The Heritage River
©
Project
Name of Project
The full name of this project is called the
Heritage River
©
- toonga gallery track
project.
Overall Aims: Description of Project
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To design and promote hike/bike tracks and cultural links between Parramatta
and Toongabbie
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to re-interpret social and ecological importance of Toongabbie Creek in
Aboriginal, European and Industrial Life
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to establish festivals, CD and sculpture in an 'open-museum' of 3 centuries.
This community design and development process for tracks is to anticipate and
augment Parramatta Council's core Bike-Plans, and is a discovery tour bridging
300 years of the natural and cultural landscape in Toongabbie:
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as it was known, and tendered by traditional Toongagal (Darug) inhabitants
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as it related to agricultural endeavours of the 3rd European Settlement
(Stockade) in Aust, from 1791,
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as it relates changes in industrial and cultural activities —
achievements, failures (quarrying, timbermilling, pastoral, marketgarden,
suburban growth etc) and ecologically sustainable necessities for the future.
Project Activities:
literary-research:
collate & edit new/existing heritage research material, multi-disciplinary
data sources;
cultural-mapping:
Oral history collection, campaign to locate family & worker memoirs,
industrial records;
design-document:
Establish track routes & site sensitivity, detail alternate material track
specifications;
publish-Communicate:
Z-card map, 'Old Toongabbie-New Grounds, plots, people, produce" CDrom
edu-kit;
design-construct:
Prototype track marker interpretation totems with interactive
sound/light/sculpture;
promote-CELEBRATE:
Umbrella strategy for three [3] Festival series p.a. themed ‘Breakfast,
Lunch & Tea’.
Proposed Results:
LITERARY RESEARCH:
Brings together new and archival material, unpublished records, plans and
commentaries (e.g. Michael Flynn, John McClymont, Anne-Maree Whitaker &
Historical Societies) on Toongabbie,
CULTURAL MAPPING:
Records more of our current and recent generational values, local experiences
and life stories, in relation to Toongabbie Creek, farms, quarries, new
industries and cultures, for CD and publication.
DESIGN DOCUMENT:
Produces site-specific detail drawings for stakeholder collaboration in
Bike-Plan infrastructure development with Parramatta Council, adding feature
walk branches and ensuring ecological controls.
PUBLISH - COMMUNICATE
Produces A. school curriculum material, B. CD-Rom and C. User-friendly
'Guidemaps', (with NESB) for regional/national student, Sydney resident
and Parramatta tourist/visitor usage.
T-signs - construct:
Prototype strategic identity Track Marker (ltd quantity) for Council
production from local timber (eg "ex Convict Flogging Tree"), involving
student art competitions, 'dendrographic-tree carving' by Darug/Artists,
motion-sensing sound-loop/illumination, in-situ with [up to 6] commissioned
sculptural artworks.
EVENT PROMOTIONS:
Unifies Toongabbie-district festival-series events up to Federation 2001 and
gives more thematic and community cohesion, compliments Parramatta's
Heritage/Tourism/Marketing Strategies, developing a celebratory backdrop with
substance. Increases local benefits from events:
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Breakfast (Aust. Day Brekky, Heritage Week, eg '1 April 1791 Toongabbie
Foundation');
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Lunch (Feast of Sydney "Eat Streets"(Parramatta etc); and
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Tea eg (Heritage River Phoenix Fire-Art and Toongabbie Gala, Olympic
Landcare/Torch, Loy-Krathong Thai and Joseph Holt 1800 Tour Events); and
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other federation era specific dates and occasions.
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