Tuwhare's legacy comes home

HoneTuwhare's legacy arrives home today, with New Zealand's third Koha for the Crib in Dunedin tonight.

Hone Tuwhare's crib at South Otago coastal village Kaka Pt was a sanctuary for the famous Maori writer and former University of Otago Robert Burns Fellow.

Now the property is to be transformed in to lasting legacy for writers and artists around the country, Hone Tuwhare Charitable Trust chairman Noel Waite said.

The trust embarked on a series of Koha for the crib in 2011, the first events in Auckland and then in Wellington, to raise money for the crib's restoration and to build a new writers' residency and studio at the site.

Dunedin will host the third event tonight, Saturday, October 18 at Toitu Otago Settlers Museum.

"Hone considered Dunedin to be his intellectual home," Waite said, "and a hub for sharing his creative passion with fellow writers and artists."

Koha for the Crib will include performances by musicians Don McGlashan, Rio Hemopo, Graham Downes, Martin Phillipps, David Kilgour, and Ciaran McMeekin. Poets Emma Neale, Majella Cullinane, Sue Wooton and Peter Olds will also give readings of poetry.

"Hone's love of food will be celebrated through chef Scott Murray who has designed the menu based on local kai that will knock the socks of guests," Waite said.

One of the highlights of the night, however, would be a charity art auction.Among items going under the hammer are especially-designed limited edition printsfeaturing Tuwharepoemsin the writer's own handwriting as well as a limited edition box set of The Chills featuring art work by Shane Cotton. Well-known Dunedin art connoisseur Marshall Siefert is auctioneer.

The specially-designed limited edition posters of Hone Tuwhare's poems are among items going under the hammer.

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Tuwhare's legacy comes home