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ANZAC Day Activities
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Nick Bownlie's winning entry from last year's competition.
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Lest We Forget Poetry Competition
Tuesday 22 April, 11am, Poetry Readings
Friday 25 April, 1pm, Finalist Readings
This year sees our 3rd annual Lest We Forget Poetry Competition and we are looking forward to another poignant collection of personal responses to war.
Poems can be general or specific, of war past or present. Your imagination is your only restriction. A selection of entrants will be invited to read their poems in the Hall of Memories on Tuesday 22 April, with the two favourites from each category invited to read their poem in the Hall of Memories on ANZAC Day.
There are three categories; 10 years and under, 11 to 15 years, 16 years and older. Pick up an entry form from the Museum or download from our website. Please ensure your entries are received by us no later than Friday 18 April.
Download entry form
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Auditorium Programme
ANZAC Day, 25 April
| 12.45pm |
Gallipoli Film: Heroes of Gallipoli |
Auditorium |
| 1.10pm |
Talk: Small military units: Ceylon tea planters with Chris Blackmore |
Auditorium |
| 1.40pm |
Panel Discussion: My grandfather, my father, our research – Anglo-Boer War to WW2 with Christina Tuitubou, Si Burke and Lovonne Campbell |
Auditorium |
| 2.10pm |
Talk: Troopships of World War I with Paul Hobbs |
Auditorium |
| 2.40pm |
Talk: Animals in War: Mascots with veteran John Ross |
Auditorium |
| 3.10pm |
Talk: Peace making at the end of World War I with Dr Maartje Abbenhuis |
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| 3.40pm |
Talk: The Dardanelles Inquiry: Revelations after the failures at Gallipoli with John McIntyre |
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| 4.10pm |
Gallipoli Film: Heroes of Gallipoli. |
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Nuclear Free: Protest Photography by Gil Hanly
9 November - 11 May
Pictorial Gallery
An appropriate exhibition to coincide with the Armistice symposium is a selection of images relating to the nuclear free Pacific movement by documentary photographer Gil Hanly. With skill and concern Gil covered the anti-nuclear activities of the 1980s. Gil was witness to many protests, often outside the American Embassy in Auckland or the hazardous efforts of the peace squadrons against the entry of nuclear submarines and warships into New Zealand ports. This social movement for global nuclear disarmament and a nuclear-free Pacific eventually saw the enactment of New Zealand’s nuclear-free legislation and the revision of the ANZUS treaty.
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Army Art Floor Talk
Sunday 27 April 2pm
Bookings not required
Included with entry donation
Tamaki Gallery
Captain Matt Gauldie, official artist to the NZ Army, will be available to discuss his works
Read more about our exhibition Army Art: Paintings by Captain Matt Gauldie |
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Army Art Lecture
Wednesday 28 May, 7pm
Auditorium
$10 ($5 for members)
Bookings on 306 7048
Jennifer Haworth, author of The Art of War: New Zealand War Artists in the Field 1939 - 1945
Jennifer Haworth is an historical novelist, freelance journalist and travel writer. She has written for national and international publishers, and for most of New Zealand’s major newspapers. A qualified historian, Jennifer has had a lifelong passion for history and the Arts, and later this year will be speaking on a similar subject (i.e. NZ War Artists) at a conference in Florence, New Zealand in the Mediterranean, convened by the Centre for New Zealand Studies at Birkbeck, University of London.
Read more about our exhibition Army Art: Paintings by Captain Matt Gauldie |
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