Barcham has sent in this picture of an increasingly colourful Garema Place thanks to Diversity ACT.
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That big diamond looking fountain on City Walk has a new set of pretty colours to delight passers by. I have always had a bit of a soft spot for light shows, so I’m all for it.
Check it out in the video above.
The daily show rotates with colours depicting ‘rainbow’, fire and water.
On Valentine’s Day [...]

A national day to remember those who have died because of domestic and family violence.
The ACT Domestic Violence Crisis Service will be conducting a Candle Lighting Ceremony
1 May 2013
5:45pm
Garema Place, Civic

Canberra CBD Limited’s ‘Skate in The City’ 2013 is on the way!
I’ve never actually gotten up on the ice myself, but I wander through Garema Place every day and adore seeing it all prettied up. The ice, the lights, the skaters, the fact that the music seems to be Billie Jean on repeat.
It’s pretty great.
Skate [...]

I walked past the Landmark Cafe yesterday (Wednesday) and saw that the business was closed, and for sale. 
Does anyone know more about the situation?

The Refugee Action Committee has called a demonstration in support of refugees and against the Pacific Solution for Saturday 25 August at 12.30pm in Garema Place in Canberra.

Well there has been a drop in the number of chuggers recently but they are still around. I have discovered the best way to get back of them when they take things too far.
About 6 weeks ago I was stopped in Garema Place by a guy representing UNICEF. We had a bit of a chat [...]

Impact Comics’ ‘Japan Day‘, originally touted as a chance for cosplayers to strut their stuff on ice and win prizes, has now received an upgrade to become less geeky and more family-friendly.
Skate in the City will celebrate its closing day and final “Cultural Sunday” on Sunday (29 July) with Japan having the last hurrah.
Join in [...]

Walking through Garema Place this lunchtime I realised that what I’d always assumed to be a bollard was in fact a bubbler.
Does it work? I wondered.
Well. Not at first. But eventually I was able to coax a sad dribble out of it.
And then… it wouldn’t stop.
In terms of making bottled water less appealing there’s still [...]

James Fahy has sent in this sweet picture of colour coordinated tradies watching the ice skating in Garema Place.
But in other news Impact Comics have announced on Facebook that the wildly successful ice skating is bringing the curtain down with a Japan Day to include cosplayers on ice.
ATTENTION COSPLAYERS!
Sunday 29th of July is Japan [...]

Today I was in Garema place (once again) and I saw this band playing. It’s not uncommon to find local musicians that busk on the side of the street but it’s not every day that you find proper bands playing. Unlike many busking bands, the boys had a sign up stating who they were; Woodlock, [...]

I was walking through Garema Place today and, unsurprisingly, I saw something a bit odd. There was a man just casually wrapping some cling film around two poles outside of Impact Comics. I’ve seen quite a few strange things at Garema and I decided to stick this one out, to see if he was going [...]

Canberra’s worst kept secret is having its media launch in a few minutes so here we go.
A bigger ice rink is going in Garema Place this winter for some skating fun.
More details in a minute.
UPDATE 23/05/12 10:11 So now we’ve got a media release which tells us the rink is increasing to 400 square metres [...]

Some nights the view from the Garema Place Goonbag is more spectacular than others.
Orangedrummerboy has posted this spectacular effort. [CC BY 2.0]
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I went down at lunch to see the Youth Homelessness Matters Day event at Garema Place for myself. It was like all of the usual Garema Place events- bands that do Blink 182 and Greenday covers; a coffee van; some BBQ sausages; as well as stalls from organisations relevant to this issue.
Once there, I had [...]

Had the unfortunate pleasure of being approached by a bourbon and coke carrying drunk member of the panhandling community this afternoon in Garema Place looking for cash.
When I declined with a sorry no and continued walking he started throwing abuse in a LOUD voice (along the lines of ‘you f*&*&*g   b%$#h c!@t  etc). He [...]

ACT Policing is appealing for witnesses to a robbery in Garema Place, Civic in the early hours of the morning, (Saturday, April 7).
About 12.40 am a man was walking towards King O’Malley’s pub when he was approached by two males. One male, without provocation punched the victim in the head a number of times knocking [...]

I rarely venture into Garema Place these days, so I don’t know if this has been going on long, but today I came across a protest of sorts – signs and a woman handing out flyers decrying Bradley Allen Lawyers.
The woman is alleging that the firm gave a cost estimate of $20 000 to settle [...]

You’ll need to get your skates on, but if Tibet is a subject that gets you going they’re having a rally at 1pm tomorrow in Garema Place. Here’s what you need to know:
Tibetans and Tibet supporters across Australia will go to the streets tomorrow (10 March), urging the Australian government to publicly speak out on [...]

Zeital has sent in this new angle on the new Poets’ Corner in Garema Place.
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So an invite came in the mail:
You Are Here would like to invite you for a cup of tea and a chat about how things are going and such
David Finnigan
Feb 3 (4 days ago)
to John, Julia, Yolande, hadley
Dear Julia (aka BMA Magazine) and Johnboy (aka the RiotACT),
So I guess it sometimes feels as if [...]

Canberra CBD have announced a new artwork in Garema Place, called Poets Corner:
We attended the launch of Poet’s Corner in Garema Place this morning. Three seperate sculptures celebrate the lives and achievements of AD Hope, David Campbell and Judith Wright. The installation features bronze busts of each of these significant Australian poets who have a [...]

A lunchtime observer of Roller Skate In The City in Garema Place has much to ponder.
One wonders at the lack of a hand rail at a roller rink, why the letters CBD have been embossed metre high onto the skating surface, and where all those disco balls have been hiding up until now?
Deeper questions arise, [...]

Last week’s much missed intern Ruqi tipped me off that Garema Place’s home of cheap speed and cough medicine, the Goon Bag, has earned itself a listing in the Urban Dictionary:
“The Goon Bag” is a specific location in Garema Place, Civic, Canbera City, Australia. This is a common hang out for alternitive sub-cultures, such as [...]

Fleetwood Mac were blaring, a painted line marked out a skating area in Garema Place, roller soccer was being perpetrated, Andrew Barr was talking to a camera, yep it must be the launch of Roller Skate In The City.

Canberra CBD have put out a media release with all the details.
Tickets are now on sale for [...]

Garema Place this morning features some unusually placed bandaids on the Sir John Downer memorial fountain.
Over to you readers for an appropriate caption.
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[ 17 December, 2011; ] Where: City Walk, Canberra City (outside Chicken Gourmet/King O’Malleys)
When: Saturday 17 December 2011
What time: 11:00 am start – register from 10:30am
Format: 7 round swiss
Time control: G/15m
Entry Fees: $10 ($5 for juniors)
Prizes: First prize minimum $100, other prizes based on total entries

For further info visit http://tinyurl.com/actchess

Simon Corbell has proudly announced the arrival of new garbage bins in Civic.
A trial of thirty-seven recycling bins in Civic will start from today, Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Simon Corbell, announced today.
“The ACT Government has committed $165,000 to install the new recycling bins and bin shrouds as part of the new public place [...]

RiotACT Core Command watched the Melbourne Cup from Honkytonks on Garema Place. There was beer, conversation, fascinating women in fascinators, some sort of horse race, and… oh my… Chugger Watching.
From a safe position and with drinks to hand it’s the ultimate bloodsport!
She’s moving in for the kill, she’s got eye contact, she’s gotten hold of [...]

Schadenfreude
scha•den•freu•de [shahd-n-froi-duh]
Noun
Satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else’s misfortune.
Magpies are schadenfreuden sunsubitches!
You can see it in their beady little eyes, and as the weather warms up so too does their appetite for causing fear and panic in the streets.
Having spent most of my life being unfairly targeted by these spring demons of the sky, [...]

So last night I had my name on the door for the opening of the new bar on Garema Place, which (in the interests of disclosure) a friend has a stake in.
It’s called Honkytonks, it’s where Mama’s Trattoria used to be, and it’s going to be a bit of thing (at least until the new [...]

Civic’s petunia pots appear to be getting filled slowly for the spring.
Along Bunda and Mort Streets there’s nothing, while Garema Place has been done.
But we’ll admit to being mightily impressed by the efforts of drunken vandals to get three metres into the air and twist along Bunda Street.
Garema Place ones do look nice though.