Visible or Invisible?

Visible or Invisible?

Jock Phillips, NZ Historian - what do we choose to remember, what to forget?

When	Monday 30th October 2023 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Where	Pre Bookings Essential: No door sales, L5,Wellington Club, 88 The Terrace, Wellington

Visible or invisible? Which heritage is celebrated through monuments and what is invisible?

Pre- Booking is essential, no door sales

Historian Jock Phillips will draw on his research for ‘A History of New Zealand in 100 objects’(Penguin 2022), his history New Zealand war memorials, To the Memory (Potton Burton 2015) and a database he has developed of New Zealand memorials. Recently there have been attacks on monuments in Britain to philanthropists whose fortunes came from the slave trade and colonial ventures. A memorial to William Wakefield, one of the founders of the New Zealand Company, in a corner of Wellington’s Basin Reserve, was recently referred to as marking a ‘sordid history’. https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/cricket/300814579/the-sordid-history-behind-the-basin-reserves-wakefield-memorial
Yet many major historical events have no physical monuments. Decisions about whether to create memorials provide insights into what the society chooses to remember, and what they allow to be forgotten.

Canapes provided, cash bar available

This meeting will also be a registered event, which Rotary Club of Wellington is hosting, as part of the Wellington Heritage Festival 2023. Rotary Club of Wellington and other Rotary Clubs have had a significant leadership role in the Heritage Festival this year.

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