Annual Riot Day - It's a Riot

Join us in Commemorating the Parramatta Female Factory Riot of 198 years ago!

On the 27th October, 1827, 100 convict women were missing at Morning Muster and within hours Parramatta Town was in uproar!

The convict women, fed up with their appalling living and working conditions and the cut in their food rations by the Matron, broke out of the Factory onto the streets of Parramatta like 'Amazonian Banditti'...pouring forth like bees from a hive...alarming all before them'...!

Events include:

• The Annual Thomas Keneally Lecture (11am -bookings required)
• Floral tributes being laid at the Bicentenary Wall (12pm - free) to the haunting sound of a lone piper
• Walking in the women's footsteps with tours at 1.30pm - (bookings required).
• All day visitors can enjoy Matron Gordon's pop up cafe with 'tea and scones', and visit the Friends' Research Centre and Rooms for family history inquiries, publication sales and bric-a-brac.

From 10am to 12pm, there are spinning demonstrations and a free clay making workshop.

Easy access - take the Parramatta Light Rail from Parramatta Station and alight at Ngara - then take a short walk across to the Factory site.