Welcome to the 2008 National Trust Festival. We invite you to celebrate our rich cultural heritage
by being part of one of the longest-running community festivals in New South Wales.

This festival theme this year is ‘Our Place’. It encompasses hundreds of fantastic events
across metropolitan and regional NSW from Saturday 5 April to Sunday 20 April, 2008.

‘Our Place’ is about Australia and its people. ‘Our Place’ is a home, a building, a club, a street,
a business, a trade, a playing field, or a theatre. ‘Our Place’ may also be a museum, an art
gallery, a restaurant, an historic site, a garden, a shopping mall, or a sports stadium. ‘Our
Place’ is a shire, a region, the state, our country, our place in the world, even a place that exists
in collective memory, or a future place.

A wide range of community activities are on offer this year, including architectural discovery
tours, art exhibitions, walks, talks, awards, photography competitions and community fairs.
We’ve added an exciting new digital dimension to the festival this year with the launch of a photo
competition and image based weblog supported by the NSW Architects Registration Board.
We encourage you to visit us online and submit photos which capture our built environment
and sense of place.

The National Trust established the Heritage Festival 28 years ago to remind people to care
about their built, environmental and cultural heritage. These concerns remain as relevant
today as they were then. The National Trust continues to advocate for the conservation of our
cultural heritage and historic landscapes, and we continue to rely on your support to achieve
these goals.

Thank you, and best wishes,