HIGHLIGHT REEL
Otago Battalion’s journey
Toitu Otago Settlers Museum curator Sean Brosnahan traces the experiences of the Otago Battalion through 1918 to commemorate Armistice Day in ‘‘The Bitter End: Otago’s Soldiers In the Last Year of The War’’, Saturday at the museum.
Armistice Day remembered
Towns around Otago are remembering Armistice Day on Sunday with services at war memorials and family activities. Dunedin begins with a service at the Queens Gardens Cenotaph and continues with a short ceremony, musical performances, food trucks and children’s activities at Otago Museum.
Big Wall discussion
Megan TamatiQuennell, curator of modern and contemporary Maori & indigenous art at Te Papa, will discuss Jonathan Jones’ Big Wall work ‘‘Untitled (D21.281 Galari Bargan)’’ on Sunday at Dunedin Public Art Gallery. Jones is a member of the Wiradjuri and Kamilaroi nations of southeast Australia and TamatiQuennell is of Ngai Tahu ki Otakou and Te Atiawa descent.
Trees of change
New Zealand Arboricultural Association life member Mark Roberts talks about the changing environment concerning trees, pruning, urban ecology and tree risk, at the Otago Museum on Saturday.