Sport and Other Events
Events held on the Common include:
- Since 1977 the Latin American football League has played organised football on the red car pitches located on the south side of the common
- British Australian Rules Football League Grand Final, for which it is the traditional venue
- Colourscape Music Festival (one venue) since 1995
- Lesbian & Gay Pride festivals since 1996 and 1997
- The music festival Get Loaded In The Park
- Large scale music events, including 'Picnic Rocks' held by Action Against Hunger
- The South West Four music festival each year
- Every Easter and February George Irvin's Funfair visits the Common
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Famous quotes containing the words sport and, sport and/or events:
“Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ...”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“Americans living in Latin American countries are often more snobbish than the Latins themselves. The typical American has quite a bit of money by Latin American standards, and he rarely sees a countryman who doesn’t. An American businessman who would think nothing of being seen in a sport shirt on the streets of his home town will be shocked and offended at a suggestion that he appear in Rio de Janeiro, for instance, in anything but a coat and tie.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)
“The system was breaking down. The one who had wandered alone past so many happenings and events began to feel, backing up along the primal vein that led to his center, the beginning of hiccup that would, if left to gather, explode the center to the extremities of life, the suburbs through which one makes one’s way to where the country is.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)