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Oct 19 2023
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The Tuwhare Trust and the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival Trust — New Partnership.

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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.

 

Oct 31 2022
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Tuwhare Crib at Kaka Point launched with a celebration and the inaugural Tuwhare Residency recipients announced.

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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.

Oct 20 2022
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Tuwhare100 — Tribute to Hone Tuwhare on his 100th Birthday at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

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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.

Dec 01 2020
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Hotere.

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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.

Oct 28 2020
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Dunedin Public Art Gallery: Restoring Hone Tuwhare’s Crib

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On Thursday 29 October | 5:30 PM — 6:30 PM Jeanette Wikaira, Chair of the Tuwhare Trust will give a talk at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery about the journey of restoring the Tuwhare Crib at Kaka Point. 

Jeanette Wikaira, Chair of the Hone Tuwhare Char­i­ta­ble Trust, will talk about the restora­tion of Tuwhare’s crib at Kaka Point and the Trust’s hopes in devel­op­ing the new writ­ers’ and artists’ res­i­den­cy cel­e­brat­ing the ‘people’s poet’ Hone Tuwhare (1922–2008).

Image Cred­it: Hone Tuwhare out­side his crib at Kaka Point. Pho­to cour­tesy of the Ota­go Dai­ly Times.

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