Southern View: October 09, 2018

6 Tuesday October 9 2018
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Artwork to
celebrate
suffrage
anniversary
A PIECE of an artwork celebrating
the 125th anniversary of women’s
suffrage will be made at a free
workshop this weekend.
Dunedin artist Janet de Wagt
will host the free art workshop,
supported by Heritage New Zealand,
as part of the Rewind event
this Sunday at Ferrymead Heritage
Park.
Participants will create a commemorative
banner that will be
joined with other banners made
in other workshops at key heritage
locations around the country over
the next few months.
The artwork will be launched at
the Old Government Buildings in
Wellington in April 2019.
Heritage New Zealand’s Rosemary
Baird said the banners were
a reference to the three Parliamentary
petitions that circulated
around the country, resulting in
women being granted the right to
vote on September 19, 1893.
All materials will be provided
at the workshop and a colouringin
competition for children will
take place in the same space, with
prizes presented in the afternoon.
•Rewind at Ferrymead:
Sunday, 10am-4pm
Bird bath welcomed at cemetery
• By Matt Salmons
A COMMUNITY-MADE
memorial bird bath was blessed
and officially welcomed at
Diamond Harbour Cemetery
on Monday.
While the bird bath has been
in place for more than a week,
15 Diamond Harbour residents
gathered to bless it by taking
turns to speak about its meaning
and fill the bowl with water.
Creator and Green Burials
Group member Anne van der
Kooi said the inclusion of the
bird bath completed the ecoburial
area. “I feel really good
about it. It has a calming effect.”
She said the idea for the bird
bath had first come up at a
meeting last year.
At the time, Mrs van der Kooi
had a block of Ōāmaru stone in
her garden which she planned
to turn into a bird bath for her
own garden. “But I thought,
I could gift this to the community.”
The group arranged for
another block of the stone to be
bought for the top section, and
after getting advice from a local
potter, Mrs van der Kooi began
shaping the bird bath herself.
She said it was designed to
reflect the natural cycle of life,
with the circular shape of the
bath itself evoking a sense of
“never-ending.”
“I think it’s really peaceful.
You’re born, you live, you die,
and your body goes back to the
earth.”
Mrs van der Kooi said the
bird bath would fill naturally
with rainwater, but a nearby tap
meant visitors to the cemetery
could top it up in drier periods.
She said it was “really nice to
see” her creation grow as she
worked on it each day over two
months. The stone was not too
difficult for an amateur to work
with, she said.
“It’s fairly giving, you don’t
have to apply much force.” A
keen advocate for eco-burial,
Mrs van der Kooi said the bird
bath was better where it was,
rather than in her own garden
as she had planned.
“I think I will be there longer
than here,” she said.
The group finished Monday’s
ceremony with a picnic.
BLESSING: Community
members blessed the new
bird bath on Monday by taking
turns pouring water into
its bowl.
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