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Walking Scores
Artists Noel Meek and Elliot Vaughan commissioned new walking performance scores by Aotearoa artists John Vea (Tonga), Louie Zalk-Neale (Ngāi te Rangi), Rob Thorne (Ngāti Tumutumu), Sonya Lacey, and Noel Meek. With performances every day of The Performance Arcade in Wellington, New Zealand in February 2024, Meek and Vaughan explored a rich and challenging artistic ecology showing walking’s potential as an aesthetic, social, and political action.
Sounding La Rosa
Four audio mixes by Denoize Green of Sounding La Rosa, an afternoon of experimental improvised music around the paths of La Rosa Gardens by Auckland musicians: ~ Tom Cadillac, ~ Paul Smith, ~ John Bell and Steve Cournane, ~ John Radford, ~ The Creative Souls Project, ~ and Jazmine Rose Phillips Saori Ikeda & Denoize
On the John O’Groats Way
In September I walked the John o' Groats Way from Dornoch to Berriedale along the east coast of Sutherland. Framed by WW2 remnants and remainders of the Highland clearances, the route alternates between sandy beaches and hard-core scrambles on rough coastal cliffs. No other walkers en route apart from occasional dog walkers near the villages. Seals however are steady company as well as occasional dolphins. 65km, 4 days leisurely.
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Island of art: Waiheke’s sculpture crawl is a delight for walkers | Stuff.co.nz
The works, by 32 artists, range from massively huge to delicate and ephemeral, and all of them have been designed with their location in mind. Source: Island of art: Waiheke’s sculpture crawl is a delight for walkers | Stuff.co.nz
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Walk around the World at World Labyrinth Day
Walk around the World, a 24-hour international online event on World Labyrinth Day, that will connect people virtually across time zones on the GoToMeeting platform. This will be a global labyrinth community celebration with presenters from New Zealand to Hawaii, as well as opportunities for participants to greet each other and share as time allows.
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-New Zealand Repositions Cultural Tourism Through Art Trails, Māori Experiences and Outdoor Installations-
New Zealand targets creative tourism with immersive art trails, Māori heritage experiences and regional cultural hubs to strengthen its global visitor economy. Source: -New Zealand Repositions Cultural Tourism Through Art Trails, Māori Experiences and Outdoor Installations-
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Articles elsewhere
Letter to Cabinet Ministers about footpath rule change
Living Streets Aotearoa has just sent the following letter to Cabinet Ministers about the recent footpath rule change allowing adults to ride bikes on the footpath if they are accompanying a child under 12 years old who is cycling on the footpath. Dear...
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,...
Bunny Street and Brooklyn Street Consultations
Living Streets Aotearoa Wellington has submitted on consultations on changes to Bunny Street and Brooklyn Street in Wellington. Here is the summary of their positions on these changes: Bunny Street improvements: We welcome the focus on making this impo...
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...
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