Ko Te Reo ō Ngā Tāngata | The People’s Voice
Ko Te Reo ō Ngā Tāngata | The People’s Voice
Wellington Council City Housing tenants
Facilitors: Mark Amery, David Cook, Anna Brown
Courtenay Place Light Boxes
77-97 Courtenay Place, Wellington
21 February - 4 June 2023
Ko Te Reo ō Ngā Tāngata | The People’s Voice is the new outdoor exhibition installed in the Courtenay Place Light Boxes, featuring text, images, and art, in a long column-style broadsheet format, from Council City Housing tenants.
City Housing contributor Danny Marsters with his artwork at home
Tenants, mainly from Granville Flats, Central Park, Newtown Park, and Te Ara Hou Flats, have written stories, created artworks, and taken photographs that express life in City Housing which presents a counter-narrative to the often negative stereotype of social housing.
Over 30 tenants from a wide range of cultural backgrounds worked with facilitators David Cook (photography and art), Mark Amery (writing editor), and Anna Brown (designer) on the independent art project.
The project also includes the contributions in a citizen’s newspaper with creative writing, columns, stories, photography, artwork, and even crosswords, to be printed by the Dominion Post in late March, and distributed as an insert and by hand around City Housing facilities.
https://wellington.govt.nz/news-and-events/news-and-information/our-wellington/2023/02/cp-lightboxes
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