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jk1237 wrote:

fkj wrote:I hear the connector road has just reopened. I wish they had just left it closed, people were getting used to it not being there, and with a bit of work on signalling it should've been able to work without a hitch. I feel like its still just going to be a fairly useless/unwelcoming space if it's left cut up by roads left right and centre.

atleast one difference is that the middle roadway can easily be closed for special events and the square won't look like it has 6 lane wide bitumen road running through it. Maybe it should only be open Monday to Friday peak hours, and the road closed other times

fishinajar wrote:

jk1237 wrote:

fkj wrote:I hear the connector road has just reopened. I wish they had just left it closed, people were getting used to it not being there, and with a bit of work on signalling it should've been able to work without a hitch. I feel like its still just going to be a fairly useless/unwelcoming space if it's left cut up by roads left right and centre.

atleast one difference is that the middle roadway can easily be closed for special events and the square won't look like it has 6 lane wide bitumen road running through it. Maybe it should only be open Monday to Friday peak hours, and the road closed other times

Weekend closure. With some markets overflow, outdoor entertainment and/or even additional parking for markets and Vic square rec users?

fkj wrote:like the idea of interpeak/weekend closure, and parking could be handy, somewhat like what they used to do on Rundle Road, although this would still give it that car dominated feel that is the downfall of vic sq

Victoria Square to come alive this fringe.
The newly redeveloped Victoria Square / Tarntanyangga will become the centre of a brand new Hub for the 2014 Adelaide Fringe. Featuring new venue, The Royal Croquet Club, there will be a further 23 venues in the streets running off the Square.

Throughout the area there will be more than 140 events in venues that include Tuxedo Cat, the Arts Theatre, Royalty Theatre, Adelaide Town Hall, La Boheme and The Promethean.
The team behind Little Miss Mexico and Little Miss Miami will run the Royal Croquet Club that will feature two performance tents, bars, croquet lawns and host the hit show A Simple Space by Adelaide’s own Gravity and Other Myths.

Popular pop-up venue, Tuxedo Cat, will re-open in a number of new locations within the hub including Raj House on Hyde St. (off Flinders St) and on the cnr. Of Pulteny St. and Wakefield St.

The Adelaide Fringe will produce two special free events in the Square. Everyone is invited to attend the Kaurna Ceremony to be held at dawn on Fri 7 February, exactly 7 days before the Fringe opens. Over the long weekend from 7 to 10 March, the Fringe Street Theatre Festival will feature street theatre performers from across Australia and around the world.

The Spirit Festival, produced by Tarntanyangga National Aboriginal Cultural Institute and celebrates Australia’s indigenous culture, will also be held at Victoria Square/ Tarndanyangga on the closing weekend of the Fringe on the 15 and16 March.

Waewick wrote:So lets split the crowd in half to try and get relevance for the square?

monotonehell wrote:

Waewick wrote:So lets split the crowd in half to try and get relevance for the square?

Not entirely fair, The Festivals have occupied Vic Square to some degree in past years. Add to that, the Fringe has already been spread across the City, suburbs (and State). For example the hub in Light Square last year. Take a look at a Fringe venues map, it's all over the shop.