Picnic in the Park

Mount Gambier’s Garden Square will overflow with activities on Sunday, 9th December 2012 as we celebrate the Main Corner’s first birthday, and the Mount Gambier Library’s Christmas markets.

The Garden Square is a place where nature meets culture, and incorporates some of the city’s greatest landmark locations such as the Cave Garden, our award winning Library and Main Corner complex, SA’s premier regional Art Gallery The Riddoch, Country Arts SA, The Old Town Hall and the Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre.

Join us in a day-long celebration, kicking off with the Library’s largest markets ever with extended hours from 11am to 4pm and situated throughout the Library, library verandah, Civic Centre and City Hall verandah.

Pick up some quality handmade local arts, crafts and delicacies for your loved ones for Christmas. There will be plenty of food on offer including picnic specials from Sorrentos at the Main in City Hall. Bring a rug or chairs and situate yourselves in the Cave Garden for a day of free live local musical entertainment, as well as plenty of fun for the kids including a bouncy castle, giant slide, dunking machine, badge making, Christmas tree decorating and more.

There’s everything from Carols by fairylights for the little ones in the library, to a 30 piece orchestra and choir in the Main Corner Foyer. Every inch of the Garden Square will be packed with entertainment for the entire family and as the day turns to dusk the big outdoor screen in the Cave Garden will provide some moonlight cinema.

Join in the Main Corner first birthday celebrations and kick start the festive season on Sunday, 9th December 2012 from 11am until 9.30pm, in Mount Gambier’s Garden Square.

Full a full program of events, visit one of the participating Garden Square venues or download a program from the City of Mount Gambier website

www.mountgambier.sa.gov.au

For media enquiries contact City of Mount Gambier Main Corner Venue Coordinator, Talie Teakle on 8723 9566 or

tteakle@mountgambier.sa.gov.au