Thanks Dunedin UNESCO City of Literature for honouring Hone’s 101st Birthday with a note in the Otago Daily Times. XX
The Tuwhare Trust in partnership with the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival Trust presented the DEEP RIVER TALK poetry series as part of the 2023 Festival.
Over three events we delivered a celebration of Hone’s 100th year with a poetry nod to Hone’s crib at Kaka Point, a stonking political poetry night at the pub & a poetry hari huri tau for Aotearoa’s Poet Laureate, Chris Tse.
Deep River Talk brought together poets from across Aotearoa and across generations. Those who attended experienced some of our finest poets & some of our newest voices. Deep River Talk delivered fresh, seering, activated & reflective poetry.
Keep an eye out for the 2025 Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival, we will be back to provide you with another banger of a poetry weekend.
Nga mihi mahana.
The Tuwhare Trust is proud to announce Tame Iti, Tracey Tawhiao and Ati Teepa as recipients of the inaugural Tuwhare Creative Residency at Kaka Point.
The opening of Hone’s crib at Kaka Point on October 21, 2022, marked the 100th Birthday of Hone Tuwhare. It also marked the beginning of an exciting future for the Tuwhare Trust as we embarked on the next chapter of our journey to celebrate the Hone Tuwhare legacy through the Tuwhare Residency programme.
The first residency the Trust has developed as part of our residency programme is the Tuwhare Creative Residency, it is the first residency to be developed in Aotearoa in the home and name of a Maori writer and artist.
Tuwhare Trust Chair, Jeanette Wikaira says “as the inaugural Tuwhare creative residents, Tame Iti, Tracey Tawhiao and Ati Teepa are a collaboration that brings together intergenerational, multidisciplinary, experienced, and highly creative like minds. Tame, Tracey and Ati have collaborated over many years, they draw deeply from the Maori world, bringing together the poetics of Maori thinking with politically searing insight”.
The Tuwhare Trust is honoured to award Tame, Tracey and Ati this special inaugural residency and support their work in Hone’s home at Kaka Point, to bring indigenous storytelling to the world.
Nga mihi mahana.
On Thursday 20 October 2022 the Tuwhare Trust and The Dunedin Public Art Gallery partnered to pay tribute to Hone Tuwhare on the eve of his 100th birthday. Whanau and friends of Hone Tuwhare came together for a special evening of reminiscing and poetry with special guests Rob Tuwhare, Cilla McQueen and Tame Iti in conversation with Jeanette Wikaira from the Tuwhare Trust and joined by guest poets and artists, Tracey Tawhiao, Ati Teepa and Manaia Tuwhare-Hoani.
This is a great photo from the evening, of Manaia Tuwhare-Hoani performing her poetry for her Great Grandfather. It was a special evening.
Very special thanks to DPAG for making this event possible and for their on-going support of the Tuwhare Trust.
Nga mihi mahana.
Hone Tuwhare and Ralph Hotere were good friends; their independent artistic careers united by a shared concern for human rights and injustice. There was a mutual respect and moments of cross-pollination between the work of each. Hotere drew on Tuwhare’s poems in several of his paintings, also contributing cover designs for a number of Tuwhare’s volumes of poetry. In 1970 Tuwhare released the book Come Rain Hail, which included the poem Hotere – a reflection on art, friendship, time and space. In November 2020 the Dunedin Public Art Gallery opened the exhibition RALPH HOTERE: ATETE (to resist) and published the poem Hotere on the Gallery’s BIG WALL
Tuwhare Trustees Rob Tuwhare and Jeanette Wikaira attended the exhibition opening, it was a very special evening and a breathtaking exhibition.
Photo: Hone Tuwhare and Ralph Hotere. Photograph by Gil Hanly. Private Collection.