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🤖 BTech: AI and Mental Health 🤖Many people already use AI to assist with their mental health, and it can be a lot of hel...
21/10/2026

🤖 BTech: AI and Mental Health 🤖

Many people already use AI to assist with their mental health, and it can be a lot of help when used correctly and responsibly. However, there are some serious implications of using AI incorrectly that can lead to conditions like AI Psychosis and Algorithmic Psychosis.

In this revealing session, we will discuss the pros and cons of using a technology like AI to support our mental health. Come along to find out how AI can be used well for support and assistance, along with some key traps to avoid along the way.

📅 Thursday 29 October
⏰ 2 pm - 3 pm
📌 Burnside Library
💰 Free

✅ This session is suitable for beginners.

🎟️ Bookings are essential – https://burnside-events.bookable.net.au/ #!/event-detail/ev_30912f9eb701478dbca912c7405b7caa

🎵 Songs in the Library 🎵Join the Young Adelaide Voices for an hour of song in the library!We will welcome the youngest a...
20/10/2026

🎵 Songs in the Library 🎵

Join the Young Adelaide Voices for an hour of song in the library!

We will welcome the youngest and oldest youth choirs as they come together to celebrate the end of a wonderful year of singing. Members of the Junior and First Concert Choirs will share a range of fun and upbeat melodies, from playful rounds and canons to some of their favourite songs.

📅 Saturday 7 November
⏰ 11 am - 12 pm
📌 Burnside Library
💰 Free

Audiences will also be treated to a sneak peek of our upcoming festive concert with a little Christmas tune or two to get everyone into the holiday spirit!

✅ This session is suitable for all ages.

🎟️ Bookings are essential – https://burnside-events.bookable.net.au/ #!/event-detail/ev_015e80b2209b46f8a716669b3c2f9d71

✨ Only a week left to register for this essential author talk with Lauren Novak! ✨Have you found yourself in an argument...
19/10/2026

✨ Only a week left to register for this essential author talk with Lauren Novak! ✨

Have you found yourself in an argument with a child refusing to put on their shoes? Or wanted to abandon a tantrumming toddler in the freezer aisle? Then chances are you've experienced Mum Rage. The truth is that feeling angry as a mum is an almost universal experience - but no-one warns us.

Join us for a lively chat with Lauren Novak about her new book “Meltdown” - expect insights, laughs, and maybe a surprise or two!

📅 Thursday 29 October
⏰ 6.30 pm - 8 pm
📌 Burnside Library
💰 $10

Lauren Novak - a mum of two, journalist and author - spent more than a year examining what triggers her Mum Rage and discovering what actually helps to manage it. (Spoiler alert: it's not taking a deep breath!)

An award-winning news and features journalist of more than two decades; her work has been published in News Corp print and digital newspapers and magazines across Australia. Her reporting has been recognised with state and national accolades, including as a two-time winner of the SA Press Club's Gold Award for journalist of the year.

Lauren specialises in coverage of family violence and child safety and is an Our Watch Walkley Foundation fellow. She lives in Adelaide, South Australia, with her partner and their two children, born less than two years apart during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic.

📚 Copies of Meltdown will be available for purchase at the event courtesy of Harry Hartog Burnside.

🍸 Includes a glass of w**e and light refreshments.

🎫 Bookings essential - https://burnside-events.bookable.net.au/ #!/event-detail/ev_be8e96427de446f5a99441033ee191d9

19/10/2026

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✨ We're just a couple of weeks away from our Colours of Diwali celebration! 🌸Celebrate Diwali with a colourful, hands-on...
18/10/2026

✨ We're just a couple of weeks away from our Colours of Diwali celebration! 🌸

Celebrate Diwali with a colourful, hands-on family experience at Burnside Library!

Discover the significance and traditions of Diwali, contribute to a collaborative rangoli display, and create a lantern craft to take home. Plus, enjoy a sweet Diwali treat!

📅 Sunday 1 November
⏰ 3 pm - 4 pm
📌 Burnside Library
💰 $5

✅ Suitable for children aged 5-12 years and their families.

🎟️ Bookings are essential – https://burnside-events.bookable.net.au/ #!/event-detail/ColoursofDiwali2026

🎃 BKids: Spooky Craft for Halloween 🎃Join us for a fun session specially designed for primary-aged children!Make some sp...
15/10/2026

🎃 BKids: Spooky Craft for Halloween 🎃

Join us for a fun session specially designed for primary-aged children!

Make some spooky crafts, dress up in Halloween costume, and tell scary stories. An opportunity to meet other kids and get creative!

📅 Wednesday 21 October
⏰ 4 pm - 5 pm
📌 Burnside Library
💰 Free

✅ All craft materials provided.

🎫 Bookings essential - https://burnside-events.bookable.net.au/ #!/event-detail/ev_43ffd2e3e03c40c8b6fc707d7fb4316c

✨ Ring in the new year with Fiona McIntosh! ✨Register now and get ready to celebrate the new year with an exclusive even...
15/10/2026

✨ Ring in the new year with Fiona McIntosh! ✨

Register now and get ready to celebrate the new year with an exclusive event with Burnside favourite, Fiona McIntosh, as she launches her brand new crime series.

This one is sure to sell fast - save your spot now!

📅 Tuesday 5 January
⏰ 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
📌 The Regal Theatre
💰 $15

The Silencing is the first book in a heart-stopping new crime thriller series by internationally bestselling author of the DCI Jack Hawksworth books, Fiona McIntosh.

Meet Nina Crow, once a rising star of the Australian Federal Police, now recovering after an undercover operation went horrifyingly wrong, shattering her family and her career. Her life is a mess and for now Nina earns by taking on monotonous, low-end investigative tasks.

When she receives a call from a distressed man about his sister’s mysterious death in Fiji, she is reluctantly drawn into the case, which is closed, according to the authorities, but it leads her into fresh danger and Nina will need to silence her own fears in a quest for justice.

📚 Be among the first to get your hands on a copy of The Silencing courtesy of Dymocks Adelaide.

🍸 The Silencing themed booktails will be available to purchase courtesy of Fiction Distilling.

🎫 Bookings essential - https://burnside-events.bookable.net.au/ #!/event-detail/ev_2b672a572d58425f8f4755c3dba2db00

Penguin Random House

15/10/2026

Make sure you borrow and catch up on the Hunger Games books before Sunrise on the Reaping comes out in cinemas! 📖🎥
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✨ Are you ready for an epic adventure with Peter FitzSimons?! ✨Join us for an evening with Australia’s bestselling non-f...
14/10/2026

✨ Are you ready for an epic adventure with Peter FitzSimons?! ✨

Join us for an evening with Australia’s bestselling non-fiction writer, Peter FitzSimons AM, as he discusses his latest book, The Race to the Top of the World. Peter will be in conversation with Lainie Anderson Author.

The epic true story of George Mallory and Edmund Hillary and the quest to be the first to conquer Everest. A captivating story of adventure, daring, despair and triumph from Australia’s favourite storyteller.

📅 Monday 2 November
⏰ 6.30 pm - 8 pm
📌 Regal Theatre
💰 $15 (ticket only)
💰 $65 (ticket + book)

In The Race to the Top of the World, Peter Fitzsimons illuminates the lives of these two pioneering explorers, Mallory and Hillary, and those who were with them along the way: Tenzing, Irvine and George Finch, and describes in compelling detail what brought them all to the mountain.

Revealing the courageous men behind the names, their years of intense planning and preparation, and the ongoing mystery of Mallory’s disappearance, this is an epic story of adventure, daring, despair and triumph.

📚 This event is presented in association with Dillons Norwood Bookshop who will be selling copies of The Race to the Top of the World on the night.

🎫 Bookings essential - https://burnside-events.bookable.net.au/ #!/event-detail/ev_99a86491187d4b79bfca08abac6e4ec5

Hachette Australia Books

✨ BTech: Cybersecurity Check-Up ✨Sometimes it can be difficult to know if we're doing enough to keep ourselves safe onli...
13/10/2026

✨ BTech: Cybersecurity Check-Up ✨

Sometimes it can be difficult to know if we're doing enough to keep ourselves safe online, or even if we're doing too much!

In this informative session we will work through a useful check-list to determine if there are gaps in our security that could be filled to keep us safe.

📅 Thursday 22 October
⏰ 1 pm - 2 pm
📌 Burnside Library
💰 Free

✅ This session is suitable for beginners.

🎟️ Bookings are essential – https://burnside-events.bookable.net.au/ #!/event-detail/ev_b3407008e6f749fd807f169f7695984d

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