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November 6 2003

Adelaide – are we born to be wild?

It seems we needed to go no further than Lou Reed or Steppenwolf to get some ideas about how to bring some life back into our city. According to leading British cultural planner and Adelaide Thinker in Residence, Adelaideans need to get wild and creative if the city is serious about maintaining its cultural verve and economic development.

At the end of his three-month residency in SA, Charles Landry will leave urging us to take more risks.

Landry will deliver a free public lecture, Rethinking Adelaide: a walk on the wild side to be hosted by Adelaide Thinkers in Residence and UniSA’s Bob Hawke Prime Ministerial Centre at the Adelaide Town Hall on Tuesday November 11 from 6 pm.

“Adelaide needs to take some chances – get a bit wild and promote what it’s really good at and what is distinctive about the place,” Landry says.

“There is enormous creative potential here and that needs to be unlocked and explored.”

More than 1000 people are expected to attend the lecture. Landry will explore the importance of creativity in achieving economic and social progress and the value in developing a more networked and connected city with special emphasis on embracing outer suburbs.

An international authority on city development and the role of culture in urban revitalisation, Landry has worked in more than 30 countries advising city and cultural leaders. He has lectured widely across Europe and advised major multilateral organisations such as The World Bank.

He is the founder and senior partner of COMEDIA, Britain’s leading cultural planning consultancy an independent agency specialising in integrated urban strategy and cultural policy.

Author of Creative City: a tool kit for urban innovators and Culture at the Crossroads; Culture and Cultural Institutions at the beginning of the 21st century he is about to begin a new publication – The Art of City Making.

The lecture will be opened by Premier Mike Rann and while entry is free, bookings are essential on 8302 0215 or online at www.hawkecentre.unisa.edu.au.

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