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Latest Events

Living Heritage Day

21.08.08

Living Heritage Day was celebrated by public libraries around New Zealand on 21 August 2008 as part of Library Week. Wellington Central Library hosted an event attended by the

Minister of the National Library, Minister Judith Tizard, sharing and celebrating the Living Heritage stories created by local primary schools, Northland and Bellevue.

A fantastic time was had by all and guests gained a lot from talking to the students about their research treasures. Photos and video footage of the event to come!

Download this news write up by Wellington's CityLife paper.

 

Read this Library Life article on the event.

 

See the Webwatch section of the Education Gazette for more publicity!

North Otago Primary Principals' Conference

In September Megan and Erris, as part of our Living Heritage team, visited North Otago and shared with primary school principals and teachers about how to initiate and create Living Heritage stories.

ULearn

In October we will be holding an interactive workshop with teachers in Christchurch at ULearn, showing them how to create Living Heritage stories with their classes. ULearn is an exciting conference focused on innovative education initiatives.

LIANZA Conference

In November we will be promoting Living Heritage to the New Zealand library community at the LIANZA conference in Auckland. Libraries are a very important partner in preserving our culture and heritage for our future.

Latest News

New Living Heritage stories have been published on our website.

Check out: Motueka District Museum

Connections

Complete a Living Heritage project and become a member of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust for free.

We are delighted to advise that the New Zealand Historic Places Trust is currently offering a one-year complimentary membership to each class that completes a Living Heritage project.

This entitles each class to a range of exclusive member benefits, including:

• free subscription to the Trust’s quarterly magazine, Heritage New Zealand
• free entry for the bearer of the membership pass to all New Zealand Historic Places Trust owned and/or managed properties throughout New Zealand
• 2 free issues of the Trust’s Heritage Guidelines.