Heritage

More Moments and Milestones : Found Poems

During the Christchurch Heritage Festival in October, we ran three masterclasses exploring both the heritage of inner city Ōtautahi...

Moments and Milestones : Found Poems

Last week, during the Christchurch Heritage Festival, we ran three masterclasses exploring both the heritage of inner city Ōtautahi...

Moments and Milestones: Christchurch Heritage Week 2022

Last week, during the Christchurch Heritage Festival, we ran three masterclasses exploring both the heritage of inner city Ōtautahi...

Heritage: The Worcester Boulevard

Green trees cast a shadow over the concrete, the sun blankets everything with a faint sheen, an ancient building stood behind, in the...

Heritage: Not his brightest moment

This piece was written at a masterclass exploring past, present and future. We wrote in different tenses using a heritage photograph of...

Heritage: History is written.

by Taylor Blackbourn, Year 9 It is a beautiful summer day and the cicadas are humming. The chatter of many voices fill the air as the sun...

The Great Hall

by Clara Peddie, Year 8 Before Desks were cleared hastily, all the pots of ink emptied and books shoved messily into leather satchels....

The Perfect Picture

by Jack Revolta Year 8 The sun beats down on an empty street. Shock and disbelief fills the dusty and coarse air, making it hard for me...

Missing memories

by Zara Dyhrberg, Year 8 The wooden door clicks closed behind me and I start the walk home from work. My feet drag. Rubble is scattered...

Reduced to stones

Written during a Write On masterclass at The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora, this gorgeous extract is from a longer piece of point of...

Stories in the Walls

This poem was written during a masterclass Poetry and Place based at The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora with poet, Gail Ingram. Stories...

The Photograph

This piece was written at one of our recent Heritage Festival masterclasses at The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora. We explored writing...