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CHANGE OF VENUE for the launch of Chronicle – The First Fifty Years of Friendly Street – The Second Edition

Constellations at the Exchange

Monday, 2 March, 2026
1:00 – 2:00 pm

The Exchange
55 Exchange Pl, Adelaide SA, 5000

Please note the change of venue (originally scheduled for Adelaide Town Hall)

Chronicle – The First Fifty Years of Friendly Street – The Second Edition will be launched as part of the Constellations Festival at the Exchange Building (former Stock Exchange and home of RiAus).

Welcome a panel of Friendly Street poets, as they launch Chronicle, their vibrant history publication, and relate colourful stories from the hippie ’70s to present day, along with readings of some of the best poetry presented at the longest-running, un-censored open mic in Australia.… Click for more

FSP December City Meeting – Launch of Chronicle – The First Fifty Years of Friendly Street and Open Mic

Friday, 5th December, 2025
Doors open at 6:00pm for 6:15pm start

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

To celebrate the first 50 years of FSP, we are launching:
Chronicle – The First Fifty Years of Friendly Street

This is an important history of one of the South Australia’s cultural landmarks (us). Supported by a grant from CreateSA, we can sell it to members for $5.00 (one copy each). Each of our 50 contributors will be acknowledged with the presentation of a free copy of this special publication.

A more elaborate second edition with colour and updates about the Love In and other FSP 50th Anniversary events will come out in the new year.… Click for more

A Chronicle of Friendly Street’s First Fifty Years – Call for Contributions.

As part of Friendly Street’s fiftieth anniversary year in 2025, we are inviting contributions from past and present members or attendees for a ‘Chronicle’ of recollections about what Friendly Street has meant and provided in ‘human’ terms for those involved over the last half century.

These memories should be in the form of short vignettes, no more than two paragraphs or 500 words long. They can be composed as prose, poetry, or a mixture of both.

The vignette must express each contributor’s sense of a significant memory, anecdote, or reflection on why Friendly Street mattered – whether for them personally or in broader social terms – during the period when they first became involved.… Click for more