, with the forest itself as the concert hall, every note carried through the trees.

Taste your way through jams, chutneys and sauces made right on the farm. Sit down at the cafe or grab an ice cream from The Dairy. Pick-your-own strawberries return in the warmer months.

Peel back layers of dried acrylic and drape them like fabric. With artist Katey Smoker, you will learn to turn paint into thin, tactile sheets that move and hang like cloth. Make at least two: one goes home, the other hangs in the participants' exhibition for six weeks.

Go behind the scenes of the nursery where thousands of plants are raised. Senior curator Matt Coulter shows you how they're propagated, then guides you through growing your own to take home.

Bring your own electricity bill and find out what the numbers actually mean. A talk breaks down where your power goes and where you could cut it, then over afternoon tea you sit one on one with energy experts who read your bill with you. Adelaide Hills Council and SA Power Networks.

Meet the volunteers who coax a native seed all the way to a mature plant, and see the techniques that get it to germinate. Then walk the park and spot the markers on the plants they grew and put in the ground themselves.

Some of the native plants along the park's paths started as seeds in a volunteer's hands. Meet the people who germinate and nurture them, learn how a seed becomes a mature plant, then find the markers showing which ones they grew for the park.

Turn over a log, feel cool earth under bare feet, watch a spider spin its web. A nature-based occupational therapist guides your family through noticing with all eight senses, on Kaurna Country. Every time a child plays freely outside, a seed of wonder gets planted.

Cut up magazines to build a face with human eyes and animal features, then piece together a whole figure from unusual photo scraps. Janene brings all the paper and shows you how, and you leave with two collages you made from other people's pictures.

Hear the true story of the 1911 Mona Lisa theft told by a string quartet, in its Australian premiere. Rachel Fenlon sings at the piano and recites her own poetry, then Debussy's Forgotten Songs, set for four strings, close a night of tears, chuckles and gasps.

Work from a photo of drifting waterlilies or a wild bird at the water's edge, and build it back up in acrylic on a small canvas with Bethany Neck. You take home your own painting of life among the wetlands.

Press a design of your own into aluminium and hang it at Christmas or any time of year. Sally Heinrich, who has illustrated more than fifty books, guides you from your own design to hand embossing, with pattern books to start from. You go home able to make more.

Taste the wines and fig gin, then settle in with a few shared plates. You can pick up bottles and estate produce to take home too.

Wander slowly under the trees with no destination and nowhere to rush to. A guided practitioner leads you through simple prompts to notice, listen and feel, with the theme of seed running through it: slow beginnings, growth, remembering you are part of nature, not separate from it.

Pick up a stick and use it as a paintbrush, a leaf as your canvas, a seed as where the whole thing starts. A nature-based occupational therapist guides you through making art from what you find on the ground, on Kaurna Country, and you leave having felt what time outdoors does for you.

Help yourself to homemade ice cream from the stall and sit down to eat it where the raspberries grow. Take home berries, sorbet, jam, lemon curd, chutney and vinegar, then figs and passionfruit when the season turns. A family farm stall that runs on trust.

Walk a working biodynamic farm where botanicals grow for skincare. You'll learn how plants are propagated, harvested and turned into products. The farm shop is open to look through too.

Gather fallen things from the ground on a slow guided walk, then lay them into one mandala with everyone who walked beside you. Megan Collins and artist Sonya Mellor lead the way. You reflect on the small seeds you plant each day, kindness, curiosity and care.

Lay pressed flowers, feathers and lace on coated paper, then let the spring sun develop them into blue-toned prints, no camera needed. With Ellen Schlobohm you make several photograms, then slow down to stitch simple embroidery into a few of them.

Start with what the science actually says about how nature changes your health, then set your own goals for spending more time in it. End by putting hands in the dirt on a bush care hour with the Friends of the park, caring for the ground right next to where you sat.

Lie among the trees at sunset and listen to the plants sing, their living music woven through crystal bowls and ambient soundscapes. Sacred Resonance guides the sound bath as the light goes. For once, the plants around you are the ones making the music.

Hear Monteverdi and Handel played on Baroque violin and cello, the instruments this music was written for. Tenor Kyle Stegall and Anthony Hunt at the keyboard carry you from Monteverdi's poetry to Handel's counterpoint, through mythic heroes to redemption.

Paul Lewis has spent years defending Mozart's piano sonatas from being called the poor siblings of the concertos. Hear him make the case, setting the sonatas beside Poulenc, Chopin, Weber and Beethoven so you can trace the threads that run back to Mozart.

There's a tired that rest doesn't touch, the kind that shows up after a breakup, an empty nest, a diagnosis. Kim guides you through meditation, gentle yoga, breathwork and a fire ceremony to put down what you've carried and find your next chapter.

Start with an hour's guided bird walk through the reserve, learning to spot the woodland birds at risk of disappearing from the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges. Then pick up basic bush regeneration skills with Trees for Life, restoring the habitat those threatened species need to recover.

Sit down to a long lunch that travels from the Roman ruins of North Africa to the tribal heartlands of Papua New Guinea. Between courses inspired by those frontiers, Crooked Compass founder Lisa Pagotto tells you about the people and places that sit past the tourist trail.

Cross the low bridges and climb the brick steps David laid by hand, out of shaded woodland into the sunlit clearings that gave the garden its name. Rhododendrons, dogwoods, iris and a rocky waterfall feeding a fern-edged pond, thirty years in the making. Walk it with the two who built it.

Walk 35km, from a hillside garden all the way down to the sea, with checkpoints to keep you going. Every step raises money for research into mitochondrial disease and for the families living with it now.

Trade the polka for power chords: this is Oktoberfest with a live rock band and steins in hand. Pull up at the brewery restaurant, order a beer, and let the music run the night.

Learn to use the tools safely, then build your own storage rack for the home or shed with Women's Shed instructor Rose Squire. Fix it to all sorts of wall surfaces as you go. You leave able to hang shelves and picture frames yourself.

Sit under towering gums while Emma and Dee send fiddles, voice and stomp boxes drifting through the valley. Between songs, Sean tells you why the candlebark forest around you is worth protecting, and how they've done it for 28 years.

Pick your felt, thread and buttons, then let Janene show you the stitches to turn it into a needle case that's all your own. You'll add beads and bows and come away knowing how to sew, with the first small thing you've made by hand to keep your needles in.

If you have caught yourself thinking you do not even know who you are anymore, this is about doing the work, not hearing about it. Tania Davies takes you through a nervous system practice and a belief pattern reset you can use again alone. You leave among women who understand.

Settle in and let guided breathing do the work your body already knows how to do. Conscious connected breathing softens held tension and resets your nervous system, whether you are new to breathwork or have done it for years. You leave calmer, and closer to yourself.

Choose the words that say who you are, then stitch them letter by letter with artist Makeda Duong. You learn cross stitch from the first stitch while plotting your word or motto, its spacing and its colour. You leave able to keep stitching your own words at home.

Sketch leaves and seasonal blossoms on the grounds of two of Australia's most celebrated artists. Sandra Johnston guides you through composition, shading and colour in coloured pencil. You take home a framed botanical piece of your own, drawn from their grounds.

Divide and pot up rooted seedlings that will go into the ground next winter, part of reviving 20 acres of creek and bush. Walk the revegetation project, ask what each species is, and end with a glass of the wine made here. The seedlings you pot become next year's planting.

Divide and pot up rooted seedlings that will go into the ground next winter, part of reviving 20 acres of creek and bush. Walk the revegetation project, ask what grows where, and finish with a glass of the wine made here. The plants you pot today carry the project forward.

Two players, a piano and a violin, close enough to sound like a conversation. The first half stays in a fairytale world: Szymanowski's Greek myths, Prokofiev's second sonata gesturing toward his Cinderella. Then Brahms' third, almost orchestral in scope, that asks everything of them both.

An awareness course for young drivers on their learner or probationary licence. Learners come with their supervisor, and a probationary driver can come alone or with theirs.

Move through a gentle yoga session, then sit down with a naturopath and a nutritionist to smell and mix herbs into a tea blend made for you. You take home about fifteen serves and the know-how to keep the ritual going at home long after the last cup.

Sit with a cup of ceremonial cacao and let the wall down, or just be held and heard among women. You move through gentle breath work, yoga, guided meditation and a card pull, and take the tools home into your daily life.

Two piano trios written for friends: Shostakovich's grief for Ivan Sollertinsky as the war neared its end, and Beethoven's affection for the Archduke Rudolf. Three friends play them on violin, cello and piano. Music about friendship, played by friends.

Start with shaking and Qi Gong to wake the body, then settle into Yin Yoga held on the Liver and Gallbladder meridians. Chinese medicine ties them to the Wood element and to spring. Finish with a sound bath, herbal tea and a circle as the season turns.

Wheel-thrown forms fill Gallery 1 at Hahndorf Academy, some challenging and unorthodox, others easy and comfortable, each made in a spirit of calm and contemplation. Meditations explores the maker's inner world at the wheel, hoping to elicit a similar sense of reflection in the viewer.

Bring the women you have leaned on this year and sit down together over a year-end lunch. A chance to slow down, share the table, and mark what you have built with SustainHer.

Sit down with a pile of fabric scraps, lace and thread, and stitch them by hand into a small pot of your own. There are no wrong stitches here. Artist Leanne Gardner shows you how to layer and sew, and you leave with your pot, finished or ready to finish at home.

Sit down to a bowl of soup when it's cold and something lighter when it's warm, cooked to whatever the season is doing. Share a table with the people who live up your way.

Sit down to soup when it is cold out and lighter plates when it is warm, cooked to whatever the season is doing. It is a shared table with your neighbours, and a reason to come in from the hill and eat together.

Sit down with your neighbours to a bowl of soup when it's cold and something lighter when it's warm, cooked to the season. A monthly meal made for staying and talking.

Make a greeting card that someone can read, then bury in the garden and watch grow into flowers. Press seed paper with real petals and natural textures, write your message by hand, and give a gift that becomes a plant with Arvo Flora.

Buy a made-up bouquet or pick your own bunches of native flowers at the shed door. Seasonal blooms straight off a working farm, with workshops you can book.

A single Emily Dickinson song, carried from a Burra studio to the Sydney Opera House, has grown into a whole cycle written for one voice. Hear Sally-Anne Russell sing it complete for the first time, set to Tūwhare, Teasdale and Rossetti for flute, cello and harp, recorded live.

Dye wool with what comes out of your kitchen and garden, set with soy milk, and watch a few batches of yarn turn colour to take home. Then learn the basic needlepoint stitch with Stephanie Doddridge and start a project on canvas, with the skills to finish it at home.

Kneel by the wetlands with your three-year-old and see what wriggles up in the ponding net. You'll wander the grounds together, build with sticks and leaves, make art from what you find, and let a small child follow their own questions outside for a morning.

Biscuit asks what meaning hides in the simple act of baking for those we love, drawing on the artist's lived experience and family ancestors to find nurturing ways to move forward. This Hahndorf exhibition explores complex clay structures, intricate jewellery, collage, painting and cardboard forms.

Build a float, fall in with the bands, choirs and entertainers, and lead Father Christmas through the streets to the oval. Community groups compete for the Best Dressed prize. When he arrives, the fair and market begin and the children get their turn with him.

Cherry Poppins and Ali Holic are back, this time in their Halloween best, calling comedy bingo between shows. Put on a costume, there are prizes for the best one, and settle in over brisket or a chicken kiev while the numbers and the heckling fly.

Bring in an old t-shirt, cap or pillowcase and stitch a design onto it with Lily Adelaide Upton. She'll teach you the stitches, using patterns that wash away with water. Perfect isn't the goal, and you take home everything to finish it.

Garth Knox's Satellites opens by pushing the string quartet past the sounds it usually makes. Bartók's Fourth brings Hungarian folk and raw rhythm, then Beethoven's Op.130 ends on the Grosse Fuge, a work that pushes against the edges of musical form.

Build a compost ring with soil biologist Dr Mary Cole, then layer, turn and read the heat of the pile until it is ready to use. While it starts to break down, learn to brew actively aerated compost tea. Low cost ways to put the microbes to work in your soil.

Spend a day building the coping skills the last wellbeing survey found local teens are short on. Young people from Hills schools shape the day alongside headspace and Mission Australia, working out what more this community can do.

Put a native seed pod in your child's hands and let them work out how it travels and grows. Together you explore Australian seeds, pods and flowers and follow the journey a seed makes. Small hands, and a first reason to look after the natural world.

Put a native seed pod in small hands and watch your child work out how a seed grows and travels. Together you explore native Australian seeds, pods and flowers and follow one seed on its journey. It might be the start of a lifelong love of the natural world.

Eat your way across one vineyard, seafood down by the boatshed, views from the Panorama, then estate lamb cooked over fire. Colin Fassnidge and Cameron Ahl cook seven courses between them, each matched to the estate's own wines, so every stop shows you another corner of it.

Take a guided tour up to the hilltop to see the former summer residence of South Australia's governors. Stop in The Stables for refreshments after. The old viceregal property opens its gates only seven days a year.

Bright, imaginative artworks by young South Australians line the walls, each one capturing a favourite activity across SA and the NT. Thirty of the favourites are on display at the Mt Barker branch, part of a collection spread across six South Australian locations. Also open Tue 9:30am-5pm.

Walk the orchard with James and Sophie while the cherry trees blossom and the vine buds unfurl. Hear how their organic farm gets from first bud to harvest, then sit down under the blossoms to shared grazing tables and a tasting of the farm's spring wines.

Hear the drum line, the Generations in Jazz students and Zac Treloar and the Organ Trio share the stage with Years 9 to 12 music students. Year 11 food tech students bring Spanish tapas to your table. Student musicians and student cooks, sharing the one night.

Meet Granny Flaps, the foul-mouthed geriatric who won Best Comedy at the 2026 Fringe, in the stand up show that sold out there. Dreadlocked dad Fabien Clark joins her with MC Jono Makai, and going by the Fringe crowds, your cheeks will hurt from laughing.

Two Adelaide women set love to music: Anna Goldsworthy's poems on how families remake themselves after love ends, in a new song cycle with Anne Cawrse. Around it, four hands at one piano, Anna Korsun's Last Flight, and Judith Wright asking which version of you is real.

Follow the paths down through hellebores and ferns to a teahouse at the bottom of the slope. On the way are forty years of one couple's terraces, roses and rusty tools turned into art, then tea among Bron's embroideries, all for the Women's and Children's Hospital Foundation.

When the revolutions of 1848 failed, a group of radicals began meeting in Berlin pubs to find a new home, and 160 of them landed here in 1849. Historian Samuel Doering tells how they left an unexpected mark on the colony's science, art, education and culture.

Walk a Manchurian pear driveway to a white cottage where the owners grow Sauvignon Blanc and Shiraz on a north slope, then make the wine in the garage. Wander to the duck dam and tea, with a sausage sizzle for the CFS.

Look for your old class in the photo displays and memorabilia, and the classmates and teachers who shared it with you. Senior students lead the school tours, and the students' quilt is unveiled and given to the museum. Generations of schooling, together on one oval.

Sit among the candlebark gums with a glass in hand while Courteney Hooper sings jazz standards, her own originals and a few whimsical tales. A jazz performance graduate who writes from surreal dreams and a love of the natural world, playing a forest that is its own nature sanctuary.

Sit among the candlebark gums while Glenn Skuthorpe plays you through the forest. He'll air new songs from his coming seventh album alongside old favourites, acoustic, the same voice that's shared a stage with Archie Roach and Buffy Sainte-Marie. The trees are half the point.

Watch pigment bloom and pool across wet paper, then chase those edges into textures you cannot plan. You will try a handful of watercolour techniques with a hot drink and something sweet at hand. No experience needed, just curiosity to see what the water does.

Walk the orchard and oak-lined grounds gathering leaves, blossoms, seed pods and acorns, then take them into the studio and draw them in pen, ink and watercolour. You go home with your own botanical illustration and a potted acorn grown from the estate's old oaks.

That wedge-tailed eagle riding the thermals overhead has a name, and John Gitsham can teach you to read it. Spend an evening learning to tell the kestrel from the kite, and the adaptations that make each one a hunter, so your next bushwalk comes with something to look up for.

If you're a grandparent or kinship carer trying to keep up with gaming and social media, this workshop walks you through the latest digital trends and how to build healthy online habits. There's a second session on helping kids bounce back, and time to sit with other carers who get it.

Nancy Bates learned her craft alongside Archie Roach, who called her one of Australia's finest songwriters. Hear her play through Share Your Love on the lawns, the songs and the stories behind them, grounded in truth-telling and social justice. The album is out on vinyl on the night.

The rosemary, calendula and lavender you walk past in the garden have cared for skin for centuries. With natural perfumer Zhanna Petku, learn to read what your plants hold and craft three or four products to take home.

The rosemary and calendula you walk past every day have cared for skin for centuries. With natural perfumer Zhanna Petku, learn to read the plants you already grow, then make three or four skincare products to take home, plus the basics of hydrolats and infusions to carry on from your own garden.

Set up an Alert SA watch zone on your own phone before fire season arrives. Learn which bushfire information to check daily, how to find your way around the CFS website and how to report an emergency through Emergency Plus. So you know where to look when the day comes.

Walk a protea garden and cut your own stems, from proteas to leucadendrons. You'll build a bouquet to take home, with a glass vase and wrapping to keep it.

Tee off with the other St Thomas dads, past and present, on a day when nobody minds poor club selection. Play for the prizes or just share a beer and a BBQ on the course. It is a way to connect the dads and start a tradition the community can keep.

Gather your mates in front of the big screen for the biggest game of the year. Siren-to-siren drink specials on Mismatch pints and 78 Distillery G&Ts, so you barely have to leave your seat between goals.

Spend a day on the receiving end for once: a cacao ceremony, journalling, gentle yoga, a guided meditation and sound immersion, then lunch. Wellness With Mel and Amethyst Infusion run it together, for anyone who finds it easier to give than to take.

Sit down at a table piled with native florals, seed pods and leaves, and draw what is in front of you. Pencil the shapes, the veins, the way a pod splits open. Take the drawing home or pin it to the studio wall for the next person to see.

Taste six natural wines poured in a converted cottage beside the orchard. Linger over a glass with snack plates of sourdough, farm produce and cheese.

Lie back under the candlebark gums and let birdsong, breeze and the low ring of gongs and singing bowls move over you. No meditation experience needed, just find your place among the trees and let the sound settle you. Here the bush is not the backdrop but part of the instrument.

Lie back under the candlebarks and let the birdsong and breeze mix with the singing bowls and gongs. This is an outdoor soundbath where the trees are part of the instrument, no meditation experience needed. You come as you are and let sound and nature do the rest.

A soprano who has sung Sophie across Europe steps into the Marschallin for the first time, joined by Helen Charlston and Rachel Fenlon in the Rosenkavalier trio arranged for this night by James Ledger. Strauss' Four Last Songs, Berg, Mahler and Korngold close the festival with a Viennese turn.

Carl Orr played guitar for Billy Cobham, and Cobham drummed on Bitches Brew. For the Miles Davis centenary, Orr and his band take you through Davis's work in order. Then they show how the Prince of Darkness shaped the players who came after him.

Walk the spring rows with snips and a jug and pick the stems you want to take home. Or follow the QR trails through the fields and stop for a picnic among the blooms. Spring flowers do not stick around long, so this is the window to see them.

Play a whole day of volleyball in costume, ghouls and goblins diving for the ball, with players who have come from all over Australia. Stay for the raffle and awards dinner, and prizes for the best costume. It runs to celebrate LGBTQIA+ volleyball in South Australia.

Forty short aphorisms from Kafka, set to music by a composer who has just turned 100. Natsuko Yoshimoto takes the violin, the voice shared between two singers. An hour that asks you to lean into dissonance, then dinner and a Q&A to talk it through.

Sit close enough to watch him coax sounds out of one guitar that make you check there isn't a second player. Daniel Champagne brings his live show back to Australia, folk and blues and roots reimagined for a small room where the front row is worth fighting for.

The nutrients your pasture needs may already be in the soil, just locked up where plants can't reach them. Soil educator Joel Williams shows how bacteria, fungi and earthworms release and cycle what's already down there, and what that means for the fertiliser bill you carry back to the farm.

Taste chutney made from karkalla, a native food that reminds you every plant carries a story. Learn from Jade Brook, Kaurna and Narungga, how to read Country through its plants, animals and seasons. Take home your own karkalla plant to start a bush food garden.

Rhiz took her songs to Nashville to record them, and now brings them to a Hills pub with a telecaster, a double bass and a pedal steel behind her. Dance or just listen to the retro honkytonk and rock'n'roll as her new album, All Over Again, gets its launch.

Spend a day on the farm with Graeme Davis, who leads the Dahlia Society of Australia and has exhibited dahlias since the late 1980s. He covers harvesting, disbudding, deadheading and good repeat flowering. Decades of heatwaves, storms and every kind of soil, passed on to you.

Paint with a glass of the estate's red or white beside you and the vineyard in front of you. Brushflicks n' Chill walk you through it step by step, with Spanish tapas between brushstrokes. You leave with a painting you made yourself.

The Polish title means 'behind the mountains', the way you'd start a fairytale. Alice, Fred and Misha play songs they gathered on their travels, from Argentina, France, Venezuela, Poland and Sephardic tradition, folk tales that speak to the moon, the rain and the prophecies of birds.

A plainchant of Hildegard opens each half, and from there you travel a thousand years of creation stories in song, by candlelight and music box. Fauré's Eve, a Mozart gem, Sibelius's mermaid in the primordial soup, and Medtner's songs, one human voice threaded through time.

Drawn in the early hours from imagination, myth, fable and folklore, a handful of "creatures of the night" step off the page and come to life in 3D at Hahndorf. Each figure carries its own story and mood, regarding the viewer with curiosity, indifference, hunger or mockery.

Hand over the designer piece that never quite suited you and walk out with something new to you, token for token. Share bubbly and nibbles before the swapping starts, and whatever is left goes to the local CFS Op Shop, a small stand against fast fashion.

A Canadian singer-songwriter who has toured Europe with Mark Knopfler brings her voice, guitar and banjo, with violin and double bass alongside. Songs from Wanderer, her chronicle of ten years of love, loss and motherhood, all circling back to a longing for home.

Have a put on the green while the bar's open, then sit down with the people running your local community groups. Hear what they're working on, raise the topics that matter to you, and help plan for the future of the Hills.

Step away from the noise of school life for a bushwalk and a few quiet mindfulness practices with other educators. Reconnect over a platter and a glass of wine as the light drops, hear how the wellbeing work is done here, and see the 2027 Educator Wellbeing Calendar launched.

Take the wheel of a latest specification supercar and drive it through the Hills. You set out from the lodge and see South Australia from the driver's seat.

Walk under towering trees with no goal but to notice what pulls your eye, then sit with a journal and a simple prompt to sketch or write it down. Reflect on the seeds you are planting now, small intentions and acts of courage, and close with a seasonal tea ceremony in the open air.

Hear Wolf Blass tell his own story over a glass from his museum selection and German canapés. He talks about his foundation, its work on German and Australian ties in SA, and one more project. German Week ends with the man whose name is on the bottle, in English and German.

Spread a rug on the lawn while a nine-piece soul and disco band with a full horn section works through Respect, Lady Marmalade and Stayin' Alive. Louis Fuller and DJ Luke Henry play around them, and as the afternoon runs into evening the soul turns to disco.

Hand disgorge, dosage and cork your own bottle of sparkling using old-world methods, and carry it home. Sean walks you through it and shows you the critically endangered candle bark forest he and Sue are custodians of on their nature sanctuary.

Hand disgorge, dose and cork your own bottle of sparkling wine the old way, and carry it home with you. First, Sean walks you through the candle bark forest they hold themselves custodians of, one of the most protected patches in the Mt Lofty Ranges, and why it needs looking after.

Emma Horwood sings and plays harp about trees, birds, water and seeds, from medieval tunes through Kate Bush and Nick Drake. She wrote "The Fertile Void" for this, likening frozen seeds waiting out winter to our own hard seasons. Forty seats, close enough to hear the strings breathe.

Sit close enough to hear the strings on a pedal and celtic harp, in a room seating forty. Emma Horwood sings trees, birds, seeds and water, from medieval melodies to Kate Bush and Nick Drake. She wrote "The Fertile Void" for this festival, about seeds waiting out winter, still alive.

Build your own weekend of chamber music from Chamberfest 2026, picking three concerts or more across the festival. A taste of the whole thing without signing up for every note.

Walk into the bushland behind one of the Hills' old estates with a Trees For Life guide who can read every path. Learn how feral olives crowd out native plants, and hear about the restoration bringing this patch back into balance.

Sit under a golden oak with a cup of cacao, then walk into the eucalyptus to see whether you can feel a tree the way Alice does. Alice is a flower farmer who talks to plants, and she will guide you through breath, movement and touch, finishing with Qigong at the grandmother tree.

Walk a candlebark forest with the highest conservation rating in the Mt Lofty Ranges, glass of wine in hand, looking for wildflowers among the trees. Sean will tell you about 28 years of bush care and the endangered species this 20-acre sanctuary was set aside to protect.

Spend an hour with a guide learning to pick out the woodland birds recorded here, many at risk of vanishing from the Adelaide and Mount Lofty Ranges. Then get your hands into the bush, learning the regeneration skills that help those species hang on.

Walk off the worn tracks into parts of the bush most people never see, where native seedlings are coming up on their own once the weeds are pulled back. They'll hand you the tools and show you how, first timer or not. Turn around at the end and see the patch you cleared for the natives to take over.

Flammkuchen keep coming to your table, one after another, until everyone has had enough. That is how they serve it in Alsace, and here it comes with red or white Glühwein and Spaghetti Eis to finish.

Turn ferns, wattle, ivy and camellia leaves from your garden into an arrangement of your own. The group gets creative with whatever is growing, from leucadendrons and native wax flowers to succulents. You go home with your garden in a vase.

Take the kids into the park with a nature journal full of activities to work through as you explore. Get creative and discover the place together, then take the journal home for the next adventure.

Take your partner out into the bushland and learn to move, talk and be still together. You are guided through playful movement, conscious communication and gentle mindful practices that build trust and intimacy. You leave feeling more solid in your relationship.

Bring what you know about the Little Para and South Para rivers to a room with no agenda and no decisions to make. Say what is working, what is under pressure and what a good water future looks like, now reviews have found the current plans no longer suit the region.

Start in Paris with Poulenc's music for a stage comedy of errors, then Piers Lane playing Debussy's Suite Bergamasque. An Australian piece for clarinet and cello looks at children caught in the war in Afghanistan, before Ravel's trio from the edge of 1914.

Behind every fire truck there is a crew on the radio running paging, mapping and strike team coordination. Meet them, and the brigades, at an open base with a free sausage sizzle, Smokey the Bear and VR goggles. You do not have to fight fires to be part of the CFS.

Cut, burnish, paint and sew a leather collar to fit your own dog, with jeweller Olivia of Okay Kathigitis guiding each step. You leave with a collar made to your dog's neck, start to finish, no leatherwork needed to begin.

Let your kids make a mini flower posy to carry home, then fizz up a potion jar and turn spring flowers into art. Little Wild & Green and a group of local businesses fill the session with nature crafts and open play. It is a celebration of spring and of learning through play.

Walk the avenue of mature trees into five acres holding more than a thousand roses, box hedges and a prairie garden still taking shape. Buy plants grown from the beds themselves. It was made in memory of a friend lost to MND.

Sit down with the CFS and actually write the Bushfire Survival Plan you keep meaning to make. They give you the tools to fill it in, so before the next fire season you know what your household will do and when.

Bring what you know about Reedy Creek to a room with no agenda and no decisions to make. Reviews have found the current water plans no longer suit the region's changing conditions, and what locals say here helps shape the next ones.

Bring the worry you carry about the natural world into a circle of people who feel it too. A therapist holds the space for reflection and ritual, so grief that usually goes un-worded can be spoken and shared. You leave held, and a little more connected to the earth and to each other.

Sit down with Marlene for tea and sweets before the shop has even opened its doors. This is a first tasting, and she wants your honest verdict on every pour and bite. What you say here shapes what everyone else gets later.

Fill your basket with just-picked seasonal produce from the growers themselves. Buy straight from the people who grew and made it.

Buy your veg from the growers who actually pulled it out of the ground. Fill your basket with what's in season, straight from local hands.

Fill your basket with seasonal fruit and veg picked just up the road. You buy straight from the growers who planted and harvested it.

Fill your basket with produce picked by the growers standing in front of you. You buy straight from the people who grew it, in the shade of the trees.

Fill your basket with seasonal produce from the growers themselves. You buy straight from the people who grew and made it.

Buy your veg and eggs straight from the growers who raised them. Fill your bag while the morning's still cool.

Fill your basket with produce sold by the people who grew it. Ask the growers how it was made and what's good this week.

Fill your basket with fruit and veg picked this week by the growers themselves. You buy straight from the people who grew it.

Buy fruit and veg from the growers who raised it. Fill your basket with whatever's in season this week.

Fill your basket with produce picked that week, sold by the growers themselves. Seasonal fruit and veg straight from the people who grew it.

Chat to the makers behind handmade gifts, homewares and craft. It has the easy feel of a village hall gathering.

Browse handmade craft, gifts and homewares from local makers. Chat to the people who made them in a friendly village-hall market.

You only catch this market when the month runs to a fifth weekend. That quirk of the calendar is the whole reason it happens.

Wander stalls of local craft and produce from Hills makers. It fills the community hall once a month.

Browse stalls of local craft, produce and makers under the one hall roof. It's a community market run by locals each month.

Home baking, garden produce and handmade crafts under one country roof. Wander the stalls and see what the locals have brought in this fortnight.

Fill a bag with fresh garden produce and still-warm home baking. Browse the handmade craft stalls while you're at it.

Load up on fruit and veg picked by Hills growers themselves. Chat to the people who grew and made what is on the stall.

Fill your basket with fruit and veg straight from Hills growers. You get to chat with the people who actually grew and made it.

Fill your basket from the growers who raised the fruit and veg. Chat with the makers behind everything you take home.

Fill your basket from the growers who raised the produce. Fresh veg and makers' goods, straight from the Hills.

Fill your basket with fruit and veg from the Hills growers who picked it. You'll meet the makers behind every stall.

Fruit and veg from the growers who raised it, picked out on the spot. Local makers bring whatever came up fresh that morning.

Fill your basket with produce straight from the Hills growers who raised it. Local makers set up alongside them in the one spot.

Fill your basket with fruit and veg straight from the Hills growers who raised it. You buy direct from the people who grow and make it.

Buy fruit and veg from the Hills growers who picked it. Wander tables of local makers with their produce and more.

Fill your basket with fruit, veg and eggs from the growers who raised them. Meet the makers behind your breakfast face to face.

Wander the oval past stalls of local produce, plants and handmade goods. It's a relaxed country market with the easy feel of a Hills weekend.

Fill your basket with local produce, plants and handmade bits on the oval. It's an easygoing country market to wander through.

Local makers and growers set up their stalls inside the old hall. Come see what's fresh and handmade this month.

Local growers and makers set up their stalls inside the old memorial hall. Come find what the Hills are picking and crafting this month.

Wander the pedestrian laneways off the main road when they turn yellow for spring, in a maze of stalls that marks the season in bloom. Artwork for the day comes from local artist Nicole Stewart, on Peramangk and Kaurna Country, run by the village businesses themselves.

Pop-up stalls, food and live entertainment spill through the laneways and side streets. It runs alongside the market, so you can wander both in one afternoon.

Wander the laneways for pop-up stalls, food and live entertainment. It runs alongside the market, so you get both in one afternoon.

Browse around 80 stalls of local makers, bakers and growers under the oaks. Fresh produce and handmade finds to fill your morning.

Wander under the oaks past around 80 stalls of local makers and bakers. You'll find growers with fresh produce alongside handmade goods.

Around 80 stalls of makers, bakers and growers spread out under the oaks. Wander the street for local produce and handmade finds.

Browse local produce, plants and handmade crafts under one roof. It carries on while the Institute is being refurbished.

Wander stalls of produce, plants and handmade crafts from local makers. All under one roof while the usual home gets a refurbish.

Browse produce, plants and crafts from local makers all under the one roof. It's a temporary home while the usual hall is being refurbished.

Fresh produce, plants and craft from local makers fill the hall. Wander the stalls while the Institute gets its refurbishment.

Fresh produce, home baking and local makers all under one country hall roof. Wander the stalls and see what the growers and makers have brought in.

Fill your basket with fresh produce and home baking from local growers. Have a browse of what the makers have brought along to sell.