children
Highlights
The Terror of War (Napalm Girl)
The Terror of War (1972) captures 9-year-old Kim Phúc screaming while fleeing a napalm attack in Vietnam. The image reveals the human cost of war, became iconic worldwide, and earned the Pulitzer, though its authorship was later questioned.
Wairarapa Walking Festival
The first Wairarapa Walking Festival starts Friday 26 until Sunday 28 March 2021 and includes nine different walks in the Carterton District – all free. These walks include an Urban Art Walk, Walk with Wheels (for wheelchairs and buggies), a Rural Dog Walk on private land and a Streambed Walk. Stretch your legs up Mt
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We’re making music
James Dobbs produced a sound walk, SENDwalk, around Peel Park, in Manchester, with the help of local children. The walk was debuted at the Spirit of Little Hulton festival. This work is one of the shortlisted pieces for the Sound Walk September Awards 2025. Below, James discusses his work. SENDwalk began with a deceptively simple question: “How can I
Walking with Toddlers
‘Walking with Toddlers’ is a comic audio play about the joys and frustrations of going for a walk with a young child, co-written and co-produced by Angie Belcher (writer, director, comedian, and facilitator) and Eleanor Rycroft (Senior Lecturer in Theatre and gender historian). It uses the juxtaposition of an idealised walk imagined via ‘Minarra’s Mindful Mummies Podcast’ and the reality of walking with a toddler, to consider how care-giving can create both obstructions and opportunities when trying to get from A to B.
Articles elsewhere
August 2026 eBulletin
In this issue, we talk about lowering speed limits, how we can make streets better for children, and upcoming consultations and events. We want more people walking and enjoying public spaces be they young or old, fast or slow, whether walking, sitting,...
How can we make streets better for children?
In Part I of this blog series, we discussed how car-dependent thinking and decision-making leads to unsafe streets and how this becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy keeping kids off the streets and in cars. In this post, we’re exploring how we could make...
Our streets aren’t safe for children
This is Part I of a two part blog series about how children and how they travel are negatively impacted by car-dependent beliefs, policy, and design in New Zealand. Part I covers these negative impacts and Part II will explore how we can change them. E...
Submission guide for the consultation on lane use improvements
Introduction The Government has just released the Consultation on lane use improvements. While Living Streets Aotearoa broadly supports four out of five of the proposals, we do not support Proposal 1 which would allow children as old as 12 to ride thei...
