Justine Fletcher's Suffrage Project “607” - in partnership with New Zealand Pacific Studio as 2014 Friends of Aratoi Fellow; a Wairarapa-wide installation of 607 pendants commemorating the 607 Wairarapa women who signed the third suffrage petition in 1893.
The presentation of this petition to Parliament in July of that year, resulted in the passing of the 1893 Electoral Bill on 19 September, which finally gave women the right to vote in New Zealand. The pendants will be installed in four locations across the Wairarapa (West Taratahi Hall, Greytown Town Centre, Food for Thought cafe in Masterton, and Eketahuna Memorial Hall) and can be viewed in these locations during scheduled open days in the first two weeks of July, before all 607 are brought together at Aratoi.
Scheduled dates in the localities as follows:
Greytown Town Centre, Foyer: 30 June–11 July,
Artist on-site 11am-12pm, 5 July
Food for Thought Café, Masterton: 1–11 July
Eketahuna Memorial Hall: 10am–12pm, 12 July
West Taratahi Hall: 2–4pm, 12 July
Artist’s Floor Talk, 19 July, 2pm.
Artist’s Open Studio:
NZ Pacific Studio: Sunday 13 July, 2–5pm,
85229 SH2, Just past Pukaha Mount Bruce.
Contact: (06) 375 8441
For Friends of Aratoi 1–5pm
