The Nature Festival of SA is back for its 6th year to help connect you with nature in adventurous, creative and new ways from 26 September until 12 October 2025.
The 2-week long festival features hundreds of events, encounters and experiences that connect people with nature through a program of arts, music, food, family adventures, conversations and Aboriginal culture.
With over 300 events now live, there’s something for everyone.
Sign up to Green Adelaide’s hosted events
As Principal Partner of Nature Festival, we are hosting several events. Here are 5 of our favourites:
- Learn about Adelaide’s eclectic birdlife with our Senior Landscape Officer Dr. Julie Schofield in It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane.
- Comb the beach looking for the clues our natural world gives us in our Beach Detectives at Aldinga.
- Aimed at children aged 11-16 Buzz and Nest hosted by some of our Youth Environment Council members is a great introduction in to helping pollinators thrive in our backyards.
- Get up close and personal to the creatures of the night in Nature by Night at Tangari Regional Park — These tours always sell out so get in quick!!
- Find out what we’ve been doing at Field River in this fun and informative hike.
Search all our events on the Nature Festival SA website.
2025 festival theme: Flow
Nature Festival Director Ryan Hubbard says that this year’s theme "Flow invites us to pay attention to all that moves, and all that moves us.”
"This year's program slows us down to feel deeply and reconnect in ways that are both personal and powerful.”
An all new element for teachers: Nature Festival’s Educators guide
For the first time, Nature Festival has a dedicated educator’s guide that we were proud to work on. The guide feature’s resources, activities and curriculum links that teachers can use to educate students on this year’s theme and nature connection in general.
One great activity students can get involved in is a community waterway portrait project, being led by Nature Festival Artist in Residence, Laura Wills. Students can share a photo of themselves at their local waterway and Laura will draw the image, print it onto fabric and stitch it into an evolving portrait.
Whether you are a curious kid, a nature-loving adult or an educator looking to be inspired, come celebrate spring and school holidays at Nature Festival 2025.
We are the Principal Partner of the 2025 Nature Festival of SA. Connecting people and nature is at the heart of Adelaide being a National Park City.