HOMERecent News
No one wants to be tonight’s designated driver?
A great new company in Canberra has just been brought to our attention - Dial-a-Desi. This info on their service comes from their website: "Dial-A-Desi is Canberra's only designated driver hire service, where we drive you and your car home anywhere, anytime. How it works is easy: If you drive out ...
In the City magazine advertising
Are you a City business looking to advertise in an upcoming edition of In the City magazine? Click here for all the info.
The Govenrment – Small Business Exchange
Our friends at Schmooze are hosting a fantastic event for small business with business.gov.au. Government agencies will be showcasing their services that are available to assist small businesses, and the event is FREE. Information on registering is available at their website.
Constitution Avenue upgrade
The ACT Government has announced final plans to refurbish the Constitution Avenue precinct.
National Convention Centre wins national tourism award
The National Convention Centre Canberra has capped off one of its busiest years yet with a major award win at the 2012 national Australian Tourism Awards.
The National Convention Centre has been named the nation’s best Meetings and Business Tourism organisation in Australia, in recognition of its efforts to maximise the local tourism experience for meetings and business travellers to the ACT.
The award follows the National Convention Centre’s win, for the second consecutive year, as Canberra’s best Meetings and Business Tourism organisation.
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Ultimate Family VIP Skyfire Experience
ActewAGL is proud to sponsor FM104.7 Skyfire 2012, Canberra’s popular community fireworks show at Lake Burley Griffin. Skyfire 2012 will be held during the Canberra Festival on Saturday 17 March and promises to be a fun-filled evening for the whole family. Do you know a family deserving of some VIP treatment? ActewAGL and 104.7 are giving away a Skyfire VIP family experience.
Nominate a family at www.actewagl.com.au/skyfire and tell us why they deserve to win. Hurry, entries close Tuesday 13 March 2012.
The City’s Arts Trail
For the current issue of In the City magazine, the team constructed an amazing Arts Trail Map which outlines 60 of the City’s best public artworks.
We will soon be getting printed copies that will be made available to the public, and be distributed outside of Canberra so that tourists can more easily explore our rich public art collection.
Our thanks go out to Mils and Douglas of the In the City team.
Earth Hour 2012
Earth Hour 2012 takes place at the end of this month at 8.30pm on Saturday 31 March. The theme for Earth Hour this year is ‘Uniting People to Protect the Planet’.
For the last three years, Canberra has had the highest participation rate of any Australian capital city and we want to repeat that success. In 2010, 52% of the ACT population participated in Earth Hour.
It has also brought about real results. In 2011, it led to an 8% reduction in the amount of electricity used in Canberra during Earth Hour, and a reduction of 26.93 tonnes in the amount of greenhouse gas emissions.
Canberra CBD Limited is an official supporter of Earth Hour in the ACT and we are asking our members to participate. We appreciate that for many of you the seemingly simple act of turning off lights for Earth Hour can be quite a process so we encourage you to undertake a trial run before the event to work out any issues.
This is also an opportunity for you to either start or re-energise efforts to make long-term commitments to taking action on climate change, in line with this year’s theme of ‘Uniting People to Protect the Planet’.
We are also asking you to officially register your participation through the Earth Hour website. The website has a range of information on how you can support the event including logo and poster downloads. With climate change a big issue for most of us, showing your support for Earth Hour will signal to staff, colleagues and clients that you are committed to addressing this issue.
The ACT Government, through the Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate, has the lead in organising Earth Hour 2012 in the ACT, in partnership with ActewAGL and The Canberra Times. If you have any questions about participating in Earth Hour, or would like posters or flyers, please contact Mayumi Smith, Communications Manager at Environment and Sustainable Development Directorate (mayumi.smith@act.gov.au) on 6205 9643.
Canberra Times Fountain – UPDATE
Further to our previous post – Unfortunately the fantastic new lighting we installed in the fountain on City Walk is not fully operational yet due to unscheduled fountain maintenance by the ACT Government. We will advise when the light shows are up and running again.
WELCOME TO OUR NEW LOOK HOMEPAGE
So where do you begin when you want to plan your night out in the City, Canberra’s largest “after dark” playground? CEO of Canberra CBD Limited, Steve Gregory, believes planning your City adventure has just become easier thanks to our new home page.
Steve Gregory says “there hasn’t been one website to go to and most people rely on local knowledge or feedback from friends as to where to go and what to do in the City.” He adds, “Braddon is also becoming a favourite destination after dark and the offerings from restaurants and bars is among the best in the Capital.”
Canberra CBD Ltd approached OutInCanberra about the possibility of capturing everything city related into one area and then embedding that into the organisation’s homepage. “The end result is fantastic” comments Steve Gregory, who says “visitors to the new home page can now search venues, view events, read feature articles and browse social photos.”
The site also contains links to leading venues around the city such as The Canberra Theatre, Dendy Cinemas, Street Theatre, National Convention Centre & Royal Theatre, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Casino Canberra plus events and exhibitions. You can link to Government services information, view public art, and even search residential and commercial property listings.
The “Recent News” section allows organisations holding an event in the city to promote it. We also post news items on city improvements, property developments, charities and ACT Government projects. Information on upcoming events can be emailed to info@canberracbdlimited.com.au. Those wanting updates can also follow Canberra CBD Ltd on Facebook and Twitter. Keep up to date with OutInCanberra.
“If you have a great photo in the City, or a photo of the City from yesteryear, send it in and it could end up posted on our website,” says Steve Gregory. He adds, “the site already contains some historical photos of Canberra but we are always looking to build our collection.”
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