Tour our city. Walk on Country with Ngunawal custodian Tyronne Bell, step inside award winning architecture, explore Braddon's street art and experience the city after dark through guided and artist led walks. Discover the stories, people and ideas that have shaped Canberra and see the city in a new light.
8 November 2026 | Braddon
Discover Braddon’s bold murals on an immersive guided walk exploring how artists use public walls to challenge ideas and spark conversation. Find hidden corners, encounter striking works up close and uncover the stories shaping Canberra’s most eclectic suburb. Braddon Mural Magic invites all ages to see the city as a living, creative gallery.
9 – 15 November 2026 | Across Canberra
Explore Canberra's award-winning Architecture with new landmark buildings and ingenious sustainable residences through the Australian Institute of Architecture's ACT Chapter tour program.
13 November 2026 | Curtin
Discover Batten House, a new family home and studio in Curtin that responds beautifully to its parkland setting adjacent to the Yarralumla Creek open space network. Featuring a centralised courtyard with operable screens, reverse brick veneer construction and a rich textural palette of recycled hardwood, honed concrete and timber joinery.
12 November 2026 | Deakin
Enter Canvas House, a restrained and beautifully considered home that draws from Scandinavian minimalism and French provincial architecture within Canberra's post war suburban fabric. Organised around a central outdoor living courtyard and achieving a 7.1 star energy rating, this fully electric home is a masterclass in passive solar design and sustainable living.
9 November 2026 | Canberra Institute of Technology, Woden
Step inside one of Canberra's most ambitious buildings, the CIT Woden Campus, home to the largest mass timber building by volume in Australia. Discover a profound Connection to Country narrative woven into every detail, from coloured terracotta bands expressing Valley, Bush, Mountain and Sky Country, to an oculus skylight through which Mullian tracks the sun.
9 November 2026 | Canberra Institute of Technology, Woden
Welcome to the Woden Education First Youth Foyer at CIT Woden, part of the groundbreaking vertical campus by Gray Puksand, pairing mass timber design with a Connection to Country narrative. Alongside safe housing and wraparound support, it gives young people experiencing or at risk of homelessness real pathways to education, training and independence.
8 November 2026 | Ainslie
Come into this thoughtful addition to a heritage cottage that maximises passive comfort through clever sectional design, recycled Canberra red bricks and high-level north facing glazing. A considered and layered composition that honours the old while confidently introducing the new.
11 November 2026 | Wanniassa
Step inside Gugan Gulwan, a purpose-built facility designed with and for First Nations people. Created through deep community consultation by COX Architecture in collaboration with ck architecture, this uplifting space responds to Country and community, embedding First Nations culture into every detail, from its gathering spaces to its significant artwork integration.
15 November 2026 | Turner
Step inside Secret Garden House, where three pavilions form a ‘house as landscape’, shaped by the quiet authority of an enormous oak tree. An energy positive home that embraces ease of living across generations, with Canberra red bricks, spotted gum timber and colour used as a form of craft.
14 November 2026 | Australian War Memorial
Step inside the Australian War Memorial's New Entrance, where a striking Oculus, inspired by the Hall of Memory's dome, draws natural light into a space of quiet solemnity and contemporary beauty. Featuring locally sourced sandstone, bronze detailing and intuitive wayfinding, this is a seamless and deeply considered integration of history and modernity.
7 + 14 November 2026 | Lakeside + City
In a spirited act of dissent against the boundaries of public space, Localjinni presents two projected night walks through Canberra’s Civic Centre. Led by local artists these saunters reclaim the right to roam and creatively reimagine the city after dark.
12, 13 + 14 November 2026 | City
Nightwalks with Teenagers is created with local youth, who plan, design and lead public walks through Canberra at night, exploring the neighbourhood with members of the community. It is focused on the power of walking together, bringing together teens and adults to have a unique social experience in shared spaces.
10 + 12 November 2026 | Northbourne Avenue
Join The Fix It Chicks, architect Jenny Edwards and broadcaster Lish Fejer, alongside architect Marcus Graham from Stewart Architecture and Gabe Szivek from Art Group for an evening walking tour exploring the retrofit of Canberra’s mid-century public housing on Northbourne Avenue, including access inside one of the retrofitted maisonettes.
13 November 2026 | Civic Square
Explore the city through the lens of graphic intervention on this guided walking tour of Signs of Dissent.
15 November 2026 | Black Mountain
Walk on Country with Tyronne Bell (Ngunawal ) through the tracks and trails of Black Mountain, gaining a First Nations understanding of bush foods, artefacts and stone tools, with panoramic views of Canberra along the way. This tour reads the landscape through Ngunawal knowledge held and carried forward since long before Canberra was planned, offering the 2026 Festival theme of Dissent as continuity of culture on Country.
