FAIRFIELD MUSEUM & GALLERY COMMUNITY DAY

The Fairfield Museum & Gallery Community Day was a Saturday of fun for families, held on 31 March 2012.

Collage, colours and clever binding were highlighted in the Making a Fairfield Water Book workshop. So were the five creeks: Orphan School Creek, Clear Paddock Creek, Green Valley Creek and Prospect Creek. Participants enjoyed art, places and snippets of story, and left with their own handmade book. Parents chatted about the water close to them - see below.

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See what we did!

This is where we are on the map ... yeah, here's Prospect Creek, and here's Orphan School Creek. It's a bit of a sad name isn't it?

A book with road and river ... that means there's lots of stormwater rushing to the creek ...

Creeks connect - the catchment network!

Beautiful day for a picnic at the park by the creek!

SO ... HOW WAS IT?

I liked that there was so much to choose from to draw the creek and the galaxia

I liked that we learned about different creeks

Rivers are networks, I like that.

I like my last page, ‘Come and join my Prospect Creek River’.

I liked that my cousin came and I told him what he could paint.

Mmm … I like painting lots of water.

I liked painting the Nile for my Nona

I enjoyed the accordion style of book.

I like doing all of Dorothy’s favourite things. Guess what page River is on? Page 7.

What I liked is you can do anything about the river in your imagination.

 

AND WHAT DID THE ADULTS SAY ON THE WATER CLOSE TO THEM?

 

I’m a bit up the road – don’t think there’s any creek terribly close to me

We should know the name of our local creek. I think it’s  … maybe … but I don’t know

I’m not exactly sure, I don’t know the name actually, but it runs along behind my school, Patrician Brothers

Umm creeks down here? … I don’t even know, I should know … It’s not Orphan School, it’s not Cabramatta … oh goodness, a couple of busy days

We back on to the creek, when we first came it was all bush. My husband used to mow a path down for the boys. Gradually the Council came and cleared it all. Well now it’s a mess, all weeds

Yeah, they reckon a million bottles a year come down the creek

… you think that’s all! much more than that!

I do have to say I’ve been disappointed with the creeks, the rubbish. I’m no engineer but it’s all coming down with the stormwater – there must be a catchment engineering solution to trap it.

Prospect Creek's close to me. Definitely!

Cabramatta Creek – I used to ride my bike there.

W’re close to Orphan School Creek

We don’t take advantage of our rivers, we were just saying that at home

And gee the kids! What’s that? It’s a creek. What’s a creek …

My grandparents lived in Cabramatta – I loved their stories, how the horses ran down to the creek …

I used to go down here on Orphan Creek between the markets and the showground … and once we caught these little goldfish, too ‘em home, put the plug in the tup, put ‘em in, came back later and the poor little things were dead

The Orphan one is closest to us – we ride the bikes down … there’s a bike track

Orphan School Creek – I learned that at school

I just thought about Prospect Reservoir

There’s a fair bit of water near me, I just don’t know what it’s called …