Monday, March 18, 2013

Wellington Writers Walk


                
Four Writers Added to the Wellington Writers Walk

Four new benchmark sculptures will be added to the popular Wellington Writers Walk when they are unveiled by the Governor General Sir Jerry Mateparae on Thursday 21st March.
The benchmarks, created by well-known Wellington architect and designer Fiona Christeller, feature quotes by prominent New Zealand writers, Joy Cowley, Elizabeth Knox, Jack Lasenby and James McNeish and bring to 23 the number of New Zealand writers celebrated on the harbour-side walk.

The Wellington Writers Walk opened in 2002 and combines a stroll along Wellington’s waterfront with the discovery of sculptural quotations from New Zealand writers – like a series of intriguing pronouncements – often in surprising and unexpected places. The sculptures take the form of text on concrete plaques and inlaid metal on wooden ‘benchmarks’.
There are currently 19 authors, past and contemporary, sited on the walk, including poets, novelists, playwrights and prose writers. The walk celebrates and commemorates the place of Wellington in these writers’ lives, and their place in the life of Wellington. Besides providing recognition to some of New Zealand’s most noted writers, the walk promotes New Zealand literature to a wider public, particularly tourists and visitors to the capital. 

A public walk leaving from the courtyard outside Circa Theatre at 6.30 pm on Thursday evening will allow Wellingtonians to join the celebrations as the benchmarks are revealed.

Wellington Writers Walk is a project of the Wellington Branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN) Inc. 

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