Parramatta comes alive on 2 November to celebrate the 2013 Sydney Architecture Festival and Parramattas Foundations Festival.

The Sydney Architecture Festival, Australias largest public celebration of architecture, is this year inspired by the theme of Your Community, Your City. SAF comes to Parramatta on 2 November to encourage interaction with the local architecture and built environment. Create your own exploration of architecture in your community at www. sydneyarchitecturefestival.org. Parramattas Foundations Festival explores the challenges, discoveries and achievements of Parramattas earliest colonial and indigenous stories. Come to the playground on the river foreshore from 11am and explore! www.parracity.nsw.gov.au

Pearls of Granville

Information and Cultural Exchange (ICE) presents Pearls of Granville: A Tour of Architecture and Suburb. It explores Granvilles architectural wonders, aesthetic and cultural transitions and related community histories - high and low points (and occasional infamy). Time: 2, 3 and 9, 10 November (10am to 3:30pm) Bookings: http://ice.org.au/project/pearls/

Older is Greener - Valuing Heritage Homes

Folly re-imagined: George Street Gatehouse Open

Parramatta Park, World Heritage Listed, is an English landscape park in the expansive eighteenth century tradition. The George Street entrance to the Park is guarded by a small Tudor-styled high-Victorian gatehouse. Parramatta Park Trust is holding an open day at the George St Gatehouse offering a sticky beak into this intriguing building and the opportunity to talk to the team of experts that are reinventing this building for the future. Where: George St. Gatehouse, 1 George St., Parramatta Park (Intersection of OConnell St.) Time: 2.00pm-3.30pm Cost: Free, No Bookings

The NSW Architects Registration Board and Sydney Living Museums present this panel of experts to reveal the value of preserving our heritage homes. Focusing on the relationship between heritage conservation, architectural design and sustainability, this discussion will shed light on the value of heritage houses to the community, the environment and the families living in them. Is older greener? How can heritage homes be adapted to suit contemporary living? What is best practice in adapting heritage homes? What is heritage listing? Who is responsible? Where can I go for advice? Where: Riverside Theatre Courtyard, Cnr. Church and Market St, Parramatta Time: 3.30pm-4.30pm Cost: Free, Bookings essential: SAFatparramatta@architects.nsw.gov.au

Kids Architecture Walk

Above, Below and Around Elizabeth Farm

Sydney Living Museums throws open the doors (and windows and cellars) of Elizabeth Farm - take the opportunity to look under the floors and beneath the eaves to discover architectural history of the oldest surviving homestead. Where: Elizabeth Farm, 70 Alice Street, Rose Hill Time: 10.00am - 3.00pm Cost: Free, No Bookings

Discover Parramatta through its buildings during this 40 minute walk. Look for architectural features and complete your very own Passport to the Streets. Draw, check off, sketch and complete to receive an official stamp! Where: Around Parramatta, Meet at Riverside Theatre Time: 11.30am & 1.30pm Cost: Free, Bookings essential: SAFatparramatta@architects.nsw.gov.au

Making Monuments

Ask an Architect

Free Consultations with an architect! Bring a floor plan of your home and avail of this wonderful opportunity of a 20 minute consultation by an architect on your special home renovation project. No obligations no charge. Registrations are essential. Where: Parramatta Library, 1B Civic Place, Parramatta Time: 10.00am 3.00pm Cost: Free, Bookings essential: http://ask-an-architect.eventbrite.com.au/

Monuments allow people to recognize, celebrate and remember significant moments from the past and celebrate their community. Bring your model making skills and design and make a monument to honour Parramatta through a person, object or event. What about a monument for Henry Dodd, Parramattas first farmer or perhaps a monument for the Parramatta River? Where: Riverside Theatre Courtyard, Cnr. Church and Market St, Parramatta Time: 11.00am-2.30pm Cost: Free, Bookings essential: SAFatparramatta@architects.nsw.gov.au

Architecture Walking Tour

Then and Now

Discover Parramattas architecture during this 45 minute walking tour. Meeting: Riverside Theatre Courtyard, Cnr. Church and Market St, Parramatta Time: 2.00pm Cost: Free, Bookings essential: SAFatparramatta@architects.nsw.gov.au

Building Parramatta

Drawing the future. Have a look at Parramatta as it once was and then how it is now. Whats different? Whats the same? Draw what you think the scene will be like in the future. Where: Riverside Theatre Courtyard, Cnr. Church and Market St, Parramatta Time: 11.00am-2.30pm Cost: Free, Bookings essential: SAFatparramatta@architects.nsw.gov.au

Make a model of a building and help complete the existing plan of Parramatta. Ideas for the future? Make a building that doesnt exist yet. Where: Riverside Theatre Courtyard, Cnr. Church & Market St, Parramatta Time: 11.00am-2.30pm Cost: Free, Bookings essential: SAFatparramatta@architects.nsw.gov.au

Note for Kids Activities

All materials and equipment supplied on the day! Drop in, stay for 5 minutes, stay for an hour. Children attending are to remain in supervision of their accompanying parent/guardian. Drinks/refreshments available for purchase at the Riverside Theatre throughout the day.

Building Parramatta
Make a model of a building and help complete the existing plan of Parramatta. Ideas for the future? Make a building that doesnt exist yet. Where: Riverside Theatre Courtyard, Cnr. Church & Market St, Parramatta Time: 11.00am-2.30pm Cost: Free, Bookings essential: SAFatparramatta@architects.nsw.gov.au

Making Monuments
Monuments allow people to recognize, celebrate and remember significant moments from the past and celebrate their community. Bring your model making skills and design and make a monument to honour Parramatta through a person, object or event. What about a monument for Henry Dodd, Parramattas first farmer or perhaps a monument for the Parramatta River? Where: Riverside Theatre Courtyard, Cnr. Church and Market St, Parramatta Time: 11.00am-2.30pm Cost: Free, Bookings essential: SAFatparramatta@architects.nsw.gov.au

Kids Architecture Walk

Discover Parramatta through its buildings during this 40 minute walk. Look for architectural features and complete your very own Passport to the Streets. Draw, check off, sketch and complete to receive an official stamp! Where: Around Parramatta, Meet at Riverside Theatre Time: 11.30am & 1.30pm Cost: Free, Bookings essential: SAFatparramatta@architects.nsw.gov.au

Then and Now

Drawing the future. Have a look at Parramatta as it once was and then how it is now. Whats different? Whats the same? Draw what you think the scene will be like in the future. Where: Riverside Theatre Courtyard, Cnr. Church and Market St, Parramatta Time: 11.00am-2.30pm Cost: Free, Bookings essential: SAFatparramatta@architects.nsw.gov.au

All materials and equipment supplied on the day! Drop in, stay for 5 minutes, stay for an hour. Children attending are to remain in supervision of their accompanying parent/guardian. Drinks/refreshments available for purchase at the Riverside Theatre throughout the day. Sydney Architecture Festival is presented by the Australian Institute of Architects (NSW Chapter) and the NSW Architects Registration Board.

SAF Kids at
The Sydney Architecture Festival invites all kids big and small to join us, on 2 November, at the Riverside Theatre Courtyard for a fun filled day of drawing, walking, designing and building, focusing on the heritage of Parramatta.

The Sydney Architecture Festival invites all kids big and small to join us, on 2 November, at the Riverside Theatre Courtyard for a fun filled day of drawing, walking, designing and building, focusing on the heritage of Parramatta.

Building Parramatta

Make a model of a building and help complete the existing plan of Parramatta. Ideas for the future? Make a building that doesnt exist yet. Where: Riverside Theatre Courtyard, Cnr. Church & Market St, Parramatta Time: 11.00am-2.30pm Cost: Free, Bookings essential: SAFatparramatta@architects.nsw.gov.au

Kids Architecture Walk

Discover Parramatta through its buildings during this 40 minute walk. Look for architectural features and complete your very own Passport to the Streets. Draw, check off, sketch and complete to receive an official stamp! Where: Around Parramatta, Meet at Riverside Theatre Time: 11.30am & 1.30pm Cost: Free, Bookings essential: SAFatparramatta@architects.nsw.gov.au

Making Monuments

Monuments allow people to recognize, celebrate and remember significant moments from the past and celebrate their community. Bring your model making skills and design and make a monument to honour Parramatta through a person, object or event. What about a monument for Henry Dodd, Parramattas first farmer or perhaps a monument for the Parramatta River? Where: Riverside Theatre Courtyard, Cnr. Church and Market St, Parramatta Time: 11.00am-2.30pm Cost: Free, Bookings essential: SAFatparramatta@architects.nsw.gov.au

Then and Now

Drawing the future. Have a look at Parramatta as it once was and then how it is now. Whats different? Whats the same? Draw what you think the scene will be like in the future. Where: Riverside Theatre Courtyard, Cnr. Church and Market St, Parramatta Time: 11.00am-2.30pm Cost: Free, Bookings essential: SAFatparramatta@architects.nsw.gov.au

SAF Kids at
All materials and equipment supplied on the day! Drop in, stay for 5 minutes, stay for an hour. Children attending are to remain in supervision of their accompanying parent/guardian. Drinks/refreshments available for purchase at the Riverside Theatre throughout the day. Sydney Architecture Festival is presented by the Australian Institute of Architects (NSW Chapter) and the NSW Architects Registration Board.