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French Messages of Respect for Giant Poppy Art
NZ Messages to Join French Messages of Respect for Giant Poppy Art Creation in France
Tony McNeight Giant Poppy
Thousands of messages of respect from New
Zealanders - who originally placed them as part of the Giant
Poppy Art in the Auckland Domain in 2015 ---will become part
of the Giant Poppy Art installation (The Giant
Coquelicot) to be created in the town of Arras in
France in April.
A crowdfunding site is underway to get the artist to France to build the art installation. He has donated the Poppy petals to the town of Arras and Mainfreight have gifted their transportation.
The New Zealand messages will join thousands of French messages, which will be placed over nine days at the beginning of April to honour those who protected freedom and democracy in the World Wars.
The Giant Poppy was built in the Auckland Domain in April 2015. It will now be built in the Place des Heros in the centre of Arras.
The artist Tony McNeight is asking for help from the public to get him to France make the Poppy come alive. He is raising funds through the Arts Foundation crowdfunding site Boosted.
https://www.boosted.org.nz/projects/the-giant-poppy-gift-to-france
“The final confirmation to build the Poppy came very late and my first priority was to get the metal petals there. There has been no time to get grants through the normal channels so I am now asking the public to help so I can complete the circle of creating the Poppy in France as a gift from New Zealand,” explained Tony McNeight.
Arras has a unique relationship with New Zealand, as during WW1 NZ soldiers were key in building massive tunnels under the town, which were important for quartering animals and troops, and tunneling behind enemy lines. The 100-year commemorations for the Battle of Arras are being held in April.
http://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/arras-tunnels
BACKGROUND ON POPPY AND JOURNEY TO ARRAS
One cool evening, just before ANZAC Day in 2015, Frederic Leturque the Mayor of Arras, came down to the Auckland Domain with his colleagues and paid his respects to the men of New Zealand that had protected his town and his people 100 years before.
Placing one of the metal poppy petals with his message he was impressed the way the Poppy allowed everyone to engage so he asked for the Poppy art installation to be replicated in France.
BACKGROUND THE GIANT POPPY ART
During the WW1 100 year commemorations in New Zealand in 2015 the artist Tony McNeight built the Giant Poppy Art installation in the Auckland Domain.
His idea was to give everyone an opportunity to place their own personal messages.
To make it happen he privately raised the funds to finance the project which was a huge success with 25,000 New Zealanders and visitors placing messages
For further information
Angela Griffen
angelinagriffen@gmail.com 0275780889
Tony McNeight Giant Poppy
tonymcneight@gmail.com Mobile 021925031
NZ Messages to Join French Messages of Respect for Giant Poppy Art Creation in France
Thousands of messages of respect from New Zealanders - who originally placed them as part of the Giant Poppy Art in the Auckland Domain in 2015 ---will become part of the Giant Poppy Art installation (The Giant Coquelicot) to be created in the town of Arras in France in April.
A crowdfunding site is underway to get the artist to France to build the art installation. He has donated the Poppy petals to the town of Arras and Mainfreight have gifted their transportation.
The New Zealand messages will join thousands of French messages, which will be placed over nine days at the beginning of April to honour those who protected freedom and democracy in the World Wars.
The Giant Poppy was built in the Auckland Domain in April 2015. It will now be built in the Place des Heros in the centre of Arras.
The artist Tony McNeight is asking for help from the public to get him to France make the Poppy come alive. He is raising funds through the Arts Foundation crowdfunding site Boosted.
https://www.boosted.org.nz/projects/the-giant-poppy-gift-to-france
“The final confirmation to build the Poppy came very late and my first priority was to get the metal petals there. There has been no time to get grants through the normal channels so I am now asking the public to help so I can complete the circle of creating the Poppy in France as a gift from New Zealand,” explained Tony McNeight.
Arras has a unique relationship with New Zealand, as during WW1 NZ soldiers were key in building massive tunnels under the town, which were important for quartering animals and troops, and tunneling behind enemy lines. The 100-year commemorations for the Battle of Arras are being held in April.
http://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/arras-tunnels
BACKGROUND ON POPPY AND JOURNEY TO ARRAS
One cool evening, just before ANZAC Day in 2015, Frederic Leturque the Mayor of Arras, came down to the Auckland Domain with his colleagues and paid his respects to the men of New Zealand that had protected his town and his people 100 years before.
Placing one of the metal poppy petals with his message he was impressed the way the Poppy allowed everyone to engage so he asked for the Poppy art installation to be replicated in France.
BACKGROUND THE GIANT POPPY ART
During the WW1 100 year commemorations in New Zealand in 2015 the artist Tony McNeight built the Giant Poppy Art installation in the Auckland Domain.
His idea was to give everyone an opportunity to place their own personal messages.
To make it happen he privately raised the funds to finance the project which was a huge success with 25,000 New Zealanders and visitors placing messages
Thousands
of messages of respect from New Zealanders - who originally
placed them as part of the Giant Poppy Art in the Auckland
Domain in 2015 ---will become part of the Giant Poppy Art
installation (The Giant Coquelicot) to be
created in the town of Arras in France in April.
A crowdfunding site is underway to get the artist to France to build the art installation. He has donated the Poppy petals to the town of Arras and Mainfreight have gifted their transportation.
The New Zealand messages will join thousands of French messages, which will be placed over nine days at the beginning of April to honour those who protected freedom and democracy in the World Wars.
The Giant Poppy was built in the Auckland Domain in April 2015. It will now be built in the Place des Heros in the centre of Arras.
The artist Tony McNeight is asking for help from the public to get him to France make the Poppy come alive. He is raising funds through the Arts Foundation crowdfunding site Boosted.
https://www.boosted.org.nz/projects/the-giant-poppy-gift-to-france
“The final confirmation to build the Poppy came very late and my first priority was to get the metal petals there. There has been no time to get grants through the normal channels so I am now asking the public to help so I can complete the circle of creating the Poppy in France as a gift from New Zealand,” explained Tony McNeight.
Arras has a unique relationship with New Zealand, as during WW1 NZ soldiers were key in building massive tunnels under the town, which were important for quartering animals and troops, and tunneling behind enemy lines. The 100-year commemorations for the Battle of Arras are being held in April.
http://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/arras-tunnels
BACKGROUND ON POPPY AND JOURNEY TO ARRAS
One cool evening, just before ANZAC Day in 2015, Frederic Leturque the Mayor of Arras, came down to the Auckland Domain with his colleagues and paid his respects to the men of New Zealand that had protected his town and his people 100 years before.
Placing one of the metal poppy petals with his message he was impressed the way the Poppy allowed everyone to engage so he asked for the Poppy art installation to be replicated in France.
BACKGROUND THE GIANT POPPY ART
During the WW1 100 year commemorations in New Zealand in 2015 the artist Tony McNeight built the Giant Poppy Art installation in the Auckland Domain.
His idea was to give everyone an opportunity to place their own personal messages.
To make it happen he privately raised the funds to finance the project which was a huge success with 25,000 New Zealanders and visitors placing messages
NZ Messages to Join French Messages of Respect for Giant Poppy Art Creation in France
Thousands of messages of respect from New Zealanders - who originally placed them as part of the Giant Poppy Art in the Auckland Domain in 2015 ---will become part of the Giant Poppy Art installation (The Giant Coquelicot) to be created in the town of Arras in France in April.
A crowdfunding site is underway to get the artist to France to build the art installation. He has donated the Poppy petals to the town of Arras and Mainfreight have gifted their transportation.
The New Zealand messages will join thousands of French messages, which will be placed over nine days at the beginning of April to honour those who protected freedom and democracy in the World Wars.
The Giant Poppy was built in the Auckland Domain in April 2015. It will now be built in the Place des Heros in the centre of Arras.
The artist Tony McNeight is asking for help from the public to get him to France make the Poppy come alive. He is raising funds through the Arts Foundation crowdfunding site Boosted.
https://www.boosted.org.nz/projects/the-giant-poppy-gift-to-france
“The final confirmation to build the Poppy came very late and my first priority was to get the metal petals there. There has been no time to get grants through the normal channels so I am now asking the public to help so I can complete the circle of creating the Poppy in France as a gift from New Zealand,” explained Tony McNeight.
Arras has a unique relationship with New Zealand, as during WW1 NZ soldiers were key in building massive tunnels under the town, which were important for quartering animals and troops, and tunneling behind enemy lines. The 100-year commemorations for the Battle of Arras are being held in April.
http://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/arras-tunnels
BACKGROUND ON POPPY AND JOURNEY TO ARRAS
One cool evening, just before ANZAC Day in 2015, Frederic Leturque the Mayor of Arras, came down to the Auckland Domain with his colleagues and paid his respects to the men of New Zealand that had protected his town and his people 100 years before.
Placing one of the metal poppy petals with his message he was impressed the way the Poppy allowed everyone to engage so he asked for the Poppy art installation to be replicated in France.
BACKGROUND THE GIANT POPPY ART
During the WW1 100 year commemorations in New Zealand in 2015 the artist Tony McNeight built the Giant Poppy Art installation in the Auckland Domain.
His idea was to give everyone an opportunity to place their own personal messages.
To make it happen he privately raised the funds to finance the project which was a huge success with 25,000 New Zealanders and visitors placing messages
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