In case you find yourself spending too many hours in front of your computer screen, here are several great reasons to get out and about:

WATERSHED: Lake Burley Griffin 1964 -2014

Exhibition Closes this Sunday 23rd November

This is your last week to this Canberra Museum and Gallery exhibition celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the inauguration of Lake Burley Griffin. The exhibition touches lightly on a time before the lake, then explores the design and creation of Lake Burley Griffin and its special place in the heart of the Canberra community.

Venue: Gallery 5, Canberra Museum and Gallery, Cnr. London Circuit and Civic Square
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 10am - 5 pm / Weekends 12 noon to 4 pm
More information: Contact the CMAG website 

ANTHOLOGY: A theatrical journey into the vanished Canberra suburb of Westlake

Book your tickets now for performances starting 26 November

ANTHOLOGY is a site specific theatrical journey through the vanished suburb of Westlake, now known as Stirling Park. The site is Ngunawal land, Guru Bung Dhaura (Stony Ground) a traditional pathway, and from the 1920’s the site of one of the camps created to house the workers building the new city of Canberra. Families lived at Westlake for 50 years until the 1960’s when they were relocated, the houses sold and removed. Westlake is now a parkland, nestled between the lake and the Embassies of Yarralumla.

As the audience is guided through Westlake, by a fictional descendant of HM Rolland, the remnants of a community are waiting to be discovered, fragments of hidden memories can be glimpsed, shadow spaces inhabited by workers and their families are littered with broken conversations. A forgotten community is suspended in time, whispered stories are waiting to be heard.

Venue:  Westlake, Stirling Park, Yarralumla. Cnr. Empire Circuit & Forster Circuit, Yarralumla 
Dates: 6pm, 26 - 29 November and 3 - 6 December
Tickets: $30 Adult  / $25 Concession. Tickets can be purchased at www.anthology.net.au

TIDBINBILLA TRAILRIDER

Volunteer Sherpa Program

ACT Parks & Conservation Service is launching the ‘TrailRider volunteer sherpa program’. The program aims to make the beauty of the ACT’s national parks and nature reserves more accessible to people with mobility impairment.

Tidbinbilla offers the ‘TrailRider’, an all-terrain wheelchair, to mobility impaired visitors. However the wheelchair needs two ‘sherpas’ to guide and support it through the varied terrain of ACT’s parks and reserves. Would you like to be a volunteer Sherpa? ACT Parks & Conservation is holding an information day this Wednesday, 19 November where you can learn more about the program and see and try the TrailRider (light lunch will be provided). 

Venue: Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve
Date: 12 - 2pm Wednesday 19 November
More Information and RSVP:email Glenn.Charnock@act.gov.au

ACTON WALKWAYS WEDNESDAY WALKS

Join us for a social and energizing stroll each Wednesday from 12pm-1pm, leaving from the Street Theatre. We take different routes each week, exploring scenery around the Acton Peninsula, Sullivans Creek and the many trails of the ANU Campus. These walks are a great way to get some regular exercise and meet new people. There is no need to book, but we encourage you to check our ‘What’s On’ calendar for weekly updates.

Venue: Starts and Ends at Street Theatre, Cnr. Childers Street and University Avenue
Time: 12:00 - 1:00pm
Cost: Free

Need some inspiration to put on your walking shoes? See this web article for thirteen amazing benefits of walking.

Look forward to seeing you out and about!