Photo: Barossa Valley courtesy of C. McIntyre

The SAcommunity team has been inspired to look at some of the business and professional groups, associations and trade unions that operate across South Australia.

Joining these groups can provide opportunities to expand your networks and undertake professional development, they also can provide support for your career and the industry. 

SAcommunity Editor Training at Local Councils and Public Libraries

Are you a hacker, hipster, hustler or humanitarian?
Want to co-create tech solutions for refugees living in SA?

Join the Techfugees Hackathon Adelaide.

5pm Friday 26th May to 6pm Sunday 28th May, at the Red Cross Building, 212 Pirie Street Adelaide.

Register for this free event via the Eventbrite link here as Adelaide follows in the success of the Techfugees Hackathons in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane and takes part in this global initiative.

National Palliative Care Week runs from the 21-28 May and SAcommunity had the opportunity to find out more about the services provided by Palliative Care SA, their education forums and information sessions and the ‘Dying to Talk’ program. Read more about this important organisation below whose vision is that ‘All South Australians facing death and bereavement are supported to live, die and grieve well.’

National Palliative Care Week 21-28 May

“Celebrate” Library and Information Week 2017

On 22-28 May 2017, South Australian Libraries will join organisations from Broome to Hobart, celebrating Library and Information Week 2017.

Library and Information Week aims to raise the profile of libraries and information service professionals in Australia and showcase the many and varied resources and services that libraries provide to the community.

Grab a program for South Australia's History Festival and schedule your entire month of May!

Have you ever wanted to see inside Glenside Hospital’s infamous Z Ward? Or get underground, in the Treasury tunnels? Or do you want to know about the poet who never lived, or the notorious body in the freezer? Get excited and get curious about history in South Australia with the History Festival which runs from 1 to 31 May 2017.

There’s everything you’d expect, and a whole lot more! 

(Photo: Leigh Street Architecture, Adelaide)

1-31 May 

South Australia’s History Festival presented by the History Trust of South Australia

Explore and share SA history and stories through tours, talks, walks, exhibitions and events
Search through the 2017 History Festival program here for activities in your area.

Affordable rental properties have continued to decrease in Australia and in response, there is a renewed focus on social housing. Housing SA works with departments, agencies and non-government organisations to provide housing options and support.

Community housing is one option offered by not-for-profit organisations to provide long-term rental accommodation for people on low to moderate incomes who need housing.

Job Description - Volunteer Information Officer