Local histories hīkoi with Rowan Light

Sat Nov 08 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm UTC+13:00

Gus Fisher Gallery | Auckland

Gus Fisher Gallery
Publisher/HostGus Fisher Gallery
Local histories h\u012bkoi with Rowan Light
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Join us for a hīkoi walking tour around local sites of historical significance in the city-centre.
About this Event

Join Historian Rowan Light as he leads a hīkoi around local sites of historical significance in the city-centre. Departing from Gus Fisher Gallery, this walking tour will examine the complex histories of our city, including discussions of the Albert Barracks Wall, Government House and Albert Park monuments in situ.

This tour is an easy walking tour with sites nearby to Gus Fisher Gallery. Please note the terrain includes slopes and steep, grassy areas.

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Rowan Light (Pākehā, Ngai te Tiriti) is a historian and Senior Lecturer at Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of Auckland where he teaches Aotearoa New Zealand histories. Since 2021, he has also been project curator at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum, researching the New Zealand Wars collection. In 2024, he co-curated Atarau: Stories of the New Zealand Wars with Nigel Borell, with whom he also co-edited a collection of essays under the same title (to be released in October, 2025). His research explores how communities and societies remember and commemorate war and violence, reflected in previous books such as Anzac Nations: The Legacy of Gallipoli in New Zealand and Australia, 1965-2015 (OUP, 2022) and Why Memory Matters: Remembered histories and the politics of the shared past (BWB, 2024). He lives in central Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland with his partner.

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Image: Cricket match in the grounds of the Albert Barracks, 1869.

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Gus Fisher Gallery, 74 Shortland Street, Auckland, New Zealand

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