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/or events:
“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)
“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)