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Cultural Icons

• Tony Watkins interviewed by John Walsh: http://culturalicons.co.nz/episode/tony-watkins
• Peter Scholes interviewed by Denys Trussell: http://culturalicons.co.nz/episode/peter-scholes

Interviews/Programmes Coming up:

Roger Horrocks interviewed by Denys Trussell

Quentin MacFarlane & John Coley interview each other

Cultural Icons At The National Vernacular Museum:

Cultural Icons episodes will soon be available for viewing at the Depot’s National Vernacular Museum (NVM). A programme will be available for museum visitors to select episodes for viewing. The Cultural Icons project is the foundation of and the inspiration for the museum’s archive of oral histories.

“To feel like New Zealanders, to act like New Zealanders, to present ourselves to the wider world as New Zealanders…we must be able to listen to our own voices and trace our own footsteps; we must have our own heroes and heroines to inspire us, our own epics to both uplift and caution us”
Michael King

The National Vernacular Museum is dedicated to an exploration of New Zealand’s cultural heritage and its perpetual development in relation to a distinctive national identity; charting the origins of a local/NZ vernacular, its current representations, and potential influences on its future development.

The NVM as a museum is defined by this dynamic process of exploration and discovery built by community response as collections and informative, interactive exhibits.

This museum’s form has evolved from The Depot’s continuing exploration of the national vernacular, demonstrated in the Cultural Icons, The Vernacular Lounge and The Cultural Mapping projects.

The NVM is located on Kerr St in Devonport at the base of Mount Victoria.

Murmurs & Shouts About Cultural Icons:

Here is a selection of comments made in various places about the Cultural Icons project:

“A fascinating series”
The New Zealand Herald

"This magnificent site is a great resource for New Zealand educators and learners.”
National Library of NZ

“An inspired project... [that] has resulted in a fantastic archive of recorded interviews with many treasured cultural figures”
Art News

“Cultural Icons is a lovely (and important) website. NZ On Screen will continue to link to Cultural Icons...”
NZ On Screen

We would like to welcome to The Depot whanau Louie Coombes, the son of Cultural Icons’ co-ordinator Emma Whitlock and her partner Andy Coombes. Louie was born on Thursday, February 16th. Welcome Louie!

You can receive updates on the Cultural Icons project at:
www.facebook.com/TheDepotNZ and www.twitter.com/The_Depot_NZ

Kind regards,

The Depot

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ENDS

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