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If you want to get in touch with the Hone Tuwhare Trust, please email tuwharetrust@gmail.com

All copy­right and pub­lish­ing rights for Hone Tuwhare poems are held by Rob Tuwhare on behalf of the Estate of Hone Tuwhare. For per­mis­sion to reprint, per­form, or dis­play Hone’s work please email HoneTuwharePoetry@gmail.com

Nga mihi!

60 Years Robert Burns Fellowship Celebrations

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This last week­end the Tuwhare Trust was invit­ed by the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ota­go to help cel­e­brate 60 years of the Robert Burns Fel­low­ship. Hone was twice a Robert Burns Fel­low at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ota­go (1969 and 1974); he was also a Hock­en Fel­low at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ota­go in 1983.

The cel­e­bra­tions start­ed at the Ota­go Uni­ver­si­ty’s Eng­lish Depart­ment with the launch of their Stair Poems by Hone Tuwhare and Ruth Dallas.

The Tuwhare Trust was also invit­ed to speak at the “Trib­ute to Absent Fel­lows” pre­sen­ta­tion at Dunedin Pub­lic Art Gallery with Rob Tuwhare and Jeanette Wikaira rep­re­sent­ing Hone Tuwhare. Mov­ing trib­utes and read­ings cel­e­brat­ed the lives and writ­ing of sev­en­teen poets and authors. Read­ing a trib­ute to Hone Tuwhare, Rob read “Friend” and Jeanette read “Sea Call/Te Karanga a Tan­garoa” in the Te Reo Maori ver­sion trans­lat­ed by Sel­wyn Muru­paen­ga. It was a beau­ti­ful way to cel­e­brate absent friends and was an emo­tion­al­ly charged afternoon.

Nga mihi mahana.

Pho­to Credits:

1. Hone Tuwhare’s Burns Fel­low pho­to­graph in the Uni­ver­si­ty of Otago’s Cen­tral Library.

2. Hone Tuwhare’s “Hotere” poem on the stairs of the Eng­lish Depart­ment, Uni­ver­si­ty of Otago.

3. Rob Tuwhare play­ing ‘Friend’.

4. Jeanette Wikaira and Rob Tuwhare with Vic­tor Dib­ble and Shel­don Dib­ble at the Dunedin Pub­lic Art Gallery after the Trib­ute to Absent Fel­lows presentation.

Amazing Spaces’ George Clarke Visits Hone’s crib in Kaka Point.

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Tuwhare Trustee Stan Scott was on loca­tion in the South Island with pre­sen­ter George Clark last week. The star of Restora­tion Man and George Clarke’s Amaz­ing Spaces is in New Zealand film­ing an online series with Mitre 10 about New Zealan­ders get­ting cre­ative in liv­ing spaces with a can-do kiwi atti­tude. Tuwhare Trustees Stan Scott and Rob Tuwhare took George to vis­it Hone’s crib in Kaka Point.

Clark was blown away by his vis­it to Hone’s crib say­ing, ‘It’s incred­i­ble that Hone wrote so many amaz­ing poems in a tiny space, you can tell he was anchored to the land­scape in his writ­ings, inspired by being close to the sea and see­ing the starts at night. Hone’s crib makes you realise that small space projects aren’t just about the archi­tec­ture or the build­ing.’ Clark recit­ed Hone Tuwhare poet­ry at the crib, say­ing it was a high­light of his time in the South Island.

Clark is in Aotearoa, film­ing sto­ries about Kiwis doing amaz­ing things in small spaces. His sto­ries will be shown on Mitre 10’s online TV chan­nel. Mitre 10 is part­ner­ing with the Hone Tuwhare Char­i­ta­ble Trust in the restora­tion of Hone’s crib at Kaka Point.

 

Tuwhare Trust receives a $100,000 Lottery Grant.

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The Tuwhare Trust is about to get a $100,000 grant from the Envi­ron­ment and Her­itage Lot­tery Com­mit­tee to restore Hone’s crib. The restora­tion work will allow the crib to be used as a res­i­dence for writ­ers and artists — in what will be the first time a res­i­den­cy will be estab­lished in the home and name of a Maori writer.

The trust is delight­ed that we can pre­serve Hone’s for­mer home as a vital first step in devel­op­ing a new writ­ers’ and artists res­i­den­cy. It’s been a few years of hard work by the Trust to raise the funds to ful­ly restore Hone’s crib, but we are now in a posi­tion to con­tin­ue on full steam ahead.

As always, we are so grate­ful for the finan­cial sup­port that allows us to do this very impor­tant work. Hone would be so chuffed, he would def­i­nite­ly be singing a waia­ta about this great news.

Nga mihi mahana. XX

 

Mitre 10 raises $92,000 for the Hone Tuwhare Trust!

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The gen­eros­i­ty of a Mitre10 char­i­ty auc­tion will con­tribute towards the restora­tion of Hone Tuwhare’s crib.

The mon­ey raised will be used to restore Hone’s crib in Kaka Point and takes the Trust a sig­nif­i­cant step toward achiev­ing its goal of estab­lish­ing the first cre­ative res­i­den­cy in the home and name of a Maori writer and creative.

The Trust is very grate­ful for the gen­eros­i­ty of Mitre 10, as it will enable us to under­take much need­ed repairs and main­te­nance on Hone’s crib. Mitre 10’s com­mit­ment to build­ing is a good fit with the Trust’s com­mit­ment to build­ing a sus­tain­able cre­ative future for New Zealand.” 

The auc­tion is a reg­u­lar fea­ture of the annu­al Mitre 10 Awards Night, which was held at the Lang­ham Hotel in Auck­land on 23 July 2015 fol­low­ing a 2‑day trade expo.

This is a big mile­stone for the Tuwhare Trust, and we are so very thank­ful for the support.

Nga mihi mahana. XX