Activities & Projects | WW100 New Zealand

Journey's End, a play by Passchendaele playwright R C Sherriff based on his experience in the trenches, is showing in Ypres, Belgium in a recreated bunker from 10 October to 12 November 2018.

Topics: Theatre, Re-enactments, Passchendaele, Overseas Audience: veterans, secondary students, Teachers, Individuals / Families, historians

Category: Concerts, festivals or performances

Organised by: MESH Theatre Co with In Flanders Field Museum

Leaving for The Front, author/illustrator in schools

Author and illustrator Michelle O'Connell will visit Fernridge, Douglas Park and Lakeview School to read her book, Leaving for The Front and to make poppy wreaths for Anzac Day with each class.

Topics: Re-enactments, Creative Projects, Schools, memorial, Commemorations Audience: Teachers, primary school children Located in: New Zealand, Masterton

Category: Classroom activities or formal learning

Organised by:

Embarkation re-enactment in Dunedin

Marking 100 years since Otago and Southland troops first left from Dunedin for the theatre of war, with an Embarkation Day re-enactment march through Dunedin to where the troopships were.

Topics: Re-enactments, Lottery Grant Recipients, Events, October 14 Audience: General, local visitors Located in: New Zealand, Dunedin

Category: Commemorative events, parades and services, Historical re-enactments

Organised by: Dunedin RSA

Leaving for the Front re-enactment, Wairarapa

The first Wairarapa volunteers left from Masterton on August 13 1914, an event that will be re-enacted 100 years later. Masterton Town Square, Masterton, 13 August 2014.

Topics: Events, Re-enactments, August 14 Audience: local visitors, Descendants, General Located in: New Zealand, Carterton, New Zealand, Featherston, New Zealand, Masterton, New Zealand, Palmerston North

Category: Commemorative events, parades and services, Other

Organised by: Toi Wairarapa Arts Culture and Heritage Trust, Masterton District Council