If you have an interest in protecting and preserving Marlborough’s heritage, Council welcomes your input to a new 10-year Marlborough Heritage Strategy at a series of upcoming community workshops.
With the Heritage Marlborough team now under the auspices of Council, Mayor Nadine Taylor said there was a fantastic opportunity to map out the future of the wider heritage sector in Marlborough.
“Council wants to strengthen the region’s heritage sector through a coordinated, comprehensive and well communicated approach, supported by this new strategy. We want to support the sector across the region and foster innovative developments that will preserve, celebrate and recognise Marlborough’s unique heritage,” she said.
“We are focussed on the many collections, the stories, the sector requirements and the partnerships that will benefit Marlborough heritage as a whole, including more support of our regional museums in Picton, Renwick, Flaxbourne and Havelock alongside the Omaka Aviation Heritage Centre, the Edwin Fox Maritime Museum and Marlborough Museum, a need which was identified in Council’s 2017 Heritage Review.”
Five community workshops, run by an independent facilitator, will take place over the month of March, designed to garner ideas and seek direction from Marlborough’s heritage community.
- 18 March Seddon/Awatere Community Hall, 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm
- 19 March Blenheim/Te Kahu o Waipuna, 10.30 am – 12.00 pm
- 19 March Blenheim/Nativity Hall, 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm
- 20 March Havelock/Havelock Town Hall, 10.00 am - 11.30 am
- 20 March Picton/Picton Library, 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm
Mayor Taylor said it was important to bring all those interested in preserving and protecting Marlborough’s history together, to help shape the strategy.
“Marlborough has a strong and proud heritage sector, full of knowledgeable, passionate people. Council wants everyone’s help in bringing together a broad community vision and strategy for heritage for the next decade,” she said.
“We look forward to hearing ideas from the public about how they would like to protect and preserve heritage across Marlborough. As part of this, we have also set up an Iwi Advisory Panel who we are partnering with on a te ao Māori vision for the strategy.”
Council’s Arts, Culture and Heritage Manager Nicola Neilson, who is leading the review, said the community workshops were open to anyone with an interest in protecting and preserving Marlborough’s heritage.
“We plan to build on the work undertaken in 2017 by the Smart + Connected Heritage Group and to update the data collated which has changed post-Covid. I encourage anyone with an interest in this sector, and who wants their voice to be heard, to register for a workshop,” she said.
Doors will open half an hour before the start for refreshments. Registration is essential.
Go to registration
For further information please email nicola.neilson@marlborough.govt.nz or phone 03 520 7400.
