Canberra Looks Forward to the Canberra and Region Heritage Festival.
Saturday March 28, 2009
Canberra is anticipating the 2009 Canberra and Region Heritage Festival - Adventures in Time and Space from Saturday 4 April until Sunday 19 April.
This year's festival has aimed to appeal to a wider audience by showing how heritage buildings and areas aren't just outdates structures or places but can also be retro, vintage, carrying large significance as they've existed through the past and into the present.
The Canberra festival has chosen this year's theme to be 'space' and will ask the audience what space means to them in light of Canberra's designer Walter Burley Griffin who once said that, "architecture is a space art."
The spaces that have been chosen as a part of the Canberra Heritage Festival probe audiences to reflect on the history embodied in these buildings - the stories, the culture that carry through and are relevant to how Canberra's today has been shaped.
Over the duration of the Canberra Heritage Festival two of Canberra's industrial icons will be showcased - the Cotter Pumping Station and the Kingston Powerhouse (now known as Canberra Glassworks).
Also held over the festival will be the Namadgi Bushwalk through ACT's regional high country.
For more events in the Australian Capital Territory you can visit what's on in Canberra.
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