The Tuku 21/ Heritage Festival is upon us and this year the Alliance Francaise is part of it with two lectures: Aotearoa and the French - part 1 & 2.
Mary and Doug Hill have been working for the last couple of month to present this french heritage.
To book a ticket ( free ticket with a recommended Koha $5): follow the link on our website here or go directly to the eventfinda site;
Booking is required for health, safety and security aligning with the COVID-19 guidelines.
On the 9th April, from 6.15 pm - NMIT Building T Room 309 (71 Nile street) - where we meet with some "early settlers" nibbles and beverages before starting our evening.
Doug H. Hill will introduce himself and his whakapapa, and then proceed to talk about some of the french early explorers to Aotearoa. He will continue on with Bishop Pompallier, one of the first French priest. He was critical in bringing the first Marist fathers and brothers, as well as Sisters to his new mission in Aotearoa.
We will be at the beginning of the 19th century, and we will place the event in the context of the world at that time, of what are the Marists and their origin, as well as the importance of the city of Lyon and its surroundings.
On that evening, we'll explore the life of another important person, that is Sister Suzanne Aubert or Mother Marie Joseph, also known as the french women that lived with the Māori.
We finish with an introduction to Father Antoine Marie Garin, who has dedicated a number of years to work among the missions in the North Island, before coming to Nelson.
On Friday the 16th April, from 6.15 pm (same time and same place as previously).
Mary B. Hill will present Father Antoine Garin that spent 40 years of his life in Nelson and its surrounding regions.
He started in the North Island, where he excelled at many trades and deepened his Te Reo Māori.
Fluent in both Te Reo and English, an expert in many trades, and driven by the conviction that anyone who is deserving, integrating the local and native culture, he opened a school, an orphanage, build churches, and much more.
He played an essential role in transforming Education in New Zealand that is still going on today.
Father Garin remains a strong personality in the Whakatū. He passed away in 1889, celebrated and missed, he rests in peace in the Chapel built for him at the Whakapuaka cemetery in Nelson.
If you want to know further, please attend these evenings for which lengthy research has been undertaken, and many uncommon anecdotes will be told.
We would like to thanks Tuku 21, NMIT, The Alliance Francaise Nelson Tasman for their support, sponsorship and subsidies; and also the members of the committee that have participated and enabled these events, and most importantly the kind donation of their time, knowledge and passion for history from Doug and mary Hill.
Please contact afntsecretary@gmail.com for any queries.
Mary and Doug Hill have been working for the last couple of month to present this french heritage.
To book a ticket ( free ticket with a recommended Koha $5): follow the link on our website here or go directly to the eventfinda site;
Booking is required for health, safety and security aligning with the COVID-19 guidelines.
On the 9th April, from 6.15 pm - NMIT Building T Room 309 (71 Nile street) - where we meet with some "early settlers" nibbles and beverages before starting our evening.
Doug H. Hill will introduce himself and his whakapapa, and then proceed to talk about some of the french early explorers to Aotearoa. He will continue on with Bishop Pompallier, one of the first French priest. He was critical in bringing the first Marist fathers and brothers, as well as Sisters to his new mission in Aotearoa.
We will be at the beginning of the 19th century, and we will place the event in the context of the world at that time, of what are the Marists and their origin, as well as the importance of the city of Lyon and its surroundings.
On that evening, we'll explore the life of another important person, that is Sister Suzanne Aubert or Mother Marie Joseph, also known as the french women that lived with the Māori.
We finish with an introduction to Father Antoine Marie Garin, who has dedicated a number of years to work among the missions in the North Island, before coming to Nelson.
On Friday the 16th April, from 6.15 pm (same time and same place as previously).
Mary B. Hill will present Father Antoine Garin that spent 40 years of his life in Nelson and its surrounding regions.
He started in the North Island, where he excelled at many trades and deepened his Te Reo Māori.
Fluent in both Te Reo and English, an expert in many trades, and driven by the conviction that anyone who is deserving, integrating the local and native culture, he opened a school, an orphanage, build churches, and much more.
He played an essential role in transforming Education in New Zealand that is still going on today.
Father Garin remains a strong personality in the Whakatū. He passed away in 1889, celebrated and missed, he rests in peace in the Chapel built for him at the Whakapuaka cemetery in Nelson.
If you want to know further, please attend these evenings for which lengthy research has been undertaken, and many uncommon anecdotes will be told.
We would like to thanks Tuku 21, NMIT, The Alliance Francaise Nelson Tasman for their support, sponsorship and subsidies; and also the members of the committee that have participated and enabled these events, and most importantly the kind donation of their time, knowledge and passion for history from Doug and mary Hill.
Please contact afntsecretary@gmail.com for any queries.