29-681: Roma Street Parkland covers 11 hectares in the centre of the City of Brisbane , Queensland , Australia. The Roma Street Parkland is adjacent to the former Brisbane Transit Centre and the Roma Street railway station from which it takes its name (the park does not directly face onto Roma Street ). There is pedestrian access to the Roma Street Parkland from the Roma Street railway station, as well as from Albert Street , and from
58-636: A civic cabinet comprising the lord mayor, the deputy mayor (drawn from the majority on council) and the chairpersons of the seven standing committees drawn from the membership of council. Due to the City of Brisbane's status as the country's largest LGA, the lord mayor is elected by the largest single-member electorate in Australia. Like all mayors in Queensland, the lord mayor is vested with very broad executive power. The Brisbane City Council operates under
87-419: A mobile library service to Aspley , Bellbowrie , Brighton , Ellen Grove , Forest Lake , Manly West , Mount Crosby and The Gap . There is also a pop-up library that attends community events and festivals, as well as visiting various parks around Brisbane for children's storytime sessions (a list of dates and places is published some months in advance). Brisbane's sister cities are: Nice , France
116-593: Is Meliora sequimur , Latin for We aim for better things . The council's corporate slogan is Dedicated to a better Brisbane . The city's colours are blue and gold. Its corporate logo was introduced in 1982 in preparation for the Commonwealth Games hosted in Brisbane that year. It features a stylised version of Brisbane's City Hall which opened in 1930. The city's floral emblems are the ( exotic ) poinsettia and Brisbane wattle , and its faunal emblems are
145-709: Is based in Brisbane , Queensland , Australia , and is the resident theatre company of the University of Queensland . QSE's training draws heavily on the work of Kristin Linklater , Shakespeare & Company (USA), and Augusto Boal 's Theatre of the Oppressed , as well as incorporating yoga , mindfulness , the Alexander Technique and Feldenkrais . QSE offers regular training to the public in
174-526: Is different from many of its therapeutic counterparts in Prison Theatre and/or Dramatherapy , which have rehabilitation as a direct goal (see for example the work of Geese Theatre ). The most basic aim of QSE's Prison Project is to put on a play. In rehearsing a play for performance the rehabilitative side-effects become manifest: the project develops emotional bravery and self-awareness, social skills and self-confidence, individual dedication as well as
203-636: Is now closed, and the program is expected to move to the South-East Queensland Correctional Complex in 2012 or 2013. The Prison Project utilises a combination of Theatre of the Oppressed and Shakespeare performance to engage a group of volunteer prisoners with dramatic form. The project, typically of three months duration, culminates in a performance of Shakespeare's work in the prison for an invited audience of family members, prisoners, correctional staff, and other community members. The Prison Project's main objective
232-558: Is roughly equivalent to the populations of Tasmania , the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory combined. In 2016–2017, the council administered a budget of over $ 3 billion, by far the largest budget compared to those of the City of Sydney and City of Melbourne LGAs. The City derives from cities, towns and shires that merged in 1925. The main offices and central library of
261-423: Is the world's largest subtropical garden in a city centre. The parkland features a variety of themed gardens and recreational areas, with an extensive web of pathways and boardwalks traversing cascading waterways and rocky outcrops, and also in situ artworks by 16 local artists. Local Indigenous people used the area for thousands of years conducting meetings and ceremonies. In 1825 the Roma Street Parkland area
290-718: The Amphitheatre by the Queensland Theatre Company , and the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble , as well as by other theatre groups, with many plays by William Shakespeare having been performed at the amphitheatre. The convenient access to the Amphitheatre is through Wickham Terrace near M.K. Gandhi statue. Other theatre productions, including orchestral concerts, have also been performed there. One such concert, in which
319-769: The Brisbane Tramways Trust . The Brisbane City Council maintains the Brisbane Local Heritage Register , a list of nominated sites that satisfy the council's heritage criteria. The City of Brisbane is governed by the Brisbane City Council, the largest local council in Australia. The Brisbane City Council has its power divided between a lord mayor , a parliamentary-style council of twenty-six councillors representing single-member wards of approximately 30,000 voters (roughly equivalent in size to state electorates), and
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#1732790965661348-501: The City of Brisbane Act 2010 , while other local governments in Queensland are governed by the Local Government Act 2009 . Council meetings are held at Level 2, City Hall, 64 Adelaide Street, Brisbane City every Tuesday at 2pm except during recess and holiday periods. This temporary venue is in use due to the restoration work being performed on the traditional venue Brisbane City Hall . Council Meetings generally open to
377-850: The Linklater voice method, Speaking Shakespeare in Your Own Voice (personalising and acting Shakespeare), and Theatre of the Oppressed . QSE's Artistic Director Rob Pensalfini is a Designated Linklater voice teacher and a faculty member at Shakespeare & Company . The Prison Project, started in 2006 under the name Arts in Community Enhancement is Australia's first and only Prison Shakespeare project, and Australia's only ongoing prison theatre program. It ran in Borallon Correctional Centre in 2006, 2009, 2010, and 2011. Borallon Correctional Centre
406-615: The Queensland Department of Public Works . Brisbane's Indian community commissioned a statue of Gandhi, created by Ram V. Sutar and Anil Sutar. It was unveiled by Narendra Modi , then Prime Minister of India in 2014, during the G20 . Roma Street Parkland has an open-air amphitheatre , previously known as the Albert Park Amphitheatre, which had been a feature of Albert Park for a number of decades before
435-702: The graceful tree frog and the koala . Brisbane City Council operate libraries in Annerley , Ashgrove , Banyo , Bracken Ridge , Brisbane CBD ( Brisbane Square ), Bulimba , Carina , Carindale ( Westfield Carindale ), Chermside , Coopers Plains , Corinda , Everton Park , Fairfield , Upper Mount Gravatt ( Garden City ), Grange , Hamilton , Holland Park , Inala , Indooroopilly , Kenmore , Mitchelton , Mount Coot-tha ( Botanic Gardens ), Mount Gravatt , Mount Ommaney , New Farm , Nundah , Sandgate , Stones Corner , Sunnybank Hills , Toowong , West End , Wynnum , and Zillmere . In addition, it operates
464-489: The City of Brisbane with a view to uniting the Brisbane metropolitan area under a single planning and governance structure. The City of Brisbane Act 1924 received assent from the Governor on 30 October 1924. On 1 October 1925, twenty local government areas of various sizes were abolished and merged into the new city, namely: The council also assumed responsibility for several quasi-autonomous government authorities, such as
493-475: The Roma Street Parkland was established. Outdoor film exhibitor Moonlight Cinema holds a licence to operate an outdoor cinema experience within the park, offering hot food, beverages, film festivals, and many other activities during summer months annually. From lively music festivals and cultural celebrations to family-friendly markets and educational workshops, there's always something happening to engage and entertain visitors of all ages.Plays are performed at
522-555: The central business districts and inner neighbourhoods of those cities. However, the City of Brisbane administers a significant portion of the Brisbane Greater Capital City Statistical Area (GCCSA), accounting for just under half its population. As such, it has a larger population than any other local government area in Australia. The City of Brisbane was the first Australian LGA to reach a population of more than one million. Its population
551-470: The commitment to work as a member of a team. QSE's Prison Project shares many similarities with Prison Shakespeare projects in the United States, the best known of which is Shakespeare Behind Bars , though it was not directly based on any of them. In 2011, the founder of Shakespeare Behind Bars , Curt Tofteland , visited QSE on a Fulbright Fellowship and traded skills with the facilitators of
580-671: The council are at 266 George Street , also known as Brisbane Square . Brisbane City Hall houses the Council Chamber, the offices of the Lord Mayor and Deputy Mayor, meeting and reception rooms and the Museum of Brisbane . In the 2021 census , the City of Brisbane had a population of 1,242,825 people. The City of Brisbane includes the following settlements: Total: 19 Total: 50 Total: 54 Total: 27 Total: 43 Total: 5 The Government of Queensland created
609-449: The innovative concrete finishes created by the use of coloured concrete and an apparently random pattern of rough cast concrete generated by the formworkers which makes the finish appear to change through the day depending on the angle of the sun and the length of shadows cast by the detailing on the walls. The technique was created through a design and construction collaboration between project designers PARC managing contractor Abigroup and
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#1732790965661638-621: The music was by Johann Strauss , was called " Strauss Beneath the Stars ", which was presented in October 1983. The Lord Mayor 's Christmas Carols and Brisbane's Carols by Candlelight concerts were held at the Albert Park Amphitheatre before Riverstage was built in the City Botanic Gardens . Roma Street Parkland is one of five locations in Australia to hold the 2022/2023 Green Flag Award, an international accreditation given to
667-517: The public, excluding the Civic Cabinet. The city of Brisbane is divided by 26 wards, each of which is represented by a councillor. Elections for these positions are held every four years. The results of the March 2024 elections delivered a Liberal National Party majority, with the wards of the City of Brisbane represented by the following councillors: The motto of the City of Brisbane
696-522: The section of the Parkland which was formerly called Albert Park on Wickham Terrace . Roma Street Parkland is open to visitors 24 hours a day, except for the Spectacle Garden and Rainforest Walk, which are open daily from dawn until dusk. There is also a car park area, with road access from the intersection between Wickham Terrace , College Road and Gregory Terrace . Roma Street Parkland
725-449: The steep terrain creating the current day artificial escarpment and the boundary of the former Albert Park. During World War II , the terminal was vital for transporting war materials and military personnel north. Continuing to grow, the Roma Street railway station was redeveloped to service a metropolitan and long-distance train network. Because of limitations of the site revealed through the increasing mechanisation of freight handling and
754-469: The use of containers, the facility was eventually relocated to Acacia Ridge in 1991. In February 1995, Premier Wayne Goss announced the railway goods yard would be redeveloped as parkland. Construction began in 2000 with the parkland opened to the public in 2001. The project won its first award before it had opened: a commendation in the Cement and Concrete Association of Australia Streetsmart awards for
783-578: The world's best green spaces. 27°27′47″S 153°01′08″E / 27.463°S 153.019°E / -27.463; 153.019 City of Brisbane The City of Brisbane is a local government area (LGA) which comprises the inner portion of Greater Brisbane , the capital of Queensland , Australia. Its governing body is the Brisbane City Council . The LGAs in the other mainland state capitals ( Sydney , Melbourne , Perth and Adelaide ) are generally responsible only for
812-528: Was formerly a sister city of Brisbane until the relationship was severed in 1995 as protest against the Chirac government's decision to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean. Bangkok became a sister city of Brisbane in 1997, but the partnership ended in 2017 at the latest. Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble The Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble (QSE) is an Australian theatre company. It
841-503: Was part of the original Brisbane settlement. In 1875 a railway terminal station on Roma Street was constructed as part of the Main Line railway linking Brisbane to Ipswich and Toowoomba . The terminal grew to become a major goods yard for Brisbane and, between 1911 and 1934, the area was extensively redeveloped to support its increase in services. In 1920 extensive excavation, removing 554,300 cubic metres of earth, permanently altered
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