Auckland War Memorial Museum and Auckland Writers Festival: Writing the Suffrage Past

Jul 2018

Auckland War Memorial Museum and Auckland Writers Festival: Writing the Suffrage Past

Alice Canton, Tusiata Avia, Linda Olsson and Emma Espiner were commissioned to create new work inspired by the Auckland War Memorial Museum’s Are We There Yet? exhibition which explores 125 years of Suffrage. The four writers researched items relating to that exhibition in the Museum’s Documentary Heritage Collection and used what they found to inspire new works of writing which were presented live at a free event at Auckland Writers Festival 2018. You can visit the Documentary Heritage Collection at the Museum and also online.