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Welcome to Park Life...
Park Life aims to engage visitors to Central Park with new ideas and experiences in a familiar location. Park Life consists of two programs that will be run in Central Park on every Friday for fourteen weeks: a program of performances and a series of public lectures by experienced and entertaining speakers. Park Life is run by volunteers who have been inspired to initiate the program as part of a push to make Perth a more vibrant and creative city.
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An Exploration of Life Every Friday in Central Park
Parks and other pedestrian places are essential to a city's happiness.
-Enrique Pe’sa.
Park Life is about life in Central Park, in the City, in Perth and in the Universe. It’s about ideas, experiences and spaces. Park Life aims to transform a familiar space into the platform, or stage, for something new. It challenges expectations, both of how we behave in a space and what we get out of being there.
Set in Central Park, Park Life consists of two programs of public events held on alternating Fridays for 100 days. The aim of Park Life is to engage people in the City with new ideas and experiences in a familiar location. Park Life will provide opportunities for City residents and visitors to engage with, or observe, ideas and performances. They can listen for a few seconds or attend the entire program.
The first Park Life program consists of fortnightly performances in Central park. For an hour on Fridays, dancers, musicians, street performers, actors, storytellers and other artists from our community will transform the park into a stage; a stage where people eating lunch, or chatting to their friends or simply strolling by, will be offered an alternative experience of a lunch hour, of a park space, of a city.
The second Park Life program is about ideas. Every second week, a range of experienced speakers will speak on a variety of topics relating to locality, public life, culture, the city and its residents. Taking ‘urban conversations’ as an overarching theme, the topics will chosen to engage with residents and visitors in regards to where and how they live and why they live as they do. The speakers will be drawn from a variety of institutions and locations, including universities, business, the public service and NGOs and will be asked to speak for around half an hour. The aim of this program is to make Central Park a temporary gathering point for seekers of new ideas, explorers of local histories, and hunters of new narratives for their lives and where they live, or anyone who happens to be seated within hearing distance.
-Enrique Pe’sa.
Park Life is about life in Central Park, in the City, in Perth and in the Universe. It’s about ideas, experiences and spaces. Park Life aims to transform a familiar space into the platform, or stage, for something new. It challenges expectations, both of how we behave in a space and what we get out of being there.
Set in Central Park, Park Life consists of two programs of public events held on alternating Fridays for 100 days. The aim of Park Life is to engage people in the City with new ideas and experiences in a familiar location. Park Life will provide opportunities for City residents and visitors to engage with, or observe, ideas and performances. They can listen for a few seconds or attend the entire program.
The first Park Life program consists of fortnightly performances in Central park. For an hour on Fridays, dancers, musicians, street performers, actors, storytellers and other artists from our community will transform the park into a stage; a stage where people eating lunch, or chatting to their friends or simply strolling by, will be offered an alternative experience of a lunch hour, of a park space, of a city.
The second Park Life program is about ideas. Every second week, a range of experienced speakers will speak on a variety of topics relating to locality, public life, culture, the city and its residents. Taking ‘urban conversations’ as an overarching theme, the topics will chosen to engage with residents and visitors in regards to where and how they live and why they live as they do. The speakers will be drawn from a variety of institutions and locations, including universities, business, the public service and NGOs and will be asked to speak for around half an hour. The aim of this program is to make Central Park a temporary gathering point for seekers of new ideas, explorers of local histories, and hunters of new narratives for their lives and where they live, or anyone who happens to be seated within hearing distance.
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